FAA to consider easing limits on in-flight electronic devices

With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other electronic gadgets during takeoffs and landings. The 28-member FAA advisory committee...

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Floating space factory? NASA readies 3D printer for launch

NASA is working with Silicon Valley startup Made In Space to make specialized 3D printers that would allow astronauts to produce the things they need on-demand when they're in space, allowing them to travel farther from the Earth. (The Associated Press)...

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Space watchers seek answer for sky riddle from N.B.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is trying to solve a sky riddle from New Brunswick. A video taken of the night sky at the Hopewell Rocks on Aug. 11 is featured today on the website, which is run by a scientist from NASA and a professor...

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Earth still warming despite 'hiatus,' Canadian scientist says

Global warming skeptics, citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about a 'temperature hiatus,' are failing to see the bigger picture, says a Canadian scientist and contributing author to the assessment. ...

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FAA to consider easing limits on in-flight electronic devices

With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other electronic gadgets during takeoffs and landings. The 28-member FAA advisory committee...

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Popular Science online comment ban explained

Popular Science magazine has decided to shut down comments on new articles on their website, saying they can negatively affect funding and scientific progress. CBC Radio's Day 6 digs into the debate. Popular Science associate editor Dan Nosowitz says...

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Earth still warming despite 'hiatus,' Canadian scientist says

Global warming skeptics, citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about a 'temperature hiatus,' are failing to see the bigger picture, says a Canadian scientist and contributing author to the assessment. ...

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Google overhauls the way its search engine ranks websites

Google has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questions posed by Web surfers. The overhaul came as part of an update called "Hummingbird" that Google Inc....

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FAA to consider easing limits on in-flight electronic devices

With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other electronic gadgets during takeoffs and landings. The 28-member FAA advisory committee...

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How do you make car companies innovate? Regulate them

It's a given of modern free market analysis: The best help a government can offer business is to keep its hands off. Minimal regulation, low interest rates, low taxes are the only exceptions. Maybe occasional transfers of your money into the hands of...

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Global warming 'extremely likely' to be man-made, UN panel says

Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday. Calling man-made warming "extremely likely," the...

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BlackBerry loses $965M in 2nd quarter

Smartphone maker BlackBerry lost $965 million US in its second quarter on its continuing operations and had revenues of $1.6 billion US, both in line with its earlier warnings to investors. Revenues were down 45 per cent from the same period last year,...

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Climate change report's 'temperature hiatus' fuels skeptics

Climate change researchers and activists say the debate is over on the science of global warming but deniers of the evidence think a 15-year pause in temperature rise is reason enough to keep questioning conclusions. On Friday, the Inter-governmental...

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Rogers, Sprint to offer wireless system in vehicles

Rogers Communications Inc.and U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp. say they will offer Canadians a high-speed internet access in their vehicles through a new service announced today. The cost of the project, pricing for the services and dates for the...

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Ancient fish fossil with human-like jaw discovered in China

An international team of scientists in China has discovered what may be the earliest known creature with a distinct face, a 419 million-year-old fish that could be a missing link in the development of vertebrates. The fossil find in China's Xiaoxiang...

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Flour made with insects wins $1M for McGill team

A team of McGill University MBA students has won the $1 million Hult Prize for a project that aims to improve the availability of nutritious food to slum dwellers around the world by providing them with insect-infused flour. Mohammed Ashour, Shobhita...

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Monarch butterfly numbers drop to new lows

Monarch butterflies appear headed for a perhaps unprecedented population crash, according to scientists and monarch watchers who have been keeping tabs on the species in their main summer home in Eastern and Central North America. There had been hope...

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New Kindle Fire HDX tablets unveiled by Amazon

Amazon is refreshing its line-up of tablet computers with new devices called Kindle Fire HDX, which are significantly faster and lighter than the previous generation. The 7-inch and 8.9-inch versions also have sharper, more colorful displays than older...

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Google Science Fair wins include B.C. teen's body heat-powered flashlight

A teenage girl from Victoria is among winners at the Google Science Fair in California, for inventing a flashlight powered by the heat from a user's hand. Ann Makosinski, 15, a student at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, claimed a trophy...

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BlackBerry takeover offer buys company time

A takeover is necessary to give battered BlackBerry the time it needs to get itself back in order, company watchers say. On Monday, BlackBerry said a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. had signed a letter of intent to buy...

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Fingerprint scanning a balance of security and convenience: Dan Misener

Bruce Schneier nailed it. Before Apple announced the iPhone 5S and TouchID, its fingerprint authentication feature, Schneier predicted that such a system could be easily fooled. "Almost certainly," he wrote in a Wired opinion piece, "I'm sure that...

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Fukushima residents question radiation cleanup effort

Across much of Fukushima's rolling green countryside they descend on homes like antibodies around a virus, men wielding low-tech tools against a very modern enemy: radiation. Power hoses, shovels and mechanical diggers are used to scour toxins that...

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Arctic ice level rebounds from record 2012 low

The amount of ice covering the Arctic Ocean was much higher in 2013 than it was in 2012, but it's still among the lowest levels on record. The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth lowest level, but that is much higher...

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