In the world of racing, the debate on whether women are as fit as men behind the wheel can often become heated. A new study has now demonstrated that women drivers, even with 10 years less experience, react and respond just as well as their male counterparts on the race track.
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Friday, April 5, 2019
Unexpected rain on sun links two solar mysteries
Researchers find rain on the sun in an unexpected place. The findings could create a new link between two of the biggest mysteries in solar physics.
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NASA Highlights Science on Next Northrop Grumman Mission to Space Station
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 10, to discuss select science investigations and technology demonstrations launching on the next Northrop Grumman commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station.
April 05, 2019
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Power plants: Getting to the bottom of the 'boiling crisis'
Researchers review how a 'boiling crisis' can occur in environments such as nuclear power plants. The findings may lead to better designs of heat-transfer surfaces and might allow plants to generate more power with the same amount of fuel.
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Unexpected rain on sun links two solar mysteries
Researchers find rain on the sun in an unexpected place. The findings could create a new link between two of the biggest mysteries in solar physics.
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Parental behavior affects the involvement of children in cyberbullying
Experts have recently published a study of the perception that adolescents have of the upbringing they have had and their relationship to cyberbullying. In this way, the data obtained highlights that the involvement of families and their training in prevention programs is a fundamental as it has been shown that parental behavior has an influence on...
Changing how a country types: New keyboard standard makes typing in French easier
The French government is launching a new standard for keyboard layouts in France. The position of the letters (A-Z) will remain the same, but special characters like accents and punctuation marks are moving and many more are added to better support typing French and boost usability and speed.
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Apple Music has reportedly passed Spotify in paid subscribers in the US
But Spotify has more users than Apple in the United States if you count its free tier.
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Lyft is back above its IPO price, and a famous short-seller warns not to bet against it
Citron's Andrew Left says he's buying more Lyft shares in the open market and warns not to bet against it.
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Excerpts from @Work Talent + HR Conference
CNBC's @Work Talent + HR conference convened earlier this week in New York City, featuring panel discussions on the future of work. Topics ranged from finding new sources of talent to maximizing retention and improving workforce diversity.
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Digital health IPOs are finally coming to Wall Street, led by Livongo and Change Healthcare
The end of the digital health IPO drought is coming, with Livongo, Change Healthcare and Health Catalyst all gearing up for the public markets.
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Snap stock rises after slew of new product announcements, but analysts remain wary
Snap unveiled a host of new products on Thursday, including a new gaming platform and advertising network for more revenue opportunities.
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Damaging Sichuan earthquakes linked to fracking operations
Two moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused by nearby fracking operations, according to a new study.
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Two students robbed Apple of about $1 million with iPhone repair scam
Apple has found out that a couple of Chinese students were 'robbing' the company of around $1 million with an iPhone repair scam
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Scientists develop methods to validate gene regulation networks
A team of biologists and computer scientists has mapped out a network of interactions for how plant genes coordinate their response to nitrogen, a crucial nutrient and the main component of fertilizer.
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Microsoft Kaizala App Set to Be Integrated Within Teams, Goes Global Through Office 365
Microsoft Kaizala was launched as a Garage project in India back in November 2017.
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Mystery of negative capacitance in perovskite solar cells solved
Scientists reveal the origin of apparently high and even negative capacitance values observed in perovskite solar cells.
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Verizon's new 5G network is 'confusing' and 'difficult,' according to early tests
Early tests of Verizon's 5G network in Chicago, which only launched this week, suggest it isn't ready yet.
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France Insists on Digital Tax Despite US Anger
France will stick to plans for a tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.
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Netflix Starts Testing Weekly Subscriptions in India, Plans Start at Rs. 65
Netflix India has begun offering weekly plans from Rs. 65 to Rs. 200 per week.
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A new model predicts squeezed nanocrystal shape when blanketed under graphene
In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern University, scientists have developed a model for predicting the shape of metal nanocrystals or "islands" sandwiched between or below two-dimensional (2-D) materials such as graphene. The advance moves 2-D quantum materials a step closer to applications in electronics.
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Screen time -- even before bed -- has little impact on teen well-being
Data from more than 17,000 teenagers show little evidence of a relationship between screen time and well-being in adolescents. The study casts doubt on the widely accepted notion that spending time online, gaming, or watching TV, especially before bedtime, can damage young people's mental health.
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Airtel, Jio Said to Fight for Zee Entertainment Stake
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are said to be set for another face-off, this time in the entertainment segment.
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Fabrics that protect against chemical warfare agents
A new coating for textile fibers shows promise for efficiently capturing toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents under real-world conditions, including high humidity. The research could lead to improved masks and personal protective equipment for soldiers and others at risk of exposure.
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How to use Gmail's new 'Schedule Send' feature — and other tips to make you a Gmail genius
CNBC's Dain Evans gives his favorite tips and tricks to make you a Gmail genius.
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Researchers uncover hidden deicer risks affecting bridge health
Common magnesium chloride deicers used on roadways and bridges around the U.S. may be doing more damage than previously thought, researchers have found.
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Accenture just bought an indie ad agency, as boardrooms get serious about creative marketing
What Accenture Interactive means for consultancies' push into advertising.
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What to expect after Elon Musk's day in court
Former SEC prosecutor Elliot Lutzker believes the agency won't remove Musk as CEO, but he'll face a fine significantly larger than $20 million.
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Rovio Spin-Off Brings 5G Gaming to Samsung Devices in South Korea
Hatch Entertainment, a spin-off from Angry Birds game maker Rovio, has struck a deal to offer 5G gaming on Samsung devices in South Korea, Rovio said on Friday.
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Skype Group Calls Now Let You Have Up to 50 Participants
Skype is on its way to becoming more useful for multi-user video conferences, having bumped up its limit to up to 50 participants for group calls.
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Black nanoparticles slow the growth of tumors
The dark skin pigment melanin protects against the sun's damaging rays by absorbing light energy and converting it to heat. This could make it a very effective tool in tumor diagnosis and treatment, as demonstrated by a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Helmholtz Zentrum München. The scientists created melanin-loaded cell membrane-derived...
Jio Buys Haptik: Here Are All the Companies Reliance Jio Has Acquired Till Date
Reliance Jio just last week announced the acquisition of AI conversational platform startup Haptik.
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Here is what a US judge told Tesla CEO Elon Musk
A US District Court judge has asked electric car-maker Tesla, its CEO Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to iron out their differences within two weeks and come with a new resolution.
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US found evidence against Huawei through secret surveillance
US authorities gathered information about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd through secret surveillance that they plan to use in a case accusing the Chinese telecom equipment maker of sanctions-busting and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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WhatsApp Features Added in 2019: Everything New That WhatsApp Has Added This Year
WhatsApp rolled out an India-specific features called Tipline in 2019, and several tweaks to prevent the spread of fake news.
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Americans don't support Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to break up big tech: Poll
Americans have offered their initial judgment of Elizabeth Warren's plan to break up large technology companies like Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google: they don't support it.
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Inbox by Gmail Co-Founder Releases Chrome Extension to Give Your Gmail Inbox a Cleaner Look
The co-founder of Inbox by Gmail has released a new Google Chrome extension that brings a cleaner, simplified user interface to the Gmail inbox on the web.
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has shot an explosive projectile at the asteroid Ryugu to release dust and collect a sample
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Millions of Bangladeshi children at risk from climate crisis, warns UNICEF
More than 19 million children in Bangladesh are at risk from devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday in a new report
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UN agencies urge Brunei to repeal new ‘extreme and unjustified’ penal code
New criminal laws in Brunei that impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, adultery and childbirth out of marriage, “breach international human rights norms”, and should be suspended or repealed said the heads of two United Nations agencies on Thursday.
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Uber Drivers' Lawsuit Asks if London Congestion Charge Is Racist
Uber drivers can bring a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the city's mayor Sadiq Khan, a judge ruled Thursday, as a new front opened in a long-running battle.
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Amazon Efforts to Stop Shareholder Votes on Facial Recognition Blocked by US SEC
US securities regulators shot down attempts by Amazon.com to stop its investors from considering two shareholder proposals about the company's controversial sale of a facial recognition service
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NASA Awards Safety, Mission Assurance Engineering Contract
NASA has awarded the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract (SMAEC) II to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Reston, Virginia.
April 04, 2019
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NASA Invites Media to International Planetary Defense Conference
Media are invited to attend the sixth International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland, April 29 – May 3.
April 04, 2019
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A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system
A piece of a planet that survived the death of its star has been spotted orbiting the stellar corpse. Planets in our solar system may look similar when the sun dies
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Snow and Sand in Central Asia
In December 2018, an astronaut on the International Space Station took this highly oblique photograph of snow on the eastern Tien Shan and Taklimakan Desert in Central Asia.
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Streaming to Subscriptions: Video Games Enter New Frontiers
As games have become more accessible online and on mobile, it is becoming harder to convince people to spend a chunk of money upfront.
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Amazon Said to Ready AirPods Rival as First Alexa Wearable
Amazon is readying earbuds with built-in Alexa access for as early as the second half of this year, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
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Snapchat App Gets Games in Bid to Hold On to Young Users
Snap has launched a gaming platform within its Snapchat app featuring original and third-party games such as Zynga's Tiny Royale, aiming to keep existing users engaged longer and attract new ones.
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Google Disbands External AI Ethics Board in Face of Controversy
Google on Thursday confirmed that it has disbanded a recently assembled artificial intelligence ethics advisory panel in the face of controversy over its membership.
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Jio Helped Boost OTT Streaming Consumption in Rural India: BIF
TV Ramachandran, President, Broadband India Forum (BIF), made the statement to IANS.
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Snapchat Confirms It's Testing New Snap Map UI, as Well as Status, Passport Features
Snap seems to be targeting the "gamification" purpose of the platform that Snapchat has been known for.
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Reddit, Telegram Among Websites Blocked in India, Say Internet Groups
Some Internet users have posted on social media screenshots of pages displaying messages saying a website was blocked to comply with government orders.
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Flipkart Most Sought-After Employer in India: 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies List
Internet companies dominate the top 10 spots in the list as Amazon moved to second spot from fourth last year, and Oyo made headway from 10th position to the third this year.
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Airtel Books App Launched on Android, iOS; Readers Club Subscription Starts at Rs. 129 for 6 Months
Airtel Books app will initially offer just over 70,000 e-books from Indian as well as international authors.
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Netflix's Dizzying Valuation Faces Biggest Test Yet
Netflix is the reigning media stock in the S&P 500 Index, but it's going to be tough holding on to that spot. This will be the year the company's steep valuation will be put to the test.
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Streaming Helped Global 2018 Music Industry Sales, Finds IFPI
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the recorded music industry worldwide, published the findings in its Global Music Report 2019.
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Netflix Looms Large as US Theatre Owners Assess Industry Future
The issue of how Netflix fits into, or threatens, the theatre business dominated a press conference on Tuesday at CinemaCon, the theatre industry trade show.
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Mozilla Firefox Looks to Reduce Push Notification Permission Spam With New Experiment
Mozilla Firefox is looking to put an end to notification permission spam from websites, starting with a few experiments in its Firefox web browser.
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Apple's Clips App Gets Camcorder Filter, Ability to Add Music from GarageBand
Apple has updated Clips app to version 2.0.6 that brings a camcorder filter.
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Inbox by Gmail Is Officially Dead, but iOS and Older Android Versions Continue to Work
Inbox by Gmail was officially discontinued on April 2 but the older versions of Inbox for Gmail Android app continue to remain functional.
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YouTube Managers Said to Have Ignored Warnings, Let Toxic Videos Run Rampant
In recent years, scores of people inside YouTube and Google, its owner, raised concerns about the mass of false, incendiary and toxic content that the world’s largest video site surfaced and spread.
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WhatsApp Unveils New Privacy Setting That Prevents Spam Group Invites
With the new update, WhatsApp users will be able to decide who can add them to groups.
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Twitter Account Suspensions Can Now Be Appealed Within the App
Earlier, users whose accounts were frozen needed to fill an online form to appeal Twitter's decision and the response time varied from a few hours to over a week.
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Artificial intelligence approach optimizes embryo selection for IVF
A team, consisting of embryologists, reproductive medicine clinicians, computer scientists, and precision medicine experts, trained an artificial intelligence algorithm to discriminate between poor and good embryo quality.
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Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
These strange bacteria conduct electricity via a structure never before seen in nature -- a structure scientists can co-opt to miniaturize electronics, create powerful-yet-tiny batteries, build pacemakers without wires and develop a host of other medical advances.
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Engineers develop novel techniques to trick object detection systems
New adversarial techniques developed by engineers can make objects 'invisible' to image detection systems that use deep-learning algorithms. These techniques can also trick systems into thinking they see another object or can change the location of objects. The technique mitigates the risk for compromise in automated image processing systems.
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Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately consumes.
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Microscopic swimmers with visual perception of group members form stable swarms
Physicists were able to show that the formation of stable groups requires only few skills: forward visual perception over large distances and regulation of the speed according to the number of perceived individuals.
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Liquid jets break up more readily on a substrate
Researches have used computer simulations to study the way liquid filaments break up into smaller droplets. This holds implications, among others, for inkjet printer technology.
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Magnetic nanoparticles can 'burn' cancer cells
Among emerging cancer therapies, one approach is based on hyperthermia. In a new study, researchers show that tumor cells' specific absorption rate of destructive heat depends on the diameter of the nanoparticles and composition of the magnetic material used to deliver the heat to the tumor.
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Photons trained for optical fiber obstacle course will deliver stronger cyber security
Researchers demonstrate a way to improve quantum key distribution over fiber networks.
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Facebook, Google execs could reportedly be liable for harmful content under UK plans
The news comes as social media giants face increasing calls to clean up their platforms in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attack.
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Israel's coming election will give the winner control over a booming economy
In every Israeli election since 1948, the top issue has been security. But the economy has become a major focus for voters as they head to the polls on Tuesday.
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Samsung warns first-quarter profits fell by 60 percent
Samsung said in a regulatory filing last month that it predicted a bigger-than-expected price decline for major memory products due to seasonal weakness in demand.
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Google cancels controversial A.I. ethics panel
Google's forum for discussing artificial-intelligence issues was supposed to meet four times this year. Now it appears those meetings won't be happening.
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GrubHub CEO: We're willing to spend aggressively on the future to beat our competitors
GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney tells Jim Cramer how the company is differentiating itself in a crowded food ordering industry.
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One of Google's top A.I. people just joined Apple
Ian Goodfellow is a top figure in artificial intelligence, having popularized an approach called general adversarial networks. Now he's joining Apple.
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Amazon is reportedly making an Apple AirPods competitor that will let you talk to Alexa
Amazon is again said to be preparing a set of headphones to rival Apple AirPods that will let you talk to its voice assistant Alexa.
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Snap has nearly doubled its stock price since the beginning of 2019 — here's why
Shares of Snap have rallied over the past six months following a tough year with high executive turnover.
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Snap stock pops after company announces plan to run ads in other apps
Snap announced new ad offerings at its Snap Partner Summit on Thursday.
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US judge gives Tesla CEO Elon Musk, SEC two weeks to work out their issues
US Judge Alison Nathan ordered Musk and the SEC to "take a deep breath, put on your reasonableness pants" and work out a solution.
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Walmart CEO: The American 'consumer is in pretty good shape' right now
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon hasn't noticed American consumers pulling back on spending to start this year, despite some fear that's been the case.
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Microsoft CEO joins dialogue about sexual-harassment claims after internal email discussion
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company had a good dialogue following an internal email chain about how women had been mistreated at the company.
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Snap is taking on Apple in the multi-billion dollar mobile gaming business
Snap announced a new ad-supported gaming platform at an event Thursday, following Apple and Google into the gaming space.
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Tesla shorts betting against stock up nearly $800 million on day as Musk arrives in court
Investors betting against Tesla were up nearly $800 million Thursday as the company's CEO entered federal court in Manhattan.
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Tesla's Elon Musk enters Manhattan courthouse in showdown with SEC
The Tesla CEO said he respects the U.S. judicial process, but chuckled when asked if he felt the same about the SEC as he entered court.
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Jeff Bezos to keep 75% of couple's Amazon stock after finalizing divorce
MacKenzie Bezos announces on Twitter that she and Jeff Bezos have completed the process of dissolving their marriage.
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Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
These strange bacteria conduct electricity via a structure never before seen in nature -- a structure scientists can co-opt to miniaturize electronics, create powerful-yet-tiny batteries, build pacemakers without wires and develop a host of other medical advances.
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Novel Hawaiian communities operate similarly to native ecosystems
On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, it is possible to stand in a lush tropical forest that doesn't contain a single native plant. The birds that once dispersed native seeds are almost entirely gone too, leaving a brand-new ecological community composed of introduced plants and birds. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers demonstrate that these novel...
Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately consumes.
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Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
In this study, researchers found evidence that poverty can become embedded across wide swaths of the genome. They discovered that lower socioeconomic status is associated with levels of DNA methylation (DNAm) -- a key epigenetic mark that has the potential to shape gene expression -- at more than 2,500 sites, across more than 1,500 genes.
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Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles' family tree
A 150 million-year-old fossil has been identified as a previously unseen species of ancient crocodile that developed a tail fin and paddle-like limbs for life in the sea.
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Amazon plans to launch satellites to offer broadband internet
The long-term project will cater to people globally who lack basic access to broadband internet.
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Google Duplex reaching iOS users in US cities
Moving on from Pixel devices, iOS users in the US are getting Google's voice-calling "Duplex" -- that lets Artificial Intelligence (AI) mimic a human voice to make appointments and book tables through phone calls.
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Facebook app developers exposed users' data, says report
A Facebook spokesperson told that the company's policies prohibit storing Facebook information in a public database.
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