Senate commerce leader confronts Apple about iPhone slowdown
The chairman of the U.S. Senate's commerce committee wants Apple to lift the veil on its once-secret slowdown of older iPhones.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 10, 2018
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Behind the smart gadgets, Amazon and Google are waging war
The flash of the CES technology show in Las Vegas is all about robots, drones and smart gadgets. But its subtext is all about Google versus Amazon.
Business
Jan 10, 2018
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone 5 form near northwestern Australia's coast
Tropical Depression 5S was consolidating just offshore Cape Leveque, Western Australia when NASA's Aqua satellite gathered temperature data that showed the strongest part of the depression remained over water.
Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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Higher-ranked colleges don't necessarily provide a better educational experience
College rankings dominate the conversation regarding quality in postsecondary education, but new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals that rankings have little to no relationship to student ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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Got batteries? Outage stalls giant tech show in Las Vegas
What happens to all those internet-connected refrigerators, robots and other devices when the power goes out?
Business
Jan 10, 2018
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Dark Energy Survey publicly releases first three years of data
At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public release of their first three years of data. This first ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2018
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Researchers use Titan to accelerate design, training of deep learning networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the generation and training ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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Scientists take viewers to the center of the Milky Way
A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip—complete with a 360-degree view—to the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This project, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2018
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Swarm of hydrogen clouds flying away from center of our galaxy
A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a grand exodus of more than 100 hydrogen clouds streaming away from the center of the Milky Way and heading into intergalactic space. This observation, made with the ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2018
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In India, subtle corruption robs villagers of roads
Examining a major road-building program in India, researchers at Princeton University and the Paris School of Economics used an innovative technique to show that political corruption increased the chances that roads meant ...
Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2018
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