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• Rare Form of Magnetism Unlocked by Stacking and Twisting Graphene

  13-10-2020 23:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states. Since the discovery of graphene more...
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• AP Explains: The promise of 5G wireless - speed, hype, risk

  13-10-2020 23:39
  
  A much-hyped network upgrade called “5G” means different things to different people
  
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• Apple unveils new iPhones for faster 5G wireless networks

  13-10-2020 23:35
  
  Apple unveiled four new iPhones equipped with technology for use with faster new 5G wireless networks
  
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• The iPhone 12 comes with 5G. But not everyone will notice

  13-10-2020 23:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's official: The iPhone is entering the 5G era.
  
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• NASA's new moonshot rules: No fighting or littering, please

  13-10-2020 23:19
  
  NASA’s new rules for its moon-landing program say no fighting or littering is allowed
  
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• Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote

  13-10-2020 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I haven’t heard anything from Amazon about what we can do to make a plan to vote," one Amazon tech worker said.
  
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• Scientists Reconstruct Beetles From the Cretaceous – 99 Million Years Ago

  13-10-2020 22:42 via scitechdaily.com
  
  International research team gains new insights into the evolution of fossil beetles. About a year ago, researchers found fossil specimens of beetles in an amber...
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• Are Animals Capable of Grief?

  13-10-2020 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When animals lose a member of their species, they often show behaviors that look like human grief. Does this mean they are mourning the dead?
  
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• Virginia Voter Registration Site Experiences Outage On Final Day To Register - NPR

  13-10-2020 22:09 via news.google.com
  Virginia Voter Registration Site Experiences Outage On Final Day To Register  NPRNews Update: Court reverses decision on Arizona voter registration deadline; Donald Trump, Jr.  azfamily powered by 3TV & CBS5AZCut cable shuts down Virginia voter portal; lawsuit filed  The Associated PressVirginia governor says he can't extend voter-registration deadline after system outage  Fox NewsDouglas County sees increase in young voter turnout  41 Action
  
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• The iPhone 12 mini is a smaller, cheaper version of Apple's flagship 5G device

  13-10-2020 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple just released what it claims is the "smallest, thinnest and lightest 5G phone in the world."
  
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• Researchers Extract More Energy From Sunlight – Could Boost the Efficiency of Solar Panels by 50%

  13-10-2020 21:32 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers working to maximize solar panel efficiency said layering advanced materials atop traditional silicon is a promising path to eke more energy out of sunlight....
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• Watch: Apple unveils new iPhone 12 models

  13-10-2020 20:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple announced its new iPhone 12 model line with access to 5G wireless networks, providing a preview of a faster wireless internet.
  
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• iPhone 12: What you need to know about Apple's new 5G phone lineup

  13-10-2020 20:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple's 5G smartphone lineup is finally here.
  
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• MIT Neuroscientists Discover a Molecular Mechanism That Allows Memories to Form

  13-10-2020 20:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Modifications to chromosomes in “engram” neurons control the encoding and retrieval of memories. When the brain forms a memory of a new experience, neurons called...
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• So, Should You Buy a New Phone or Not?

  13-10-2020 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Here are three steps to take to arrive at an answer.
  
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• Misinformation Watch

  13-10-2020 19:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Misinformation Watch is your guide to false and misleading content online — how it spreads, who it impacts, and what the Big Tech platforms are doing (or not) about it.
  
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• Apple announces iPhone 12 with 5G

  13-10-2020 19:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Smartphones with 5G capability will eventually have stronger wireless connections, though industry analysts expect the benefits to appear slowly.
  
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• Autism’s Gut Connection: Microbes Could Soon Lead to New Treatments

  13-10-2020 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Researchers are finding clues to autistic behavior — in patients’ gut bacteria. Using fecal transplants to improve symptoms have shown promise in preliminary studies.
  
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• Instacart provided some contract workers with stickers and fliers promoting controversial ballot measure that decides their fate

  13-10-2020 19:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With just weeks left until Election Day, Instacart attempted to leverage the labor of some of its workers to promote its messaging about a controversial California ballot initiative, the outcome of which will shape how gig economy businesses operate in the state and whether workers are treated as contractors or employees.
  
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• SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Provide Lasting COVID-19 Immunity

  13-10-2020 18:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  One of the most significant questions about the novel coronavirus is whether people who are infected are immune from reinfection and, if so, for how...
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• NASA moon-landing tech hitches ride to space on Bezos rocket

  13-10-2020 18:48
  
  Jeff Bezos' space company has launched a rocket with NASA's newest moon-landing tech on board
  
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• Another ‘Unfounded’ Study on Origins of Virus Spreads Online

  13-10-2020 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The publication is the second in a series, from a team led by a Chinese scientist, that has been widely discredited by experts.
  
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• Facebook says it will ban anti-vaccination ads

  13-10-2020 18:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Facebook said Tuesday it is launching a new global policy that bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.
  
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• Facebook bans Holocaust denial, reversing previous stance

  13-10-2020 18:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Facebook announced Monday it will now ban content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust,” reversing its earlier policy.
  
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• Lioness Sex Toy Collects Data for Researchers Studying The Female Orgasm

  13-10-2020 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How a smart vibrator is closing the orgasm gap.
  
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• Flashback 2012: ‘Facebook Is The Perfect Technocracy’

  13-10-2020 17:36 via technocracy.news
  
  This 2002 article that appeared in The Atlantic describes Facebook as a Technocracy in proper context with the original 1930s Technocracy movement: people-centered government is out and “developer-king” rule is in. This ideology is spreading like wildfire throughout the world. ⁃ TN EditorLet’s stipulate that Facebook is not a country, that real governments fulfill many more functions, and that people are not citizens of their social networks.
  Nonetheless, 900 million huma
  
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• White House Eyes Nationalizing 5G Network Via Single Public-Private Partnership

  13-10-2020 17:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Ex-CEO of Google is right in the middle of this process. Although nothing is set in stone just yet, the logic from the military’s point of view is unmistakable. The downside is that the government (military) would dictate the terms of use throughout civilian populations. ⁃ TN EditorWhite House chief of staff Mark Meadows is leaning on the Pentagon to move ahead with a plan to stand up a 5G wireless network, sources tell Axios, and the idea, despite opposition from key government and
  
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• Closely Guarded Secret Technology: 6,500-Year-Old Copper Workshop Uncovered in the Negev Desert

  13-10-2020 17:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority believe copper-producing technology was closely guarded secret. A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities...
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• Free Speech Is Dying As Governments Clamp Down

  13-10-2020 16:47 via technocracy.news
  
  A dangerous 0new legal theory is introduced and setting precedence around the world: “legal but harmful”. This leaves the censors in total control of arbitrarily determining what is “harmful” and then imposing punishment. This is currently the essence of Big Tech censorship. ⁃ TN EditorEven as the world wrestles with a pandemic and overbearing public health measures, some legislative bodies are taking the opportunity to tighten the screws on speech they don’t
  
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• Extreme Magnetic Fields and Temperature Variation of Distant Magnetars

  13-10-2020 16:21 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for the past 30 years — what causes the changing...
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• Facebook donates $1.3 million to boost WWII code-breaking site Bletchley Park

  13-10-2020 16:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook has made a £1 million ($1.3 million) donation to the museum at Bletchley Park, where British code-breakers decrypted messages sent using Nazi Germany's Enigma cipher and contributed to an Allied victory in World War II, after the site was forced to cut dozens of jobs as a result of the pandemic.
  
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• Front-Row Seats to Star’s Death by Spaghettification

  13-10-2020 15:55 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Astronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a black hole. The violent occurrence—called a tidal disruption...
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• Jeff Bezos’s Company Is Carrying Cargo to Space. It’s Not Amazon.

  13-10-2020 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket hasn’t flown space tourists yet, but it has found a business niche with NASA and private science experiments.
  
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• Jeff Bezos’ Company Is Carrying Scientific Cargo to Space. It’s Not Amazon.

  13-10-2020 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket hasn’t flown space tourists yet, but it has found a business niche with NASA and private science experiments.
  
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• Jeff Bezos’ Company Is Carrying Cargo to Space. It’s Not Amazon.

  13-10-2020 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket hasn’t flown space tourists yet, but it has found a business niche with NASA and private science experiments.
  
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• How a 2nd-Grade Class Sent a Science Experiment to Space

  13-10-2020 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  “Any school district now that affords football can afford spaceflight.”
  
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• Max Planck and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics

  13-10-2020 15:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In the early evening of Sunday, October 7, 1900—120 years ago—Max Planck found the functional form of the curve that we now know as the...
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• Amazon is changing its boxes. Here's why

  13-10-2020 14:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Your Amazon Prime Day packages will look different than the boxes you're used to -- and they'll come with an unexpected surprise.
  
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• Mini apps could reinvent the way you use your iPhone. China led the way

  13-10-2020 13:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple has a solution for home screen clutter: Mini apps. In China, that has long been the norm.
  
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• Why a fancy new iPhone will be a tougher sell than ever

  13-10-2020 12:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's a nightmare product-release scenario, even for Apple: A raging pandemic has infected millions, including the President, and forced millions of Americans out of work. A reckoning with racial injustice has swept across the country. And in the company's home state of California, record-breaking wildfires blaze.
  
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• Analysis: Pakistan's TikTok ban is about censorship, not China

  13-10-2020 10:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pakistan is taking a cue from its close ally China on internet censorship by banning, of all things, a Chinese social media app.
  
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• Washington state again fails to live-track murder hornet

  13-10-2020 00:57
  
  Washington state officials say they were again unsuccessful at live-tracking a “murder" hornet while trying to find and destroy a nest of the giant insects
  
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