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• Robots in the field: Farms embrace autonomous technology

  30-11-2018 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Self-driving tractors and robotic milking machines have been in use for years and, more recently, unmanned aerial drones that monitor crops have gone into service.
  
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• NASA spacecraft just days away from rendezvous with asteroid Bennu

  30-11-2018 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On Monday, a NASA probe that’s spent the last two years flying through space will finally reach its destination. Osiris-Rex is set for its rendezvous with ‘Bennu’ around noon on Dec 3.
  
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• Are YOU dating a psychopath? Scientists reveal the signs to look for 

  30-11-2018 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Calli Tzani Pepelasi, a Lecturer in Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, reveals how to tell if your partner is a psychopath.
  
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• Nielsen reveals controversial plan to use tech to play personalized ads on your TV

  30-11-2018 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nielsen will study demographic information like consumers' age and gender to determine which ads to play. The ads then replace the traditional cable ads that play during live TV broadcasts.
  
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• YouPorn hits back at Starbucks' porn crackdown by banning Starbucks from its offices

  30-11-2018 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouPorn, which hosts free adult videos, said it will no longer allow Starbucks products to be used in its offices. The site informed its employees of the move in an internal email on Thursday.
  
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• What black holes REALLY look like: Astronomers say they act like 'fountains'

  30-11-2018 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the new study, researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) observed the supermassive black hole at the center of the Ciricinus galaxy.
  
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• 'You won't be seeing Elon Musk smoking weed again': NASA boss hits out at SpaceX founder

  30-11-2018 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein said Musk's behavior was 'was not helpful, and did not inspire confidence.'
  
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• Puppy digs up 13,000-year-old mammoth tooth

  30-11-2018 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One Washington state puppy is being hailed as a very good dog for his historic find of a genuine woolly mammoth tooth. Eight-month-old Labrador Scout found the ancient artefact in his garden.
  
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• Facebook and Instagram are DOWN: Social media apps crash for users for second time in two weeks

  30-11-2018 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook and Instagram users were unable to login to the social media apps after they crashed unexpectedly. The apps were hit by outages beginning around 11:30am (ET) this morning.
  
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• Denisovans lived on Earth’s highest plateau in Tibet BEFORE modern man

  30-11-2018 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tibetan Plateau has an annual temperature around freezing and is 4,000 metres (12,000 feet) above sea level. Extreme altitude at the plateau makes survival tough.
  
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• Can the UK cope with MORE electric cars?

  30-11-2018 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Regulator Ofgem has approved the three-year project led by a group of companies including British Gas-owner Centrica and Uber.
  
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• The spiders that breastfeed: Species produces mammal-like MILK to nurture its young

  30-11-2018 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in China have discovered a species of spider that produces milk and continues to provide nutrition for its young even after they’re able to find food on their own.
  
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• The bionic bartender! Wine bar in Prague replaces staff with robots

  30-11-2018 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cyberdog in the Czech capital features a robotic bartender who serves drinks ordered through a phone app.
  
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• #Donegal native Ciaran Harvey oversees the IT roll-out across @Pramerica_Ire and its parent company Prudential’s bu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-11-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  #Donegal native Ciaran Harvey oversees the IT roll-out across @Pramerica_Ire and its parent company Prudential’s bu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Search for rat and bat led to reconciliation between Solomon Island indigenous people and Australia

  30-11-2018 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tyrone Lavery, postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, travelled nearly 8,000 miles to find the species in Malaita, one of the Solomon Islands' largest provinces.
  
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• Banning plastic could be more harmful to the environment

  30-11-2018 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh say that replacing plastic with alternate materials such as metal and glass would lead to more energy consumption and triple greenhouse gases.
  
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• AT&T reveals plan to launch streaming service with three subscription tiers in bid to rival Netflix

  30-11-2018 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AT&T's product will include three tiers of service: an entry-level package with movies, a premium tier with original programming and the highest tier will existing content, as well as licensed content.
  
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• November brought with it some surprising announcements and a few industries in particular went on a hiring spree.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-11-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  November brought with it some surprising announcements and a few industries in particular went on a hiring spree.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• #MostRead Today: ‘I will hunt for the best start-ups in Ireland and Europe’ ow.ly/LqxW30mOIDk

  30-11-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: ‘I will hunt for the best start-ups in Ireland and Europe’ ow.ly/LqxW30mOIDk
  
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• #MostRead Today: ESA and Irish start-up blast space AI chip with intense radiation ow.ly/xC0c30mOIEB

  30-11-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: ESA and Irish start-up blast space AI chip with intense radiation ow.ly/xC0c30mOIEB
  
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• #MostRead Today: 33 Irish-based researchers listed among world’s elite scientists ow.ly/HYBm30mOIFs

  30-11-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 33 Irish-based researchers listed among world’s elite scientists ow.ly/HYBm30mOIFs
  
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• #MostRead Today: 10 awesome start-ups from Lausanne to watch ow.ly/ll5d30mOICo

  30-11-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 10 awesome start-ups from Lausanne to watch ow.ly/ll5d30mOICo
  
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• #MostRead Today: ‘We will be Ireland’s telecoms champion’ ow.ly/rGZg30mOIAO

  30-11-2018 17:46 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: ‘We will be Ireland’s telecoms champion’ ow.ly/rGZg30mOIAO
  
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• Businesses need to understand AI before putting it to work

  30-11-2018 17:41
  
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• Mouse-sized creature in North America 56 million years ago earliest ancestor of modern primates

  30-11-2018 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The earliest-known ancestor of modern primates, including humans, roamed North America 56 million years ago.
  
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• New Zealand whales: Why are so many getting stranded?

  30-11-2018 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Illness, warmer waters and the fact that pilot whales travel in sociable groups could all play a role.
  
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• New Zealand beached whales: Why are so many getting stranded?

  30-11-2018 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Illness, warmer waters and the fact that pilot whales travel in sociable groups could all play a role.
  
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• Amazon to allow Apple Music on its Echo speakers

  30-11-2018 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon revealed on Friday that Apple Music will become available on its Echo smart speakers starting Dec. 17, signaling increasing collaboration between the tech heavyweights
  
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• Health Secretary Matt Hancock accused of breaking ethics rules

  30-11-2018 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour demands an ethics probe after health secretary talks about "GP at Hand" app in an interview.
  
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• The CRISPR gene-edited baby scandal: Podcast 396

  30-11-2018 15:57
  
  We explain what you can really do to be more environmentally friendly and investigate the biggest scientific scandal of the year
  
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• Western Auto Giants Accused Of Spying On Citizens For Chinese Government

  30-11-2018 15:35 via technocracy.news
  Ford, Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW and 200 more carmakers are feeding location data to the Chinese government. That this data would not be used to augment citizen oppression is inconceivable. The fact is, electric autos already transmit location data to the automaker; they are merely turning it over to control-freak Technocrats. Americans should take a very hard look at Tesla and Ford, remembering the Elon Musk’s grandfather was the Canadian leader of Technocracy, Inc. in Canada during the 1930s
  
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• .@DublinCityUni's Dr Sithara Sreenilayam Pavithran speaks to @claireoconnell about her research into liquid crystal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-11-2018 15:20 via twitter.com
  .@DublinCityUni's Dr Sithara Sreenilayam Pavithran speaks to @claireoconnell about her research into liquid crystal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch charged with fraud in the US

  30-11-2018 15:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Founder of UK software giant is charged with fraud seven years after the firm's sale to Hewlett-Packard.
  
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• Fear that uproar over gene-edited babies could block science

  30-11-2018 15:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists working on the frontiers of medicine fear that uproar over thebirths of gene-edited babies in China could jeopardise their research. He Jiankui confirmed this at a conference in Hong Kong.
  
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• Facebook admits COO Sheryl Sandberg REQUESTED info on billionaire George Soros

  30-11-2018 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a statement on Thursday, Facebook admitted that Sandberg had sent an email asking whether Soros had shorted the company's stock.
  
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• Today's featured employer is @ACIA_ie. Find out more about the company here: siliconrepublic.com/employers/life… https://t.co/VCvdOUwq0O

  30-11-2018 14:50 via twitter.com
  
  Today's featured employer is @ACIA_ie. Find out more about the company here: siliconrepublic.com/employers/life… https://t.co/VCvdOUwq0O
  
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• Instagram's now lets you pick ‘Close Friends’ to share your snaps with

  30-11-2018 14:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The idea behind the move, launched by the Menlo Park, California, based firm is that people may feel more comfortable sharing some things with just close friends, rather than all followers.
  
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• Marriott hack hits 500 million Starwood guests

  30-11-2018 14:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The hotel chain says details of up to 500 million guests may have been accessed in a database breach.
  
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• #Starbucks will enforce a block on pornographic content over its #WiFi starting next year. siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/sta…

  30-11-2018 14:20 via twitter.com
  #Starbucks will enforce a block on pornographic content over its #WiFi starting next year. siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/sta…
  
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• Is a space war brewing? Russia announces it will establish a lunar colony by 2040

  30-11-2018 14:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The announcement was made at a joint meeting of the Moscow-based Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos and the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (stock image).
  
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• Google staff pledge cash to striking workmates

  30-11-2018 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The cash would be used to support any staff striking over Google's work on a search engine for China.
  
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• Mysterious 'cigar-shaped' UFO spotted hovering in the sky

  30-11-2018 13:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage of the motionless 'cigar-shaped' mass over the town of Keller confused locals and was shared by YouTube channel ' TexasUFOs '.
  
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• Tech giant HP Inc has reported strong Q4 revenues of $15.4bn, yielding it a tidy $1.5bn in net income. #HP #earnings siliconrepublic.com/companies/hp-i…

  30-11-2018 13:50 via twitter.com
  Tech giant HP Inc has reported strong Q4 revenues of $15.4bn, yielding it a tidy $1.5bn in net income. #HP #earnings siliconrepublic.com/companies/hp-i…
  
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• Want to boost your #creativity? Here's how to do it. #SoftSkills #CareerAdvice siliconrepublic.com/advice/boost-c…

  30-11-2018 13:20 via twitter.com
  Want to boost your #creativity? Here's how to do it. #SoftSkills #CareerAdvice siliconrepublic.com/advice/boost-c…
  
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• #Productivity tool for labs @PlanDominoLabs has won €30,000 in follow-on investment from the @NDRC_hq at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-11-2018 12:50 via twitter.com
  #Productivity tool for labs @PlanDominoLabs has won €30,000 in follow-on investment from the @NDRC_hq at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Luck of the IRISH: New Zealand man discovers the accent of the Emerald Isle cured his stutter

  30-11-2018 12:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  28-year-old Nick Prosser (pictured), from Rotorua, New Zealand , spent his entire life struggling with a stutter but cured his affliction by putting on an Irish accent.
  
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• WIRED Book Club: We're reading Hello World, by Hannah Fry

  30-11-2018 12:30
  
  In her book Hello World, mathematician Hannah Fry explores the algorithms that work with, for and against us. Join us in reading for the inaugural WIRED Book Club
  
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• Work management platform for teams @Asana has raised $50m in a Series E round that values the company at $1.5bn.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-11-2018 12:20 via twitter.com
  Work management platform for teams @Asana has raised $50m in a Series E round that values the company at $1.5bn.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tragedy as nearly 100 whales are left stranded after washing up on a New Zealand beach

  30-11-2018 12:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dozens of whales have washed up dead off the coast of New Zealand in the fifth stranding in less than a week. One of the mammals was in such bad shape that rangers were forced to euthanize him.
  
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• Tesco to install 2,500 free electric car charging points for shoppers at 600 stores across the UK

  30-11-2018 11:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based Pod Point will install the charging points. A standard 7kW charger will be free, with a faster 50kW charger available for £6.50 for half an hour’s use.
  
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