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• Shanghai toddler locks mother's iPhone for 48 years

  06-03-2018 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Chinese mother in Shanghai left her iPhone with her two-year-old son who entered the wrong passcode so many times the phone locked for 48 years.
  
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• Snapchat users in a meltdown as hundreds report issues

  06-03-2018 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over 1,300 Snapchatters from around the world have reported issues with the app, starting just after 2 p.m. (ET) today. Users are unable to send or receive Snaps, and some cannot even open the app.
  
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• ‘Dog-Speak’ is important for bonding between pet and owner

  06-03-2018 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of York have found that adult dogs need to hear dog-relevant words spoken in a high-pitched emotional voice in order to find it relevant and show their owners attention.
  
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• 'Hazardous' monster asteroid will fly past earth on Wednesday night

  06-03-2018 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The asteroid, dubbed 2017 VR12, will pass within 900,000 miles of Earth around 7:53am on Wednesday. VR12 is bigger than NYC's Empire State Building, which is 1,450ft tall.
  
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• ESA test-fires radical ‘air-breathing’ electric ion thruster

  06-03-2018 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ESA's incredible ‘air-breathing’ thruster can pull molecules from the upper atmosphere, meaning satellites equipped with the technology could operate in very low orbits for long periods of time.
  
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• A lot can happen in a week. Catch up on everything in the world of #data, #cybersecurity and #enterprise. siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ice…

  06-03-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  A lot can happen in a week. Catch up on everything in the world of #data, #cybersecurity and #enterprise. siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ice…
  
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• Uber creates an app that lets you call a hairdresser to your home 

  06-03-2018 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new service, created by Dubai beauty tech firm Blowout&Go, promises to help customers get a blow-dry appointment in just 20 minutes. The app is on iOS and Android in London, Paris and Dubai.
  
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• According to @stemceo, blockchain could lead to a more secure and sustainable workforce. #blockchain #futureofwork… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 20:25 via twitter.com
  According to @stemceo, blockchain could lead to a more secure and sustainable workforce. #blockchain #futureofwork… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Global warming rises as carbon trapped in the permafrost is released

  06-03-2018 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers led by the Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, found melting permafrost will result in huge amounts of carbon being released over the next few decades.
  
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• This breakthrough could revolutionise the safety of #driverlesscars. siliconrepublic.com/machines/drive…

  06-03-2018 19:50 via twitter.com
  This breakthrough could revolutionise the safety of #driverlesscars. siliconrepublic.com/machines/drive…
  
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• Scientists engineer drought-resistant crops requiring less water

  06-03-2018 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign improved how a crop uses water by 25% by altering the expression of just one gene that is found in all plants.
  
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• Baby fat pill could be key to weight loss without going to the gym

  06-03-2018 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Findings from a University of California at Berkeley study that looked at the 'brown' fat cells newborn babies use regulate body temperature could be used to develop a weight loss pill for adults.
  
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• Red squirrels are thriving again as pine marten numbers rise

  06-03-2018 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and UMass Amherst in Massachusetts found that increasing pine marten numbers in Scotland are killing grey squirrels and saving red squirrels.
  
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• Google working with the Pentagon on secretive AI drone project

  06-03-2018 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The partnership centers around Project Maven, which is the codename for a system that analyzes aerial surveillance video to look for patterns that can military intelligence analysts.
  
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• Inventor creates a Spider-Man inspired grappling hook

  06-03-2018 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 34-year-old inventor from Spalding in Lincolnshire has created a Spider-man inspired device to allow people to fly through the air with rope much like the superhero does.
  
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• Emily McDaid of @CIConnect takes a closer look at @Deloitte’s City Mobility Index. #transport siliconrepublic.com/machines/deloi…

  06-03-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  Emily McDaid of @CIConnect takes a closer look at @Deloitte’s City Mobility Index. #transport siliconrepublic.com/machines/deloi…
  
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• A part of southern Africa's magnetic field is dramatically weakening

  06-03-2018 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Rochester University in New York analysed ancient clay artefacts in the Limpopo River Valley in Southern Africa, revealing a repeating pattern of a weakening magnetic field.
  
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• UK businesses overestimate how much plastic packaging they recycle

  06-03-2018 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to government figures Britain generated 2.26 million tonnes of plastic packaging waste in 2015 but the real figure is more likely to be around 3.5 million tonnes (stock image).
  
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• Is there anything we should be worried about when it comes to #China's AWOL satellite? #space siliconrepublic.com/innovation/awo…

  06-03-2018 18:40 via twitter.com
  Is there anything we should be worried about when it comes to #China's AWOL satellite?#spacesiliconrepublic.com/innovation/awo…
  
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• Many employees are returning to #Microsoft since @satyanadella took the reins. siliconrepublic.com/companies/micr…

  06-03-2018 18:15 via twitter.com
  Many employees are returning to #Microsoft since @satyanadella took the reins. siliconrepublic.com/companies/micr…
  
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• Fossil fuels and air pollution control the expression of your genes

  06-03-2018 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research have found that environmental conditions such as air pollution and carbon particles are more influential than your genetic code.
  
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• #MostRead Today: When twisted into ‘magic angle’, graphene becomes a superconductor ow.ly/R1qY30iMViK

  06-03-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: When twisted into ‘magic angle’, graphene becomes a superconductor ow.ly/R1qY30iMViK
  
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• #MostRead Today: Reports of first IPv6 DDoS attack spark serious fear for IoT future ow.ly/WwDu30iMVgk

  06-03-2018 17:59 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Reports of first IPv6 DDoS attack spark serious fear for IoT future ow.ly/WwDu30iMVgk
  
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• #MostRead Today: National Broadband Plan hits another speed bump ow.ly/48c330iMVdP

  06-03-2018 17:59 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: National Broadband Plan hits another speed bump ow.ly/48c330iMVdP
  
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• #MostRead Today: How are US companies coping with Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown? ow.ly/bMSL30iMVcn

  06-03-2018 17:59 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: How are US companies coping with Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown? ow.ly/bMSL30iMVcn
  
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• Biologists use DNA-extracting darts to build moose 'family tree'

  06-03-2018 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Moose thrive in Alaska's largest city with little to fear from natural predators such as wolves or bears, but getting an accurate count of the largest member of the deer family remains a challenge.
  
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• Tattoos could be removed by targeting skin cells that carry pigment

  06-03-2018 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at the Immunology Centre of Marseille-Luminy in France found that the skin cells that carry tattoo ink pass the pigment to one another before they die in a natural process that could be blocked.
  
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• How important is #culture fit in the hiring process? We spoke to @Josh_Bersin and @samarbee to find out. #HR… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  How important is #culture fit in the hiring process? We spoke to @Josh_Bersin and @samarbee to find out. #HR… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UN’s New Urban Agenda In Latin America Calls For Paradigm Shift

  06-03-2018 17:08 via technocracy.news
  The main outcome of Habitat III held in October 2016, was  “the adoption of the final New Urban Agenda (NUA) document as the new mandate for the development of cities and human settlements during the next 20 years.” The U.N. is now meddling with Latin America to impose its Technocratic tyranny on unsuspecting city-dwellers. ⁃ TN EditorAn action plan for implementing the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in Latin America and the Caribbean envisions the city as a “macro-level pub
  
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• Bitcoin mining computers worth $2m stolen in massive Icelandic heist siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ice…

  06-03-2018 17:03 via twitter.com
  Bitcoin mining computers worth $2m stolen in massive Icelandic heist siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ice…
  
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• Satellite links to optimise European airspace

  06-03-2018 17:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The next phase of the Iris project to streamline European air traffic management is initiated.
  
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• World's oldest message in a bottle discovered on an Australian beach

  06-03-2018 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The message was found on a west Australian beach after it was dropped from the German sailing vessel, Paula, in 1886 as part of an experiment to better understand global ocean currents.
  
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• Fascinating images reveal mankind's pioneering space missions

  06-03-2018 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incredible pictures are part of a new book called 'Space Exploration' by Colorado-based writer and producer Carolyn Collins Petersen.
  
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• Archaeologists unearth skeleton from the Iron Age in Margate

  06-03-2018 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have found a skeleton in Margate Caves in Kent that could date back to 800 BC. The caves are thought to have been used as torture chambers during the Iron Age.
  
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• Wowsa! Smart Cities Market Worth $2.57 Trillion By 2025

  06-03-2018 16:57 via technocracy.news
  Smart City investment and infrastructure is instrumental in forming a full-blown Technocracy, enabling micro-management of people, systems and societal directions. There is a global frenzy for the money being spent, but most of it will go to giant multinational corporations like GE, Siemens, Nvidia, Cisco, etc. This is not the future that people have chosen, but they will trapped in it nonetheless. ⁃ TN EditorThe global smart cities market size is anticipated to reach USD 2.
  
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• Monkey is caught hanging from his mum's tail in India

  06-03-2018 16:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mischievous primate used a nearby tree trunk to propel itself forward while dangling  back and forth from its parent's tail in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Karnataka, India.
  
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• Is blockchain the secret to securing tomorrow’s workforce? siliconrepublic.com/careers/blockc…

  06-03-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Is blockchain the secret to securing tomorrow’s workforce? siliconrepublic.com/careers/blockc…
  
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• Child locks mother's iPhone for 48 YEARS

  06-03-2018 16:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Chinese mother in Shanghai left her iPhone with her two-year-old son who entered the wrong passcode so many times the phone locked for 48 years.
  
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• Net neutrality preserved by Washington State law

  06-03-2018 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Washington State has enacted its own law to stop service providers offering fast lanes.
  
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• China's Tiangong-1 space station will crash into Earth in few weeks

  06-03-2018 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to El Segundo-based research organisation Aerospace, the Chinese space station will land between latitudes of 43° north and 43° south.
  
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• In China, ‘Social Credit’ System Forces Citizens Into Submission To The State

  06-03-2018 16:15 via technocracy.news
  When your personal data turns bad, whether real or imagined, China will basically ex-communicate you from the good life, and they have already done this to tens of millions of detractors. This is as effective as Tiananmen Square slaughter, but was implemented slowly so people never had a clue what was happening to them. Now, they are trapped, shunned, penalized and in some cases, destitute.  ⁃ TN EditorThe terrifying initiative, which has been rolled out through pilot scheme, bans low
  
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• Major breakthrough could let driverless cars see around corners siliconrepublic.com/machines/drive…

  06-03-2018 16:12 via twitter.com
  Major breakthrough could let driverless cars see around corners siliconrepublic.com/machines/drive…
  
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• Footage of a triangular-shaped UFO is 'proof' of an lunar air base

  06-03-2018 15:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conspiracy theorists believe that footage taken of the moon reveals a UFO on the surface of the moon that is triangular shaped. they claim it could be evidence of a lunar air base.
  
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• Elon Musk fans targeted in crypto-cash scam

  06-03-2018 15:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Fans of entrepreneur Elon Musk are targeted in a crypto-currency scam.
  
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• As we add more powerful telescopes to our astronomical catalogue, we are capturing more and more rare events in dee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  As we add more powerful telescopes to our astronomical catalogue, we are capturing more and more rare events in dee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SpaceX carries out 50th launch of Falcon 9 rocket

  06-03-2018 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The launch of the Falcon 9carrying a Hispasat communications satellite took place on schedule at 12:33 am EST (5.33 am GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
  
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• A controversial change in how people in the UK access online pornography puts users at risk, say privacy experts.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  A controversial change in how people in the UK access online pornography puts users at risk, say privacy experts.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Deloitte ranks 18 cities with the world’s best mobility siliconrepublic.com/machines/deloi…

  06-03-2018 15:15 via twitter.com
  Deloitte ranks 18 cities with the world’s best mobility siliconrepublic.com/machines/deloi…
  
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• Alzheimer's researchers win brain prize

  06-03-2018 15:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Four dementia scientists share this year's 1m euro prize for their pivotal work.
  
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• Tech firms back rival 'women-centric' event

  06-03-2018 15:10 via bbc.co.uk
  A rival security conference is being set up following criticism an established one had few females.
  
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