Stormy 'weather bomb' reveals Earth's geological secrets and other top stories.

• Stormy 'weather bomb' reveals Earth's geological secrets

  

  For the first time ever, a team of scientists in Japan has detected a rare kind of earthquake on the ocean floor.Microseisms are faint earthquake tremors caused by “the sloshing of the ocean’s waves on the solid Earth floor during storms,” the American Association for the Advancement of Science explains in a press release. And there are two kinds of microseisms: P-wave microseisms (the faint tremors that animals can detect before an earthquake), which have been charted before, and S-wave micros..

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• Google Wallet To Boast Automatic Transfers Soon

  

  Google Wallet may have had its flagship feature usurped by Android Pay long ago, but it has a ton of other cool features and is still going strong, with a fairly sizable user base. One of the bigger features that keeps Google Wallet relevant is the ...

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• Facebook ditches helpful Trending Topic descriptions for global scale

  

  Twitter’s “Trends” are often confusing. Why is #MPBMS or #TechMunch trending? You had to click through and figure it out for yourself. When Facebook copied Twitter’s trends in 2014, it vastly improved them by adding human-written descriptions right below so you knew if you cared or not. Today Facebook is removing those descriptions, and claims it’s to increase the scalability and personalization of the product. This is a win for users who don’t browse Facebook in English and might get access t..

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• Apple CEO Tim Cook Collects $36 Million in Stock Sale

  

  Apple CEO Tim Cook sold $36 million worth of company stock this week, according to a securities filing on Friday. The sale came as Cook just passed his fifth anniversary running the company, lifting the restrictions on 1.26 million shares of stock he’d been awarded earlier. Apple withheld more than 656,000 shares to meet tax withholding requirements, while Cook chose to sell 334,000 shares on the open market this week, garnering almost $36 million, according to the filing with the Securities an..

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• Obama creates the largest protected place on the planet, in Hawaii

  

  President Obama on Friday created the largest ecologically protected area on the planet when he expanded a national marine monument in his native Hawaii to encompass more than half a million square miles. The president more than quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea (pronounced “Papa-ha-now-moh-koo-ah-kay-ah”) Marine National Monument to 582,578 square miles of land and sea in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. President George W. Bush established the monument a decade ago, but Obama’s a..

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• Apple Loop: iPhone 7 Launch On September 9th 'Confirmed', Dangerous iOS Flaws, New iPhone 7 Images

  

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