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New Malware Can Infect IPhones via Mac Computers
A newly discovered family of malware has the capacity to infect iPhones via Apple computers, posing a security threat to devices that have been largely resistant to cybercriminals, researchers said.The researchers at Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity firm, said the...
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CBS Launches Broadband News To Vie With Cable-News Outlets
CBS launched what may be the modern media-industry version of a CNN with a new broadband-distributed news feed that will send live, anchored news programming to Internet-connected TVs and other devices - an attempt by the company to monetize its CBS News unit without the...
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'Kissing Bug' Infection Spreads Across Texas, Southern States
Kissing bugs have invaded Texas and other southern states, and giving people a parasitic infection called Chagas.
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Boy Donates Projectile Point to Smithsonian
A Virginia boy has donated a prehistoric projectile point that he found along the New Jersey shore to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.Noah Cordle was vacationing on Long Beach Island with his family in late August when the point struck the 10-year-old's...
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Brazil Scientist Blames Logging for Extreme Drought
Increased logging and burning in the Amazon rainforest will worsen already disastrous droughts, a leading Brazilian scientist warned in a new report on climate change.Trees in the Amazon rainforest emit into the atmosphere the equivalent of 20 billion tons of water daily,...
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Scientists See Mechanism for Spontaneous HIV 'Cure'
French scientists claimed Tuesday to have found the genetic mechanism for a spontaneous cure in two HIV-infected men, proposing a new strategy for combating AIDS even as other experts urged caution.The findings were based on a study of two men infected with the human...
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'Political Bible' Author: Gaffes Abound in Social Media Age
Even savvy politicians are getting tripped up by the 24-7 cycle of online social media, Rich Rubino, author of "The Political Bible of Humorous Quotations from American Politics," told "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV Monday.
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Hospital Records Being Adapted to ID New Ebola Cases
To better and more quickly flag possible Ebola cases, hospital software that charts new patients has been adapted to prompt triage staff to ask about foreign travel, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Penguin-bot Is a Happy Feat for Science
Brazenly, the down-covered baby penguin lookalike rolls in on four wheels for a huddle with real-life chicks, right under the noses of adult birds which seem to pay it no heed.The infiltration is for a good cause: the cute and fluffy robot is a remote-controlled spy...
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Spaceship's Descent Device Deployed Prematurely
Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship broke apart in flight over California's Mojave Desert after a device to slow the craft's descent prematurely deployed, federal investigators said Sunday.National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said that...
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Probe of US Spaceship Crash May Take a Year
Authorities who Saturday carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another said probing the incident could take a year.National Transportation Safety Board acting chairman Christopher Hart told...
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Microsoft Smartwach Beats Apple and Fitbit to Market
Microsoft beat Apple and Fitbit to the punch when it released its new smartwatch and fitness tracker, the Microsoft Band, for just $199.
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China Completes First Mission to Moon and Back
China completed its first return mission to the moon early Saturday with the successful re-entry and landing of an unmanned probe, state media reported, in the latest step forward for Beijing's ambitious space program. The probe landed safely in northern China's Inner...
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Investigators, Branson Go to Spacecraft Crash Site
Federal accident investigators are headed to a desert crash site where a winged spaceship designed to give wealthy tourists a high-altitude view of Earth broke up during a test flight, killing one pilot and badly injuring another.
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One Killed in Virgin Galactic Spaceship Test-Flight Crash
A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, killing one crew member and seriously injuring the other, officials said.
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First Made-in-Colombia Drone to Track Smugglers, Volcanoes
Colombia will unveil its first domestically made drone today as a nation reliant on U.S. weaponry nurtures its own arms industry.
The prototype, on show at a defense fair in Bogota, has a range of 150 kilometers (93 miles) and a carrying capacity of 100 kilograms (220...
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Catholic Journalist: Pope Didn't Contradict Church on Evolution
The Vatican has accepted evolution as reality for much longer than people realize, but that fact got lost in the reporting of what Pope Francis said this week concerning the origin of life, the editor of The Catholic Thing told Newsmax TV on Thursday.
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Giant Sunspot Has Scientists Scratching Their Heads
A colossal sunspot - at 80,000 miles wide, the largest seen in about a quarter of a century - is acting peculiarly, producing lots of flares but hardly any coronal mass ejections, which are huge bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields, PBS reported.
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Group Says Piece of Metal Found on Island Is From Earhart's Plane
Researchers probing the 1937 disappearance of famed American aviator Amelia Earhart's plane said on Wednesday they now believe a slab of aluminum found decades ago on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean came from her aircraft.The warped piece of metal was uncovered...
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Retailers' Deal With Rival System Blocks Apple Pay
A coalition of retailers is refusing to accept Apple's new mobile wallet because of agreements they have already signed with a competing mobile payment app's company, CurrentC, which will not be available until next year.
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Google Working on Cancer-Detecting Pill
Google is working on a cancer-detecting pill in its latest effort to push the boundaries of technology.
Still in the experimental stage, the pill is packed with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient's bloodstream, search for malignant cells and report...
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NASA Vows to Continue Commercial Rocket Plan After Explosion
The U.S. vowed to continue its commercial space launch program just hours after a rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded over a Virginia launch pad.
The unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. rocket burst into an orange fireball yesterday above the...
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Weather Channel's Coleman: Global Warming Is a Myth
Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman believes global warming is a myth, but says it's hard to get his views out.
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Possible Complete Mammoth Skeleton Found in Idaho
Part of a Columbian mammoth skull and tusks have been uncovered in southeastern Idaho, and experts say a rare entire skeleton might buried there. Experts estimate the mammoth was about 16 years old and lived about 70,000 to 120,000 years ago in what was a savanna-like...
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Mobile App Helps Track Ebola Epidemic
A new mobile telephone based mapping service has been created in a bid to track Ebola and better help communities hit by the virus in west Africa, developers said Monday.The system, a collaboration between technology giant IBM, mobile telephone companies and academics,...
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