News Headlines - 11 October 2016

▽Hard Brexit could cost ￡66bn a year | The Times & The Sunday Times

Cabinet ministers are being warned that the Treasury could lose up to ￡66 billion a year in tax revenues under a “hard Brexit”, according to leaked government papers.
GDP could fall by as much as 9.5 per cent if Britain leaves the single market and has to rely on World Trade Organisation rules for trading with the continent, compared with if it stayed within the EU, the forecasts show. Such a steep drop in revenue would force ministers to slash public spending or raise taxes.

▽Fujitsu to cut up to 1,800 UK jobs | The Guardian

Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has announced plans to cut up to 1,800 jobs in Britain, more than a tenth of its UK workforce .

▽Japanese still suffer ‘death by overwork’ as long hours persist

Japan’s first government white paper on the still largely taboo phenomenon of “death by overwork” has revealed that a fifth of surveyed companies acknowledge their full-time staff works dangerously long hours.

▽This Is What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like | Smithsonian

Now one musicologist is working to change that, reports Laure Cailloce for CNRS News. She's reconstructing something that simply can’t be heard anymore: the sound of 18th-century Paris.
Her name is Myléne Pardoen, and her sonic reconstruction of Paris’ Grand Châtelet district in 1739 is the result of a collaboration between scholars from disciplines ranging from history to sociology to 3D representation.

▽How a 'Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen' earworm took over the internet - BBC News

You are about to witness viral history in the making and none of it will make any sense to you.
Infectiously-catchy earworm 'PPAP' (short for Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen') was performed by animal print-clad DJ Piko-Taro, a fictional character played by Japanese entertainer Kazuhiko Kosaka.