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• Twitter earnings beat expectations

  05-02-2015 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twitter reports a net loss of $125m (£82m) in the fourth-quarter, beating investor expectations, but says it added just four million users during the past three months.
  
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• Are you a SUPERAGER? Researchers find group of people whose brains stay young and sharp as they grow old

  05-02-2015 23:41 via
  
  Northwestern researchers found the 'Superagers' have distinctly different looking brains than those of normal older people, and the same memory capacity as a younger person.
  
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• RadioShack files for bankruptcy

  05-02-2015 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US electronics retailer RadioShack files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after losing 90% of its market value as customers turn to online shopping.
  
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• Could we soon find water on the moon? Nasa discovers hydrogen craters that may help signal the presence of lunar H2O

  05-02-2015 23:39 via
  
  Maryland-based Nasa scientists believe lunar water could be used for drinking or its components – hydrogen and oxygen – may be used to manufacture rocket fuel or even breathable air.
  
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• Twitter revenue nearly doubles, user growth misses mark

  05-02-2015 23:22 via
  
  San Francisco firm Twitter reported its revenue nearly doubled in the final three months of last year, but user growth fell short of analyst expectations with just four million new users.
  
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• Man's best friend has not been around as long as we thought: 30,000-year-old fossil of the oldest dog turns out to be a WOLF

  05-02-2015 22:49 via
  
  Researchers in New York used 3D imaging to study the 31,680-year-old fossil found at Goyet Cave in Belgium, as well as a 13,905-year-old fossil found at a site called Eliseevichi in Russia.
  
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• Swatch to go head to head with Apple as it reveals its smartwatch will also go on sale in April and boasts it WONT have to be charged every night

  05-02-2015 22:49 via
  
  The move will see the Swiss firm take on Apple as the two firms go head to head in a battle for the lucrative market.
  
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• Ryan Seacrest's iPhone keyboard firm fined for violating sales ban in Blackberry row

  05-02-2015 21:59 via
  
  A San Francisco court has fined TV host Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products for violating an injunction barring it from selling a $99 iPhone case found to have infringed on BlackBerry patents.
  
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• Images from Johns Hopkins University reveal synapses forming on nerve cells

  05-02-2015 20:56 via
  
  Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, have managed to peer into the brains of mice so clearly that they can see how memories form.
  
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• 7,700-year-old burial holds remains of a mother and her unborn twins

  05-02-2015 20:46 via
  
  The grave (pictured) was first discovered in 1997 in a Stone Age cemetery in Irkutsk, which lies to the south of the oldest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Bailkal.
  
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• Watch memories form INSIDE the brain of a mouse: Incredible images reveal synapses forming on nerve cells

  05-02-2015 20:28 via
  
  Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, have managed to peer into the brains of mice so clearly that they can see how memories form.
  
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• Apple to take on Netflix with streaming TV service

  05-02-2015 20:22 via
  
  Apple is believed to be talking to TV programmers about a streaming service that could rival Netflix. Apple has shown programmers demos of the proposed service, sources told tech blog re/code.
  
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• Chimpanzees use specific calls for foods and can learn the grunts used by other groups

  05-02-2015 20:12 via
  
  Biologists from the University of York and the University of Zurich studied adult chimps that moved from the Netherlands to join a group at Edinburgh Zoo and found they altered their calls for apple.
  
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• US Navy's 'Star Wars' weapon that can penetrate concrete 100 MILES away shown in public

  05-02-2015 20:11 via
  
  A lethal US Navy weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound has been shown off in public for the first time in Washington DC.
  
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• Ceres gets bigger in the viewfinder

  05-02-2015 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The American space agency's (Nasa) Dawn satellite returns its latest images of Ceres as it approaches orbit insertion on 6 March.
  
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• Mission to Pluto and record-breaking rocket among upcoming 2015 highlights

  05-02-2015 19:33 via
  
  Missions from the US, Europe, Japan and Russia are set to wow a global audience this year (New Horizons at Pluto shown). Professor Chris Riley said 2015 could be a 'golden age of spaceflight'.
  
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• Radical railgun that can fire shells at mach 6 and penetrate concrete 100 MILES away shown off in public by US Navy

  05-02-2015 19:26 via
  
  A lethal US Navy weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound has been shown off in public for the first time in Washington DC.
  
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• Chimpanzees can LEARN new 'words': Apes use specific calls for foods and can learn the grunts used by other groups

  05-02-2015 19:23 via
  
  Biologists from the University of York and the University of Zurich studied adult chimps that moved from the Netherlands to join a group at Edinburgh Zoo and found they altered their calls for apple.
  
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• Sony boss quits after email hack

  05-02-2015 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal steps down as co-chair of Sony's movie studio following a debilitating cyber attack last year revealed her private emails.
  
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• Malware runs on Apple's iOS7 and iOS8 to steal photos, texts and contacts

  05-02-2015 18:53 via
  
  Computer security experts have detected new spyware called XAgent that is thought to have been created by a group of Russian hackers called Operation Pawn Storm to attack iPhone devices.
  
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• Apple's Beats Music app could launch on iOS and ANDROID in June

  05-02-2015 18:51 via
  
  Sources told 9to5Mac that the Californian tech giant's service ill be integrated into music libraries and users will be able to search, stream and add songs to their iTunes account.
  
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• Will 2015 kick off another 'golden age of space'? Mission to Pluto and record-breaking rocket among upcoming highlights

  05-02-2015 18:28 via
  
  Missions from the US, Europe, Japan and Russia are set to wow a global audience this year (New Horizons at Pluto shown). Professor Chris Riley said 2015 could be a 'golden age of spaceflight'.
  
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• 'Survival of the fittest' STILL shapes human evolution, study claims

  05-02-2015 18:21 via
  
  Experts from the University of Sheffield created family trees for 10,000 people. They found that up to 18% of the variation in a trait was influenced by genes, the rest was affected by the environment.
  
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• Using Emoticons in texts could land you with a massive bill

  05-02-2015 18:17
  
  THE icons used to visualise moods in texts, be it a happy of frowny face, could leave users with massive bills.
  
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• Relocated chimps learn local grunts

  05-02-2015 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chimpanzees can change their grunts to communicate with new companions, according to a study of captive animals moved from the Netherlands to Scotland.
  
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• Is Apple finally about to launch a streaming service? Beats-powered app could launch on iOS and ANDROID in June

  05-02-2015 17:12 via
  
  Sources told 9to5Mac that the Californian tech giant's service ill be integrated into music libraries and users will be able to search, stream and add songs to their iTunes account.
  
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• Emoticons can rack up huge bills

  05-02-2015 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emoticons in text messages are being charged as picture messages on some handsets, leaving users with unexpected bills.
  
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• Hackers target iPhones: Malware runs on iOS7 and iOS8 to steal photos, texts, contacts and even reveal your location

  05-02-2015 17:09 via
  
  Computer security experts have detected new spyware called XAgent that is thought to have been created by a group of Russian hackers called Operation Pawn Storm to attack iPhone devices.
  
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• Scientists reveal 200 billion worlds like Earth in our galaxy

  05-02-2015 16:53
  
  A NEW study by planetary scientists have calculated that there could be hundreds of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy which might support life.
  
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• The earliest example of death by childbirth: 7,700-year-old burial holds remains of a mother and her unborn twins

  05-02-2015 16:51 via
  
  The bones (pictured) were first discovered in 1997 in a Stone Age cemetery in Irkutsk, which lies to the south of the oldest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Bailkal.
  
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• First parents, now pet owners: Vaccinations are being turned down because of bogus health fears, vets warn

  05-02-2015 16:24 via
  
  A number of vets in the US have noticed a trend for people who are reluctant to vaccinate their pets (stock image) from diseases such as canine distemper.
  
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• Planck puts new date on first stars

  05-02-2015 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists working on Europe’s Planck satellite say the first stars in the cosmos burst into life more than 100 million years later than previously thought.
  
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• REVEALED: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger set to beat Tottenham in battle for White Hart Lane

  05-02-2015 15:49
  
  FOOTBALL predictions are coming to Microsoft's Cortana assistant and if their latest batch prove right, it's going to spell bad news for Tottenham fans.
  
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• Galapagos alert over stranded ship

  05-02-2015 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ecuador announces a state of emergency in the Galapagos after a ship with hazardous materials ran aground, threatening the islands' ecosystem.
  
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• Vintage Nasa photos up for auction in £500k collection

  05-02-2015 15:07 via
  
  A collection of photos are to go up for auction at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions' saleroom in London on 26 Feb. The archive contains more than 600 photos (Buzz Aldrin shown).
  
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• Pigeons can identify objects in the same way as infants learning words

  05-02-2015 14:47 via
  
  Psychologists at the University of Iowa taught pigeons to sort pictures into 16 basic categories and say this is similar to the way parents teach children to learn new words.
  
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• Vintage Nasa photos up for auction: Armstrong on the moon and the first view of Earth from space among collection worth £500,000

  05-02-2015 14:41 via
  
  A collection of photos are to go up for auction at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions' saleroom in London on 26 Feb. The archive contains more than 600 photos (Buzz Aldrin shown).
  
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• BT to buy mobile firm EE for £12.5bn

  05-02-2015 14:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK phone giant BT agrees to buy the British mobile operator EE for £12.5bn, but rivals Vodafone and TalkTalk want the competition authorities to intervene.
  
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• Twitter boss admits he is 'ashamed' of the trolls and online abuse on his social platform

  05-02-2015 14:31
  
  TWITTER chief executive Dick Costolo has revealed he is "ashamed" of how the social media site deals with online abuse.
  
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• Are there 200 BILLION Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way?

  05-02-2015 14:03 via
  
  Australian scientists say our galaxy could be teeming with habitable worlds. If each star has an average of two planets, there will be 200 billion that could host life (illustration shown).
  
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• Coffee to be delivered by drones in 25 years, futuristic reports says

  05-02-2015 13:57 via
  
  Accounting software firm MYOB has released the Future of Business in Australia 2040 report, which suggests technology changes in the workplace will be driven by rising energy costs and transport.
  
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• Google Glass to be redesigned from SCRATCH until 'it's perfect'

  05-02-2015 13:50 via
  
  Last month, the Californian firm brought in Tony Fadell to lead the Glass project. An unnamed source said that Mr Fadell 'is a product guy and he's not going to release something until it's perfect.'
  
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• Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo admits the social network 'sucks' at dealing with trolls

  05-02-2015 13:48 via
  
  Dick Costolo (pictured) said that he is embarrassed by the way Twitter handles abuse and that it must take stronger action in the future.
  
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• Google Glass to be redesigned from SCRATCH: Firm won't release a new version of the high-tech headset until 'it's perfect'

  05-02-2015 13:11 via
  
  Last month, the Californian firm brought in Tony Fadell to lead the Glass project. An unnamed source said that Mr Fadell 'is a product guy and he's not going to release something until it's perfect.'
  
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• Are there 200 BILLION Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way? Stars have an average of two habitable planets in orbit, study claims

  05-02-2015 13:11 via
  
  Australian scientists say our galaxy could be teeming with habitable worlds. If each star has an average of two planets, there will be 200 billion that could host life (illustration shown).
  
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• Millions hit by health insurer hack

  05-02-2015 13:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anthem, the second largest health insurer in the US, has lost millions of customer records in a hack attack.
  
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• How the dawn of farming ruined our TEETH

  05-02-2015 12:57 via
  
  Researchers from the University College Dublin analysed the lower jaws (pictured) and teeth of 292 skeletons from the Levant, Anatolia and Europe, dating back between 6,000 and 28,000 years ago.
  
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• Twitter's CEO admits the social network 'sucks' at dealing with trolls and vows to step up measures to deal with abuse

  05-02-2015 12:56 via
  
  Dick Costolo (pictured) said that he is embarrassed by the way Twitter handles abuse and that it must take stronger action in the future.
  
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• Could foals shed light on human autism?

  05-02-2015 12:49 via
  
  Scientists at the University of California, Davis, say the behavioural abnormalities seen in foals with neonatal maladjustment syndrome resemble some symptoms of childhood autism.
  
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• Twitter boss admits trolling failure

  05-02-2015 12:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In a memo to staff, leaked to the Verge, Twitter boss Dick Costolo takes personal responsibility for dealing with trolling.
  
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