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• Slack: Shares surge as messaging app joins the stock market

  20-06-2019 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  The messaging app firm sees its shares close 50% up as it becomes that latest tech start-up to go public.
  
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• New test method could accelerate UK driverless car adoption.

  20-06-2019 13:55
  
  A new method for rapidly testing and validating autonomous vehicle technologies could help accelerate the adoption of driverless cars in the UK.   
  A member of Move_UK fleet next to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. Image: Move_UKThe technique has been developed through the Bosch-led Move_UK initiative, a three year long government funded project (launched in 2016) that also involves Jaguar Land Rover; Telematics specialist The Floow; the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL); Direct Line ins
  
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• Research network set to electrify UK transport system

  20-06-2019 13:52
  
  The challenges of electrifying the transport network, including its impact on the National Grid, will be tackled as part of a research network being created in the UK.The EPSRC-funded network, known as Decarbonising Transport through Electrification (DTE), plans to identify and address some of the challenges holding up the implementation of an integrated, electrified transport system across the automotive, aerospace and rail sectors.
  The project, which is being led by Dr Liana Cipcigan, co-direc
  
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• Leeds ladies take top spot in community design challenge

  20-06-2019 13:49
  
  Two young female engineers from Leeds Beckett University have won the grand Engineering for People Design Challenge prize.Lydia Williams and Charlotte Sutherland (left) – both civil engineering students at Leeds Beckett – designed a women’s community hub for people living in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, using locally sourced natural and affordable materials. The annual competition is organised by Engineers Without Borders UK, a charity dedicated to inspiring the engineering
  
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• Government error delays online pornography age-check scheme

  20-06-2019 13:12 via bbc.co.uk
  A scheme hoping to stop under-18s stumbling across adult content was due to come into force in July.
  
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• Loot boxes aren't gambling, says EA

  20-06-2019 13:02 via bbc.co.uk
  A spokesperson for the company says the system is "quite ethical" and something gamers enjoy.
  
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• UK-led Comet Interceptor set to launch in 2028

  20-06-2019 12:24
  
  A new ESA mission led by UK scientists will attempt to get up close to a pristine comet, untouched by our sun, for the very first time.
  (Credit: ESA)Due to launch in 2028, Comet Interceptor will initially sit at the L2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million miles from the Earth in the opposite direction to the Sun. It will lie in wait at L2 until a suitable pristine comet – or interstellar object such as Oumuamua – is spotted travelling inward from beyond the solar system.
  The mothership will t
  
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• Smart speakers detect signs of cardiac arrest

  20-06-2019 11:36
  
  Smart speakers such as Amazon Alexa could soon alert emergency services to individuals experiencing cardiac arrest, which results in around 500,000 US deaths per year.
  Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an algorithm for a smart speaker or smartphone lets the device detect the sound of agonal breathing and call for help (Image: Sarah McQuate/University of Washington)People experiencing cardiac arrest will either stop breathing or gasp for air, a sign called agonal breathin
  
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• Online porn age-checks for under-18s 'face new delay'

  20-06-2019 05:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Changes aimed at stopping under-18s viewing explicit content were due to come into force next month.
  
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