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n. / ga-'lak-tik 'wor-ming

Caused by blasts from supermassive black holes which exist in the center of most galaxies galactic warming makes things so hot that gasses can't coalesce to form new starts.  That could be how our own Mikly Way burns out someday.

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holoportation n. / hō-lə- pȯr-'tā-shan

Virtual teleporting. By combining 3-D videocams and mixed-reality headsets the system can shoot a full-body image of you and your every move to a boardroom (or bedroom) somewhere else.

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/ (ˈhaʊlˌraʊnd) / noun. the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system.

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in·su·lar - ˈins(y)ǝlǝr 

adjective

farming people.

1 ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience: a stubbornly insular

• lacking contact with other people: people living restricted and sometimes insular existences.

2 relating to or from an island: the movement of goods of insular origin.

• relating to the art and craftwork of Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages, especially a form of Latin

handwriting: insular illumination of the 6th century.

• (of climate) equable because of the influence of the sea.

3 Anatomy relating to the insula of the brain.

 

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introspection engine n. / in-trə-'skep-shən 'en-jən

A proposed smartphone case that could keep your phone from spying on you.  Conceived by Edward Snowden and hacker Andrew Huang it would monitor the phone's circuitry to make sure it's not sending signals that reveal your location. 

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. Analysts group metaphors with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. “Figurative language examples include “similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, allusions, and idioms.”” One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature comes from the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It: This quotation expresses a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage, and most humans are not literally actors and actresses playing roles. By asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey an understanding about the mechanics of the world and the behavior of the people within it. In the ancient Hebrew psalms (around 1000 B.C.), one finds vivid and poetic examples of metaphor such as, "The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold" and "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want". Some recent linguistic theories view all language in essence as metaphorical. The etymology of a word may uncover a metaphorical usage which has since become obscured with persistent use - such as for example the English word " window", etymologically equivalent to "wind eye". The word metaphor itself is a metaphor, coming from a Greek term meaning 'transference (of ownership)'. The user of a metaphor alters the reference of the word, "carrying" it from one semantic "realm" to another. The new meaning of the word might derive from an analogy between the two semantic realms, but also from other reasons such as the distortion of the semantic realm - for example in sarcasm.

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Clutter moves your low priority messages out of your Inbox so you can easily scan for important messages. Clutter analyzes your email habits and based on your past behavior it determines the messages that you’re most likely to ignore. It then moves those messages to a folder called Clutter where you can review them later.

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Network Attached Storage or Network Addressable Storage

This is a network appliance used for storage that operates independent of a computer.  These devices typically contain multiple HDD and configured for redundancy.  Perfect for file server access and backup use.

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Og
n. / ō-jē

1. The symbol for oganesson the heaviest element in the periodic table.  Newly named to honor Yuri Oganessian the man who led its discovery this noble gas has a half-life of 0.89 milliseconds - making 15 minutes of fame sound like an eternity.
2. Abbreviation for the slang term 'Original Gangster'.
3. The third Ice-T album released in 1991.

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optic boom n. / 'äp-tik 'büm

A flash produced when electrons move faster than light akin to the boom of supersonic jets.  Breaking the 'light barrier' sounds like sci-fi but physicists say it can happen in graphene sheets.  The discovery could spark development of optical circuits a milli8on times faster than silicon chips. 

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recr.
n. / 're-kər

A proposed tag short for recrearis on the names of animals brought back from extinction using genomic techniques.  So a de-extinct saber-toothed cat would be Smilodon recr. fatalis (Scientists: Please also note the 'fatalis.'

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roboats n. pl. / 'rō- öts

Robotic boats. Prototypes for ferrying passengers will be launched in Amsterdam's canals next year. The project team also plans to test floating platforms that can self-assemble into on-demand bridges at rush hour.

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Acronym for Swinford Enterprise Management Suite - our enterprise class management platform for small and medium business.

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sequin n. /'sē-kwən

A snippet of synthetic mirror-image DNA dropped into a genetic sample before sequencing. Genetic tests are error-prone and sequins (short for sequencing spike-ins) provide a benchmark that labs can use to verify the accuracy of results—a vital step for personalized medicine.

December 2016