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• COTSbot robot seeks out coral destroying crown-of-thorn star fish

  04-09-2015 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's first robot designed to seek out and kill the Great Barrier Reef's crown-of-thorn starfish is set to be working in the world heritage site by December.
  
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• PetPace and Voyce pet collars monitor your furry friends for signs of distress and sickness

  04-09-2015 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two companies, PetPace and Voyce, offer pet collars that can check for a fever, monitor pulse and respiration, and even indicate if your pet is in pain.
  
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• 'Water bear' bug that can survive in space could revolutionise computing

  04-09-2015 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Water bears, or tardigrades, have a remarkable ability to withstand extremes. Researchers studying them have created a new type of 'superglass' that could change computing..
  
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• UNFRIEND your partner on Facebook to save your marriage

  04-09-2015 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New York-based therapist, Ian Kerner, claims that unfriending your significant other on social media can put the mystery and spark back into your relationship.
  
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• Boeing 777-9X has wingspan so big the tips have to fold so it can use airports

  04-09-2015 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 777-9X will seat at least 400 passengers with a superwide cabin withlarger, higher windows when it begins production in 2017.
  
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• 'Snail's pace' row at climate talks

  04-09-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UN climate officials have reacted sharply to criticism that the talks to land a new global deal are going at a "snail's pace".
  
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• To save your marriage, UNFRIEND your partner on Facebook: Therapist warns that social media can be toxic to a relationship

  04-09-2015 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New York-based therapist, Ian Kerner, claims that unfriending your significant other on social media can put the mystery and spark back into your relationship.
  
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• Anti-seasickness gadget 'could cure nausea' by delivering shock to the head

  04-09-2015 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Imperial College London scientists are developing a device that will plug into a mobile phone and deliver a short shock to the head via a set of electrodes. They hope it will be on sale within five years.
  
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• Blackberry buys Good Technology in $425m bid to reinvent itself

  04-09-2015 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Good Technologydeal couldhelp BlackBerry win new customers for its services business, a priority as it shifts focus to device management software for enterprise customers.
  
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• Asus and Samsung are fastest charging handsets while Apple's iPhone 6 lags behind

  04-09-2015 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In each test, Brooklyn-based Ms Cranz from tech site Tom's Guide ran down the power of seven handsets until the phones turned off automatically. Asus' Zenfone 2 (pictured) took the top spot.
  
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• Boeing reveals its biggest plane yet: $400m 777-9X has massive 235 wingspan making it so wide wings have to fold up to allow it to use normal airports

  04-09-2015 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 777-9X will seat at least 400 passengers with a superwide cabin withlarger, higher windows when it begins production in 2017.
  
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• What Facebook REALLY knows about you: Take the test that can work out your personality based on nothing but your 'likes'

  04-09-2015 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Cambridge University, who created the app, say the test can predict your personality more accurately than your friends, colleagues and your parents.
  
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• Blackberry buys rival software firm in $425m bid to reinvent itself as simple way for firms to manage smartphones

  04-09-2015 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Good Technologydeal couldhelp BlackBerry win new customers for its services business, a priority as it shifts focus to device management software for enterprise customers.
  
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• Melt-proof ice cream, fishing drones: Podcast 233

  04-09-2015 19:11
  
  
  Listen this week for an entertaining look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with WIRED.co.uk's James Temperton, Daniel Culpan and Cara McGoogan.
   By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Get rid of those photobombers! Software removes distracting faces, litter and even passing cars from pictures

  04-09-2015 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Computer scientists at Princeton University and Adobe have created software that can identify unwanted clutter in photographs and automatically remove them.
  
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• Need a battery boost? Asus and Samsung are the fastest charging handsets... while Apple's iPhone lags behind

  04-09-2015 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In each test, Brooklyn-based Ms Cranz from tech site Tom's Guide ran down the power of seven handsets until the phones turned off automatically. Asus' Zenfone 2 (pictured) took the top spot.
  
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• Gravity quest set to go into orbit

  04-09-2015 16:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lisa Pathfinder is a fundamental physics experiment that will test the technology needed to detect gravitational waves - what are sometimes referred to as ripples in the curvature of space-time.
  
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• 'Steve Jobs didn't know technology and just wanted to be important': Steve Wozniak claims his business partner played no role in the design of early Apple devices

  04-09-2015 15:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking to California-based teenager Sarina Khemchandani, Wozniak (right) revealed more about the early days of the firm and said Steve Jobs (left) was better as a businessman.
  
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• 'Vampire' squirrel caught on film for 1st time in Gunung Palung National Park

  04-09-2015 14:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have used motion sensitive cameras to film the 14 inch longelusive tufted ground squirrel in the forest of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia.
  
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• Apple phones could soon last WEEKS on a single charge

  04-09-2015 14:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patentwas filed to the US Patent Office in March this year and has already been awarded. It details a 'fuel cell system' (illustrated) for a battery that could last 'weeks'.
  
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• Apple phones could soon last WEEKS on a single charge: Patent details a fuel cell system that would replace current batteries

  04-09-2015 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patentwas filed to the US Patent Office in March this year and has already been awarded. It details a 'fuel cell system' (illustrated) for a battery that could last 'weeks'.
  
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• A man can laugh a woman into bed, but funny females aren't attractive, study claims

  04-09-2015 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The attractiveness of men using humour can even be measured mathematically -the more jokes he tells and the more she laughs at them, the more likely it is they will end up together, said researchers.
  
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• Dyson's vehicle could run for twice as long as rivals using breakthrough batteries

  04-09-2015 13:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dyson (founder Sir James Dyson pictured) made the statements during an earnings announcement in which it revealed the Wiltshire-based firm's revenues were up 10 per cent in 2014.
  
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• Normally harmless bacteria appear to have killed 60,000 antelope in four DAYS

  04-09-2015 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Biologists were shocked by the scale of the deaths of saiga antelope in Kazakhstan this year, which saw 134,000 die in a couple of weeks, but are now finding clues pointing to the cause.
  
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• Haier unveils washing machine that cleans TWO loads at once

  04-09-2015 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The company unveiled its new machine at tech conference IFA in Berlin. The average person family creates 220 loads of washing over the course of a year, the firm said.
  
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• Scientists develop BOMB-PROOF plants that could help clean up warzones

  04-09-2015 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at the University of York ave taken an important step in making it possible to clean millions of hectares of land contaminated by explosives.
  
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• Hinkley Point nuclear plant delayed

  04-09-2015 12:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Energy giant EDF has admitted that construction of Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades has been delayed.
  
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• Should a sexy woman be seen and not heard? A man can laugh a woman into bed, but funny females aren't attractive, study claims

  04-09-2015 12:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The attractiveness of men using humour can even be measured mathematically -the more jokes he tells and the more she laughs at them, the more likely it is they will end up together, said researchers.
  
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• Football teams are more likely to win at home because of crowd support

  04-09-2015 12:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Texas A&M International University and Western Illinois University researchers found that the enthusiasm of a large crowd boost a team's success.
  
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• Is Dyson working on an electric CAR? Firm's vehicle could run for twice as long as its rivals using breakthrough batteries

  04-09-2015 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dyson (founder Sir James Dyson pictured) made the statements during an earnings announcement in which it revealed the Wiltshire-based firm's revenues were up 10 per cent in 2014.
  
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• Mystery of what killed 60,000 antelope in four DAYS solved? Normally harmless bacteria appear to have turned on the endangered animals

  04-09-2015 12:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Biologists were shocked by the scale of the deaths of saiga antelope in Kazakhstan this year, which saw 134,000 die in a couple of weeks, but are now finding clues pointing to the cause.
  
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• The washing machine that cleans TWO loads at once: Haier unveils model that deals with different colours simultaneously

  04-09-2015 11:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The company unveiled its new machine at tech conference IFA in Berlin. The average person family creates 220 loads of washing over the course of a year, the firm said.
  
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• Scientists develop BOMB-PROOF plants: Mutant TNT-resistant blooms could help clean up warzones

  04-09-2015 10:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at the University of York ave taken an important step in making it possible to clean millions of hectares of land contaminated by explosives.
  
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• Soyuz docks with ISS, delivers trio of fresh 'nauts

  04-09-2015 10:42 via go.theregister.com
  
  Orbiting outpost packed with parked capsules The Soyuz capsule carrying the Kazakh Space Agency's Aidyn Aimbetov, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov successfully docked with the International Space Station this morning.…
  
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• Football fans really DO help win a game: Teams are more likely to win at home because of crowd support

  04-09-2015 10:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Texas A&M International University and Western Illinois University researchers found that the enthusiasm of a large crowd boost a team's success.
  
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• Pioneer slaps 80s LASERS on cars for driverless push

  04-09-2015 09:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Price drop needed for expensive kit Sound system bods Pioneer have completed a trial of laser-outfitted cars in a bid to have vehicle mapping technology in commercial use as early as 2018.…
  
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• Hints of compromise at climate talks

  04-09-2015 09:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage.
  
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• Boffins build magnetic field cloak 'wormhole', could help MRI scanners

  04-09-2015 08:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Cool cloak no sci-fi joke
  
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• Science and maths 'vital for adults'

  04-09-2015 02:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adults who lack basic science and maths skills risk being "bamboozled" and making bad decisions, according to a leading scientist.
  
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• Frosty relations over future of the Arctic

  04-09-2015 01:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US and Russia at odds over the Arctic
  
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• Rodents keep warm by shape-shifting into one 'super-organism'

  04-09-2015 01:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Sheffield University found that rats that huddle, also rotate so that the rats on the outer edge are brought into the warmth of the centre before being moved back out again.
  
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• Polaroid Snap camera can print snaphots instantly using inkless paper

  04-09-2015 01:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called the Polaroid Snap, the $99 instance camerawas revealed at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Germany. It can create a 2x3 inch photoin just under a minute using specially developed paper.
  
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• Scientists create algorithm that searches Instagram to find next top model

  04-09-2015 01:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Indiana University say they have created an algorithm that can predict the popularity of new faces to the world of modelling with over 80 per cent accuracy.
  
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• Scientists slam 'Gaydar' term as ‘stereotyping’ as it 'could lead to aggression'

  04-09-2015 01:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that previous research on stating the validity of gaydar was based on poor evidence.
  
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• Huddling rats act like 'super-organisms': Study reveals how rodents keep warm by shape-shifting into one terrifying mass

  04-09-2015 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Sheffield University found that rats that huddle, also rotate so that the rats on the outer edge are brought into the warmth of the centre before being moved back out again.
  
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• Fall Foliage Prediction Map shows when fall will arrive in your area

  04-09-2015 00:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This year, the map shows that peak viewing times for most parts of the United States is between the 10th and 17th of October. Red reveals peak season, while brown suggests the peak is over.
  
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• Google Street View goes it alone as firm launches standalone app

  04-09-2015 00:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google has launched a standalone app for its Street View service, to make it easier for mobile users to use the service.
  
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• X-56A drone that will use flexible wings could reduce sonic booms on future aircraft

  04-09-2015 00:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The drone, nicknamed ‘Buckeye’, recently completed a flight test by Nasa in California.The knowledge gained about flutterwill be used in designing the proposed supersonic X-54
  
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