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• Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to...

  02-11-2018 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday's U.S. election.
  
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• Elon Musk hits out at Apple saying the firm 'doesn’t ‘blow people’s minds anymore'

  02-11-2018 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a wide-ranging interview, Musk talked about his controversial Twitter behavior, Tesla's Model 3 manufacturing process and where he sees SpaceX heading next, among other things.
  
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• US mid-terms: Twitter deletes anti-voting bots

  02-11-2018 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Most of the 10,000 accounts discouraging mid-term election participation posed as Democrats.
  
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• The slime on your showerhead is ALIVE

  02-11-2018 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boulder researchers found that mycobacteria is the most common bacteria in showerheads - but say showering is still safe.
  
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• Tim Cook loses $11m as Apple's shares plunge after firm says it will STOP reporting iPhone sales

  02-11-2018 21:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The California-based technology giant makes most of its money from iPhones, and sales numbers have been seen as a bellwether of the company's fortunes.
  
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• #ICYMI: @PhilipHammondUK, announced a cash injection for full-fibre #broadband deployment. siliconrepublic.com/comms/uk-fibre…

  02-11-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  #ICYMI: @PhilipHammondUK, announced a cash injection for full-fibre #broadband deployment. siliconrepublic.com/comms/uk-fibre…
  
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• Inscriptions made by American soldiers secret tunnels

  02-11-2018 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Troops from Boston's 26th Infantry Division used the Froidmont quarry in Chemin des Dames to shelter from relentless German artillery and aerial observation on the Western Front.
  
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• Uber wants to resume self-driving car tests on public...

  02-11-2018 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The firm says it will put two human backup drivers in each vehicle and take a raft of other precautions to 'regain trust' after the death of Elaine Herzberg, 49.
  
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• Interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua' could be a giant solar sail sent from another civilization

  02-11-2018 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics concluded that the strange asteroid 'might be a lightsail of artificial origin.'
  
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• Battery life in new flagship phones is WORSE than in older models, new study finds

  02-11-2018 20:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Post conducted a series of battery life tests on 13 phones, including the new iPhone XS and Google's Pixel 3. Newer models like the iPhone XS and Pixel 3 fared worse than their predecessors.
  
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• Meet the Robofly: Wireless insect powered by lasers takes flight

  02-11-2018 20:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at the University of Washington have revealed the RoboFly had taken its first untethered flaps earlier this year, and now say it could fly itself within five years.
  
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• Nasa is building 'dust-to-thrust robots' that dig up Martian soil and convert it into ROCKET fuel

  02-11-2018 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The machines will strip water from the soil and convert it into methane - a compound that has been tipped to power the rockets of the future.
  
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• #ICYMI: @WorkmattersC founder Kevin Empey believes it’s time to move the #FutureOfWork conversation on. #FoW siliconrepublic.com/careers/future…

  02-11-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  #ICYMI: @WorkmattersC founder Kevin Empey believes it’s time to move the #FutureOfWork conversation on. #FoW siliconrepublic.com/careers/future…
  
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• Are YOU a bully? Here's how to tell: Psychologist reveals her six red flags

  02-11-2018 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chantal Gautier, a psychologist at the University of Westminster, said part of the reason why bullying is so widespread is because bullies often don't realise they are behaving badly.
  
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• Secret military messages will be masked in the songs of sperm whales

  02-11-2018 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Noises like whale song are automatically filtered out by ships and submarines and secret messages will therefore be camouflaged and go undetected, the Chinese scientists claim.
  
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• Companies are rapidly adopting both cognitive and #AI systems, but how do they impact business in the short term? siliconrepublic.com/companies/diff…

  02-11-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  Companies are rapidly adopting both cognitive and #AI systems, but how do they impact business in the short term? siliconrepublic.com/companies/diff…
  
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• Meet the TRUMPET-SAURUS: Duck-billed dinosaurs tooted sounds from trumpet-like instruments

  02-11-2018 19:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicineperformed 3D scans of fossils of an unnamed species of Parasaurolophus.
  
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• Fracking firm Cuadrilla say shale gas is now flowing from its controversial site

  02-11-2018 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fracking - which started at the Preston New Road site in Little Plumpton on October 15 - has been halted and restarted twice since then, after small earth tremors were detected.
  
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• Did the Google walkout work? Podcast 392

  02-11-2018 18:41
  
  On the WIRED podcast this week: Google staff members walkout in protest over sexual misconduct, Tony Blair on big tech and the medical cannabis is now legal in the UK. Sort of.
  
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• Catch up on a week's worth of sci-tech news and features, from the #Google staff walkout to new mapping software in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-11-2018 18:40 via twitter.com
  Catch up on a week's worth of sci-tech news and features, from the #Google staff walkout to new mapping software in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Students find 6,000-year-old axe on the estate of US founding father George Washington

  02-11-2018 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tool provides a poignant insight into the lives of those who lived on the Virginia site before it became the first president's home.
  
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• Smartphones and tablets are causing mental health problems in children as young as two

  02-11-2018 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from San Diego State University and the University of Georgia says spending more than an hour a day on smartphones and tablets every day is damaging children's mental health.
  
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• The biggest bird in history could barely see

  02-11-2018 18:17 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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• Futuristic handset with a foldable screen is unveiled in China

  02-11-2018 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FlexPai is billed as the world's first foldable smartphone by its developer Royole and has a superflexiblescreen which can be bent from the middle.
  
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• .@Globoforce CTO Jonathan Hyland reveals the ethos behind one of the most successful tech companies to emerge out o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-11-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  .@Globoforce CTO Jonathan Hyland reveals the ethos behind one of the most successful tech companies to emerge out o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• InSight: The jeopardy of landing on Mars

  02-11-2018 17:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Nasa releases a video describing the perilous landing its InSight Mars probe will face later this month.
  
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• To the Moon and beyond: Airbus delivers powerhouse for...

  02-11-2018 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Europe's Airbus said on Friday it had delivered the 'powerhouse' for NASA's new Orion Spaceship that will take astronauts to the Moon and beyond in coming years
  
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• #MostRead Today: When should I refresh my CV? ow.ly/PfwU30mtzBW

  02-11-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: When should I refresh my CV? ow.ly/PfwU30mtzBW
  
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• #MostRead Today: One of world’s most essential foods could soon lose its nutritional value ow.ly/62eV30mtzB9

  02-11-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: One of world’s most essential foods could soon lose its nutritional value ow.ly/62eV30mtzB9
  
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• #MostRead Today: Chinese tech giant arrives in Ireland with Three ow.ly/mOxT30mtzAc

  02-11-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Chinese tech giant arrives in Ireland with Three ow.ly/mOxT30mtzAc
  
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• #MostRead Today: Apple takes a bruising as Cook warns iPhone giant may miss targets ow.ly/mJjU30mtzDe

  02-11-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Apple takes a bruising as Cook warns iPhone giant may miss targets ow.ly/mJjU30mtzDe
  
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• #MostRead Today: How 5G and IoT are leading Three to ‘big imagination’ territory ow.ly/48N530mtzwM

  02-11-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: How 5G and IoT are leading Three to ‘big imagination’ territory ow.ly/48N530mtzwM
  
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• Could our reefs be saved after all? Weed-like cauliflower coral has evolved unique immunity genes

  02-11-2018 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Miami found that a common coral species might have evolved unique immune strategies to cope with environmental change.
  
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• Malaysian internet cafe accidentally deletes computer game a boy, 12, had spent a year developing

  02-11-2018 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wary internet cafe staff in Malaysia unwittingly deleted a computer game developed by a 12-year-old boy for over a year, thinking it was a virus.
  
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• Say goodbye to the original kilogram

  02-11-2018 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kept under three bell jars and secured by three keys - only two of which are in France - the precious hunk of metal known as Le Grande K is stored in an elegant building just outside Paris.
  
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• Interactive world map reveals how scarce water will become

  02-11-2018 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The average person in Europe now uses 3,000−5,000 litres of water per day, researchers claim, and this interactive map shows the regions that are most severely affected by water shortages.
  
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• Acorn in the side of conservation: Oak trees and avocados could be lost FOREVER

  02-11-2018 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Places such as Kew's Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex and The Svalbard Global Seed Vault are trying to preserve critically endangered plant species.
  
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• This week in #IoT, a Finnish #AutonomousCar company has revealed a new ‘robobus’ that it claims is the first to be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-11-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  This week in #IoT, a Finnish #AutonomousCar company has revealed a new ‘robobus’ that it claims is the first to be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• FDA dismisses US health agency warning that cell phones cause cancers

  02-11-2018 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health warned that cell phone radiation causes cancers in male rats, but the Food an Drug Administration dismissed the study, insisting phones are safe for humans.
  
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• Confused about cognitive and AI tech? Here’s what businesses need to know siliconrepublic.com/companies/diff…

  02-11-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Confused about cognitive and AI tech? Here’s what businesses need to know siliconrepublic.com/companies/diff…
  
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• Tiny satellites will be sent into orbit around Earth aboard a rocket just 56ft tall

  02-11-2018 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rocket Lab, created in 2006 in Huntingdon Beach, California, completed a successful test flight of its Electron rocket in January and plans to launch its first payload imminently.
  
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• Ex-NASA astronaut relives the moment he watched the Apollo moon landing with Buzz Aldrin's family 

  02-11-2018 16:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russell Schweickart, 83, sat with Buzz's wife and kids at their home in Houston, Texas, as his friends Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took their historic first steps on the Moon in March 1969.
  
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• Check out who was #hiring big during October! #TechJobs #JobFairy siliconrepublic.com/jobs/companies…

  02-11-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Check out who was #hiring big during October! #TechJobs #JobFairy siliconrepublic.com/jobs/companies…
  
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• Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

  02-11-2018 16:02 via go.theregister.com
  So we're ok to launch a crew in December, right? Er, guys? The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has completed its investigation into October’s Soyuz mishap in record time, pointing the finger of blame at problems during assembly.…
  
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• iBorderCtrl: AI Lie Detectors To Start Questioning Travelers In Europe

  02-11-2018 15:29 via technocracy.news
  This is the Technocrat version of ‘Your papers, please’. When experts say, ‘proven technologies’, they mean it has a high degree of correlation, but it is far from perfect. If you are wrongly accused of being a liar, your profile could be permanently stained. ⁃ TN EditorA number of border control checkpoints in the European Union are about to get increasingly—and unsettlingly—futuristic.
  In Hungary, Latvia, and Greece, travelers will be given an automate
  
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• Who knew?

  02-11-2018 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  As Palau bans sunscreen to protect coral reefs, we look at other products causing environmental damage.
  
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• Orion capsule: Europe delivers astronaut spaceship's first 'powerhouse'

  02-11-2018 15:14 via bbc.co.uk
  European industry hands over a key piece of hardware for America's next-generation astronaut capsule.
  
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• Googled: Employees Stage Massive Global Walkout Protesting Toxic Culture

  02-11-2018 15:11 via technocracy.news
  The protest was over sexual misconduct of top Google leadership but the pent up angst waiting for a spark to explode was caused by many other issues of discontent. Leadership has created an elite Technocrat culture workers are fed up with. Google can expect more turmoil in the future. ⁃ TN EditorGoogle employees around the globe are taking part in a mass walkout on Thursday to protest the company’s protection of a former executive who has been accused of sexual misconduct.
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• DARPA Seeks FAA Approval For Military Drones Over American Cities

  02-11-2018 14:54 via technocracy.news
  DARPA is the black-ops technology inventor for the military. Why does it need drones flying over American citizens? Is this an expanded market opportunity for military contractors or is it an overt move to create a police state like China? ⁃ TN EditorJust a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable fact of life. So, too, are military grade drones along the “border,” which in reality constitutes
  
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• Government urged to ditch 'bonkers' fracking plan

  02-11-2018 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Plans to speed up the planning process to boost fracking are not going down well with some Tory MPs.
  
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