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• The universe may be filled with alien viruses

  22-01-2018 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Portland State University argue that scientists should consider the possibility that viruses may be thriving in places beyond Earth, and may even be key in finding alien life.
  
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• US govt shutdown lobs spanner in SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch

  22-01-2018 21:18 via go.theregister.com
  Maiden flight faces delay as Congress squabbles over budgets SpaceX's Falcon Heavy maiden launch, pencilled in for the end of this month, is set to be delayed due to the ongoing US government shutdown.…
  
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• 'E-skin' controls virtual objects with a wave of your hand

  22-01-2018 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have developed an electronic skin that allows users to manipulate virtual objects, even without seeing or touching them. It looks like a band-aid or a tattoo, but it can do a lot more than that.
  
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• Babies suffer postpartum depression too, scientists find 

  22-01-2018 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At just 18 months old, young children can show biological evidence of added stress. New research by the University of Oregon shows this can be down to a unique connection between cells.
  
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• Web browser lets you remotely spy on your children online

  22-01-2018 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Scout browser is the creation of London-based smartphone creator Santok Limited, who launched its children’s smartphone Monqi in October 2017.
  
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• Tide Pods chemically burn every tissue they touch

  22-01-2018 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An expert from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio explains how Tide Pods burn organs as they travel through the body, injuring nearly 40 people who partook in the viral challenge so far this year.
  
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• #Diversity is regarded as “the biggest game-changer” for hiring processes in 2018 siliconrepublic.com/careers/divers…

  22-01-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
  #Diversity is regarded as “the biggest game-changer” for hiring processes in 2018 siliconrepublic.com/careers/divers…
  
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• Alstom testing automated freight train in the Netherlands

  22-01-2018 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The automated freight train can travel 100km without driver intervention.
  
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• SpaceX can't test Falcon Heavy due to government shutdown

  22-01-2018 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX was expected to complete a test fire of the Falcon Heavy's 27 engines on Monday, but the ongoing government shutdown has postponed any launches until further notice.
  
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• Dog walker finds human skull dating back to Iron Age

  22-01-2018 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The skull, which was found in Langport in Somerset, was reported to the police and analysed. Months of tests revealed that it belonged to a woman aged 45 or older during the late Iron Age.
  
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• Study finds that female cats prefer using their right hand

  22-01-2018 18:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of 44 cats by Queen´s University, Belfast researchers found that male cats showed a preference for using their left paw, while females were more inclined to use their right paw.
  
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• Google CEO Sundar Pichai says impact of AI is 'profound'

  22-01-2018 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking in a televised interview at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 45, said that AI is 'one of the most important things that humanity is working on'.
  
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• Could an onion be the answer to antibiotic resistance? #pharma #medicine siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ant…

  22-01-2018 18:40 via twitter.com
  Could an onion be the answer toantibiotic resistance? #pharma #medicinesiliconrepublic.com/innovation/ant…
  
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• Can you pass the test to see if you can spot fraud?

  22-01-2018 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The quiz is part of the UK government-backed 'Take Five to Spot Fraud Week' which aims to raise awareness about the dangers crooks and fraudsters pose to our cash.
  
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• Artificially cooling the planet is a 'risky strategy'

  22-01-2018 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey have found that suddenly halting so-called 'solar geoengineering' would have a severe impact on the planet.
  
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• Nasa begins testing probe that will 'touch the sun'

  22-01-2018 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland lowered the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) into a 40 foot (12 metre) tall thermal vacuum chamber.
  
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• Spotted hyena returns to Gabon park after 20 years

  22-01-2018 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A spotted hyena has been sighted in a Gabon national park for the first time in 20 years, conservationists said Friday, the latest large predator to have returned to the region.
  
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• Our eclectic mix of #IoT innovators from all corners of Europe includes: @netatmo @relayr_iot @Seebo @sensolus… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-01-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  Our eclectic mix of #IoT innovators from all corners of Europe includes: @netatmo @relayr_iot @Seebo @sensolus… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• People could soon live on Venus and a moon of Jupiter

  22-01-2018 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bas Lansdorp, founder and CEO of the Mars One project based in the Netherlands, claims that humans will be living on Mars by 2031 and will one day live on Venus and a moon of Jupiter.
  
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• Nominations open for comp restoration gong, the Tony Sale Award

  22-01-2018 17:59 via go.theregister.com
  Cash and trophy up for grabs A biennial award backed by the National Museum of Computing for "achievements in computer conservation or restoration" has opened its nominations.…
  
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• #MostRead Today: Ultra-powerful acoustic tractor beam could one day levitate humans ow.ly/zEbh30hVCok

  22-01-2018 17:44 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Ultra-powerful acoustic tractor beam could one day levitate humans ow.ly/zEbh30hVCok
  
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• #MostRead Today: Which Irish tech sectors are absolutely killing it right now? ow.ly/niMj30hVCl2

  22-01-2018 17:43 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Which Irish tech sectors are absolutely killing it right now? ow.ly/niMj30hVCl2
  
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• #MostRead Today: How blockchain technology is going to shape our future – VIDEO ow.ly/DwZS30hVCg1

  22-01-2018 17:43 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: How blockchain technology is going to shape our future – VIDEO ow.ly/DwZS30hVCg1
  
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• #MostRead Today: 5 employment law issues to watch out for this year ow.ly/RyBk30hVCiw

  22-01-2018 17:43 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 5 employment law issues to watch out for this year ow.ly/RyBk30hVCiw
  
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• #MostRead Today: 20 of Europe’s most innovative hardware and IoT start-ups ow.ly/7cVd30hVC5W

  22-01-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 20 of Europe’s most innovative hardware and IoT start-ups ow.ly/7cVd30hVC5W
  
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• Ex-GCHQ boss: 'Social media firms sit above democracy'

  22-01-2018 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Former GCHQ boss says that social media organisations “have huge power” over governments.
  
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• Overwatch pro player suspended over homophobic slur

  22-01-2018 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Felix Lengyel has been suspended by the Overwatch league and Dallas Fuel, and fined $2,000.
  
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• Why you can't judge a zebra by its stripes

  22-01-2018 17:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Looking at a zebra's stripes may not be a good way to tell different types apart, say scientists.
  
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• Hilarious footage shows cosmonaut riding a vacuum cleaner

  22-01-2018 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anton Shkaplerov was the commander of the Soyuz MS-07 spaceflight last month which took him and two other astronauts, Scott Tingle from the US and Japan's Norishige Kanai, to the ISS.
  
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• ‘My dream is for every girl to choose her own future’ - @Malala siliconrepublic.com/careers/malala…

  22-01-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  ‘My dream is for every girl to choose her own future’ - @Malala siliconrepublic.com/careers/malala…
  
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• ISS cosmonaut does 'test flight' on a vacuum cleaner

  22-01-2018 17:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said he had many questions from people asking if it was possible.
  
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• New Caledonian crows show how technology evolves

  22-01-2018 17:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Clever, tool-making crows show scientists the first foundations of technological development.
  
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• L'Oreal hijab model pulls out of campaign after backlash

  22-01-2018 17:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Beauty blogger Amena Khan apologises after tweets she wrote in 2014 are branded as 'anti Israel'.
  
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• Caledonian crows extract prey ten times faster using hooks

  22-01-2018 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers led by the University of St Andrews recorded how long wild-caught crows took to extract food from a range of naturalistic tasks, using either hooked or non-hooked tool designs.
  
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• Playbuzz creates trickiest spelling test ever

  22-01-2018 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Playbuzz has published an 'encrypted' test in which players must choose the correct spelling from two different versions of the same word. But certain letters have been replaced by numbers.
  
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• Israeli scholars decipher Dead Sea Scroll

  22-01-2018 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The scroll refers to a 364-day calendar and a festival that marks the changing of the seasons celebrated by an ancient Jewish sect, according to academics from the University of Haifa.
  
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• Fisherman finds pieces of plastic in fish's stomach

  22-01-2018 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This dejecting footage shows a dolphinfish with a stomach full of plastic objects after a fishermen slit it open. The fish was caught by a fisherman off the coast of Costa Rica.
  
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• Diversity deemed top trend shaping the future of recruitment siliconrepublic.com/careers/divers…

  22-01-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Diversity deemed top trend shaping the future of recruitment siliconrepublic.com/careers/divers…
  
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• Dead person's brain was left in a different corpse

  22-01-2018 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The error, which was spotted by an undertaker, was one of 278 serious incidents in morgues that came to light between 2014 and 2016, a freedom of information request has uncovered.
  
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• Check out the busiest shipping lanes on Earth. #spacetech #esa siliconrepublic.com/innovation/shi…

  22-01-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Check out the busiest shipping lanes on Earth. #spacetech #esa siliconrepublic.com/innovation/shi…
  
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• Popular onion variety could be our answer to fight antibiotic resistance siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ant…

  22-01-2018 16:23 via twitter.com
  Popular onion variety could be our answer to fight antibiotic resistance siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ant…
  
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• The beginning of every great scientific breakthrough starts off by dismantling the assumption that something is imp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-01-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  The beginning of every great scientific breakthrough starts off by dismantling the assumption that something is imp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Apple to support Malala Fund’s goal of educating 100,000 girls siliconrepublic.com/careers/malala…

  22-01-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  Apple to support Malala Fund’s goal of educating 100,000 girls siliconrepublic.com/careers/malala…
  
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• HQ Trivia app launches UK version

  22-01-2018 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  The live quiz app is popular in the US, but analysts have questions about its business model.
  
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• WATCH: How engineering became an attractive career for young graduates siliconrepublic.com/video/ptc-paul…

  22-01-2018 15:30 via twitter.com
  WATCH: How engineering became an attractive career for young graduates siliconrepublic.com/video/ptc-paul…
  
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• Tampa zoo welcomes endangered baby Bornean orangutan

  22-01-2018 15:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-five Dee Dee, a rare Bornean orangutan, gave birth last month at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo in Florida. Touching pictures show the primate kissing her newborn and cradling her.
  
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• In a very competitive market, how do you stand out from the crowd? @KEMPtech siliconrepublic.com/jobs/kemp-job-…

  22-01-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  In a very competitive market, how do you stand out from the crowd? @KEMPtech siliconrepublic.com/jobs/kemp-job-…
  
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• Pottery shard reveals early Europeans were well-connected

  22-01-2018 15:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An ancient piece of pottery found in a cave in Burgos, Spain, links early human populations there with other ancient groups in Europe for the first time.
  
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• Smartphones are creating a generation of unhappy children

  22-01-2018 15:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The scientists, from San Diego State University in California, say young people would lead happier lives if they spent more time exercising and seeing friends face-to-face (stock image)
  
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• ‘Try to pull together a group to talk about findability, task-completion efficiency, navigation speed or internal s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-01-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  ‘Try to pull together a group to talk about findability, task-completion efficiency, navigation speed or internal s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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