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• Mystery as four ancient child graves found in Egypt

  15-12-2017 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the ancient, intact graves of four children, all thought to be under the age of 10. The child burials were found during excavations at Gebel el-Silsila.
  
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• Tesla gives cancer sufferer Model 3 early

  15-12-2017 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The man, from Grass Valley, California had been posting in an online forum speculating about the delivery dates for the vehicle before Tesla stepped in to deliver it within days.
  
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• Facebook defends itself against critics of social media

  15-12-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook said that social media can be good for people's well-being if they use the technology in a way that is active, such as messaging with friends, rather than using it passively.
  
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• Global warming in Alaska tricked computer to DELETE data

  15-12-2017 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A weather station in Utqiaġvik, northern Alaska has experienced such extreme global warming that it tricked a computer algorithm into deleting all data for over a year.
  
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• Facebook confesses: Facebook is bad for you

  15-12-2017 20:49 via go.theregister.com
  Grazing FB is ruining your life, admits social network after probing its army of addicts Facebook has just publicaly slapped itself upside the head, admitting that its very existence is often detrimental to the wellbeing of its users.…
  
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• One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the adoption of #quantumcomputing on a grand scale may have just been overco… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-12-2017 20:20 via twitter.com
  One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the adoption of #quantumcomputing on a grand scale may have just been overco… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Stop sleeping on your cell phone, California warns

  15-12-2017 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New guidance from the California health department warns that keeping a cell phone constantly close to your body could expose you to cancer and infertility-causing radiation.
  
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• Missed out on some of the top stories this week? Let us catch you up. #NetNeutrality #womeninSTEM #NASA siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cha…

  15-12-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  Missed out on some of the top stories this week? Let us catch you up. #NetNeutrality #womeninSTEM #NASA siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cha…
  
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• Innovation shouldn’t be a milestone, it should be embraced as a process as companies grow, says @PressReader CIO… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-12-2017 19:10 via twitter.com
  Innovation shouldn’t be a milestone, it should be embraced as a process as companies grow, says @PressReader CIO… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Facebook introduces snooze button to mute friends

  15-12-2017 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook says the new feature is designed to allow people to turn off updates from friends for 30 days at a time - and says it is in response from user complaints.
  
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• Your memory is best when thinking about your children

  15-12-2017 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Binghampton University in New York has found that human memory is better when we are thinking about raising our children, new research suggests (stock)
  
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• While at #Slush17 our editor @MrJohnFKennedy got a glimpse at the #education system in #Finland. siliconrepublic.com/careers/finlan…

  15-12-2017 18:30 via twitter.com
  While at #Slush17 our editor @MrJohnFKennedy got a glimpse at the #education system in #Finland. siliconrepublic.com/careers/finlan…
  
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• Facebook launches new snooze feature

  15-12-2017 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Facebook introduces a new snooze feature on the site to allow users to temporarily unfollow a person.
  
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• 'Alien mothership' spotted blasting lasers at ISS

  15-12-2017 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage, shot 200 miles above the Earth, was posted to YouTube by UFO hunter Streetcap1 and has been described variously as a a weapon, teleportation, or data transfer device.
  
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• Alphabet's X sells new wireless internet tech to Indian...

  15-12-2017 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  India's Andhra Pradesh state government is to use the newly developed technology that has the potential to provide high-speed wireless internet to millions of people without laying cable.
  
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• SpaceX launches a recycled rocket and spacecraft

  15-12-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After a series of delays, the firm’s CRS-13 mission to the ISS finally blasted off from the Cape Canaveral launchpad in Florida just before 11 a.m., using a recycled rocket and capsule.
  
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• Plumbers and nurses will be last to lose jobs to robots

  15-12-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  U.S. artificial intelligence expert Martin Ford, has warned that all human jobs will be replaced by robots in the future, but that plumbers, electricians and nurses will stay in employment the longest.
  
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• AOL finally kills off 20 year old AIM instant messenger

  15-12-2017 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AOL said the once hugely popular service 'tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift', but admitted 'the way in which we communicate has profoundly changed.'
  
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• AI in schools, open banking: Podcast 348

  15-12-2017 18:10
  
  Coming up today: AI is being used to rate UK schools, are you ready for the banking revolution, and everything you need to know about the internet.
  
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• Pest control: Eggheads work to help RoboBees dodge that fly-swatter

  15-12-2017 17:58 via go.theregister.com
  Whoosh... gust of wind - sorry chaps, I'm out Engineers and programmers working on a robot bee project could soon have the faux insects behaving more like real bees, according to engineers and roboticists at Cornell and Harvard.…
  
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• Scientist claims alcohol will disappear in a GENERATION

  15-12-2017 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor David Nutt of Imperial College says alcosynth will be the new booze within 10 or 20 years, it's said. The man-made alternative has the same effects but doesn't damage your health.
  
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• How Google and Amazon are 'spying' on you

  15-12-2017 17:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings were published in a report created by Santa Monica, California based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which warns of an Orwellian future.
  
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• This week's #IoT news includes the latest in #autonomouscars and smart audio. siliconrepublic.com/machines/auton…

  15-12-2017 17:50 via twitter.com
  This week's #IoT news includes the latest in #autonomouscars and smart audio. siliconrepublic.com/machines/auton…
  
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• #MostRead Today:‘People think marine biology is like an episode of Blue Planet – it’s not’ ow.ly/AFcQ30hfDL9

  15-12-2017 17:48 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today:‘People think marine biology is like an episode of Blue Planet – it’s not’ ow.ly/AFcQ30hfDL9
  
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• #MostRead Today: What we know about NASA’s mysterious alien planet announcement ow.ly/R0NV30hfDNT

  15-12-2017 17:48 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: What we know about NASA’s mysterious alien planet announcement ow.ly/R0NV30hfDNT
  
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• #MostRead Today: Accenture to acquire Irish agency Rothco ow.ly/816M30hfDPb

  15-12-2017 17:48 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Accenture to acquire Irish agency Rothco ow.ly/816M30hfDPb
  
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• #MostRead Today: Don’t be fooled – net neutrality could be killed in Europe, too ow.ly/gCSG30hfDFP

  15-12-2017 17:47 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Don’t be fooled – net neutrality could be killed in Europe, too ow.ly/gCSG30hfDFP
  
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• #MostRead Today: 14 amazing start-ups from Madrid to watch in 2018 ow.ly/SrA430hfDzA

  15-12-2017 17:46 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 14 amazing start-ups from Madrid to watch in 2018 ow.ly/SrA430hfDzA
  
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• What the FCC rollback of 'net neutrality' means to you

  15-12-2017 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Under the new rules companies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T would be free to slow down or block access to services they don't like ans charge higher fees to rivals.
  
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• China’s CCTV Surveillance Network Took Just 7 Minutes To ‘Capture’ BBC Reporter

  15-12-2017 17:36 via technocracy.news
  Seeing China’s Technocracy is believing: you must view the video below!
  A challenge experiment was just conducted in Guiyang, China to see how long it would take to locate and capture a BBC reporter who was mixed in at random with the general population of 3.5 million people. After the police snapped his picture and fed it into the massive facial recognition database, which contains the facial image of every Guiyang resident, the reporter took off. They gave him a head start as he mingled
  
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• World's steepest funicular railway to open in Switzerland

  15-12-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's steepest funicular line opened in Switzerland on Friday. The Stoos Bahn tram climbs 743 metres at a speed of 10-metres per second, making it a record-breaker.
  
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• Twisted: Wired Magazine Suggests Cannibalism With Artificially Grown Meat

  15-12-2017 17:16 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats have no moral or ethical compass, so if humans are just bags of molecules and atoms, then they are no different than animals. This is the most hideous side of Technocrat thinking, and the most dangerous to the societies they are trying to engineer. Now that the discussion has started, it is just a matter of time before someone suggests recycling humans for food, aka Soylent Green. ⁃ TN EditorWhat if you could tuck into a juicy human burger that was guaranteed cruelty-free? No-o
  
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• Have we just achieved the moon landing moment of quantum computing? siliconrepublic.com/machines/quant…

  15-12-2017 17:07 via twitter.com
  Have we just achieved the moon landing moment of quantum computing? siliconrepublic.com/machines/quant…
  
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• Poor NASA sods sent to spend Xmas in Antarctic ahead of satellite launch

  15-12-2017 17:02 via go.theregister.com
  In search of cold, hard facts, scientists prep 470-mile adventure A NASA team is heading on a trip arcing around the South Pole to check that their new satellite's measurements from space are just as good as their own back on terra firma.…
  
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• Scientists design a silicon quantum computer chip

  15-12-2017 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of New South Wales have developed a microchip that allows quantum calculations to be performed using existing semiconductor components.
  
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• Weekend takeaway: Discover a world of change siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cha…

  15-12-2017 16:45 via twitter.com
  Weekend takeaway: Discover a world of change siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cha…
  
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• It seems that Santa has come early for jobseekers within the world of sci-tech. #jobfairy siliconrepublic.com/careers/tech-j…

  15-12-2017 16:10 via twitter.com
  It seems that Santa has come early for jobseekers within the world of sci-tech. #jobfairy siliconrepublic.com/careers/tech-j…
  
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• Roman Empire's ancient harbour of Corinth revealed

  15-12-2017 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of 'large scale engineering' at the Roman port of Lechaion, on the Corinthian Gulf, Greece.
  
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• Watch Blue Origin mannequin's dizzying ride to space

  15-12-2017 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mannequin Skywalker was launched aboard New Shepard, a prototype rocket being developed by the firm, during the test flight launched from Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site.
  
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• Sky and BT sign channel sharing deal

  15-12-2017 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  BT will supply its sports channels to Sky, while selling Sky's Now TV service to its customers.
  
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• Paternoster: The rare lift that went over the top

  15-12-2017 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  As one of the last examples of a unique lift closes in Leicester, is it hasta la vista Paternoster?
  
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• ‘A treasure trove available to innovative researchers for years to come’ #AI @NASAKepler siliconrepublic.com/innovation/nas…

  15-12-2017 15:25 via twitter.com
  ‘A treasure trove available to innovative researchers for years to come’ #AI @NASAKepler siliconrepublic.com/innovation/nas…
  
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• Inside a Finnish school: What Finland can teach the world about education siliconrepublic.com/careers/finlan…

  15-12-2017 15:17 via twitter.com
  Inside a Finnish school: What Finland can teach the world about education siliconrepublic.com/careers/finlan…
  
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• What's hiding in my dust?

  15-12-2017 15:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists have found thousands of new species living in household dust.
  
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• .@stripe says #machinelearning is the key to fighting online fraud siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/onl…

  15-12-2017 15:05 via twitter.com
  .@stripe says #machinelearning is the key to fighting online fraud siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/onl…
  
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• Renault gives us glimpse of the future with autonomous-ready concept siliconrepublic.com/machines/auton…

  15-12-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  Renault gives us glimpse of the future with autonomous-ready concept siliconrepublic.com/machines/auton…
  
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• Million Britons miss out on 'decent' broadband speeds

  15-12-2017 14:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Many Britons still struggle with slow broadband, finds report from communications regulator Ofcom
  
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• Aztec map gives insight into Mexican life in the 1500s

  15-12-2017 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The map covers an area between Mexico City and Puebla where a family identified as 'de Leon' who descended from a major political leader known as Lord-11 Quetzalecatzin.
  
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• A report from @RIAdawson sheds some light on the numbers of #womeninSTEM siliconrepublic.com/careers/royal-…

  15-12-2017 14:45 via twitter.com
  A report from @RIAdawson sheds some light on the numbers of #womeninSTEM siliconrepublic.com/careers/royal-…
  
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• #Fox deal gives #Disney considerable leverage over the global content industry siliconrepublic.com/companies/disn…

  15-12-2017 14:30 via twitter.com
  #Fox deal gives #Disney considerable leverage over the global content industry siliconrepublic.com/companies/disn…
  
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