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• Nasa reveals it will take 11 TRILLION gallons of water to replenish California's drought loss 

  16-12-2014 23:22 via
  
  The California space agency used satellite data (pictured) to create an estimate of the water needed to end a drought for the first time .
  
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• The bullet that changes direction in MID-AIR: Guided round uses optical sensors and tracking software to hit moving targets

  16-12-2014 22:46 via
  
  The Arlington-based Defense Advanced Research Agency has successfully tested the world's first 'guided' sniper round which can change direction in mid air.
  
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• Sony hackers threaten US cinemas

  16-12-2014 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hackers targeting Sony Pictures have threatened to attack US cinemas showing the studio's controversial film The Interview.
  
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• The age a woman gets her first period can predict her risk of heart disease, study says

  16-12-2014 21:56 via
  
  Women who begin menstruating before age 10 or after age 17 may have a higher risk of heart disease, stroke or high blood pressure, according to a new Oxford study.
  
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• Virtual galleries open new markets for art

  16-12-2014 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Online art sales boom, led by Chinese buyers
  
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• Your all-electric car may not be so green

  16-12-2014 21:16 via
  
  If it comes from coal, the electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity, Minnesota researchers fpund.
  
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• Apple wins billion dollar iPod trial over claims they blocked rival music on iTunes

  16-12-2014 20:53 via
  
  After just a few hours of deliberation, a jury in California has found in favour of Apple in a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit over the price of its iPod music players.
  
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• Apple defeats $1bn case over iTunes

  16-12-2014 20:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Technology behemoth Apple has been found not guilty of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour by a jury in California.
  
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• Scientists eavesdrop on cattle to translate meaning of their moos

  16-12-2014 20:10 via
  
  Researchers at Nottingham University spent 10 months studying the ways cows talked and found their calls were individualised - reserved for a particular cow and calf so that each recognised the other.
  
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• The new TV technology that will put LED in the shade

  16-12-2014 19:48
  
  LG are set to unveil their latest TV that has been backed to overtake LED to become the new industry standard.
  
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• Methane 'belches' detected on Mars

  16-12-2014 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Curiosity rover has detected "belches" of methane gas on Mars - a gas that could hint at past or even present life on the planet.
  
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• Are unexplained methane spikes proof of life on Mars?

  16-12-2014 19:36 via
  
  Nasa scientists in California have revealed evidence for life on Mars (shown). They claim methane spikes on the planet could be produced by bacteria - and there is no better explanation, yet.
  
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• Barclaycard 'tap and pay' gloves buy goods using sensors on fingers

  16-12-2014 19:32 via
  
  The contactless 'tap and pay' gloves look like ordinary woollen gloves, but allow people to pay in the same way that they would use their contactless card. A trial is currently underway in the UK.
  
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• Sony hacks: Sorkin says media are 'morally treasonous'

  16-12-2014 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aaron Sorkin blasts Sony hack stories
  
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• Life is found thriving 8,000ft beneath the sea bed - and the discovery raises hopes microbes could survive on other planets

  16-12-2014 19:14 via
  
  Tiny single-celled organisms were found in samples from deep sea drilling off the coast of Japan. Scientists believe the bacteria survive by eating the coal underground.
  
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• VIDEO: Up close with world's largest vessel

  16-12-2014 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An enormous vessel is being built to collect and liquefy gas at sea for the first time.
  
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• Lastminute.com sold in £76m deal

  16-12-2014 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lastminute.com, the firm which came to fame at the height of the dot.com boom, has been sold to Swiss travel firm Bravofly Rumbo for $120m (£76m).
  
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• Instagram releases its first new filters for TWO years

  16-12-2014 19:08 via
  
  The five new filters from the California-based app are called Aden (left) Crema (centre), Slumber (right), Ludwig and Perpetua. They take the total number of options to 25.
  
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• The largest vessel the world has ever seen

  16-12-2014 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Enormous ship will collect and liquefy gas at sea
  
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• Computer model maps risk of US power outages linked to climate change

  16-12-2014 18:29 via
  
  Researchers in Maryland have created a computer model that predicts New York City, followed by Philadelphia, Jacksonville and Virginia as being at severe risk of being left in the dark.
  
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• Experts race to save white rhino

  16-12-2014 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An international team of experts is engaged in a last ditch effort to save the northern white rhino from extinction.
  
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• Google set sights on Amazon with a Buy button in search results

  16-12-2014 18:02 via
  
  The California-based search engine wouldn't be responsible for selling or shipping the items directly,. Instead, it will work with manufacturers to simply offer a faster payment option.
  
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• Amenhotep III rises again: Colossal statue depicting the Egyptian king is restored 3,200 years after it in an earthquake

  16-12-2014 17:54 via
  
  German and Egyptian archaeologists unveiled the restored monument (pictured) of Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt between 1386 and 1349 BC, in the famed temple city of Luxor.
  
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• VIDEO: Testing out paying by gloves

  16-12-2014 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first contactless payment gloves are being trialled in stores in the run up to Christmas - Rory Cellan-Jones put them to the test.
  
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• Skype gets real-time translating tool

  16-12-2014 17:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft launches the test version of a new Skype tool which translates foreign languages in real time.
  
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• WATCH: Rockstar CONFIRM GTA 5 Online Heists for 2015 and reveal cap level and job costs

  16-12-2014 16:32
  
  ROCKSTAR have revealed the first look at GTA 5's Online Heists features, which is set for a 2015 release date.
  
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• Hong Kong-based Brando releases a giant Rubik's cube that has 1,014 coloured tiles

  16-12-2014 16:31 via
  
  Hong Kong-based Brando has released a larger version of a Rubik's cube (shown). Each of its six sides have a huge 169 coloured tiles - 1,014 in total. That's 18 times more than the original's 54.
  
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• Kazakhstanis hit by mystery sleeping sickness, doctors claim

  16-12-2014 16:29 via
  
  Residents living in the remote village of Kalachi, north Kazakhstan, say the mystery illness that has affected the locals for the past four years is getting worse.
  
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• Will computers be wiped out on 19 January 2038? Outdated PC systems will not be able to cope with time and date, experts warn

  16-12-2014 16:07 via
  
  Known as the Year 2038 Problem, the theory was recently proved when Psy's Gangnam Style (pictured) exceeded two billion views on California-owned YouTube.
  
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• The village that fell asleep: Kazakhstanis hit by mystery sleeping sickness that causes them to doze for days have fluid on their brains, doctors claim

  16-12-2014 15:55 via
  
  Residents living in the remote village of Kalachi, north Kazakhstan, say the mystery illness that has affected the locals for the past four years is getting worse.
  
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• Cosmic bangs 'common on Earth'

  16-12-2014 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists shed light on the energetic emission of radiation that occurs in thunderstorms.
  
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• Ofcom names Sharon White as new boss

  16-12-2014 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ofcom, the UK's telecoms regulator, has named senior Treasury official Sharon White as its new chief executive.
  
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• Microsoft launch 2015 countdown sale on Xbox One and Xbox 360 games

  16-12-2014 15:16
  
  BATTLEFIELD 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Assassin's Creed: Unity have all had price cuts on the Xbox One, Microsoft have announced.
  
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• £1.1bn of funding for subsea cable

  16-12-2014 15:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Energy regulator Ofgem has approved a £1.1bn allowance for a planned subsea power transmission cable connecting two sides of the Moray Firth.
  
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• Canada's lost Vikings revealed

  16-12-2014 14:36 via
  
  The discovery by a Aberdeen University reseearcher was made when the interior of a container, unearthed in Baffin Island, was found to contain bronze as well as small spheres of glass.
  
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• ANTI-TECH 2015 set to be the year people forsake gadgets and social networks

  16-12-2014 14:16 via
  
  The prediction, dubbed the 'era of the neo-Luddite', was made by London-based communications agency Hotwire in its sixth annual Digital Trends Report.
  
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• VIDEO: One of last six rare rhinos dies

  16-12-2014 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the world's last remaining northern white rhinos has died at a zoo in California, the 44-year old male named Angalifu died of old age, leaving only five in the world.
  
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• BMW's automated car parks itself when you speak into your SMARTWATCH

  16-12-2014 13:55 via
  
  Munich-based BMW has unveiled technology that can park your car. It uses four lasers on the car to create a virtual map of the car park. Speaking into a watch (shown) will then park or retrieve the car.
  
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• Lunar Mission One project to build a human base on the moon reaches funding target

  16-12-2014 13:47 via
  
  For £60 ($94), backers of the Kent-based project have the opportunity to buy space on memory discs that will be sent to the moon. The mission is currently £597,039 towards its £600,000 goal
  
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• Was SWEET POTATO to blame for Easter Island's downfall?

  16-12-2014 13:43 via
  
  Anthropologists at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Idaho State University believe cultivation of sweet potato may help to explain the mysterious collapse of Easter Island society.
  
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• Lunar Mission One is go! Ambitious UK project to build a human base on the moon in ten years reaches its funding target

  16-12-2014 13:38 via
  
  For £60 ($94), backers of the Kent-based project have the opportunity to buy space on memory discs that will be sent to the moon. The mission is currently £597,039 towards its £600,000 goal
  
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• Athena becomes first humanoid robot to buy a seat on a passenger plane

  16-12-2014 13:31 via
  
  The robot, dubbed Athena, (pictured) was created by German roboticists and is being flown to Max Planck Institute for Computational Learning and Motor Control Laboratory in Baden-Württemberg.
  
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• Google threatened with £12m fine

  16-12-2014 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google has been threatened with a fine of up to 15m euros (£12m) if it does not do a better job of protecting the privacy of Dutch citizens
  
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• Henry VIII's Mary Rose ship's crew were riddled with rickets, laser technology reveals

  16-12-2014 13:08 via
  
  The tibia bones of sailors (pictured) who sailed on Henry VIII’s Mary Rose ship were analysed at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH).
  
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• The robot's that's going on HOLIDAY! Athena becomes the first robot to buy a seat on a passenger plane - and 'she' even has her own passport

  16-12-2014 12:59 via
  
  The robot, dubbed Athena, (pictured) was created by German roboticists and is being flown to Max Planck Institute for Computational Learning and Motor Control Laboratory in Baden-Württemberg.
  
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• Design and technology 'marginalised'

  16-12-2014 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is design and technology being marginalised in schools?
  
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• Life on Earth wasn't down to luck, its development was as inevitable, claims physicist

  16-12-2014 12:51 via
  
  A Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist says life in the universe (stock image shown) may be common. Dr Jeremy England's theory suggests atoms will always pick an organic path.
  
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• Lunar Mission One is 99 per cent funded! Ambitious UK project to build a human base on the moon is set to become a reality

  16-12-2014 12:46 via
  
  For £60 ($94), backers of the Kent-based project have the opportunity to buy space on memory discs that will be sent to the moon. The mission is currently £597,039 towards its £600,000 goal
  
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• Microsoft rivals unite over data row

  16-12-2014 12:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple and eBay are among those supporting Microsoft's stand against handing over data stored in Ireland to the US government.
  
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• Life on Earth wasn't down to luck, its development was as inevitable as rocks rolling down a hill, claims physicist

  16-12-2014 12:36 via
  
  A Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist says life in the universe (stock image shown) may be common. Dr Jeremy England's theory suggests atoms will always pick an organic path.
  
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