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On the 40th anniversary of the 1977 blackout | Mickey Z.

Photo by Bolivar Arellano Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 9, 2017 I was working a summer job at Gimbel’s during the July 13, 1977 blackout. Coincidentally, it occurred on inventory night, the one ...

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State election officials worry about 2018 election security | Brian Slodysko

State election officials from across the United States gathered this weekend in Indianapolis amid an uproar over a White House commission investigating allegations of voter fraud and heightened conce ...

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Your brain on mesh: Injectable flexible probe melds with neurons, causes little or no chronic immune response | Stuart Mason Dambrot

Fig. 1. Schematics of mesh electronics. (A) Schematics of the mesh electronics structure in 2D. (I) Overall design of mesh electronics structure, where the blue lines highlight the overall mesh struc ...

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Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 | AFP

June 30, 2017 (AFP) -- Japan has revealed ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the Moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country's space agency. This is the first time the Japan Aerospace Expl ...

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What We Need -- and Don’t Need -- From Government in the Robot Age | Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael R. Bloomberg. Photo from chicagoideas.com/years/2012/speakersMichael R. Bloomberg on how to think about wages, health insurance, and education in the wake of technological advances. June 22, ...

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Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known | Michael Riley & Jordan Robertson

Image from: money.cnn.com/2016/10/31/technology/internet-attack-election-day/index.html Attackers said to take measure of voting systems, databases A ‘red phone’ warning to the Kremlin from Obama Whi ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation June 6 10:00 a.m., Council member Robert White will present the Washington, DC, City Council with a ceremonial resolution in ...

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Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies | AFP

There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called "space junk"—left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes — in orbit alongside some US$700 b ...

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CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations | Stephen Tsang and Laszlo T. Bito

CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 (white) from Staphylococcus aureus based on Protein Database ID 5AXW. Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) May 29, 2017 (Phys.org) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 ...

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US takes down huge botnet as Spain arrests notorious Russian hacker | Paul Handley

From: incapsula.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- U.S. authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrest ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15 9:00-10:00 a.m., American Enterprise Institute, "The defense budget and emergency war spending: Does it help more ...

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