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From the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Regulating the indirect land use carbon emissions imposes high hidden costs on fuel Farmers earn more profits when there is demand for corn for biofuel instead of for food only. This can lead some to convert grasslands and forests to cropland. This conversion,… ...
BMW will streamline its manufacturing process, offering fewer variants of engines and equipment, to offset high randd spending through 2019, the German carmaker's finance chief said. ...
The bottoms of gecko feet have inspired a new class of space grippers ...
The government of South Korea is currently in the process of reviewing a number of antitrust regulations in the country due to Google and Facebook, i.e. the business models of the two companies. Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) Kim Sang-jo recently revealed that the two U.S. tech giants may be forced to pay for network infrastructure in the country or be sanctioned for some of their activities in another manner due to the fact that they have strongly affected the current market structure in the Far Eastern country, consequen. ...
Individuals in polyamorous relationships report more commitment and investment with their primary partners and report more time spent on sex with their secondary partners, a new study authored by Western researchers has found. ...
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Before the Affordable Care Act created a public database of payments made to physicians from pharmaceutical companies, Massachusetts made that information legally available on doctors within its borders. Research from the University of Michigan shows that when this law was put in place, the number of prescriptions physicians wrote dropped significantly. ...
A two-year investigation by Microsoft and British law enforcement has resulted in the arrest of four people in the United Kingdom involved in carrying out fraudulent technical support calls designed to scam consumers. Included in the sting on scammers were a 29-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman from the town of Woking, Surrey and a 37-year-old man and 31-year-old woman located in South Shields, Tyneside. ...
Your phone and tablet and laptop all notify you of new messages, of course, and there’s a decent chance you have a smartwatch that does the same. If that’s still not enough, a new special nightlight will fill the void. Called Aumi Mini, this night light doubles as a notification light, alerting you to certain things including social media mentions … Continue reading ...
A parasitic worm that can infect people's brains has been found throughout Florida, according to a new study. ...
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Google Photos is rolling out two new features that will make getting your favorite snaps out to the world a, well, snap. The first of these features, Suggested Sharing, uses machine learning to look over your Google Photos library and identify images that your friends and family may enjoy based on faces, location, or other kinds of context. From there, users can review and edit suggestions and then send them out those people in an instant, even to users who don't use Google Photos themselves over email or text. Suggested Sharing also pi... ...
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Canada's top court on Wednesday ordered Google to remove a website from its worldwide search results, in what some experts are calling a landmark international copyright protection case. ...
Some Blue Apron lovers who rely on the food delivery service to fuel their week are wondering when they can get a slice of this company ahead of its highly anticipated IPO. More importantly, they want to know how much that slice will cost them. Many institutional investors have already put their names down and are expected to pay around $10-$11 a share for an offering of about 30 million shares, which is down from the initial $15-17 a share. But they aren’t expected to get a piece of the action until Blue Apron goes public on the New York .. ...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee has a deal to get former FBI Director James Comey's memos of his conversations with President Donald Trump. ...
Virtual Reality is still in its earliest stages, and there is already a solution that looks to bring users a far more immersive sensory experience in all ecosystems, with the sensation of touch, in the form of Hapto VR. The Hapto VR controller is a twist on the quickly growing VR glove niche that not only allows a VR game or app to track your hand and finger movements, but has a grid of 20 “feelers”, small pieces of plastic that can move up and down to simulate touching a virtual object. Currently, while the Hapto VR controller can conn. ...
Concerns over the accuracy of melanoma diagnoses are raised in a study of US pathologists published by The BMJ today. ...
