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• NASA's Juno spacecraft captures incredible image of the colorful clouds swirling over Jupiter

  10-12-2018 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The spacecraft completed its 16th close flyby of the giant planet this past October, revealing some of our best glimpses yet at its fascinating atmospheric processes.
  
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• Google to kill off Google+ even sooner after new bug reveals personal info of 52.5 million customers

  10-12-2018 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google is to shut down its Google+ social media service in April, four months ahead of schedule, after finding a software flaw for the second time this year.
  
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• Instagram launches 'walkie-talkie' voice chat feature for direct messages with friends

  10-12-2018 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Soon, sending a message on Instagram will be as easy as pushing a button.The firm is set to launch a new voice chat feature on the app that lets users record a message and send it to a friend.
  
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• East Antarctica's glaciers are 'waking up': NASA study warns

  10-12-2018 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers say a group of glaciers spanning one-eighth of East Antarctica’s coast are losing ice.
  
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• Women are 25 per cent less likely to be recommended for a job

  10-12-2018 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study led by New York University asked more than 1,150 people to recommend two candidates for a job. Both sexes are less likely to recommend a woman for a job that requires 'brilliance'.
  
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• Human activity could cause Earth's climate to revert to ice-free state not seen in 50 million years

  10-12-2018 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has found that human activity is reversing the long-term cooling trend that’s taken place since the Eocene epoch, when the planet was warm and largely free of ice.
  
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• It takes just six months to decide if someone is marriage material

  10-12-2018 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at the University of Chicago say their results shows we are faster to make a judgement than we believe we are - and a lot less choosy - than we might believe.
  
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• NASA 'hits jackpot' in mission to bring back a sample from an asteroid as Bennu contains water

  10-12-2018 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has found water locked deep inside the asteroid Bennu. It arrived at the asteroid last week, and NASA hopes to bring a sample back to Earth.  
  
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• The science behind how catnip drives cats crazy - and how it could be used to help cancer patients

  10-12-2018 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research has given scientists a big clue about how catnip produces its intoxicating chemical. And they believe that catnip, once reserved for cats, could one day help humans fight cancer.
  
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• Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

  10-12-2018 20:35 via go.theregister.com
  The veteran probe that keeps going has now gone where only Voyager 1 has gone before NASA’s Voyager 2 probe has followed its sibling, Voyager 1, into interstellar space, according to the team managing the veteran spacecraft.…
  
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• New Horizons will reach the distant asteroid Ultima Thule on New Year's Day

  10-12-2018 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The project has spent more than a decade hurtling through the Solar System since it launched on January 19, 2006 from Cape Canaveral and passed Pluto in 2015.
  
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• YouTube yearly recap becomes site’s second most-disliked video ever

  10-12-2018 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users complained that popular Swedish commentator PewDiePie and vlogger Paul Logan were not featured in the their annual recap video Youtube Rewind 2018.
  
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• Facebook bans users who talk about their sex lives in crackdown

  10-12-2018 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Social media giant Facebook has quietly introduced a new policy banning the people from using 'dirty talk' on their platform. The California based company has also forbidden 'sexual slang'.
  
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• Scientists brew REAL lava and blow it up to better understand volcanoes 

  10-12-2018 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University at Buffalo ran 12 experiments in the lab using 10-gallon vats of homemade lava to test what happens when molten rock and water meet.
  
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• America's return to manned spaceflight delayed AGAIN as NASA pushes back crucial SpaceX test flight 

  10-12-2018 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first, uncrewed, test of the craft was due for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 7, NASA - but this has now been pushed back until January 17th
  
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• Shocking report reveals how your apps track your every move and share the data with advertisers

  10-12-2018 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of popular apps, like the Weather Channel and GasBudy, are collecting location data that they claim is anonymous, but further analysis shows it can be linked to specific users.
  
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• City frogs boast sexiest love songs, experts say

  10-12-2018 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers compared the mating calls of the tiny male tungara frogs living in Panama City and those living in the nearby tropical forests.
  
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• An international team of researchers has found substantial evidence showing life may have been on earth far longer… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-12-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  An international team of researchers has found substantial evidence showing life may have been on earth far longer… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'Outdated' IT and old computers found in Welsh schools

  10-12-2018 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Schools are too far behind technology such as smartphones and iPads in teaching IT, a watchdog says.
  
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• The @DPCIreland is examining some voluntary disclosures relating to alleged #DataBreaches at Independent News and M… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-12-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  The @DPCIreland is examining some voluntary disclosures relating to alleged #DataBreaches at Independent News and M… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New infographic reveals exactly how much YOU earn compared to billionaires

  10-12-2018 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Albuquerque-born billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (pictured) tops the list with a mind-boggling £620,000 earned each week and the £28,600 average UK salary in just 28 seconds.
  
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• Tiny droplets of matter that made up the early universe created in the lab

  10-12-2018 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team led by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder have created droplets of the primordial soup that was created after the Big Bang. They found droplets can take on three shapes.
  
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• Social media tops print as news source for Americans:...

  10-12-2018 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Social media has overtaken print newspapers as a news source for Americans, researchers at Pew found.
  
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• #SciTech100 2019: 30 sci-tech leaders we’ll be following in 2019 @DMcKenzieCIO @gemllo @iamcal @Medb01 @v_vashishta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-12-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  #SciTech100 2019: 30 sci-tech leaders we’ll be following in 2019 @DMcKenzieCIO @gemllo @iamcal @Medb01 @v_vashishta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Barely living 'zombie' bacteria in Deep Earth are made up of 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon

  10-12-2018 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On the eve of the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in Washington, scientists revealed how much life is in the deep subsurface of Earth.
  
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• Churches at West Bank site where many believe Jesus was baptised are reopened after mines cleared 

  10-12-2018 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Churches in the 'land of the monasteries' in the Jericho-area wilderness were closed off for fifty years after the Six Day War in 1967. Now, three of them have finallybeen accessed.
  
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• Nasa's Voyager 2 becomes the second man-made object to leave our solar system

  10-12-2018 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Voyager 2 becomes the second man-made object to leave our solar system it was revealed at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington.
  
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• #MostRead Today: MathWorks adds 85 new jobs in Galway siliconrepublic.com/jobs/mathworks…

  10-12-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: MathWorks adds 85 new jobs in Galwaysiliconrepublic.com/jobs/mathworks…
  
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• #MostRead Today: Are the leaders of today ready for the workforce of tomorrow? siliconrepublic.com/careers/future…

  10-12-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Are the leaders of today ready for the workforce of tomorrow? siliconrepublic.com/careers/future…
  
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• #MostRead Today: AIB sprints into fintech action with Fitbit Pay service siliconrepublic.com/companies/aib-…

  10-12-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: AIB sprints into fintech action with Fitbit Pay service siliconrepublic.com/companies/aib-…
  
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• #MostRead Today: 30 sci-tech leaders we’ll be following in 2019 siliconrepublic.com/companies/sci-…

  10-12-2018 17:36 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 30 sci-tech leaders we’ll be following in 2019 siliconrepublic.com/companies/sci-…
  
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• Apple denies iPhone sales ban in China

  10-12-2018 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Chip-maker Qualcomm says it has won an injunction against Apple in a continuing dispute over intellectual property.
  
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• Apple denies iPhone import ban in China

  10-12-2018 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Chip-maker Qualcomm says it has won an injunction against Apple in a continuing dispute over intellectual property.
  
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• Global warming is causing more snow to fall on Antarctica

  10-12-2018 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered that the increased amount of snow on Antarctica has helped offset rates of twentieth-century global sea-level rise by a third.
  
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• Himalayan and other Asian glaciers put the brakes on

  10-12-2018 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The ice streams that flow down the flanks of Asia's high mountains are moving slower as they thin.
  
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• Want to know what it's like working as a #graduate in @JNJVision in #Limerick? siliconrepublic.com/people/jnj-vis…

  10-12-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Want to know what it's like working as a #graduate in @JNJVision in #Limerick? siliconrepublic.com/people/jnj-vis…
  
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• Tim Ball: Is Robert Mueller A Technocrat Operative?

  10-12-2018 16:37 via technocracy.news
  This is how America is perceived by one free-thinking Canadian. TN believes that the all-consuming controversies in Washington are nothing more that a smokescreen to hide massive Technocrat advances throughout America. ⁃ TN EditorI don’t think I witnessed anything more anti-democratic, anti-freedom, and anti-everything I always thought America stood for than the actions of the MuelIer Special Counsel. I always thought entrapment was a crime. One definition says,
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• Qualcomm wins import ban against several Apple iPhones...

  10-12-2018 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  American chip maker Qualcomm Inc on Monday said it had won a preliminary order from a Chinese court to ban the import and sale of several Apple Inc iPhone models in China.
  
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• Ireland eyes the future with projects range from community-based energy generation to #photonics, new #polymers and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-12-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  Ireland eyes the future with projects range from community-based energy generation to #photonics, new #polymers and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Argo finds that ocean stores 90% of the Earth's heat and water is getting saltier

  10-12-2018 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study by scientists from the United States, China, France, and Germany has found that the Earth's oceans store up 90 per cent of the Earth's heat, according to data from Argo.
  
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• Amount of deep life on Earth quantified

  10-12-2018 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Having dug and drilled into the Earth, scientists can now estimate how much life exists at depth.
  
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• Technocracy In China Completely Intolerant Of Christian Churches

  10-12-2018 16:04 via technocracy.news
  Scientism believes that truth is only discovered through scientific inquiry, not by faith or religious books. Thus, there is zero tolerance for practicing Christianity and Christians are branded as being anti-government. ⁃ TN EditorAbout 100 worshipers at an unofficial church in southwestern China were snatched from their homes or from the streets in coordinated raids which began on Sunday evening.Chinese authorities targeted members of the Early Rain Covenant Church across various distric
  
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• People with masculine features are viewed to be better at their job than those with feminine looks

  10-12-2018 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A researcher from Princeton University in New Jersey has found that testosterone levels and masculine features are directly related to the perception of a man's talent.
  
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• Australia Sets Legal Precedent For Cyber Snooping

  10-12-2018 15:42 via technocracy.news
  Governments are cracking down on cyber-security and privacy by demanding access to all electronic devices at will. There is no clear definition of who is a “suspected” terrorist or criminal. ⁃ TN EditorAustralia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications of suspected terrorists and criminals, as experts warned the “unprecedented powers” had far-reaching implications for global cybersecurity.
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• In the run-up to Christmas, you might want to set aside some time later this week to stare into the night sky to se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-12-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  In the run-up to Christmas, you might want to set aside some time later this week to stare into the night sky to se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Elon Musk says Tesla's new chairwoman Robyn Denholm will not rein him in

  10-12-2018 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking with CBS's 60 Minutes, Musk played down the power that Robyn Denholm, Tesla's new chairwoman, has over him.
  
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• Huawei Honor View20 and Samsung A8s have hole-punch cameras

  10-12-2018 15:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Two smartphones with cameras encircled by their screens are launched within hours of each other.
  
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• Where did the Sun come from?

  10-12-2018 14:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Earth would be a frozen lump of rock without the energy created from our nearest star.
  
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• Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

  10-12-2018 14:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Voyager 2, a space probe launched in 1977, becomes only the second human-made object to enter the space between the stars.
  
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• China's new games censors take tough stance

  10-12-2018 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A panel of experts bans nine mobile games and sends another 11 back for changes.
  
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