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• Konrad Steffen, Who Sounded Alarm on Greenland Ice, Dies at 68

  13-08-2020 23:42 via nytimes.com
  
  A renowned researcher on rising sea levels, he died after falling into the kind of crevasse that warming has created. “It looks like climate change actually claimed him as a victim,” a colleague said.
  
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• Microsoft shares 35-minute demo pitching and explaining the Surface Duo [Video] - 9to5Google

  13-08-2020 23:37
  
  Microsoft shares 35-minute demo pitching and explaining the Surface Duo [Video]  9to5GoogleSurface Duo: Windows and Android, together at last  EngadgetWhy the Microsoft Surface Duo already worries me as an Android user  PCWorldMicrosoft’s Surface Duo Android phone will get three years of updates  The VergeMicrosoft Surface Duo press event video shows it off in great detail  PhoneArenaView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Rajon Rondo Back With Lakers, What Does It Mean For The Playoffs? - Lakers Nation

  13-08-2020 23:30
  Rajon Rondo Back With Lakers, What Does It Mean For The Playoffs?  Lakers NationNBA playoff matchups all set except for top-seeded Lakers' opponent  ESPNLakers Coach Frank Vogel Makes Huge Announcement Regarding Return of Rajon Rondo  Lakers DailyLakers Respond To Potential Matchup With Blazers  Lakers NationKings vs. Lakers - Game Recap - August 13, 2020  ESPNView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Fortnite's maker is suing Apple after the game was removed from its App Store

  13-08-2020 23:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The maker of Fortnite is suing Apple after Apple blocked the wildly popular online video game with hundreds of millions of registered players from its app store Thursday.
  
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• How Floating Microbes Could Live in the Acid Clouds of Venus

  13-08-2020 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A team of planetary scientists has proposed a hypothetical life cycle that could allow microbes to survive on Venus by migrating between different atmospheric layers.
  
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• Using Air to Amplify Light in Hollow-Core Optical Fibers

  13-08-2020 23:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  “The idea had been going around my head for about 15 years, but I never had the time or the resources to do anything about...
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• Fortnite's maker is suing Apple after being removed from its App Store

  13-08-2020 22:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The maker of Fortnite is suing Apple after Apple blocked the wildly popular online video game with hundreds of millions of registered players from its app store Thursday.
  
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• CNN Business Exclusive: 109 year-old IBM is planning to take on Amazon. Here's how

  13-08-2020 22:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When former IBM cloud leader Arvind Krishna took over the company's top job earlier this year, the move sent a clear signal about where the company sees its future.
  
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• Trump Eliminates Major Methane Rule, Even as Leaks Are Worsening - The New York Times

  13-08-2020 22:02
  
  Trump Eliminates Major Methane Rule, Even as Leaks Are Worsening  The New York TimesTrump Reverses Obama Methane Rule Despite Opposition From Big Oil  NPRTrump lifts Obama-era regulations on methane, a potent climate-warming gas  CNBCMore methane: US rolls back curbs on the powerful greenhouse gas  Aljazeera.comDemocrats unveil bill to penalize gas producers for blowouts ahead of expected Trump methane rollback | TheHill  The HillView Full Covera
  
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• Who Is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’s Unlikely Opposition Leader? - The New York Times

  13-08-2020 21:52
  Who Is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’s Unlikely Opposition Leader?  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Self-driving car only lanes? They're coming to an autonomous corridor in Michigan - CNET

  13-08-2020 21:49
  Self-driving car only lanes? They're coming to an autonomous corridor in Michigan  CNETMichigan plans to redesign a stretch of road for self-driving cars  CNNNew autonomous vehicle corridor planned between Detroit and Ann Arbor  WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7Gov. Whitmer announces 'first-of-its-kind' corridor connecting Detroit, Ann Arbor  The Michigan DailyMichigan Avenue may soon become the most advanced road in US  Detroit Free PressView Full Cov
  
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• Microsoft back in the smartphone business with its new Duo

  13-08-2020 21:37
  
  Microsoft is back to selling smartphones for the first time since it abandoned its mobile business more than four years ago
  
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• How MIT Built Its Own COVID-19 Testing Trailer That Can Test Up to 1,500 People a Day

  13-08-2020 21:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day. In mid-March, in response...
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• Drug, Already Approved to Treat Multiple Sclerosis, Blocks HIV Infection and Transmission in Human Immune Cells

  13-08-2020 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  An immunomodulatory drug called fingolimod, which is approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, blocks human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and transmission in human immune...
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• Prosecutors: Man sought to have his child porn victim killed

  13-08-2020 19:41
  Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man who sought and exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl paid $20,000 in bitcoin in a bid to have the child victim murdered before eventually calling it off
  
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• Domestic Violence Injuries Increased During COVID-19 – With More Severe Injuries Suffered by Victims

  13-08-2020 19:04 via scitechdaily.com
  
  There was a higher incidence and severity of physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among patients seen at a large, academic medical center in the U.S....
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• Amazon Alexa security bug allowed access to voice history - BBC News

  13-08-2020 19:00
  
  Amazon Alexa security bug allowed access to voice history  BBC NewsResearchers discovered significant vulnerability in Amazon's Alexa | TheHill  The HillKeeping your gate locked on your IoT devices: Vulnerabilities found on Amazon Alexa  Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.Amazon Echo Show 5 review: small but mighty  Reviewed6 Alexa skills on my Amazon Echo that I use the most  CNETView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• 40 Years Ago: Lessons From the Eruption of Mount St. Helens

  13-08-2020 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In this excerpt from Discover’s debut 1980 issue, Mount St. Helens’ spectacular show enabled scientists to learn how to predict volcanic eruptions. In our update, we share the lessons they’ve learned since.
  
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• Perseids meteor shower captured in stunning photos from around the world - CBS News

  13-08-2020 18:31
  Perseids meteor shower captured in stunning photos from around the world  CBS NewsThe 2020 Perseid meteor shower is still going strong: How to watch the show  CNETPerseid Meteor Shower: 'Fireball' Spotted Over Prince Edward Island in Canada  Bloomberg QuickTake NewsFavorite photos from 2020’s Perseid meteor shower  EarthSkyObservatory captures peak of Perseid meteor shower  Associated PressView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Novavax Stock Is Up on Deal With SK Bioscience - Motley Fool

  13-08-2020 18:31
  Novavax Stock Is Up on Deal With SK Bioscience  Motley FoolUK agrees to buy millions more COVID-19 vaccine doses  Yahoo FinanceNovavax Rallies As It Strikes New COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing, Supply Partnership  BenzingaUK buys more potential COVID-19 vaccines from J&J and Novavax  Reuters UKNovavax to deliver 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate to UK for trial  Yahoo FinanceView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Deepfakes: The Dark Origins of Fake Videos and Their Potential to Wreak Havoc Online

  13-08-2020 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The presence of videos and images altered with artificial intelligence are nearly doubling every six months. But the problem might be more than meets the eye.
  
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• How Data Mining Visualizes Story Lines in the Twittersphere

  13-08-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A vast new dataset reveals the popularity of words and phrases on Twitter and how they change over time.
  
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• Feds announce largest seizure of cryptocurrency connected to terrorism

  13-08-2020 17:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal prosecutor called the case “historical and unprecedented."
  
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• Hubble Finds Cause for Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming – Is Aging Red Supergiant About to Supernova?

  13-08-2020 17:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of...
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• How Trump's war on WeChat could upend the global tech industry

  13-08-2020 17:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Trump's executive order last week banning TikTok if it doesn't find a buyer by next month potentially threatened to upend a vibrant social network and the broader social media marketplace.
  
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• AZ Lawmaker: State COVID-19 Hospitalization Counts Are Inflated

  13-08-2020 17:12 via technocracy.news
  
  When the official COVID narrative is challenged, as in Arizona by a duly elected State Representative, the investigators are vilified, ridiculed and marginalized without any serious debate or consideration. ⁃ TN EditorA Southern Arizona lawmaker is claiming that a new study he commissioned shows that there is no correlation between the rising number of people being infected with COVID-19 and the number who wind up in the hospital.
  And Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, is accusing the state
  
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• Ancient Genomes Suggest the Real Reason Woolly Rhinos Went Extinct

  13-08-2020 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Woolly rhinoceros likely went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting. The extinction of prehistoric megafauna like the woolly mammoth, cave lion, and woolly rhinoceros...
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• Nursing Homes Shocked At ‘Insanely Wrong’ COVID-19 Data

  13-08-2020 16:53 via technocracy.news
  
  There are only 13,600 nursing homes in America but COVID-19 data is wildly inaccurate. Yet, the narrative surrounding this faulty data has fomented a national meltdown. Corrupted COVID-19 data is fully comparable to corrupted climate change data. ⁃ TN EditorWhen the administrator of the Saugus Rehab and Nursing Center in Saugus, Massachusetts, heard that a new Medicare website reported her facility had 794 confirmed cases of COVID-19 — the second highest in the country &mda
  
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• CDC Confesses To Lying About COVID-19 Death Counts

  13-08-2020 16:33 via technocracy.news
  
  Draconian political mandates have been made based on faulty data across the whole nation. Technocrats have knowingly promoted this corrupted data to stoke public fear and political action to promote oppressive shutdown policies. ⁃ TN EditorCan any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted?
  It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us.
  This revelation comes a few days af
  
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• Physicists Cast Doubt on Neutrino Theory – Exotic Subatomic Particle May Not Exist at All

  13-08-2020 16:32 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Exotic subatomic particles, sterile neutrinos, are no-shows in experiments, increasing doubts about their existence. University of Cincinnati physicists, as part of an international research team,...
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• AMC to open 100 theaters next week, majority of locations in early September

  13-08-2020 16:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Those who return to enjoy the big screen next Thursday will notice the movie-going experience looks a little different.
  
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• Google announces a new version of Wear OS based on Android 11 with Snapdragon Wear 4100 support - XDA Developers

  13-08-2020 15:00
  Google announces a new version of Wear OS based on Android 11 with Snapdragon Wear 4100 support  XDA DevelopersGoogle announces Wear OS update with performance and UI improvements  Android PoliceGoogle promises the next Wear OS update will launch apps up to 20 percent faster  The VergeGoogle: Your apps will start faster with this update for Wear OS  ZDNetWear OS update: Google reveals new features coming this autumn  Pocket-lintView Full Coverage
  
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• Facebook beefs up anti-misinfo efforts ahead of U.S. election

  13-08-2020 14:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new voter information hub is the social network’s latest step to to combat election-related misinformation on its platform as the Nov. 3 election nears.
  
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• This is what it's like when a country actually bans TikTok

  13-08-2020 12:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jaya Lall first joined TikTok in early March to make a slideshow set to music for her friend's birthday. But the short-form video app took on new significance to her three weeks later when India went into a coronavirus lockdown, forcing her to close the preschool she runs in the country's capital, New Delhi.
  
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• China extends anti-dumping tariffs on Indian optical fiber

  13-08-2020 10:11
  
  China's Commerce Ministry says it has extended tariffs on Indian optical fiber for five years
  
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• Limited COVID-19 testing? Researchers in Rwanda have an idea

  13-08-2020 09:12
  
  Like many countries, Rwanda is finding it impossible to test each of its citizens for the coronavirus amid shortages of supplies
  
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• Analysis: After TikTok and WeChat, Alibaba could be the next target in Trump's tech war

  13-08-2020 08:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The United States has taken aim at some of China's biggest tech champions, from Huawei and ByteDance's TikTok to Tencent's WeChat. Alibaba, one of the world's largest retail and internet conglomerates, could be next.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Thai scientists catch bats to trace virus origins

  13-08-2020 05:40
  
  Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus.
  Initial research has already pointed to bats as the source of the virus that has afflicted more than 20.5 million people and caused the deaths of over 748,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The closest match to the coronavirus has been found in horseshoe bats in Yunnan in southern China.Thailand has 19 species of horses
  
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• New tool helps calculate risk factors for developing severe illness from COVID-19 - Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV

  13-08-2020 05:20
  New tool helps calculate risk factors for developing severe illness from COVID-19  Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIVWhat We Know About Long-Term COVID-19  The CutI got coronavirus in March and still haven't recovered  MicI'm a COVID-19 long-hauler and an epidemiologist – here's how it feels when symptoms last for months  Yahoo NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Companies test antibody drugs to treat, prevent COVID-19

  13-08-2020 02:58
  Companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing to a coronavirus vaccine: antibody drugs that fight the virus right away, without having to train the immune system to do the job
  
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• Uber would likely shut down for over a year in California if new ruling not overturned

  13-08-2020 00:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The proposed action was outlined in court filings Wednesday focused on whether most of its workforce is reclassified as employees rather than contractors.
  
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• Tribune Publishing closes Daily News newsroom in Manhattan

  13-08-2020 00:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Economic strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic also forced the company to shutter the offices of two Maryland newspapers.
  
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