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AI is finding out when the person using your account isn’t you http://tnw.me/ot90L7X

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Isaiah Thomas Signs WIth The Nuggets On A Veterans Minimum

The Denver Nuggets have signed former MVP candiate Isaiah Thomas to a one year deal worth the veteran's minimum of $2.1 million. During the 2017 campaign in which Thomas ha this the best season averaging 28.9 points for the Celtics while leading them to the best record in the East (53-29), he expressed his utmost interests in signing a super mac contract worth around an estimated $150-$300 million. However during the 2017 season Thomas including in a massive blockbuster trade that sent him to Cleveland for Kyrie.

During this trade, the public learned of Thomas hip injury which on the surface seemed minor but would, later on, be recognized as a serious injury. In which he struggled throughout the entire 2018 season to gain any solid footing as he was shipped to LA during the trade deadline. The two-time all-star averaged 15.2 points, 4.8 assists, on 37% shooting.

#NBA #Denver #Nuggets #LosAngeles #Lakers

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In at least one instance, DEA agents sold an encrypted BlackBerry to a suspected drug smuggler—and kept the encryption key. https://wrd.cm/2Ndikm6

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Luckily, you can help reduce your risk of the disease by cutting certain foods out of your diet. This article reveals the 7 worst foods for your brain.

http://www.howfitness.info/7-worst-foods-for-your-brain/

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"Galaxy over Canal Rocks"

This image was taken on 8th July 2018 spanning south-west-north along Canal Rocks, near Yallingup, Western Australia. Canal Rocks is a longitudinal series of granite just off the coast in the Indian Ocean. The moon at 43% has just risen over the relatively high ridge on which I am standing on to take this image, and lights up the foreground nicely but also lights up the sky in a faint blue that reduces the constrast a bit for the galaxy. The great Carina nebula is nearing the bottom of its arc on the very left of the image, then moving up the length of the galaxy is the Southern Cross constellations (quite faint this close to the horizon), Coal Sack dark nebula, Alpha and Beta Centauri, some fainter red nebulas including the Cats Paw nebula, just down from the core the Antares / Rho Ophicuhi region, the bright Lagoon nebula in the centre of the image (and close to centre to the core), the Omega and Eagle nebula, and the very bottom right you can just make out the North American nebula.

I used an Skywatcher StarAdventurer sky tracking mount to take this massively sized 52 panel mosaic. A Canon EOS6d (modified) was used through a Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens stopped down to f/3.2. All camera and lens settings were kept the same for all panels, and all shots were taken one immediately after the other. The tracking mount was used for the sky and turned off for the foreground panels. Stitching in PTGui, colour balance in Pixinsight, noise reduction, saturation and some brightness / contrast adjustment in Photoshop. Details below.

Enjoy, Will Vrbasso.

| 2018-07-08 | Canal Rocks, near Yallingup, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 50mm f1.2 | f/3.2 | UV/IR cut-filter | StarAdventurer mount | ISO3200 | 30sec | 52 x panels |

#nightscape #astrophotography #Australia #CanalRocks #Yallingup #seascape #galaxy #milkyway #Canon #stellaraustralis #Vrbasso

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Bizarre 'Alien' Asteroid Discovered Orbiting the Wrong Way Near Jupiter

Late last year, our solar system received an unexpected visitor from interstellar space: The asteroid ‘Oumuamua that was discovered suddenly in October and then just as quickly disappeared, passing briefly through our solar system on the way to somewhere else. But now we have a better chance to study a visitor from beyond our solar system.

According to scientists from the Côte d'Azur Observatory and São Paulo State University, there’s at least one interstellar asteroid already here. They found an interstellar asteroid near the planet Jupiter, and unlike ‘Oumuamua, this asteroid is here to stay.

Asteroid 2015 BZ509 was discovered a few years ago by the Pan-STARRS sky survey, the same one that discovered ‘Oumuamua last year. This new asteroid, 2015 BZ509, is a pretty strange one because it orbits in retrograde—in the opposite direction as pretty much everything else in the solar system.

Read more here: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a20776717/asteroid-orbiting-jupiter-interstellar/

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/477/1/L117/4996014

Clips, images credit: ESO/M. KORNMESSER & NASA/JPL

Music credit: YouTube Audio Library

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#Google is adding ‘Page Speed’ being another ranking factor for mobile searches. As of today, Google starts rolling out speed update for global users.

#GoogleNews #MobileSearch #PageSpeed #SEO #GoogleUpdate

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Alpha Centauri Star System May Host "Superhabitable" Worlds

In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places to look is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond the Sun.

A new study that has involved monitoring of Alpha Centauri for more than a decade by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides encouraging news about one key aspect of planetary habitability. It indicates that any planets orbiting the two brightest stars in the Alpha Cen system are likely not being pummeled by large amounts of X-ray radiation from their host stars.

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system located just over four light years, or about 25 trillion miles, from Earth. While this is a large distance in terrestrial terms, it is three times closer than the next nearest Sun-like star.

The stars in the Alpha Centauri system include a pair called "A" and "B," that we'll call AB, which orbit relatively close to each other. Alpha Cen A is a near twin of our Sun in almost every way, including age, while Alpha Cen B is somewhat smaller and dimmer but still quite similar to the Sun. The third member, Alpha Cen C (also known as Proxima), is a much smaller red dwarf star that travels around the AB pair in a much larger orbit that takes it more than 10 thousand times farther from the AB pair than the Earth-Sun distance. Proxima currently holds the title of the nearest star to Earth, although AB is a very close second.

The Chandra data reveal that the prospects for life in terms of current X-ray bombardment are actually better around Alpha Cen A than for the Sun, and Alpha Cen B fares only slightly worse. Proxima, on the other hand, is a type of active red dwarf star known to frequently send out dangerous flares of X-ray radiation, and is likely hostile to life.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_060618.html
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/alphacen/
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaa88f

Clips, images credit: Chandra X-Ray Observatory, ESA/HUBBLE & NASA

Music credit: YouTube Audio Library

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Learn to generate Excel XLSX files in Java with Eclipse

It's always interesting to be able to generate Microsoft Excel files in an application to proposer reports to users for example. In that tutorial, you are going to learn how to generate Excel XLSX files in a Java Application with Eclipse.

Note that the logic will be the same to generate old Excel XLS format. For that tutorial, we are going to use the great Apache POI API added to the project as a Maven dependency.

Don't hesitate to give it a try and give us your feedback in comments.

#Excel #XLS #XLSX #Microsoft #MicrosoftExcel #Java #javaDev #Application #JavaApps #Eclipse #Tutorial #JavaApps #IndieDev #Learn #Apache #POI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iocX7k6kmW8

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Donald Glover Got Not One, Not Two, but Five Emmy Nominations http://vntyfr.com/qEBPFQ1

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What do you think? https://pin.it/erbps3yfimpxb5

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Report: White House Orders FBI Informant Files Be Opened to More Lawmakers https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-white-house-orders-fbi-informant-files-be-opened-to-more-lawmakers -via Flynx

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Trump has a pattern.
1) Insult everyone.
2) Make demands,
3) Claim to have achieved a victory, and then
4) Struts around demanding to be praised..

5) Move to next target and repeat..
(But he doesn't do this to dictators, only to the faces of allies.)

By the way, has anyone seen his "better cheaper replacement for Obamacare yet?

How about his plan to get Mexico to pay for his wall fantasy?

So. Much. "Winning".

(Trump said people would get sick of all the winning he does)
He's right, in his own inverted way..
I'm sick of what he imagines to be "winning".

From the article linked below.

...Trump went to a NATO summit, insulted our allies, then made the absurd demand not just that they increase defense spending — which they should — but that they raise it to 4 percent of G.D.P., much higher than the bloated military spending in his own budget. He then claimed, falsely, to have won major concessions, and graciously declared that it is “presently unnecessary” to consider quitting the alliance.

Was there anything our allies could have done that would have mollified him? The answer, surely, is no. For Trump, disrupting NATO doesn’t seem to be a means to an end; it’s an end in itself.

Does all of this sound familiar? It’s basically the same as the story of the escalating trade war. While Trump rants about other countries’ unfair trade practices — a complaint that has some validity for China, although virtually none for Canada or the European Union — he hasn’t made any coherent demands. That is, he has given no indication what any of the countries hit by his tariffs could do to satisfy him, leaving them with no option except retaliation.
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It’s all of a piece. Whatever claims Trump makes about other countries’ misbehavior, whatever demands he makes on a particular day, they’re all in evident bad faith. Mr. Art of the Deal doesn’t want any deals. He just wants to tear things down.

The institutions Trump is trying to destroy were all created under U.S. leadership in the aftermath of World War II. Those were years of epic statesmanship — the years of the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, in which America showed its true greatness. For having won the war, we chose not to behave like a conqueror, but instead to build the foundations of lasting peace.

Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-nato-failure.html

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Top 10 Best Android Smartphones – July 2018

#top10 #smartphones #bestsmartphones #list #android

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In a blurred world

My techno visions https://www.paolodalprato.com/techno

#macrophotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #ilovephotography

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Brain Network Spatial Differences More Pronounced In Autism

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The https://www.theguardian.com/science/european-space-agency has awarded a £3.9m contract to Airbus, in Britain, to design a new rover, in a project with Nasa, that will visit Mars to retrieve samples for bringing back to Earth for the first time.

As well as the scientific insights expected, especially into whether https://www.theguardian.com/science/mars was ever habitable, the mission will help researchers plan for any crewed mission to the red planet. In the 1960s lunar samples, for instance, that were sent back to Earth, gave unprecedented insights into the origin of the solar system.

The “sample return” rover mission is due to launch no earlier than the mid-2020s. This rover will retrieve samples already left by Nasa’s Mars mission, planned for 2020, and transfer them to a spacecraft known as an orbiter for the journey home.

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Double standards are a form of self-deceit (lying).
The GOP can't seem to grasp this concept:

The GOP is trying to claim a person's negative opinions make them incapable of impartial investigation.
(edit: See the video link in my first comment below this posting.)
They didn't have any such qualms about the people "investigating" Hillary (like Trey Gowdy who spent millions and came up with nothing)...

Investigation is concerned with facts.
Opinions don't change the facts.
What the GOP need is evidence that Strzok tampered with evidence or ignored facts.
They don't have any.

From the article linked below (read it for the comments which reveal the failure of this procedure to expose anything other than GOP incompetence.)

In another tweet, The Washington Post‘s Aaron Blake detailed House Republicans’ double standard in the Strzok hearings.

“The contrast here is pretty stark,” he tweeted. “GOP in one breath threatens Strzok with contempt if he doesn’t detail Russia investigation, which is ongoing. Then it says it won’t release transcript of Strzok’s initial testimony … because its investigation is ongoing.”

Link:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/gowdy-got-owned-internet-heaps-mockery-gop-strzoks-hearing-becomes-circus/

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Google’s URL inspection tool now available for all users

After launching this tool 15 days ago, it is finally now available for everyone to use within the new Google Search Console

The URL inspection tool allows you to check a specific URL on your website to see the status of how Google search sees that URL. This tool “provides detailed crawl, index, and serving information about your pages, directly from the Google index,” Google says. It will show the last crawl date, the status of that last crawl, any crawling or indexing errors and the canonical URL for that page. It will show if the page was successfully indexed, any AMP errors, structured data errors and indexing issues.

#SEO #Search #Google

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#GalaxyNote9 to be the most expensive device to come from Samsung’s stable. +Samsung
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