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• Cocktail Chemistry: 10 Science-Backed Tips for the Perfect Drink

  07-10-2020 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Are your homemade cocktails never as good as the real thing? Fear not, science has you covered!
  
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• Ocean Spray surprises Tik Tok star with a new cranberry-colored truck after his Fleetwood Mac video went viral

  07-10-2020 23:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ocean Spray is giving back after a TikTok video featuring one of their products exploded online.
  
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• Facebook bans 'militarized' calls for poll watching during election

  07-10-2020 23:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  The company also said it would temporarily stop allowing all political ads on its services after polls close Nov. 3.
  
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• Elusive eastern black rail threatened by rising sea levels

  07-10-2020 23:05
  
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declared the Eastern black rail a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act
  
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• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Environmental Testing – Survived Harsh Conditions of Rocket Launch

  07-10-2020 22:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  With the completion of its latest series of milestone tests, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now survived all of the harsh conditions associated with...
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• Supreme Court puzzles over the nature of software in landmark Google v. Oracle case

  07-10-2020 22:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A historic, multibillion-dollar lawsuit between Oracle and Google may come down to the jumbled attempts on Wednesday by eight Supreme Court justices to find an appropriate analogy to describe common computer code.
  
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• Monstrous Thunderstorms Rumble Over the Great Plains

  07-10-2020 21:07 via scitechdaily.com
  
  During the summer, the U.S. Great Plains routinely experiences nighttime thunderstorms unlike anywhere else in the country. These large-scale storms—sometimes spanning entire states—account for more...
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• Octopus Farms Could Become a Reality. Scientists Warn This Isn't a Good Idea

  07-10-2020 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Efforts to raise octopuses in captivity, like we do with salmon and other fish, are on the rise. But farming these sea creatures to become our food might be unethical and bad for the environment, some scientists say.
  
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• Astronaut chooses daughter's wedding over space test flight

  07-10-2020 19:49
  
  The commander of Boeing's first astronaut flight has pulled himself off the crew
  
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• Gigafire! August Complex Wildfire Still Burning – Largest Fire in California’s History

  07-10-2020 19:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured another startling image of the August Complex of fires that has grown to over 1,000,000 acres burned (1,006,140 acres total) and...
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• A Nobel science first: More than one woman winner, no man

  07-10-2020 19:04
  
  Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna earned a historic first for women in Nobel science prize history
  
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• Congress just finished its Big Tech antitrust report — now it’s time to rewrite the laws

  07-10-2020 18:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Democrats unveiled their nearly 450-page antitrust report on the tech industry. Now the real work begins.
  
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• NASA, Boeing Announce Astronaut Changes for Upcoming Starliner Crew Flight Test

  07-10-2020 18:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Veteran NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will join astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the inaugural crewed flight of...
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• Modern Science Didn’t Appear Until the 17th Century. What Took So Long?

  07-10-2020 17:23 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Knowledge Machine,” the philosopher Michael Strevens says that there is something fundamentally irrational and even “inhuman” about the scientific method.
  
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• Demographic Crater: Singapore To Pay Citizens To Have Babies

  07-10-2020 17:04 via technocracy.news
  
  Singapore is one of the world’s first Technocracy states. While global Technocrats decry overpopulation as the world’s biggest problem, it is ironic that those countries are the first to experience demographic collapse. ⁃ TN EditorSingapore will offer a one-time payment to aspiring parents during the coronavirus pandemic.
  The country’s deputy prime minister said the incentive would help reassure people who face financial pressure and are worried about their jobs
  
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• New Biochemical Research Shows Past Tropical Forest Changes Drove Megafauna and Hominin Extinctions

  07-10-2020 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New biochemical research shows significant turnovers in Southeast Asian environments and animals during the Pleistocene. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, scientists from...
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• It Begins: COVID Passport Trials On United Airlines In UK

  07-10-2020 16:39 via technocracy.news
  
  The pressure to comply with COVID mandates and fraudulent science will come primarily through non-government operations, like airlines and other modes transportation. If you don’t take and pass the COVID test, you don’t travel.
  The sheer mental disconnect of this program will require a traveller to be tested again and again, for sickness could strike at any time after a successful test. If a test is negative, then you are grounded wherever you happen to be at the time. ⁃ TN Edi
  
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• Vicious Cycle: Climate Change Spreading Infectious Diseases, Which Contribute to Climate Change

  07-10-2020 16:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Sicker livestock may increase climate woes: More parasites means higher emissions of potent greenhouse gas. Climate change is affecting the spread and severity of infectious...
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• Forget Driverless Cars, It’s Pilotless Airplanes Now

  07-10-2020 16:25 via technocracy.news
  
  The rush is on to apply AI to pilotless airplanes. By 2030, the world’s air travel could be fully automated from entering one airport and exiting another in a different location. Of course, you may still need your COVID passport to even make the reservation. ⁃ TN EditorBritten-Norman, Britain’s only independent commercial aircraft manufacturer, said its ultimate goal was optional full automation which “should be realised within this decade”
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• Why Astronomy is Considered the Oldest Science

  07-10-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Initially a cosmic curiosity, the night sky was eventually decoded by ancient peoples, making astronomy one of (if not the) oldest science.
  
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• Simple Algebra Enables Faster, Large-Volume COVID-19 Testing

  07-10-2020 15:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Cardiff University mathematician proposes new technique to drastically increase the amount of testing for COVID-19. A mathematician from Cardiff University has developed a new method...
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• Instagram is letting users switch back to old logos for its birthday

  07-10-2020 15:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Instagram is celebrating its birthday by letting users switch to older icons of the app, including the classic retro camera logo that it sported when it first became a staple of smartphones worldwide.
  
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• Hacker who helped Islamic State to remain in US prison

  07-10-2020 15:22
  A computer hacker who gave the Islamic State group the personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison after a judge rejected his request for compassionate release
  
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• Ad attacking Mark Zuckerberg to air during VP debate

  07-10-2020 14:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A television ad attacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his company's handling of hate and misinformation will air during Wednesday's vice presidential debate coverage, the group behind the ad — Accountable Tech — tells CNN Business.
  
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• 'Monopoly power': House Dems issue scathing big tech report

  07-10-2020 13:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has released Tuesday its findings and recommendations on how to reform laws to fit the digital age.
  
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• India offers Samsung and iPhone suppliers new incentives to boost local production

  07-10-2020 13:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  India is giving more than a dozen companies new incentives to invest in the country's smartphone industry, bolstering an ambitious campaign from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rebrand the country as the world's next manufacturing hub.
  
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• Google and Oracle are squaring off in the Supreme Court. Here's what's at stake

  07-10-2020 12:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Oracle and Google are set to clash before the US Supreme Court on Wednesday in what some experts have described as a landmark battle over the future of software development — one that could transform how the internet works and reshape the way businesses design new products and technologies. It's a pivotal case with billions of dollars at stake.
  
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• Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for developing a method for genome editing

  07-10-2020 12:19
  Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for developing a method for genome editing
  
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• How the 'parasite' QAnon conspiracy cult went global

  07-10-2020 12:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  QAnon began life as a uniquely American phenomenon. Since the pandemic started, however, the popularity of the virtual cult has exploded internationally and created a dilemma for platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
  
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• Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to Charpentier and Doudna

  07-10-2020 11:58
  
  French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A
  
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• Feisty Tasmanian devils roaming Australian mainland again

  07-10-2020 07:25
  
  Tasmanian devils are roaming mainland Australia again after 3,000 years
  
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• Former Facebook engineer speaks out about misinformation, hate speech on platform

  07-10-2020 00:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  After more than five years at Facebook Ashok Chandwaney walked away from their engineering job last month, citing the company’s unwillingness to stop rampant hate speech and racism on the platform.
  
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• Congress' Big Tech investigation finds companies wield 'monopoly power'

  07-10-2020 00:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A 16-month congressional investigation into Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook has found that the tech giants hold "monopoly power" in key business segments and have abused their dominance in the marketplace, in a full-throated condemnation of the giants.
  
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• FDA publishes vaccine guidelines opposed by White House

  07-10-2020 00:12
  
  The Food and Drug Administration has released its updated safety standards for developers of COVID-19 vaccines after the White House previously blocked their formal release
  
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• Three years later, Facebook says it will ban QAnon

  07-10-2020 00:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook said Tuesday it will ban any pages, groups, and Instagram accounts representing the conspiracy theory QAnon from its platform.
  
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• Analysis: Trump's downplaying of Covid-19 puts Facebook and Twitter in his crosshairs

  07-10-2020 00:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Trump's bout with coronavirus, and his continued and frequently dishonest downplaying of it, isn't just a problem for his re-election campaign. It's also putting Big Tech in an uncomfortable position, on a collision course with the President over what they've portrayed as strict rules regarding misinformation about the virus.
  
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