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• West Virginia plans to make smartphone voting available to disabled people for 2020 election

  31-01-2020 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  Cybersecurity experts have long railed against voting apps, saying that any kind of online voting unnecessarily increases security risks.
  
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• Amazon is big ... really, really big; workforce hits 500K

  31-01-2020 22:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Amazon says it now employs more than 500,000 people in the U.S., another sign of the online shopping giant's rapid growth
  
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• The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: What It Is and How We're Dealing With It

  31-01-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A deadly new virus has spread from China around the world, raising fears of a global epidemic.
  
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• No Super Bowl this weekend for Roku users, after dispute with Fox

  31-01-2020 22:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Roku’s tactics are a poorly timed negotiating ploy, fabricating a crisis with no thought for the alarm it generated among its own customers,” Fox said.
  
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• Native Americans Abandoned Cahokia's Massive Mounds — But the Story Doesn't End There

  31-01-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The archaeological site is famous for its 1400 A.D. abandonment. But new research suggests people soon moved back in.
  
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• Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Climb to 9826 Globally – 213 Deaths in China

  31-01-2020 21:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Note: There is now a newer Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report 12. WHO Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report 11 The Emergency Committee on the novel...
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• Space station's cosmic detector working after 4 spacewalks

  31-01-2020 21:12 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The cosmic detector that required a series of challenging spacewalking repairs is back in action
  
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• What the Earliest Toilets Say About How Human Civilization Has Evolved

  31-01-2020 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Latrines have been around for thousands of years. Though they haven't exactly always been sanitary.
  
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• Waymo: Self-driving vehicle in manual mode at time of crash

  31-01-2020 20:21 via abcnews.go.com
  Waymo says one of its self-driving minivans operating in manual mode was involved in a rear-end collision in a Phoenix suburb caused by the reckless driving of a sedan
  
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• Cancer Cells Can Become Invisible to the Immune System – Here’s How

  31-01-2020 20:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  T cells play a huge role in our immune system’s fight against modified cells in the body that can develop into cancer. Phagocytes and B...
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• First View of Hydrogen Atoms at the Metal-to-Metal Hydride Interface

  31-01-2020 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  University of Groningen physicists have visualized hydrogen at the titanium/titanium hydride interface using a transmission electron microscope. Using a new technique, they succeeded in visualizing...
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• NASA Team Salutes Spitzer Space Telescope - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  31-01-2020 19:40 via news.google.com
  NASA Team Salutes Spitzer Space Telescope  NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Coronavirus tests on 2 people in Oklahoma come back negative, health officials say - KOCO Oklahoma City

  31-01-2020 19:19 via news.google.com
  Coronavirus tests on 2 people in Oklahoma come back negative, health officials say  KOCO Oklahoma CityCoronavirus is scary, but the flu is deadlier, more widespread  USA TODAYFlu season continues, with H1N1 diagnoses picking up, CDC says  NBC NewsButler County Health still waiting for coronavirus test results from CDC  WCPO CincinnatiPatient in Lawrence tests negative for coronavirus  KSHBView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Scientific Estimates of Spread of Coronavirus Much Higher Than Official Reports

  31-01-2020 19:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Authors caution that given the lack of a robust and detailed timeline of records of suspected, probable, and confirmed cases and close contacts, the true...
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• Lyft had an edge on the hot e-bike market. Then things went wrong

  31-01-2020 18:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In its mission to end car ownership by offering a range of alternatives, Lyft has become one of the leading ridesharing and bikesharing companies in the world. But it can't seem to find its footing when it comes to the wildly popular electric bikesharing market.
  
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• What the Axolotl's Limb-Regenerating Capabilities Have to Teach Us

  31-01-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Studying the mechanisms that regrow lost limbs in the aquatic creatures might help burn victims and more.
  
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• Five Ways to Prepare for SuperbOwl Sunday

  31-01-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No matter which team you’re hooting for this Super Bowl Sunday, you can celebrate SuperbOwls and citizen science.
  
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• Science Proves Weightlifters Could Lift Less and Get Stronger

  31-01-2020 17:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Weightlifters could do less and get stronger by changing the amount they lift each session, according to new research. Sports scientists from the University of...
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• Resetting Our Internal Circadian Clocks May Help Control Diabetes

  31-01-2020 17:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from UNIGE and HUG were able to demonstrate the link between disturbances of the circadian clocks in pancreatic cells and type 2 diabetes, then...
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• Britain Exits EU Technocracy For Own Brand

  31-01-2020 16:31 via technocracy.news
  
  Nigel Farage did a masterful job of exiting the EU while bashing it one last time. Note that The Daily Telegraph openly calls the EU a Technocracy but Americans have no idea of what that means.
  However, as Farage rode the populist party wave to victory, Britain will almost certainly fall into the techno-populist mentality that establishes their own brand of Technocracy. In other words, same outcome in the end: Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorAs Britain prepares to leave the European Union tonight,
  
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• Is your child hooked on digital devices? These researchers hope to help

  31-01-2020 16:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  The work could create a standard set of questions that pediatricians across the country can ask parents to gauge whether children are showing signs of compulsive screen use.
  
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• This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Sun’s Surface Yet

  31-01-2020 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bubbling convection cells, each about the size of Texas, rise and fall across the sun's surface.
  
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• House Sneaks Green New Deal Spending Into Infrastructure Framework

  31-01-2020 16:09 via technocracy.news
  
  The carrot-on-a-string is fixing the things that everyone knows desperately need fixing. The real payload is zero carbon, environmental justice, green transportation, alternative energy. ⁃ TN EditorToday, the Chairs of three U.S. House Committees released a framework for a five-year, $760 billion investment in infrastructure that would address some of the country’s most urgent infrastructure needs, from addressing the massive maintenance backlog, to designing safer str
  
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• NASA shock: Agency cancels $1.4BILLION mission as James Webb Telescope launch faces delay - Express.co.uk

  31-01-2020 15:59 via news.google.com
  NASA shock: Agency cancels $1.4BILLION mission as James Webb Telescope launch faces delay  Express.co.ukView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Bicycle Era Fail: Fatalities Hit 25 Year High

  31-01-2020 15:47 via technocracy.news
  
  This is ‘sustainability’? First, tell everyone to dump cars and ride bicycles. Second, build bike lanes everywhere so they can. Third, watch the death toll go up. Did planners ever consider this obvious consequence? ⁃ TN EditorAlongside the surging popularity of bike shares and fitness cycling in California comes a sobering statistic: From 2016 through 2018, more cyclists died in traffic accidents across the state than during any three-year period in the past 25 years.
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• Earth From Space: Lake George, Uganda – A Center for Biological Diversity [Video]

  31-01-2020 15:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  World Wetlands Day is celebrated internationally each year on 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International...
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• Facebook, Google and Twitter crack down on fake coronavirus 'cures' and other misinformation

  31-01-2020 14:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Silicon Valley is attempting to combat misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Apple redesigned its Maps app. Here's what's new

  31-01-2020 14:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple says its Maps redesign has completed its rollout across the US, about seven months after the plans were first announced. The refreshed Maps app will offer "faster and more accurate navigation" and "comprehensive views of roads" and more, according to a press release.
  
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• UC Berkeley health account calls xenophobia a "common reaction" to coronavirus

  31-01-2020 14:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  The framing "perpetuates the association between immigrants and disease" and could be a “dangerous precedent," one sociologist said.
  
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• Facebook to remove misinformation about the coronavirus

  31-01-2020 14:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The move comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency over the fast-spreading virus.
  
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• Two Potentially Habitable Super-Earths and ‘Cold Neptune’ Found Orbiting Nearby Stars

  31-01-2020 14:02 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A “cold Neptune” and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting nearby...
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• Scientists Snap Closest-Ever View of the Sun - ExtremeTech

  31-01-2020 13:21 via news.google.com
  
  Scientists Snap Closest-Ever View of the Sun  ExtremeTechThese close-up photos of the sun could help us forecast space weather  Popular ScienceScientists Snap Closest-Ever Leer of the Sun  Invest RecordsGo Ahead, Stare Straight Into the Highest-Res Photo of the Sun Ever Taken  InsideHookNew Up-Close Sun Images Show Fiery Surface Like Never Before  NerdistView full coverage on Google News
  
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• New Parasitoid Wasp Species Discovered That Can Manipulate Spider’s Behavior

  31-01-2020 12:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A research group from the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku studies the diversity of parasitoid insects around the world. Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) are...
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• Got Slime? Regenerative Biology Used to Restore Mucus Production

  31-01-2020 11:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Lance Davidson of the University of Pittsburgh published an article in Nature Communications detailing that tissue mechanics can drive the regeneration of goblet cells on...
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• Previously Thought to Serve No Purpose “Phantom Genes” Keep Diabetes at Bay

  31-01-2020 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Unlike what we commonly refer to as ‘genes’, phantom genes or ‘Long noncoding RNA’ (LncRNAs) do not lead to the production of proteins that our...
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• Artificial Photosynthesis Uses Sunlight to Recycle CO2 Into ‘Green Methane’

  31-01-2020 06:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new artificial photosynthesis approach uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into methane, which could help make natural-gas-powered devices carbon neutral. Methane is the main...
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• How a Kitchen Oven Helped Recover Pre-Eruption Seismograms for Mount St. Helens

  31-01-2020 05:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Nearly 40 years ago, analog data tapes faithfully recorded intense seismic activity in the two months before the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens in...
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• Ginni Rometty, 1st female CEO at IBM, to step down in April

  31-01-2020 03:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Ginni Rometty, the first female CEO in IBM's century-long history, is leaving the helm in April
  
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• Ultrafast Microscope Works Like an HD Camera for the Quantum World

  31-01-2020 03:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Processes taking place inside tiny electronic components or in molecules can now be filmed at a resolution of a few hundred attoseconds and down to...
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• It’s Lights Out for One of NASA’s Great Observatories – Heartbreaking Goodbye

  31-01-2020 02:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our...
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• Experts Say Progesterone Could Prevent 8,450 Miscarriages a Year

  31-01-2020 01:45 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research say giving progesterone to women with early pregnancy bleeding and a history...
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• New Solar Telescope Produces Most Detailed Images of the Sun Ever [Video]

  31-01-2020 01:20 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Preeminent telescope to play critical role in better understanding sun, space weather. Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar...
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• Amazon's latest milestone: 150 million Prime members

  31-01-2020 01:11 via abcnews.go.com
  
  It was another prime Christmas for Amazon
  
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• Science and the World Economy

  31-01-2020 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What determines the rate of scientific 'growth'?
  
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• Iowa caucus reporting app security: What we do and don’t know

  31-01-2020 00:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Iowa Democratic Party says paper backups and other measures will safeguard the process, but election technologists say key missing details means the claims are hard to evaluate.
  
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• Amazon stock soars on huge earnings beat, Prime membership record

  31-01-2020 00:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon blew Wall Street's expectations out of the water when it reported earnings for the holiday quarter, sending the company's stock up over 12.5% in after-hours trading Thursday.
  
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