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Apple's San Bernardino fight may be over, but the government is still seeking both Apple and Google's help in unlocking phones. New research from the American Civil Liberties Union shows 63 different cases in which the government compelled help from ...

Google's Sundar Pichai handed $100M pay package in 2015

CNBC

Sundar Pichai, head of Google, was handed a pay package valued at $100.5m early last year, even before he was elevated to become chief executive of the world's biggest internet business, according to figures released on Wednesday. Google had already ...

Google Fiber Adds $10 Phone Service to Help You Avoid AT&T and Comcast

Money Magazine

Or rather, Google is offering customers the option of going for a triple play of Internet-TV-phone services in one monthly bill, just like Comcast, Verizon, and other providers do. Currently, a combined high-speed Internet and pay TV package from ...

Google tackles simple 360 content embeds with VR View, introduces Cardboard ...

TechCrunch

Virtual reality is great for gaming and movies, but when it comes to real-world use cases there's still quite a bit of room for VR to prove itself. Google is hoping to kickstart this process by making 360 VR content a bit more simple to implement and ...

HUMAN HABITAT

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Educators Secure Grant to Attend 2016 International Ecology Conference in England

WKMS

A Murray State University post-doctoral researcher and her collaborators have secured a $20,000 federal grant to allow young ecologists to attend the 30th annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology in Exeter, England. MSU's Dr ...

Pesticides alter bee foraging

Nature.com

Bumblebees that have been exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides are slower to learn how best to collect pollen from wildflowers than are their unexposed counterparts. Neonicotinoids are widely used insecticides, and their application has been restricted ...

Weatherwax preservation plan certified by Corps, Ecology

North Coast News

“We are very excited about achieving this goal through this collaborative effort with the Corps and Ecology.” The news release notes that wetlands are “essential for protecting Washington waters. They support and protect communities and businesses by ...

Ecology department doing regular review of Gaco Western cleanup in Tukwila

Tukwila Reporter

The 1990s cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater at the Gaco Western LLC site, 18700 Southcenter Parkway in Tukwila, continues to protect public health and the environment, according to a periodic review by the Department of Ecology. Ecology ...

WATER POWER

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Gov. Mark Dayton travels to Edgerton, heart of farm country, to talk water quality

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Mark Dayton brought his aggressive effort to prevent farm pollution from endangering the state's water supply to an area deeply skeptical of him and his plans. The DFL governor traveled more than 200 miles Wednesday to this rural southwest Minnesota ...

How New York Gets Its Water

New York Times

All of the data is fed into a centralized computer system, which also takes into account advanced weather forecasting to make determinations to predict the quality and quantity of water that day — and even six months into the future — at each reservoir.

Asia headed for severe water stress by 2050: Study

CNBC

"We find that water needs related to socioeconomic changes, which are currently small, are likely to increase considerably in the future, often overshadowing the effect of climate change on levels of water stress," the researchers wrote in their study.

California water conservation may be prolonged

Reno Gazette Journal

ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. — A nearly average spring snowpack in the Sierra Nevada will likely prolong tough water conservation measures in drought-stricken California — although the restrictions could be loosened in some areas after an El Nino storm system ...