San Francisco District 4 supervisor Gordon Mar plans to propose a 1.12% payroll tax on stock-based compensation for the November ballot.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Steven Spielberg says his battle with Netflix wasn't as bad as people made it seem
Steven Spielberg felt his feelings toward streaming services were misrepresented, The New York Times reported based on sources close to him.
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Zipline drones take flight in Ghana, making it world's largest autonomous medical-delivery network
On Wednesday, Zipline International — the autonomous medical-delivery service that launched in Rwanda just three years ago — announced it has officially expanded its operations to Ghana. Its reach will now serve nearly 22 million people.
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Quality of laser beam shaping can be enhanced at no extra cost
Researchers have developed a technique for improving accuracy of laser beam shaping and wavefront obtained by conventional methods with no additional cost by optimizing virtual phase grating.
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New nanomedicine slips through the cracks, reaches brain
In a recent study in mice, researchers found a way to deliver specific drugs to parts of the body that are exceptionally difficult to access. Their Y-shaped block catiomer (YBC) binds with certain therapeutic materials forming a package 18 nanometers wide. The package is less than one-fifth the size of those produced in previous studies, so can pass through much smaller gaps. This allows YBCs to slip through tight barriers in cancers of the brain or pancreas.
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Fortnite Season 9 Battle Pass Gifting Leaked
Aside from Avengers: Endgame skins and a possible game mode coming to Fortnite, it appears that the battle royale game would soon allow players to gift the Fortnite Battle Pass starting with the next season.
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Energy-saving new LED phosphor
The human eye is particularly sensitive to green, but less sensitive to blue and red. Chemists have now developed a new red phosphor whose light is well perceived by the eye. This increases the light yield of white LEDs by around one-sixth, which can significantly improve the energy efficiency of lighting systems.
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Scientists develop swallowable self-inflating capsule to help tackle obesity
Scientists have developed a self-inflating weight management capsule that could help battle obesity, and be an alternative to intragastric balloons. The prototype capsule contains a balloon that can be self-inflated with a handheld magnet once it is in the stomach, thus inducing a sense of fullness.
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Polymers to give early warning signs
Researchers have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating molecules that can be integrated into polymers and signal damages or excessive mechanical loads with an optical signal.
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Advances in cryo-EM materials may aid cancer and biomedical research
Cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been a game changer in the field of medical research, but the substrate, used to freeze and view samples under a microscope, has not advanced much in decades. Now, thanks to a new collaboration, this is no longer the case.
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Nanosized container with photoswitches: Release of cargo upon irradiation in water
Researchers have developed a nanosized container bearing photoswitches that takes up hydrophobic compounds of various size and shape in water and subsequently releases them quantitatively by non-invasive light stimulus. The installed switches allow reusing of the container after successful release of the cargo. The novel system represents a versatile platform for future developments in fields such as materials chemistry and biomedicine.
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Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young stars
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets. Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere. A new study by has shown that young stars can rapidly destroy the atmospheres of Earth-like planets, which is a significant additional difficulty for the formation of life outside our solar system.
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Atom interaction discovery valuable for future quantum technologies
By breaking with conventionality, physicists have opened up new research and technology opportunities involving the basic building block of the world -- atoms. Researchers put one atom inside each of two laser beams before moving them together until they started to interact with each other.
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Snap plunges after its earnings beat as analysts say it's going to take longer to get profitable
Snap fell Wednesday after beating analyst estimates for its first quarter of 2019 as analysts anticipate and longer path to profitability.
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NASA's InSight detects first likely 'quake' on Mars
NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely 'marsquake'. This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from inside the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind.
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NASA's InSight detects first likely 'quake' on Mars
NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely 'marsquake'. This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from inside the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind.
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