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• Google takes a page from Apple's Memoji: Android now lets users create emojis that look like them

  31-10-2018 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google has introduced some clever emoji to its keyboard app - and they're meant to look like you. Called Emoji Minis, the cartoonish are meant to be modeled after users selfies.
  
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• The ramp that may have been used to build Egypt's Great Pyramid

  31-10-2018 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists may finally be a step closer to understanding how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built thousands of years ago, after discovering the remains of a 4,500-year-old ramp.
  
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• Meet the TRUMPOSAUR: Duck-billed dinosaurs tooted from trumpet like instruments on their heads

  31-10-2018 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Texas researchers recreated the brain of elephant birds, large, flightless animals that lived in what is now Madagascar until their demise between 500 and 1,000 years ago.
  
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• US attacks UK plan for digital services tax on tech giants

  31-10-2018 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Plans to impose a new tax on tech giants risk US retaliation and could hurt trade relations.
  
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• Intergalactic call for the caped crusader? Hubble reveals cosmic 'Bat Shadow' 1300 light-years away

  31-10-2018 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the massive shadow cast by a planet-forming disk 1,300 light-years away. NASA has dubbed the feature the Bat Shadow.
  
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• Lime recalls thousands of its electric scooters after they catch fire due to bad batteries

  31-10-2018 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lime has pulled some of its scooters from LA, San Diego and Tahoe after thousands were found to go up in smoke or flames. The issue originated from batteries made by Segway Ninebot.
  
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• How the Silk Road was born:Trading route first emerged to help people of Asia survive climate change

  31-10-2018 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Diego researchers found a dramatically cooling climate forced people to completely rethink their lifestyle and create new trade networks - including the Silk Road.
  
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• Hand-reared cygnet reunited with his owner after they couldn't bear to be apart 

  31-10-2018 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sidney the cygnet was raised by Rob Adamson, 39, at Jones Boatyard in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. Sidney went to the RSPCA but returned three months later because he couldn't be apart from Rob.
  
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• According to Facebook, the clampdown on Proud Boys comes after members assaulted anti-fascist protesters in New Yor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  According to Facebook, the clampdown on Proud Boys comes after members assaulted anti-fascist protesters in New Yor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Plants soak up more carbon dioxide than previously thought, scientists say

  31-10-2018 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a new model to account for what plants do during the photosynthesis-inactive period.
  
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• The 'mega-merger' that helped shape the young Milky Way: Astronomers simulate ancient collision

  31-10-2018 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers led by the University of Groningen traced some of the Milky Way's stars to a galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus, revealing how a mega-merger between the two altered its shape.
  
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• Your face gets more asymmetrical as you age, researchers say

  31-10-2018 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Mount Auburn Hospital,Massachusetts, made the discovery after studying 191 volunteers who ranged in age from four months to 88 years.
  
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• Zombie stars could return from the dead after a 'close encounter' with a black hole

  31-10-2018 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratoryteam believe a a dormant white dwarf star — sometimes referred to as a 'zombie' star — could reignite if it had a close encounter with ablack hole.
  
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• Paralysis breakthrough as three paraplegics WALK again after being fitted with an electronic implant

  31-10-2018 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, found that electrically stimulating paralysed patients' spinal cords helped them control their legs in just a week.
  
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• “We are proud of our progress but not satisfied,” said @Intel’s chief diversity and inclusion officer following its… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  “We are proud of our progress but not satisfied,” said @Intel’s chief diversity and inclusion officer following its… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Royole's bendy-screen FlexPai phone unveiled in China

  31-10-2018 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The FlexPai phone offers a tablet-sized screen when open or three separate displays when folded up.
  
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• DON'T update your Watch: Apple forced to pull watchOS 5 update after it bricked users smartwatches

  31-10-2018 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The update went live on Tuesday alongside the release of iOS 12.1 and, not long after, a number of Apple Watch Series 4 owners reported facing issues. Apple has since pulled the update.
  
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• Earliest evidence ever uncovered for lead poisoning is found in the teeth of Neanderthal children

  31-10-2018 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At least two lead mines are located within 15 miles of the archaeological site at La Payre in the Rhone Valley, south eastern France, where the remains were found.
  
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• Watch the moment a cockroach karate kicks an emerald wasp to avoid being turned into a zombie

  31-10-2018 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Vanderbilt University used ultra-slow-speed videography to capture footage of the interactions between American cockroaches and emerald jewel wasps.
  
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• Toddlers more open to conversation in natural environments, experts have found

  31-10-2018 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the University of Manchester video taped conversations between three-and four-year-old children and their parents while they explored a park and its education centre.
  
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• World's last wilderness may soon vanish due to human activities, study warns

  31-10-2018 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research led by the University of Queensland in Australia mapped intact ocean ecosystems, complementing a 2016 project charting remaining terrestrial wilderness.
  
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• Colours found in modern birds' eggs evolved from dinosaurs

  31-10-2018 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Yale University analysed 18 fossil dinosaur eggshell samples from around the world, using non-destructive laser imaging to test for the presence of two eggshell pigments.
  
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• Major corridors of the Silk Road were already home to high-mountain herders 4,000 years ago

  31-10-2018 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists at the Max Planck Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences found people were moving domestic animals across the high mountain corridors as long as 4,000 years ago.
  
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• INFANT was the only one out of seven SFI-funded centres not to have its funding renewed this year. But why? siliconrepublic.com/innovation/inf…

  31-10-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  INFANT was the only one out of seven SFI-funded centres not to have its funding renewed this year. But why? siliconrepublic.com/innovation/inf…
  
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• Deadly summer heatwaves are going to get worse over the next three decades

  31-10-2018 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international research team, including Penn State University, found warming in the Arctic caused by the burning of fossil fuels has put the brakes on the jet stream, leading to the freak weather.
  
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• Aliens may lurk on Europa! Saltwater and volcanic rock 'are all that's needed to form life'

  31-10-2018 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of Martian meteorites shows that salt water and volcanic rock were all that was needed to form organic carbon on Mars - one of the key buildings blocks of life.
  
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• Startling moment a cunning leopard pounces from a tree and takes down an impala

  31-10-2018 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: After leaping from the tree in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania the leopard quickly took down the antelope happily grazing underneath it.
  
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• China releases propaganda video of its 'most powerful drone bomber'

  31-10-2018 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China has released a new video of its deadly unmanned fighter jet CH-5 which shows the aircraft striking still and moving targets. CH-5 is said to be China's largest and most powerful drone bomber.
  
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• Robot company Starship Technologies start Milton Keynes deliveries

  31-10-2018 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Hundreds of robots are starting to deliver packages to addresses across Milton Keynes.
  
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• Lack of investment in AI is putting UK businesses at risk of falling behind competitors

  31-10-2018 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Of 1,000 business leaders surveyed in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London and YouGov, 40% said that they believe their current business model will cease to exist within five years.
  
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• Eurostar resets customer passwords after hack attack

  31-10-2018 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The rail firm reset passwords after detecting efforts to break into some accounts earlier this month.
  
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• As well as widespread advertising, the children's apps studied raised privacy concerns due to permissions requested… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  As well as widespread advertising, the children's apps studied raised privacy concerns due to permissions requested… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kepler: Nasa's telescope that found new worlds has been retired

  31-10-2018 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Nasa's Kepler telescope, which has been looking for inhabitable worlds, has run out of fuel and will look no more.
  
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• Tiny beetle trapped in amber 99 million years ago reveals clues about how land masses shifted 

  31-10-2018 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A diminutive beetle specimen specimen that measures only 0.1 inches long and is half the size of a grain of rice was unearthed in Myanmar.
  
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• #MostRead today: 10 cool #startups from Cambridge to watch siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/camb…

  31-10-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: 10 cool #startups from Cambridge to watch siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/camb…
  
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• #MostRead today: If they can bring broadband to Kerry’s Black Valley, anything is possible siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadban… #broadband #NBP

  31-10-2018 17:36 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: If they can bring broadband to Kerry’s Black Valley, anything is possible siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadban… #broadband #NBP
  
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• #MostRead today: @FoodCloud aims to double impact over three years following funding injection siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/food… #startups

  31-10-2018 17:36 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: @FoodCloud aims to double impact over three years following funding injection siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/food… #startups
  
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• #MostRead today: 96pc of us may have #CRISPR immunity, but there’s no need to panic just yet siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cri…

  31-10-2018 17:36 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: 96pc of us may have #CRISPR immunity, but there’s no need to panic just yet siliconrepublic.com/innovation/cri…
  
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• #MostRead today: Looking for an entry-level job? You’ll need three years’ experience siliconrepublic.com/careers/entry-…

  31-10-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  #MostRead today: Looking for an entry-level job? You’ll need three years’ experience siliconrepublic.com/careers/entry-…
  
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• The stunning 2018 winners of the acclaimed Siena International Photo Awards 

  31-10-2018 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The images that wowed the jury this year include a leopard seal hunting a penguin, lightning ripping through a volcanic eruption in Chile, and a car lost in a sea of sheep on a Polish road.
  
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• Developers may be wasting their time learning these tech skills siliconrepublic.com/careers/tech-s…

  31-10-2018 17:29 via twitter.com
  Developers may be wasting their time learning these tech skills siliconrepublic.com/careers/tech-s…
  
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• Helium can kill your iPhone: Hospital finds gas leaks completely disabled Apple phones and watches

  31-10-2018 17:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An IT employee at a Chicago hospital discovered a bizarre phenomenon that temporarily turns iPhones and Apple Watches into very expensive paperweights.
  
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