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• Alphabet surprises as ad sales beat forecasts

  23-07-2018 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Google's parent company is facing a record penalty in the EU which knocked $5bn off its profits.
  
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• Giant 'pac-man' system could gobble up plastic from Pacific Ocean

  23-07-2018 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gigantic 'pac man' system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water, with a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below to catch plastic waste.
  
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• Facebook under fire for banning Flanders tourism ad

  23-07-2018 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tourism chiefs created a spoof video in protest after Facebook removed an artistic masterpiece because it showed a bare-chested Jesus.
  
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• Women more likely to volunteer for tasks that will NOT help promotion

  23-07-2018 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts including Linda Babcock from Carnegie Mellon University that women are asked to volunteer and accept requests to volunteer for such jobs more often than men.
  
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• Vape clouds produced by e-cigarettes break down in seconds (but it takes 30 minutes for a cigarette)

  23-07-2018 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While particles from conventional cigarette smoke linger in the air for upwards of 45 minutes, a study found that those stemming from e-vapor products evaporate within seconds, even indoors.
  
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• Toxic fuel leak in engine tests to delay Boeing's manned space capsule

  23-07-2018 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boeing has confirmedthere was an 'anomaly' during a recent test of the launch abort engines for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle.
  
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• 'Mother-of-pearl' clouds inspired Edvard Munch's The Scream

  23-07-2018 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch sold for a record $119.9 million in 2012, but the sky in it has been a bone of contention.
  
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• 'Mother-of-pearl' clouds inspired the fiery sky in Edvard Munch's The Scream

  23-07-2018 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch sold for a record $119.9 million in 2012, but the sky in it has been a bone of contention.
  
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• Sony reveals 'monstrous' 48 megapixel sensor

  23-07-2018 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called the  'IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor' it boasts 48 megapixels, yet measures just 8mm diagonally, and is set to come to phones later this year.
  
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• Vets reveal why you shouldn't trust dog and cat years

  23-07-2018 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Determining a pet's 'real' age is important because it helps us recommend life-stage specific healthcare for our animal patients, says Mississippi vet Jesse Grady.
  
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• Scientists say Milky Way's 'sibling' was torn apart and eaten by Andromeda

  23-07-2018 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the new study from the University of Michigan, the cannibalized galaxy, dubbed M32p, accounts for most of the stars found in Andromeda’s faint outer halo.
  
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• A breakthrough study suggests that a popular method for deciding the colour of ancient dinosaurs might be totally w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 20:50 via twitter.com
  A breakthrough study suggests that a popular method for deciding the colour of ancient dinosaurs might be totally w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "Ireland needs to show leadership and establish some kind of social media watchdog with teeth and without delay." siliconrepublic.com/companies/digi…

  23-07-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
  "Ireland needs to show leadership and establish some kind of social media watchdog with teeth and without delay." siliconrepublic.com/companies/digi…
  
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• Samsung 12 foot TV called 'The Wall' will go on sale this year

  23-07-2018 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung said it is ready to begin manufacturing a home version of 'The Wall''- but won't say how much it will cost.
  
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• Google Translate's AI is spouting prophetic verses from gibberish

  23-07-2018 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based Google Translate uses AI to convert gibberish into doomsday prophecies. The sentences produced references to the doomsday clock and the return of Jesus.
  
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• Women are more likely to volunteer for tasks that will NOT help them to secure a promotion

  23-07-2018 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts including Linda Babcock from Carnegie Mellon University that women are asked to volunteer and accept requests to volunteer for such jobs more often than men.
  
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• Experts warn humanity consumes year's worth of resources in 212 days

  23-07-2018 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the Global Footprint Network, the 'Earth Overshoot Day' this year falls on August 1st. This is the point at which our demand surpasses the resources Earth can regenerate.
  
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• Child sacrifice site found at the foot of an ancient temple in a lost Aztec city

  23-07-2018 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The startling discovery was made at the foot of the Templo Mayor in the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, which is now the centre of the Mexican capital, Mexico City.
  
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• #ICYMI: Check out who's hiring in #robotics siliconrepublic.com/jobs/robotics-…

  23-07-2018 19:50 via twitter.com
  #ICYMI: Check out who's hiring in #robotics siliconrepublic.com/jobs/robotics-…
  
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• Heat making you miserable? Global warming could lead to THOUSANDS more suicide deaths

  23-07-2018 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By 2050, global temperatures are expected to rise by two degrees Celsius, leading to 21,000 more suicides in the US and Mexico, Stanford andUniversity of California, Berkeley, scientists warn.
  
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• Why Twitter won't ban Donald Trump after incendiary Iran threats

  23-07-2018 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter says 'Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate.'
  
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• The past week has seen #WhatsApp introduce new rules to clamp down on mob killings in #India, while the social medi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  The past week has seen #WhatsApp introduce new rules to clamp down on mob killings in #India, while the social medi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Facebook under fire for banning Flanders tourism ad showing 'bare chested Jesus' in Rubens painting

  23-07-2018 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tourism chiefs created a spoof video in protest after Facebook removed an artistic masterpiece because it showed a bare-chested Jesus.
  
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• The shredding and cannibalisation of a massive galaxy aeons ago by Andromeda led to the creation of a long-lost sib… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 18:40 via twitter.com
  The shredding and cannibalisation of a massive galaxy aeons ago by Andromeda led to the creation of a long-lost sib… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Great news for Tyrone. #jobseekers #jobs #jobfairy #engineeringjobs siliconrepublic.com/jobs/mallaghan…

  23-07-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  Great news for Tyrone. #jobseekers #jobs #jobfairy #engineeringjobs siliconrepublic.com/jobs/mallaghan…
  
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• Global warming is causing fish to lose their sense of SMELL

  23-07-2018 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seabass is one o the most popular commercial fish and is eaten worldwide. University of Exeter researchers found CO2 is destroying olfactary capabilities and threatening its survival.
  
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• Mystery of the Greek noblewoman buried in her gold jewelry 1,800 years ago

  23-07-2018 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Greek archaeologists have discovered a virtually intact grave of an ancient noblewoman buried with her golden jewellery at a Roman burial monument in the island of Sikinos.
  
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• WhatsApp ‘admin’ spends five months in an Indian jail

  23-07-2018 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  He has been accused of sedition, but his family say he was only a 'default admin' of the group
  
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• How we read emotions on people's faces may say more about our perceptions of what others are feeling

  23-07-2018 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologists from New York University wanted to challenge assumptions of traditional theories of emotion, which claim people can easily distinguish them when expressed on faces.
  
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• Plenty of Fish rapist Lee Savage jailed

  23-07-2018 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Lee Savage met his victims on the dating website and mounted a persistent campaign to rape them.
  
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• #MostRead Today: Most common surgery in the western world might be unnecessary ow.ly/uMe830l4Uvw

  23-07-2018 17:33 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Most common surgery in the western world might be unnecessary ow.ly/uMe830l4Uvw
  
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• #MostRead Today: Irish Hyperloop team Éirloop nabs innovation prize at SpaceX pod competition ow.ly/O54n30l4TLe

  23-07-2018 17:32 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Irish Hyperloop team Éirloop nabs innovation prize at SpaceX pod competition ow.ly/O54n30l4TLe
  
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• #MostRead Today: Facebook investigates Crimson Hexagon over data policy concerns ow.ly/3zMd30l4UtC

  23-07-2018 17:32 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Facebook investigates Crimson Hexagon over data policy concerns ow.ly/3zMd30l4UtC
  
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• #MostRead Today: Discovery forces us to totally rethink how we determine colour of dinosaurs ow.ly/CB5630l4UnZ

  23-07-2018 17:32 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Discovery forces us to totally rethink how we determine colour of dinosaurs ow.ly/CB5630l4UnZ
  
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• #MostRead Today: 10 impressive start-ups from Istanbul to watch ow.ly/RSam30l4Usp

  23-07-2018 17:32 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 10 impressive start-ups from Istanbul to watch ow.ly/RSam30l4Usp
  
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• Scientists identify more than 1,200 genes linked with academic achievement 

  23-07-2018 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international research team studied the genes of more than 1.1 million participants from 15 countries matching this to questionnaires assessing the number of school years completed.
  
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• One step closer to artificial embryos?

  23-07-2018 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cambridge University researchers used mouse stem cells to produce artificial embryo-like structures capable of 'gastrulation' - a key life event.
  
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• Alien life could lurk just a centimetre beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa

  23-07-2018 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Europa is a frozen space rock that orbits Jupiter and proof of alien life could be hiding below the moon's surface. it is thought that at higher latitude the microbial life will be easier to find.
  
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• Heathrow scanner trial could ease airport liquid ban

  23-07-2018 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Advanced X-ray machines are on trial that can detect explosives and screen items inside bags.
  
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• Dataitis: Technocracy’s Obsession With Data Is Crippling Human Thinking

  23-07-2018 16:36 via technocracy.news
  One Indian scholar captures the essence of Technocracy and links it to dataitis, an obsessive/compulsive disorder over data that is crippling human thinking. Indeed, the Technocrat mentality is not making men smarter, but rather incapable and unable to think for themselves.  ⁃ TN EditorThe times are changing. Changing so fast that Lewis Carroll sounds almost prophetic when he makes the queen quip to Alice in his classic Alice in Wonderland — “Now, here, you see,
  
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• China To Launch AI Powered Autonomous Submarines By 2020s

  23-07-2018 16:12 via technocracy.news
  Military Technocrats in China see AI and autonomous killing machines as the ultimate solution to warfare, and yet no one is calling these new systems “weapons of mass destruction.” China has sparked a new arms race that will be more deadly than anything in world history. ⁃ TN EditorChina is developing large, smart and relatively low-cost unmanned submarines that can roam the world’s oceans to perform a wide range of missions, from reconnaissance to mine placement to even
  
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• Winner of SpaceX hyperloop pod competition breaks speed record

  23-07-2018 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineering students from the Technical University of Munich won the hyperloop pod competition at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California for the third year running.
  
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• Claim: Technocrat Elon Musk Is A Total Fraud

  23-07-2018 15:56 via technocracy.news
  Genius or nut? Elon Musk’s grandfather was the leader of Canada’s Technocracy, Inc. during the 1930s and 1940s and his influence certainly rubbed of on a young Musk. As I have warned for years, the hype of Technocracy’s Utopia does not live up to reality. ⁃ TN EditorOne disastrous tweet has finally revealed Elon Musk for what he is: a fraud.
  Enraged that a British cave diver called his idea to rescue the Thai soccer team for what it was — “a p.r. stunt [with]
  
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• Tim Peake launches a competition to name the Mars rover

  23-07-2018 14:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The naming competition was announced by ESA astronaut Tim Peake at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire at the weekend.
  
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• Hyperloop test pod sets speed record

  23-07-2018 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  German engineering students set a record as their pod hits 457km/h in a hyperloop tunnel test.
  
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• China is targeting Apple with advanced OLED screens for future iPhones

  23-07-2018 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BOE Technology Group, which is based in Sichuan province, already makes screens for iPads and MacBooks but is now set to provide Apple with OLED smartphone screens.
  
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• Facebook launching satellite in 2019 to beam internet to remote areas

  23-07-2018 14:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A constellation of satellites will be sent into alow orbit, around 100 to 1,250 mile above the Earth to beam down broadband to remote areas under plans confirmed by Facebook.
  
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• Uber driver streamed hidden camera videos on Twitch

  23-07-2018 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Uber and Lyft suspend a driver who live-streamed videos of his passengers without their knowledge.
  
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• China military develops robotic submarines that are powered by AI

  23-07-2018 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from China are working on large unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) that will spend months at sea and conduct military operations with no humans on board.
  
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• Sign-language hack lets Amazon Alexa respond to gestures

  23-07-2018 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  A prototype uses an artificial intelligence system that can interpret hand movements.
  
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