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• The smart vest that harnesses dogs' love of chasing to remotely control their motion

  05-11-2018 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Japan are harnessing dogs' love for a good chase to remotely control the animals without invasive technology. A new 'motion control' system shines lights from a vest, prompting them to follow.
  
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• 'glacier flour' dust clouds spotted over the ice of Greenland

  05-11-2018 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unusual event is caused by 'glacial flour', a fine-grained silt formed by glaciers grinding and pulverizing rock.
  
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• Large hydropower dams 'not sustainable' in the developing world

  05-11-2018 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  A new study says that big hydro electricity projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.
  
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• Check your apps! Warning over Android downloads 'loaded with malware' that can steal banking details

  05-11-2018 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 29 apps, which range from power management apps to horoscope apps, were found to be infected by Trojan malware that controls the app remotely after gaining access to the victim's phone.
  
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• Social network Gab.com favored by Pittsburgh synagogue 'killer' makes comeback after a week offline

  05-11-2018 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gab.com, the site favored by the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre suspect Robert Bowers, resumed operations Sunday night after domain name registrar and host Epik agreed to host it.
  
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• iPhone owners are happier, wealthier, and more popular than Android users, study claims

  05-11-2018 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a survey of 1,000 iPhone owners and 1,000 Android owners, Slickdeals found iPhone and Android users differ in their spending habits, lifestyle choices, and social behaviors.
  
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• 'Sextortion' scammers use password breaches to target and blackmail internet users

  05-11-2018 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A California security company is warning against a new type of scam in which fraudsters send emails to customers telling them that they have a video of them watching explicit videos online.
  
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• Father of the internet Tim Berners-Lee launches 'Contract for the Web' to protect user privacy

  05-11-2018 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Contract for the Web' includes a set of ethical principles that Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web Foundation are hoping will be adopted by governments, companies and individuals.
  
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• Facebook could soon suggest people standing near you as friends

  05-11-2018 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Facebook patent reveals a 'connection suggestion module' that can analyse everything from Bluetooth to motion sensors to find people nearby you have interacted with.
  
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• MIT researchers reveal plan for a giant laser 'porch light' in space to attract aliens

  05-11-2018 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using a laser focused through a huge telescope, the MIT researchers say this ‘porch light’ could be seen from as far as 20,000 light-years away. The system could also be used to send messages.
  
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• Twitter: Fake Elon Musk scam spreads after accounts hacked

  05-11-2018 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Matalan, Pathe UK and Pantheon Books are all targeted to promote an ad using the Tesla boss's name.
  
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• British scientists track and image a comet's dust tail and discover how it is formed by the sun

  05-11-2018 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A planetary science PhD student at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory developed a new way of processing the data from comets to track the dust particles movement.
  
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• .@talentgardenie opened last month and can house more than 350 people in its bright co-working space. siliconrepublic.com/careers/talent…

  05-11-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  .@talentgardenie opened last month and can house more than 350 people in its bright co-working space. siliconrepublic.com/careers/talent…
  
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• Elon Musk posts video of Boring Company's 'disturbingly long' tunnel in LA

  05-11-2018 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 30-second timelapse video shot by the billionaire tech mogul shows his point of view from a walk down the entire length of the rapid-transit tunnel underneath LA.
  
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• Llamas may hold the key to a long-lasting flu jab: Scientists discover a protein in the animals

  05-11-2018 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the pharma giant Janssen in Beerse, Belgium, found that when the protein was given to mice, it provided more than nine months' worth of protection against the virus.
  
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• The CIA experienced a major #security oversight after its informants were found on #Google by Iran in 2009, resulti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-11-2018 19:20 via twitter.com
  The CIA experienced a major #security oversight after its informants were found on #Google by Iran in 2009, resulti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Replacing a headlight bulb on a small car can cost up to £846

  05-11-2018 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The complexity of the latest high-powered bulbs means owners of some of the most affordable new cars on the market cannot simply replace them and are forced to purchase entire headlight units.
  
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• Old clothes could be used as water and fire resistant building materials

  05-11-2018 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A science professor and her group of students fromNew South Wales University are recycling unwanted clothes and turning them into solid building materials rather than being sent to landfill.
  
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• Astronomers find the universe's oldest star

  05-11-2018 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new star was formed very early on in the life of the universe when there were no metals, according to experts from Monash University in Australia (stock).
  
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• Ancient Mars was home to large bodies of moving water, study suggests

  05-11-2018 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study argues that many of the rock depositions on the red planet are the result of large bodies of moving water, not just ‘a puny river.’ Floods may have been 20 meters deep.
  
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• Researcher claims trippy 1980s video help explain one of the biggest mysteries in science

  05-11-2018 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Cardiff University professor says consciousness could may be caused by the way the brain generates loops of 'energetic feedback' rather like a video feedback loop.
  
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• Internet giant #Google marks 15 years in Dublin with €1m investment in local city communities. siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…

  05-11-2018 18:45 via twitter.com
  Internet giant #Google marks 15 years in Dublin with €1m investment in local city communities. siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…
  
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• #MostRead Today: Chinese tech giant arrives in Ireland with Three ow.ly/XDEM30mvjxs

  05-11-2018 18:11 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Chinese tech giant arrives in Ireland with Three ow.ly/XDEM30mvjxs
  
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• #MostRead Today: When should I refresh my CV? ow.ly/Qgwc30mvjuw

  05-11-2018 18:10 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: When should I refresh my CV? ow.ly/Qgwc30mvjuw
  
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• #MostRead Today: Is semi-State intervention viable for the National Broadband Plan? ow.ly/rTvm30mvjw9

  05-11-2018 18:10 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Is semi-State intervention viable for the National Broadband Plan? ow.ly/rTvm30mvjw9
  
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• #MostRead Today: Fintech Pip IT Global creates 25 new jobs in Galway ow.ly/jRuk30mvjvj

  05-11-2018 18:10 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Fintech Pip IT Global creates 25 new jobs in Galway ow.ly/jRuk30mvjvj
  
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• #MostRead Today: Nearby, mysterious interstellar object could be extraterrestrial in origin ow.ly/t7lf30mvjsY

  05-11-2018 18:09 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Nearby, mysterious interstellar object could be extraterrestrial in origin ow.ly/t7lf30mvjsY
  
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• The #ecommerce start-up @xSellco, founded by tech entrepreneur @RayNolan, has come first place in the @Deloitte Tec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-11-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  The #ecommerce start-up @xSellco, founded by tech entrepreneur @RayNolan, has come first place in the @Deloitte Tec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Wind farms are the 'new apex predators' as they kill off three QUARTERS of predatory birds

  05-11-2018 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru studied lizard and bird populations at three wind turbine sites in the Western Ghats.
  
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• Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster which he fired into space has now flown past Mars, SpaceX confirms 

  05-11-2018 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tesla Roadster began its journey during the maiden launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral, Florida, earlier this year.
  
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• Could the Arctic Ocean have a speed limit? Scientists say ships should stick to 11.5mph

  05-11-2018 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Victoria produced computer simulations in which ships passed through the western Canadian Arctic via the Northwest Passage (stock image).
  
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• Pakistan's Imran Khan caught in 'begging' broadcast error in China

  05-11-2018 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Pakistan state TV is ridiculed after a speech broadcast from China's capital Beijing shows a typo.
  
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• Mining Bitcoin requires more energy than searching for GOLD

  05-11-2018 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education in Cincinnati calculated the average energy consumed to create one US dollar’s worth of cryptocurrency (stock image).
  
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• Neil Armstrong memorabilia fetches $7.5 million at auction

  05-11-2018 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The items went on sale at Dallas-based Heritage Auctions and were part of a huge collection that once belonged to the late astronaut.
  
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• Apple cuts production of iPhone XR after poor demand for the 'budget' $749 phone, report claims

  05-11-2018 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has told its main smartphone assemblers to stop plans for additional production lines of the iPhone XR, which could signal disappointing demand for the budget smartphone.
  
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• According to @MIT, instead of us trying harder to hear signals from #DeepSpace, we should make it easier for an int… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-11-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  According to @MIT, instead of us trying harder to hear signals from #DeepSpace, we should make it easier for an int… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Apple's iPad Pro: The tablet that makes technology disappear

  05-11-2018 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's new iPad is blazingly fast, gorgeous to look at, and quite simply the best tablet out there - and for a lot of people, probably the best computer out there.
  
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• Orangutan numbers ‘are still in decline’ despite the Indonesian government’s claims

  05-11-2018 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A controversial Indonesian report claimed numbers of the orangutans were increasing in the native Sumatra and Borneo. New research has directly contradicted this.
  
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• Amazon drops its $25 minimum for free shipping ahead of the holidays

  05-11-2018 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart and other rivals.
  
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• Check out Talent Garden’s cool co-working space siliconrepublic.com/careers/talent…

  05-11-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Check out Talent Garden’s cool co-working space siliconrepublic.com/careers/talent…
  
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• Ozone layer will be completely HEALED by the 2060s

  05-11-2018 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The hole in the ozone layerabove Antarctica is slowly healing and will be fully intact over the poles by the 2060s, a United Nations study has found.
  
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• .@Fidelity's Kieran McEnery moved from #Cork to #Boston just five months ago, but he’s already starting to feel at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-11-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  .@Fidelity's Kieran McEnery moved from #Cork to #Boston just five months ago, but he’s already starting to feel at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• CIA informants killed and imprisoned after Iran found them on Google siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cia…

  05-11-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  CIA informants killed and imprisoned after Iran found them on Google siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cia…
  
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• Google generated 1,000 new jobs in Dublin in 2018 siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…

  05-11-2018 16:21 via twitter.com
  Google generated 1,000 new jobs in Dublin in 2018 siliconrepublic.com/companies/goog…
  
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• How artificial intelligence is helping ships to reduce fuel use

  05-11-2018 16:18
  
  Stena Line doesn't want to replace its captains with machines but help them to make their jobs easier and in the process be more friendly to the environment
  
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• Remains of a newly discovered species of dinosaur are uncovered in Argentina

  05-11-2018 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Remains found in central Argentina came from three separate dinosaurs from the herbivorous group of sauropods, the best known of which are the Diplodocus and Brontosaurus.
  
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• Final resting place of 11 British soldiers whose boat sank during WW1 is discovered by divers

  05-11-2018 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The final resting place of 11 British soldiers whose boat sank during the First World War has been discovered after more than a century.
  
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• Dinosaur world 'more colourful than we thought'

  05-11-2018 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Coloured eggs evolved millions of years ago in the dinosaurs and may have functioned as camouflage.
  
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• Ireland is not without options but we must avoid the mistakes of history, writes @MrJohnFKennedy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-11-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Ireland is not without options but we must avoid the mistakes of history, writes @MrJohnFKennedy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ray Nolan’s XSellco tops 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 siliconrepublic.com/companies/xsel…

  05-11-2018 15:35 via twitter.com
  Ray Nolan’s XSellco tops 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 siliconrepublic.com/companies/xsel…
  
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