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• MIT researchers reveal 3D TV that DOESN'T need glasses 

  12-07-2017 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Home3D' system, developed by MIT, works by displaying three or more images that simulate what the scene looks like from different locations, allowing the brain to compute the image depth.
  
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• New study claims mysterious Planet Nine DOES exist

  12-07-2017 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Complutense University of Madrid used a different approach for search for the mysterious planet, and have once again found evidence to support its existence.
  
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• Scientists store a movie in bacterial DNA

  12-07-2017 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tiny movie, consisting of just five frames, shows a galloping thoroughbred mare named Annie G galloping in 1887 - and was stored on the DNA of an e-coli bacteria.
  
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• KFC launches limited edition handset in China

  12-07-2017 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fast food chain KFC have launched a mobile phone with Huawei to celebrate both of their 30th anniversary in China. The phone goes on sale on Thursday.
  
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• .@symantec’s Tarah Wheeler recently spoke at #inspirefest about the shifting #infosec landscape siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/sym…

  12-07-2017 21:10 via twitter.com
  .@symantec’s Tarah Wheeler recently spoke at #inspirefest about the shifting #infosec landscape siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/sym…
  
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• Microsoft's 'Seeing AI' narrates the world to blind people

  12-07-2017 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's Seeing AI app can recognize friends' faces, describe and guess the age and emotions of strangers, read text out loud and describe scenes that come into the camera's field of view.
  
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• A 1.5bn-year-old protein could be the secret to fighting devastating viruses #health ow.ly/WPo430dzKFf

  12-07-2017 20:50 via twitter.com
  A 1.5bn-year-old protein could be the secret to fighting devastating viruses #health ow.ly/WPo430dzKFf
  
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• US firm plans return to the moon, this time with robots

  12-07-2017 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cape Canaveral, Florida-based Moon Express is developing a fleet of low-cost robotic spacecraft that can be assembled like Legos to handle increasingly complex missions.
  
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• A photon has teleported 500km into space. #photonics siliconrepublic.com/innovation/tel…

  12-07-2017 20:35 via twitter.com
  A photon has teleported 500km into space. #photonics siliconrepublic.com/innovation/tel…
  
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• Want to work at @PTC? Here's what it's really like. #IoT #cloud ow.ly/iW5530dzKyF

  12-07-2017 20:20 via twitter.com
  Want to work at @PTC? Here's what it's really like. #IoT #cloud ow.ly/iW5530dzKyF
  
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• Jupiter's 10,000 mile-wide 'Great Red Spot' up close

  12-07-2017 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The three unprocessedimages show a wide view of the planet, showing off the Great Red Spot. NASA said it was hoping the public would 'act as a virtual imaging team, identifying features'
  
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• .@NDRC_hq CEO Ben Hurley on the secrets to accelerator success siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ndrc…

  12-07-2017 20:05 via twitter.com
  .@NDRC_hq CEO Ben Hurley on the secrets to accelerator success siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ndrc…
  
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• These energy absorbing stairs make climbing easier

  12-07-2017 20:00
  
  By: Matt BurgessContinue reading...
  
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• The steps that use springs to give you a boost

  12-07-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta said the steps reduce the amount of effort needed to climb stairs by up to 37 per cent and can also relieve the strain on joints.
  
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• Scientists develop proteins that STOP Crispr

  12-07-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from UC Berkley have shown that proteins, called anti-Crisprs, can be used to prevent off-target effects, acting like a 'kill switch' to disable Crispr-Cas9 after it's done its job.
  
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• Google not liable for back taxes in France

  12-07-2017 19:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court rules Google's Irish subsidiary was not liable for back taxes after a challenge from the French authorities.
  
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• #China is the latest country chosen by #Apple as a #datacentre base siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/app…

  12-07-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  #China is the latest country chosen by #Apple as a #datacentre base siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/app…
  
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• We can't quit Facebook as judging friends is pleasurable

  12-07-2017 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team found we continue to use the site even though it often annoys or offends us to silently watch friends – and perhaps even take pleasure from judging them.
  
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• Barbarian Technocrats Have Broken Down School Doors And Are Plundering Knowledge

  12-07-2017 19:39 via technocracy.news
  
  The barbarians have finally broken down the school doors and are now plundering knowledge. Books are their target. Banning them is the goal.
  In New York City, administrators at the Life Sciences Secondary School have ordered all textbooks rounded up and removed. Books, they say, are antiquated. Instead, technology is to be the new god of learning.
  Of course the excuse is that books are expensive. The schools complain that the kids lose the books or that they wear out and there is no budget to re
  
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• Nasa spot 75,000-mile-wide HOLE on the sun

  12-07-2017 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory first detected the huge spot on the sun last week, and it appears to have lingered through to this week.
  
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• Creepy lifelike androids debate the future of humanity

  12-07-2017 19:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two lifelike robots have discussed the pros and cons of humans in front of a nervously laughing audience in Hong Kong, as part of this year's sprawling Rise tech conference.
  
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• Elon Musk's Hyperloop One completes first test

  12-07-2017 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a test that lasted just 5.3 seconds, Hyperloop One's pod vehicle managed to hit 70 miles per hour using just 100 feet of the motor at the DevLoop test track in Nevada, the firm has revealed.
  
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• “Urban Science-Policy Interface” For Global Sustainability

  12-07-2017 19:30 via technocracy.news
  
  Since ‘data-driven’ is the globalist mantra, extra attention will be given to data and how to standardize data sets across borders and cultures. Technocrats never have enough data because they believe that social engineering is perfected only by total data collection. ⁃ TN EditorAs the euphoria from last year’s Habitat III conference on sustainable urbanization dissipates and global attentions turn to other pressing matters, it is urgent that the
  
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• #Revolut is cashing in on #fintech fever siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/revo…

  12-07-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  #Revolut is cashing in on #fintech fever siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/revo…
  
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• Whales are sneaking into salmon hatcheries for free lunch

  12-07-2017 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The whales have learned that hatcheries near Baranof Island, Alaska, release juvenile salmon into the water at certain times of year and come back for a free meal each time.
  
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• UN Urges Governments To Take Over Water Resources & Allocations

  12-07-2017 19:16 via technocracy.news
  
  I have long stated that Sustainable Development (aka Technocracy) is a resource grab of global proportions, and water is a key live-giving resource that the UN intends to control. The article states, “The World Water Council has issued its 2016 report, which calls for mainstreaming water in a variety of global agendas, including infrastructure financing, climate action and sustainable development.” ⁃ TN EditorUN agencies have reviewed the impacts of forestry and hi-tech ir
  
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• Got the interview jitters? Jane McNeill of @HaysWorldwide can help siliconrepublic.com/advice/calm-ne…

  12-07-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  Got the interview jitters? Jane McNeill of @HaysWorldwide can help siliconrepublic.com/advice/calm-ne…
  
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• The shift towards content stored in #datacentres is continuing apace. #cybersecurity #infosec siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/1pa…

  12-07-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  The shift towards content stored in #datacentres is continuing apace. #cybersecurity #infosec siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/1pa…
  
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• LeakerLocker ransomware threatens to share your data

  12-07-2017 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based computer security firm McAfee has cast doubts on claims made by the creators of a ransomware that threatens to leak your private data and advises people not to pay.
  
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• Faraday Future abandons Vegas 'megafactory' amid funding

  12-07-2017 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was supposed to be a rival to Elon Musk's Tesla, and even had a giant factory almost next door - but Chinese firm Faraday Future has revealed it has mothballed the giant site amid financial woes.
  
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• You can now check the #Slack App Directory on its website! ow.ly/N9Cj30dzKoE

  12-07-2017 18:47 via twitter.com
  You can now check the #Slack App Directory on its website! ow.ly/N9Cj30dzKoE
  
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• The great gadget ripoff: Why we can't fix our electronics

  12-07-2017 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users' right to repair – or to pay others to fix – their electronic devices is in jeopardy, as companies argue that their devices are protected by patent laws, and allowing repairs would harm these patents.
  
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• Swansea tidal lagoon review head Charles Hendry 'hopeful'

  12-07-2017 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is six months since an independent review backed a planned £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay.
  
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• Zendesk is expanding its team in Ireland. #Dublinjobs #jobfairy siliconrepublic.com/jobs/software-…

  12-07-2017 18:05 via twitter.com
  Zendesk is expanding its team in Ireland. #Dublinjobs #jobfairy siliconrepublic.com/jobs/software-…
  
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• Spider tricks predators into thinking it's an ANT 

  12-07-2017 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Cornell University in New York took high-speed videos of ant-jumper spiders in action, and found that they act like spiders to avoid being eaten by other spiders and insects.
  
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• 10 new companies have joined the @DigitalHub! ow.ly/rbm830dzybF

  12-07-2017 17:45 via twitter.com
  10 new companies have joined the @DigitalHub!ow.ly/rbm830dzybF
  
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• Staring at this optical illusion improves your vision

  12-07-2017 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologists at the Universities of York and Glasgow found that how people see is not only dictated by the shape and condition of the eyes but also perceptual processes in the brain.
  
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• Faraday Future mothballs Las Vegas plant

  12-07-2017 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was supposed to be a rival to Elon Musk's Tesla, and even had a giant factory almost next door - but Chinese firm Faraday Future has revealed it has mothballed the giant site amid financial woes.
  
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• The Larsen C ice shelf has cracked, creating a trillion tonne iceberg

  12-07-2017 17:31
  
  By: Alexandra Simon-LewisContinue reading...
  
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• Pornhub, Netflix, Amazon unite for net neutrality protest

  12-07-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 170 internet giants including Facebook, Google, OKCupid and Reddit will protest today against plans to remove rules protecting 'net neutrality'.
  
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• #MostRead Today: Symantec buys Skycure, but may sell $1bn certification business ow.ly/qyY330dzACu

  12-07-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Symantec buys Skycure, but may sell $1bn certification business ow.ly/qyY330dzACu
  
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• #MostRead Today: Software giant Zendesk announces massive 300-job expansion in Dublin ow.ly/33Jc30dzAy6

  12-07-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Software giant Zendesk announces massive 300-job expansion in Dublin ow.ly/33Jc30dzAy6
  
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• #MostRead Today: Fintech player Revolut raises $66m and plans Dublin office ow.ly/VN1C30dzAB2

  12-07-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Fintech player Revolut raises $66m and plans Dublin office ow.ly/VN1C30dzAB2
  
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• #MostRead Today: A photon has teleported 500km into space, making history in the process ow.ly/J8z830dzAvH

  12-07-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: A photon has teleported 500km into space, making history in the process ow.ly/J8z830dzAvH
  
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• #MostRead Today: 6 online data science courses to launch your career ow.ly/chMB30dzAzR

  12-07-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 6 online data science courses to launch your career ow.ly/chMB30dzAzR
  
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• Scientists stumble across antibiotic resistance solution

  12-07-2017 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Salford University researchers were looking into ways of inhibiting mitochondria, the 'powerhouse' of cells which fuel the growth of fatal tumours, when they made the discovery.
  
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• "We developed a process so we didn’t hinder innovation" - Catherine Cunniffe, @TSSG_WIT ow.ly/wlLh30dzpzG

  12-07-2017 17:11 via twitter.com
  "We developed a process so we didn’t hinder innovation" - Catherine Cunniffe, @TSSG_WITow.ly/wlLh30dzpzG
  
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• A 75,000-mile-wide HOLE has appeared on the sun

  12-07-2017 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory first detected the huge spot on the sun last week, and it appears to have lingered through to this week.
  
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• TSSG researcher: ‘We truly stand upon the shoulders of giants’ siliconrepublic.com/people/tssg-re…

  12-07-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  TSSG researcher: ‘We truly stand upon the shoulders of giants’ siliconrepublic.com/people/tssg-re…
  
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• Easter Island civilisation didn't trash environment

  12-07-2017 16:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Binghamton University, in New York state, used isotope analysis of samples to gain a better understanding of how the diet of the islanders may have changed over time.
  
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