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• Send up a satellite to zap space junk if you want Earth's orbit to be clean, say boffins

  28-09-2018 23:55 via go.theregister.com
  The new method destroys rubbish naturally A group of scientists have proposed a new method to clear up space junk using a satellite that shoots out powerful beams of plasma.…
  
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• Cats are NOT good at catching rats, after all, study shows

  28-09-2018 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the first time, researchers have quantified the effects of feral cats in an area overrun with large rodents, tracking the interactions between predator and prey at a NYC waste center.
  
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• In test case, U.S. fails to force Facebook to wiretap...

  28-09-2018 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  U.S. investigators failed in a recent courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls over its Messenger app in a closely watched test case.
  
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• Fascinating archive pictures of the Boeing 747 as it celebrates its 50th anniversary 

  28-09-2018 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Since it rolled off the production line on September 30, 1968, in Washington, more than 1,500 747s have been delivered to airlines and more than 500 are still in service.
  
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• AI will NEVER be smart enough to drive a car, says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

  28-09-2018 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At Mastercard’s ‘Connecting Tomorrow’ event in Barcelona, Wozniak said he’s ‘lost faith’ in self-driving cars and doesn’t expect to see them used widely on the roads anytime soon.
  
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• Facebook admits to massive security breach affecting 50 MILLION users as 'View As' feature is hacked

  28-09-2018 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook has discovered a security breach affecting 50 million user accounts. Attackers exploited Facebook's 'View As' feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to other users.
  
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• Spotify threatens to BAN family users unless they share their location

  28-09-2018 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an email sent to some subscribers of its 'Premium for Family' account users. the firm threatens 'If you don't confirm, you may lose access to the plan.'
  
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• Is it green or blue? Baffling colour illusion tests users

  28-09-2018 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On the back of the quiz, opticians have said if you can’t spot the subtle difference, it does not mean you have a colour vision deficiency, which affects almost three million Britons.
  
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• #Slack is preparing to go public as soon as the first quarter of next year, according to reports. siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/slac…

  28-09-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  #Slack is preparing to go public as soon as the first quarter of next year, according to reports. siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/slac…
  
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• $3 billion Hoover Dam project to 'bring the power plant into 21st century'

  28-09-2018 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hoover Dam is one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. As California and the West expand into renewable energy, there's a $3 billion plan to bring the power plant into the 21st century.
  
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• Nikon reveals the winners of its microscopic video contest

  28-09-2018 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nikon announced the winners of its 2018 Small World in Motion competition on Friday. The competition focuses on subjects recorded under the microscope
  
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• “There is a thousand times more attention on GDPR than there is on DNA and it is crazy” - @liaonet #biology… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  “There is a thousand times more attention on GDPR than there is on DNA and it is crazy” - @liaonet #biology… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Look out! Second Chinese space station set to fall to Earth

  28-09-2018 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China is planning to bring its second space lab back to Earth in July 2019 in a 'controlled destruction', the country's space agency has revealed.
  
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• Valerie Walsh is senior vice-president in charge of commercial and portfolio management at the #data centre giant… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 19:50 via twitter.com
  Valerie Walsh is senior vice-president in charge of commercial and portfolio management at the #data centre giant… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Amazing radar animation shows 24 hours of flights over London

  28-09-2018 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Just over 736,800 commercial aircraft flew in UK airspace over the course of June, July and August, 5,683 more than the previous record set last year.
  
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• Looking for a #job? Check out which companies were #hiring like crazy this month. siliconrepublic.com/jobs/employers…

  28-09-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  Looking for a #job? Check out which companies were #hiring like crazy this month. siliconrepublic.com/jobs/employers…
  
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• Tesla: Shares fall after regulators launch Musk lawsuit

  28-09-2018 19:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Investors take fright after the US financial regulator accuses Elon Musk of securities fraud.
  
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• World's biggest shipping firm first voyage through previously impenetrable Northeast Passage

  28-09-2018 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest shipping group, has said one its cargo vessels has successfully passed through the Russian Arctic on a one-off trial journey as a result of melting sea ice.
  
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• While most of us would associate #blockchain with bitcoin, the technology is making major waves among healthcare or… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 18:40 via twitter.com
  While most of us would associate #blockchain with bitcoin, the technology is making major waves among healthcare or… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Mysterious features spotted near supermassive black holes may simply be dust clouds

  28-09-2018 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the new study from the University of California, Santa Cruz, clouds of dust and not twin black holes are likely causing the unusual phenomena seen in active galactic nuclei.
  
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• 3D-printed meat free steak revealed by Italian scientist in Spain

  28-09-2018 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Giuseppe Scionti, a researcher from Milan, Italy, has developed the meat-free food using protein powder from rice or peas and components of seaweed.
  
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• Hacker vows to take down Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page

  28-09-2018 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taiwanese hacker Chang Chi-yuan told his 27,000 followers he would target the Facebook founder's own account this Sunday. Pictured: Zuckerberg in Paris earlier this year.
  
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• Back pain may be in your DNA: Spinal discomfort is caused by mutations in three genes 

  28-09-2018 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The twists in three genes - SOX5, CCDC26/GSDMC and DCC - are thought to affect the backbone's development, according to scientists at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle.
  
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• This week in #IoT, Potsdam introduced its first autonomous tram system, while Oslo Airport is about to trial autono… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  This week in #IoT, Potsdam introduced its first autonomous tram system, while Oslo Airport is about to trial autono… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• If aliens call, what should we say? Podcast 387

  28-09-2018 18:04
  
  On the WIRED UK podcast this week: the global fight over whether we should try talking to aliens or not (and what we’d say), the next big thing from LEGO and the sad sight of space being colonised by boring billionaires, not brilliant scientists.
  
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• Disabled train users to get new 'life-changing' app

  28-09-2018 17:52 via bbc.co.uk
  A Paralympian says the app will "empower disabled people to travel without any fear".
  
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• Weekend Takeaway: Health science is wealth science siliconrepublic.com/innovation/hea…

  28-09-2018 17:50 via twitter.com
  Weekend Takeaway: Health science is wealth science siliconrepublic.com/innovation/hea…
  
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• Workplace messaging startup Slack eyes 2019 IPO: report

  28-09-2018 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Workplace collaboration software firm Slack is actively preparing for a share offering in early 2019, which be the largest in the tech sector since Snap's debut last year, The WSJ reported Friday.
  
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• US Intel Chief Warns That China Perfecting ‘Surveillance State’

  28-09-2018 17:43 via technocracy.news
  The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) says exactly what TN has been saying for three years: “The result of this effort is nothing short of a future that involves the perfection of the surveillance state” and that it “threatens the export of these tools abroad to other authoritarian regimes.” Beware of motive, however, because the DNI manages and funds all 17 Intel agencies in the U.S., including the NSA, CIA and DHS.
  DNI Coats focuses on the remote Xinjiang reg
  
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• #MostRead Today: ‘Give-up-itis’ - When people just give up and die ow.ly/MAZa30m13oG

  28-09-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: ‘Give-up-itis’ - When people just give up and die ow.ly/MAZa30m13oG
  
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• #MostRead Today: Japanese release amazing movie shot from the surface of asteroid Ryugu ow.ly/9rdq30m13nJ

  28-09-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Japanese release amazing movie shot from the surface of asteroid Ryugu ow.ly/9rdq30m13nJ
  
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• #MostRead Today: Taller tundra plants are taking over the warming Arctic ow.ly/mHM430m13lf

  28-09-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Taller tundra plants are taking over the warming Arctic ow.ly/mHM430m13lf
  
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• #MostRead Today: If you have one of these personality traits, you possess a ‘dark core’ ow.ly/ZgE330m13jj

  28-09-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: If you have one of these personality traits, you possess a ‘dark core’ ow.ly/ZgE330m13jj
  
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• #MostRead Today: 17 health sciences start-ups from Ireland to watch ow.ly/QDBY30m13mK

  28-09-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 17 health sciences start-ups from Ireland to watch ow.ly/QDBY30m13mK
  
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• The science of memory shows why we must believe Ford's testimony at the Kavanaugh hearing

  28-09-2018 17:21
  
  At the Senate Judiciary Committee, both Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh defended the veracity of a 36-year old memory
  
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• Elephant mother tries to revive her dead elephant calf for more than a day in heartbreaking video

  28-09-2018 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footageshows the grieving mother moving around the limp, lifeless body of the baby elephant in the village of Tumkur, Indiaon 26 September. Villagers tried to separate the two.
  
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• .@FranceinIreland is welcoming submissions for creative projects for its upcoming #climatechange event. Hurry thoug… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  .@FranceinIreland is welcoming submissions for creative projects for its upcoming #climatechange event. Hurry thoug… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Facebook slated over phone ad push

  28-09-2018 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The social network has been criticised for targeting ads using data people shared as a security check.
  
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• 'Death by selfie' is on the rise with 43 people killed every year taking risky snaps

  28-09-2018 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An average of 43 people per year have died while taking selfies since 2011, with drowning and falls among the biggest killers, say researchers at the India Institute of Medical Sciences. (Stock)
  
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• Michael Bloomberg Appointed As UN Special Envoy To Lead Climate Finance Initiative

  28-09-2018 17:08 via technocracy.news
  Bloomberg is a consummate Technocrat, dedicated to transforming the world’s economic system into Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. He was quietly appointed to the UN position to create a capital flow of $100 billion per year, to be invested into Public-Private Partnerships. As always, the smokescreen is climate change. ⁃ TN EditorNew initiative will work to meet goals of Paris Agreement through mobilization and deployment of private sector capital
  Today, d
  
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• U.S. Army Rushes To Field Robotic Truck Convoys By 2019

  28-09-2018 16:56 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats and military are perfectly symbiotic: the Army wants a new engineering marvel and Technocrats are excited to deliver. In this case the Army is skipping normal acquisition procedures to rush implementation. What’s the hurry? The global robotic arms race is far larger than anything seen in history. ⁃ TN EditorAfter a decade and a half of development, the Army has decided to forgo normal acquisition procedures and field leader-follower robotic truck convoys by 2019, a servic
  
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• The Arctic lake that suffers from flatulence because of methane

  28-09-2018 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Methane in the Esieh Lake is spitting out from below a layer of permafrost and spilling into the air amid rising temperatures in the Arctic, experts believe.
  
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• Scientists accidentally blow the DOOR off their laboratory

  28-09-2018 16:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Physicists from the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo created thedevice in a purpose-built lab.
  
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• TSB and HSBC resolve online glitches that locked customer accounts

  28-09-2018 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  TSB says its systems are almost back to normal, while HSBC says its computer glitches have been resolved.
  
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• Google to be sued by Belgium for not blurring military sites

  28-09-2018 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  The search giant is facing legal action over its mapping of sensitive locations.
  
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• Tim Peake reveals the puzzles and tests he had to pass to go to the International Space Station

  28-09-2018 16:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This new series of tests revealed by Tim Peake, the seventh Briton in space, show the mind-bending puzzles he had to solve before being sent to the International Space Station.
  
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• Could this new plasma beam technology help us clean up our act when it comes to space debris? #spacetech siliconrepublic.com/machines/plasm…

  28-09-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Could this new plasma beam technology help us clean up our act when it comes to space debris? #spacetech siliconrepublic.com/machines/plasm…
  
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• Blockchain and healthcare: The new industrial revolution? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/blo…

  28-09-2018 15:06 via twitter.com
  Blockchain and healthcare: The new industrial revolution? siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/blo…
  
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• EU officials are asking online merchants if #Amazon is copying their popular items siliconrepublic.com/companies/amaz…

  28-09-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  EU officials are asking online merchants if #Amazon is copying their popular items siliconrepublic.com/companies/amaz…
  
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• Autonomous ‘Yetis’ to begin patrolling runways of Oslo Airport siliconrepublic.com/machines/auton…

  28-09-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Autonomous ‘Yetis’ to begin patrolling runways of Oslo Airport siliconrepublic.com/machines/auton…
  
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