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• Experts say AIs are set to take over customer support

  30-08-2017 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers say a new generation of AI is able to answer queries in a conversational style - most of the time.
  
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• 'Dream Chaser' mini spaceplane hoisted over Mojave Desert

  30-08-2017 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thetest version of a spacecraft resembling a mini space shuttle was carried aloft over the Mojave Desert by a helicopter Wednesday in a precursor to a free flight.
  
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• New Uber CEO warns troubled firm 'has to change'

  30-08-2017 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'This company has to change,' Khosrowshahi said to Uber's employees during an all-hands meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday, saying a planned IPO will not happen before 2019.
  
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• Study finds one of Europa's plumes may not exist

  30-08-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, researchers from the California Institute of Technology investigated a region previously linked to two possible plume detections.
  
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• The nanodevice that can lift 165 times its own weight 

  30-08-2017 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The device, made by researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, can lift 165 times its own weight 100 times in a row. It could be used to make aircraft wings that adapt to changing conditions.
  
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• New species of crab with star-shaped warts found in Taiwan

  30-08-2017 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers based at the National University of Singapore found two rare species of crab at a small seamount at Peng-Chia-Yu Island, Taiwan. One of the species is colored bright orange to pink.
  
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• Google's voice assistant coming to speakers and appliances

  30-08-2017 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Google voice assistant AI will now be found on a new set of third-party speakers and appliances, the company announced today at IFA the consumer electronics show in Germany.
  
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• Amazon's Alexa to chat up Microsoft's Cortana

  30-08-2017 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon and Microsoft have forged a partnership that will allow their voice-controlled virtual assistants to talk to each for the first time.
  
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• #NASA satellites have captured the shocking extent of Hurricane #Harvey ow.ly/yQb230eMRLB

  30-08-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  #NASA satellites have captured the shocking extent of Hurricane #Harvey ow.ly/yQb230eMRLB
  
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• 'Spiders' formations on Mars more common than thought

  30-08-2017 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Named for their arachnid-like appearance, theyare a type of land erosion, and are far more common on Mars than previously thought.
  
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• #Fintech meets fast food: #BurgerKing gets in on the #cryptocurrency game siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/bur…

  30-08-2017 21:15 via twitter.com
  #Fintech meets fast food: #BurgerKing gets in on the #cryptocurrency game siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/bur…
  
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• Marijuana affects the way a person walks reveals new study

  30-08-2017 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from the University of South Australia has found that a person's knees, elbows and shoulders work differently when they walk if they use marijuana.
  
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• Images show the highest volcano in Eurasia seen from ISS

  30-08-2017 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ISS cosmonaut Dr Sergey Ryazansky, 42, has captured photos of the volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka located on the north-eastern Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
  
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• Seasoned #lifesciences investor takes helm of #venturecapital industry group siliconrepublic.com/companies/pete…

  30-08-2017 20:50 via twitter.com
  Seasoned #lifesciences investor takes helm of #venturecapital industry group siliconrepublic.com/companies/pete…
  
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• First cancer 'living drug' gets go-ahead

  30-08-2017 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  US authorities approve a treatment which re-designs a patient's own immune system to attack cancer.
  
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• Light spotted by Koreans 600 years ago was star exploding

  30-08-2017 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The event, seen as the appearance of a new star in the tail of the constellation Scorpius, was recorded by the Korean royal imperial astronomers on March 11 1437.
  
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• Singles prefer Snapchat over Instagram for flirting

  30-08-2017 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The app that thrives on disappearing messages is better for flirting and therefor the go-to for singles, especially younger ones - It was discovered that 55 percent of singles prefer Snapchat
  
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• The #PSNI is examining material posted on social media accounts by people who may be serving police officers siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/psn…

  30-08-2017 20:35 via twitter.com
  The #PSNI is examining material posted on social media accounts by people who may be serving police officers siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/psn…
  
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• Female Witchsy founders use fictional male to beat sexism

  30-08-2017 20:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The women behind online art seller Witchsy say developers responded better to emails from "Keith".
  
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• Samsung takes on Fitbit and Apple with Gear Sport watch

  30-08-2017 20:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung unveiled the new devices - the Gear Sport, Gear Fit2 Pro, and Gear IconX earbuds - today at the IFA conference in Berlin.
  
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• Attention #startups! @Entirl has revealed its latest €750,000 Competitive Start Fund ow.ly/c7ZI30eMMn3

  30-08-2017 20:20 via twitter.com
  Attention #startups! @Entirl has revealed its latest €750,000 Competitive Start Fund ow.ly/c7ZI30eMMn3
  
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• Cyber-flaw affects 745,000 pacemakers

  30-08-2017 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The manufacturer says that patients should discuss a code fix when they next see their doctors.
  
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• The Long Arm Of Google: Trilateral Commission Censors Ousts Scholar From Think Tank

  30-08-2017 20:17 via technocracy.news
  Two prominent Trilateral Commission members, Eric Schmidt of Google and Anne-Marie Slaughter of New America Foundation, colluded to fire Barry Lynn who had been critical of Google while employed by Slaughter’s leftist organization. The Trilateral Commission was the lead organization who originally sponsored Technocracy beginning in 1973. (Read the full documentation in my book, Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation.) When Barry Lynn praised the EU’s huge fine
  
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• Images show highest active volcano Eurasia seen from ISS

  30-08-2017 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ISS cosmonaut Dr Sergey Ryazansky, 42, has captured photos of the volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka located on the north-eastern Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
  
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• Russia's new fighter jet will be capable of space travel

  30-08-2017 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  During an interview aired on Zvezda TV Ilya Tarasenko, CEO of Moscow aersopace firm MiG, claimed the new interceptor will have a host of new armaments and capabilities (stock)
  
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• Breakthrough project has detected 15 fast radio bursts

  30-08-2017 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the experts with Breakthrough Listen, the discovery confirms the mysterious source is in a newly active state, and marks the first time FRBs have been detected at higher frequencies.
  
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• Famed T. rex 'Sue' getting a makeover at Chicago Museum

  30-08-2017 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Museum will take down and remount the 40-1/2-foot-long (12.3-meter) Tyrannosaurus, perhaps the world's most famous dinosaur fossil, in a way that embodies the latest understanding
  
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• Say hello to the new CEO of #Uber siliconrepublic.com/companies/dara…

  30-08-2017 20:05 via twitter.com
  Say hello to the new CEO of #Uber siliconrepublic.com/companies/dara…
  
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• Private companies drive 'new space race' at NASA center

  30-08-2017 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, NASA says it may soon have the capability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
  
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• Black holes may have helped light up the universe

  30-08-2017 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the new study, researchers from the University of Iowa observed unusual activity in a nearby galaxy that could help to explain the processes that helped to illuminate the universe.
  
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• #Google must cease its price-comparison service completely by 28 September siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…

  30-08-2017 19:40 via twitter.com
  #Google must cease its price-comparison service completely by 28 September siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…
  
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• Study finds separated parents should split custody equally

  30-08-2017 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Stockholm University found youngsters living with one parent after a split had a higher chance of experiencing stress several times a week (stock image).
  
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• Motorised spinning 'nanomachines' could kill cancer cells

  30-08-2017 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rice University in Houston said the molecules can be activated by ultraviolet light to spin up to three million times a second and drill through cell membranes.
  
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• The new design articulates the evolution of #YouTube over the past 12 years siliconrepublic.com/play/youtube-r…

  30-08-2017 19:20 via twitter.com
  The new design articulates the evolution of #YouTube over the past 12 years siliconrepublic.com/play/youtube-r…
  
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• The recent discovery of the spamming operation appears to be the largest of its kind on record. ow.ly/kDDA30eN1bW

  30-08-2017 19:10 via twitter.com
  The recent discovery of the spamming operation appears to be the largest of its kind on record. ow.ly/kDDA30eN1bW
  
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• Brazil court blocks Amazon mining decree

  30-08-2017 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The order prevents the government from exploiting a protected area bigger than Denmark.
  
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• AI networks could help in the search for alien life

  30-08-2017 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Stanford University in California have shown that neural networks - a form of AI modelled after the human brain - can accurately analyse gravitational lenses at rapid speeds.
  
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• 2016 was the busiest year on record for the RTB. #rentcrisis siliconrepublic.com/life/dublin-av…

  30-08-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  2016 was the busiest year on record for the RTB. #rentcrisis siliconrepublic.com/life/dublin-av…
  
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• Volcanic eruptions drove ancient global warming event

  30-08-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of researchers including the University of California, studied the shells of tiny marine creatures called foraminifera to establish the source of carbon in the ancient atmosphere.
  
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• Up to 2 million Cex customers are at risk after huge hack

  30-08-2017 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cex, which has more than 300 stores across the UK where people can trade in old games and gadgets, said it is working with police following the hack.
  
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• Triceratops skull and skeleton dug up in Colorado

  30-08-2017 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A dinosaur fossil has been discovered in Thornton, Colorado by construction workers.The bones and skull of the Triceratops were found last Friday. It's likely been laying there for at least 66 million years.
  
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• US conducts missile defense test off Hawaii coast

  30-08-2017 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Navy successfully conducted a missile defense test off the coast of Hawaii, MDA said in a statement on Wednesday.
  
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• The Humiliation And Crushing Despair Of Living In China’s Technocracy

  30-08-2017 17:34 via technocracy.news
  The Technocrat mind devised China’s one-child policy in 1980 with zero consideration of the obvious human consequences that would result from it in subsequent decades. It was an inhuman demand to deny procreation, and now many of the older generation are in total human despair. Do the Technocrats care any more about them today? Apparently not. Technocracy is the ‘science of social engineering’ where the ‘science is settled’ and ‘deniers must be punished.&rsquo
  
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• Apple's iPhone 8 will use gesture controls instead of home

  30-08-2017 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users of Cupertino-based Apple's iPhone 8 will simply swipe their hands above the phone for tasks such as going to the main app grid and opening multitasking.
  
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• Spanish archaeologists dig up more civil war dead

  30-08-2017 17:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Four mass graves have now been excavated near the central Spanish city of Valladolid containing 228 bodies since work began in April 2016, some still wearing rotting leather boots.
  
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• How the animals are just as clever as chimpanzees

  30-08-2017 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Now otters have shown they are not just cute, but clever, after displaying a surprising talent at opening Tupperware.
  
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• Apple and Google show off rival augmented-reality tech

  30-08-2017 17:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The two tech firms show off rival mixed-reality technologies ahead of their imminent release.
  
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• Micro-house for homeless costing £40,000 is unveiled

  30-08-2017 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 186 sq ft iKozie drew inspiration from yacht interiors and first class airline cabins and was installed in Worcester in what is believed to be the first project of its kind in the world.
  
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• American War Zone: Military Drones To Replace Police Helicopters By 2025

  30-08-2017 16:45 via technocracy.news
  The green light is on for military drone makers to transform America’s police force into a military complex similar to Afghanistan. Comprehensive geospatial intelligence will become ubiquitous, tracking every moving object on the ground. They will be equipped with super-high resolution cameras and AI-based facial recognition systems that will be able to identify a mole on your left cheek. License plate readers? Child’s play. This is no longer an argument over privacy, it is now an ar
  
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• Saturn's rings are just 100 million years old

  30-08-2017 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cassini's plunges have allowed the spacecraft to get information about the weight of Saturn's rings. This suggest they are around 100 million years old.
  
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