H&R Block adds IBM's Watson to its tax team
H&R Block Inc. is working IBM's Watson supercomputer this tax season.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 2, 2017
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Arkansas bill aimed at forcing Amazon to collect sales taxes
Forcing Amazon and other e-commerce companies to collect Arkansas sales taxes could generate up to $100 million annually in extra revenue, a senator said Wednesday, arguing his plan would put the state in a better position ...
Business
Feb 2, 2017
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Nokia reports 766 million euro loss in 2016
Telecoms giant Nokia on Thursday said that falling network sales and costs stemming from acquisitions and its integration of Alcatel-Lucent had resulted in a "disappointing" loss in 2016.
Business
Feb 2, 2017
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Research shows importance of remote cameras as biodiversity tools
University of Montana doctoral candidate Robin Steenweg shows how remote cameras can transform monitoring wildlife and habitat biodiversity worldwide in a paper published Feb. 1 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the ...
Ecology
Feb 2, 2017
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Thin, flexible, light-absorbent material for energy and stealth applications
Transparent window coatings that keep buildings and cars cool on sunny days. Devices that could more than triple solar cell efficiencies. Thin, lightweight shields that block thermal detection. These are potential applications ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 2, 2017
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Four Bengal tigers born in El Salvador animal park
Four Bengal tigers have been born in an El Salvador animal park that runs an endangered-species reproduction program, the facility announced Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2017
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King of the zoo: liger cub Tsar is Russian hit
His name is fit for a king, and he's being treated like one: Tsar the liger cub, born from an extremely rare lion-tiger romance, is proving a hit for a travelling Russian zoo.
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2017
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Mexico's vaquita porpoise close to extinction, 30 left
Mexico's vaquita marina is edging closer to extinction as scientists warned Wednesday that only 30 were left despite navy efforts to intercept illegal fishing nets killing the world's smallest porpoise.
Ecology
Feb 2, 2017
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Japan court rejects 'right to be forgotten' on Google
Japan's Supreme Court has rejected a man's demand that news search results of his arrest on sex charges be deleted from Google, ruling that to do so would violate freedom of expression.
Internet
Feb 2, 2017
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Massive lava stream exploding into ocean in Hawaii (Update)
A dramatic "firehose" stream of molten lava continued to shoot out of a sea cliff Wednesday on Hawaii Island, splashing into the Pacific Ocean below and exploding upon impact.
Earth Sciences
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