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Rheo comes to iOS
Rheo is the best way to watch, discover and react to great short videos on phone, tv and web. Are you ready to experience video in a brand new way? Host your own channel that your friends can watch at… Read More ›
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Apple’s ‘Siri Powered’ Device?
There is much talk about Apple released an Alexa competitor at WWDC and I, like many other people, am struggling to see how this could work. One of the reasons people offer for the better Alexa and Google Home experience… Read More ›
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She was the daughter of a U.S. spy, an exile from Burma, a flight attendant in a war zone, and half of an epic love story. But how much of that was true?
Disorder, the result of World War II’s aftermath and simmering interethnic conflict, had afflicted Burma for as long as Paula could remember. Consequences were visible: People displaced from the countryside lived in shantytowns along Rangoon’s fringes. In 1962, the situation… Read More ›
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The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a… Read More ›
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Can we taste water?
Whether water has a taste of its own or is merely a flavor carrier has long divided the scientific community. Some scientists have proposed that its flavor depends on your saliva and what you were eating previously, while others have… Read More ›
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Montblanc Summit Smartwatch
The 46 mm case made of PVD-coated stainless steel with satinated finishing is water resistant (IP68 standard) and only 12.5 mm thick. It features the first domed sapphire crystal glass made for a smartwatch, covering a high-resolution AMOLED full round… Read More ›
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The underside of an iceberg
Cornell’s guide suggested that the iceberg had recently flipped. Icebergs form when chunks of freshwater ice calve—or break off—from glaciers and ice shelves, as well as other icebergs. Because of the varying densities of ice and saltwater, only about 10… Read More ›
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There is no weather
Instead of addressing this problem, the proposed budget released by the Trump administration late last month would exacerbate the tempest. Overall, the President’s budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sought $1.06 billion for the National Weather Service, down… Read More ›
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2017
The car above is, despite the awful American design, symptomatic of what is to come. It offers a decent range, is well priced and could do an awful lot for electric vehicles. At some point it feels inevitable that electric… Read More ›
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It really is 2017
President Donald Trump has announced that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. He said moves to negotiate a new “fair” deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers would begin. Mr Trump said during last… Read More ›
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