Friday, June 3, 2016

72 new emoji include bacon, pickle and face palm and other top stories.

  • 72 new emoji include bacon, pickle and face palm

    72 new emoji include bacon, pickle and face palm
    The emoji masters have been cooking up a new batch of symbols for us, and they are about ready to be served.  Bacon, avocado and pancakes are among 72 new emoji officially announced Thursday. The emoji are set to be released in Unicode 9.0 on June 21 by the Unicode Consortium, which makes final decisions about the universal emoji roster. A new emoji installment has been in the works for some time, and while the emoji will be released later this month, they may not come to your phone right away...
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  • The Sims 4 discards gender rules for all clothing, customizations

    The Sims 4 discards gender rules for all clothing, customizations
    Heels on male Sims? Short hair and suits on females? Maxis says you can finally go to fashion town on your virtual denizens.Maxis The Sims game series has typically offered a ridiculous number of options for how their virtual denizens live, work, play, and love—and it has never shied away from political blowback in the "love" category. The only major exception at this point has been a delineation between the series' three types of Sims—men, women, and children—in terms of 3D character render..
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  • Google 'Project Magenta' Drops First (Machine-Learned) Song

    Google 'Project Magenta' Drops First (Machine-Learned) Song
    It's a long way to Carnegie Hall, but we bet that Google researchers are already thinking of the day when they can send a robot or AI to play an interesting, improvised piano performance in a major venue. While that's not the stated end goal of Magenta, a new project from the Google Brain team, it's certainly a possibility. The entire premise of Magenta is built around two simple questions: Can machines make art? And can machines make music? And, dare we say it, there's also an unstated third qu..
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  • Samsung's new Gear Fit 2 has GPS and a giant display

    Samsung's new Gear Fit 2 has GPS and a giant display
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  • Astronomers probe below Jupiter's cloud tops

    Astronomers probe below Jupiter's cloud tops
    Image copyright SCIENCE/AAAS Image caption A VLA radio map of the complex upwellings of ammonia in the region around the Great Red Spot (top), next to a visible image of the spot's cloud tops acquired by Hubble US astronomers have managed to peer deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter using a radio telescope on Earth.The Very Large Array (VLA) traced the presence of ammonia in the gas giant to study the circulation systems below the visible cloud tops.Fo..
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  • Underwater 'lost city' is a natural phenomenon, say scientists

    Underwater 'lost city' is a natural phenomenon, say scientists
    But what was once thought to be an ancient underwater "lost city" is actually a naturally occurring phenomenon, scientists have found.New research published in the Marine and Petroleum Geology journal today reveals the ancient underwater site was actually created by a natural geological phenomenon around five million years ago.Lead author of the research, Professor Julian Andrews, from the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences, told CNN: "The suggestion that they were arch..
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  • Is the universe expanding faster than we thought?

    Is the universe expanding faster than we thought?
    Illustration demonstrating the steps the team took to measure the Hubble Constant. NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) A new study could change how we examine the universe. Using Hubble data, a team of researchers led by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess has recalculated the expansion rate of the universe, finding that it could be as much as nine percent faster than previous calculations indicated.To ca..
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  • Facebook kills off Notify news app

    Facebook kills off Notify news app
    Facebook’s attempt at a real-time, notification-based news app is shutting down. Today Facebook sent an alert to users telling them “Thanks for using Notify. We’re transitioning parts of Notify into other Facebook products, and the app will no longer be supported.” Facebook launched Notify in November, allowing users to select from over 70 publishers that they wanted to send them news notifications. People would receive short summaries they could click through to view full news articles. But w..
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  • Microsoft's HoloLens now has apps for email and your calendar

    Microsoft's HoloLens now has apps for email and your calendar
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  • Google's self-driving cars are also self-honking cars

    Google's self-driving cars are also self-honking cars
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Dangerous Animal Response Team in place at The Toledo Zoo .The Mighty Claw of the Mantis Shrimp Inspires Next-Gen Helmets and Body Armor .
Huge Fire Breaks Out in Indian Arms Depot, 17 Feared Dead .Cincinnati zoo kills gorilla to save child who slipped into enclosure .

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