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• Childbirth is not prolonged by an epidural

  10-10-2017 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Those who had the injection during the second stage of labour were told the delay could raise the risk of excessive bleeding and infection, or their baby being delivered with forceps.
  
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• Mass extinctions shape the distribution of future species

  10-10-2017 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  North Carolina State University researchers found that two of Earth's five mass extinctions resulted in the survival of 'weedy species', which spread their sameness across the world.
  
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• Dogs adapted to malaria to survive as our companions

  10-10-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study by Yunnan University in China has shown that dogs taken to hot countries like Nigeria thousands of years ago adapted the same protective gene as our ancestors.
  
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• Mindfulness affects on physical and mental health

  10-10-2017 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, studied if mindfulness and meditation helped physical and mental health. They found no evidence that the practices were beneficial.
  
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• NASA image reveals possible area where Mars sand is formed

  10-10-2017 21:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a potential sand-producing region that could be feeding the red planet’s stunning expanse of dunes.
  
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• Soot-covered, 100-year-old birds reveal black carbon level

  10-10-2017 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Horned larks are small songbirds with white bellies and yellow chins. But one hundred years ago, at the peak of urban smoke pollution in the US, their pale feathers were stained gray by atmospheric soot.
  
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• Will our working hours as we know it change with the #futureofwork? @WorkJuggle CEO Ciara Garvan thinks so. ow.ly/pJfa30fMl0e

  10-10-2017 21:20 via twitter.com
  Will our working hours as we know it change with the #futureofwork? @WorkJuggle CEO Ciara Garvan thinks so. ow.ly/pJfa30fMl0e
  
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• How does #Ireland fare? #data #EU siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ire…

  10-10-2017 21:01 via twitter.com
  How does #Ireland fare? #data #EU siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ire…
  
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• Equifax data hack affected 694,000 UK customers

  10-10-2017 20:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The credit reference agency says a data hack exposed some customers to "possible criminal activity".
  
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• #YouTube is taking steps to update its content policy siliconrepublic.com/companies/yout…

  10-10-2017 20:31 via twitter.com
  #YouTube is taking steps to update its content policy siliconrepublic.com/companies/yout…
  
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• Amazon looking into ways to deliver packages to your car

  10-10-2017 20:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is looking into creative new ways to securely deliver packages to your home, in efforts to thwart ‘porch pirates,’ a new report says. This includes ways to access your car and home.
  
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• #Eir has been issued a €10,500 fine after it admitted to overcharging customers siliconrepublic.com/comms/eir-fine…

  10-10-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  #Eir has been issued a €10,500 fine after it admitted to overcharging customers siliconrepublic.com/comms/eir-fine…
  
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• Here's what you need to know as an employee from #Budget18 ow.ly/AJPn30fMlfJ

  10-10-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Here's what you need to know as an employee from #Budget18 ow.ly/AJPn30fMlfJ
  
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• Will the next big thing in mobile be killing germs on handsets? #smartphones siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/supe…

  10-10-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  Will the next big thing in mobile be killing germs on handsets? #smartphones siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/supe…
  
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• Why British scientists are watching Iceland's volcanoes

  10-10-2017 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  A team of British scientists fly around Iceland's volcanoes to find out how to avoid future air traffic disruption.
  
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• Follow these experts for all your #futureofwork insights: @HRNEurope @monicacparker @MeghanMBiro siliconrepublic.com/people/future-…

  10-10-2017 19:25 via twitter.com
  Follow these experts for all your #futureofwork insights: @HRNEurope @monicacparker @MeghanMBirosiliconrepublic.com/people/future-…
  
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• What do you know about Ada Lovelace? Here are 14 facts to familiarise yourself for #AdaLovelaceDay siliconrepublic.com/innovation/14-…

  10-10-2017 19:20 via twitter.com
  What do you know about Ada Lovelace? Here are 14 facts to familiarise yourself for #AdaLovelaceDay siliconrepublic.com/innovation/14-…
  
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• Half of the universe's 'missing matter' has been found

  10-10-2017 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a world first, French astronomers and experts at the University of Edinburgh identified the normal matter in the universe that past studies of galaxies and stars have been unable to find.
  
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• ParentPay website unavailable for school meal payments

  10-10-2017 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Some parents say their children have been unable to buy school meals due to the glitch.
  
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• NASA astronauts go spacewalking to grease robotic arm

  10-10-2017 18:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei took another spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, this time to grease the robot arm's new hand.
  
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• 'Smart drug' keeps your brain sharp at high altitudes

  10-10-2017 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from Third Military Medical University in China found that a drug called oxiracetam could prevent altitude sickness, which Kylie Jenner (pictured) suffered from on a trip to Peru in May.
  
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• How the coffee industry will be affected by climate change

  10-10-2017 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By 2100, more than 50% of the land used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Ethiopia, the sixth largest producer of coffee, could lose 60% of its production by 2050.
  
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• Robotic police hit the streets of Beijing

  10-10-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The robot police have been spotted by tourists this week outside the National Museum next to Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
  
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• NVIDIA unveils platform for fully autonomous cars

  10-10-2017 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Silicon Valley graphics chipmaker NVIDIA unveiled on Tuesday the first computer chips for developing fully autonomous vehicles and said it had more than 25 customers.
  
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• Snapchat context cards let you access services like Uber

  10-10-2017 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LA-based social media firm Snap has launched a new feature that will see select Snaps show a 'more' button that links users to information related to locations pictured.
  
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• Clownfish population reducing due to climate change

  10-10-2017 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study off the coast of Moorea Island in French Polynesia found that clownfish laid far fewer eggs after their host anemones became bleached last year.
  
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• Scientists develop an implant that can grow with a child

  10-10-2017 17:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a growable implant for use in a cardiac procedure called a valve annuloplasty.
  
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• Don’t Bother Honking: The Robot Driver Can’t Hear You

  10-10-2017 17:10 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats envision a scientifically engineered society with only self-driving, electric vehicles on the road, but the Utopia could quickly turn into Dystopia. Robots don’t behave like humans, and vice versa. ⁃ TN EditorAs auto accidents go, it wasn’t much: twelve minutes before noon on a cool June day, a Chevrolet Bolt was rear ended as it crawled from a stop light in downtown San Francisco.
  What made this fender bender noteworthy was the Bolt’s driver: a
  
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• Pest resistance to GM Frankencrops increases five-fold

  10-10-2017 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research led by the University of Arizona found it took just five years for the bugs, such as the corn earworm (pictured) to be able to shrug off the poisons produced by the GM crops .
  
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• Clothed in green

  10-10-2017 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  We continue to buy new clothes at an incredible rate. How can manufacturers reduce fashion's environmental footprint?
  
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• Can we make fashion greener?

  10-10-2017 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  We continue to buy new clothes at an incredible rate. How can manufacturers reduce fashion's environmental footprint?
  
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• Mass extinctions are great news for rats, bad news for diversity

  10-10-2017 17:00
  
  By Matthew ReynoldsContinue reading...
  
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• Human intestines have been grown in the lab

  10-10-2017 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Human intestines have been grown in a lab and successfully transplanted into rats in Boston, Massachusetts. The discovery could help to solve the organ donor crisis for intestines.
  
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• PornHub users targeted with advertising malware attack

  10-10-2017 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Security researchers from Sunnyvale-based Proofpoint discovered an advertising malware installed by a Trojan horse virus hidden in official looking updates for Chrome and Firefox.
  
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• Ireland finally recognises employee share options issue in Budget 2018 siliconrepublic.com/companies/shar…

  10-10-2017 16:53 via twitter.com
  Ireland finally recognises employee share options issue in Budget 2018 siliconrepublic.com/companies/shar…
  
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• The End Of The Road For American Truckers Is Coming Into View

  10-10-2017 16:51 via technocracy.news
  One-third of America’s $700 billion trucking industry goes to compensate drivers, providing a rich target for Technocrats. UPS, for instance, has increasingly moved from being a trucking company that uses technology, to being a technology company that has some trucks. About 3.5 million people are employed in the U.S. trucking industry. ⁃ TN EditorAmerica’s 2 million truckers have long been mythologised in popular culture. But self-driving trucks are set to lay waste to one
  
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• These are the three key vulnerabilities that must be addressed ahead of #GDPR ow.ly/8aRr30fHj5h

  10-10-2017 16:45 via twitter.com
  These are the three key vulnerabilities that must be addressed ahead of #GDPR ow.ly/8aRr30fHj5h
  
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• Volcanic island La Palma experience 40 tremors in 48 hours

  10-10-2017 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 40 tremours were recorded in just 48 hours, all between 1.5 and 2.7 on the Richter scale, by seismologists on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands.
  
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• The Australian: Renewable Energy Is Bigger ‘Scam’ Than Bernie Madoff And Enron

  10-10-2017 16:37 via technocracy.news
  Without the massive government subsidies received by wind and solar companies around the world, they would utterly collapse within months. Contrary to the marketing pitch, alternative energy has actually increased the cost of energy to consumers. This lopsided equation is thanks to Technocracy, which is obsessed with energy and control over its production and consumption. ⁃ TN EditorThe greatest scam being perpetrated against taxpayers and consumers is renewable energy, according to a
  
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• EE apologises for voice call fault

  10-10-2017 16:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Customers around the UK reported problems making and receiving phone calls.
  
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• How effectively are EU countries harnessing the power of #data? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ire…

  10-10-2017 16:15 via twitter.com
  How effectively are EU countries harnessing the power of #data? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ire…
  
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• Which is the best country to work in the world? siliconrepublic.com/careers/survey…

  10-10-2017 16:09 via twitter.com
  Which is the best country to work in the world? siliconrepublic.com/careers/survey…
  
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• #ICYMI: There are 30 new #jobs on the horizon! ow.ly/vmgU30fKioX

  10-10-2017 16:05 via twitter.com
  #ICYMI: There are 30 new #jobs on the horizon! ow.ly/vmgU30fKioX
  
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• Asteroid will come 'damn close' to Earth on 12 October

  10-10-2017 15:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space rock, dubbed asteroid 2012 TC4, is about 30-100 feet (10-30 metres) in size, and will fly by at just one-eighth of the distance between Earth and the moon on October 12.
  
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• Sources say Deloitte cyberattack may have impacted US government siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/del…

  10-10-2017 15:50 via twitter.com
  Sources say Deloitte cyberattack may have impacted US government siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/del…
  
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• Zuckerberg's social VR is a future nobody really wants or needs

  10-10-2017 15:47
  
  By Matt BurgessContinue reading...
  
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• Fingerprint test can detect gender and what you've eaten

  10-10-2017 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University have developed the technology, which can be used to identify your gender, any drugs you've taken and even what you've eaten.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg uses Spaces VR app to tour Puerto Rico

  10-10-2017 15:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Social media users have criticised footage of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg live streamed from virtual reality against the backdrop of floods in disaster stricken Puerto Rico.
  
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• Parents of teenage daughters are most likely to divorce

  10-10-2017 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Jan Kabatek and Dr David Ribar, Research Fellows at the University of Melbourne, explain why divorce risk increases with children's ages (stock image).
  
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• In wake of #LasVegas shooting, #YouTube has banned videos that demonstrate how to use a ‘bump stock’ device siliconrepublic.com/companies/yout…

  10-10-2017 15:35 via twitter.com
  In wake of #LasVegas shooting, #YouTube has banned videos that demonstrate how to use a ‘bump stock’ device siliconrepublic.com/companies/yout…
  
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