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• Grub's up! Can insect pet food cut dogs' carbon pawprint?

  10-01-2019 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Love your dog, but worried about the environmental impact of their meat-heavy diet? Now one British company is offering a solution - feed your pooch insects instead.
  
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• Samsung will FINALLY unveil its folding phone alongside Galaxy S10 on February 20th

  10-01-2019 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung will unveil its much anticipated folding phone and the Galaxy S10 on February 20th in San Francisco,it is expected.
  
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• Birth of a black hole or neutron star is captured for the first time

  10-01-2019 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Northwestern University studying a celestial object called AT2018cow have concluded it may be the first time the formation of a new black hole or neutron star has been captured.
  
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• long-duration space missions cause crippling back pain that can last for up to four YEARS

  10-01-2019 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronauts who spend several months on the International Space Station have significant reductions in the size and density of key muscles in their spine after returning to Earth, reports a study in Spine.
  
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• Facebook launches UK fact-checking initiative to combat...

  10-01-2019 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world´s biggest social network has partnered with charity Full Fact to review material but not remove it from the platform.
  
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• Robots walk, talk, pour beer and take over CES tech show

  10-01-2019 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robots that walk, talk, pour beer and play pingpong have taken over the CES gadget show in Las Vegas again. Just don't expect to find one in your home any time soon.
  
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• Ocean temperatures rising faster than previously...

  10-01-2019 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world´s oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world's growing climate-changing emissions, scientists said Thursday.
  
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• Easter Island's famous statues marked where inhabitants could drink fresh water

  10-01-2019 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Easter Island's famous statues are 'tightly linked' to sources of drinkable freshwater, scientists claim. They were erected to indicate the best sources of water on the otherwise parched island.
  
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• 'Megathrust' earthquake could strike at any time, triggering tsunami potentially levelling cities 

  10-01-2019 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 'megathrust' earthquake caused by a rupture along New Zealand's largest fault line is a question of 'when', not 'if' according to experts.
  
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• South Africa sniffer dog intercepts 116kg of rhino horn

  10-01-2019 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The haul, worth more than $1.3m (£1m), is one of the largest seized in South Africa in recent years.
  
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• Sex comes before emotional bonding in modern relationships

  10-01-2019 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologists, from the University of Rochester in New York and the IDC Herzliya in Israel, have found that physical intimacy helps people form deep emotional bonds.
  
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• CES 2019: Skin printer wipes years from your face

  10-01-2019 18:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Procter & Gamble has developed a handheld device that precisely covers blemishes.
  
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• The #Hubble Space Telescope couldn’t miss the glare from a powerful quasar found in #DeepSpace, and astronomers don… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 18:50 via twitter.com
  The #Hubble Space Telescope couldn’t miss the glare from a powerful quasar found in #DeepSpace, and astronomers don… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Winter is coming... Stunning digital image shows New York through the seasons in a single image

  10-01-2019 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Created by Paul Siebert, who works for New York helicopter tour firm FlyNYON, it was made by blending together two images from the 'perfect viewpoint' over Manhattan.
  
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• Apple AirPods Live Listen tool can eavesdrop on you from another room

  10-01-2019 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Live Listen was rolled out globally with iOS 12 and allows people to pick up sounds detectedby the microphone of their iPhone and hear it through their AirPods.
  
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• British professor wins £23,500 prize for improving Einstein's theory of general relativity

  10-01-2019 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gustav Holzegel, from Imperial College London, won the prestigious Blavatnik Award for his work understanding what happens when a black hole is shaken.
  
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• New speed cameras that snare drivers on phone, eating or smoking

  10-01-2019 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New speed cameras that use infrared to catch drivers who become distracted at the wheel have been spotted on the road in Plymouth, Devon, and are being rolled out across the country.
  
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• Plans to make EXTINCT woolly mammoth a protected species in bid to halt evil ivory trade 

  10-01-2019 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There is a growing trade in mammoth ivory recovered from tundra in areas like Siberia, with a licence which can be used to launder illegal elephant ivory, says The Humane Society International.
  
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• Amazon to invest in French firm's technology for...

  10-01-2019 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon could build a stake of almost a third in warehouse robotics firm Balyo in the next seven years as part of the new deal
  
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• Another fantastic day at @BTYSTE included ideas for safer cars, greener fuel and better learning. #BTYSE2019 siliconrepublic.com/innovation/bt-…

  10-01-2019 18:05 via twitter.com
  Another fantastic day at @BTYSTE included ideas for safer cars, greener fuel and better learning. #BTYSE2019 siliconrepublic.com/innovation/bt-…
  
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• Britain's new £120m F-35B Lightning stealth jet is declared ready for combat

  10-01-2019 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking today at RAF Marham in Norfolk, the Defence Secretary said the fleet of supersonic jets are now ready for combat and promised the air force could 'dominate the skies into the 2040s'.
  
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• #MostRead Today: Irish Parkinson’s app that improves walking and speech gets major approval ow.ly/CJGF30ngrWo

  10-01-2019 17:54 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Irish Parkinson’s app that improves walking and speech gets major approval ow.ly/CJGF30ngrWo
  
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• #MostRead Today: Could cars be bigger than computers for Intel? ow.ly/EEmM30ngrX4

  10-01-2019 17:54 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: Could cars be bigger than computers for Intel? ow.ly/EEmM30ngrX4
  
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• Parents who reward their children's good behaviour with extra screen time

  10-01-2019 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Guelph in Canada concluded that children who get rewarded with more screen time, adopt a habit that tends to continue throughout their lives.
  
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• #MostRead Today: What you need to know ow.ly/i2Iq30ngrUq

  10-01-2019 17:53 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: What you need to know ow.ly/i2Iq30ngrUq
  
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• #MostRead Today: IBM reveals an entire standalone quantum computer at CES ow.ly/zVw230ngrVG

  10-01-2019 17:53 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: IBM reveals an entire standalone quantum computer at CES ow.ly/zVw230ngrVG
  
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• #MostRead Today: 12 daring Dublin start-ups to watch ow.ly/qeyv30ngrSV

  10-01-2019 17:53 via twitter.com
  #MostRead Today: 12 daring Dublin start-ups to watch ow.ly/qeyv30ngrSV
  
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• Pedal while you work: $399 smart exercise bike replaces your office chair

  10-01-2019 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cancel your gym membership. At CES, Chinese company Loctek took the wraps off 'Deskcise,' a desk with an exercise bike attached that lets the rider pedal while they work.
  
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• $550 headset could 'train your brain' to choose healthy foods

  10-01-2019 17:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The meditation headset was on show at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and can also help kick nicotine addiction, its makers claim.
  
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• How T-Mobile, Sprint & AT&T Sell Your Smartphone Geo-Location Data

  10-01-2019 17:44 via technocracy.news
  Are you happy that every Tom, Dick and Harry in the world can pinpoint your location and track your whereabouts like the CIA? Mega-carriers apparently gain huge profits by selling your location data to private, and often shady, data mining companies, who in turn sell it to others. This makes mockery of every privacy agreement ever offered by these companies. ⁃ TN EditorT-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in t
  
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• Dig for Victory! Royal Horticultural Society appeals for photos of wartime vegetable plots

  10-01-2019 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Royal Horticultural Society, based in London, wants to gather photographs of the wartime fruit and vegetables patches and allotments to plug a gap in our historical knowledge.
  
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• Scientists prove men are more sensitive to pain than women

  10-01-2019 17:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A professor of pain studies at McGill University found men remember earlier painful experiences with more clarity than women and, as a result, get more stressed to later pain in the same place.
  
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• Facebook Employees Accuse It Of Being Cult-Like

  10-01-2019 17:24 via technocracy.news
  There are a number of factors, including culture, peer-pressure and job evaluation processes, all of which spin into an internal echo-chamber that produces the Technocrat group-think that so angers outsiders. ⁃ TN EditorAt a company-wide town hall in early October, numerous Facebook employees got in line to speak about their experiences with sexual harassment.
  The company called the special town hall after head of policy Joel Kaplan caused an internal uproar for appearing at the congressio
  
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• Google backed on limiting search results over right to be forgotten

  10-01-2019 17:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The search engine giant sought to limit the law's scope, after France asked for a global extension.
  
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• Tokyo launches six-foot robots to help visitors ahead of 2020 Olympic Games

  10-01-2019 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tokyo government is trying out a robot that will provide tourists with information ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games that they are hosting in preparation for the influx of foreign tourists.
  
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• AI Will Take 40 Percent Of White, Blue Collar Jobs In 15 Years

  10-01-2019 17:07 via technocracy.news
  This prediction comes from a Chinese venture capitalist based in China who is intent on investing huge sums of capital to make it so. Technocrats have no restraint when it comes to disrupting society, and worse, they have no answers on how to lessen the blows. Lee is formerly head of Google’s China operations. ⁃ TN EditorIn as soon as 15 years, 40 percent of the world’s jobs could be done by machines, according to one of the world’s foremost experts on artificial intellig
  
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• .@VodafoneIreland says its new Gigabox modem and app will provide faster wireless speeds and better coverage.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 17:03 via twitter.com
  .@VodafoneIreland says its new Gigabox modem and app will provide faster wireless speeds and better coverage.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Archaeologists restore ancient Palmyra artefacts in Damascus museum

  10-01-2019 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists at the National Museum of Damascus are working to restore ancient stone statues from Palmyra after they were damaged by Islamic State.
  
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• Signals from space: Five theories on what they are

  10-01-2019 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Mysterious cosmic signals have been picked up. What are they and where do they come from?
  
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• ‘Ghosting’ has now arrived in the workplace as employees end things without so much as a goodbye. #workplace #jobs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 16:01 via twitter.com
  ‘Ghosting’ has now arrived in the workplace as employees end things without so much as a goodbye. #workplace #jobs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• China moon rover 'Jade Rabbit' gets back to work

  10-01-2019 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China's lunar rover got back to work on the far side of the moon after waking from a five-day hibernation, its official social media page revealed.
  
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• Quantum: Handover for fully flexible satellite

  10-01-2019 15:06 via bbc.co.uk
  UK engineers complete the build of a novel software-defined telecoms satellite called Quantum.
  
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• Anak Krakatau: Finnish radar satellite eyes tsunami volcano

  10-01-2019 15:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The innovative ICEYE radar spacecraft views the changing shape of the collapsed volcano.
  
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• The Government wants to help more small businesses in Ireland develop their #ecommerce capabilities over the coming… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 15:00 via twitter.com
  The Government wants to help more small businesses in Ireland develop their #ecommerce capabilities over the coming… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@HeatherM_OBE tells @AnnODeaSR that the time of industry minorities putting up with inequality and bad behaviour i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 14:42 via twitter.com
  .@HeatherM_OBE tells @AnnODeaSR that the time of industry minorities putting up with inequality and bad behaviour i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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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/K5AsROmS5c

  10-01-2019 14:30 via twitter.com
  
  Today's featured employer is @ACIA_ie. Find out more about the company here:siliconrepublic.com/employers/life… https://t.co/K5AsROmS5c
  
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• Prehistoric 60-ft long cannibal 'King Lizard' feasted on WHALES

  10-01-2019 14:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Killer whales may be the modern day "wolves of the sea" but 35 million years ago it was the 15-meter-long ancient whale Basilosaurus isis taking a bite out the competition.
  
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• We're at the @InspirefestHQ leaders' lunch at #btyste with BT Ireland MD @WalshShay, keynote speaker @HeatherM_OBE,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 14:16 via twitter.com
  We're at the @InspirefestHQ leaders' lunch at #btyste with BT Ireland MD @WalshShay, keynote speaker @HeatherM_OBE,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• What's the best way to onboard a new employee? Here, @NewRelic engineer Rachel Klein gives her top tips based on he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-01-2019 14:12 via twitter.com
  What's the best way to onboard a new employee? Here, @NewRelic engineer Rachel Klein gives her top tips based on he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• CES 2019: RaceFit suit shows you how to exercise

  10-01-2019 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The RaceFit suit uses sensors to track and analyse your movements as you exercise.
  
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