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• VIDEO: The gadgets that track workplace fitness

  10-08-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News explains how some employers are trying to keep their staff in the peak of health and fitness - and are even issuing wearable health devices.
  
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• Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above ISS

  10-08-2015 22:48 via
  
  Footage allegedly taken from a Nasa camera shows a pink and white object soaring across space. It has reignited claims the ISS is being 'monitored by extra-terrestrials'.
  
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• Survey puts figure on fading cosmos

  10-08-2015 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A survey examining 200,000 galaxies in multiple wavelengths offers the best estimate yet of how fast the Universe is fading.
  
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• Amazon to take on Tesco and Sainsbury's by entering grocery market

  10-08-2015 22:43 via
  
  Online shopping giant Amazon is gearing up to enter the UK grocery market by taking over the lease on a warehouse in Surrey previously used by Tesco.
  
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• VIDEO: Astronauts bite into space salad

  10-08-2015 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) sample some space-grown lettuce.
  
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• Elon Musk tempts fate in death-defying stunt

  10-08-2015 22:41 via
  
  Over the weekend, Elon Musk and his wife, Talulah Riley, stepped onto the wings of a plane as it cruised through the sky over Hampshire, England at 130mph (210 km/h).
  
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• 'The ISS is being monitored by aliens': Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above the space station 

  10-08-2015 21:59 via
  
  Footage allegedly taken from a Nasa camera shows a pink and white object soaring across space. It has reignited claims the ISS is being 'monitored by extra-terrestrials'.
  
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• Elon Musk tempts fate in death-defying stunt: Tesla billionaire attempts to walk on a PLANE while on holiday 

  10-08-2015 21:34 via
  
  Over the weekend, Elon Musk and his wife, Talulah Riley, stepped onto the wings of a plane as it cruised through the sky over Hampshire, England at 130mph (210 km/h).
  
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• Meteor light show set to dazzle

  10-08-2015 20:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Skywatchers are in for a dazzling display as the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on Wednesday.
  
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• The plant that could save France's honey bees from 'the hornet from hell'

  10-08-2015 20:48 via
  
  Romaric Perrocheau, the head of the botanical gardens in Nantes, France, discovered the North American Sarracenia plant can attract and eat the Asian hornet.
  
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• Spill turns Colorado river yellow

  10-08-2015 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A toxic leak of wastewater that has turned a Colorado river mustard yellow is three times larger than US officials had originally estimated.
  
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• The plant that could save France's honey bees from 'the hornet from hell': Chance discovery reveals a carnivorous flower eats the huge insects

  10-08-2015 20:04 via
  
  Romaric Perrocheau, the head of the botanical gardens in Nantes, France, discovered the North American Sarracenia plant can attract and eat the Asian hornet.
  
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• Social media addicts are more likely to feel like failures over careers and looks

  10-08-2015 19:42 via
  
  The Future Foundation survey of 5,000 Britons found social media users feel like they were under-performing in four main ways: body image, career, mood, and energy levels.
  
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• HTC stored unencrypted fingerprints

  10-08-2015 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Security researchers identify a way to access unencrypted fingerprint data on an HTC smartphone.
  
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• 4,000-year-old skeletons of mother and child found in in Qinghai locked in embrace

  10-08-2015 19:25 via
  
  The skeletal remains show how the mother was kneeling on the ground with her arms wrapped around her son as a powerful earthquake hit northwest China in about 2,000 BC.
  
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• Everybody's Gone To The Rapture review: ghosts of England

  10-08-2015 19:11
  
      Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has been seen as a game about a sort of quaintly 'British' end of the world: instead of rampaging zombies or gun-toting alien maniacs, the entire population of the rural Shropshire landscape in which the game is set have simply politely vanished, quietly shuffling off the village green, leaving behind little more than a few bloody tissues, open doors to several family homes and ghostly remnants of themselves, their conversations,
  
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• Why you should NEVER put your phone number on Facebook

  10-08-2015 19:00 via
  
  Due to a security loophole, anybody can find a person's name, photographs, location and more - regardless of their privacy settings - by typing their phone number into the search bar.
  
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• Generation #fail: Social media addicts are more likely to feel like failures when it comes to their careers and looks

  10-08-2015 18:19 via
  
  The Future Foundation survey of 5,000 Britons found social media users feel like they were under-performing in four main ways: body image, career, mood, and energy levels.
  
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• How to be sexy? Be yourself: Dying your hair, adopting a seductive strut or covering up can make you LESS appealing

  10-08-2015 18:06 via
  
  Researchers at Queen’s University, Ontario, claim changes to a person's natural appearance makes them seem less attractive, including an affected walk or dramatic make-up (stock image).
  
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• Enduring love: 4,000-year-old skeletons of mother and child are found locked in dying embrace in 'Pompeii of the East'

  10-08-2015 18:05 via
  
  The skeletal remains show how the mother was kneeling on the ground with her arms wrapped around her son as a powerful earthquake hit northwest China in about 2,000 BC.
  
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• Aussie bloaters gorging on junk food 'each and every day'

  10-08-2015 18:05 via go.theregister.com
  
  Antipodean nosh boffins despair of the Oz's increasingly awful diet Australians have been warned to get their dietary act together, after a survey revealed a growing and alarming trend for junk food excess.…
  
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• Solar activity is NOT linked to global warming: Sunspot theory of climate change is the result of an ancient error in the data

  10-08-2015 18:03 via
  
  The results, which show there has been no upward trend in solar activity were announced at the International Astronomical Union (IAU)General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii.
  
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• VIDEO: The robots probing Sellafield's waste

  10-08-2015 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Theo Leggett reports on the submarine robots tackling Sellafield's nuclear waste.
  
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• Warming threat to UK butterflies

  10-08-2015 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drought sensitive butterfly species could be driven to extinction across the UK by 2050 according to new research.
  
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• Google, Facebook and Twitter in new crackdown on child abuse image online

  10-08-2015 16:27 via
  
  British charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is creating 'digital fingerprints' of the vile pictures so that they can be pulled from the internet wherever they are posted
  
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• NeuroOn mask helps you avoid jet lag by tricking brain into changing time zones

  10-08-2015 16:27 via
  
  NeuroOn (pictured) was designed by Warsaw-based Kamil Adamczyk. It is fitted with sensors that monitor brainwaves, eye movement, oxygen levels and the wearer's body temperature.
  
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• Starwars.co.uk owner strikes back

  10-08-2015 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fancy-dress store using the starwars.co.uk domain name files an appeal against a ruling that says the web address should be transferred to Disney.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Car-in-a-bag' created in Japan

  10-08-2015 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An electric skateboard the size of a tablet computer has been developed by a Japanese engineer.
  
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• VIDEO: Sellafield robots set to clean-up

  10-08-2015 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Technology being developed at the nuclear spent fuel facility at Sellafield, Cumbria, could prove highly lucrative in the growing business of industrial clear up.
  
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• Plant eats bee-killing Asian hornets

  10-08-2015 15:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bee-killing Asian hornets spreading across Europe are fatally attracted to a carnivorous plant, French experts say.
  
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• Underwater Stonehenge-style rock found off Sicily coast in the Mediterranean Sea

  10-08-2015 15:19 via
  
  The Stonehenge-style monument, found 37 miles (60km) off the coast of Sicily, could shed light on the earliest civilisations to call the Mediterranean basin home.
  
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• World's population will soar to 11 billion by 2100 and HALF will live in Africa

  10-08-2015 15:11 via
  
  The predictions were made by John Wilmoth, the director of the United Nations Population Division, at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle. Stock image of crowd in Nigeria.
  
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• The Blue Dream Bugatti plane designed 75 years ago to have maiden flight in weeks

  10-08-2015 15:08 via
  
  The replica Reve Bleu plane (pictured) is based on a design penned by Bugatti in 1937, which the car maker was forced to hide to stop the technology falling into the Nazi's hands.
  
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• ISS astronauts to eat vegetables grown in space in step towards Mars mission

  10-08-2015 14:28 via
  
  A crop of lettuce has been harvested from the ISS plant growth system dubbed Veg-01, Nasa's plant experiment being used to study how plants can be grown in micro-gravity.
  
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• It's harvest time in SPACE: Astronauts to eat vegetables grown on the ISS for the first time today in crucial step towards Mars mission

  10-08-2015 14:21 via
  
  A crop of lettuce has been harvested from the ISS plant growth system dubbed Veg-01, Nasa's plant experiment being used to study how plants can be grown in micro-gravity.
  
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• VIDEO: Photo tags 'won't tackle abuse images'

  10-08-2015 14:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An expert in tackling child sexual abuse says a new photo tagging system will not stop peer-to-peer sharing of images.
  
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• Microsoft co-founder recovers ship's bell of 'The Mighty Hood'

  10-08-2015 13:41 via go.theregister.com
  
  Artifact will be memorial to victims of battlecruiser disaster A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has recovered the ship's bell of battlecruiser HMS Hood – the pride of the Royal Navy, which, on 24 May 1941, was sent to the bottom of the North Atlantic by the German battleship Bismark, with the loss of 1,415 lives.…
  
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• Child abuse tool gets government data

  10-08-2015 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, the British government is sharing its own child abuse image data with net charity the Internet Watch Foundation.
  
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• The formula to cook a perfect burger revealed

  10-08-2015 13:10 via
  
  The perfect burger should be cooked for 9.5 minutes, only be flipped once, have toppings that weigh 60 per cent of the final creation and be hand-pressed to 1.5cm thickness, according to experts.
  
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• SkySaver backpack lets you ABSEIL multi-storey buildings to escape fires 

  10-08-2015 12:44 via
  
  The bag clips onto the wearer around their chest and between their legs and the harness lowers them to safety. It was designed by Brooklyn-based SkySaver and prices start at $749 (£485).
  
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• German treason inquiry dropped

  10-08-2015 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Germany's chief prosecutor drops a treason investigation into two journalists at the Netzpolitik website, after a public outcry.
  
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• Black hole 'fountain' gives birth to stars and explains mystery of how galaxies grow

  10-08-2015 12:17 via
  
  Researchers at Michigan State University and Yale University have shown how hot jets and cooling gas regulates star formation (pictured) in elliptical galaxies like a thermostat in the home.
  
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• ICYMI: You're not LOLing, are you?

  10-08-2015 12:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A round-up of interesting technology-related links you may have missed over the past weekend.
  
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• Apple's iOS 9 will automatically switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data

  10-08-2015 11:26 via
  
  The feature is called Wi-Fi Assist and it can be enabled in the Settings menu in iOS 9 (pictured). Apple is expected to roll out iOS 9 to all users later this year.
  
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• VIDEO: Divers in underwater plastics clean-up

  10-08-2015 10:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of divers in Cornwall are engaged in an underwater clean-up, in a bid to stop plastic rubbish damaging marine life.
  
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• VIDEO: Buddy robot snubs creator

  10-08-2015 09:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A prototype companion robot which will cost less than $700 (£452) has been shown off in London
  
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• Sexting study finds naughty texts could lead to a better love life

  10-08-2015 09:09 via
  
  A new study suggests explicit texts messages may be just what the doctor ordered to keep the fires burning in adult relationships, especially when the romance is less established.
  
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• Queensland boffins ponder Scramjet satellite launch plan

  10-08-2015 08:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Three-stage launcher promises 95 per cent re-usable sat-slingers The University of Queensland has launched a new plan to use scramjets as satellite launch vehicles.…
  
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• Napoleon Bonaparte's hair taken following defeat at the Battle of Waterloo sells for £9k

  10-08-2015 07:50 via
  
  The snip of greying hair was taken from the French emperor during his exile on the South Atlantic island of St Helena following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
  
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• Napoleon Bonaparte's hair taken following defeat at the Battle of Waterloo sells for £9k

  10-08-2015 07:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The snip of greying hair was taken from the French emperor during his exile on the South Atlantic island of St Helena following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
  
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