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Vladimir Putin Says Bitcoin Can Be Used As A "Currency" today in a news conference. Obviously he sees this as an opportunity to evade the useless sanctions and EU banks etc... And in the even bigger picture.... he sees this as a replacement of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. He would like to see his oil one day sold for a currency other than the US dollar. Meanwhile the USA is now the number 1 miner of Bitcoin with industries being formed in many states. The US is using the ace card up its sleeve that it can use once... which is to print endless amounts of $ to "keep things going".... Never before has there been an alternative…

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FBI Now Helping Other Law Enforcement Agencies Bypass Apple’s iPhone Security Measures https://t.co/udkWDgbQrQ — The Pirate Bay (@tpb) March 31, 2016 via TheWorldNewsOrgvia journal.theworldnewsmedia.org

Facebook is adding a new set of diverse emojis to its Messenger app. Among the changes will be the ability to choose skin tone, as you can already on products running Apple's iOS, and more icons showing professional women. Facebook says it's introducing the first female police officer, runner, pedestrian, surfer and swimmer on any platform. A blog post says Messenger wants to make emojis more representative of the world people actually live in. "Nearly 10% of mobile sends in Messenger include emojis," said developers. "However, not all platforms have kept up with emoji standards as they've evolved - which means sometimes the emoji you wanted to se…

From the company that brought you the option of letting a courier inside your homecomes a new service: package delivery inside your car. Amazon is expanding its in-home delivery service called Key to include deliveries to trunks and back seats of cars. The service is available only to Amazon Prime members in 37 cities who have a 2015 or newer Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac or Volvo with an active OnStar or Volvo On Call account. Essentially, these are already connected cars that can be remotely unlocked — in this case for package delivery, which Amazon promises within a four-hour window. The shopper has to confirm that they've parked within range of the delive…

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How appropriate for a "World Forum" .... The International Space Station - ISS - circles the earth at 240 miles above the planet, on the edge of space in low earth orbit.The station is crewed by NASA astronauts as well as Russian Cosmonauts and a mixture of Japanese, Canadian and European astronauts as well.As seen from the Nasa space video ISS live stream on the International Space Station - A real astronaut view of Earth!Live ISS stream of planet earth from space courtesy of nasa HDEV High Definition Earth Viewing Cameras aboard the international space station. Enjoy! @admin

Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist group that is widely known for its various DDOS cyber attacks against several governments, government institutions & government agencies, corporations, and the Church of Scientology. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[2][3][4] Anonymous members (known as "Anons") can be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta.[5] However this may not always be the case, as …

Engadget NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video review: Behold, the GPU king Engadget As far as video card upgrades go, there's a lot to love with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080. We called it "the upgrade you've been waiting for" in our full review. The GTX 1080 blows away last year's high-end cards, and even though it's $599 ($699 for the ... B&H Strengthens Its Gaming Division With NVIDIA's New GeForce(R) GTX 1080GPUMarketwired (press release) NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080 Review: What Gamers Should KnowNews Every day Nvidia Pascal GPU Release Date, Price and Specs: Prepare For Powerful Graphic Cards with Pascal ArchitectureGospel Herald TechRadar -Vine Report -WCCFtech -GuruFocus.c…

China, the world’s largest economy, suffered a stock market drop worse than any day in the last 13 years. The World Bank warns that Russia may be close to a national debt default and nobody has a clear idea on what this would look like. But I can tell you that Ukraine used to export half the world’s neon and that, without it, manufacturing computer chips is gonna get even more difficult expensive.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Puerto Rico could see "hundreds of thousands of cases of Zika virus." Officials also said the rest of the country needs to be prepared for possible outbreaks. (April 11)

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The Verge Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules The Verge Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review "the majority of" hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it, if necessary — as part of a new "code of conduct ... Europe enlists tech companies to help end online hate speechEngadget Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft And YouTube Commit To Prevent Hate Speech Following Brussels Terror AttacksInternational Business Times Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft Sign Hate Speech AgreementFortune VentureBeat -Financial Times all 8 news articles » G…

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People sleep in a park during hot weather in Dhaka, Bangladesh. CreditAbir Abdullah/European Pressphoto Agency Global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is having clear effects in the physical world: more heat waves, heavier rainstorms and higher sea levels, to cite a few. In recent years, though, social scientists have been wrestling with a murkier question: What will climate change mean for human welfare? Forecasts in this realm are tricky, necessarily based on a long chain of assumptions. Scientific papers have predicted effects as varied as a greater spread of tropical diseases, fewer deaths from cold weather and more from hot weather…

Date: April 7, 2017 Source: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien Summary: Humans are able to interpret the behavior of others by attributing mental states to them (and to themselves). By adopting the perspectives of other persons, they can assume their emotions, needs and intentions and react accordingly. In the animal kingdom, the ability to attribute mental states (Theory of Mind) is a highly contentious issue. Cognitive biologists could demonstrate with a new test procedure that dogs are not only able to identify whether a human has an eye on a food source and, therefore, knows where the food has been hidden. They can also apply this knowledg…

Phys.Org System converts solar heat into usable light, increasing solar cell's overall efficiency Phys.Org While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you have the possibility to exceed that.” In fact, theory predicts that …more. A ... Light can 'heal' defects in new solar cell materialsEurekAlert (press release) MIT Researchers 'Heal' Solar Cells With Intense LightHeadlines & Global News Scientists discover a method for healing certain solar cells with intense lightTechCrunch MIT News -ECNmag.com -Electronics EETimes (registration) all 6 new…

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feastofflavors: FROM THE LAND OF THE PHARAOH’S: EGYPTIAN SEMIT BREAD If you have ever had the pleasure of visiting the nation of Egypt, you know of the incredible beauty this ancient land possesses. Of course if you were there, you also had some delicious food. The Egyptian diet is one of unadulterated freshness and I think they actually have some of the best desserts in the world. When it comes to food staples in Egypt (and really anywhere in the Middle East), bread is a staple. You will find a plethora of breads ranging from flat breads to loaf breads but one bread which is a national treasure is called Semit. It is baked into individual loaves and goes perfectly wi…

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40585299 Not just any horse, Eadweard Muybridge's famous "Galloping Horse" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_in_Motion I looked it up, and only one gram of DNA can hold about 215 petabytes A great fact I read is that all existing current HDD storage could fit in about a candy-bar-sized amount of DNA storage. ALL OF IT!!!

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