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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The US is terrible at building high-speed rail — here's why

The U.S. has no high-speed trains, aside from sections of Amtrak's Acela line in the Northeast Corridor. Watch to find out why.

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Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out

Researchers have designed a recyclable plastic that, like a Lego playset, can be disassembled into its constituent parts at the molecular level, and then reassembled into a different shape, texture, and color again and again without loss of performance or quality.

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Teaching CRISPR and antibiotic resistance to high school students

A team has developed BioBits, a suite of hands-on educational kits that enable students to perform a range of biological experiments by adding water and simple reagents to freeze-dried cell-free reactions.

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Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out

Researchers have designed a recyclable plastic that, like a Lego playset, can be disassembled into its constituent parts at the molecular level, and then reassembled into a different shape, texture, and color again and again without loss of performance or quality.

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The evolution of skyrmions in multilayers and their topological Hall signature

The topological Hall effect (THE) is the Hall response to an emergent magnetic field, a manifestation of the skyrmion Berry-phase. As the magnitude of THE in magnetic multilayers is an open question, it is imperative to develop comprehensive understanding of skyrmions and other chiral textures, and their electrical fingerprint.

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Freshwater mussel shells were material of choice for prehistoric craftsmen

Researchers have discovered that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments.

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Amazon Alexa can now help you get a jump on the day right when your alarm goes off

Amazon recently updated Alexa with a feature that lets it automatically turn on the lights, read out the traffic, play music, start your morning news briefing and more, all when you turn off your morning alarm.

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New material also reveals new quasiparticles

Researchers have investigated a novel crystalline material that exhibits electronic properties that have never been seen before. It is a crystal of aluminum and platinum atoms arranged in a special way. This resulted in novel properties of electronic behavior for the crystal as a whole, including so-called Rarita-Schwinger fermions in its interior.

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Academics show how to create a spotlight of sound with LEGO-like bricks

Informatics experts create low-cost directional beams of sound. Using age-old principles of magnifying glasses, lighthouses and telescopes to create state-of-the-art sound. Bringing the vision of Minority Report into reality and transforming possibilities of entertainment industry.

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A novel method for improving imaging techniques in geophysical and material studies

One of the remarkable aspects of science is its ability to extend our sense of perception beyond touch and sight, often using the information provided by the "scattering" of waves. A group of researchers working on the "inverse scattering" problem has pushed the scope of this. They have developed a method for identifying the location of point-like scatterers based on fluctuations in the physical properties of the surface.

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Astronaut Ricky Arnold Talks STEM Education


Today is National Teacher Day! NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold was a science teacher at John Hanson Middle School in Waldorf, Maryland.

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Digital ad revenue in the U.S. surpassed $100 billion for the first time in 2018

The Interactive Advertising Bureau says digital ad spending continues to grow much faster than in TV and other media.

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Release of prize-winning Reuters journalists in Myanmar welcomed by UN

The release of two prize-winning Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after reporting on the massacre of Rohingya Muslims has been welcomed by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, which warns however that press freedom there remains “dire”.

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'Blockchain Fatigue' to hit 90% supply chain initiatives: Report

Ninety per cent of Blockchain-based supply chain initiatives will suffer "Blockchain fatigue" by 2023 due to a lack of strong use cases. Blockchain remains a popular topic, but supply chain leaders are failing to find suitable use cases, a new report by Gartner said on Tuesday.

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Uber drivers will go on strike over pay and benefits ahead of the company's $90 billion IPO

Ride-hailing drivers are planning to strike on Wednesday to protest low wages as Uber prepares to follow Lyft onto the public market.

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Photodoping in 2-D materials for fabrication of logic devices

National University of Singapore scientists have discovered a method for photoinduced electron doping on molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2) heterostructures for fabricating next generation logic devices.

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Social media has little effect on life satisfaction of teens, says study

The telecom operators are busy rolling out new plans and services in order to offer better deal to their subscribers.

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Nanoparticles can aid in stroke therapy

Tiny selenium particles could have a therapeutic effect on ischemic brain strokes by promoting the recovery of brain damage. Pharmacologists, including Alireza Mashaghi from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research discovered that selenium nanoparticles inhibit molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the loss of brain cells after a stroke. The results were published in Nature Scientific Reports in April.

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Microsoft Word to Get 'Ideas' AI-Powered Editor Features to Rival Grammarly

Ideas for Word will be able to estimate reading time, make phrases concise and clear, and decode acronyms as well.

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Scientists generate electricity using coldness of the universe

In a first, scientists have generated a measurable amount of electricity from the coldness of the universe -- harnessing the temperature difference between Earth and space to produce power.

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Samsung doesn't know when its $2,000 folding phone will be fixed, will automatically cancel orders

Samsung says if customers have until May 31 to decide if they want to keep their order.

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New open source software eases the pain of multiple UI designs

The time-consuming and labor-intensive task of designing multiple user interfaces for different screen sizes and orientations could become a thing of the past thanks to open-source software that uses a new paradigm to speed up or even automate the process.

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Alexa Goes Hands-Free on Windows 10 PCs, Routines Get Smarter

Amazon’s Alexa is finally going hands-free for all Windows 10 computers. Amazon has started rolling out a number of new features for Alexa routines.

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Google Revamps Android Auto Interface With Dark Mode

Google is rolling out a redesign for its driver assisting mobile app -- Android Auto -- with a default dark mode, colourful accents, and readable fonts.

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Facebook announces updates to video ranking system

In a bid to help original content and creators build profitable video businesses on Facebook and lead viewers to better content, the social networking giant has announced a series of updates to its existing video ranking system.

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Facebook has removed these 118 fake accounts

Facebook has removed 118 accounts, Pages and Groups involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platform, as well as on Instagram, as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine and several other countries.

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Synthetic and living micropropellers support convection-enhanced nanoparticle transport

Nanoparticles (NPs) are a promising platform for drug delivery to treat a variety of diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and inflammation. Yet the efficiency of NP transfer to the diseased tissue of interest is limited due to an assortment of physiological barriers. One significant hurdle is the transport of NPs to precisely reach the target tissue of interest. In a recent study, S. Schuerle and a team of interdisciplinary researchers at the departments of Translational Medicine, Biophysics, Engineering Robotics, Nanomedicine and Electronics, in Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. developed two distinct microrobot-based micro-propellers to address the challenge.

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Tariffs just a 'sideshow'? The big battle the US and China may need to resolve is on tech

The battle to dominate 5G, for instance, has seen Huawei face intense political pressure from the U.S.

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Amazon Go opens for the first time in New York. And the cashier-free store will accept cash

Amazon Go at Brookfield Place in New York will also start accepting cash, Amazon said, after the company faced some backlash over "discrimination" concerns.

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Apple, Google remove dating apps that allowed kids to make profiles

Apple and Google have removed three dating apps from their online stores after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged the apps allowed kids as young as 12 to access them.

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Apple Releases Its Second iPhone Game Ever, Featuring Warren Buffett

Apple has launched a new iPhone game starring billionaire Warren Buffett. The game is now available as a free download on the App Store.

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Instagram Posts to Be Reviewed by Facebook Fact Checkers

Instagram will soon start running potentially false posts past Facebook's fact-checking partners and the News Feed Integrity team.

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Pokemon Go Celebrating Detective Pikachu’s Release With 10-Day Event: Here Are the Details

Niantic has announced a limited-time event for Pokemon Go to celebrate the release of Ryan Reynolds-starrer Detective Pikachu movie.

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Driving chemical reactions with light

The chemistry of photosynthesis is still poorly understood. However, researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and Rice University in Houston have now uncovered a major piece of the puzzle. Their findings have been published recently in Science Advances.

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Microsoft Is Adding Mixed Reality to Maps, Enabling an Immersive Experience

Microsoft has launched its Maps SDK that uses Unity and is based on C# to offer mixed reality experiences

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Here's more 'bad news' for Indian IT companies on H-1B visa front

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.

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Instagram posts to be reviewed by Facebook fact-checkers

In its efforts to reduce the spread of fake news, conspiracy theories, hate and misinformation on its platform, Instagram will soon start running potentially false posts past Facebook's fact-checking partners and the News Feed Integrity team.

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Wipro, R3 build blockchain-based solution prototype for digital currency

​The prototype aims to enable digital currency for interbank settlements for a consortium consisting of the Bank of Thailand and eight commercial banks in Thailand.

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Apple, Google Remove 3 Dating Apps That Allowed Kids to Sign Up

Apple and Google have removed three dating apps from their online stores after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged the apps allowed kids as young as 12 to access them.

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Google's Android Auto gets new interface, features

Google is rolling out a redesign for its driver assisting mobile app -- Android Auto -- with a default dark mode, colourful accents and readable fonts to the app which, the search-engine giant thinks, would fit better with modern automotive interiors.

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$5 billion fine is a 'bargain' for Facebook, top US senators say

A bipartisan letter published Monday puts additional pressure on the FTC as it weighs steps to punish Facebook for mishandling users' personal information.

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'Fortnite' Competitor 'Apex Legends' Is Losing Steam, Highlighting Questions of Content and Crunch

Those latest tweaks, as well as previous patches, have reportedly come at a steep cost in terms of a gruelling work schedule for the game's developers at Epic/

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Warren Buffet and his partner are ashamed of this 'Google decision'

Charlie Munger, business partner of billionaire Warren Buffett, said Saturday the two are "ashamed" of not having invested in Google.

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Twitter Now Lets You Retweet With GIFs, Images, Videos

Feature is available for both Android as well as iOS users, as well as the mobile website.

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Google Chrome Set Offer Privacy Tools to Limit Online Tracking: Report

Google is set to roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in fending off tracking cookies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

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Google's AI Assistant Aims to Transcend the Smart Speaker

When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran.

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Build 2019: Microsoft's ElectionGuard Software to Offer Tools to Secure Elections

Microsoft has announced an ambitious effort to make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits.

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Last day of Amazon Summer sale 2019: 7 mobile accessories available starting at Rs 69



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Last day of Amazon, Flipkart sale: Headphones, speakers and earphones available under Rs 500



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Amazon summer sale: Top deals on fitness bands from Honor, Xiaomi, Fitbit and more



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Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old bundle in the Andes

Today's hipster creatives and entrepreneurs are hardly the first generation to partake of ayahuasca, according to archaeologists who have discovered traces of the powerfully hallucinogenic potion in a 1,000-year-old leather bundle buried in a cave in the Bolivian Andes.

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New 3-foot-tall relative of Tyrannosaurus rex

'Suskityrannus gives us a glimpse into the evolution of tyrannosaurs just before they take over the planet,' said Sterling Nesbit.

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Tiny droplets open the doors to in-flight imaging of proteins

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the creation of a beam of nanodroplets capable of delivering a variety of biological samples, from cell organelles to single proteins, virtually free from any contaminations, to the focus of an X-ray laser which can be used to image them.

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OnePlus 7 Pro Price in India, Flipkart and Amazon Sales, and More Tech News This Week

OnePlus 7 Pro price in India was tipped this week, while the company revealed several details about the phone through teasers.

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Merging cell datasets, panorama style

A new algorithm takes cues from panoramic photography to merge massive, diverse cell datasets into a single source that can be used for medical and biological studies.

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Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe

A drawback of solar panels is that they require sunlight to generate electricity. Some have observed that for a device on Earth facing space, the chilling outflow of energy from the device can be harvested using the same kind of optoelectronic physics we have used to harness solar energy. New work looks to provide a potential path to generating electricity like solar cells but that can power electronics at night.

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Apple and Google remove three dating apps for letting kids under 13 sign up, FTC says

The FTC warned Ukraine-based Wildec that three of its dating apps appeared to violate the commission's rules by letting young children sign up.

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Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry

Researchers report that they have developed a radically different desalination approach--''temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE)''--for hypersaline brines. Their study demonstrates that TSSE can desalinate very high-salinity brines, up to seven times the concentration of seawater.

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Public dread of nuclear power limits its use

Nuclear power has been a part of the American energy portfolio since the 1950s, but for a number of reasons, the general public has long felt a significant dread about it.

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Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry

Researchers report that they have developed a radically different desalination approach--''temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE)''--for hypersaline brines. Their study demonstrates that TSSE can desalinate very high-salinity brines, up to seven times the concentration of seawater.

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Offshore wind farm increased tourism on Block Island

Researchers who analyzed AirBnB rental data before and after construction of the Block Island Wind Farm have found that, contrary to some concerns, the turbines have been linked with increased tourism on the island.

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Satya Nadella talks up Microsoft's openness as it aims to grow in cloud

Satya Nadella pointed to several moves Microsoft is making in the open-source community during his annual keynote presentation.

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Bacteria-causing infections can be detected more rapidly

Chemists have developed a fluorescent probe, BacGo that can detect Gram-positive bacteria precisely and promptly. The research team used bacterial sludge from wastewater for the demonstration experiment. They successfully monitored the proportion of bacteria in the process of wastewater treatment and confirmed the possible application to clinical diagnosis of keratitis.

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Show your hands: Smartwatches sense hand activity

We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing what our bodies are doing, be it walking, driving or sleeping. But what about our hands? It turns out that smartwatches, with a few tweaks, can detect a surprising number of things your hands are doing.

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Final fate of levitating Leidenfrost droplets

A new study shows why levitating droplets on hot surfaces eventually explode if they start our large enough.

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Blue supergiant stars open doors to concert in space

Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our knowledge of these stars was limited. Astronomers have now studied the sounds originating inside these stars and discovered that almost all blue supergiants shimmer in brightness because of waves on their surface.

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Blue supergiant stars open doors to concert in space

Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our knowledge of these stars was limited. Astronomers have now studied the sounds originating inside these stars and discovered that almost all blue supergiants shimmer in brightness because of waves on their surface.

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Using phones while shopping may make you buy more: Study

People who use their mobile phones for making calls or listening to music while shopping are more likely to make unplanned purchases and forget items they had planned to buy, says a study.

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IIT Mandi scientists develop glass that can purify water using only sunlight

Scientists at IIT Mandi have developed a self-cleaning glass that can remove microbes and organic pollutants -- like dyes, detergent and drugs -- from waste water, using only sunlight.

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