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• Looks familiar...Huawei releases wireless earbuds that look just like Apple's AirPods

  28-03-2018 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The copycat headphones, called the Huawei FreeBuds, were announced alongside the firm's new P20 Pro smartphone on Tuesday. They're slightly cheaper than rival AirPods.
  
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• Astronomers baffled by bizarre galaxy 65 million light-years away that has NO dark matter

  28-03-2018 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers have spotted a galaxy that's almost completely devoid of dark matter. According to the Yale University-led team, the discovery 'challenges the standard ideas of how we think galaxies form.’
  
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• Apple's Tim Cook slams Zuckerberg over Facebook data scandal

  28-03-2018 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple boss Tim Cook pulled no punches when he was asked about Facebook's ongoing privacy scandal. Cook was in Chicago on Wednesday to debut Apple's newest iPad.
  
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• Facial recognition and AI used in China to send fines to jaywalkers

  28-03-2018 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Traffic police in Shenzhen City, south-east China, have asked Intellifusion to upgrade a system installed last April to detect jaywalkers to send texts and instant messages to offenders.
  
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• AI-Created Fake News: Personalized, Optimized And Even Harder To Stop

  28-03-2018 20:39 via technocracy.news
  Artificial Intelligence is being harnessed to create personalized propaganda, aka fake news, to drive you to decisions that you might not have otherwise made. It will be nearly impossible to tell the difference between real, modified real and outright fake stories. ⁃ TN EditorFake news may have already influenced politics in the US, but it’s going to get a lot worse, warns an AI consultant to the CIA.
  Sean Gourley, founder and CEO of Primer, a company that uses software to mine
  
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• Apple now facing at least 60 lawsuits in wake of iPhone throttling scandal

  28-03-2018 20:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plaintiffs argue that Apple didn't fully disclose the 'nature and scope' of the battery problems to customers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apple now faces at least 60 lawsuits from users.
  
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• Re-designed Apple Watch will feature a 15% larger screen, leaks suggest 

  28-03-2018 20:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of Bangkok-based firm KGI Securities says the devices will have a more rounded shape than the square format first introduced three years ago (pictured).
  
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• #Facebook announces a series of #privacy changes to be rolled out over the coming weeks. #data #GDPR siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/fac…

  28-03-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
  #Facebook announces a series of #privacy changes to be rolled out over the coming weeks. #data #GDPR siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/fac…
  
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• Researchers say they have caught on film world's biggest ever Scottish wildcat

  28-03-2018 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Scottish wildcat nicknamed 'the Beast' has been captured on video by researchers in the Scottish Highlands. It is one of the largest recorded in the world.
  
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• 13,000-year-old human footprints found on the west coast of Canada

  28-03-2018 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footprints, which are the only ones found from this time around Canada's Pacific coast, belong to at least three different individuals. They were found on the shoreline of Calvert Island.
  
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• Discovery about Earth's oceans makes it more likely that life exists beyond the solar system

  28-03-2018 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fact liquid water can survive impacts by planet-sized bodies (artist's impression) means it should be abundant on other worlds, scientists from Open University in London said.
  
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• The #Brexit Loan Scheme has the potential to help more than 5,000 businesses impacted by Brexit to prepare. siliconrepublic.com/companies/brex…

  28-03-2018 19:50 via twitter.com
  The #Brexit Loan Scheme has the potential to help more than 5,000 businesses impacted by Brexit to prepare. siliconrepublic.com/companies/brex…
  
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• Chipmaker @nvidia said it has suspended global self-driving vehicle testing. #autotech #Uber #autonomouscars siliconrepublic.com/companies/nvid…

  28-03-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  Chipmaker @nvidia said it has suspended global self-driving vehicle testing. #autotech #Uber #autonomouscars siliconrepublic.com/companies/nvid…
  
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• Smart city in South Korea turns into a 'Chernobyl-like ghost town'

  28-03-2018 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The'high-tech utopia' of Songdo on South Korea's northeast coast was built from scratch and designed around technology, with computers built into its streets to control traffic.
  
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• Ghostly galaxy may be missing dark matter

  28-03-2018 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists have imaged a "transparent" galaxy that may have no dark matter.
  
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• Tanvita Srivastava of @Fidelity talks about the importance of employee groups such as the  Asian Employee Resource… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 18:40 via twitter.com
  Tanvita Srivastava of @Fidelity talks about the importance of employee groups such as the  Asian Employee Resource… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ultra-sticky film that unfolds like paper snowflakes could revolutionize bandages

  28-03-2018 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at MIT developed bandages less likely to fall off active body parts. They used an origami technique called kirigami to develop them.
  
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• A new ‘fog harp’ is able to generate potable water out of thin air #climate #research siliconrepublic.com/machines/fog-h…

  28-03-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  A new ‘fog harp’ is able to generate potable water out of thin air #climate #research siliconrepublic.com/machines/fog-h…
  
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• Race to robot cars continues after fatal crash

  28-03-2018 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The race to perfect robot cars continues despite fears kindled by the death of a woman hit by a self-driving Uber vehicle while pushing a bicycle across an Arizona street.
  
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• Tommy Robinson banned from Twitter

  28-03-2018 17:54 via bbc.co.uk
  The company permanently revokes access to the anti-Islamic activist after earlier temporary suspensions.
  
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• Half Earth: Empty Half The Earth Of Its Humans, Drive Into Smart Cities

  28-03-2018 17:50 via technocracy.news
  The radically extreme agenda of Technocracy is so radical that most people cannot wrap their head around the reality of it. You cannot make this stuff up! However, these radical Technocrats are the people with the most power and influence throughout the world.  ⁃ TN EditorDiscussing cities is like talking about the knots in a net: they’re crucial, but they’re only one part of the larger story of the net and what it’s supposed to do. It makes little sense to talk abou
  
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• #MostRead Today: The best place to work in Ireland has been revealed ow.ly/zIPM30jcDPQ

  28-03-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: The best place to work in Ireland has been revealed ow.ly/zIPM30jcDPQ
  
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• #MostRead Today: Ireland is the frontrunner for Brexit relocation from the UK ow.ly/YLQv30jcDQJ

  28-03-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Ireland is the frontrunner for Brexit relocation from the UK ow.ly/YLQv30jcDQJ
  
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• #MostRead Today: Huawei P20 signals all-out attack on Apple and Samsung in smartphone wars ow.ly/uotc30jcDOf

  28-03-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Huawei P20 signals all-out attack on Apple and Samsung in smartphone wars ow.ly/uotc30jcDOf
  
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• #MostRead Today: UK shocked at being booted out of EU Galileo satellite programme ow.ly/hw1G30jcDMu

  28-03-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: UK shocked at being booted out of EU Galileo satellite programme ow.ly/hw1G30jcDMu
  
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• #MostRead Today: How to deal with career burnout ow.ly/bPEp30jcDKw

  28-03-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: How to deal with career burnout ow.ly/bPEp30jcDKw
  
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• Running out of battery on handsets causes more stress than being late for a meeting 

  28-03-2018 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from Chinese tech firm Huawei has discovered that running out of battery life is the most stressful thing about modern life, topping even a job interview or becoming a parent (stock).
  
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• Body of a fearsome Chinese warlord Cao Cao is finally found

  28-03-2018 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists from the Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology say they are now sure that the remains of a man aged between 60 and 70 are those of the famous warlord.
  
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• Three Facebook users SUE the firm after it admits it collected calls and texts from Android phones

  28-03-2018 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages.
  
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• English man catches super gonorrhoea in world first case

  28-03-2018 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Public Health England chiefs have issued an alert regarding the possible spread of the bug - which proved resistant to recommended treatment. The man's identity is unknown.
  
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• Government Data Storage Skyrockets With Internet Of Things

  28-03-2018 17:20 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats are data hoarders and are driven to collect all data that their environment produces. The Internet of Things will produce orders of magnitude more data as it grows and connects. The AI analysis capability is rapidly catching up with to storage technology, meaning that this new treasure-trove of data will take on ‘meaning’ to the Technocrat controllers. ⁃ TN EditorAs the world is digitized, there is rising concern among consumers about the security of their informat
  
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• Facial recognition and AI used in China to send FINES to jaywalkers via text messages

  28-03-2018 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Traffic police in Shenzhen City, south-east China, have asked Intellifusion to upgrade a system installed last April to detect jaywalkers to send texts and instant messages to offenders.
  
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• .@EntIrl’s €500,000 Competitive Start Fund for recent #graduates will open for applications on Tuesday 10 April. siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ente…

  28-03-2018 17:16 via twitter.com
  .@EntIrl’s €500,000 Competitive Start Fund for recent #graduates will open for applications on Tuesday 10 April. siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ente…
  
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• Cold War nuclear bunker in Scotland is painstakingly restored

  28-03-2018 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Caledonian Headquarters, in Dundee, was capable of keeping 100 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) staff alive for at least a month in the event of all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
  
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• Facebook revamps privacy tools as tighter EU rules draw...

  28-03-2018 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as it reels from criticisms over its data practices and faces tighter European regulations in the coming...
  
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• YouTube 'prankster' sued by In-N-Out Burger

  28-03-2018 16:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The accused is alleged to have posed as the firm's chief executive and abused its food.
  
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• Dr Bahareh Heravi of @ucddublin is helping journalists to tackle the scourge of #fakenews siliconrepublic.com/innovation/bah…

  28-03-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  Dr Bahareh Heravi of @ucddublin is helping journalists to tackle the scourge of #fakenews siliconrepublic.com/innovation/bah…
  
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• Facebook decides not to unveil smart speakers amid data scandals

  28-03-2018 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook, based in Mountain View, California is understood to be placing the products under review in the light of the hit it has taken to its public image over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
  
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• 'Facebook will never sell your information' said Zuckerberg in 2009

  28-03-2018 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NSA whistleblower Snowden, now believed to be in exile in Moscow, shared the footage in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw data from 50 million Facebook sold on.
  
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• Elon Musk now wants to sell Lego-like blocks made out of rocks

  28-03-2018 15:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk tweeted that the rocks - which will be removed from an underground network of tunnels in Washington, DC and Los Angeles - could create sculpture and buildings.
  
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• Huawei launches P20 Pro smartphone with triple rear camera

  28-03-2018 15:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The P20 Pro is the flagship device among three new phones the company announced at an event in Paris, where the P20 and P20 Lite were also introduced.
  
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• Absence of chemical in the brain could be used as Alzheimer's test

  28-03-2018 15:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Sheffield found that dopamine, which regulates movement, 'feeds' a region of the brain responsible for storing memories, known as the hippocampus.
  
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• Mesmerising timelapse shows a kidney bean growing into a plant

  28-03-2018 15:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shot through a soil cross section by Lithuanian YouTuber Mindaugas Kriksciukas, the footage shows how the bean first bursts and sprouts roots, before a stem and plant shoots above the surface.
  
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• Suffering from career burnout? Alex Shteingardt of @HaysWorldwide is here to help siliconrepublic.com/advice/career-…

  28-03-2018 14:40 via twitter.com
  Suffering from career burnout? Alex Shteingardt of @HaysWorldwide is here to help siliconrepublic.com/advice/career-…
  
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• Meet the 10 #startups taking part in @IgniteAccelNI #Belfast siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/igni…

  28-03-2018 14:20 via twitter.com
  Meet the 10 #startups taking part in @IgniteAccelNI #Belfast siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/igni…
  
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• Does your company make the top 25? @indeed #bestplacetowork siliconrepublic.com/careers/indeed…

  28-03-2018 14:00 via twitter.com
  Does your company make the top 25? @indeed #bestplacetowork siliconrepublic.com/careers/indeed…
  
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• Ireland creates €300m Brexit loan scheme for businesses siliconrepublic.com/companies/brex…

  28-03-2018 13:50 via twitter.com
  Ireland creates €300m Brexit loan scheme for businesses siliconrepublic.com/companies/brex…
  
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• #MarkZuckerberg accepts that Congress testimony regarding #CambridgeAnalytica is inevitable siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/zuc…

  28-03-2018 13:35 via twitter.com
  #MarkZuckerberg accepts that Congress testimony regarding #CambridgeAnalytica is inevitable siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/zuc…
  
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• Drinks bottles and can deposit return scheme proposed

  28-03-2018 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  A money-back scheme for returning glass, plastic bottles and cans in England is to be introduced.
  
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• Nvidia suspends autonomous car testing in wake of Uber fatality siliconrepublic.com/companies/nvid…

  28-03-2018 13:13 via twitter.com
  Nvidia suspends autonomous car testing in wake of Uber fatality siliconrepublic.com/companies/nvid…
  
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