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• Sometimes, Viruses Can Be Good For Your Health

  22-06-2020 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From phage therapy and cancer killers to drivers of human evolution, viruses do a lot to benefit the world.
  
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• Apple's newest iPhone feature aims to replace the car key

  22-06-2020 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple wants the iPhone to replace your car keys. On Monday, the tech company announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, a new feature that uses the smartphone to unlock and start a car.
  
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• Wary of big tech's bottom line, activists greet facial recognition pledges with skepticism

  22-06-2020 22:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  The careful wording of public pledges leaves plenty of room for oppressive uses of the technology, critics say.
  
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• A Multibillion Dollar Opportunity: Virus-Proofing the New Office

  22-06-2020 21:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Tech, catering and design companies are rushing to sell employers on fever scanners, box lunches and office floor-planning apps for social distancing. But it’s too soon to tell if they will work.
  
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• Apple WWDC: iOS 14, ditching Intel and more

  22-06-2020 21:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple announced that future Mac computers will use its own chips, breaking its long-held ties with Intel.
  
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• Apple is overhauling the iPhone homescreen and upgrading AirPods

  22-06-2020 20:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off Monday. Here's what Apple announced.
  
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• Apple unveils iOS 14 with new homescreen and app experience

  22-06-2020 20:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off Monday. Here's what Apple announced.
  
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• Apple unveils iOS 14 with new homescreen experience

  22-06-2020 19:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off Monday. Here's what Apple announced.
  
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• Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is now among the world's 10 wealthiest people

  22-06-2020 19:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is now among the world's top 10 wealthiest people.
  
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• Adult-Born Neurons Grow More Than Their Counterparts From Infancy – May Even Have Unique Functions

  22-06-2020 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Neurons created via neurogenesis mature longer, grow larger, and may have unique functions. Adult-born neurons keep growing and contributing to brain flexibility long after neurogenesis...
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• How Many Extraterrestrial Civilizations Can Communicate In Our Galaxy Right Now? (Spoiler: It's More Than One)

  22-06-2020 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new way to count the number of intelligent ET cultures suggests we are far from alone; but also that we may never be able to find them, astronomers say.
  
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• Fortnite reportedly removes police cars in new season

  22-06-2020 18:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Fortnite, one of the world's most popular games, has reportedly removed police cars in its latest season as protests against police brutality have erupted across the United States.
  
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• Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients 10x More Likely to Develop Cardiac Arrhythmias

  22-06-2020 18:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Penn study suggests cardiac arrests and arrhythmias are likely triggered by systemic illness, not solely due to the viral infection itself. Patients with COVID-19 who...
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• New Autonomous City Planned For Remote Techies From Silicon Valley

  22-06-2020 17:44 via technocracy.news
  
  “Technocrats Unite!” might be more than a catch-phrase if a new autonomous city planned just for them jumps into existence. Autonomous in this instance means independent of any nation-state or other political authority, in other words, a utopian Technate. ⁃ TN EditorEx-Uber executive Ryan Rzepecki is looking to build a private, politically autonomous city that would accept the anticipated exodus of Silicon Valley tech workers who are now remote since corporate offices have shut
  
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• Hours ahead of its developer conference, Apple OKs email app at center of fight

  22-06-2020 17:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Basecamp said in its blog post that a new version of its app submitted on Monday provides a free option inside the iOS app that includes a temporary email address.
  
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• COVID-19 Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Cured by Cancer Drug

  22-06-2020 17:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Team at Marburg University Medical Center plans scientific study on the use of an immune inhibitor against the viral disease. Although the spreading SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus...
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• Green New Deal Leads GOP Into Compromise Over Fighting Climate Change

  22-06-2020 17:11 via technocracy.news
  
  The Green New Deal doesn’t just belong to radical greens and Democrats, but also to the Republicans. Climate alarmists have successfully changed the political narrative into one of finding the best ways to limit carbon and Republicans are eating it up. ⁃ TN EditorThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of every American. More than 118,000 people have died in the U.S. due to the coronavirus and over 45 million Americans have filed for unemployment assistance. Communitie
  
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• Evidence Pluto Started Out With Liquid Oceans That Slowly Froze Over Time

  22-06-2020 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Evidence Supports ‘Hot Start’ Scenario and Early Ocean Formation on Pluto A new study suggests that Pluto and other large Kuiper belt objects started out...
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• Scared Stiff: Fear Mongering Is The New Normal

  22-06-2020 16:19 via technocracy.news
  
  As the world gallops toward the ‘Big Reset’ suggested by the World Economic Forum and World Bank, everybody is jumping on the fear bandwagon, essentially turning the whole planet into a reality-based horror show. ⁃ TN EditorJust when you thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse, a new report from Deutsche Bank may give you a new reason to stay up at night.
  Deutsche Bank analysts, led by Henry Allen, say there is at least a one-in-three chance that at least one of fo
  
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• Pathbreaking Platform for Quantum Simulation: A Metal-Like Quantum Gas

  22-06-2020 16:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across...
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• Apple's yearly developer conference is today. Here's what to expect.

  22-06-2020 15:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference comes as paid services sold through the App Store have become central to the company’s revenue growth.
  
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• Biologists Unravel Tangled Mystery of Plant Cell Growth – Insight Could Lead to Bigger Crops and Better Yields

  22-06-2020 15:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  When cells don’t divide into proper copies of themselves, living things fail to grow as they should. For the first time, scientists now understand how...
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• Apple set to tease new iPhone features during its first ever virtual WWDC

  22-06-2020 14:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday. Here's how to watch and what to expect from the event.
  
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• Patagonia joins growing Facebook advertiser boycott over the site's failure to stop 'hateful lies and dangerous propaganda'

  22-06-2020 14:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The boycott, which is known as #StopHateForProfit, was driven by Facebook's failure to act against "hateful lies and dangerous propaganda," Patagonia said.
  
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• New High-Precision Technology Cuts Atom-Sized Patterns Into 2D Materials

  22-06-2020 14:01 via scitechdaily.com
  
  EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. With their pioneering nanotechnology, EPFL researchers have achieved...
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• MIT Automated Tabletop Fast Protein Synthesis Machine May Accelerate Drug Development

  22-06-2020 13:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Automated tabletop machine could accelerate the development of novel drugs to treat cancer and other diseases. Many proteins are useful as drugs for disorders such...
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• The Far Side of the Moon Has a Strange Asymmetry – Scientists Think They Finally Understand Why

  22-06-2020 12:32 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Earth’s Moon has a ‘near side’ that is perpetually Earth-facing and a ‘far side’, which always faces away from Earth. The composition of the Moon’s...
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• Wirecard says missing $2 billion never existed. Its stock is down 85% in 3 days

  22-06-2020 11:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Scandal-plagued Wirecard has acknowledged that $2.1 billion its auditors were unable to locate probably never existed, deepening a crisis at the German digital payments company.
  
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• Hubble Spies “Knife Edge Galaxy” About 50 Million Light-Years From Earth

  22-06-2020 11:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The galaxy known as NGC 5907 stretches wide across this image. Appearing as an elongated line of stars and dark dust, the galaxy is categorized...
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• Open Source All-Atom Models of Full-Length COVID-19 ‘S’ Protein Produced by Scientists

  22-06-2020 07:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The virus SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the known cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The “spike” or S protein facilitates viral entry into host...
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• New Processing Technology for Maximizing Energy Densities of High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries

  22-06-2020 07:26 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A novel pretreatment strategy resolves a long-standing issue of silicon anode materials. This solution-based strategy enables simple and safe processing for large-scale production. A team...
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• Potentially Deadly Heart Rhythm Disturbance Induced by Chloroquine Therapy for COVID-19

  22-06-2020 05:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Clinicians should carefully monitor patients treated with chloroquine therapy, particularly elderly women and others at higher risk for heart rhythm abnormalities, investigators caution in the...
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• After Two Years of Drought Ends, Southeastern Australia Turns Green

  22-06-2020 05:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  As the 2019–2020 summer brought record heat to Australia, New South Wales appeared to be heading into its third year of severe drought. From January...
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• Many Indian citizens believe their government is trying to steal and sell their data. Here's why

  22-06-2020 03:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When India launched its coronavirus tracing app Aarogya Setu in April, it came with a mandatory download order for public sector workers.
  
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• Dancing Stars and Black Holes in a Cosmic Cloud of Gas: Investigating the “Common Envelope Phase”

  22-06-2020 02:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Most massive stars are born in binaries (and sometimes triples, quadruples, and so on—being single isn’t common for such rock stars!) As stars age, they...
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• “Intelligent Concrete” Heals Itself – Enabling Highways and Bridges to Prevent Their Own Damage

  22-06-2020 01:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  ‘Intelligent concrete’ could cut down on road repairs and traffic. Roads always seem to need repairs. Luna Lu is giving concrete the ability to “talk”...
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