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• North Face creates winter jacket using synthetic spider’s silk

  10-11-2015 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The prototype jacket, dubbed the 'Moon Parka', was created with the help of Tokyo-based advanced biomaterials company Spiber. It is expected to be on sale next year.
  
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• Cocoa is 10m years OLDER than first thought, possibly leading to new flavours

  10-11-2015 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Until this discovery, historians assumed chocolate dated back 3,100 years after traces were found in Central America where it was consumed as a status symbol.
  
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• Chimps mourn the death of their mothers for a lifetime

  10-11-2015 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An experimental study has found chimpanzees who were orphaned within the first two years of their lives, demonstrated impaired social behaviour as adults.
  
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• Jorg Dusterwald uses paint to blend naked model into the background

  10-11-2015 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bodypaint artist Jörg Düsterwald created theillusion with photographer Tschiponnique Skupin and a model in a forest in Lower Saxony, Germany.
  
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• Female presidential candidates have to be more qualified than male opponents to win

  10-11-2015 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research shows female candidates have to be more qualified than their male opponents if they are going to succeed at the polls.
  
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• How Vizio smart televisions track your data so that it can be sold to advertisers

  10-11-2015 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The problem isVizio, a California-based TV maker, does this in a way that could allow the viewing habits of their customers to be linked with their IP address.
  
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• How hackers took on US banks

  10-11-2015 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US prosecutors allege a criminal ring was responsible for hacking banks, manipulating stocks and a host of other cybercrimes.
  
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• Google Maps can now be used when you're OFFLINE so you'll never get lost again

  10-11-2015 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With a global update for Android phones released today, you'll now be able to search nearby businesses and get driving directions, without an internet connection.
  
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• Fallout 4 launch hit by bugs: Video game makers release patch as players report glitches in latest best-selling title

  10-11-2015 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Critics have given Fallout 4, which is set in post apocalyptic Boston, positive reviews but some players have already reported having problems within hours of the launch.
  
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• Fallout 4 review, day two: Rebuilding the World

  10-11-2015 19:32
  
      Once you've made your escape from the insidious Vault 111, Fallout 4 begins to feel a little fractured, becoming a casualty of its own vast possibilities.
  While still possessed of the narrative urgency to find your son Shaun, kidnapped by unknown forces mid-cryo sleep, your instinct as a player is, rightfully, to check every nook and cranny for items, ammo, and supplies. Even junk is useful, as it can later be salvaged for materials, and so you're likely to
  
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• Binge watching Netflix and TV could make you DEPRESSED

  10-11-2015 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is unclear if depression and stress causes people to binge watch, or watching television for hours on end leads to mental health problems, University of Toledo researchers found.
  
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• Nano fingerprint 'boosts security'

  10-11-2015 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An atomic-scale fingerprint could boost the security of connected devices, according to the British scientists who have developed it.
  
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• Hidden ancient river network that once flowed through the SAHARA revealed

  10-11-2015 18:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France used Palsar orbital radar satellite imagery to find the hidden river network.
  
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• Apple Music launches on Android

  10-11-2015 18:42
  
  Roughly six months after it first launched on iOS, the streaming music service Apple Music has launched on Google's operating system in every country except China.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Amputee to get Metal Gear Solid-inspired prosthetic arm

  10-11-2015 18:18
  
      Konami is teaming with innovative custom prosthetics designer Sophie De Oliviera Barata to outfit a British gamer with a bespoke limb, inspired by Metal Gear Solid V.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Microsoft chief checks out Micro Bit

  10-11-2015 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's chief drops in on a London school to see what children are doing with a test batch of the forthcoming Micro Bit computers.
  
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• Growing Antarctic ice sheets almost dried out the ancient Mediterranean: Basin was stripped of water 5.6 million years ago as sea levels dropped

  10-11-2015 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geologists at the University of Otago in New Zealand have used ice cores to show that the Mediterranean Sea almost completely dried up 5.6 million years ago due to changes in Antarctica.
  
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• Rudd: Renewable targets 'will be met'

  10-11-2015 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Energy Secretary says the government remains committed to meeting renewable energy targets set by the EU following controversy over a leaked letter suggesting a shortfall.
  
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• Scientists breach brain's barrier

  10-11-2015 17:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, doctors breach the human brain's protective layer to deliver chemotherapy to a tumour.
  
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• Convenient or creepy? Facebook's Photo Magic recognises faces in images on your phone BEFORE you upload them

  10-11-2015 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a bid to make sharing pictures easier within Messenger, Facebook is launching Photo Magic in Australia, with other regions expected to get the new feature in the coming months.
  
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• Sony FINALLY kills off Betamax 40 years after its 'format war' with VHS

  10-11-2015 16:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  electronics giant Sony has confirmed it will no longer produce the cassettes in Japan, the last country where they are available.
  
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• Pillow Talk wants you to feel your partner's heartbeat while you sleep

  10-11-2015 16:22
  
  Pillow Talk is a digital intimacy system that allows users to track their heartbeat, and then send it over the web to their partner's pillow.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Pillow Talk want you to feel your partner's heartbeat while you sleep

  10-11-2015 16:22
  
  Pillow Talk is a digital intimacy system that allows users to track their heartbeat, and then send it over the web to their partner's pillow.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Hospitals could soon be covered in COPPER to ward off diseases

  10-11-2015 16:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study was carried out at the University of Southampton by scientists. They found that copper (pictured) was particularly effective in killing coronavirus 229E that can lead to pneumonia.
  
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• 'Anti-Turing test' puts Facebook M 'AI' in doubt

  10-11-2015 16:09
  
  A software engineer has detailed his quest to develop an 'anti-Turing test' to prove that Facebook's personal assistant service 'M' is powered exclusively by humans, rather than AI as the company claim.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Sony is finally giving up on Betamax

  10-11-2015 15:51
  
  Sony will finally stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Google Maps directions now work offline

  10-11-2015 15:47
  
  Google Maps has finally got an offline navigation mode you can download on your phone. By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• What happened to Pluto's moons? Weird spin of dwarf planet's satellites suggest it once had many more than it does today

  10-11-2015 15:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the SETI Institute in California, say images sent back by Nasa's New Horizon's probe show Pluto's moons Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra are the strangest in our solar system.
  
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• SeaWorld to phase out whale display

  10-11-2015 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The SeaWorld theme park in the US state of California is to phase out public displays by killer whales, its chief executive says, following public outcry.
  
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• Egypt's Great Pyramid's mysterious 'anomalies' that could lead to unknown chamber

  10-11-2015 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anomalies have been found in Egypt's Khufu pyramid of Giza, two weeks into a thermal scanning project and could hint at secret chambers.
  
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• Anyone need change? TWO MILLION copper coins weighing a whopping 10 tonnes found inside 2,000-year-old tomb

  10-11-2015 14:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ancient money, which bears Chinese symbols, characters, and a square hole at its centre, were found at a dig site in the Xinjian District in the city of Nanchang, capital of East China's Jiangxi Province.
  
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• Black hole tearing apart galaxies creates most powerful explosion since Big Bang

  10-11-2015 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers working with Nasa's Chandra space telescope have released a new image (pictured) of a galaxy cluster called MS 0735.6+7421 hit by the largest explosion since the Big Bang.
  
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• Rocket League changes the rules with 'Mutators' update

  10-11-2015 14:32
  
    Rocket League is going through some changes. The surprise hit arena sports game has released a new, free update called "Mutators", which adds new ways to drastically alter the core experience.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• All of London's black cabs can now accept mobile payments

  10-11-2015 14:32
  
  The move, which finally puts black cabs on a par with Uber, is the work of rival firm Hailo.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• The homemade Star Wars-style railgun that rips through targets at 50mph

  10-11-2015 14:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US YouTuber Ziggy Zee has home made a 250lb mobile railgun (pictured), powered by batteries, capable of firing aluminum projectiles through vegetables, mobile phones, into car doors.
  
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• ePint $30 beer mug that knows when you need another drink or call you a cab

  10-11-2015 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Los Angeles based start-up has created the ePint mug (pictured), which contains a Bluetooth transceiver in its base that allows it to connect to a smartphone or tablet.
  
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• Google releases its AI machine learning software TensorFlow to all

  10-11-2015 14:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TensorFlow was developed by researcherson the Google Brain Team. The software is used for machine learning and 'deep neural networks' that are can make searching more intuitive.
  
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• Making children wait for treats does not improve their self-control

  10-11-2015 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research by the University of Colorado Boulder claims that it's being reminded about what not to do, not the passage of time, that actually helps youngsters control their impulsive behaviour.
  
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• Archeological spy tracking Egypt's looters wins TED Prize

  10-11-2015 13:50
  
  Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak has been awarded the 2016 Ted Prize for her work analysing ancient sites in Egypt and elsewhere using satellite imagery.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Now that is a big bang! 'Most powerful explosion ever seen' was caused by a black hole tearing apart entire galaxies

  10-11-2015 13:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers working with Nasa's Chandra space telescope have released a new image (pictured) of a galaxy cluster called MS 0735.6+7421 hit by the largest explosion since the Big Bang.
  
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• Voters still see women as poor leaders (but good assistants)

  10-11-2015 13:12
  
  Female names and faces more easily paired with words such as 'assistant' and 'aide', a study has revealed.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Nasa reveals 3D images of mountains on Pluto that could be ice volcanoes 

  10-11-2015 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The latest discovery is among several finds on Pluto revealed today at the Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Maryland.
  
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• Vollebak's P618 pink hoodie is built to induce calming oblivion

  10-11-2015 12:41
  
      This sports hoodie helps to keep endurance athletes ready between events by altering their breathing and state of mind.  By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• How Fallout 4 'breaks the mould'

  10-11-2015 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What makes Fallout 4 so special?
  
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• Steam users are flocking to Windows 10

  10-11-2015 12:30
  
  Each month, Steam runs a user survey, collating information on system specs, connection speeds, and general user experiences. The data are used by Valve in efforts to optimise the gaming service but its most recent period, covering October 2015, found something particularly interesting -- only three months on from its release, there are now more players running Windows 10 than Windows 8.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Pluto's mountains could be slush-spewing cryovolcanoes

  10-11-2015 12:30
  
  Two of Pluto's most distinctive mountains could be giant ice volcanoes, spewing water ice, nitrogen, ammonia and even methane into the dwarf planet's atmosphere.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Tim Cook warns of 'dire consequences' for UK privacy

  10-11-2015 11:41
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the UK is facing "dire consequences" if it passes the government's recently revealed draft surveillance billBy: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• The 20 hacks EVERY pet owner needs to know from dog breath to claw marks

  10-11-2015 11:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An infographic from Hertfordshire-based helpucover suggests tips to keep pets and their owners happy, from preventing sore paws to eliminating odours and keeping a home fur-free.
  
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• Speedy circuit board printer wins Dyson award

  10-11-2015 10:59
  
  The laptop-sized Voltera V-One uses different inks, conductive and insulating, to create  functional, two-layer circuit boards.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• SeaWorld to end 'theatrical orca' show from 2016

  10-11-2015 10:32
  
  Killer whale shows at SeaWorld are going to be axed from next year, the company has announced.
  The aquatic entertainment park has made the decision to end the controversial killer whale -- which are more scientifically known as orcas -- show following a slump in profits and outcries from animal rights groups.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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