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First Exomoon Potentially Discovered Outside Of Our Own Solar System
A team of astronomers believe they may have found the first example of a moon outside of our own solar system.
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Croatian taxis protest Uber at height of tourism season
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Hundreds of Croatian taxi drivers protested Friday against Uber services, disrupting traffic at the height of the tourist season in the Adriatic country.
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Japan turns to robots to tackle population decline
Facing a severe population decline, Japan is turning to robots to address the shortfall. "CBSN: On Assignment" takes us into the country's burgeoning robot revolution.
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Stunning aurora australis captured by International Space Station
Stunning aurora australis captured by International Space Station
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Nasa's mission to search for Earth-like planets will include an out-of-focus camera
Cameras on the Nasa spacecraft that will be looking for exoplanets -- any planet that is not part of the Solar System -- which might harbour life will be slightly out of focus. This, however, will not affect the science of the mission, according to Nasa. The main focus of the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet
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Xperia XZ1 benchmark leaks suggest Sony's next Android smartphone is a powerhouse
With rumours flying around that Sony is readying an all-new Xperia trio for this year's IFA trade show in Berlin, a benchmark leak has provided a little more detail about the trifecta's potential flagship model, the Xperia XZ1. The benchmark provides further evidence that the Xperia XZ1 – alongside
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Watch Live Today! New Crew Launches to Space Station @ 11:41 am ET
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy take a 6-hour journey to the International Space Station July 28, launching on a Soyuz spacecraft at 11:41 a.m. EDT (1541 GMT). Coverage of hatch opening and welcome ceremonies will begin at 7 p.m. EDT
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This high school kid taught himself to be an AI wizard
If you're deep into the world of artificial intelligence, you certainly know Kaggle, the Google-owned platform where AI coders compete on projects, often with financial rewards for the winning solutions. The platform recently passed 1 million members, a testament to what a hotbed the field of AI
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A British man was handed a suspended jail sentence by a German court Friday for a massive cyber attack against Deutsche Telekom last year.
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Apple augmented reality smart glasses will have us all pointing at thin air, new patent reveals
Unperturbed by Google's inability to make smart glasses a commercial success, Apple is busy working on a wearable computer with a semi-transparent display and augmented reality of its own. Patents recently filed by the computer giant detail a pair of smart glasses which use augmented reality to
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Microsoft says Cortana has 145 million users, reveals new hardware partners
Microsoft is opening up Cortana's capabilities to other developers in the form of Skills, including a recent Fitbit integration. With Cortana's new Fitbit skill, users can now stay up-to-date on their health and fitness goals.
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Chinese 'hackers' have hijacked the Tesla Model X to remotely control its brakes and doors
As Tesla prepares to release its latest Model 3 to the world, Chinese hackers have spoiled the party by showing off how they were able to hack into and take control of a Model X – and it isn't the first time. Last year Chinese security researchers were able to hack into a Model X, with the vulnerabilities
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Amazon has quietly introduced a cool delivery feature
Amazon is quietly stepping up its delivery service game by unveiling The Hub, a new locker service designed for apartment blocks and multi-tenant dwellings. SEE ALSO: Amazon Prime Day: Amazon’s not-so-secret plan to rule the retail world The company already has its own set of self-service parcel pickup
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Wearables aren't all dorky — these helped me compete in an Ironman race
Wearables have gotten a bad rap lately, and it's probably because of glorified pedometers like the Fitbit Blaze and Apple Watch that look dorky and don't do much beyond counting steps. And I'll admit, I'm one of the people that will readily throw shade at these products for failing
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Unhackable Data: In a First, Secure Quantum Communications Is Tested Via Microsatellite
For the first time, scientists have demonstrated laser communications between a microsatellite and a ground station while using the quantum nature of photons to secure the data being transmitted. As the world edges closer to quantum computing, current methods of securing transmitted data may be rendered
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The 2017 Solar Eclipse May Prove the Sun Is Bigger Than We Think
Xavier Jubier creates detailed models of solar and lunar eclipses that work with Google Maps to show precisely where the shadow of the sun will fall on the Earth, and what the eclipse will look like at each point. Where did it come from?
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Astronauts on the Space Station Will See the Solar Eclipse 3 Times (Video)
When the Great American Solar Eclipse sweeps across the continental U.S. on Aug. 21, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will have a chance to see it from a unique vantage point. Bresnik is scheduled to blast off toward the space station Friday (July 28) along with his two Expedition
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New species of dinosaur found in China - and it looks like a turkey
A new species of dinosaur bearing more than a passing resemblance to a turkey has been found in China. Known as a Corythoraptor jacobi, the flesh eating winged creature roamed Earth at the same time as the T-Rex, standing about 10 feet tall on its hind legs and weighing about 37 stone. The almost complete
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Jeff Bezos' Vision: 'A Trillion Humans in the Solar System'
It is now 48 years since Apollo 11's moon landing on July 20, 1969. While primarily a reflection on decades past, the event also proved to be a look into the future, courtesy of remarks by Jeff Bezos, the retail mogul of Amazon.com fame and fortune and the head of Blue Origin, a company with big
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Private Dream Chaser Space Plane Will Launch on Atlas V Rockets
The cargo missions flown by the private Dream Chaser space plane will launch atop United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rockets, at least at first.
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Old NASA Computers, Tapes Found in Dead Man's Basement
Two huge, Apollo-era NASA computers and more than 300 data-recording tapes were found in the Pittsburgh basement of a dead engineer in late 2015, according to media reports. In November 2015, a scrap dealer was invited to clean out the basement of the recently deceased IBM engineer, who did some work
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Imagine All the People: When Cassini Looked Back at Earth
Whatever disagreements may plague humanity, the international Cassini-Huygens mission has proved that we are capable of great collaboration. On July 19, 2013, during an orbit into the shadows behind Saturn — where the planet's rings were backlit by the sun — the Cassini probe's narrow-angle
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For Record-Breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson, Space Is Never Boring (Video)
More than eight months after arriving at the International Space Station (ISS), record-breaking NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is still having a blast. "I haven't felt bored since I got here in November last year," Whitson said from orbit Wednesday (July 26) in a video interview with a representative
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The Sun's 'Quiet' Regions Are Surprisingly Active
Never judge a quiet sun by its boring name. A trove of data from a NASA mission finds that the seemingly low-activity areas of the sun are not as dormant as the name might suggest. Researchers in Wales used the NASA data to examine the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the solar
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Bad News for Life: TRAPPIST-1 Planets' Atmospheres May Have Been Destroyed
Intense radiation and particles streaming from their host star have likely taken a huge toll on all seven of these worlds, even the three that apparently lie within the "habitable zone," where liquid water could theoretically exist on a planet's surface, according to the new research.
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