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• Terrifying wasp that uses stinger 'like a fierce weapon' to lay eggs INSIDE spiders found in Amazon

  06-07-2018 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers who discovered the horrifying new wasp species in the Amazon say they have 'never seen anything like it.' The parasitic insect targets spiders or spider egg sacs.
  
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• How to help your garden in a heatwave: Scientists reveal how to deal with extreme temperatures

  06-07-2018 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alastair Culham, an Associate Professor of Botany, University of Reading, reveals how to look after your garden during a heatwave.
  
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• The 'blind' robot cheetah that can feel its way around any obstacle

  06-07-2018 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The MIT robot has no cameras or external environmental sensors, instead relying on software and touch sensors in its limbs to predict its surroundings.
  
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• Netflix is killing off its reviews section: Firm says written feedback will be axed by end of month

  06-07-2018 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Netflix sent out an email to users who have written a review on its desktop platform in the last year, informing them that the feature will disappear at the end of the month.
  
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• #Tesla CEO @elonmusk has offered engineering expertise to help rescue a group of schoolboys trapped inside a northe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  #Tesla CEO @elonmusk has offered engineering expertise to help rescue a group of schoolboys trapped inside a northe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tesla Model 3s can now park themselves thanks to new software update

  06-07-2018 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new software update released by California-based car firm Tesla allows the vehicles to open and close garage doors, park and power down without a driver behind the wheel.
  
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• #SaaS and #cloud are freeing up companies to focus on rewarding employees and customers in a better way, says… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  #SaaS and #cloud are freeing up companies to focus on rewarding employees and customers in a better way, says… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• In a way, OnePointZero is the consulting equivalent of a Couch to 5K app for struggling firms siliconrepublic.com/companies/onep…

  06-07-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  In a way, OnePointZero is the consulting equivalent of a Couch to 5K app for struggling firms siliconrepublic.com/companies/onep…
  
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• Researchers uncover new clues on chimp personalities that could explain human mental illness

  06-07-2018 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the new study, researchers from Georgia State University studied 191 chimpanzees, using brain imaging data and personality ratings to investigate how the traits varied.
  
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• Scientists have created an AI inside a test tube using strands of DNA

  06-07-2018 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at Caltech chose aclassic challenge for electronic artificial neural networks, recognising handwriting, a significant step in demonstrating the ability to program AI into man-made organic circuits
  
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• Scientists discover bacteria that is resistant to the briny chemicals found on Mars

  06-07-2018 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Technical University of Berlin, Tufts University, Imperial College London, and Washington State University have tested a bacteria found in the Arctic permafrost.
  
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• London police chief 'completely comfortable' using facial recognition

  06-07-2018 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London's head of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has pursuing facial recognition software despite the fact it causes 98 per cent false positive results.
  
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• Three YouTube vloggers die in waterfall plunge at Canada's Shannon Falls

  06-07-2018 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Tributes have been paid to three members of the High On Life travel collective.
  
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• Microsoft plans to sell films and television box sets to iPhone and Android phone owners

  06-07-2018 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, is working on bringing its Movies and TV app to iOS and Android soon as it hopes to compete with Netflix and other streaming services.
  
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• Want to see @WilliamFryLaw's slick new offices? Of course you do! siliconrepublic.com/careers/willia…

  06-07-2018 19:20 via twitter.com
  Want to see @WilliamFryLaw's slick new offices? Of course you do! siliconrepublic.com/careers/willia…
  
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• Criminals can steal your bank details by recording heat left on a keyboard

  06-07-2018 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of California said hackers could wait for you to step away from your keyboard before stealing your login details or bank pin.
  
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• Dubai to get the world's largest vertical farm

  06-07-2018 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The radical Emirates Flight Catering project will cover 130,000 square feet, but have a production output equivalent to 900 acres of farmland
  
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• Apple Music 'has overtaken Spotify in paying US subscribers'

  06-07-2018 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Digital Music News, Apple Music and Spotify have more than 20 million subscribers in America, with Apple 'a hair' ahead.
  
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• Driverless cars have serious health and safety benefits but the public needs to learn to trust them

  06-07-2018 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Simone Pettigrew from the School of Psychology at Curtin University has revealed the extent of the public's mistrust for driverless technology (Stock Image).
  
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• In this week's #IoT round-up, check out #Alexa's new feature! siliconrepublic.com/machines/donat…

  06-07-2018 18:50 via twitter.com
  In this week's #IoT round-up, check out #Alexa's new feature! siliconrepublic.com/machines/donat…
  
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• #ICYMI: Check out @Zendesk's amazing new offices! siliconrepublic.com/jobs/zendesk-e…

  06-07-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  #ICYMI: Check out @Zendesk's amazing new offices! siliconrepublic.com/jobs/zendesk-e…
  
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• Elon Musk sends Boring Company engineers to help Thai cave rescuers

  06-07-2018 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tech billionaire is sending his top employees to rescue 12 schoolboys and their coach from a flooded Thai cave. They plant to insert a nylon tube and inflate it 'like a bouncy castle' to create a tunnel.
  
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• Researchers from #Sweden and #Estonia have demonstrated a 4,000km fibre optical transmission #fibre connectionhttps… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  Researchers from #Sweden and #Estonia have demonstrated a 4,000km fibre optical transmission #fibre connectionhttps… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pope says climate change will turn the Earth into 'rubble, deserts'

  06-07-2018 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pope Francis has urged governments to make good on their commitments to curb global warming.
  
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• How feasting formed modern civilization: Researchers say 'bread and wine' were key to development

  06-07-2018 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have discovered that the consumption of food and drink in ritually prescribed times and places — known technically as feasting — is one of the cornerstones of heightened sociality.
  
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• New smart bandages could not only cover wounds but heal them too

  06-07-2018 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to research led by Tufts University in Massachusetts these lab-tested bandages could help heal persistent and difficult medical challenges.
  
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• #MostRead Today: Genetics gets weird as animal’s appearance mutated using CRISPR ow.ly/L7tt30kPLO1

  06-07-2018 17:54 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Genetics gets weird as animal’s appearance mutated using CRISPR ow.ly/L7tt30kPLO1
  
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• #MostRead Today: The moon’s hidden toxic side could prove troubling for future colonists ow.ly/3NJG30kPLDy

  06-07-2018 17:52 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: The moon’s hidden toxic side could prove troubling for future colonists ow.ly/3NJG30kPLDy
  
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• #MostRead Today: How to negotiate a better salary in 5 easy(ish) steps ow.ly/mloG30kPLGU

  06-07-2018 17:52 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: How to negotiate a better salary in 5 easy(ish) steps ow.ly/mloG30kPLGU
  
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• #MostRead Today: 10 reasons Apple’s iPhone X event was really about future of AI ow.ly/b5bd30kPLHF

  06-07-2018 17:52 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 10 reasons Apple’s iPhone X event was really about future of AI ow.ly/b5bd30kPLHF
  
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• #MostRead Today: 10 brilliant start-ups from Budapest to watch ow.ly/bJye30kPLJ1

  06-07-2018 17:52 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 10 brilliant start-ups from Budapest to watch ow.ly/bJye30kPLJ1
  
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• Facebook Is Fact-Checking Conservative Sites into Oblivion

  06-07-2018 17:24 via technocracy.news
  This is a very important story to understand because Facebook, et. al., have found a new tool to destroy alternative media: ‘fact checking.’ Facebook’s third-party fact checkers hardly know one end of truth from the other, but they make hard assertions in spite of it.  ⁃ TN EditorFacebook announced last year that they will be using third-party fact-checkers to root out “fake news” on their platform. At the time of the announcement, conservatives sounded t
  
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• Weekend takeaway: Looking for a venture siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/vent…

  06-07-2018 17:14 via twitter.com
  Weekend takeaway: Looking for a venture siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/vent…
  
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• ‘Miracle Milly’: Dog Cloned 49 Times In Pointless Genetic Study

  06-07-2018 16:58 via technocracy.news
  Scientists say they want to discover the DNA responsible for the dog’s small size, but in the process are perfecting cloning technology. This smacks of Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) where humans were cloned (doppelgängers) to fill particular classes of jobs in society; procreation outside of the laboratory was forbidden. ⁃ TN EditorThe smallest dog on the planet has been cloned a record-breaking 49 times – making her a two-time world record holder.
  Scientists have
  
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• Beware: Researcher Says Most Scientific Studies Are Wrong

  06-07-2018 16:39 via technocracy.news
  The glaring fallacy in Technocracy is that the data are bent to justify their theories. This crept in when early Technocrats realized that their ‘Science of Social Engineering’ could not be supported with legitimate data. Today’s news plays out like the childhood game ‘Simon Says” but substituted with ‘Science Says’. ⁃ TN EditorA few years ago, two researchers took the 50 most-used ingredients in a cook book and studied how many had been linked wit
  
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• Bristol University discovers how wingless spiders fly

  06-07-2018 16:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Bristol University has discovered how spiders fly thousands of miles
  
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• Banks told to reveal tech meltdown plans

  06-07-2018 16:05 via bbc.co.uk
  They must show how they would cope with a cyber-attack or tech failure, following problems at TSB.
  
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• Scott Pruitt quits as head of US environment agency

  06-07-2018 15:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The EPA administrator has been embroiled in allegations of ethics violations for months.
  
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• OnePointZero engineers firms into the 21st century siliconrepublic.com/companies/onep…

  06-07-2018 15:36 via twitter.com
  OnePointZero engineers firms into the 21st century siliconrepublic.com/companies/onep…
  
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• Almost 10% of all 16 to 24-year-olds identify as bisexual

  06-07-2018 15:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London pollsters Ipsos Mori suggest social media is playing a part in helping young people accept 'more open and fluid attitudes' toward sexuality.
  
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• Facebook wins £200m battle for Premier League broadcast rights in Asia

  06-07-2018 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook has agreed a £200million deal to exclusively broadcast Premier League matches in four Asian countries from next year. The deal will commence next season.
  
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• How did individual member states vote on #EUcopyright? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/eu-…

  06-07-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  How did individual member states vote on #EUcopyright? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/eu-…
  
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• Take a look inside William Fry’s slick Silicon Docks office space siliconrepublic.com/careers/willia…

  06-07-2018 15:11 via twitter.com
  Take a look inside William Fry’s slick Silicon Docks office space siliconrepublic.com/careers/willia…
  
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• A new report calls on #NASA to develop a strategic plan for planetary protection to prevent contamination siliconrepublic.com/innovation/nas…

  06-07-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  A new report calls on #NASA to develop a strategic plan for planetary protection to prevent contamination siliconrepublic.com/innovation/nas…
  
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• The woman who made Instagrammers rich

  06-07-2018 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amber Venz Box, 30, from Dallas, Texas, set up her business rewardStyle with husband Baxter. She said it began as a way to help her and a few blogger friends 'start earning a living'.
  
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• New Alexa feature in testing could be really good news for podcasters siliconrepublic.com/machines/donat…

  06-07-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  New Alexa feature in testing could be really good news for podcasters siliconrepublic.com/machines/donat…
  
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• #Biotech boost for #Sligo! #jobfairy siliconrepublic.com/jobs/phibro-bi…

  06-07-2018 14:40 via twitter.com
  #Biotech boost for #Sligo! #jobfairy siliconrepublic.com/jobs/phibro-bi…
  
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• Alyssa Carson hopes to be the first human to reach Mars

  06-07-2018 14:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ever since 17 year old Alyssa Carson, from Hammond, Louisiana, watched a cartoon with spacefaring friends as a little girl she has had her heart set on the stars.
  
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• Are you distracted right now? Here’s how to focus! #productivity siliconrepublic.com/advice/focus-w…

  06-07-2018 14:20 via twitter.com
  Are you distracted right now? Here’s how to focus! #productivity siliconrepublic.com/advice/focus-w…
  
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• The physics of taking the perfect World Cup penalty: Podcast 376

  06-07-2018 14:16
  
  On the WIRED UK podcast this week: the physics and psychology of World Cup victory, how smartphone data is being used to deport migrants from Europe and how a new app hopes to make dating safer.
  
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