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• U.S. agency: Pandemic masks thwarting face recognition tech

  27-07-2020 23:56
  Having a tough time recognizing your neighbors behind their pandemic masks
  
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• NASA's next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet

  27-07-2020 23:47
  
  NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover headed to Mars
  
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• Comprehensive Study of Vaccine Safety Completed – Here’s What They Found

  27-07-2020 23:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Findings confirm the robustness of the vaccine approval system and postmarketing surveillance. A comprehensive review of vaccine data over a 20-year period finds that vaccines...
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• Will a Robot Take Your Job? It’s a Matter of Adaptability, Researchers Say

  27-07-2020 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Increasing automation will likely hit people with limited skill sets the hardest. “Robot-proof” jobs will likely require greater education, interpersonal skills and adaptability.
  
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• Garmin acknowledges cyberattack, doesn't mention ransomware

  27-07-2020 21:54
  
  Garmin has acknowledged being victimized by a cyberattack that encrypted some of its systems, knocking its fitness tracking and pilot navigation services offline last week
  
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• Google to keep most of its employees at home until July 2021

  27-07-2020 21:14
  Google has decided that most of its 200,000 employees and contractors should work from home through next June
  
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• Garmin is slowly coming back online after a massive ransomware hack

  27-07-2020 21:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Five days after a massive ransomware attack, some of Garmin's services are beginning to come back online.
  
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• Grape Seeds Reveal Collapse of Ancient Economy in the Grip of Plague and Climate Change

  27-07-2020 21:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  While we all try to understand the new reality imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, many look to the past for historical precedents such as the...
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• U.S. Begins Phase 3 Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine

  27-07-2020 19:50 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A Phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate if an investigational vaccine can prevent symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults has begun. The vaccine,...
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• NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Tracks Hurricane Douglas, Tropical Storm Hanna From Space

  27-07-2020 19:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Wild weather sweeping in from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico is bringing flooding rains, high winds, and dangerous storm surges to Hawaii and...
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• Google lets employees work from home for another year

  27-07-2020 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tech companies have been cautious about resuming normal operations as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the U.S.
  
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• Flu Vaccine Could Protect Against Serious Heart and Stroke Complications – 73% Reduced Risk of Death in High-Risk Patients

  27-07-2020 19:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The rate of seasonal flu vaccinations among people over age 50 and nursing home residents is extremely low, and those who do get the flu...
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• I Was a Screen–Time Expert. Then the Coronavirus Happened.

  27-07-2020 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  An author reflects on her pre-pandemic pronouncements about children’s technology use and offers new advice, like focus on feelings, not screens.
  
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• I Was a Screen Time Expert. Then the Coronavirus Happened.

  27-07-2020 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  An author reflects on her pre-pandemic pronouncements about children’s technology use and offers new advice, like focus on feelings, not screens.
  
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• Scientists Uncover Brain Mechanism That May Explain Why Sleep Helps You Learn

  27-07-2020 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Changes in Brain Cartilage May Explain Why Sleep Helps You Learn Scientists uncover a potential mechanism behind sleep-induced memory changes. The morphing structure of the...
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• Watching a New Island Grow Over Seven Years

  27-07-2020 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fastest way to make a new island is volcanism. The island of Nishino-shima in Japan has doubled in a little over 7 years, all thanks to lava flows.
  
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• Could COVID-19 Have Seasons? NASA Searches for Signals in Earth Data

  27-07-2020 18:25 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In 400 BC, the renowned Greek physician Hippocrates offered the earliest known account of a seasonal respiratory disease. The “Cough of Perinthus” was a winter...
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• Researchers Identify 21 Existing Drugs That Could Treat COVID-19

  27-07-2020 17:37 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Multiple drugs improve the activity of remdesivir, a current standard-of-care treatment for COVID-19. A Nature study authored by a global team of scientists and led...
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• Face Mask U-Turn: Walgreens, Home Depot, Walmart, CVS Will Serve Customers Not Wearing Masks

  27-07-2020 17:34 via technocracy.news
  
  Big Box retailers have discovered what Constitutionalists and legal scholars knew all along: “suggestions” and “guidelines” on mandated mask-wearing are not legally enforceable. While the signs will stay posted, non-mask wearers will nonetheless be served.
  Technocracy News suggests that you print this article and present it to any and every store that refuses you entry because you are not wearing a face mask! ⁃ TN EditorDays after announcing customers are required t
  
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• Trilateral Commission Member Strobe Talbot Linked To Anti-Trump Russian Dossier

  27-07-2020 17:12 via technocracy.news
  
  Strobe Talbot is President of the Brookings Institution and a key member of the Trilateral Commission. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has exposed Talbot as being a key player in the thoroughly debunked Russian “Steele dossier” against Trump.
  Since the founding of the Trilateral Commission in 1973, The Brookings Institution has been a key think-tank for globalization and Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. During the 1970s and 80s, Brookings had no less than seven members of its board
  
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• Wiley sparks Twitter virtual 'walkout' over anti-Semitic tweets

  27-07-2020 17:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  British actors, activists and performing arts organizations are staging a 48-hour Twitter walkout in protest as UK officials blasted social media firms for how they handled a popular British rapper's anti-Semitic posts over the weekend.
  
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• Google will let employees work from home until at least next summer

  27-07-2020 17:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Google will let employees work from home until at least July 2021, a company spokesperson said on Monday.
  
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• Offshore Wind Power Now So Cheap It Could Pay Money Back to Consumers – Pivotal to Reach Net-Zero Carbon Emissions

  27-07-2020 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The latest round of offshore wind farms to be built in the UK could reduce household energy bills by producing electricity very cheaply. Renewable energy...
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• Virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers

  27-07-2020 16:45
  
  The world's biggest COVID-19 vaccine test got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers
  
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• Yale Professor: Hydroxychloroquine Is ‘the Key to Defeating COVID-19’

  27-07-2020 16:44 via technocracy.news
  
  The modus operandi of technocrat “debate” over Hydroxychloroquine mirrors that of hysterical climate change. Shame, ridicule and marginalize real scientists who attempt to bring the truth to light and call pseudo-science real science.
  The suppression of Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine has cost America tens of thousands of needless deaths and yet the Technocrats behind it will never be held accountable. ⁃ TN EditorHarvey Risch, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Publ
  
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• Watch Live Coverage of NASA Astronauts’ Return from Space Station on SpaceX Commercial Crew Test Flight

  27-07-2020 16:18 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA will provide live coverage of activities leading up to, during, and following the return of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight with the agency’s...
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• “Puzzling and Surprising” New Gas Signatures Discovered by ExoMars Orbiter in the Martian Atmosphere

  27-07-2020 15:42 via scitechdaily.com
  
  ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted new gas signatures at Mars. These unlock new secrets about the martian atmosphere, and will enable a more...
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• Hubble Spots a Glorious Stellar Sweet Shop

  27-07-2020 14:43 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Looking its best ever is the star cluster NGC 2203, here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Aside from its dazzling good looks, this...
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• The world's most powerful tech CEOs are about to be grilled by Congress. Here's what to expect

  27-07-2020 14:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It will be the first antitrust hearing of its kind since Gates' visit to Capitol Hill in 1998. And some policy experts anticipate that history could repeat itself, as the biggest of Big Tech face a range of antitrust probes.
  
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• Is SARS-CoV-2, the Virus That Causes COVID-19, Transmitted by Mosquitoes? Here’s What Scientists Found

  27-07-2020 14:04 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new study by Kansas State University researchers is the first to confirm that SARS-CoV-2 cannot be transmitted to people by mosquitoes. Stephen Higgs, associate...
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• Your Eyes Can Reveal if You’ve Suffered a Traumatic Experience in the Past

  27-07-2020 13:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Study shows how traumatic experiences can leave their mark on a person’s eyes. New research by Welsh academics shows that a patient’s pupils can reveal...
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• Unknown Explanation? Perplexing Discovery Could Rewrite Earth’s History

  27-07-2020 13:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Curtin University-led research has found new evidence to suggest that the Earth’s first continents were not formed by subduction in a modern-like plate tectonics environment...
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• World’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study begins, a US trial that will include 30,000 people to see if shots really work

  27-07-2020 13:03
  World’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study begins, a US trial that will include 30,000 people to see if shots really work
  
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• MIT Dream Research Interacts Directly With an Individual’s Dreaming Brain and Manipulates the Content

  27-07-2020 12:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes. The study of dreams has entered the modern era in exciting...
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• Life in the Pits: Scientists Identify the Key Enzyme Behind Body Odor

  27-07-2020 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists have discovered a unique enzyme responsible for the pungent characteristic smell we call body odor or BO. Researchers from the University of York have...
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• Coming of Age on Mars

  27-07-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new book, planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson recalls how the Red Planet drew her to become a scientist.
  
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• Jihadist plots used to be U.S. and Europe's biggest terrorist threat. Now it's the far right.

  27-07-2020 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  An increasing percentage of plans and attacks in the U.S. are linked to far-right activity, said Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
  
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• Comet NEOWISE tonight: Where is Comet NEOWISE now? - Daily Express

  27-07-2020 08:53 via news.google.com
  Comet NEOWISE tonight: Where is Comet NEOWISE now?  Daily ExpressHow To See Comet NEOWISE! | A Step-By-Step Astronomy Guide  SLR LoungeHot & Humid Sunday ahead  WNEM SaginawSee Comet NEOWISE on-line tonight in a Slooh webcast  Aviation Analysis WingHow to see Comet Neowise and what to look for in the sky  iNewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Portland police detain two suspects after reported shooting near federal courthouse protest site - USA TODAY

  27-07-2020 06:38 via news.google.com
  Portland police detain two suspects after reported shooting near federal courthouse protest site  USA TODAYAmerican protests: Demonstrations, violent riots expected to continue throughout the country  Fox NewsCities in Bind as Turmoil Spreads Far Beyond Portland  The New York TimesSeattle protest: Police charge forward and use pepper spray on retreating protesters  The TelegraphAmerican mayhem: More rioting and lawlessness in cities across US  Fo
  
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• Gold prices surge to record high amid coronavirus worries, U.S.-China tensions - CNBC

  27-07-2020 06:29 via news.google.com
  Gold prices surge to record high amid coronavirus worries, U.S.-China tensions  CNBCGold soars to all-time high as dollar dive adds fuel to record run  Fox BusinessGold Surges to a Record With $2,000 an Ounce in Sight  BloombergMarkets Week Ahead: Gold Prices, Dow Jones, US Dollar, FANG, Recessions  DailyFXGold hits record high, stocks mixed as U.S.-China ties worsen  Investing.comView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• U.S. stock futures rise ahead of big earnings week - MarketWatch

  27-07-2020 06:01 via news.google.com
  U.S. stock futures rise ahead of big earnings week  MarketWatchStock futures rise ahead of big week of earnings, coronavirus stimulus in focus; gold soars to new record  CNBCTech, Auto and Food Companies Highlight Busy Earnings Week  Yahoo NewsU.S. stock futures inch up ahead of big earnings week  MarketWatchS&P 500 Index Weekly Forecast: Is the recovery over?  FXStreetView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• U.S. closes consulate in Chengdu, China, after Houston order - NBC News

  27-07-2020 05:19 via news.google.com
  
  U.S. closes consulate in Chengdu, China, after Houston order  NBC NewsUS consulate in Chengdu officially shuts in retaliation for Houston closure  CNNChengdu: US leaves consulate amid row with China  BBC NewsOp-Ed: The U.S.-China clash has entered perilous new territory  CNBCBret Stephens: The two China fires - The Salt Lake Tribune  Salt Lake TribuneView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• #71: Jurrell Casey (DE, Broncos) | Top 100 NFL Players or 2020 - NFL

  27-07-2020 05:00 via news.google.com
  #71: Jurrell Casey (DE, Broncos) | Top 100 NFL Players or 2020  NFLThree Bills to make NFL Network's Top 100 players, but which three?  Buffalo NewsJags absent from NFL Network's latest 'Top 100' list  Jaguars WireTop 100 Players of 2020, Nos. 90-81: Kyler Murray debuts  NFL.comThe Dolphins and the NFL Network Top 100  DolphinMavenView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Hurricane Douglas menaces Hawaii coast, threatening heavy rain, strong winds - Fox News

  27-07-2020 04:08 via news.google.com
  Hurricane Douglas menaces Hawaii coast, threatening heavy rain, strong winds  Fox NewsHonolulu Mayor discusses latest updates as Hawaii braces for Hurricane Douglas  KHON2 NewsHurricane Warnings Issued as Douglas Tracks Near the Hawaiian Islands  The Weather ChannelHurricane shelters could use more staffing, but Gov. Ige pleased with Douglas response  Honolulu Star-AdvertiserHurricane Douglas: Lyssa Chapman Posts 'Stay Safe' Message as Storm Bears Down on
  
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• Kim Jong Un Finally Admits Coronavirus Is in North Korea - Daily Beast

  27-07-2020 04:06 via news.google.com
  Kim Jong Un Finally Admits Coronavirus Is in North Korea  Daily BeastNorth Korea declares emergency over first reported COVID-19 case  Al Jazeera EnglishKim Jong Un puts North Korean city on lockdown over suspected coronavirus case, says 'vicious virus' may be in country  Fox NewsThe children of Korean War prisoners who never came home  BBC NewsNorth Korea declares emergency over suspected Covid-19 case  The GuardianView Full Coverage on Google N
  
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• Moment Trump's 'indestructible' border wall collapses as Tropical Storm Hanna lashes south Texas - Daily Mail

  27-07-2020 04:05 via news.google.com
  Moment Trump's 'indestructible' border wall collapses as Tropical Storm Hanna lashes south Texas  Daily MailHurricane Hanna wreaks havoc in Texas l GMA  Good Morning AmericaTropical Depression Hanna Unleashes Flooding, Power Outages Across South Texas, Northeastern Mexico  The Weather ChannelHurricane Hanna weakens to tropical depression after making landfall in southern Texas  CNNFlooding threat continues as Hanna drops rain on borderland  Brade
  
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• Senate GOP, White House poised to unveil their next coronavirus relief plan - ABC News

  27-07-2020 04:00 via news.google.com
  Senate GOP, White House poised to unveil their next coronavirus relief plan  ABC NewsRepublicans to include $1,200 checks and smaller federal unemployment aid in new stimulus proposal  CNNTrump Officials Float Idea of Narrow Bill to Extend Unemployment Benefits  The New York TimesWill Mitch McConnell Finally Take Away Our Unemployment Benefits? | Opinion  NewsweekDonna Brazile: To win presidency and majorities in Congress, Democrats should follow this batt
  
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• White Next-Gen Xbox Controller Leaks - Thurrott.com - Thurrott.com

  27-07-2020 03:32 via news.google.com
  
  White Next-Gen Xbox Controller Leaks - Thurrott.com  Thurrott.comHalo Infinite Developer 343 Industries Responds To Graphics Criticisms  Screen RantDigital Foundry Explains Why ‘Halo Infinite’ Looks So Weird  ForbesWhat's actually going on with Halo Infinite's graphics?  Eurogamer.netMicrosoft really doesn’t care if you buy an Xbox Series X – here’s why  TechRadarView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Olivia de Havilland tributes: Jared Leto details unlikely friendship; Antonio Banderas, others also mourn - USA TODAY

  27-07-2020 02:33 via news.google.com
  Olivia de Havilland tributes: Jared Leto details unlikely friendship; Antonio Banderas, others also mourn  USA TODAYOlivia de Havilland, Oscar winner who starred in 'Gone With the Wind,' dies at 104  Yahoo EntertainmentOlivia De Havilland Dies At 104  AccessSpain Quarantine, Russia Protests, Olivia de Havilland: Your Monday Briefing  The New York TimesOlivia de Havilland, star of 'Gone With the Wind,' dies at 104  CNNView Full Coverage on Google
  
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• US, China jockey for advantage in space race | TheHill - The Hill

  27-07-2020 02:28 via news.google.com
  US, China jockey for advantage in space race | TheHill  The HillSay “Bon Voyage” to our Mars Perseverance Rover!  NASAWorld should back China’s Mars mission  South China Morning PostWas There Life On Mars? NASA’s $2 Billion ‘Bot Launches This Week On Unique ‘Sample Return’ Mission  ForbesRock from Mars heads home after 600,000 years on Earth  The GuardianView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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