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• Warring foxes take top photo prize

  13-10-2015 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A picture of a red fox standing over the bloodied body of an Arctic fox wins the prestigious 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
  
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• Northrop Grumman boasts new Hellhound military buggy has laser weapons

  13-10-2015 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Northrop Grumman revealed the six seaterHellhound at the Association of the US Army's annual conference in Washington DC and says it is 'laser ready'.
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy S7 set to have a 3D touchscreen just like the iPhone 6s

  13-10-2015 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The screen, believed to be being manufactured by Synaptics, would give the Galaxy a similar interface to Apple's hit iPhone 6s, allowing users to press harder to access menus.
  
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• Take the personality test that could reveal if you have the X Factor

  13-10-2015 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered that the personality trait of 'openness' can predict whether you have musical ability and sophistication.
  
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• Has the Biblical city of Sodom been found at Tall el-Hamaam, Jordan

  13-10-2015 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists involved in the project, led by Steven Collins from Trinity Southwestern University in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have found thick walls and ramparts connected by roads.
  
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• VIDEO: Should wolves be introduced in Scotland?

  13-10-2015 21:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wolves have been hunted to extinction across much of Europe but it seems where they have been thriving, their growing numbers may be causing problems.
  
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• Ancient tools suggest people lived in Scotland 3,000 years EARLIER than first thought and inhabited the region during the Ice Age

  13-10-2015 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists from the University of Reading made the discovery (tools pictured) with the help of a herd of pigs on the coastline of the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides.
  
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• VIDEO: Lightbulb floats and spins in mid-air

  13-10-2015 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A crowdfunded project creates a lightbulb that floats and spins in mid-air - the trade-off is that the effect requires extra power.
  
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• Fascinating graphic reveals the surprising link between body parts and health problems

  13-10-2015 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blue eyes are associated with iron deficiency, while allergies are linked with a lower risk of brain tumours, according to a graphic created by data journalist and information designer David McCandles.
  
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• Martian pebbles' shape and smoothness prove they were carried along a river bed

  13-10-2015 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The pebbles were initially found near Bradbury Rise, the landing site of Curiosity rover in the Gale Crater in 2013. The researchers compared the pebbles to the movement of rocks in Puerto Rico.
  
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• Poorest farmers 'need helping hand'

  13-10-2015 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Society must offer the world's poorest farmers a helping hand in order to break the cycle of poverty, a key United Nations report concludes.
  
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• Wolf hunters deployed to French Alps

  13-10-2015 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A team of wolf-hunters is operating in a region of the French Alps to kill wolves that are seen as a threat to livestock.
  
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• Twitter lays off hundreds of staff

  13-10-2015 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twitter says it is cutting 336 jobs, roughly 8%, of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring of the business.
  
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• 'Excited atoms' live longer when placed in front of mirrors

  13-10-2015 18:34
  
  Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, have found that the life of an artificial atom can be increased by ten times simply by positioning it in front of a mirror.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Tracking wolves in the French Alps

  13-10-2015 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Claire Marshall attempts to track wolves in the French Alps with expert tracker Troy Bennett.
  
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• US 'drunk driver' live streams ride

  13-10-2015 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Florida woman is arrested after she filmed herself driving drunk and broadcast it live on the internet.
  
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• California's latest water preservation strategy? Balls

  13-10-2015 17:37
  
      California's latest water preservation strategy? Ninety-six million small black plastic balls, the last of which were dropped into the Los Angeles Reservoir in August.By: Kathryn Nave, Continue reading...
  
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• WIRED2015: Meg Schwamb wants everyone to see Mars

  13-10-2015 17:36
  
  Anyone with a web browser can explore Mars, thanks to the work of Meg Schwamb and her team in Taiwan. She spoke to WIRED ahead of her WIRED2015 appearance.By: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• Legendary lost scripts come to Radio 4 with Unmade Movies

  13-10-2015 17:34
  
  Movie history is filled with scripts that go unproduced, and not all by struggling amateurs. Even cinematic legends have a few hidden gems that never made it to the screen, but BBC Radio 4's Unmade Movies aims to give them new life.
  The new series brings "lost" screenplays from the likes of Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Harold Pinter to the radio, adapting them into audio dramas featuring a host of the world's finest actors. Talent set to appear incl
  
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• WIRED2015 Test Lab: VR, Bond's new car and an X-wing

  13-10-2015 17:05
  
  A taste of what will be on show at the WIRED2015 test lab -- including hands-on technology and design demonstrations from Jaguar, Fove, Polaris and Hyve.By: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• WIRED2015 Test Lab: VR and a Bond villain's new car

  13-10-2015 17:05
  
  A taste of what will be on show at the WIRED2015 test lab -- including hands-on technology and design demonstrations from Jaguar, Fove, Polaris and Hyve.By: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• Stonehenge's builders feasted on yoghurt, cheese and hog roasts

  13-10-2015 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discoveries came to light at Durrington Walls, around 1.7 miles (2.7km) away from Stonehenge, and home to the villages where the stone circle’s builders are believed to have lived in 2500 BC.
  
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• Mick Kalber's footage of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano shows molten LAVA waves

  13-10-2015 16:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chicago-based Mick Kalber from Tropical Visions Video captured the 'short-lived breakout' (pictured) while flying over the northeast of Kilauea's Pu'u 'O'o vent.
  
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• 'Warm Series' smart insoles heat up icy toes and even act as a pedometer

  13-10-2015 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The makers of the insoles, based in Nancy, France, claim they are the first connected, heated insole and are designed for sports professionals, as well as anyone who regularly gets cold feet.
  
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• Call of Duty unlocks final mission

  13-10-2015 16:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest version of Call of Duty will come unlocked, allowing players to skip straight to the end if they want.
  
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• The Bird 'ring' lets wearers control gadgets using finger flicks and swipes

  13-10-2015 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Bird 'ring' (picutred) has been developed by Israel-based MUV Interactive and its algorithms analyse data from several built-in sensors in real time.
  
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• Twitter confirms it is 'parting ways' with almost 10% of its staff

  13-10-2015 15:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chief executive Jack Dorsey has confirmed the company is 'parting ways' with 336 employees from across the company. The 38-year-old tweeted an email he had sent to the company.
  
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• Star Wars Battlefront's DLC will set you back £40

  13-10-2015 15:20
  
  To the surprise of no modern gamer, Star Wars: Battlefront will be launching with a season pass for future DLC material. Further, in what is becoming increasingly unsurprising, that DLC will set you back a hefty chunk of change. 
  How much? Well, that will depend on the format you want to play the DICE-developed shooter on. For PC, publisher EA has priced it at £39.99 on its distribution platform Origin.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Twitter to lay off 8 percent of workers

  13-10-2015 14:53
  
  Twitter has announced it will shed 336 jobs -- eight percent of its entire workforce -- just one week after Jack Dorsey returned as full time CEO.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Following a different path in Nepal

  13-10-2015 14:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Software test engineer Sovita Dahal reveals the challenges she had to overcome to achieve her career of choice.
  
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• Phallic mushroom releases 'hormone-like compounds' to excite with a single sniff

  13-10-2015 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two mycologists from Hawaii discovered the 'fetid odour' of an unknown species of mushroom (related fungus shown) in the genus Dictyophora can trigger female orgasms.
  
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• Google offers Street View via VR

  13-10-2015 14:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google has released a virtual reality Street View and updated statistics on its Cardboard headset.
  
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• New Call of Duty does away with 'archaic' campaign unlocking

  13-10-2015 14:09
  
  Call of Duty: Black Ops III pulls a Netflix and reveals that all its campaign missions will be unlocked from the start. By: Becca Caddy, Continue reading...
  
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• Dutch biology teacher Debby Heerkens strips off in classroom to reveal spandex suit

  13-10-2015 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Debby Heerkens, abiology teacher at Groene Hart Rijnwoude school, in Hazerswoude Dorp, Netherlands, stripped off in front of her students to reveal an anatomically-correct spandex suit.
  
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• Expert: brain map able to predict intelligence could be 'abused'

  13-10-2015 13:56
  
  Scientists can now predict intelligence from a coarse brain activity mapBy: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• WIRED2015: Martha Lane Fox on how tech can improve the UK

  13-10-2015 13:53
  
  Cross-bench peer and serial entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox will be talking on the Main Stage at WIRED2015.By: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• Laser razor kicked off Kickstarter

  13-10-2015 13:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A crowdfunding campaign for a razor blade which its US creators claimed could remove facial hair with a laser beam has been suspended.
  
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• People 'prefer bored robots'

  13-10-2015 12:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Robots that make mistakes and show human emotions fared better in tests with humans than their perfect counterparts.
  
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• Australia data law comes into effect

  13-10-2015 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Large amounts of phone, internet and location data must now be kept for two years by Australian telecommunications companies, as a new law comes into effect.
  
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• Wrestlers, a gorilla and salad among the new emoji coming to phones next year

  13-10-2015 12:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Unicode Consortium in California has released the latest list of new emoji, based on popular requests. Foods include a baguette, while the 'sports' category' includes a boxing glove and a goal.
  
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• Sony scoops up gesture tech firm Softkinetic

  13-10-2015 12:47
  
  From Minecraft creator Mojang to game engine Havok, it's usually Microsoft making announcements of acquisitions that benefit its gaming interests. Sony isn't going to be left behind in the battle for fringe tech though, having just netted gesture recognition and imaging software developer Softkinetic.
  The Belgian company is "a provider of 3D vision technology for consumer electronics and industrial applications". That basically means it creates ways for users to control devi
  
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• DiCaprio snaps up film rights to VW emissions scandal

  13-10-2015 12:44
  
  Leonardo DiCaprio's production company has bought the rights to a Volkswagen emissions scandal film. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Open Bionics has made a Star Wars lightsaber prosthetic

  13-10-2015 12:36
  
  An arm from the Iron Man suit, a Star Wars lightsaber and Frozen-themed prosthetic are now available to children amputees. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Astronauts could eat sweet potatoes and strawberries on Mars

  13-10-2015 12:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Arizona have developed a greenhouse (pictured) with a hydroponics system to grow sweet potatoes and strawberries.
  
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• Google Street View adds full Cardboard VR support

  13-10-2015 12:09
  
  You can now wander the world in Google Cardboard virtual reality at the press of a button.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Meet BIRD, a gesture controller for your entire home

  13-10-2015 11:13
  
  MUV Interactive brings gesture-based controls to your connected home with the Bird.By: Becca Caddy, Continue reading...
  
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• Apollo missions reborn with fan-edited '3D' footage

  13-10-2015 11:08
  
  Nasa recently released thousands of public domain images from their Apollo moon missions -- and now fans are creating their own footage from the photographs.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Praise boosts performance in stressful situations such as job interviews

  13-10-2015 11:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, put 123 volunteers through a mock job interview to see the effect of compliments (illustrated with a file image) at work.
  
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• Good luck faking that! Artwork will soon be 'tagged' with DNA to help experts identify forgeries

  13-10-2015 10:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The initiative was launched by the University of Albany. Labels containing DNA will be added to art by the likes of Chuck Close (his Janet print is pictured).
  
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• Humans believe in GOD because religion fulfills our 16 basic desires

  13-10-2015 10:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A psychologist at Ohio State University has unveiled a new theory about the psychology underlying belief in God, claiming it is an attempt to satisfy basic human desires.
  
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