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• Biggest continental collision in history that created the Himalayas

  09-11-2015 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the help of an orbiting satellite, researchers led by the University Of Sydney uncovered a microplate in the Indian Ocean that indicates Himalayas were formed 50 million years ago.
  
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• Nazi 'gold train' search set to begin on Polish railway embankment

  09-11-2015 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Excavators are due to study a railway embankment in Walbrzych, Poland, in a bid to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the Second World War.
  
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• Russian firm claims 'self destruct' USB killer can improve security

  09-11-2015 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Russian firm claims its gadget can help prevent theft, stop viruses spreading and even stop prying partners.
  
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• Elon Musk admits humans CAN’T be trusted with its autopilot system

  09-11-2015 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's comments come as new footage shows a driver sitting in the backseat of a Tesla Model S as its autopilot navigates on the Dutch highway at over 50 mph.
  
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• Google Doodle honors Hedy Lamarr for her work as a WWII radio frequency inventor

  09-11-2015 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hedy Lamarr, from Austria, was 18 when the young actress portrayed the first female orgasm ever to be depicted in a non-pornographic film.
  
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• VIDEO: The most famous man on Facebook?

  09-11-2015 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama has become the latest famous face to join the social networking site Facebook.
  
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• Smart 'bandages' track tiny changes in body temperature

  09-11-2015 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Tokyo created the sensor, which can be used to monitor the body temperature ofbabies and people in intensive care, as well asleading to smart plasters.
  
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• 'Twice-baked' model for Moon origin

  09-11-2015 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new model of the Moon's formation suggests it developed in two stages, leading to inner and outer layers with different compositions.
  
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• VIDEO: How do hackers steal your ID?

  09-11-2015 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Panorama reporter Daniel Foggo speaks to one woman whose bank card details were bought on the dark web for $10 (£6).
  
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• 2015 temperatures 'one degree above pre-industrial levels for first time'

  09-11-2015 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Global temperatures in 2015 are set to reach one degree centigrade above pre-industrial levels for the first time in history, scientists have warned.
  
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• Gallery: inside the Conde Nast College of Fashion & Design

  09-11-2015 20:59
  
      WIRED takes a look inside the Conde Nast College of Fashion & DesignBy: WIRED Promotion, Continue reading...
  
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• Abe Blair captures pictures of Trident missile streaking over San Francisco

  09-11-2015 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Photographer Abe Blair, 36, was taking pictures of the San Francisco skyline when the dazzling blue light streaked across the sky on Saturday night.
  
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• Will Scotland's child soldiers from the English Civil War be returned home?

  09-11-2015 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists at Durham University who unearthed the skeletons of 17-28 soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar, some as young as 13-years-old, are to hold a public consultation about returning them to Scotland.
  
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• Wada commission wants Russia ban

  09-11-2015 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia should be suspended from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends.
  
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• Robot toddler 'learns' to walk just like a young child by 'imagining' a movement

  09-11-2015 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed simulated neural networks that allow a toddler-sized robot called Darwin to learn how to stand, move and walk by itself.
  
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• Policies 'will increase CO2 emissions'

  09-11-2015 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government's energy policy changes since the general election are likely to increase CO2 emissions, according to analysis by BBC News.
  
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• Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer teams up with big tech for smartwatch

  09-11-2015 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LVMH's Tag Heuer has become the first Swiss watchmaker to offer a 'smartwatch' after teaming up with Google and Intel for its $1500 Connected.
  
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• Pluto may have ice volcanoes

  09-11-2015 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two possible cryo-volcanoes are identified on the surface of Pluto - huge mountains with a hole in the top that may spew a slurry of ices.
  
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• Crocodiles 'to guard Indonesia prisons'

  09-11-2015 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency proposes building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts.
  
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• Google's machine learning system has gone open source

  09-11-2015 18:25
  
  Google has released its artificial intelligence engine to everyone. By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Disney Research helps novices 3D print robots from scratch

  09-11-2015 17:57
  
  A new tool developed by Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University means you could 3D print your very own walking robot.Continue reading...
  
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• Breakthrough Awards scientists awarded $21m for work into Alzheimer's and others

  09-11-2015 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At Nasa's Ames Research Centre, California, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner handed out seven Breakthrough Prizes, for scientific accomplishment, worth $3 million (£2 million) each.
  
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• Your sleeping smartphone could help cure cancer

  09-11-2015 17:34
  
  What do you do with your smartphone overnight? Most people use them as alarms -- yours could help save lives.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Garden Bridge visitors will be tracked with CCTV and WiFi

  09-11-2015 17:34
  
      Visitors to London's Garden Bridge can expect to be monitored on CCTV and through the Wifi signals from their phones, a planning document has revealed. Drones will also be banned from flying over the bridge. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Russia should be banned from athletics, Wada report concludes

  09-11-2015 16:33
  
  The commission's report also claimed the London 2012 Olympics had been "sabotaged" by Russian athletes under suspicion of doping.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• TAG Heuer Connected: the first 'legitimate' smartwatch?

  09-11-2015 16:28
  
    After myriad digital versions, and a few notable analogue contenders such as the Withings Activite and Mondaine’s Helvetica No1 Smart, TAG Heuer has unveiled the first legitimate smartwatch offering from the traditional luxury watch industry.By: Jeremy White, Continue reading...
  
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• Apple's iPad Pro and Apple Pencil goes on sale from Wednesday 11

  09-11-2015 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Online orders for the tablet (pictured) start Wednesday and it will go on wider sale 'later this week'. Prices start at £679 for the 32GB model in the UK and $799 in the US.
  
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• 104 Xbox One backwards-compatible games available this week

  09-11-2015 15:51
  
  Xbox One backwards compatible games: 104 titles at launchBy: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Video of a deer sliding around on the floor like Disney's Bambi inside a school

  09-11-2015 15:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A member of staff at Henley Middle School in Crozet, near Charlottesville, Virginia spotted the deer sliding around in the corridor and successfully removed it from the building.
  
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• The iPad Pro finally has a release date and UK price

  09-11-2015 14:59
  
    iPad Pro finally has a release date and UK priceBy: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Europe despatches crewship component

  09-11-2015 14:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The test model for what will become the "back end" of the Orion spaceship is sent from Europe to the US for evaluation.
  
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• Is Titan Earth's evil twin? Saturn's moon has giant dunes made of METHANE that hint at dramatic global warming

  09-11-2015 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists said the giant dunes seen as dark patches on Titan (pictured) are similar to the shifting dunes found in the Namib Desert of Namibia. They may be the remnants of enormous methane lakes.
  
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• $22m science prize winners announced

  09-11-2015 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The winners of science and maths prizes worth $22m have been announced at a glittering ceremony in Silicon Valley.
  
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• Snapchat's daily video views triple to 6bn as the app catches up with Facebook

  09-11-2015 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Snapchat (logo shown), based in Los Angeles, was valued at up to $19 billion (£13 billion) earlier this year, partly because of its ability to embrace the monetisation of video.
  
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• Polar bear and tourists come nose-to-nose in Churchill, Manitoba

  09-11-2015 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tourists looked on in amazement as the hungry polar bear growled, bashed against the wire fence and stood on its hind legs at a snowy camp near Churchill, in Canada's Arctic.
  
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• Scientists get £14.6m in Zuckerberg-backed Breakthrough awards

  09-11-2015 14:29
  
  In the third annual Breakthrough awards, seven prizes were given in life sciences, maths and physics at a star-studded ceremony led by Seth MacFarlane and Pharrell Williams.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Why being mother's favourite child makes you MORE likely to be depressed

  09-11-2015 14:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As well as the 'favourite', those who believed they were the child in whom their mother was most disappointed also reported more symptoms of depression, a study by Purdue University found.
  
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• Noke Bluetooth padlock automatically opens when its owner's phone is nearby

  09-11-2015 14:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creators of the lock (pictured), from Draper in Utah, claim Noke is the first that doesn’t require a key or code to lock and unlock it.
  
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• Greek 'Pompeii' Selinunte and why the ancient city was abandoned 2,500 years ago

  09-11-2015 13:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Selinunte, on the coast of Sicily, was invaded by North African fighters in the 5th century BC, resulting in the death or enslavement of most of its inhabitants. The ruins of Temple C are shown.
  
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• Fallout 4 review, day one: Twisted Americana

  09-11-2015 13:51
  
      Fallout 4 is big. Incredibly big, in fact -- an ambitious open world RPG where every choice matters, where cause and effect ripples out across a post-apocalyptic Boston, and the universe turns on your actions. Rather than attempting to evaluate its scale, systems, and scope in a single review, WIRED aims to go deep -- we're spending Five Days in the Wasteland.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Rumblr 'Tinder for Fighting' app lets you challenge people to brawls

  09-11-2015 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The web app's New York-based developers claim to be providing a service for recreational fighters but warn that in some places fights arranged using the app could break the law.
  
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• What happened to passenger hovercraft?

  09-11-2015 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What happened to travelling by hovercraft?
  
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• £200 Nora devices gives snorers a 'nudge' to stop them u

  09-11-2015 13:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nora (pictured left) was developed by San Francisco-based Smart Nora Inc, which has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of the device.
  
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• Laser turns graphene paper into walking bot

  09-11-2015 12:26
  
  Researchers have made a small piece of graphene paper 'walk' by shining a laser light onto it.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• UK lawmakers warn Blighty to invest more in science, or else

  09-11-2015 12:18 via go.theregister.com
  
  Germans, yanks beating us in STEM investment, claims parliamentary committee The UK government is endangering "competitiveness, productivity and jobs", due to its systematic underinvestment in science and R&D, Whitehall's Science & Technology Committee has warned.…
  
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• Warming set to breach 1C threshold

  09-11-2015 11:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Global temperatures are set to rise more than 1C above pre-industrial levels in 2015, according to the UK's Met Office.
  
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• Watch this Jetpack pilot soar past the Statue of Liberty

  09-11-2015 11:35
  
  The jetpack, which has been approved by the Federal Aviation Authority and US Coast Guard, took ten years to developBy: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Space fans eye launch of Lego Saturn V

  09-11-2015 11:22 via go.theregister.com
  
  Apollo 11 mission made miniature A proposed Lego Saturn V is gaining momentum down at Lego Ideas, and is well on the way to the 10,000 supporters its needs to be considered for production.…
  
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• Earth's sea storms visualised in stunning 3D interactive map Storm Tracks

  09-11-2015 11:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Francisco-based web developer Callum Prentice has created the beautiful sliding scale showing how many storms have been experienced - and where in the world- from 1851 to 2014.
  
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• Universal broadband - how, why, how much?

  09-11-2015 10:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How, why, how much?
  
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