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• Rupert Murdoch's youngest son resigns, signaling rift in multibillion-dollar family empire

  31-07-2020 23:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch does not share his father's conservative politics.
  
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• 3 charged in massive Twitter hack, Bitcoin scam

  31-07-2020 23:01
  
  Authorities say a British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin
  
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• Three people charged in Twitter hack that hit Biden and Obama

  31-07-2020 22:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three people were charged on Friday for their alleged involvement in a massive Twitter hack earlier this month that took over the accounts of prominent users like Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Elon Musk and used them to promote a bitcoin scam.
  
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• The Correlation-Causation Taboo

  31-07-2020 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Should psychologists be more comfortable discussing causality?
  
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• Apple is now the world's most valuable company, dethroning oil giant Saudi Aramco

  31-07-2020 22:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  “We’re conscious of the fact that these results stand in stark relief during a time of real economic adversity," Apple CEO Tim Cook said of the company's blowout quarterly earnings.
  
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• Other solar systems could cram in as many as seven Earth-like planets - CNET

  31-07-2020 22:04
  Other solar systems could cram in as many as seven Earth-like planets  CNETView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Florida teen arrested in Twitter hack that hit Biden and Obama

  31-07-2020 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A teenager in Tampa was arrested and charged Friday for his alleged involvement in a massive Twitter hack earlier this month that took over the accounts of prominent users like Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Elon Musk and used them to promote a bitcoin scam.
  
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• Florida teen, two others charged in Twitter 'Bit-Con' hacking attack

  31-07-2020 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Authorities in Florida say a 17 year old was the "mastermind" of the attack that targeted the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kanye West, Bill Gates and others.
  
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• Twitch is aiming to build an esports league specifically for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

  31-07-2020 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Streaming giant Twitch is partnering with Cxmmunity -- an Atlanta-based non-profit focused on increasing minority participation in esports and the gaming industry -- to offer the first-ever esports leagues geared specifically for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
  
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• Trump expected to order China's Bytedance to sell TikTok's US operations

  31-07-2020 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  People working on the issue within the Trump administration expect the President will sign an order to force Chinese company ByteDance to sell the US operations of TikTok, its popular short-form video app, according to a person familiar with the matter.
  
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• David Duke has been banned from Twitter

  31-07-2020 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Twitter permanently banned the account of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Thursday night, after multiple violations of the company's hateful conduct policy.
  
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• How Human Sperm Fooled Scientists for 350 Years

  31-07-2020 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  How Human Sperm Really Swim: New Research Challenges Old Assumption New research in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally...
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• Global cooling 13000 years ago was caused by volcanic eruptions - Daily Mail

  31-07-2020 20:00
  Global cooling 13000 years ago was caused by volcanic eruptions  Daily MailTexas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling  Phys.orgWhy the Earth cooled suddenly about 13,000 years ago?  Tech ExploristCooling of Earth caused by eruptions, not meteors  EurekAlertVolcanoes, Not A Comet, Likely Explanation For Earth's Most Recent Sudden Cooling  IFLScienceView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• SpaceX set to bring NASA astronauts home from historic mission (weather permitting)

  31-07-2020 19:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the first-ever astronauts to travel into orbit aboard a commercially developed spacecraft, are aiming to return to Earth this weekend — if an incoming hurricane doesn't delay those plans.
  
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• Data From Solar Dynamics Observatory Helps NASA Predict Big Solar Flares

  31-07-2020 19:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun’s biggest flares from...
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• Facebook is launching licensed music videos in threat to YouTube

  31-07-2020 18:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook is taking a swing at YouTube by bringing officially licensed music videos to its platform.
  
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• The Purpose Of COVID-19 Censorship: Don’t Allow ‘Both Sides Of The Argument’

  31-07-2020 18:01 via technocracy.news
  
  Academics have clearly articulated the modus operandi for mass censorship of opposing views: when “the science tells us that there’s only one side”, then “avoid presenting ‘both sides of the argument’”. This is the pinnacle of Scientism and Technocracy, and fully explains why COVID-19 critics are being ‘canceled’.
  This also explains who is in control of the entire COVID-19 narrative, namely, Technocrats. It also demonstrates that Climate Chan
  
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• How did Twitter hackers gain access? They called up and talked their way in.

  31-07-2020 17:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  Details released so far suggest the hackers started by using the old-fashioned method of talking their way past security.
  
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• How Artificial Neural Networks Paved the Way For A Dramatic New Theory of Dreams

  31-07-2020 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Machine learning experts struggle to deal with "overfitting" in neural networks. Evolution solved it with dreams, says new theory.
  
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• 'I take responsibility,' Ellen DeGeneres says to staff on toxic workplace claims

  31-07-2020 17:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  The production was under an internal investigation following reports of a workplace environment allegedly at odds with the show's motto, "Be kind to one another."
  
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• Incredible New COVID-19 Testing Technologies

  31-07-2020 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Range of new technologies will meet testing needs in diverse settings. The National Institutes of Health is investing $248.7 million in new technologies to address...
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• Military To ‘Joint Venture’ With CDC To Distribute Coming Vaccines

  31-07-2020 16:59 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats at the CDC and Technocrats at the Pentagon are teaming with Technocrats at Big Pharma to deliver Technocrat-made vaccines to your body. Do you see the picture here? If you think people are scared now, just wait until military Humvees start rolling through the cities. ⁃ TN EditorThe plan breaks with the longstanding precedent that CDC distributes vaccines during major outbreaks through a centralized ordering system.
  Nationwide distribution of any coronavirus vaccine will be a &l
  
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• Amazon closer to launching satellites, upping internet reach

  31-07-2020 16:40
  
  Amazon is one step closer to space
  
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• NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission: Live updates - Space.com

  31-07-2020 16:35
  
  NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission: Live updates  Space.comNASA Mars Launch 2020: Highlights From Perseverance Rover's Journey  The New York TimesNASA Launching Perseverance In Search Of Martians  Universal NewsCastro family name inscribed on Mars rover chip  WGRZ-TVNASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life  WESH 2 OrlandoView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Mask Fatigue: Workers Claim Anxiety, Headaches And Shortness Of Breath

  31-07-2020 16:17 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats don’t care if people get sick from wearing masks. They also don’t care about the ancillary deaths that have occurred because of lockdowns and the millions put out of work after destroying the economic system. They feign compassion for few people dying from a virus while shoving the rest of the population off the cliff.
  This is the tip of the iceberg. TN has been warning for months on the negative health effects of wearing face masks, independent of the fact that they have
  
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• Twitter permanently bans former KKK leader David Duke

  31-07-2020 16:11
  
  Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been banned from Twitter for breaking the social media platform’s site’s rules
  
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• Tech titans had their day before Congress. Now what?

  31-07-2020 16:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  For nearly six hours on Wednesday, House lawmakers peppered the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google with questions about their business practices, in the most anticipated antitrust hearing of its kind since Bill Gates defended Microsoft before Congress in 1998.
  
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• New Technique to Capture CO2 More Efficiently Could Reduce Power Plant Greenhouse Gases

  31-07-2020 15:41 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Tetraamine-modified MOFs remove 90% of CO2 more efficiently and cheaply.  big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural...
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• Warning: Some “Inactive” Drug Ingredients May Not Actually Be Inert

  31-07-2020 14:53 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The inactive ingredients that make up a major component of drug formulations may not be as inactive as previously thought, researchers report. According to a...
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• A former KGB spy talks disinformation tactics and the 2020 election

  31-07-2020 14:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Feeding incendiary documents to news outlets. Infiltrating activist groups. Sowing division and confusion. It might sound like a recap of Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 US election, but some of these same tactics were laid bare in a CNN television report on Soviet disinformation efforts back in 1983.
  
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• NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Launched on Ambitious Mission to Red Planet

  31-07-2020 14:01 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The agency’s Mars 2020 mission is on its way. It will land at Jezero Crater in about seven months, on February 18, 2021. NASA’s Mars...
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• Surprising Discovery Brings Scientists a Step Closer to Room Temperature Superconductivity

  31-07-2020 13:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials...
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• Mysteriously Long, Thin Cloud Returns on Mars – Not Linked to Volcanic Activity

  31-07-2020 12:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km (~12 miles / 65,000 feet) high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. A recurrent feature,...
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• We Are Mutating SARS-CoV-2 – The COVID-19 Virus – But It Is Evolving Back

  31-07-2020 12:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution looked at the evolution of the virus that causes Covid19; their findings could help the design of a...
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• China celebrates completion of rival sat navigation system

  31-07-2020 11:58
  
  China is celebrating the completion of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System that could rival the U.S. Global Positioning System and significantly boost China’s security and geopolitical clout
  
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• Solid Acid Nano-Sponges Transform CO2 Into Fuel and Plastic Waste Into Useful Chemicals

  31-07-2020 10:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Solid acids are amongst the most essential heterogeneous catalysts, which have the potential to replace environmentally harmful liquid acids, in some of the most important...
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• “Brilliant” New Technique to Study Superheavy Elements

  31-07-2020 08:07 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Merging methodologies from physics and chemistry for the optical spectroscopy of superheavy elements. Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental...
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• “Perfect” Launch Sends NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Seven-Month Journey to Mars

  31-07-2020 07:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Not obstacles, not complexity — not even a worldwide pandemic — could keep NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from blasting off on its historic mission...
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• Remarkable New Fabric Efficiently Transfers Heat – Could Help Keep You Cool Even Without A/C

  31-07-2020 06:24 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration....
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• Mars-bound spaceship experiencing technical issues – NASA - techtoday19

  31-07-2020 06:19
  Mars-bound spaceship experiencing technical issues – NASA  techtoday19NASA reveals how Perseverance is doing as it hurtles toward Mars  Digital TrendsSan Antonio native helps NASA launch rover to Mars  KSAT San AntonioNasas Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission launched to Red Planet  Business StandardBreathtaking aerial pictures of NASA Perseverance launch are filling people with wonder  India TV NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• New Insight Into How Quarks Combine by Tracking Particles Containing Charm Quarks

  31-07-2020 06:02 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Nuclear physicists are trying to understand how particles called quarks and gluons combine to form hadrons, composite particles made of two or three quarks. To...
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• New Technique Makes It Easier, Cheaper, and Faster to Analyze Precious Antarctic Micrometeorites

  31-07-2020 05:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions — is really hard to analyze without some...
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• Twitter says high-profile hack was the result of a phishing attack

  31-07-2020 04:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Twitter said Thursday night that it has "significantly limited" access to its internal tools after it learned that the high-profile hack earlier this month affecting dozens of major accounts was the result of a phishing attack targeting the phones of a "small number of employees."
  
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• Trump campaign temporarily halts ad spending for review of messaging strategy - CNN

  31-07-2020 03:24
  Trump campaign temporarily halts ad spending for review of messaging strategy  CNN
  
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• The coronavirus has only made Big Tech more dominant

  31-07-2020 02:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One day after the CEOs of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google were grilled by Congress about whether their companies are too dominant, the businesses posted earnings results that showed they are only getting more dominant amid the pandemic.
  
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• Going, Going, GONE: Two Arctic Ice Caps Have Disappeared

  31-07-2020 02:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All that’s left are some photographs and a lot of memories.”
  
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• Amid the pandemic, Big Tech reports mixed earnings

  31-07-2020 01:09
  
  Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices
  
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• iPhone users will have to wait a few more weeks to get their devices this year

  31-07-2020 00:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple said Thursday that its latest iPhones will be shipped slightly later than usual this year as the coronavirus disrupts global supply chains.
  
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