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• How can we harness the anti-inflammatory power of #StemCells to help patients with chronic health conditions? siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ste…

  13-10-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  How can we harness the anti-inflammatory power of #StemCells to help patients with chronic health conditions? siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ste…
  
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• Smart Cities Need Citizens Who Are Asleep-at-the-Wheel

  13-10-2018 17:53 via technocracy.news
  The Technocrat promise of Utopia is unproven, unwanted and dangerous to society, but Big Tech companies are frenzied to implement it. Their worst nightmare is citizens to are not asleep and who naturally block their plans. ⁃ TN EditorMany pro-industry groups have compiled lists of the benefits of smart cities, the promise of data-driven decision-making, and the purported benefits of 5G and the Internet of Things.
  For example, in April of 2018, Plante Moran reported that smart cit
  
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• Disgruntled Amazon Workers About To Be Replaced By Fleet Of Robots

  13-10-2018 17:17 via technocracy.news
  The higher the employee labor cost, the higher the incentive to replace him with a robot. The Technocrat mind describes the challenge: “We have to solve the problem of getting rid of people and replacing them with machines.”  ⁃ TN EditorAmazon, which announced a $15 minimum wage bump for 250,000 employees last week, is developing a fleet of “picking” robots to staff its warehouses, known as fulfillment centers, according to citing three people with knowled
  
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• DARPA Working On Mind-Control For Drones

  13-10-2018 17:04 via technocracy.news
  DARPA is the research arm of the US military establishment, and is charged with developing advanced technology that would result in total domination of the battlefield. Unfortunately, the military is increasingly turning its attention to American citizens. ⁃ TN EditorThe U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tested an implant that allows an operator to simultaneously control, with their mere thoughts, up to three unmanned aerial vehicles.
  The technology could one day lead to a
  
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• “I want the robot to be able to read social cues, just the way people do, to be the most effective assistant ever.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-10-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  “I want the robot to be able to read social cues, just the way people do, to be the most effective assistant ever.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• WATCH: Accenture’s ‘AI garden’ showcases useful, ethical AI tools for humans siliconrepublic.com/video/ethical-…

  13-10-2018 16:01 via twitter.com
  WATCH: Accenture’s ‘AI garden’ showcases useful, ethical AI tools for humans siliconrepublic.com/video/ethical-…
  
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• How do you keep your team engaged and alert to evolving #cybersecurity threats? #CyberSecMonth siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cyb…

  13-10-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  How do you keep your team engaged and alert to evolving #cybersecurity threats? #CyberSecMonth siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cyb…
  
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• ICYMI: This new device that could have major implications for repairing damaged nerves siliconrepublic.com/machines/biode…

  13-10-2018 14:00 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: This new device that could have major implications for repairing damaged nerves siliconrepublic.com/machines/biode…
  
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• On the hunt for a #SoftwareDeveloper role? siliconrepublic.com/jobs/software-…

  13-10-2018 13:00 via twitter.com
  On the hunt for a #SoftwareDeveloper role? siliconrepublic.com/jobs/software-…
  
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• “Getting a start-up off the ground is not all high-fives and extra-strength IPAs, it’s bloody hard!” #entrepreneurs siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/webi…

  13-10-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  “Getting a start-up off the ground is not all high-fives and extra-strength IPAs, it’s bloody hard!” #entrepreneurs siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/webi…
  
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• Super Mario Party is the cruel, futile game 2018 deserves

  13-10-2018 10:57
  
  Your hatred of Monopoly makes you hate other human beings. Your hatred of Mario Party is a shared hatred of a broken system – and that's something that brings us all closer together
  
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• The devastating environmental impact of human progress like you've never seen it before

  13-10-2018 08:00
  
  Photographer Edward Burtynsky is recording humanity's impact on the Earth, one epic-scale photo at a time
  
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• First Man masterfully depicts the dangerous reality of space travel

  13-10-2018 08:00
  
  In Damien Chazelle's Neil Armstrong biopic, you often get the impression that Nasa is just making it up as it goes along
  
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• Audi E-tron 2019 first drive: a truly exceptional all-electric SUV

  13-10-2018 08:00
  
  Audi's new all-electric SUV is finally here to take on Tesla and Jaguar's I-Pace, but does it drive well, and are those sci-fi camera wing mirrors more than just style over substance?
  
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• Rothera wharf 'kit of parts' heading to Antarctica

  13-10-2018 03:25 via bbc.co.uk
  A team is preparing for the trip to the "most remote construction site in the world".
  
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• 'Why we faked our Facebook wedding in Kinshasa'

  13-10-2018 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Successful, educated and attractive - Arlène Agneroh's friends said the only thing she was missing was a husband.
  
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• South Africa's ancient lost city of Kweneng rediscovered by lasers

  13-10-2018 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Descendants of the 15th Century residents are now fighting to have it recognised as their homeland.
  
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• Is your pet feline left out of your snaps? Snapchat launches its first filters for CATS

  13-10-2018 01:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a tweet announcing the new feature, Snapchat showed off filters including a cat with bats flying around its face, and a few cat owners taking selfies with their grumpy-looking, glasses-wearing cats.
  
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• Is it the end of the supermarket checkout till?

  13-10-2018 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  M&S is the latest shop to test a "scan and go" app, meaning shoppers don't need to use a till.
  
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• Instagram tests new Story-like ‘tap to see next post’ interface for moving through your feed

  13-10-2018 00:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram is testing a way to look through posts by tapping on them, similar to the way users do on Instagram Stories. In doing so, it would get rid of the standard scrolling feature characteristic of the app.
  
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• US Marines developing laser weapon that can shout at foes them temporarily blind and burn them

  13-10-2018 00:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using the different effect would allow operators to control crowds or enemies, first warning them before using the higher settings.
  
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• Facebook set to test unsend feature for messenger

  13-10-2018 00:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook Messenger appears to be testing an unsend feature not unlike the one already available on Instagram. It would let users delete messages already sent to other users within a certain time frame.
  
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• Terrifying video shows deadly spider as experts reveal the one thing you mustn't do if you find one

  13-10-2018 00:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Terrifying footage shows the deadly funnel web spiders, which experts say are set to swarm suburban homes in Australia - as they reveal the one thing you mustn't do if you find one.
  
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• NASA's Chandra X-ray space 'scope becomes an ex-X-ray telescope (for now, anyway)

  13-10-2018 00:00 via go.theregister.com
  Aging kit spontaneously kicks into safe mode, 65,000+ miles away October is shaping up to be a lousy month for NASA. First, the Hubble space telescope went into hibernation. Then a Russian Soyuz rocket failed to get its astronauts and kit up to the orbiting International Space Station. And now the American agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory, tens of thousands of miles from Earth, is kaput – temporarily, we hope.…
  
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• NASA's Chandra probe suddenly becomes an EX-ray space telescope (for now, anyway)

  13-10-2018 00:00 via go.theregister.com
  Aging kit kicks into safe mode, 65,000+ miles away October is shaping up to be a lousy month for NASA. First, the Hubble space telescope went into hibernation. Then a Russian Soyuz rocket failed to get its astronauts and kit up to the orbiting International Space Station. And now the American agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory, tens of thousands of miles from Earth, is kaput – temporarily, we hope.…
  
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