Thursday, April 28, 2016

Scientists Holding Media Accountable on Climate Reporting and other top stories.

  • Scientists Holding Media Accountable on Climate Reporting

    Scientists Holding Media Accountable on Climate Reporting
    Scientists Holding Media Accountable on Climate Reporting By Michael Levitin We all know about the media confusion – and misinformation – that surrounds the climate debate. Now, a new global coalition of scientists has stepped out of the lab to respond in an organized, powerful way to inaccuracies in the media, while reinforcing trust in news sources that accurately report on climate issues. By sorting fact from fiction in coverage across the mainstream news, these scientists are finally doing ..
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  • SpaceX says it will fly a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018

    SpaceX says it will fly a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018
    An artist rendering of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft approaching Mars. (Image courtesy of SpaceX.) Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on Mars as soon as 2018 with the help of NASA, an extraordinary collaboration between the public and private sectors in an effort to eventually get humans to the Red Planet. SpaceX made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday, laying out an ambitious timeline for an incredibly difficult mission that only governments have dared try. Landing a sp..
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  • Samsung's VR future includes Star Trek holodecks and no wires

    Samsung's VR future includes Star Trek holodecks and no wires
    When Samsung thinks about the future of virtual reality, what it sees is a star -- a Star Trek, to be precise. Injong Rhee, executive vice president and head of R&D for software and services in Samsung's mobile business, on Wednesday gave some hints about what VR could look like in two to three years. Think holodecks a la Star Trek and (this might be even better) no wires. "You enter a holodeck, you're actually in a virtual world, interacting with all the virtual objects as if you're living ..
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  • Forget the ​Nintendo NX delay: The real problem is, where are all the great new games?

    Forget the ​Nintendo NX delay: The real problem is, where are all the great new games?
    Nintendo announced that its next game console, the long-teased NX, won't emerge until March 2017. And no one will be able to see it at at the upcoming and increasingly less relevant E3 Expo in Los Angeles in June. Instead, according to a Nintendo press statement this morning, the new hardware will be unveiled "later this year."I don't care that the Nintendo NX is being delayed. I have a Nintendo Wii U at home, and it's my family's favorite game console. The Nintendo 3DS is my favorite non-phone..
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  • Facebook Plans New Stock Class to Solidify Mark Zuckerberg's Control

    Facebook Plans New Stock Class to Solidify Mark Zuckerberg's Control
    Photo Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco this month. Credit Stephen Lam/Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg nurtured Facebook from a dorm room idea into the world’s biggest social network. Now the company is taking steps to ensure its founder remains in charge.Facebook on Wednesday proposed a new class of stock, known as C shares, in a move meant to allow Mr. Zuckerberg to maintain control of the..
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  • Russia launches 1st rocket from new space facility

    Russia launches 1st rocket from new space facility
    Russia on Thursday successfully launched the first rocket from its new space facility after a last-minute delay the day before.The Soyuz 2.1a booster blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far Easter in the early hours Moscow time on Thursday. The Roscosmos space agency said in a statement that the three satellites the rocket was carrying orbited several hours later.The launch was originally scheduled for Wednesday but was called off 1 ½ minute before the planned lift off. Pres..
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  • How the Moth Radio Hour helped scientists map out meaning in the brain

    How the Moth Radio Hour helped scientists map out meaning in the brain
    This is your brain on stories. By tracking the blood flow in people’s brains as they listened to a storytelling radio show, scientists at UC Berkeley have mapped out where the meanings associated with basic words are encoded in the cortex, creating the first semantic atlas of the brain.The findings, described in the journal Nature, provide an unprecedented view of language and meaning as it plays out on our neural terrain, and could potentially offer a road map for those looking to help patient..
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  • Lenovo & Xiaomi Are No Longer In Top 5 Smartphone Brands - Android Headlines

    Lenovo & Xiaomi Are No Longer In Top 5 Smartphone Brands - Android Headlines
    Samsung and Apple are the two largest smartphone brands in the world. These two companies have been occupying top two spots for a while now, and Huawei has actually managed to take the third place last year. That being said, Lenovo and Xiaomi has ...
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  • Apple Reports First Year-Over-Year Revenue Decline Since 2003: $10.5B Profit on $50.6B in Revenue

    Apple Reports First Year-Over-Year Revenue Decline Since 2003: $10.5B Profit on $50.6B in Revenue
    Apple today announced financial results for the second fiscal quarter (first calendar quarter) of 2016. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $50.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $10.5 billion, or $1.90 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $58 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.6 billion, or $2.33 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. As expected, the year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue was the first for Apple since 2003. Gross margin for the quarter was 39.4 p..
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