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• Designer reveals electric two wheel car inspired by 1961 Ford Gyron it hopes to sell in China

  04-06-2018 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Chinese engineering company has designed a two-wheel car inspired by the 1961 Ford Gyron. The 1703 prototype is undergoing testing in Bejiing.
  
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• Siri get smarter! Apple unveils new 'Shortcuts' app to create custom voice commands

  04-06-2018 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple wants to make it easier for you to control apps using Siri. That's the gist of a new app, called 'Shortcuts' that lets users create custom commands for its digital assistant on the iPhone and the iPad.
  
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• Apple unveils new 'Memoji' and updates FaceTime for up to 32 people

  04-06-2018 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off today in San Jose. The firm revealed an update to animoji called 'memoji' that is in a user's own likeness.
  
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• Apple launches a walkie talkie to chat at the press of a button

  04-06-2018 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has launched a new app in the latest Apple Watch operating system, called watchOS 5, which lets users send quick voice messages. Dubbed 'Walkie-Talkie', each user needs an Apple Watch.
  
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• Interactive map reveals what Britain looked like during the last ice age

  04-06-2018 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Britice map, created by Sheffield University, allows you to type in your postcode or city to look at how your area was affected by the ice age.
  
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• NASA spots asteroid on crash course with Earth – with just hours to go

  04-06-2018 22:11 via go.theregister.com
  Not enough time to even call Bruce Willis and Armageddonoutofhere Video  Scientists at NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office have made a rare sighting – an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.…
  
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• US Navy building robotic 'drone battleships' that can launch from the air and sea to protect coast

  04-06-2018 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US Navy and researchers from Florida Atlantic University are developing 'motherships' that can launch aerial and underwater drones to protect US coastal waters.
  
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• Apple jams Facebook's web-tracking tools

  04-06-2018 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The next versions of the iOS and the Mac operating systems will block the social network's trackers.
  
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• Apple unveiling 'Digital Health' software designed to make people use their phones LESS

  04-06-2018 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple boss Tim Cook unveiled the new 'digital health' software at the firm's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose.
  
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• The 'universal language' that could let us speak to aliens

  04-06-2018 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At a 'Language in the Cosmos' workshop at the International Space Development Conference researchers discussed how to communicate with intelligent aliens.
  
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• Our earliest childhood memories begin from the age of two, claim scientists

  04-06-2018 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the first study of its kind 22 two-year-olds had their brains scanned using MRIas they slept by researchers at the Centre for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis.
  
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• Days on Earth are getting longer: Scientists calculate how they have increased by six hours

  04-06-2018 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison used mathematical models and a technique called astrochronology to determine the length of Earth's days through time.
  
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• Scientists claim weird orbit of objects on the edge of the Milky way are NOT caused by Planet Nine

  04-06-2018 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder say bumper car-like interactions at the edge of the solar system explain the dynamics of'detached bodies' such as Sedna (artist's impression).
  
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• The one-in-a-million bird: Rare albino house sparrow is spotted in Somerset

  04-06-2018 19:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An albino sparrow has been spotted in Westonzoyland, a sleepy Somerset village. Albinism makes the bird white and gives the animal unusual pink eyes as its cells are unable to create melanin.
  
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• Meet the latest additions to the #Inspirefest 2018 line-up! siliconrepublic.com/companies/insp…

  04-06-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  Meet the latest additions to the #Inspirefest 2018 line-up! siliconrepublic.com/companies/insp…
  
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• Microsoft buys hugely popular coding site GitHub in $7.5 billion deal

  04-06-2018 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in an all-stock deal for the popular coder hangout GitHub. The firm announced the transaction on Monday and said it expects the deal to close by the end of 2018.
  
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• Carbon 'bubble' could cost global economy trillions

  04-06-2018 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Technology and energy efficiency could see a rapid fall in demand for fossil fuels even without new climate policies.
  
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• From Sweden to Ireland: Paola Karlsson fills us in on her cultural transition siliconrepublic.com/people/aon-pao…

  04-06-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  From Sweden to Ireland: Paola Karlsson fills us in on her cultural transition siliconrepublic.com/people/aon-pao…
  
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• Promotions should be linked to performance, not length of tenure ... are you ready for one? siliconrepublic.com/advice/job-pro…

  04-06-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  Promotions should be linked to performance, not length of tenure ... are you ready for one? siliconrepublic.com/advice/job-pro…
  
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• ‘Carbon bubble’ threatens to derail global economy, wiping out trillions siliconrepublic.com/machines/carbo…

  04-06-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  ‘Carbon bubble’ threatens to derail global economy, wiping out trillions siliconrepublic.com/machines/carbo…
  
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• Would you trust Ancestry with your DNA? Investigation reveals security concerns inside DNA company

  04-06-2018 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Utah-based company now holds the genetic code of more than five million people — the largest private database of DNA in corporate history.
  
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• Elon Musk DELAYS putting people in orbit around the moon

  04-06-2018 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX, based in California, originally planned for two paying space tourists to fly to the moon later this year on aDragon Crew spacecraft launched by the firm's 'Big F****ing Rocket'.
  
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• Could there be some benefits, particularly for researchers, to be found amid the fallout of #Brexit? #IrishResearch siliconrepublic.com/innovation/dr-…

  04-06-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  Could there be some benefits, particularly for researchers, to be found amid the fallout of #Brexit? #IrishResearch siliconrepublic.com/innovation/dr-…
  
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• California Governor Jerry Brown Labeled As Technocrat

  04-06-2018 15:47 via technocracy.news
  Gov. Jerry Brown has more in common with a Technocrat than a left-wing Democrat: he is totally ‘green’, promoting Sustainable Development, global warming, alternative energy, smart cities and unlimited immigration. Whatever the United Nations proposes, Brown puts into practice, which is the unspoken reason NY Times can call him a “pragmatic, results-focused technocrat”. ⁃ TN EditorAcross the country, Democrats are winning primaries by promoting policies like univers
  
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• Facebook Shareholders Slam Zuckerberg As The ‘Dictator”

  04-06-2018 15:31 via technocracy.news
  The head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is actually a Technocrat, but Technocrats are essentially dictators, as in China. Inwardly, Technocrats are motivated and guided by their Utopian goals of transforming the world for its own good, even if it requires forcing compliance. ⁃ TN EditorFacebook is run like a “dictatorship,” according to some of the company’s shareholders, who slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the annual shareholder meeting in Menlo Park, California, Thursday.
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• Ian Harkin of #LottieDolls will take to the #Inspirefest stage this month Tickets: inspirefest.com/tickets/ siliconrepublic.com/companies/ian-…

  04-06-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Ian Harkin of #LottieDolls will take to the #Inspirefest stage this monthTickets: inspirefest.com/tickets/ siliconrepublic.com/companies/ian-…
  
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• Air accident expert reveals the parts on a plane that can break without causing it to crash-land

  04-06-2018 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Air travel is one of the safest modes of travel. And this article will show you just why using the expert knowledge of accident investigation lecturer Dr Simon Place, from Cranfield University.
  
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• Russian space capsule lands in Kazakhstan with World Cup football

  04-06-2018 14:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying Russian Anton Shkaplerov, American Scott Tingle and Japan's Norishige Kanai landed in Kazakhstan yesterday.
  
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• Apple Watch use at lights leads to fine for student

  04-06-2018 14:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The student was convicted after being distracted using the smartwatch while driving
  
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• Terrifying 'psychopathic' machine called Norman reveals the dangers of AI 

  04-06-2018 14:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The psychopathic algorithm was created by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They wanted to see what training AI on data from 'the dark corners of the net' would do to its world view.
  
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• WATCH: Amgen has lofty ambitions to improve the community siliconrepublic.com/video/amgen-co…

  04-06-2018 14:00 via twitter.com
  WATCH: Amgen has lofty ambitions to improve the community siliconrepublic.com/video/amgen-co…
  
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• Italy's oldest olive oil: Stunning 4,000-year-old jar contains traces of ancient 'liquid gold'

  04-06-2018 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of South Florida researchers made the discovery after analysing residue on the jar and two other vessels found at Castelluccio, an archaeological site in Sicily, Italy.
  
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• Facebook protests against NYT's privacy breach claim

  04-06-2018 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The social network says that data-sharing deals with smartphone-makers were in users' interests.
  
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• SpaceX flings SES-12 satellite into orbit, but would-be lunar tourists should probably unpack

  04-06-2018 13:45 via go.theregister.com
  Meanwhile, Russia brings three ISS crew safely home yet again SpaceX finally got the SES-12 comms satellite into orbit this morning while a trio of International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned in a trusty Soyuz capsule after 168 days in the black.…
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX fires one of the largest satellites in orbit

  04-06-2018 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 5.4-ton (4,900kg/10,800lb) satellite, dubbed SES-12, will beam TV, data, and other communications services across the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East.
  
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• ‘The computers were down last week – we had a great time’ siliconrepublic.com/companies/virt…

  04-06-2018 13:00 via twitter.com
  ‘The computers were down last week – we had a great time’ siliconrepublic.com/companies/virt…
  
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• Sterile Neutrino: Scientists find evidence of mysterious particle that SHOULDN'T exist

  04-06-2018 12:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in Chicago have now produced the firmest evidence yet of the existence of so-called sterile neutrinos - elusive particles that could explain some of the mysteries of our universe.
  
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• GM settles self-driving legal action with California biker

  04-06-2018 12:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The crash happened in heavy traffic and left a biker with neck and shoulder injuries.
  
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• Facebook let companies have 'deep access personal data about users'

  04-06-2018 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many of the partnerships, with companies such as Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung, remain in effect even after Facebook began to quietly unwind them in April.
  
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• Film meets VR: ‘There’s no limit on which art forms you can mix together’ siliconrepublic.com/machines/virtu…

  04-06-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  Film meets VR: ‘There’s no limit on which art forms you can mix together’ siliconrepublic.com/machines/virtu…
  
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• Does Jurassic Park make scientific sense?

  04-06-2018 11:46 via bbc.co.uk
  How were the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park created, and what have we learned about them since?
  
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• How do you turn business data management into an opportunity? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/dat…

  04-06-2018 11:00 via twitter.com
  How do you turn business data management into an opportunity? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/dat…
  
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• Russian battery ambitions see a 10x increase in power from smaller, denser nukes

  04-06-2018 10:09 via go.theregister.com
  In Putin's Russia, battery life outlive YOU Russian boffins at the Moscow Institute of Physics (MIPT) have emitted a prototype nuclear battery packing 3,300 milliwatt hours of energy per gram.…
  
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• Artist behind some of the internet's favourite brainteasers challenges fans to infuriating puzzle

  04-06-2018 09:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Budapest-based artist Gergely Dudás shared the maths challenge on Facebook, asking followers to work out the cost of each cone and scoop of ice cream. How quickly can you complete it?
  
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• Stunning aerial footage of 1,500 dolphins playing with a humpback whale calf

  04-06-2018 08:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dramatic aerial footage shows hundreds of dolphins playing with a humpback whale off the coast of California. The footage was filmed during a recent whale-watching trip near Monterey.
  
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• Timely is an AI for those who live and work in the moment siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/time…

  04-06-2018 08:15 via twitter.com
  Timely is an AI for those who live and work in the moment siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/time…
  
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• Facebook let SIXTY companies have 'deep access personal data about users'

  04-06-2018 08:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many of the partnerships, with companies such as Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung, remain in effect even after Facebook began to quietly unwind them in April.
  
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• In China, Cockroach Farms May Be The Future Of Food

  04-06-2018 06:59 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats in China live for maximum efficiency and have figured out that the way to get rid of China’s discarded food is to feed it to cockroaches. Cockroach ‘ranches’ can host 4-5 billion of the insects at one time. ⁃ TN EditorAt a facility in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, three billion cockroaches are eating 15 tonnes of kitchen waste each day to solve the long-time environmental problem of what to do with mountains of discarded food.
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• Boffins quietly cheering the possible discovery of sterile neutrinos

  04-06-2018 03:04 via go.theregister.com
  Champagne on ice, but MiniBooNE's 15-year hunt has produced promising results It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle, the sterile neutrino.…
  
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• Boffins quietly cheering possible discovery of new fundamental particle: Sterile neutrino

  04-06-2018 03:04 via go.theregister.com
  Champagne on ice, but MiniBooNE's 15-year hunt has produced promising results It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins in America are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle: the sterile neutrino.…
  
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