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• Scientists discover new organ that acts as a built-in shock absorber

  27-03-2018 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The NYU-led team says the newly discovered organ is found all over the body – but somehow, it hasn’t been identified until now. It could help reveal how cancer spreads in the body.
  
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• Tesla and Nvidia shares fall amid autonomous driving worries

  27-03-2018 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Shares in Tesla and Nvidia dive amid fresh worries about the promise of self-driving car technology.
  
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• Staying glued to your phone causes others to feel they don't belong

  27-03-2018 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ignoring someone to use your phone or other mobile device is called 'phubbing'. Researchers from the University of Kent say it threatens humans' basic need to feel as though they belong.
  
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• Colorful cloud seen in Arizona, California and Mexico

  27-03-2018 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Multiple people reported seeing a colorful cloud in Arizona, California, and Mexico. The colorful cloud was actually a noctilucent cloud, sometimes called a 'night shining' cloud.
  
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• Uber driver stuck on stairs at San Francisco shopping center

  27-03-2018 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The white Toyota Camry was lodged on stairs outside a store in San Francisco on Monday. Its driver, who has only been identified as Fred, blames the Uber app for leading him down the stairs.
  
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• NASA stalls $8bn James Webb Space Telescope again – this time to 2020

  27-03-2018 22:35 via go.theregister.com
  Someone call Scotty – he'd know how to fix this thing The launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has been kicked back a year to 2020, NASA confirmed during a press conference on Tuesday.…
  
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• Facebook guesses users' political leanings and labels them

  27-03-2018 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook labels users as either moderate, liberal or conservative. The social media platform's users can also be 'very liberal' or 'very conservative'. Here's how to find out how it labeled you.
  
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• Scientists reveal some people can give themselves goosebumps

  27-03-2018 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Accounts of people who can give themselves goose bumps go back decades. A Northeastern University researcher is now trying explain how this happens.
  
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• NASA delays next-generation space telescope until 2020

  27-03-2018 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa officials in Cape Canaveral say they need more time to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope, which is now set to fly in 2020.
  
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• Facebook guesses users' political leanings and labels them 'very liberal' to 'very conservative'

  27-03-2018 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook labels users as either moderate, liberal or conservative. The social media platform's users can also be 'very liberal' or 'very conservative'. Here's how to find out how it labeled you.
  
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• Apple unveils apps that let teachers virtually assign homework

  27-03-2018 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At its Spring event, the iPhone maker unveiled the Schoolwork app and a new Everyone Can Create curriculum, as well as updated versions of its popular Classroom and iWork apps.
  
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• Grindr to offer HIV test reminders to its users to curb STD rates 

  27-03-2018 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The feature, offered worldwide, will direct users to the nearest clinic that offers 'non-judgy' testing, and will also post ads from queer-friendly clinics and support groups.
  
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• Data row: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before MPs

  27-03-2018 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The Facebook boss declines to appear before MPs and will send a senior executive instead.
  
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• One million people lived in uninhabited areas of Amazon

  27-03-2018 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists from the University of Exeter have uncovered 'uninhabited' areas of the Amazon were actually home to thriving populations of up to a million people from 1250 until 1500 AD.
  
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• New iPad and MacBook rumoured for Apple 2018 live event in Chicago

  27-03-2018 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cupertino tech giant Apple has announced a new iPad with a 9.7-inch Retina display available for $329 (£319) to consumers. The new iPad offers integration with Apple Pencil.
  
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• Canadian scientists create ice cream that doesn't melt

  27-03-2018 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Guelph in Canada have discovered the solution to melting ice cream lies in cellulose nanofibrils from waste banana skins (stock).
  
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• Personalised medicine is developing rapidly with the advent of data science and AI. @sanofi's Brendan O’Callaghan g… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-03-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Personalised medicine is developing rapidly with the advent of data science and AI. @sanofi's Brendan O’Callaghan g… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Wylie told MPs that Strategic Communications Ltd, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, engaged in “influence… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-03-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
  Wylie told MPs that Strategic Communications Ltd, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, engaged in “influence… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New iPad and MacBook rumoured for today's Apple 2018 live event in Chicago

  27-03-2018 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cupertino tech giant Apple has announced a new iPad with a 9.7-inch Retina display available for $329 (£319) to consumers. The new iPad offers integration with Apple Pencil.
  
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• Uber 'disabled Volvo SUV's safety system' before car killed pedestrian

  27-03-2018 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv Plc, which produces the vehicle's radar and camera, said Uber may have disabled the safety feature so it could test and develop its own system.
  
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• “If you want to make a lens, do you want to make it in two hours or two weeks?” asks Xiangfan Chen, who has helped… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-03-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  “If you want to make a lens, do you want to make it in two hours or two weeks?” asks Xiangfan Chen, who has helped… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Uber driver gets stuck on a flight of STAIRS while trying to exit a shopping center

  27-03-2018 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The white Toyota Camry was lodged on stairs outside a store in San Francisco on Monday. Its driver, who has only been identified as Fred, blames the Uber app for leading him down the stairs.
  
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• Latest funding round for @intercom sees its valuation soar to unicorn status siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/inte…

  27-03-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  Latest funding round for @intercom sees its valuation soar to unicorn status siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/inte…
  
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• UN’s World Water Forum Closes With Calls To Action On Justice, Human Rights and Youth

  27-03-2018 18:31 via technocracy.news
  Imagine an International Court of Justice for Water, where ‘water justice’ rulings are made to control and allocate water to sustain life. The United Nations has fully set its sights on controlling all the water of the world. Further, it has tightly integrated water policy into the Sustainable Development Goals. ⁃ TN EditorThe Eighth World Water Forum (WWF8) in Brasilia, Brazil has concluded. The conference, on the theme of ‘Sharing Water,’ comprised several pa
  
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• Abandoned medieval village found near Cambridge

  27-03-2018 18:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts led by the Museum of London Archaeology Headland Infrastructure have dug more than 40 excavation sites along a stretch of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.
  
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• 'Uninhabited' areas of the Amazon were actually home to up to one MILLION people from 1250

  27-03-2018 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists from the University of Exeter have uncovered 'uninhabited' areas of the Amazon were actually home to thriving populations of up to a million people from 1250 until 1500 AD.
  
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• .@MIT engineers have created a design for the holy grail of plasters: one that doesn’t fall off after a little move… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-03-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  .@MIT engineers have created a design for the holy grail of plasters: one that doesn’t fall off after a little move… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Paris Climate Accords Are Increasingly Ignored By Nations Who Signed

  27-03-2018 17:55 via technocracy.news
  The Paris climate accords were an exercise in futility as most nations to signed on have, in practice, acted like they never existed. However, the Technocrat rhetoric continues at full throttle, trying to convince the world that too much carbon is going to kill us. Taking carbon out of the atmosphere is anti-human and will lead to mass starvation, not climate salvation. ⁃ TN EditorRemember Paris? It was not even two years ago that the celebrated climate accords were signed — defining
  
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• Stone Age DNA shows humanity's ancient genetic links

  27-03-2018 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The finding was made by an international team of researchers, led by Johannes Krause and Choongwon Jeong from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
  
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• Are YOU 'phubbing' your friends? Staying glued to your phone causes others to feel they don't belong

  27-03-2018 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ignoring someone to use your phone or other mobile device is called 'phubbing'. Researchers from the University of Kent say it threatens humans' basic need to feel as though they belong.
  
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• JWST: Hubble 'successor' faces new delay

  27-03-2018 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The James Webb Space Telescope will not now be launched until "approximately May 2020".
  
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• How Big Tech’s Siren Song Of Seduction Is Leading To Technocratic Tyranny

  27-03-2018 17:30 via technocracy.news
  As awareness grows, Americans are one step closer to repudiating Technocracy, but the rebellion has a long way to go. Technocrats wield enormous power over the propaganda machine, and are expert at deluding the masses with misinformation and disinformation. ⁃ TN EditorCould Mayor Dean Mazzarella’s heartwarming editorial in the Jan. 11 Leominster Champion,“A lesson in the American Dream,” have revealed an interesting characteristic of his? Is he looking through a pair
  
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• #MostRead today: To IPO or ICO? That is the question siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ipo-… #ICO #startups

  27-03-2018 17:29 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: To IPO or ICO? That is the question siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ipo-… #ICO #startups
  
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• #MostRead today: Shire and NIBRT join forces to upskill biotech employees siliconrepublic.com/careers/shire-… #biotech

  27-03-2018 17:26 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: Shire and NIBRT join forces to upskill biotech employees siliconrepublic.com/careers/shire-… #biotech
  
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• #MostRead today: Ireland is the frontrunner for #Brexit relocation from the UK siliconrepublic.com/companies/brex…

  27-03-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: Ireland is the frontrunner for #Brexit relocation from the UK siliconrepublic.com/companies/brex…
  
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• #MostRead today: Secrets buried within ancient crystal reveal origin of African continent siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ori…

  27-03-2018 17:24 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: Secrets buried within ancient crystal reveal origin of African continent siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ori…
  
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• #MostRead today: UK shocked at being booted out of EU Galileo satellite programme siliconrepublic.com/innovation/gal… #Brexit

  27-03-2018 17:23 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: UK shocked at being booted out of EU Galileo satellite programme siliconrepublic.com/innovation/gal… #Brexit
  
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• Bear cubs spending longer with mothers

  27-03-2018 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Hunting pressures mean brown bear cubs now spend an extra year with their mothers, say scientists.
  
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• How to dodge feelings of embarrassment

  27-03-2018 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania suggest that training your mind to think of yourself as an 'observer' in embarrassing moments helps to alleviate distress.
  
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• Personalised medicine a long way down the road, but we’re getting there siliconrepublic.com/innovation/per…

  27-03-2018 16:52 via twitter.com
  Personalised medicine a long way down the road, but we’re getting there siliconrepublic.com/innovation/per…
  
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• Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says data targeting caused Brexit siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cam…

  27-03-2018 16:37 via twitter.com
  Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says data targeting caused Brexit siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cam…
  
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• What’s the outlook for the Irish software sector like? A new report from @Entirl illuminates the issue siliconrepublic.com/careers/irish-…

  27-03-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  What’s the outlook for the Irish software sector like? A new report from @Entirl illuminates the issue siliconrepublic.com/careers/irish-…
  
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• Apple's Netflix rival service could launch next March

  27-03-2018 16:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is constructing a 128,00-square-foot headquarters for its new entertainment division, called Apple Worldwide Video, in Culver City, California.
  
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• 3D-printed lens that turns iPhone into powerful microscope is within reach siliconrepublic.com/machines/iphon…

  27-03-2018 16:16 via twitter.com
  3D-printed lens that turns iPhone into powerful microscope is within reach siliconrepublic.com/machines/iphon…
  
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• Japanese company Ale claims it can produce on-demand meteor showers

  27-03-2018 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tokyo-based company Ale hopes to launch space meteor showers next year which can be ordered for a specific time in a specific place for several million pounds (artist's impression).
  
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• Ultra-thin sun shield could protect Great Barrier Reef

  27-03-2018 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Biology have been buoyed by test results of a floating 'sun shield' made of calcium carbonate that has been shown to protect the reef from bleaching.
  
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• Huawei P20 Pro's three rear cameras trumps rival phones

  27-03-2018 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Many smartphones now have two camera lenses on the back - but Huawei's latest has three.
  
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• Huawei P20 Pro smartphone 'can see in the dark'

  27-03-2018 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The Chinese company's news flagship has three rear cameras and can create handheld long-exposure snaps.
  
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• Land-based mammals have less constraints on how big they can grow

  27-03-2018 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Stanford University looked at existing data on the body sizes of mammals, both living and historical, to create an evolutionary family tree.
  
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• Theresa May swaps Blackberry for iPhone

  27-03-2018 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  The prime minister was the "last member" of Downing Street team using the device.
  
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