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FrontRow puts a livestreaming camera round your neck:
Although smartphones are equipped with all the hardware for first-person perspective filming, a few companies have been working to perfect a wearable camera that blends effortlessly into the wearer's life.
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16 August 2017.
Saudi Government Looking To Jail More Citizens For 'Harming Public Order' With Their Religious Tweets:
The internet may be an amazing communication tool, but it's also a handy way for governments to keep an eye on their citizens.
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16 August 2017.
Raising the minimum wage would reduce child neglect cases:
Raising the minimum wage by $1 per hour would result in a substantial decrease in the number of reported cases of child neglect, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher.
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16 August 2017.
Fired Google Engineer Blames Diversity Zealots For His Dismissal:
James Damore's Wall Street Journal essay decries "public shaming.
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11 August 2017.
Most Infamously Unreliable Gadgets We Can’t Live Without:
Smartphones The screen cracks.
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15 August 2017.
Uber suspends its service in the Philippines following ban over unregistered drivers:
Uber has suspended its services in Philippines after the national regulator banned it from operating for one month.
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16 August 2017.
Cornell provides refuge for scholars under threat:
Cornell sponsored Turkish academics Azat Gündoğan, a sociologist, and his wife, historian Nilay Ozok-Gündoğan, when they were threatened by their government.
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15 August 2017.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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01 August 2017.
Tech companies turn on Daily Stormer and the 'alt-right' after Charlottesville:
The internet has long been a gathering place for white supremacists.
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16 August 2017.
'Scandal' of vaginal mesh removal rates revealed by NHS records:
Traumatic complications mean one in 15 women fitted with the most common type of mesh support will require surgery to extract it, figures suggest • Vaginal mesh implants: ‘I really thought I was dying’Thousands of women have undergone surgery to have vaginal mesh implants removed during the past decade, according to NHS records that reveal the scale of traumatic complications linked to the devices.
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16 August 2017.
PayPal to pull services from sites linked to hate, violence, intolerance:
PayPal has outlined how the company will be limiting and closing sites that accept payments or raise funds to promote hate, violence, and racial intolerance.
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16 August 2017.
'Frankenstein dinosaur' mystery solved:
A dinosaur that seemed to be an evolutionary mishmash turns out to have a key place in history.
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16 August 2017.
Donald Trump's Charlottesville Press Conference Has Roots in Fox News and Twitter:
Nothing Donald Trump said Tuesday about Charlottesville hadn't already been said on conservative media, or by the Twitter figures he follows.
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16 August 2017.
DOJ Demands Files On Anti-Trump Activists, And A Web Hosting Company Resists:
Legal experts called the government's demand for information unusually broad.
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16 August 2017.
Neutron beams, x-rays reveal more about T. rex relative:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.
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15 August 2017.
From Isaac Asimov to Aimee Mann, 'robophobia' plagues humans:
Robots are secretly plotting to kill us.
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16 August 2017.
The Shift: This Was the Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Then Came Charlottesville.:
Discord, a group chat app, was popular among far-right activists, including some of those involved in last weekend’s protest in Charlottesville, Va.
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15 August 2017.
GoDaddy, Google to Pull Plug on Neo-Nazi Website The Daily Stormer:
Both GoDaddy and Google said they would not host the domain for neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, after the site published a mocking article about Charlottesville.
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14 August 2017.
Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro – Now with a Swim Tracker:
Samsung’s new Gear Fit2 Pro is schedule to be revealed by the end of August.
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15 August 2017.
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01 January 1970.
Tech companies ramp up NAFTA lobbying on eve of trade talks:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Technology companies, such as Microsoft and Cisco Systems have ramped up lobbying ahead of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, looking to avoid any future restrictions on cloud storage and to promote an international pact to eliminate technology goods tariffs.
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15 August 2017.
Google Pixel 2 sports 'Active Edge' sides: FCC filing:
Google's next Pixel handset manufactured by HTC will feature squeezable sides to launch Google Assistant, an FCC filing revealed.
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16 August 2017.
An Eclipse Chaser’s Guide to Your First Eclipse:
Kate Russo has chased eclipses around the world.
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15 August 2017.
Can We Feed The World With Farmed Fish?:
New research suggests there is space on the open ocean to farm essentially all the seafood humans can eat — and then some.
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15 August 2017.
Doctor says nail punctured Wisconsin man's heart:
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The doctor who operated on a Wisconsin man who accidentally shot himself with a nail gun says the nail punctured the patient's heart.
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16 August 2017.
Belgian town cooks giant omelet amidst egg scare:
MALMEDY, Belgium (Reuters) - A Belgian town honored its 22-year-old tradition of making a giant omelet on Tuesday amidst an egg contamination scare, cooking 10,000 eggs in a pan four meters wide.
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16 August 2017.
Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms:
An anonymous reader writes: Aside from being a schedule 1 drug, scientists haven't fully understood the chemistry behind how mushrooms produce the chemical psilocybin -- until now.
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01 January 1970.
Momentum is building for electric cars, but where will they recharge?:
Rising government fuel economy standards and climate concerns have spurred the production of electric cars.
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01 January 1970.
Thousands of Sharks Found on Boat in Huge Illegal Haul:
The confiscation of the Chinese ship and arrest of its 20 crew in the Galápagos show just how hard it is to protect marine sanctuaries.
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15 August 2017.
US demands details of 1.3m visitors to anti-Trump site in crackdown on protestors:
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15 August 2017.
Flu Shot Facts & Side Effects (Updated for 2017-2018):
The seasonal flu shot is a yearly vaccine administered to protect against the flu, or influenza.
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15 August 2017.
Eliminating the Human:
We are beset by—and immersed in—apps and devices that
are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we
have with each other.
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16 August 2017.
Indian police arrest four after Game of Thrones leak |:
According to police, three of the accused work for Prime Focus Technologies, a Mumbai-based company that processes the series for Indian streaming website Hotstar.
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16 August 2017.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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