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• Sex robots should be BANNED as experts call for crackdown

  15-09-2015 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A robot ethicist has warned that AI sex dolls could 'contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women.'
  
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• Facebook WILL launch a dislike button says Mark Zuckerberg

  15-09-2015 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Zuckerberg said the feature will allow users to 'share something that's sad like a refugee crisis that touches you or a family member passes away.'
  
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• Battle of the billionaires: Amazon's Jeff Bezos to take over historic Cape Canaveral launchpad in bid to beat Elon Musk's SpaceX and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic

  15-09-2015 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blue Origin will spend $200m building rockets and capsules in Florida, and Bezos also teased a new 'megarocket' the firm is planning to build and test there.
  
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• VIDEO: OAP video gamers outscore youngsters

  15-09-2015 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers develop a game for pensioners that is designed to help them sharpen their mental faculties.
  
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• Amazon founder signals space intent

  15-09-2015 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces plans to build and launch rockets from Florida’s “space coast”.
  
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• Three launches '4G Super-Voice' that means you can always make calls inside homes

  15-09-2015 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  4G Super-Voice already covers half of the UK population for indoor coverage, including three quarters of London, Edinburgh, Exeter and Birmingham but will be extended further.
  
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• PRIME SPACE: Bezos in Cape Canaveral SPACE PODULE debut

  15-09-2015 20:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  No he's not just pleased to see you, that IS a rocket in his pocket Online stuff-hurling biz lord Jeff Bezos is to move into ORBITAL deliveries, it has been announced, setting up a mighty space podule-plex in a disused NASA facility on Florida's Cape Canaveral.…
  
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• Bezos to plonk Blue Origin rocketry base at NASA Cape Canaveral

  15-09-2015 20:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  Amazon billionaire will pony up $200m to become Florida Man NASA's Cape Canaveral site in Florida will be the new home for Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight project.…
  
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• Bezos picks old NASA Cape Canaveral for Blue Origin rocketry base

  15-09-2015 20:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  Amazon billionaire will pony up $200m to become Florida Man Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has chosen Cape Canaveral, Florida as the new home for his Blue Origin spaceflight project.…
  
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• Amazon PRIME SPACE: Forget DRONES, Bezos tools up for ORBITAL deliveries

  15-09-2015 20:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  No he's not pleased to see you, that IS a rocket in his pocket Battery-farm warehouse kingpin Jeff Bezos is to establish the first commercial operation of his secretive space startup Blue Origin at a former NASA launchpad at Florida's famous Cape Canaveral.…
  
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• Amazon PRIME SPACE at Canaveral: Bezos tools up for ORBITAL deliveries

  15-09-2015 20:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  No he's not pleased to see you, that IS a rocket in his pocket Retail kingpin Jeff Bezos is to set up a mighty rocket base at a disused NASA launchpad on Florida's Cape Canaveral, it has been revealed.…
  
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• Disney's 'The Jungle Book' looks awesome in first trailer

  15-09-2015 18:35
  
  Disney has released the trailer for the The Jungle Book, providing a thrilling and ever so slightly chilling insight into what audiences can expect.By: Katie Collins, Continue reading...
  
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• No more blackspots! Three launches '4G Super-Voice' that means you can always make calls inside homes and in rural areas

  15-09-2015 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  4G Super-Voice already covers half of the UK population for indoor coverage, including three quarters of London, Edinburgh, Exeter and Birmingham but will be extended further.
  
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• Apple could soon let you delete unwanted iOS apps

  15-09-2015 18:18
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the company is considering ways to allow iPhone users to remove or hide apps installed by default that they don't actually use.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Baltasar Kormákur on the extremes of filming 'Everest' at 15,000ft

  15-09-2015 18:10
  
      Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is not one for shortcuts. As soon as he decided to make Everest, he knew he'd take on the mountain itself. Everest is a mammoth, thrilling, IMAX-sized dramatisation of the 1996 blizzard tragedy that killed eight climbers, and Kormákur wanted not only to honour the dead with authenticity, but for audiences to get as virtual an experience as possible. So up he went. After personally summiting up to 24,000ft to scout for loc
  
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• Wikipedia's world view is skewed by rich, western voices

  15-09-2015 18:05
  
  Wikipedia's world view is warped by editors in the west, with nearly half of all edits to articles about places on the encyclopaedia made by people living in just five countries -- France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• NO SEA LEVEL danger from Antarctic this century, even if ALL COAL and OIL burned

  15-09-2015 17:52 via go.theregister.com
  
  Hardcore warmist's amazing admission One of the world's most firmly global-warmist scientists has put his name to a scientific paper which says that even if humanity deliberately sets out to burn all the fossil fuels it can find, as fast as it can, there will be no troublesome sea level rise due to melting Antarctic ice this century.…
  
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• Burn ALL the COAL, OIL – NO SEA LEVEL danger from Antarctic ice melt this century

  15-09-2015 17:52 via go.theregister.com
  
  Hardcore warmist's amazing admission Even if we, the human race, burned all the fossil fuels we can find as fast as possible, there will be no troublesome sea level rise due to melting Antarctic ice this century.…
  
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• Burn ALL the COAL, OIL – NO danger of SEA LEVEL rise this century from Antarctic ice melt

  15-09-2015 17:52 via go.theregister.com
  
  Hardcore warmist's amazing admission One of the world's most firmly global-warmist scientists says that even if humanity deliberately sets out to burn all the fossil fuels it can find, as fast as it can, there will be no troublesome sea level rise due to melting Antarctic ice this century.…
  
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• Baby elephants born to stressed mothers age faster and have fewer offspring

  15-09-2015 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Sheffield examined the records of 10,000 Asian elephants in Myanmar that are used to haul logs for the timber industry during the monsoon season.
  
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• Wild 3D 'Urbanimals' take over Bristol's streets

  15-09-2015 17:29
  
    Urbanimals, the winner of the Playable City 2015 award, will be scampering around the city's streets for the next couple of months. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Tiger Sheds' spider-proof design includes smelly wood to deter critters

  15-09-2015 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The shed has been designed by Leeds-based Tiger Sheds in response to a survey that claims a quarter of Britons are too scared to venture into the sheds for fear of meeting a spider.
  
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• This 360 news report will immerse you in the battle for Syria

  15-09-2015 16:32
  
  An immersive news report created by a Syrian news agency lets viewers see and explore the contested, damaged city of Jisr al-Choughour in 360 degrees.
  Jisr al-Choughour was captured by rebels in spring 2015 and the video shows streets of bombed-out buildings with very few people in sight. Smart News Agency and Okio Report, which collaborated on the video, call the city "the world's most dangerous war zone" and a "ghost town". 
   By: Katie Collins, Continue reading...
  
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• You can now find out if GCHQ spied on you

  15-09-2015 16:09
  
  Privacy International has launched a simple form that can help individuals force GCHQ to delete information illegally shared with the NSABy: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Cosmologists say other dimensions may create 'signatures' that are visible in space

  15-09-2015 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cosmologist Dr Eugene Lim, from King's College London, says if multiple universes inhabit the same physical space as our own, they will collide and leave traces in the cosmic microwave background.
  
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• Men with wider faces are more likely to have psychopathic tendencies

  15-09-2015 15:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of students and inmates by Goethe University, Frankfurt found men with a higher facial width-to-height ratio were more likely to exhibit 'self-centred impulsivity' and 'fearless dominance.'
  
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• Video shows real-time comet landing

  15-09-2015 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new reconstruction captures the moment Europe's Philae probe first approached Comet 67P in November last year.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Ride along' with Philae's landing

  15-09-2015 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A smoothed reconstruction captures the moment the Philae probe first approached Comet 67P in November last year.
  
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• Porsche unveils its Tesla killer Mission E with holographic dashboard

  15-09-2015 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Porsche boasts its new Mission E conceptcan go from zero to 100 km/h acceleration in under 3.5 seconds, will take just 15 minutes to charge to 80% of its 500km range.
  
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• Rodents exchange ultrasonic calls during mating to signal their interest

  15-09-2015 14:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Delaware researchers built a specialised sound chamber including four microphones to detect ultrasonic noises made by mice (a stock image is shown).
  
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• Striker II uses a night vision camera to help fighter pilots fly under the cover of darkness

  15-09-2015 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Farnborough-based BAE Systems has begun night trials on the Striker II (pictured) helmet-mounted display (HMD) in the hope they will lead to a fully integrated digital night vision helmet.
  
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• Night vision visor will let pilots see 24 hours a day

  15-09-2015 13:41
  
  BAE Systems is beginning night trials of its newly developed helmet-mounted display to assess its digital night vision capabilities.By: Katie Collins, Continue reading...
  
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• Humpback whale in Monterey Bay leaps over kayakers narrowly avoiding crushing them

  15-09-2015 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The kayakers were paddling in Monterey Bay, California, on Saturday when the enormous creature emerged from the water and almost landed on top of the duo.
  
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• Unique astronaut job perk: Create a SHOOTING STAR by having a POO

  15-09-2015 13:14 via go.theregister.com
  
  NASA celebrates halfway point on longhaul space-life study International Space Station residents Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko – the "One Year Crew" – mark the halfway point of their planned 342 consecutive days aloft as NASA reveals just what happens to 'naut poo in space.…
  
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• Unique astronaut job perk: Create a SHOOTING STAR by having a dump

  15-09-2015 13:14 via go.theregister.com
  
  NASA celebrates halfway milestone on longhaul space-life study It's celebration time aboard the International Space Station as 'nauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko gallop past the halfway point of their "One Year Crew" extended space sojourn, and share with us various details of life as a long term space resident.…
  
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• Mercedes-Benz announces plans for Uber for LIMOS to take on Google

  15-09-2015 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daimler-owned Mercedes-Benz is hoping to target the luxury car market with new autonomous vehicles. It has unveiled its F 015 driverless research vehicle(pictured) as a way of testing the technology.
  
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• Everest: shooting a blockbuster at the top of the world

  15-09-2015 13:02
  
      When Baltasar Kormákur decided to make Everest, he knew he had to shoot there - and that the experience would test his team's limits.By: Alex Godfrey, Continue reading...
  
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• TREES tell SCIENTISTS: Sierra Nevada snow hasn't been this bad since 1500AD

  15-09-2015 12:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  Claim unsupported by any actual records You'll read it everywhere - there hasn't been so little snow in California's Sierra Nevada for FIVE HUNDRED years. But how do they know? The first people possessing written language to visit the Sierras got there less than two centuries ago.…
  
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• TALKATIVE TREES: 'We remember the LAST big Cali drought, in 1500AD'

  15-09-2015 12:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  'Five century snow low' claims unsupported by any actual records Snow levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains have hit lows not seen for five hundred years, scientists have claimed: though here we use the word "seen" loosely, as the researchers in question are basing this on the testimony of trees rather than human observers.…
  
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• Sierra Nevada snowpack 'lowest level in 500 years', say tree boffins

  15-09-2015 12:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  Claims unsupported by any actual records Scientists claim that snow levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains have hit lows not seen for five hundred years – and they've found an expert witness to back them up: trees. Yes, the testimony of trees, not people.…
  
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• Sierra Nevada snowpack at lowest level in 500 years, say, er, tree-whispering boffins

  15-09-2015 12:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  Claims unsupported by any actual records Scientists have found an expert witness to back up claims that snow levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains have hit lows not seen for five hundred years – trees. Yes, the testimony of trees, not people.…
  
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• 'It's a 500 YEAR SNOW LOW in the Sierra Nevada - the TREES TOLD US'

  15-09-2015 12:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  Scientists' amazing claim gets big ink in drought-hit California Snow levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California are at their lowest levels for 5 centuries, scientists have claimed - though it would seem difficult to know this as the first Europeans visited the area less than 200 years ago and records go back less than a century.…
  
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• California's Sierra snow 'lowest level in 500 years' TREES tell boffins

  15-09-2015 12:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  Claims unsupported by any actual records The snowpack on California's Sierra Nevada mountains has hit a low not seen for five hundred years – so claim scientists who have bafflingly decided to rely on the testimony of trees.…
  
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• Hush kills unused apps to boost your battery and tracks how you use your phone

  15-09-2015 12:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Purdue University researchers in Indiana, said the Hush tool for Android phones can reduce the total daily energy drain by 16 per per cent by shutting down apps (stock image).
  
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• Campaign calls for ban on sex robots

  15-09-2015 12:12
  
  A campaign has called for an outright ban on robots developed for sex. Leading academics in robot ethics have warned that their creation will only increase the objectification of women and children, further dehumanising those who are abused for sex.
  The warning comes as artificial intelligence reaches a point where it could easily be used in robots designed solely to satisfy sexual desires. But such robots, campaigners argue, should not exist.By: James Temperton, Continue reading
  
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• Batband uses bone conduction to play music through your SKULL

  15-09-2015 12:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Batband (pictured) has been developed by Studio Banana Things. It pairs to a device via Bluetooth and music is played wirelessly. This connection also means the band can be used to answer calls.
  
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• Nasa astronauts create 180lbs of excrement each year that burns up in the atmosphere

  15-09-2015 12:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  American Astronaut Scott Kelly will began the 'Year in Space' mission by blasting off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan in a Soyuz vehicle in March and is now half way through his stay on the ISS.
  
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• Wildlife photographer captures first pictures of skink lizard with tiny legs

  15-09-2015 12:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rare reptile, which looks more like a snake, was pictured by a wildlife photographer during a visit to the Masai Mara in Kenya.
  
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• This fossil-inspired robot can roll, run and walk on tiptoes

  15-09-2015 11:34
  
  This eight-legged robot, inspired by a prehistoric crab-like animal, can walk or drive and is designed to make people reassess how we approach transport. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Bugatti's Gran Turismo concept is real, and totally absurd

  15-09-2015 11:34
  
      The Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo -- is not exactly a 'real' car, but one designed specifically for Gran Turismo's Vision Gran Turismo series of concept vehicles.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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