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Nobel physics prize: A big award often for tiny materials
ABC News - 3 Oct 2017 07:11
The Nobel Physics Prize honors big discoveries involving materials often too small to be seen by the naked eye
Finalists Named For 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Medical Design Technology - 3 Oct 2017 16:59
News Competition Finalists will showcase their inventions and interact with thousands of USPTO patent and trademark examiners, sponsors, media and the public at the Collegiate Inventors Competition Expo ... Contributed A...
Reducing bullying the Finnish way -- in the United States
EurekAlert! - 3 Oct 2017 06:00
(Children's National Health System) A Finnish program transplanted to the United States accomplished its goals of significantly reducing bullying and victimization, but its success hinged on the instructional 'dose' stud...
ISS partners seek clarity on station's long-term future
Space News - 3 Oct 2017 09:54
The head of NASA's human spaceflight program says he would like to see a decision made in the next two years on whether and how International Space Station operations will be extended beyond 2024. SpaceNews.com
Android distribution numbers show Nougat climb, Oreo make an appearance
Android Central - 3 Oct 2017 03:40
The latest distribution numbers for Android are out, and Oreo makes its first appearance. The monthly Android Distribution list is always fun to look at. It's an important list for developers who need to know which softw...
Supreme Court rejects Kim Dotcom's legal challenge - CNET
CNET - 3 Oct 2017 03:08
MegaUpload founder contested US government's seizure of $40 million from overseas accounts.
Do Macs always apply firmware updates properly? No, but there's a fix
Digital Trends - 3 Oct 2017 01:47
It turns out that Macs don't always apply critical updates correctly, and you might be missing out on some firmware patches that could leave your Mac vulnerable. The post Do Macs always apply firmware updates properly? N...
Russia Providing North Korea With Internet Access, Assists Cyberattacks
IBTimes - 3 Oct 2017 01:00
A Russian telecommunications company began providing an internet connection to North Korea over the weekend according to 38 North, a North Korea monitoring project run by Johns Hopkins University. The new connection prov...
Microsoft mixed reality event happening today, likely to focus on headsets and games
Pocket-lint - 3 Oct 2017 16:50
Microsoft is going all in on "mixed reality", as evident by an event it is holding later today.The Redmond, Washington-based company has invited the media to a Windows Mixed Reality event in San Francisco today, 3 Octobe...
Nobel Prize goes to physicists who observed gravitational waves - CNET
CNET - 3 Oct 2017 15:40
The prize for physics has been awarded to the scientists who observed the ripples through space and time predicted in Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Explosive bursts of methane helped ancient Mars keep liquid water flowing, study finds
Phys.org - 3 Oct 2017 09:35
In a drying time, Mars may have been kept warm enough for liquid water to remain stable on the surface thanks to explosive bursts of methane gas, a new study finds.
Nobel physics prize: A big award often for tiny materials
Phys.org - 3 Oct 2017 08:41
The Nobel Physics Prize honors big discoveries involving materials often too small to be seen by the naked eye.
Facebook: 10 million people saw Russian political ads
Engadget - 3 Oct 2017 02:34
Approximately 10 million people saw the ads a Russia-based organization bought on Facebook to sow political discord in the US. That's one of the things the social network has revealed in a post talking about the 3,000 Ru...
Astell & Kern AK70 Mk II hands-on review
Digital Trends - 3 Oct 2017 18:41
Our Astell & Kern AK70 Mk II hands-on review shows that by doubling the DACs inside the dedicated music player, A&K has upped the musical enjoyment, while retaining the cool styling and a sensible price. The post Astell ...
This lamp, designed for the MoMA, looks like a 3D skull
Mashable - 3 Oct 2017 16:47YouTube's iOS app shares videos to iMessage with ease
Engadget - 3 Oct 2017 16:37
You'd think YouTube's iOS app would have had iMessage sharing early on, but no -- sharing clips to Apple's official messaging client has been a cumbersome affair. Not so after today, however. YouTube has quietly updated ...
House grills Equifax ex-CEO on why its internal controls failed
USA Today - 3 Oct 2017 16:26
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith is expected to undergo hard questioning Tuesday during a House hearing on the credit reporting agency’s breach.
Gravitational Waves: The Big Bang's Smoking Gun
SPACE.com - 3 Oct 2017 16:13How Google's smartphones have evolved since 2007
Engadget - 3 Oct 2017 16:00Honda's disaster recovery robot can climb ladders
Engadget - 3 Oct 2017 15:40
The disaster response team of the future could be made up of an army of cheery orange robots, according to Honda. The company has unveiled a working prototype of its E2-DR disaster response robot -- first revealed in an ...
Gravitational Wave Works Wins Physics Nobel
NBC News - 3 Oct 2017 15:29
Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work using LIGO to observe gravitational waves.
Nura Nuraphones: Price, Specs, and How They Work
Wired - 3 Oct 2017 14:00
The new headphones from Nura measure inner-ear vibrations to figure out what sounds best to your ears.