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TESS exoplanet hunter tests camera as it swings by Moon:
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission took its first image as it completed a dramatic lunar flyby this week.
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19 May 2018.
Techdirt Podcast Episode 167: CIA: Collect It All:
We're nearing the end of the Kickstarter campaign for CIA: Collect It All, our polished and fully-playable version of a formerly top secret card game used by the CIA to train new recruits.
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19 May 2018.
UA surgeons developing new tool to detect urine blockage:
Surgeons at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson are developing a tool that may make detecting urine blockage simpler for patients.
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19 May 2018.
Cambridge Analytica Files For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After Facebook Privacy Row:
The firm at the center of the Facebook data hack made the decision after suffering a sharp drop in business.
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18 May 2018.
3 of the Best Hoverboards Money Can Buy:
If you’re thinking about buying a hoverboard for the first time or if you are new to these personal transports and are unsure what to buy, don’t worry, Gadget Review.
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28 April 2018.
Shared housing startups are taking off:
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor These schools graduate the most funded startup CEOs The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success When young adults leave the parental nest, they often follow a predictable pattern.
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19 May 2018.
New book focuses on impact of online content moderators:
In his new book, Tarleton Gillespie investigates how social media platforms police what we post online and the large societal impact of these decisions.
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17 May 2018.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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12 April 2018.
Laurel or Yanny explained: why do some people hear a different word?:
Original audio clip comes from vocabulary.
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20 May 2018.
Guardian science reporter wins prize for vaginal mesh investigation:
Hannah Devlin’s reporting wins Association of British Science Writers award for best investigative journalismThe Guardian’s science correspondent Hannah Devlin has scooped a coveted prize in the Association of British Science Writers awards for her investigation into the vaginal mesh scandal.
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20 May 2018.
LG chairman Koo Bon-moo dies:
LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo, the leader of South Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate, has passed away.
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20 May 2018.
'Shocking' human impact reported on world's protected areas:
One third of the world's protected lands are being degraded by human activities, says a new study.
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17 May 2018.
Best Weekend Tech Deals: Apple Watch, Neck Massagers, Monitors:
Computer monitors, TVs, laptops, desktops, and even the Apple Watch are all on sale this weekend.
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19 May 2018.
Lyor Cohen, YouTube's Music Head, Faces Down A Doubtful Music Business:
The former rap mogul and current head of music at YouTube on #MeToo (sort of), Migos and his mortality.
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17 May 2018.
UN, EU call for global action to protect bees:
The United Nation's food agency and the European Union on Saturday called for global action to protect pollinators, and bees in particular, which are crucial for ensuring food security.
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19 May 2018.
Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning From Its Own History of Hate:
At a Facebook deletion center in Berlin, the agents, who work for a third-party firm, remove illegal hate speech from the social network.
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19 May 2018.
Why scientists trained this tiny spider to jump on command:
Jump, Kim! Jump!.
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13 May 2018.
Comcast xFi Advanced Gateway Modem/Router:
Here is Comcast’s most advanced modem/router which promises speed as well as ease of use.
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06 December 2017.
2018 MacBook Pro: These Big Upgrades Are Likely:
This year new MacBook Pros will almost certainly see watershed chip upgrades.
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20 May 2018.
ISS sides against two Tesla directors, backs split of Musk's roles:
BOSTON (Reuters) - Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommended on Friday that investors vote against Tesla Inc directors Antonio Gracias and James Murdoch, increasing pressure on the car maker over their roles on its board.
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19 May 2018.
Nuance reportedly acquires Voicebox Technologies:
Voicebox, based in Bellevue, Washington, has developed a VoiceAI platform used in home and IoT devices, as well as connected cars.
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20 May 2018.
Trilobites: The Baby’s Hand Was Mummified. Why Wasn’t the Rest of Its Body?:
The skeleton of a child found in Hungary was partially mummified by copper from a coin found in its hand.
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18 May 2018.
Report: Most Former Research Chimps Should Move To Retirement Sanctuaries:
A working group convened by the National Institutes of Health looked at where chimps that had been used in research should live now.
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18 May 2018.
Ready, aim, fire: Australian diners given water pistols to ward off seagulls:
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Annoyed at seagulls that pester its patrons, a restaurant in the Australian city of Perth has armed customers with water pistols to stop the birds from ruining the waterfront dining experience.
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17 May 2018.
Did Google's Duplex Testing Break the Law?:
An anonymous reader writes:
Tech blogger John Gruber appears to have successfully identified one of the restaurants mentioned in a post on Google's AI blog that bragged about "a meal booked through a call from Duplex.
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01 January 1970.
When the humanities meet big data:
A "close reading" of canonical texts have long been a staple of the humanities.
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01 January 1970.
Meet the Scientist in Michael Curry's Royal Wedding Sermon:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin studied evolution, viewed consciousness as a mystic force, and waxed poetic on the "energies of love.
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19 May 2018.
Facebook and Google urged to set up independent regulator to avoid internet laws:
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25 January 2018.
What Can the Death of a Neutron Tell Us About Dark Matter?:
Physicists speculate that decaying neutrons may be producing particles unknown to science that make up the elusive dark matter.
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19 May 2018.
In blockchain we trust:
To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath, argue the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency and its newly published follow-up, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything.
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20 May 2018.
Simple Ways To Optimize Your Online Search Engine Outcomes:
If you have a website for your business, one of the most important techniques for making that website successful is something called search engine optimization.
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20 May 2018.
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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