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• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to reveal space tourist simulation

  11-07-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blue Origin's exhibit will feature a 1:1 mockup of New Shepard's astronaut crew capsule, which has seating for six people, and will use real mission footage to simulate the trip into space.
  
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• Facebook takes down pages of some legal Alaska pot shops

  11-07-2017 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook has shut down pages set up by several businesses licensed to legally sell marijuana in Alaska, severing what some shop owners consider a critical link to their customers.
  
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• New technique could lead to marijuana breathalyzers

  11-07-2017 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have measured the vapor pressure of THC for the first time, using sensitive technology known as PLOT-cryo.
  
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• Apple hasn't finalised fingerprint sensor on iPhone 8

  11-07-2017 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the latestiPhone 8 rumor, Apple is hoping to place its Touch ID sensor underneath the glass screen of the next iPhone, but the tech giant is struggling to do so - and it could cost them.
  
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• Dutch team reveals plans for mile-wide floating islands

  11-07-2017 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Made up of 87 floating triangles of different sizes, the huge, flexible island made of concrete or steel would eventually stretch 1.5 to two kilometres (one to 1.2 miles), or a total of three square kilometres.
  
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• Big cash boost for UK satellite sector

  11-07-2017 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government formally announces a more-than-£100m investment in new satellite and rocket test facilities.
  
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• China teleports photon to SPACE

  11-07-2017 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a major breakthrough, researchers in China established the first ground-to-satellite quantum network, which allowed them to transmit a photon from an entangled pair up to 870 miles.
  
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• Step 1: Staff satisfaction. Are they bringing their friends’ CVs to you? #developers siliconrepublic.com/advice/how-to-…

  11-07-2017 21:00 via twitter.com
  Step 1: Staff satisfaction. Are they bringing their friends’ CVs to you? #developers siliconrepublic.com/advice/how-to-…
  
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• United Nations: “Educated People Threaten Sustainability”

  11-07-2017 20:55 via technocracy.news
  
  The United Nations Technocrats says that educated people consume a disproportionate amount of resources, and are therefore unsustainable by definition. Long live stupidity and ignorance. ⁃ TN EditorSenior leaders of the United Nations gathered recently to continue plotting the future of globalized pseudo-education, which they said must be imposed on every child on the planet to advance the UN’s radical plan for humanity known as “Agenda 2030.” Speakers at t
  
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• Asimov's law update to 'empower' robots to protect humans

  11-07-2017 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire argue that empowering robots, rather than giving them rules of operation, would allow the robot to evaluate scenarios no one has envisaged.
  
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• Want to learn about #datascience? Check out e-learning platforms such as @udacity @coursera and @DigitalSkillsAc ow.ly/Of5a30dxHoe

  11-07-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  Want to learn about #datascience? Check out e-learning platforms such as @udacity @coursera and @DigitalSkillsAc ow.ly/Of5a30dxHoe
  
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• Data Driven: How Your Car Will Soon Know All Your Habits

  11-07-2017 20:42 via technocracy.news
  
  To a Technocrat, it’s not about transportation, its about data, and your car is just one giant sensor that can report on your every activity. A rolling smartphone? Furthermore, your car will routinely rat on you by transmitting your data wirelessly to mobile collection devices. ⁃ TN EditorPicture this: You’re checking your friends’ Facebook updates on the windshield display screen while your car drives you to the other side of town.
  Suddenly, a coupon for a special d
  
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• Winter warming events becoming more common in the Arctic

  11-07-2017 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While Arctic winters are known to experience days in which the temperatures rise above 14 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say they’re now more extreme than they were just three decades ago.
  
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• PornHub viewers in Russia need passport to access website

  11-07-2017 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russian PornHub users will have to log in using the social networking site VKontakte. To open a VKontakte account, users have use their cell phone numbers and passport information.
  
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• Internet Surveillance Hurts Women And Young, And It’s Getting Worse

  11-07-2017 20:26 via technocracy.news
  
  This is a dead serious and scholarly article that demands attention: the biggest victims of surveillance are women and youth, the very groups that the UN promises to liberate. Well, just the opposite is true. ⁃ TN EditorEarlier this month, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats backtracked on a promise to disclose how many Americans’ communications have been swept up in warrantless mass surveillance of foreign targets. In fact, Coats admitted that even “Her
  
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• #Ecommerce site #eBay continues to make millionaires siliconrepublic.com/companies/ebay…

  11-07-2017 20:25 via twitter.com
  #Ecommerce site #eBay continues to make millionaires siliconrepublic.com/companies/ebay…
  
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• At 3pm this Saturday, Skibbereen’s @LudgateIreland will close its current seed funding call. #funding ow.ly/4tPg30dxGU2

  11-07-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  At 3pm this Saturday, Skibbereen’s @LudgateIreland will close its current seed funding call. #funding ow.ly/4tPg30dxGU2
  
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• Did JFK's back brace really cost him his life?

  11-07-2017 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to research by the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Arkansas, JFK's chronic back pain and many failed surgeries might have contributing factor to his death in 1963.
  
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• Two of the molecules discovered were brand new to science. #astronomy #astrophysics siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cos…

  11-07-2017 20:05 via twitter.com
  Two of the molecules discovered were brand new to science. #astronomy #astrophysics siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cos…
  
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• Fear of holes could reveal a deep anxiety of parasites

  11-07-2017 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologists at the University of Kent found people with trypophobia experience the same type of aversion when viewing a lotus pod, for example, as they would when shown a cluster of ticks.
  
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• Research from @SNUnow Hospital could lead to reduced chances of blood clot formation siliconrepublic.com/innovation/via…

  11-07-2017 19:40 via twitter.com
  Research from @SNUnow Hospital could lead to reduced chances of blood clot formation siliconrepublic.com/innovation/via…
  
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• X-ray pulses reveal how water freezes into strange Ice VII

  11-07-2017 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Stanford University have captured the six nanoseconds it takes for water to freeze into ice seven, which could help create and support the building blocks of life.
  
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• Interested in a career in #infosec? siliconrepublic.com/people/cyberse…

  11-07-2017 19:20 via twitter.com
  Interested in a career in #infosec? siliconrepublic.com/people/cyberse…
  
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• 360-degree dashcam sends alerts if someone is stealing car

  11-07-2017 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The camera, created by Boston-based company Waylens, links up to your phone via a live stream and will alert you if there is an 'event' - such as someone trying to damage or steal your car.
  
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• #Twitter continues to fight back against troll warfare siliconrepublic.com/life/twitter-a…

  11-07-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  #Twitter continues to fight back against troll warfare siliconrepublic.com/life/twitter-a…
  
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• How to speak LEMUR: Researchers decode the grunts and hums

  11-07-2017 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Male ring-tailed lemurs use 'moan' and 'hmm' calls to stay close to neighbors, particularly when they could be separated during travel, research by the University of Toronto, Mississauga found.
  
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• 40 percent of Americans were harassed online

  11-07-2017 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced online harassment, most commonly on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a Pew.
  
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• Software giant @Microsoft plans to connect 23.4m Americans in rural areas to #broadband. ow.ly/CXDp30dxGlW

  11-07-2017 18:50 via twitter.com
  Software giant @Microsoft plans to connect 23.4m Americans in rural areas to #broadband. ow.ly/CXDp30dxGlW
  
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• TripAdvisor teams up with Deliveroo

  11-07-2017 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Travellers will be able to order restaurant deliveries in cities across 12 countries thanks to the deal.
  
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• The #Leixlip site sale will be one of Ireland's largest ever industrial real-estate trades siliconrepublic.com/companies/hp-i…

  11-07-2017 18:35 via twitter.com
  The #Leixlip site sale will be one of Ireland's largest ever industrial real-estate trades siliconrepublic.com/companies/hp-i…
  
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• .@Cyrusone got the go-ahead to build a major #datacentre facility across nearly 15 acres of land ow.ly/MLgS30dxG2f

  11-07-2017 18:20 via twitter.com
  .@Cyrusone got the go-ahead to build a major #datacentre facility across nearly 15 acres of land ow.ly/MLgS30dxG2f
  
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• Designer babies WILL NOT suffer serious complications

  11-07-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology debunk previous claims that CRISPR introduces hundreds of potentially-dangerous mutations.
  
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• #Dundalk #startup Nova Leah secures deal with @FMC_AG #infosec siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/nov…

  11-07-2017 18:05 via twitter.com
  #Dundalk #startup Nova Leah secures deal with @FMC_AG #infosec siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/nov…
  
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• Penis-shaped mushroom found in Barclay Park, Hoddesdon

  11-07-2017 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'shamelessly phallic' mushroom, which smells of rotting flesh, can grow up to 10 inches tall (25 cm) and has a 'skirt' above its stem. The mushroom was found in Barclay Park in Hoddesdon.
  
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• Microsoft announces rural broadband initiative

  11-07-2017 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The company is calling for a combination of private and public investments to get about 2 million rural Americans online in the next five years using TV white spaces, which are unused airwaves.
  
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• Men and women react DIFFERENTLY to depression

  11-07-2017 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Now in a study of depressed teenagers, Cambridge University researchers have found male and female brains of depressed patients respond differently to negative stimuli.
  
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• 3D maps reveal 'striking' face of man from 4,500 years ago

  11-07-2017 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  His remains were first excavated from a burial mound in Derbyshire, in the 1930s, when he was found buried alongside a stone pendant which was likely worn as a necklace.
  
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• Magic mushrooms could be wonder cure for depression

  11-07-2017 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Full to the brim of psilocybin, the drug is proving to be an effective and safe way of combating the blues, according to a new review of seven studies by Touro University California.
  
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• US test missile intercept amid North Korea tensions

  11-07-2017 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the US test launch, a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system (pictured) targeted a ballistic missile launched mid-air from an Air Force C-17 transport aircraft over the Pacific.
  
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• US House panel to unveil self-driving car legislation

  11-07-2017 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  U.S. House Republicans expect to introduce bills this week that would bar states from setting their own rules for self-driving cars and take other steps to remove obstacles to putting them on the road.
  
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• Incredible rectangular moon sighting sparks conspiracies

  11-07-2017 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Skywatcher John Stetson has captured the moment when the Earth's atmosphere distorted the colour and shape of the moon as it emerged from above the sea at Casco Bay in Maine.
  
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• #MostRead Today: TravTab wants to help people pay for the holidays of their dreams ow.ly/EPSi30dxDoq

  11-07-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: TravTab wants to help people pay for the holidays of their dreams ow.ly/EPSi30dxDoq
  
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• #MostRead Today: This winter, you’ll want this guy’s new car defroster method ow.ly/hpCb30dxDsf

  11-07-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: This winter, you’ll want this guy’s new car defroster method ow.ly/hpCb30dxDsf
  
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• #MostRead Today: This winter, you’ll want this guy’s new car defroster method ow.ly/CvEE30dxDuA

  11-07-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: This winter, you’ll want this guy’s new car defroster method ow.ly/CvEE30dxDuA
  
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• #MostRead Today: Future of work: How will we work in 2020 and beyond? ow.ly/qmdV30dxDwa

  11-07-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Future of work: How will we work in 2020 and beyond? ow.ly/qmdV30dxDwa
  
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• #MostRead Today: Canada attracts top talent with swift visa processes ow.ly/vSEd30dxDqX

  11-07-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Canada attracts top talent with swift visa processes ow.ly/vSEd30dxDqX
  
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• Being generous with your money really can make you happier

  11-07-2017 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of 50 volunteers in Zurich, Switzerland, took part in a money spending experiment, with each given 25 Swiss Francs (£20 / $25) per week for four weeks, examining generosity.
  
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• 'Nordic noir' is coming to gaming

  11-07-2017 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dark Scandinavian crime drama has already conquered TV, now it's coming to gaming.
  
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• Kaspersky refutes email evidence it worked with Russian intelligence siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/kas…

  11-07-2017 17:13 via twitter.com
  Kaspersky refutes email evidence it worked with Russian intelligence siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/kas…
  
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• 6 online data science courses to launch your career siliconrepublic.com/advice/data-sc…

  11-07-2017 17:00 via twitter.com
  6 online data science courses to launch your career siliconrepublic.com/advice/data-sc…
  
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