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• Nasa baffled by pits and troughs hundreds of meters across on Pluto

  19-10-2015 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Each of the pits and troughs – typically hundreds of meters across and tens of meters deep – were spotted in the area, informally known as Sputnik Planum.
  
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• DNA study reveals dogs first appeared near Nepal and Mongolia

  19-10-2015 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A DNA study has found man's best friend may have evolved somewhere near what is now Nepal and Mongolia, researchers say.
  
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• New Air Force One with improved nuclear defenses being finalized with Boeing

  19-10-2015 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the coming weeks U.S. officials hope to confirm a manufacturing deal with Boeing to develop a new model to meet the requirements of a 21st century president.
  
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• Life on Earth began 300 MILLION years earlier than we though, claim scientists

  19-10-2015 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers discovered the unconfirmed evidence in specks of graphite trapped within immensely old zircon crystals from Jack Hills, Western Australia.
  
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• Study reveals the Shroud of Turin contains DNA from plants found all over the world

  19-10-2015 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Padova suggest the shroud travelled the world extensively, moving from Jerusalem to Turkey to France before ending up in its in Turin, Italy.
  
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• E-bike firm Mission Motors shuts down claiming Apple poached its staff

  19-10-2015 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mission Motors, whose sleek 150mph electric bikes drew comparisons to Tesla's cars, ceased operations in May after losingtop talent to Apple, according to sources close to Mission.
  
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• CIA boss's personal email 'hacked'

  19-10-2015 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US authorities look into reports that CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account has been hacked by a high-school student.
  
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• Telescopestarts analysing 'bizarre' star that could be surrounded by a Dyson sphere

  19-10-2015 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have begun an in depth study of a 'bizarre' star they say could be surrounded by a huge alien megastructure known as a Dyson sphere.
  
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• We are more likely to choose partners who have similar genes to us

  19-10-2015 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of California studied children in Mexico and Puerto Rico and discovered their parents shared similar genes even though they weren't related (stock image).
  
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• Are you the eldest child? Then you're probably smarter than your siblings

  19-10-2015 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Study by Leipzig University found that the first-born in a family tends to be the smartest - and each successive sibling is slightly less bright.
  
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• 'Floating city' in China is simply an optical illusion say scientists

  19-10-2015 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Residents of Jiangxi and Foshan were stunned when they saw what they thought to be towering sky scrapers appearing from the clouds. The event was down to an optical illusion known as a Fata Morgana.
  
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• FACEBOOK may be to blame for killing your phone's battery

  19-10-2015 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The California-based social network told MailOnline it is looking into the battery life claims, but noted 'the issue is not caused by improper background location collection.'
  
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• Lumen generates a small electrical current when held in a hand 

  19-10-2015 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Lumen torch (pictured), developed by New York-based Ross Zhuravskiy is fitted with a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that produces an electric current when touched.
  
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• Orange-coloured compound in rhubarb helps kills tumours cells

  19-10-2015 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Emory University in Atlanta found that Parietin, which is also found in lichen, can zap cells in leukaemia, as well as lung and head and neck tumours.
  
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• What does the Countering Extremism Strategy mean for tech in the UK?

  19-10-2015 18:44
  
  The UK Government has outlined its vision for an internet in which communication is monitored, the general public censors itself and one another, and the government funds the voices it likes online.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Watch the amazing moment a rare black rhino is born: Captive birth gives hope to the critically endangered species

  19-10-2015 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The footage, taken at Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury, Kent, shows the baby dropping to the floor before his mother, Damara, spins and looks at him for the first time.
  
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• Steam Controller doesn't work for Mac gamers

  19-10-2015 18:14
  
  The days of the Mac being a barren wasteland for games are, if not completely consigned to the history books, at least heading there. Steam, arguably the closest thing PC gaming has to a default supplier, has had an OS X client since 2010, and there's no shortage of games compatible with Apple hardware.
  One thing that isn't compatible though is the just-launched Steam Controller. Valve's dedicated oddball joypad -- first announced what seems an eternity ago, in the
  
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• Role play in gaming is an empathy machine

  19-10-2015 17:20
  
  During the medium's first two decades, videogames mainly presented us with the opportunity to enter situations too dangerous, rarefied or expensive for reality. More recently, the rise of easy-to-use videogame-creation software, and the lowering of the barriers of game distribution, have vastly expanded the range of people making and selling games.By: Simon Parkin, Continue reading...
  
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• Xiaomi's Ninebot mini is a (non) hoverboard you steer with your knees

  19-10-2015 17:11
  
  Beijing-based Xiaomi wants to do more than make decent Android smartphones -- it also wants to find a niche in the future of potentially-illegal travel.
  The Chinese tech insurgent has unveiled a range of new consumer tech including a TV box but also, and perhaps most notably, a self-balancing scooter.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Prehistoric man ate SNAIL PORRIDGE and used special drills to extract meat from shells

  19-10-2015 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 150,000-year-old snail shells with man-made holes (pictured) were discovered by a team of British archaeologists in Haua Fteah Cave in Libya.
  
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• BEAVERS could slow flow of water to replenish aquifers in California

  19-10-2015 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The industrious rodents (stock image shown main) could help slow the flow of water heading to the sea by building dams, to create extra reserves of water, ecologists from Sonoma County in California claim.
  
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• Syrian seeds withdrawn from Arctic 'doomsday vault'

  19-10-2015 16:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) — In the first withdrawal from a "doomsday" seed vault in the Arctic, thousands of seeds that were originally kept in war-stricken ...
  
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• #WhereIsLuke? Star Wars fans scour official poster for Jedi hero

  19-10-2015 16:05
  
  In case you've been living under a rock, and missed the teaser trailers, tie-in drones, and actual, functional droids, there's a new Star Wars film on the way.
  The latest stop for the Force Awakens hype train brings a new poster for the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed movie, one that presages a new, different trailer set to debut in the US during ESPN’s Monday Night Football this evening (and hitting the internet about five seconds later). Yet while t
  
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• Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding gun he used to assassinate JFK is 'authentic'

  19-10-2015 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New expert analysis has debunked the theory that the photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding the gun he used to shoot JFK in Dallas, in 1963, was a faked composite of other pictures.
  
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• Security firm Eset's Cyber IQ test shows you how much you know about protecting your identity online

  19-10-2015 14:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cyber IQ test was compiled by Slovakian internet security firm Eset. It includes a total of 16 questions. The first question is divided into eight true or false statements.
  
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• Would you want to be buried in a SMART COFFIN?

  19-10-2015 14:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Coffin of the Future' design was created by Perfect Choice Funerals in Solihul in the West Midlands to see how different technologies could be incorporated into a funeral.
  
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• Visualise VR invent a full-body 'Cell' you'll never want to leave

  19-10-2015 14:11
  
  High on a platform suspended in the middle of a concrete cavern, an armoured space warrior is dodging lasers. Somebody – fiendish villains? ill-advised security consultants? – have placed a laser shield in the path of the exit and it is extremely important that the space warrior negotiate his way round it.By: Rowland Manthorpe, Continue reading...
  
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• Visualise VR have invented a full-body 'Cell' you'll never want to leave

  19-10-2015 14:11
  
  High on a platform suspended in the middle of a concrete cavern, an armoured space warrior is dodging lasers. Somebody – fiendish villains? ill-advised security consultants? – have placed a laser shield in the path of the exit and it is extremely important that the space warrior negotiate his way round it.By: Rowland Manthorpe, Continue reading...
  
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• BlackBerry's Priv Android phone with hidden keyboard and curved screen goes on sale

  19-10-2015 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pre-orders are available exclusively from UK retailer Carphone Warehouse and prices for a SIM-free device (pictured) start at £580 with an estimated delivery date of 6 November.
  
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• New graphics reveal the real effects energy drinks have on the body

  19-10-2015 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While energy drinks provide a quick boost, they have been linked with heart attacks, anxiety, headaches, according to an infographic created by online games company bwin.com.
  
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• Public has chance to name new moth species on eBay auction

  19-10-2015 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The moth (pictured) was discovered eight years ago at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico by entomologist Eric H. Metzler.
  
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• 'Whale' finance scam hits businesses

  19-10-2015 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cyber-thieves are stealing millions of pounds, with a scam based around faking email messages from company bosses.
  
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• Can Amazon's legal action stem the tide of fake reviews?

  19-10-2015 12:47
  
  Amazon's lawsuit against Fiverr users selling positive reviews is only likely to make a real difference if it can identify and cut off the people buying them.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Samsung developing robots to replace cheap Chinese labour

  19-10-2015 12:27
  
  The South Korean government has handed Samsung a multi-million dollar investment to develop factory robots that can carry out complex tasks normally reserved for nimble human fingers.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Pluto flashes its unusual pits

  19-10-2015 12:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  Nitrogen ice strangeness on 'weird' dwarf planet NASA's New Horizons mission has returned an intriguing photo of Pluto's Sputnik Planum plains, showing an "enigmatic cellular pattern" and "unusual clusters of small pits and troughs".…
  
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• 3D anaysis provides sudden Kennedy assassination breakthrough

  19-10-2015 12:09
  
  The photo at the heart of many JFK conspiracy theories is realistic, forensic image analysis shows. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• 3D analysis provides sudden Kennedy assassination breakthrough

  19-10-2015 12:09
  
  The photo at the heart of many JFK conspiracy theories is realistic, forensic image analysis shows. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• BlackBerry's Priv goes on sale: £580 Android handset has a hidden keyboard, curved screen and 18MP camera

  19-10-2015 11:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pre-orders are available exclusively from UK retailer Carphone Warehouse and prices for a SIM-free device (pictured) start at £580 with an estimated delivery date of 6 November.
  
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• VIDEO: RoboBee copies puffins to fly and swim

  19-10-2015 11:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The puffin inspired microbot which can swim, fly and hover
  
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• 12 million fall into UK digital skills gap

  19-10-2015 10:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Over 12 million people, and a million small businesses in the UK do not have the skills to prosper in the digital era, a charity has warned.
  
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• Apple ordered to pay $234m in patent lawsuit for infringing university design

  19-10-2015 10:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The jury in Madison, Wisconsin set the amount after around three hours of deliberations. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Warf) had asked for $399 million (£257 million).
  
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• How Chairman Mao's secret military project led to a Nobel Prize

  19-10-2015 10:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  Western science + Chinese herbal remedies = win This year’s Nobel Prize award has its roots in Chairman Mao’s secret plan to systematise Chinese medicine.…
  
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• Facebook will now tell you if GCHQ is spying on you

  19-10-2015 10:08
  
  Facebook says that it will now inform users if it thinks their systems have been compromised by "an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state".By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Shoebox-sized satellite enters orbit packing 3Mbps radio

  19-10-2015 09:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  Humanity's nano-sat swarm is taking shape in mere months The European Space Agency is congratulating itself for getting a satellite off the drawing board an into a space in a single year.…
  
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• More than 10 moles on your right arm? You could be at higher risk of skin cancer 

  19-10-2015 09:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from King's College London say that if doctors can quickly work out who is a ‘moley person’, more cases of the disease could be caught earlier, when it is easier to treat.
  
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• Drivers who use phones are getting away with endangering lives RAC warns

  19-10-2015 08:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fixed-penalty notices against motorists who use a phone while driving have more than halved in the past year despite more motorists using their mobiles while behind the wheel.
  
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• WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for 19 October

  19-10-2015 08:40
  
  Your WIRED.co.uk daily briefing. Today, Facebook will warn you if the government is trying to access your account, Apple will replace peeling MacBook screens for free, Amazon takes fake reviewers to court and more.By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Can the chair gym get you fit while you watch telly? It promises to burn calories while you enjoy Strictly - but only if you remember to use it

  19-10-2015 08:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Louise Atkinson loved the idea of the chair gym, which promises to burn calories while you watch Strictly. She finds that she struggles to remember to use it - however good her intentions.
  
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• Dropping water levels in Mexican reservoir reveal remains of a 400-year-old church

  19-10-2015 07:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains of a colonial-era church have emerged from the receding waters of a river in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. The watershed of the Grijalva river has been hit by a drought this year.
  
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• The quest to conquer the other North Pole

  19-10-2015 04:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Epic quest to reach the loneliest place on the Arctic ice
  
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