The Sun Is Setting On Microsoft's Sunrise Calendar App and other top stories.

• The Sun Is Setting On Microsoft's Sunrise Calendar App

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• Google's Nest open sources OpenThread to snag more IoT partners, take on Amazon

  

  Earlier this year, a report in The Information claimed that Google-owned Nest was working on a rival to Amazon’s Echo — a service that would bring together a number of other connected devices and services to help people organise and manage their homes alongside Nest’s own thermostats and other products. Now it appears that some of these developments are coming to pass. Today, Nest announced OpenThread, an open source-based code implementation of the technology that Nest has developed for its o..

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• The Genetics of Staying in School

  

  Why do some people sail through college while others drop out during high school? There are many obvious reasons, ranging from intelligence to motivation, social privilege to caring parents, great teachers to disruptive classmates. But one neglected factor—our genes—plays a small but significant role.We know that because identical twins, who share all their DNA, peak at closer levels of education than non-identical twins, who share just half their genes. And now, in a study of almost 294,000 pe..

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• Google proposes 13 professional women's emoji

  

  Google developers have unveiled a proposal for 13 new emoji that show women in a powerful new light. Far from just depicting a happy face, a devilish wink, or an emotional tear, these new emoji feature professional women leading the way in a range of careers."No matter where you look, women are gaining visibility and recognition as never before," the developers said in a statement. "Isn't it time that emoji also reflect the reality that women play a key role in every walk of life and in every p..

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• Tightly packed four-planet system formed by planet migration

  

  Artist's conception of a hot Neptune orbiting close to its host star. Kepler-223 has four such planets, all with orbital periods of less than 20 days. By contrast, Mercury's orbit takes 88 days. How did our solar system reach its current configuration? One of the leading candidates to explain things like the sparseness of the Asteroid Belt and the small size of Mars is the grand tack, in which Jupiter originally migrated inward toward the Sun until its interactions with Saturn pulled them bo..

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• Watch kids' toys explain why killing wolves might be a bad idea

  

  The authors of a new study used Playmobil figurines to illustrate their conclusion that when the government killed wolves in Wisconsin and Michigan, illegal hunting of the animals increased. (Guillaume Chapron, Grimsö Wildlife Research Station) Hunters in Finland took to the forests this year to kill nearly 20 percent of that country’s 250 or so wolves. The hunt took place as part of a controversial, government-approved “cull” that officials said was intended to prevent illegal poaching of..

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• Oculus highlights over 1 million Gear VR users with new content

  

  "Oculus' mission is to help people experience anything, anywhere," Max Cohen, Oculus' head of mobile, told a roomful of journalists this Tuesday. There's the high-end experience of the Rift, of course, but there's also the portable easy-to-use version of the Gear VR. "The secret [with VR] is it can't just be slightly better than other experiences that you've had," said Cohen. "It has to be even better." Part of the reason why the million mark is so exciting, then, is because it'll hopefully pu..

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• The Great Instagram Logo Freakout of 2016

  

  Photo Instagram changed its logo to one that embraces the “flat design” aesthetic, and some users are not pleased. Instagram changed its logo on Wednesday and, predictably, the Internet was not entirely pleased. To put it bluntly: It freaked out.The popular app ditched its old-timey camera icon — the one that actually looked like a camera — and replaced it with a square symbol that evoked a camera, rendered in the vivid colors and simple lines of the “flat design” aesthetic. It was sleek, m..

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