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• The wax hand that let hackers trick vein authentication security scanners

  31-12-2018 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two hackers managed to trick a vein scanning system just by using a simple wax hand. In doing so, they were able to bypass scanners manufactured by Hitachi and Fujitsu.
  
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• Interplanetary 'jetlag' and personality clashes are biggest obstacles facing a mission to Mars

  31-12-2018 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'The biggest hurdles to Mars settlement are not technical but psychological,' said Dr Federico Caprotti, of the University of Exeter.
  
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• Popsugar app that matches selfies with celebrities exposed personal photos, report claims

  31-12-2018 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twinning lets users upload a photo of themselves to a database, which then generates a celebrity lookalike. However, any ofthe photos can be publicly accessed via code in Popsugar's website.
  
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• How YOU can stay safe online in 2019: The six tips to overhaul your online life

  31-12-2018 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From deleting old apps to using multi factor authentication, Elissa Redmiles of the University of Maryland reveals how to stay safe online in 2019.
  
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• Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky reveal radical SB>1 Defiant 'supercopter'

  31-12-2018 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called SB>1 Defiant, the radical craft is being built by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky - and has been revealed for the first time. It will fly twice as fast as current helicopters.'
  
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• Nasa's New Horizons: Final commands given to distant probe

  31-12-2018 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft is all set for its dramatic encounter with a far-off icy world.
  
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• The shuttle flies again! NASA gives go-ahead for 'Dream Chaser' mini spaceplane

  31-12-2018 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called the Dream Chaser, its maker Sierra Nevada Corp hopes it could begin to deliver cargo to the International Space Station beginning in 'late 2020'.
  
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• AI creates fake fingerprints that are so realistic they could hack into a THIRD of smartphones

  31-12-2018 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have revealed a radical AI system that can 'copy' a fingerprint, raising major questions over the security of phones and other devices that rely on them.
  
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• Tesla shares video of a Model 3 being assembled from start to finish

  31-12-2018 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla has given a glimpse into what it takes to build a Model 3. In a new video, titled 'How a Model 3 gets made,' the electric carmaker breaks down the general assembly process in a 48-second timelapse.
  
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• China flaunts its new lightweight battle tank during a live-fire drill 

  31-12-2018 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dramatic footage of China's latest lightweight battle tank participating a live-fire drill has emerged. The Type 15 tank was designed to safeguard the country's plateau regions, such as Tibet.
  
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• China has built an antennae FIVE times the size of New York City

  31-12-2018 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Chinese authorities have not released the exact location of the facility to the public, but it is believed to be in the Huazhong region.
  
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• Did 2018 usher in a creeping tech dystopia?

  31-12-2018 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  2018 was the year when technology's dystopian potential became clear, from Facebook's role enabling harvesting ofpersonal datato a seemingly unending series of tech revelations
  
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• Wishing all our readers a very Happy New Year! 🥂The SR team has lots of great content planned for 2019, so stay tuned!

  31-12-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Wishing all our readers a very Happy New Year! 🥂The SR team has lots of great content planned for 2019, so stay tuned!
  
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• Popular apps are sharing user data with Facebook without users' consent, report claims

  31-12-2018 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some Android apps have been sharing data with Facebook without users' knowledge. In some cases, they were sharing data with the social media giant even if users' didn't have a Facebook account.
  
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• NASA team makes final preparations for historic flyby of the farthest object EVER visited

  31-12-2018 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly past the mysterious object at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday, when it will become the most distant world ever explored by humankind.
  
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• Fortnite celebrates the New Year with FOURTEEN fireworks 

  31-12-2018 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fortnite's developer's, Epic Games, are based in Chapel hill,North Carolina and it has rolled-out 14 fireworks at three locations on the map.
  
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• Controversial WhatsApp update will bring ADVERTS to the popular messaging platform in the New Year 

  31-12-2018 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook-owned WhatsApp in Menlo Park, California, is beginning to implement adverts in the status feature of WhatsApp.
  
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• Ministers invest millions in swarm of tiny 1cm micro-robots that can fix leaks in underground pipes

  31-12-2018 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grants totalling £26.6millionwill fund projects including the development of tiny devices to repair cracks in pipes without the need to dig up roads.
  
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• Is cash going extinct? Companies turning backs on notes and coins

  31-12-2018 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chain restaurants Sweetgreen and Dig Inn in the US have already stopped accepting cash. Starbucks and UK pubs are also moving towards card and contactless.
  
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• As we face into the new year, we look at what the hottest tech jobs will be in 2019. #infosec #cloud #apps #data siliconrepublic.com/jobs/hottest-t…

  31-12-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  As we face into the new year, we look at what the hottest tech jobs will be in 2019. #infosec #cloud #apps #data siliconrepublic.com/jobs/hottest-t…
  
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• Volunteers collect ONE TONNE of plastic waste

  31-12-2018 15:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Environmentalists claim the rubbish, found at Worbarrow Bay in Dorset, included three 25-litre drums of used engine oil. They claim this could have 'decimated' the local environment.
  
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• Warring finches and a forest feud are among the pictures shortlisted for a top photography prize

  31-12-2018 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A tense standoff between a bison and a stag in a snowy Romanian forest was among the amazing pictures shortlisted for an international photo prize.
  
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• Severn Bridge shuts as drone flown from tower

  31-12-2018 14:54 via bbc.co.uk
  A man was arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance after a 30-minute closure.
  
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• Net's founding father Dr Larry Roberts dies aged 81

  31-12-2018 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Dr Roberts was chief scientist in charge of designing and building the tech that became the internet.
  
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• Geomagnetic storms sound like crackly 'laser guns’ when transformed into audio files 

  31-12-2018 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unusual sounds were detected at a remote research station by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). An antennae underneath Earth's field picked up the signal (Stock).
  
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• #SciTech100 2019: @Karlavish @TheSineadBurke @astrostarbright @zophilpott @trionabutler @EIRSAT1 @spain_elaine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-12-2018 13:00 via twitter.com
  #SciTech100 2019: @Karlavish @TheSineadBurke @astrostarbright @zophilpott @trionabutler @EIRSAT1 @spain_elaine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Professor named three newly-discovered beetle species after three dragons in Game of Thrones

  31-12-2018 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The beetles are called drogoni, rhaegali and viserioni - Latin versions of Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion. Two can be found in Colombia and Ecuador, while rhaegali is in the French Guiana.
  
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• Drone to watch over New Year celebration in New York

  31-12-2018 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The NYPD will use camera-equipped drones to watch over New Year's Eve celebrations.
  
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• Pete Tong NYE 'balloon drop' cancelled after protests

  31-12-2018 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Organisers had planned to release 130,000 balloons at a Manila nightclub to ring in the new year.
  
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• Mother of the Hubble: Tributes paid to Nasa scientist

  31-12-2018 10:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Dr Nancy Grace Roman, the first woman to hold a senior leadership position at Nasa, has died at 93.
  
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• This is why we need to start treating ageing as a disease

  31-12-2018 07:00
  
  The next medical frontier is extending the human lifespan. But changing the definition of ageing is still a huge obstacle
  
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• The tasty tale of how whisky is being dragged into the future

  31-12-2018 07:00
  
  The Macallan distillery has embarked on Scottish whisky's most ambitious project: harnessing new technology to quench the global thirst for luxury single malts
  
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• Nasa's New Horizons is about to make its latest deep space flyby

  31-12-2018 07:00
  
  A billion miles from Pluto, New Horizons is all set for its close encounter with one of the most mysterious objects in the solar system
  
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• Nasa's New Horizons is about to make an amazing deep space flyby

  31-12-2018 07:00
  
  A billion miles from Pluto, New Horizons is all set for its close encounter with one of the most mysterious objects in the solar system
  
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• Tim Ball: Radical Environmentalism And Global Warming Fanaticism Are Patently Anti-Human

  31-12-2018 06:55 via technocracy.news
  The radical animal rights group PETA states, “Mankind is a cancer; we’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”  It’s hard to imagine such blatantly illogical anti-human rhetoric delivered by other humans, and yet the whole radical environmental movement is in sync with this ideology that man is the cause of everything bad on earth. ⁃ TN EditorTechnocratic environmentalists converted and perverted environmentalism from a necessary and better wa
  
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• Jerry Brown Likens Global Warming To Fighting Nazis In WWII

  31-12-2018 06:32 via technocracy.news
  Jerry Brown and Al Gore share a common delusion about global warming, and the resultant radical alarmism that always seems to accompany it. Is Global Warming really an enemy of humanity like Hitler in WWII? ⁃ TN EditorCalifornia Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown warned that America and the rest of the world are falling behind in the fight against climate change and likened the challenge to fighting the Nazis in World War II.
  In an interview for Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” the ou
  
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• Rose-scented air fresheners in cars can reduce the number of crashes, scientists claim 

  31-12-2018 01:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Sussex University have found that in driving simulators, spraying a pleasant, calming smell at drivers reduced the number of accidents.
  
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