Verizon dips another toe into online-video programming
Could the next "House of Cards" be coming to your phone?
Telecom
Apr 6, 2016
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Ban on drones over Pennsylvania lands gets preliminary OK
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has given preliminary approval to banning drones over 1.5 million acres of state game lands after reports of the unmanned craft near bald eagles' nests and drones interfering with migrating ...
Other
Apr 6, 2016
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MedStar says 2007, 2010 software flaws were not part of hack
MedStar Health Inc. said Wednesday that hackers who seriously disrupted its operations and held some data hostage did not exploit software vulnerabilities that were the subjects of warnings in 2007 and 2010 to break into ...
Security
Apr 6, 2016
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Experts expect corporate tax inversions to survive new rules
President Obama scored a victory this week when Pfizer scrapped a $160-billion overseas deal that would have kept a chunk of the drugmaker's profits beyond the U.S. tax man's reach.
Business
Apr 6, 2016
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Connecting people to solve collective environmental problems
Organizational models known as "network governance" can help big conservation alliances govern themselves, researchers argue in a special April issue of the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...
Ecology
Apr 6, 2016
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Researchers cook up new battery anodes with wild mushrooms
Carbon fibers derived from a sustainable source, a type of wild mushroom, and modified with nanoparticles have been shown to outperform conventional graphite electrodes for lithium-ion batteries.
Nanomaterials
Apr 6, 2016
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Physicists discover rare brown dwarf, essential for testing theoretical models
A team led by Justin Crepp, the Frank M. Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered a rare brown dwarf, a faint object with properties in between that of a star and planet. In ...
Astronomy
Apr 6, 2016
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Alaska volcano settles down after late March eruption
A remote Alaska volcano has settled down more than a week after it sent an ash cloud 37,000 feet into the sky.
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2016
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Invasive species not best conservation tool, study says
Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes - except that it won't work, says a ...
Ecology
Apr 6, 2016
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Teenage girl killed by exploding Takata air bag in Texas
An exploding Takata air bag has claimed another life, this time a 17-year-old girl whose car crashed near Houston.
Business
Apr 6, 2016
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