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Stargazers delight: Summer of celestial wonder awaits
Tribune-Review
Can't view the attachment? Then download the latest version of the free, Adobe Acrobat reader here: Get Adobe Reader. Email Newsletters. Sign up for one of our email newsletters. Updated 9 hours ago. Western Pennsylvanians can look forward to a ...and more » -
TechCrunchThis Facebook bot will pick your next movie for you
TechCrunch
As we've discussed, Facebook's bot platform is still in its early stages, and most apps aren't ready yet to become part of your everyday life. This is mainly due to shortfalls in natural language processing and the trial-and-error process of developers ...and more » -
TechCrunchThis Facebook bot will pick your next movie for you
TechCrunch
As we've discussed, Facebook's bot platform is still in its early stages, and most apps aren't ready yet to become part of your everyday life. This is mainly due to shortfalls in natural language processing and the trial-and-error process of developers ...
Facebook Considering Optional End-to-End Encryption for MessengerMac Rumors
Facebook may add end-to-end encryption to MessengerCNET
Facebook may add end-to-end encryption to Messenger, report saysMashable AppleInsider (press release) (blog) -Digital Trends -BGR -Forbes all 29 news articles » -
PCWorldAMD's Radeon RX 480 brings high-end graphics to the masses for just $200
PCWorld
The next-generation graphics card war is officially on—though it's already shaping up very differently than previous versions. While Nvidia kicked things off with the overwhelming firepower of the enthusiast-only $600 GeForce GTX 1080 and $380 GTX ...and more » -
VR WorldAMD's Radeon RX 480 brings high-end graphics to the masses for just $200
PCWorld
The next generation graphics card war is officially on—though it's already shaping up very differently than previous versions. While Nvidia kicked off the new graphics card generation with the overwhelming firepower of the enthusiast-only $600 GeForce ...
The $199 AMD Radeon RX 480 Positioned To Deliver VR For The Rest Of UsForbes
AMD debuts full 7th-gen APU line at Computex, claims CPU boost of up to 56 percentDigital Trends
First AMD Polaris Radeon RX 480 Unveil Targets Mainstream VR Experiences At $199Hot Hardware Wall Street Journal -Marketwired (press release) -PC Perspectives -Engadget all 53 news articles » -
PCWorldAMD pins its laptop hopes on the low-power Bristol Ridge and Stoney Bridge APUs
PCWorld
As the notebook PC becomes ever more important to the company's future, AMD debuted its Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge integrated graphics APUs for laptops as the Computex show in Taipei kicked off. Combined, AMD's new 7th-generation APUs ...
AMD 7th Generation Processors: What You Need to KnowLaptop Mag
AMD's 7th Generation APU Brings Many Performance Tweaks And The Last Hurrah Before ZenForbes
AMD's new processors let you binge watch for longer on laptopsCNET Tom's Hardware -The Verge -VentureBeat -Engadget all 26 news articles » -
CIOAtari's going to build IoT devices that talk over a low-power network
CIO
20160224 stock mwc internet of things iot sign A booth sign at Mobile World Congress 2016 shows the phrase "Internet of Things" in a file image captured on Feb. 25, 2016. Credit: Stephen Lawson ...
The US government is pouring money into the Internet of ThingsBusiness Insider
Internet of Things Vendor Landscape--Embedded Hardware & SystemsPR Newswire (press release) all 36 news articles » -
Huffington PostNew Lava Breakouts Cascade Down Hawaii Volcano
Huffington Post
Last week, two new lava flows broke out on Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, oozing red hot molten rock down the volcano's Pu'u O'o cone. The breakouts, which began on May 24, have been continuously flowing — and are quite a sight to behold.
Watch red-hot lava pour from Hawaii's Kilauea volcanoWashington Post
Watch: Video shows lava spattering at Kilauea volcano13WMAZ.com
Two new lava flows erupted from vent of Kilauea volcanoNH Voice VolcanoDiscovery -Newsroom America -AOL UK all 9 news articles » -
NBC Bay AreaPolice Help Rescue Stranded Sea Lion in San Francisco
NBC Bay Area
When duty calls, San Francisco police officers anwer. Even if that duty is babysitting a stranded sea lion pup. That's exactly what happened to them on Ocean Beach around 1 a.m. Monday. VideoTrump Details Donations to Veterans' Charities. The Richmond ...
Hungry sea lion pup wanders into Ocean Beach parking lotSan Francisco Examiner
SFPD helps rescue wayward sea lion pup near Great HighwayKTVU San Francisco
Police Rescue Stranded Sea Lion Pup At Ocean BeachHoodline Richmond District Blog (blog) all 6 news articles » -
PCWorldSorry, there will never be a Bernie Sanders (or Colonel Sanders) version of Minecraft
PCWorld
Donald Trump can buy himself many things, but he will never be able to officially build a 10,000-block-high statue of himself in Minecraft. Your dreams of exploring a mammoth Taco Bell Chalupa? Dead. And no, don't expect to mine Moria as part of a Lord ...
Microsoft has made some changes to Minecraft's Commercial Usage Guidelines.PC Gamer
Minecraft's new rules block ad agencies, politicians from shilling stuff in-gamePolygon
Mojang Bans Paid Advertisements Within MinecraftKotaku VentureBeat -Business Insider -Gamasutra -Engadget all 23 news articles » -
CityLabYes, Paris Is Banning Cars Built Before 1997
CityLab
If your car was built before 1997, don't even think about driving it into Paris after this month. From July 1, the French capital will ban vehicles older than 19 years from driving in the city on workdays. Motorcycles will face yet tighter restrictions ...
Paris' Ban on Old Cars Is Good for the Environment. Will It Be Good for Paris?Slate Magazine (blog)
Ceci n'est pas une autoroute: Paris bans pre-1997 cars in city centerCNET
Paris Is Now Banning All Pre-1997 CarsGizmodo Jalopnik -The News Wheel -The Drive all 8 news articles » -
PC MagazineNew Findings Support Theory That Life on Earth Came Courtesy of Comets
PC Magazine
Two years ago, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission rewrote all the science textbooks after making a historic rendezvous with the giant ice booger known as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. While that remarkable encounter has resulted in ...
Rosetta mission detects biological building blocks on comet 67P/Churyumov-GerasimenkoThe Biological SCENE all 6 news articles » -
National GeographicThe Milky Way Is Lighter Than We Thought
National Geographic
New measurements suggest that our galaxy is on the slimmer side, at a mere 700 billion times the mass of the sun. 0. Picture of the Milky Way above the Owachomo Bridge in Utah. Enlarge. The band of the Milky Way stretches over Natural Bridges National ...
Measuring the Milky Way: One massive problem, one new solutionPhys.Org
Milky weigh: our galaxy has the mass of 700bn suns, say scientistsThe Guardian
The entire mass of the Milky Way, measuredCNET Inverse all 6 news articles » -
BBC NewsAsteroids 'dumped water into molten Moon'
BBC News
A smattering of water is buried deep inside the Moon and it arrived during the satellite's very early history, a new study concludes, when asteroids plunged into its churning magma oceans. How and when water got trapped in volcanic lunar rocks is a ...
Asteroids, Not Comets, Brought Bulk Of Moon's WaterPopular Science
The Moon's water may have come mostly from asteroids, not cometsThe Verge
Asteroids delivered bulk of the Moon's water, study findsABC Online The Conversation UK -Daily Mail -The Guardian -U.S. News & World Report all 16 news articles » -
Live ScienceSupersponge the Size of a Minivan Found Near Hawaii
Live Science
A sponge the size of a minivan, the largest on record, was found in 2015 during a deep-sea expedition in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off Hawaii. Credit: NOAA. An unusual sponge was making waves in waters near the Hawaiian Islands ...
World's largest known sea sponge discovered in Hawaiian watersHawaiimagazine.com
UH researchers discover sponge the size of a minivanThe University of Hawaii Kaleo
This Might Be The Largest Sponge In The WorldPopular Science CBC.ca -The Independent -WESH Orlando -WXOW.com all 9 news articles » -
Bleaching Is Killing Coral in Great Barrier Reef
U.S. News & World Report
Scientists say about 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central parts of the Great Barrier Reef are dead or dying. David Bellwood/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/AP. SYDNEY (AP) – Mass bleaching has killed more than a third of ...
Bleaching kills third of coral in Great Barrier Reef's northFox News
Tuesday's Mini-Report, 5.31.16MSNBC
Scientists find 35 percent coral death in parts of Great Barrier ReefNevada County Picayune Upworthy -The Sunshine Coast Daily -The Straits Times -Verge Campus (blog) all 9 news articles » -
Phys.OrgMantis shrimp inspires next generation of ultra-strong materials
Phys.Org
The next generation of airplanes, body armor and football helmets crawled out from under a rock—literally. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Purdue University are one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, ...
Possibly unique design feature discovered in mantis shrimpPurdue Exponent all 2 news articles » -
ComputerworldSamsung now producing world's smallest 512GB SSD; it's half the weight of a dime
Computerworld
Samsung today announced it is mass producing the world's smallest 512GB PCIe SSD that comes in a single ball grid array package and weighs less than a dime. Samsung's PM971-NVMe SSD is aimed at ultra-thin notebooks and was manufacturing by ...
Samsung unveils 512GB postage stamp-size NVMe SSD, could see use in MacBookAppleInsider (press release) (blog)
Samsung Announces 512GB NVMe SSD That's Smaller Than a StampMac Rumors
Samsung's new 512GB SSD is incredibly smallThe Verge Legit Reviews -Engadget -AnandTech -PR Newswire (press release) all 41 news articles » -
ComputerworldSamsung now producing world's smallest 512GB SSD; it's half the weight of a dime
Computerworld
Samsung today announced it is mass producing the world's smallest 512GB PCIe SSD that comes in a single ball grid array package and weighs less than a dime. Samsung's PM971-NVMe SSD is aimed at ultra-thin notebooks and was manufacturing by ...and more » -
Business InsiderThe US government is pouring money into the Internet of Things
Business Insider
The federal government spent $8.8 billion in the fiscual year of 2015, up from $7.7 billion in the fiscal year 2014, according to a report from Govini, which collects and analyzes data about government contracts. Overall, the federal government spent ...and more » -
Huffington PostClimate Change This Week: Tragic Drought in Africa & India, New Clean Power Strides, and More!
Huffington Post
Saving the BB: the beautiful biodiversity like this scarlet macaw found in Latin American forests, is another important reason to conserve these carbon-storing systems. Source peoplesforum.info. Forests: the cheapest way to store carbon.
Here's What Actual Climate Scientists Think Of Trump's New Energy PlanThinkProgress
All options - including carbon fee - on the table as Massachusetts reacts to SJC global warming rulingMassLive.com
Want to help fight climate change? Start with reproductive rightsThe Guardian Albany Times Union (blog) -Gulf Times -Williams Lake Tribune -Washington Times all 21 news articles » -
UPI.comHoneybees pick up pesticides from non-crop plants, too
UPI.com
Entomologist Christian Krupke poses with bee houses at the Purdue Bee Laboratory. Photo by Tom Campbell/Purdue. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 31 (UPI) -- Honeybees acquire pesticides as they collect pollen from non-crop plants, a new study finds.
Gardeners fueling bee decline by using weedkillers and pesticidesTelegraph.co.uk
Honeybees pick up host of agricultural, urban pesticides via non-crop plantsPurdue Newsroom
Household pesticides blamed for crash in bee populationsThe Australian all 4 news articles » -
FortuneCaltech Is Apple's Latest Patent Foe
Fortune
It's an iPhone problem, the university says. Apple is having patent troubles again. California Institute of Technology, the top-notch science and engineering school in Pasadena, Calif., has filed a lawsuit against Apple AAPL -1.30% and chipmaker ...and more » -
PCWorldOEM software update tools preloaded on PCs are a security mess
PCWorld
Serious vulnerabilities have crept into the software tools that PC manufacturers preload on Windows computers, but the full extent of the problem is much worse than previously thought. Researchers from security firm Duo Security have tested the ...
Unbox your laptop, and say hello to security risksCNET
Security researchers find several high-risk bloatware bugs on popular laptopsDigital Trends
How the Top 5 PC Makers Open Your Laptop to HackersWIRED ZDNet -BetaNews -The Register -PR Newswire (press release) all 15 news articles »
Lionhead alumni turn to Kickstarter to fund 'Fable' card game - Engadget
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The RPG will live on in the form of 'Fable Fortune,' a collectible card game in the vein of 'Hearthstone.' Brittany Vincent , @MolotovCupcake. 1h ago in AV. Comments. Shares. Share. Tweet. Share. Save. Lionhead Studios may have been shuttered, but that ...
Fable's New Card Game Detailed in Video, Images
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