New 'Super' Drug Created for Skin Cancer

Melanoma is a very aggressive type of skin cancer that affects melanocytes. Melanocytes are the cells that help synthesis melanin, which provides skin with its unique color. There are three stages that occur as tumors grow: redial growth, vertical growth and metastatic. The Radial growth stage is when the cells proliferate, becoming disorganized within the epidermis. The second phase involves the dermis being invaded by the cancer and the final phase is when cells disperse into the surrounding tissues.
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Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high

Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are positive signs indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as everybody thought. Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on Bitfinex (the largest USD/bitcoin exchange according to Bitcoinity). And it represents a big 21.4 percent price jump over just four days. Today’s price represents a 21-month high. Surprisingly, bitcoin prices had been relatively stable for the last two months before this weekend’s jump.
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The Army Chaplain Who Quit Over Obama’s Drone Program

As a witness to the removal of fallen U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Army Chaplain Christopher John Antal can’t recall a time when that solemn ceremony wasn’t conducted without the presence of drones passing along the horizon. They were sleek and quiet, making a gentle humming noise as they flew over the flight lines — where aircraft can be parked and serviced — of the Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan, where he was stationed in 2012. Not everyone had access to the flight lines, according to Antal, but he was responsible for participating in dignified transfer ceremonies...
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'Making A Murderer' Steven Avery Exonerated By August 29, 2016?

Avery’s lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, has asked the court to extend the time for filing the brief by 90 days – until August 29, 2016. The document titled “Motion to extend the time for filing defendant-appellant’s brief,” (read the document here) submitted by Zellner and Tricia Bushnell, states that the record in the case in question was filed on April 20, 2016. While the brief is due on May 31, 2016 (40 days thereafter), the document states that “despite diligent and extensive efforts...
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Scientist suggests possible link between primordial black holes and dark matter

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of black holes formed during the first second of our universe's existence, known as primordial black holes. Now a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, suggests that this interpretation aligns with our knowledge of cosmic infrared and X-ray background glows and may explain the unexpectedly high masses of merging black holes detected last year.
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The White House Is Finally Prepping for an AI-Powered Future

Researchers disagree on when artificial intelligence that displays something like human understanding might arrive. But the Obama administration isn’t waiting to find out. The White House says the government needs to start thinking about how to regulate and use the powerful technology while it is still dependent on humans. “The public should have an accurate mental model of what we mean when we say artificial intelligence,” says Ryan Calo, who teaches law at University of Washington.
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Kelowna woman warns others after terrifying ordeal at U.S. border

After a recent trip south of the border, a Kelowna business owner says she won’t be returning to the United States without her husband by her side. Just a little over a week ago, Mary Ann Gill and a female friend were on a motorcycle trip to Elmo, Mont., from Radium Hot Springs, where they had travelled to the day before.
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Device used in Nazi coding machine found for sale on eBay

For codebreakers with the allied forces, it was more important a discovery than the Enigma machine, offering encryption for the Nazi command that, when cracked, would hasten the end of the second world war and lead to huge breakthroughs in modern computing. Less than 80 years later, for a thrifty woman in Essex, the “telegram machine” was little more than a dusty old gadget languishing in the garden shed. But after an eagle-eyed volunteer with the National Museum of Computing (NMC) spotted an ad on eBay this week, the extremely rare, military-issue Lorenz teleprinter has been saved and provides the latest piece in...
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David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years

Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the manuscript of a text called Scribbler Moon, each year for the next 100 years an author will deliver a piece of writing which will only be read in 2114, when the trees are chopped down to make paper on which the 100 texts will be printed.
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Australia’s censorship of Unesco climate report is like a Shakespearean tragedy

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is clearly at risk from climate change, so why would Unesco agree to censor its own report?
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Mugger arrested after victim spots him on Facebook’s ‘people you may know’ section

In a somewhat bizarre story which proves that truth is often stranger than fiction, a serial mugger in England was arrested after one of his victims spotted him under Facebook’s “People you may know” section. Originally reported by the BBC, 21-year old Omar Famuyide had a long history of theft, muggings and armed robberies to his name. Not too long ago, Famuyide brandished a knife and stole a car. Flash forward a bit, and the victim of said car robbery was recently shocked to see Famuyide’s face pop up as a suggested friend he might want to add on Facebook.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/melaniee/mugger-arrested-after-victim-spots-him-on-facebooks-people-you-may-know-section

Oklahoma Makes the Poor Poorer

As they sliced and diced state programs this month to close a budget deficit, Republicans controlling the Oklahoma Legislature cruelly targeted some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens — the working poor — by cutting an average $147 a year from the income of 200,000 households. This may seem negligible to the state’s wealthy and middle class, but not to a poor family with a breadwinner struggling at the margins. The method chosen is deplorable — cutting the state share of the earned-income tax credit for low-income workers, a federal program widely praised as an effective lift from poverty.
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Inmates in Syrian Prison Fear Reprisal After Revolt

Tensions at a prison in Hama were so high on Monday night that prisoners feared that government forces would try to storm the compound by morning.
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A Kangaroo Attacked a Woman on a Bike and Burst Her Breast Implants

"He was a lovely kangaroo until he did what he did," said the South Australian woman.
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Schrodinger's Bird: The art of mind-bending physics

Schrodinger's Bird brings the mesmerising concepts of quantum quirkiness to life in a new animation and exhibition.
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Harvard Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy

The chemist who gave us the artificial leaf has genetically engineered bacteria to absorb hydrogen and carbon dioxide and convert them into alcohol fuel. When Harvard Professor of Energy Daniel G. Nocera announced he was working with bacteria last year, other scientists cautioned it would be difficult to achieve a productive level of efficiency. At the time, Nocera was aiming for 5 percent efficiency—about 5 times better than plants. This month at the University of Chicago, he announced his bug converts sunlight ten times more efficiently than plants.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/kong88/harvard-scientist-engineers-bacterium-that-inhales-co2-produces-energy

Former Attorney General Holder: Edward Snowden performed 'public service'

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden performed a "public service," according to former Attorney General Eric Holder, but he added that the fugitive's actions were "inappropriate and illegal."In an interview with David Axelrod for his "The Axe Files" podcast, H
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All scientific papers should be free by 2020

This week was a revolutionary week in the sciences - not because we discovered a new fundamental particle or had a new breakthrough in quantum computing - but because some of the most prominent world leaders announced an initiative which asserts that European scientific papers should be made freely available to all by 2020. This would legally only impact research supported by public and public-private funds, which are a vast portion of the papers produced annually; however, the goal is to make all science freely available. Ultimately, the commitment rests on three main tenets: "Sharing knowledge freely", "open access", and "reusing...
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Runway Injustice: Two undercover models expose industry's dark side

Two undercover models are using humor to shine light on the dark side of the modeling industry.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/CatLady/runway-injustice-two-undercover-models-expose-industrys-dark-side

White House placed on partial security lockdown: official

The north side of the White House was placed on a security lockdown on Monday because of a suspicious package, a Secret Service official said.
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Tesla's Gigafactory grand opening to take place July 29

The company's giant battery manufacturing facility outside Reno, Nevada will be celebrating a grand opening in just two months' time.
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Japan: Drinking ban and curfew for US military in Okinawa after murder of local woman

US military officials have reportedly cancelled all parties after a former marine was arrested.
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Captain America: Civil War Passes Deadpool to Become Highest-Grossing Movie of 2016 at Domestic Box Office

Marvel Studios' latest comic book film has soared to the top of this year's domestic box office results.
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Revealed: cancer scientists' pensions invested in tobacco

cientists funded by Cancer Research UK who spend their lives hunting for cures for the disease are among thousands of academics whose pensions are invested in the tobacco industry, the Guardian can reveal. The latest annual report for the university staff’s pension fund shows it had £211m invested in British American Tobacco in the year to 31 March 2015 – its fifth biggest listed equities holding. The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) – the official name for the fund for university academics and staff...
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Nest's co-founder is releasing a smart go-kart for kids

Nest co-creator Tony Fadell isn't focused solely on making intelligent thermostats and smoke detectors. He recently unveiled Actev Motors, a company whose inaugural Arrow Smart-Kart promises to give kids a taste of what smart cars are like. The electric go-kart includes GPS, a and WiFi to keep junior drivers safe. Parents using a mobile app can geofence the kart's driving area, limit the top speed or hit a stop button in an emergency. In other words, even younger kids (5- to 9-year-olds are the main targets) can motor around without getting in over their heads. There's also a proximity sensor to automatically prevent accidents.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/junglman/nests-co-founder-is-releasing-a-smart-go-kart-for-kids

Four young Egyptians in custody for video making fun of the government

Four young Egyptians have been remanded in custody, accused of making fun of the government in a satirical video posted on social networks, according to judicial sources. The move is the latest in a crackdown on voices critical of the authorities in Egypt. At the same time, a fifth member of the group known as Street Children arrested on Saturday was ordered released on bail.
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Former Zurich Insurance boss Martin Senn kills himself

Former Zurich Insurance (ZURN.S) boss Martin Senn has committed suicide six months after leaving the company under a cloud, a tragedy that comes less than three years after Zurich's finance chief took his own life.
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Olympiakos footballer Alan Pulido kidnapped in Mexico

Mexican footballer Alan Pulido has been kidnapped in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, officials say. The 25-year-old striker was reportedly kidnapped on Sunday near his home in Ciudad Victoria after leaving a party. He plays for the Greek team Olympiakos and has made several appearances for Mexico's national team. Mexico has the one of the world's highest kidnapping rates, with government figures saying some 1,000 people are taken every year.
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Zuckerberg Is Dictator of The World's Largest Nation, Pirate Bay Founder Says

Peter Sunde says Europe must take action to stop the giant social network.
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Beware of keystroke loggers disguised as USB phone chargers, FBI warns

FBI officials are warning private industry partners to be on the lookout for highly stealthy keystroke loggers that surreptitiously sniff passwords and other input typed into wireless keyboards. The FBI's Private Industry Notification is dated April 29, more than 15 months after whitehat hacker Samy Kamkar released a KeySweeper, a proof-of-concept attack platform that covertly logged and decrypted keystrokes from many Microsoft-branded wireless keyboards and transmitted the data over cellular networks. To lower the chances that the sniffing device might be discovered by a target...
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L.A. will convert motel units to 500 apartments for homeless vets

The city of Los Angeles has approved a deal for nonprofit and private developers to convert “nuisance" motels into 500 permanent supportive apartments for homeless veterans. Officials called it a major step forward toward developing large-scale housing for hundreds of homeless veterans. Advocates say about 2,700 homeless veterans remain in the county, despite an intensive drive by local and federal officials..
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Death Talk Is Cool At This Festival

How to make thinking about death less somber? Hold a festival! Indianapolis did. Through art, film and book talks, residents explored everything from bucket lists to advance directives and cremation.
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Maths mystery solved after 40 years

A proof for graph theory's Kelmans-Seymour conjecture.
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Verizon and unions reach tentative deal to end strike

Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and unions representing nearly 40,000 wireline workers have reached a tentative deal "in principle" to end a strike that started April 13th, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said on Friday.
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Bookings at Trump Hotels Plummet

Donald Trump has garnered a lot of attention as a Republican presidential candidate. But how has this attention impacted his business interests? Are sales up or down? The Trump brand is associated with a variety of hotels, apartments, and products. On one hand, a growing number of political supporters could boost sales of Trump products; on the other, a growing number of political detractors could lead people to avoid his brand. So which of these two forces is stronger?
Read more: http://snapzu.com/hedman/bookings-at-trump-hotels-plummet

Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated with Google's plan for a household robot

When Boston Dynamics posted a video of its humanoid robot, Atlas, walking in the snow and recovering from getting kicked, Google was not happy. As one former employee told Tech Insider, it "soured the soup" of a relationship that was already heading south. Bloomberg first reported the issues surrounding the video when it obtained an email posted on an internal Google forum. "There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about it being terrifying, ready to take humans’ jobs,” Courtney Hohne, a director of communications at Google and the spokeswoman for Google X, wrote in that email.
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Saudi claims he invented e-commerce, intends to sue firms which use it

A Saudi man who claims he invented the concept of e-commerce during the early days of the internet says that he is talks with big firms who wish to avoid litigation for stealing his world-changing idea. “There are now undergoing negotiations with big companies inside [the kingdom] and abroad to find a solution without opting to head to international judiciary,” Faisal bin Fahd al-Osaimi told the local Saudi daily Okaz. Osaimi said he presented the concept of e-commerce to the late King Fahd in 1991, the same year the internet was born.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/weekendhobo/saudi-claims-he-invented-e-commerce-intends-to-sue-firms-which-use-it

China is encouraging its citizens to eat less meat — and that could be a big win for the climate

An updated set of dietary guidelines just released by the Chinese government could be a boon not only for public health, say some environmentalists, but also for the environment. They’re arguing that the new recommendations have the potential to reduce China’s meat consumption, or at least slow its growth, which can help save land and water resources and put a substantial dent in global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Mossack Fonseca to close offices in Jersey, Gibraltar and Isle of Man

The law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers revelations has decided to close its offices in the British-dependent territories of Jersey, Isle of Man and Gibraltar. Mossack Fonseca “will be ceasing operations” in those territories, “but we will continue serving all of our clients”, it said.
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Chicken embryo tests can prevent practice of gassing billions of cockerels

The current practice of gassing billions of male chicks within a day of hatching because they cannot lay eggs could be stopped thanks to a new embryo gender test. Globally some 3.2 billion cockerels are killed within hours of breaking free of their eggs each year. Now Dutch scientists have developed a simple test that identifies the sex of chicken embryos within eggs, meaning males could be terminated long before hatching.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/jasont/chicken-embryo-tests-can-prevent-practice-of-gassing-billions-of-cockerels

Ray Kurzweil is building a chatbot for Google

Inventor Ray Kurzweil made his name as a pioneer in technology that helped machines understand human language, both written and spoken. These days he is probably best known as a prophet of The Singularity, one of the leading voices predicting that artificial intelligence will soon surpass its human creators — resulting in either our enslavement or immortality, depending on how things shake out. Back in 2012 he was hired at Google as a director of engineering...
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Hot for Hacker: Meet The Women Obsessed With Edward Snowden

In the years since ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden exposed the federal government's secret surveillance of the American public, young women around the globe have, in turn, exposed themselves to him. These lone lusters have taken to the internet, sending off their deepest desires on Twitter like love letters tied to the feet of modern-day carrier pigeons.
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North Korea: Kim Jong-un's aunt 'lives American Dream'

An aunt of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been running a dry-cleaning business in the US after defecting with her family in 1998, the Washington Post reports. Ko Yong-suk told how she looked after Kim when he was at school in Switzerland. Ko, a sister of Kim's mother, now lives anonymously outside New York City. The CIA, which reportedly helped them buy a house after their defection, has not confirmed or denied her claims.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/8mm/north-korea-kim-jong-uns-aunt-lives-american-dream

Students get 99 lashes for attending mixed party

Iran has flogged dozens of students for attending a mixed-gender party after a graduation ceremony. The young men and women who attended the party in a villa near Qazvin, 140km (87 miles) north-west of the capital Tehran, received 99 lashes as punishment by the country's notorious “Morality Police”. Ismaeil Sadeqi Niaraki, a mullah who acts as the prosecutor in the city, told the Mizan news agency that a special court session was set up after the young people were discovered.
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Toyota is closing in on a deal to buy Google's robotics company Boston Dynamics, and the 'ink is nearly dry'

Google is in talks with the Toyota Research Institute to sell its robotics division Boston Dynamics, a source familiar with the matter told Tech Insider. A price for the deal has not yet been disclosed, but this person says the "ink is nearly dry." Tensions between Google and Boston Dynamics have been brewing since 2014, but a video released by Boston Dynamics in February of its humanoid robot, Atlas, was the tipping point for the separation, according to a Bloomberg article written in March.
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Bundy brothers in jail complain about lack of Internet service, ability to gather for prayer

Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and their co-defendants could have iPads in their jail cells, as long as their attorneys preload the devices with the discovery documents and videos they need to prepare for trial, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office would arrange to have the devices charged to ensure the defendants could use them in their cells during the day. The Bundy brothers — who are among 26 defendants indicted on federal conspiracy and weapons charges...
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An Entire West Virginia Town That Was Formerly a Spy Base Is for Sale

If you have $1 million just sitting around and dream of living out the premise to M. Night Shymalan’s psychological thriller The Village, have we got a deal for you. An entire town, which was once part of the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance operation, includes 80 single-family homes, a fire station, a swimming pool and a bowling alley in picturesque rural West Virginia, is up for auction with bids starting at $1 million.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/socialiguana/an-entire-west-virginia-town-that-was-formerly-a-spy-base-is-for-sale

The man who seduced the 7th fleet

For months, a small team of U.S. Navy investigators and federal prosecutors secretly devised options for a high-stakes international manhunt. Could the target be snatched from his home base in Asia and rendered to the United States? Or held captive aboard an American warship?Making the challenge even tougher was the fact that the man was a master of espionage. His moles had burrowed deep into the Navy hierarchy to leak him a stream of military secrets, thwarting previous efforts to bring him to justice.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/everlost/the-man-who-seduced-the-7th-fleet

Facebook clone launched in North Korea

If you think Facebook's gotten a little too big and you miss the intimacy of a smaller social network, maybe give North Korea's version a try. Go to starcon.net.kp and you'll find a very familiar looking website. It's called "Best Korea's Social Network" and the homepage has a thin blue banner at the top with a search field for "people, #hashtags, !groups."
Read more: http://snapzu.com/darvinhg/facebook-clone-launched-in-north-korea

Council: Pakistani men can beat wives 'lightly'

The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to "lightly beat" their wives as a form of discipline. In the 75-page proposal, Mohammad Khan Sheerani suggests a light beating is acceptable should the need arise to punish a woman. The proposal bans forceful beating, saying only a small stick is necessary to instill fear.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/geoleo/council-pakistani-men-can-beat-wives-lightly