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• NASA reveals gigantic killer cloud of icy cyanide on Titan

  18-10-2017 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cassini's latest discovery has revealed a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn's largest moon Giant cloud is at an altitude of about 100 to 130 miles.
  
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• Facebook says Russia may used Messenger to talk to voters

  18-10-2017 22:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some accounts identified as part of Facebook's investigation into Russia's campaign meddling in the 2016 presidential election- used the social network's Messenger feature.
  
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• New drug could be a 'functional cure' for HIV, study says

  18-10-2017 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Scripps Research Institute in Florida have developed a new therapy that they say may one day be a 'functional cure' for HIV, if it proves as effective in humans as it has in mice.
  
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• Uranus will be closest to Earth tomorrow and visible

  18-10-2017 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ice giant planet will reach opposition on Thursday, bringing it to the closest point in its orbit to Earth. NASA says it will be visible in the night sky, and may be bright enough to see with the naked eye.
  
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• When you die you know you're dead as the mind still works

  18-10-2017 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A person's consciousness continues to work after the body has died, a study from New York University Langone School of Medicine finds. The findings echo the new Hollywood film Flatliners.
  
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• Giant lizards thriving on Borneo's palm oil plantations 

  18-10-2017 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Deforestation in Borneo to make space for oil palm plantations has led to huge fires and left orangutans on the brink of extinction, but South-East Asian water monitor lizards have become more abundant.
  
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• Netflix bingers finishing whole new seasons on release day

  18-10-2017 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australians are in the top 10 leading 'binge racers' in the world as people find it harder and harder to stop watching their favourite new television shows.
  
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• Hackers 'able to remotely control electronic butt plugs'

  18-10-2017 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Security expert Giovanni Mellini said he was able to hack into the Lovense manufactured Hush butt plug using his laptop and change the vibrate setting.
  
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• Oonagh O’Shea susses out solutions to complex problems using #data and #analytics. #Accenture siliconrepublic.com/people/oonagh-…

  18-10-2017 21:25 via twitter.com
  Oonagh O’Shea susses out solutions to complex problems using #data and #analytics. #Accenture siliconrepublic.com/people/oonagh-…
  
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• The moon set to get inflatable space station in 2022

  18-10-2017 21:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bigelow Aerospace is working with United Launch Allianceto send an inflatable habitat to low lunar orbit by 2022 to provide a 'lunar depot' as well as a place for NASA to train astronauts.
  
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• #AmazonStudios producer Isa Hackett claimed that she was sexually harassed on the way to a studio afterparty siliconrepublic.com/companies/roy-…

  18-10-2017 21:05 via twitter.com
  #AmazonStudios producer Isa Hackett claimed that she was sexually harassed on the way to a studio afterparty siliconrepublic.com/companies/roy-…
  
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• 'Lost' mountains reveal clues on Earth's worst extinction

  18-10-2017 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Deposits in South Africa’s Karoo Basin have revealed the ‘Great Dying’ began one million years earlier than previously thought. The fossil-rich sediments tell of climatic changes.
  
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• #Facebook bids farewell to head of #Building8 siliconrepublic.com/companies/regi…

  18-10-2017 20:35 via twitter.com
  #Facebook bids farewell to head of #Building8 siliconrepublic.com/companies/regi…
  
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• Google's AlphaGo can now teach itself how to win at Go

  18-10-2017 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Google's London-based DeepMind have unveiled the new AlphaGo Zero system in a study published in Nature today.
  
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• Alcohol helps to improve foreign language skills

  18-10-2017 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Liverpool, Maastricht University and King's College London found that a low dose of alcohol can improve bilingual speakers' ability to speak a second language.
  
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• #Google quietly debuts its first custom-designed co-processor for consumer products siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…

  18-10-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  #Google quietly debuts its first custom-designed co-processor for consumer products siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…
  
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• Australian jumping spiders mate ONCE in their lifetime

  18-10-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Macquarie University in Syndey say the strategy protects sperm stored in special organs by females after their first mating, which the spiders incubate for the rest of their whole.
  
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• #Mate10 is not a smartphone, it’s an intelligent machine, says @Huawei ow.ly/Tht930fY00H

  18-10-2017 19:55 via twitter.com
  #Mate10 is not a smartphone, it’s an intelligent machine, says @Huaweiow.ly/Tht930fY00H
  
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• Moment 'ghost car' appears to cause car crash in Singapore

  18-10-2017 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage of the strange smash has had Singaporeans scratching their heads as they try to work out why the vehicle cannot be seen until just before the collision.
  
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• Could a treatment for #dyslexia be on the cards? siliconrepublic.com/innovation/dys…

  18-10-2017 19:40 via twitter.com
  Could a treatment for #dyslexia be on the cards? siliconrepublic.com/innovation/dys…
  
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• Apple and GE team up on software to track power plants

  18-10-2017 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple and General Electric say they are working together to make it easier to write software that can track power plants and jet engines on Apple's iPhones and iPads.
  
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• Governing body IPCO was apparently ‘kept in the dark’ over data-sharing practices. #dataprivacy #surveillance siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/uk-…

  18-10-2017 19:20 via twitter.com
  Governing body IPCO was apparently ‘kept in the dark’ over data-sharing practices. #dataprivacy #surveillance siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/uk-…
  
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• UK team cure lame horses with gene therapy

  18-10-2017 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team led by experts at the University of Nottingham gave injured horses DNA injections and within two to three weeks the animals were able to walk and trot.
  
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• First sex doll-only brothel opens in Germany

  18-10-2017 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Evelyn Schwarz, 29, runs the aptly named 'Bordoll' in Dortmund - a fusion of the words 'bordello' and 'doll'. Schwarz has stocked her establishment with 11 silicone love dolls, each costing £1,786.
  
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• Giant robots clash in US-Japan battle

  18-10-2017 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The human-piloted machines fired weapons at one another.
  
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• Flowers produce a 'blue halo' that helps bees find them

  18-10-2017 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An 'aura' invisible to the human eye surrounds some flower petals and acts as a signal for bees, scientists from the University of Cambridge have found.
  
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• Latest funding round gives Magic Leap a post-money valuation of $5bn. #mixedreality #startups siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/magi…

  18-10-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  Latest funding round gives Magic Leap a post-money valuation of $5bn. #mixedreality #startups siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/magi…
  
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• California makes it legal to liquify loved one's bodies

  18-10-2017 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California Gov Jerry Brown signed the controversial AB 967 bill on Sunday, making it legal to dispose of human remains through the environmentally friendly process of alkaline hydrolysis.
  
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• There are some alarming #security flaws in children's smartwatches. ow.ly/zmfa30fXREH

  18-10-2017 18:50 via twitter.com
  There are some alarming #security flaws in children's smartwatches. ow.ly/zmfa30fXREH
  
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• YouTube star Casey Neistat criticises video site's leaders

  18-10-2017 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Award-winning vlogger Casey Neistat claims video creators could leave the service en masse.
  
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• How to position yourself as an employer who has their finger very much on the pulse of digital #socialmedia siliconrepublic.com/advice/leaders…

  18-10-2017 18:35 via twitter.com
  How to position yourself as an employer who has their finger very much on the pulse of digital #socialmedia siliconrepublic.com/advice/leaders…
  
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• Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old Egypt queen statue

  18-10-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Egypt says archaeologists have discovered the head of a wooden statue, likely belonging to a female regent who ruled the country more than 4,000 years ago.
  
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• Google's machine learning AI learns to replicate itself

  18-10-2017 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based Google's AutoML AI has outdone human engineers by building machine-learning software that's more efficient and powerful than the top human-designed systems.
  
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• We are firmly in the era of the AI-powered handset. #Huawei #Mate10 ow.ly/pOfc30fXRB5

  18-10-2017 18:20 via twitter.com
  We are firmly in the era of the AI-powered handset. #Huawei #Mate10 ow.ly/pOfc30fXRB5
  
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• Baidu to hit the road with self-driving bus

  18-10-2017 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Baidu chief executive Robin Li on Tuesday said the Chinese internet giant will have a self-driving bus on the road soon as it races for a lead in autonomous vehicles.
  
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• #Athenry objectors have lodged an appeal against the decision to allow #Apple proceed with its #datacentre plans siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ath…

  18-10-2017 18:05 via twitter.com
  #Athenry objectors have lodged an appeal against the decision to allow #Apple proceed with its #datacentre plans siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ath…
  
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• Nielsen says it will report who's watching streamed shows

  18-10-2017 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Nielsen company, which measures viewership of television programs, now has a way to collect and widely spread details about how many people watch programming by streaming services such as Netflix.
  
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• Youngsters with mobile devices more at risk of bullying

  18-10-2017 17:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts surveyed 4,584 children aged between eight and eleven over a two-year period (stock image).
  
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• Extraordinary image of a frog eating a snake

  18-10-2017 17:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An image of an Australian Green Tree Frog eating what appears to be an Eastern Brown Snake has gone viral, after a Reddit user posted it with the caption 'One Last Scream Into the Abysssss'.
  
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• Check out who's moving up the ranks in IDA Ireland and @RCPI_news#science #tech ow.ly/mjT030fXBCy

  18-10-2017 17:45 via twitter.com
  Check out who's moving up the ranks in IDA Ireland and @RCPI_news#science #techow.ly/mjT030fXBCy
  
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• Intelligent people have a higher risk of mental illness

  18-10-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Pitzer College screened 3,715 highly-intelligent people for mental illness. They found they had double the rate of mental illness and a higher risk of asthma and allergies than others.
  
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• #MostRead Today: Ireland’s start-up community is fragmented and lacks cohesion ow.ly/f28V30fXRsQ

  18-10-2017 17:33 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Ireland’s start-up community is fragmented and lacks cohesion ow.ly/f28V30fXRsQ
  
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• #MostRead Today: Globoforce and IBM survey reveals best place in the world to work ow.ly/9ANq30fXRvc

  18-10-2017 17:33 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Globoforce and IBM survey reveals best place in the world to work ow.ly/9ANq30fXRvc
  
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• #MostRead Today: Security researchers uncover KRACK, a major Wi-Fi security flaw ow.ly/QvKn30fXRrA

  18-10-2017 17:32 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Security researchers uncover KRACK, a major Wi-Fi security flaw ow.ly/QvKn30fXRrA
  
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• A 'New Shanghai' could be built on Mars by 2117

  18-10-2017 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Italian architect has released a dramatic concept which sees humans setting up a colony on the red planet in 2117. The artistic design is being presented at an exhibition in China.
  
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• Facebook buys anonymous teen compliment app tbh

  18-10-2017 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The California-based developers of tbh - internet-slang short for 'to be honest' - say more than 5 million people have downloaded its app since it launched on August 3. It is available in most US states.
  
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• North Korea's nuclear test site could cave in

  18-10-2017 16:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Five of Pyongyang's recenttests have been carried out under Mount Mantap at the Punggye-ri military base, which is located in the north west of North Korea.
  
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• Facebook tests out temporary profile status feature

  18-10-2017 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A global update to Facebook could be on the way after an anonymous tipster leaked images of the temporary profile status project, showing the new function's 101 character limit.
  
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• Oonagh O’Shea, senior manager at @AccentureDigi, tells us what an average work day is like for her siliconrepublic.com/people/oonagh-…

  18-10-2017 16:30 via twitter.com
  Oonagh O’Shea, senior manager at @AccentureDigi, tells us what an average work day is like for her siliconrepublic.com/people/oonagh-…
  
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• Many companies are performing poorly when it comes to #Greenpeace environmental standards ow.ly/pLtk30fXzpA

  18-10-2017 16:20 via twitter.com
  Many companies are performing poorly when it comes to #Greenpeace environmental standards ow.ly/pLtk30fXzpA
  
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