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• Latvian startup builds drone that can rescue people and fight fires

  26-03-2018 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The quadcopter is designed to handle these kinds of tasks, since it's outfitted with 28 motors and 16 batteries that enable it to lift up to 400lbs for 20 minutes on a single charge.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg's losses on Facebook data scandal hit $10 BILLION

  26-03-2018 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Federal Trade Commission has an open investigation into Facebook's growing privacy scandal it has revealed in a move which sent shares in the social network plunging.
  
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• Cockroach-killing toxin discovered in horrifying bootlace worms

  26-03-2018 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists say a powerful neurotoxin produced by these bizarre marine 'ribbon worms' could be the answer to fighting some seemingly unbeatable pests – including cockroaches.
  
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• No new baby Atlantic whales born during winter calving season

  26-03-2018 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have been looking since December for newborn right whales off the coasts of Georgia and Florida, where pregnant whales typically migrate each winter to give birth in warmer waters.
  
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• UK Anti-Doping confirms cyber attack but says no athlete data lost

  26-03-2018 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  UK Anti-Doping confirms it was the target of a cyber attack over the weekend but says no systems were compromised and no data lost.
  
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• Facebook faces Federal Trade Commission privacy inquiry

  26-03-2018 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Facebook shares fall as a federal agency investigates whether the firm broke data security laws.
  
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• Alibaba opens unmanned 'auto vending machine' in China

  26-03-2018 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alibaba and Ford have created a 'Super Test-Drive Center,' which is an unstaffed, multi-floor building that houses up to 42 cars. Buyers can see, test drive and even buy a vehicle on site.
  
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• Armour reveals Tutankhamun could have been a child warrior

  26-03-2018 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A University of Northampton scholar looked at the armour buried alongside King Tut and found that he was likely not the feeble and weak ruler he is believed to be.
  
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• Arctic sea ice shrunk this year, NASA study warns

  26-03-2018 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The maximum amount of Arctic sea ice each year can be observed around March. NASA has said that the 2018 Arctic sea ice level was dangerously low.
  
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• £8,000 ‘Henry’ robot cracks jokes and boasts sexual performance

  26-03-2018 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Matt McMullen, a father-of-five from San Diego, and CEO of Henry’s creators Realbotix, unveiled the ‘manbot’ earlier this year saying it would offer ‘companionship’ to lonely women.
  
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• IBM boss joins Tim Cook in call for regulation after Facebook breach

  26-03-2018 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At the China Development Forum, Apple chief Tim Cook said 'well-crafted' regulation was required, while IBM Corp chief Virginia Rometty said users should have more agency over their data.
  
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• Stone age Brits 11,000 years ago were resilient to cold weather

  26-03-2018 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of York examined items found at the site, around 23 miles (37 km) north-east of York.
  
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• Nearly one in five young girls online for at least THREE HOURS a day

  26-03-2018 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This number has more than doubled in four years, and girls use sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram far more than their male counterparts, according to the Office for National Statistics.
  
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• Children with ADHD have smaller brains

  26-03-2018 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People with ADHD have less gray matter in the regions of their brains responsible for self-control, a distinction that becomes evident as early as four years old, new Johns Hopkins research shows.
  
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• Photographer claims he saw a monster shark off the coast of Devon

  26-03-2018 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tristan Severn-Jones claims he saw a monster 25ft-long shark off the Devon coast on Friday. The caretaker snapped this photo of the creature dangerously close to shore.
  
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• Heathrow trials a driverless vehicle in new footage

  26-03-2018 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip comes from a ‘cargopod’ vehicle that spent three and a half weeks running autonomously along a cargo route around the London Heathrow's airside perimeter.
  
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• Federal Trade Commission will investigate Facebook over privacy

  26-03-2018 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Federal Trade Commission has an open investigation into Facebook's growing privacy scandal it has revealed in a move which sent shares in the social network plunging.
  
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• Waymo boss says his tech would have averted fatal Uber Arizona crash

  26-03-2018 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uber's cars, which were being tested in Phoenix, were unable to reach 13 miles (21km) without human intervention, while cars made by Waymo could drive 5,600 miles (9,000km).
  
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• Uber selling Southeast Asian business to regional rival Grab

  26-03-2018 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It comes after San Francisco-based Uber also pulled out of China and Russia in recent years and as new chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi attempts to turn its fortunes around.
  
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• Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

  26-03-2018 17:23 via go.theregister.com
  Brit industry, military locked out From the department of "You only just realised this?" come reports that the UK government has been somewhat taken aback that the EU plans to exclude Britain from the Galileo satellite programme due to Brexit.…
  
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• Steve Jobs tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg on privacy issues in 2010

  26-03-2018 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's founder made the comments at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference, held in Los Angeles in 2010, where the Facebook CEO was in the audience, waiting to be interviewed.
  
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• Heathrow trials a driverless vehicle with footage revealing what the robot cargo car ‘sees’

  26-03-2018 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip comes from a ‘cargopod’ vehicle that spent three and a half weeks running autonomously along a cargo route around the London Heathrow's airside perimeter.
  
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• Human stem cell treatments could be a cure for alcoholism

  26-03-2018 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Chile studied alcohol addiction in lab rats and saw that treatment with specific human stem cells can reduce levels of alcohol obsession.
  
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• Stephen Hawking's final interview: A beautiful Universe

  26-03-2018 16:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The Cambridge physicist's last broadcast interview covered gravitational waves from neutron star mergers.
  
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• SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carved a giant hole in Earth's atmosphere

  26-03-2018 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Falcon 9 rocket slashed a 559-mile (900km) hole in the ionosphere that lasted for up to 3 hours, researchers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University found.
  
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• Egyptian artwork of female pharaoh Hatshepsut is found

  26-03-2018 16:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sculpture had been gathering dust at Swansea University's Egypt Centre when it was found during a session where students can handle objects in the archives.
  
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• Russian robots will poison dissidents in AI assassinations

  26-03-2018 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The claims were made by Dr Jeremy Straub, a computer science professor at North Dakota State University, who believes the west and Russia are on course for a new cold war, led by AI.
  
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• Apple may unveil new iPad and MacBook tomorrow

  26-03-2018 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Here's everything you need to know about Apple's latest event, which starts tomorrow at 4pm BST (11am ET) at the Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago.
  
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• European Space Agency teams with ICEYE Finnish start-up

  26-03-2018 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The European Space Agency will work with Finland's ICEYE on ways to exploit its novel radar satellites.
  
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• Men will live as long as women by 2032

  26-03-2018 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts said the reason for the narrowing of the life expectancy gap is the changing levels of smoking between the sexes cigarettes account for 100,000 UK deaths a year from cancer.
  
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• Sprinkling table salt into the sky could halt global warming

  26-03-2018 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robert Nelson, a senior researcher at the Arizona-based Planetary Science Institute said the particles of salt will reflect the sun's energy back into space, preventing it from heating the Earth (stock image).
  
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• Facebook logs all your phone calls and text messages

  26-03-2018 14:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some Facebook have users discovered the Silicon Valley giant has been storing complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and text messages.
  
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• Lions as tall as humans roamed Kenya 200,000 years ago

  26-03-2018 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of researchers - including experts from the National Museums of Kenya and the universities of Utah and Arkansas - found the fossil at Natodomeri in northwest Kenya.
  
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• Charles the mind-reading robot can mimic human emotions

  26-03-2018 14:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charles, the creation of Professor Peter Robinson from the University of Cambridge, is equipped with specialised software that can read people's facial expressions.
  
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• Billion euro cyber-suspect arrested in Spain

  26-03-2018 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The individual led a prolific gang that stole cash from banks for more than five years, says Europol.
  
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• India: Yeah, we would like to 3D-print igloos on the Moon

  26-03-2018 13:38 via go.theregister.com
  Are we really doing this? ask politicos The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to build igloos on the Moon with a view to creating an Antarctica-like outpost.…
  
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• Tumblr deletes 'Russian troll' accounts

  26-03-2018 13:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The accounts were used to spread disinformation during the 2016 US presidential election, Tumblr says.
  
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• The closing date for the 2018 Mary Mulvihill Award is 30 March. @RememberingMary siliconrepublic.com/innovation/mar…

  26-03-2018 13:35 via twitter.com
  The closing date for the 2018 Mary Mulvihill Award is 30 March. @RememberingMary siliconrepublic.com/innovation/mar…
  
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• ‘This was a breach of trust, and I’m sorry we didn’t do more at the time’ #MarkZuckerberg #Facebook… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-03-2018 13:35 via twitter.com
  ‘This was a breach of trust, and I’m sorry we didn’t do more at the time’ #MarkZuckerberg #Facebook… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• You only have until 31 March to pick up an Early Bird ticket to #Inspirefest 2018 ... what are you waiting for? siliconrepublic.com/companies/insp…

  26-03-2018 13:05 via twitter.com
  You only have until 31 March to pick up an Early Bird ticket to #Inspirefest 2018 ... what are you waiting for? siliconrepublic.com/companies/insp…
  
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• Meet our Start-up of the Week: @tabspaceio siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/tabs…

  26-03-2018 13:05 via twitter.com
  Meet our Start-up of the Week: @tabspaceio siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/tabs…
  
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• Data rescue: The challenges of a DIY data recovery siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/dat…

  26-03-2018 13:01 via twitter.com
  Data rescue: The challenges of a DIY data recovery siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/dat…
  
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• Quarter of Scotland's sex offenders abuse children online

  26-03-2018 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  A hard-hitting Police Scotland campaign appeals directly to perpetrators.
  
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• Apple proposes new set of accessibility emoji to improve representation siliconrepublic.com/companies/appl…

  26-03-2018 12:50 via twitter.com
  Apple proposes new set of accessibility emoji to improve representation siliconrepublic.com/companies/appl…
  
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• Secrets buried within ancient crystal reveal origin of African continent siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ori…

  26-03-2018 12:42 via twitter.com
  Secrets buried within ancient crystal reveal origin of African continent siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ori…
  
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• The secret to happiness could be to use the internet every day

  26-03-2018 12:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from the University of Oslo into the happiness levels of over 100,000 Europeans found that internet usage is the key to staying happy throughout life (stock image).
  
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• Moment a tiny DIY drone flies 33,000ft into the air in Siberia

  26-03-2018 12:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage shows the curvature of the Earth gradually pull into view while the drone shakes and buzzes as itrises through the clouds above a remote region of Siberia.
  
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• To IPO or ICO? That is the question siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ipo-…

  26-03-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  To IPO or ICO? That is the question siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ipo-…
  
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• Facebook clarifies Android call and text data collection siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/fac…

  26-03-2018 11:52 via twitter.com
  Facebook clarifies Android call and text data collection siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/fac…
  
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• EU threatens to break up Google amid fears over firm's power

  26-03-2018 11:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Margrethe Vestager said she had 'grave suspicions' about the internet giant's growing power.
  
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