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• Six degrees of FRANCIS BACON interactive relationship maps shows historical figures friends of friends

  16-10-2015 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The site, created by Carnegie Melon University, currently identifies more than 13,000 people and highlights around 200,000 relationships from between 1500 and 1700.
  
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• El Niño will bring a cold and wet winter but WON'T ease California's drought

  16-10-2015 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration issued its winter forecast, saying El Nino will leave a big wet but not necessarily snowy footprint on much of the United States.
  
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• US court backs Google book scanning

  16-10-2015 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google can continue to scan millions of books without violating copyright laws, a US court had ruled.
  
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• Target suffers X-rated headache

  16-10-2015 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pornographic audio has been blaring out at Target stores across California. A weak system is to blame.
  
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• Researchers uncover The REAL science of zombies vs plants

  16-10-2015 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zombie vs plants may have become a hit game, but now researchers say they have uncovered the process which allows real flowering plants to be turned into 'zombies'.
  
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• Scott Kelly becomes US astronaut to spend the most time in space after 383 days on the ISS

  16-10-2015 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 51-year-old, who is part of Nasa's'One Year mission' has beaten Mike Fincke, a two-time space station resident, who was the previous record holder at 382 days.
  
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• King.com: the secret story behind the numbers

  16-10-2015 20:59
  
      King.com chief operating officer Stephane Kurgan tells WIRED2015 the story behind the gaming company's headline-grabbing numbers.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Alisée de Tonnac: the future of technology doesn't lie in the developed world

  16-10-2015 20:41
  
     The future of technology is not in the Western world, says Alisée de Tonnac. It's in emerging markets.
  de Tonnac is CEO of Seedstars World, an organisation that helps shine a light on emerging entrepreneurs around the world. Seedstars runs competitions -- what de Tonnac calls "The Startup Olympics" -- around the world. Their objective is to find the best entrepreneurs, to connect them to corporations, governments and stakeholders that can he
  
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• 'Refugees In' is Pussy Riot's brutal new video

  16-10-2015 20:38
  
      Pussy Riot have debuted a brutal new music video calling for governments across Europe to embrace migration and let "Refugees In".By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix details start at $1 while hackers will pay up to $1,200 for your banking password

  16-10-2015 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The figures have been taken from California-based Intel Security's The Hidden Data Economy report. On the dark web, stolen cards (stock image)are worth $5 in the US, or $45 in the EU.
  
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• One million players for Star Citizen

  16-10-2015 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than one million have joined the Star Citizen space simulation game which has raised almost $93m by crowd-funding
  
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• The new Noma could be made of toilet paper and sprouts

  16-10-2015 19:54
  
      A rebuilt Noma could be made of decomposing compost and toilet paper or sprouts and grains.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Eat hipster algae and save the oceans

  16-10-2015 19:32
  
      Our craving for fish is an ecological catastrophe in the making. According to WWF's report Living Blue Planet, between 1970 and 2012 overfishing has shrunk the world fish population by 49 percent. Trawling -- a widespread fishing method using large nets dragged by several boats-- is progressively eroding the seabed, and killing plenty of microorganisms thriving there.  
  What's maybe surprising is that not all fish are fished to be actually eaten.
  
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• Apatosaurus louisae scale model confirms the sauropod created SONIC BOOMS

  16-10-2015 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The computer simulations and model (pictured) were tested and built by computer scientist Nathan Myhrvold and University of Alberta palaeontologist Philip Currie.
  
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• Can't afford an iPhone 6s? App gives your old handsets the latest 3D Touch features for free (but only if you jailbreak it first)

  16-10-2015 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By downloading the free 'Forcy' app, iPhone users with iOS 9 can get some of the same features as the new iPhone 6s without paying out for the new model.
  
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• This man's factory is turning waste coffee into green energy

  16-10-2015 19:08
  
      The UK drinks 70 million cups of coffee a year. That produced 500,000 tonnes of waste, which costs the industry £80m to dispose of. Every year. On an industrial estate in Cambridgeshire, that waste is being turned into advanced biofuels.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Why smart people make dumb decisions

  16-10-2015 19:05
  
      "Why do very bright people so often do things that are spectacularly stupid?" asked Gillian Tett at WIRED 2015. 
  Tett, an anthropologist by training, is a senior journalist at the Financial Times. She's written a book about 'silos' -- the social and mental boxes we put ourselves in both personally and professionally. She thinks these silos are at the heart of why companies make big mistakes.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Brian Message: Apple Music won't be bigger than YouTube

  16-10-2015 18:15
  
      Apple Music isn't going to overhaul the music industry like iTunes did -- instead we're going to see even more artists using streaming platforms like YouTube and Spotify to set themselves up independently.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Creepy software puts YOUR expression onto another person's face to make them smile or frown

  16-10-2015 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, and Stanford University created the technology, which could one day be used for dubbing films.
  
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• VIDEO: Is life possible on the south pole of the Moon?

  16-10-2015 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dr James Carpenter of the European Space Agency explains why an unexplored area of the moon may be rich in resources for a human colony.
  
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• VIDEO: Could the lunar south pole support a human base?

  16-10-2015 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dr James Carpenter of the European Space Agency explains why an unexplored area of the moon may be rich in resources for a human colony.
  
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• Europe and Russia plan Moon mission

  16-10-2015 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European and Russian space agencies are to send the first spacecraft to land near the south pole of the Moon, to lay the groundwork for a possible permanent settlement.
  
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• Bioprinting human tissue may yield cruelty-free drugs, and immortality

  16-10-2015 18:00
  
     Humanity doesn't have enough spare organs. Let's make some.
  That's the guiding principle behind the work of Gabor Forgacs, a pioneer in bioprinting and founder of Organovo, which specialises in the field of making human tissue to order. The technology isn't quite there yet, at least not for 3D printing full-blown functional organs, but as Forgacs told the WIRED2015 audience, the science is sound and it's only a matter of time before lab-printed replacem
  
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• How tech is changing the world of bread (but not its soul)

  16-10-2015 17:59
  
     How tech is changing the world of bread (but not its soul).By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Robots learn to fall gracefully

  16-10-2015 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers have developed an algorithm to help robots fall more gracefully, to protect them from damage.
  
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• Are YOU smart enough to join Mensa? Take the test to see if your IQ measures up

  16-10-2015 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mensa has revealed the head-scratching questions it uses to select new members to FEMAIL. Take the quiz to see if you can beat the 250 children under 12 who are already members of the society.
  
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• Self-driving cars could remove 80 percent of New York's traffic

  16-10-2015 17:23
  
      With effective use of ridesharing, architect and engineer Carlo Ratti believes New York City could remove six of every ten cars on the streets. Make every car self-driving and that number rises to eight out of every ten.
   By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: The boxes which can transmit touch

  16-10-2015 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Haptoclone - the device which can project the illusion of touch
  
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• Nasa's Cassini captures Saturn's moon Enceladus in unprecedented detail

  16-10-2015 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The images were captured by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft during its 14 October flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Cassini passed 1,142 miles (1,839km) above the surface.
  
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• Scio uses beams of light to analyse the amount of fat, carbs and proteins in food

  16-10-2015 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The device (pictured), designed by Consumer Physics, an Israeli company, works by uses beams of light to analyse the molecular ‘signature’ of whatever it is scanning.
  
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• Lab-grown burgers from bovine stem cells will be on the menu by 2020

  16-10-2015 16:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter Verstrate, head of a new firm working with Maastricht University, said he was confident that the burgers would be available to buy within five years.
  
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• DroneDefender 'gun' uses radio pulses to halt drones mid-air

  16-10-2015 16:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rifle-like anti-drone system, developed by Battelle Innovations in Columbus, Ohio, uses radio pulses to interrupt the communication system of the drone, tricking it into thinking it is out of range.
  
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• Skype Links lets you take calls without installing apps or creating accounts

  16-10-2015 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Skype links can be generated from Skype for Windows, for Mac and for Web. These changes are being rolled out to in the US and UK from today and the rest of the world 'over the next couple of weeks.'
  
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• Impalas locking horns wins Royal Society of Biology's photography award

  16-10-2015 15:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A striking image of male impala locking curly horns on the plains of Etosha National Park in Namibia has taken first place in the Royal Society of Biology's Photographer of the Year competition.
  
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• VIDEO: How bees showed a caffeine addiction

  16-10-2015 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ecologist Margaret Couvillon explains how she discovered that honeybees were hooked on caffeine.
  
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• Noma and the quest for new (fermented) flavours

  16-10-2015 15:48
  
      Cooking is not enough anymore. At Noma, the two-Michelin-starred Copenhagen restaurant that is reinventing Nordic cuisine, the real task is finding new flavours. 
  Noma's R&D chef Lars Williams and flavour scientist Arielle Johnson have given WIRED 2015 attendees  a  rundown of how they go about building new dishes, taste by taste. 
  "We think about a dish as a complete sentence, "Williams said. "And we start from zero, we have to come up with t
  
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• Ancestors 'slept less' than we do

  16-10-2015 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study of modern hunter gatherer societies suggests our ancestors may have only slept 6.5 hours a night.
  
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• Coronal hole that is 50 EARTHS-wide spotted on star by NASA

  16-10-2015 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Captured by Nasa'sSolar Dynamics Observatory, the region occurs where a magnetic field fails to loop back down to the sun's surface and instead sends out coronal material.
  
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• Oil companies back Paris climate deal

  16-10-2015 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leaders of ten of the world's biggest oil companies have offered their qualified support for a new global climate treaty.
  
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• What makes superglue so sticky? Infographic reveals the chemistry of the adhesive

  16-10-2015 14:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teacher Andy Brunning, based in Cambridge, explains how the glue's secret lies in cyanoacrylate, a substance once thought completely useless as it was so sticky.
  
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• Martha Lane Fox: how Britain can build a generation of 'women warriors' in tech

  16-10-2015 14:28
  
      Britain's digital industry needs "an army of women warriors," crossbench peer and serial entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox told attendees at WIRED 2015 at London's Tobacco Dock, floating the idea that the UK could spearhead the quest for more diversity in tech. By: Gian Volpicelli, Continue reading...
  
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• Uber IS legal rules judge in latest round of battle with cab drivers

  16-10-2015 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) had sought clarification as to whether the smartphone app breaks the law by operating in the same way as meters used by more strictly regulated black cabs to calculate fares.
  
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• How Geekie's adaptive education shattered 'centuries' of pain in Brazil

  16-10-2015 14:03
  
      Claudio Sassaki tells WIRED 2015 about how his company Geekie is reinventing education in Brazil.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Taxi-hailing app Uber 'is lawful'

  16-10-2015 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The taxi-hailing app operated in London by the US firm Uber does not break the law, the High Court finds.
  
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• Artificial intelligence is making better drugs

  16-10-2015 13:11
      Healthcare research company Berg is using artificial intelligence to develop more targeted drugs.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Uber's app does not break the law, Hight Court rules

  16-10-2015 13:06
  
  The High Court has ruled that Uber's app is not a taximeter and that the company is operating legally in LondonBy: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Uber's app does not break the law, High Court rules

  16-10-2015 13:06
  
  The High Court has ruled that Uber's app is not a taximeter and that the company is operating legally in LondonBy: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Nasa images capture record growth of Antarctic sea ice

  16-10-2015 12:48
  
  This year has seen an unusually late formation of peak Antarctic sea ice. The year's progress from low to high has been captured in video and images by Nasa.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Your Wired Annual Subscription

  16-10-2015 12:38
  
     By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Antimatter rockets could make humans an 'interstellar species'

  16-10-2015 12:38
  
     Ryan Weed is creating an antimatter rocket that could reach Mars within weeks and Pluto within months.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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