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• Tech firms defend encryption of data in the wake of Paris attacks

  26-11-2015 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Any 'back door' allowing authorities to gain access to encrypted data could also be exploited by a hacker, technology groups say. They also say it will impact privacy and civil liberties.
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge wins Gadget of the Year at the Pocket-lint awards

  26-11-2015 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pocket-lint awards took place in Hoxton, East London. Samsung's handset (pictured) also beat Apple's iPhone 6S to this year's Best Phone title.
  
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• The 'world's sexiest robot' revealed: Eerily life-like female android turns heads in China

  26-11-2015 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Named Geminoid F, the robot has amassed a legion of fans, with some even describing her as 'sexy' at the World Robot Exhibition in Beijing this week.
  
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• PlayStation 4 is Sony's most popular console EVER

  26-11-2015 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japanese entertaining giant Sony has sold more than 30.2 million PlayStation 4 (PS4) consoles worldwide, according to official figures disclosed by the company.
  
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• University of Otago find students with a greater FoMO 'more likely to suffer harm linked to alcohol' 

  26-11-2015 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychology students at the University of Otago, New Zealand, found students with greater fear of missing out, were more likely to report embarrassing and impulsive actions they later regret while drinking.
  
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• The spiky 'mud dragon' that lived half a BILLION years ago: Fossils of strange species may reveal how worms evolved

  26-11-2015 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creature, dubbed Eokinorhynchus raru, had an armored body, rows of spines and a mouth ringed with sharp teeth. The discovery was made by researchers in China's Nanjiang County.
  
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• VIDEO: Drone used to monitor food waste gases

  26-11-2015 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An experimental drone fitted with sensors is being deployed to monitor gases rising from rubbish dumps.
  
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• Birds BICKER if one of them does not do their share of parental duties

  26-11-2015 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Biologists at the University of Lyon Saint-Etienne in France delayed male zebra finches for an hour so they were late back to their nest, resulting in a 'verbal negotiation' between the birds.
  
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• How eating red meat could trigger a STROKE: Gorging on steak, bacon and sausages 'means you're 50% more likely to life-threatening blockage in the brain'

  26-11-2015 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People who eat 93g or more of red meat each day are at a 47 per cent higher risk of suffering an ischemic stroke - a blockage in the blood vessels supplying the brain, say German scientists.
  
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• How a botched satellite launch could help prove Einstein's theory of relativity: GPS sensors knocked into a strange orbit are now being used to study gravity levels

  26-11-2015 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Galileo 5 and 6 ended up on an elliptical orbit that causes them to fall and rise by around 5,300 miles (8,530km) every day after their launch from French Guyana last year.
  
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• Calvin Harris, Britney Spears and BOB MARLEY are the 'most dangerous' artists to listen to while driving, finds study

  26-11-2015 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from London-based More Than found one in ten young drivers has crashed or had a near-miss while listening to songs from such artists.
  
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• Pro Evolution soccer 2016 launches free to play version

  26-11-2015 17:43
  
  Konami has confirmed rumours that it would be launching a free-to-play version of its football franchise Pro Evolution Soccer, announcing that an "entry level" version of the game will launch next monthBy: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Ultrasound scans brain in micro 3D

  26-11-2015 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists use ultrasound to scan the blood vessels of an entire rat brain in microscopic 3D detail, pioneering a technique they say will improve cancer and stroke diagnosis.
  
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• Humai plans to wire brains of dead humans to 'personality' chips

  26-11-2015 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The details of how the Los Angeles-based firm plan to resurrect humans is scarce but its founder has said it would involve 'cryonics technology to freeze brains' and insert them into artificial bodies.
  
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• Hoard of Roman coins dating back to Mark Antony are discovered in Welsh field: 91 pieces of 2,000-year-old silver could be worth 'tens of thousands of pounds'

  26-11-2015 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The hoard of 91 coins was found in a clay pot by two walkers in Wick, South Wales and includes coins issued by Mark Antony and Marcus Aurelius (pictured left).
  
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• Time-lapses filmed from SPACE show 25 years of changing ice in just one second

  26-11-2015 16:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The GIFs were created by the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He compiled the clips using 25 years' worth of images captured by the Landsat satellites. The Baltoro glacier is shown.
  
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• Man with MND creates Eyedrivomatic wheelchair to help disabled people move around

  26-11-2015 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The device, created by Somerset-based Patrick Joyce, uses eye-tracking technology to allow him to issue commands to a computer and a 'hand' that fits over the joystick of an electric wheelchair.
  
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• The lost riches of Star Wars' Expanded Universe

  26-11-2015 16:25
  
  When Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, it got more than it bargained for. A shared continuity fans had come to know as the "Expanded Universe", exploring both the past and future of the universe. Then Disney killed it.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Large Hadron Collider makes record-breaking collision

  26-11-2015 16:20
  
  The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva has collided heavy nuclei at the highest energies ever recorded.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• London cabs to accept contactless payment from 2016

  26-11-2015 16:14
  
  The trusty black cab's fight against the perpetual march of Uber is ongoing, but they just got extra firepower -- giving customers the ability to pay with contactless methods. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Formula reveals dropped phones land face down up to 60% of the time

  26-11-2015 15:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Robert Matthews, a physicist at Aston University, has claimed mobile phones suffer from the same forces that cause toast to land butter side up when they are dropped.
  
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• Nasa astronauts prepare Thanksgiving dinner of dried turkey and pasta

  26-11-2015 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using Space Food Systems Laboratory on the International Space Station, it will only take the crew about 15 to 20 minutes to rehydrate their freeze-dried food.
  
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• Nutrition Bulletin study shows cheaper tea beags contain more tooth-strengthening fluoride

  26-11-2015 14:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tests were carried out on 49 tea bags to determine which brands contained the most fluoride. Budget brands contained the highest levels, according to the study published in Nutrition Bulletin.
  
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• Ohio University video shows why YOUR mattress is a breeding ground for dust mites

  26-11-2015 14:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The video, by the Ohio State University Acarology Lab, in Columbus, shows millions of mites squirming under a microscope. A hygiene expert warns an average bed contains 10 million of the bugs.
  
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• VIDEO: Kids visit virtual reality picture gallery

  26-11-2015 14:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London has become one of the first museums to offer a virtual reality tour of its collection.
  
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• London's next Thames bridge will probably look like this

  26-11-2015 13:37
  
  Design company Bystrup have won the Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge competition, Wandsworth Council have announced.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• BBC Three will stop broadcasting in February

  26-11-2015 13:33
  
  BBC Three is going to be turned off in February, the broadcaster has confirmed.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• We watched a simulated bio-chemical attack on London

  26-11-2015 13:30
  
      After initial doubts about whether or not to cancel the event in the wake of the Paris attacks, Cyber Security Challenge UK and GCHQ used the annual recruitment event to stress the importance of bringing talented and diverse youngsters into the industry. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Robots are learning to DISOBEY humans saying no if it thinks it might be hurt

  26-11-2015 13:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at Tufts University in Massachusetts used artificial intelligence to teach robots to assess whether it is safe to perform a task and refuse to do it if it is dangerous.
  
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• Court lifts SA rhino horn trade ban

  26-11-2015 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A South Africa court lifts a ban on the domestic trade in rhino horns which was imposed by the government in 2009 to stem poaching.
  
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• White dwarf on the edge of the Milky Way is 42 TIMES hotter than our sun

  26-11-2015 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The star, studied Astronomers from the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam in Germany, is called RX J0439.8-6809 and is around five times as massive as our sun.
  
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• Raspberry Pi Zero is smaller and 40% faster than the original at just £4

  26-11-2015 12:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cambridge-based computer company Raspberry Pi created the Zero, which has Broadcom BCM2835 application processor, 512MB of RAM, a micro-SD card slot and 1GHz ARM11 core.
  
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• 'Dragon's Lair' Kickstarter movie killed before it failed

  26-11-2015 12:09
  
  The ambitious plan to resurrect classic video game Dragon's Lair as a feature-length traditionally animated movie via crowdfunding has been cancelled, with creators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman pulling the Kickstarter before it ended.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: What has Bristol achieved as 'green capital'?

  26-11-2015 11:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John Maguire visited Bristol, which has been serving as Europe's official Green Capital, to see what the city has achieved in 2015.
  
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• 60% of us stay in bad relationships and put up with poor customer service

  26-11-2015 11:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The survey was commissioned by money-transfer service TransferWise and carried out by YouGov on a sample of 2,031 British adults.
  
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• Cost of .uk domain names to rise 50% from 2016

  26-11-2015 10:55
  
  The price of UK domain names will rise from March 2016 the registry Nominet has said. By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• WIRED Retail 2015 startup stage: the shoppable world

  26-11-2015 10:43
  In a marble-pillared drawing room at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, 16 startups entered a pitch battleBy: Wired UK Staff, Continue reading...
  
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• Spider web gives up DNA secrets

  26-11-2015 10:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Spiders - and their prey - can be identified from the DNA they leave behind stuck on webs, say US scientists.
  
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• WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for 26 November

  26-11-2015 08:40
  
  Your WIRED.co.uk daily briefing. Today, carbon dioxide emission growth may be on the wane, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has recreated plasma states from the early universe, Google has published a new list of sites most often subject to the EU right to be forgotten, and more.By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Lead poisons '100,000 birds annually'

  26-11-2015 07:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About 100,000 wetland birds are killed every year from poisoning by discarded lead ammunition, say scientists.
  
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• Want to feel healthier? Live in either in the countryside OR the town

  26-11-2015 06:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Warwick researchers used ratings from a website called Scenic-Or-Not where users rate how pretty more than 212,000 pictures of Britain are. It covers 95 per cent of grid squares of the UK.
  
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• Is this the subject with the most baffling jargon?

  26-11-2015 02:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The strange world of enviro-jargon
  
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• Large Hadron Collider could see engineers recreate first moments of the universe

  26-11-2015 02:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The LHC in Geneva recently smashed together lead-ions at 1045 trillion electron-volts - two times higher than any previous experiment of this kind.
  
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• It's not just colds that can make you sneeze - SEX can too. The explanations behind the most explosive of winter habits

  26-11-2015 02:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As winter approaches, the season of the sneeze descends upon us. David Derbyshire investigates the common phenomenon - The average person spends 24 hours of their life sneezing, after all.
  
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• Willy Wonka-style elevator uses magnets to go up, down and SIDEWAYS

  26-11-2015 01:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 1:3 scale model of a rope-less Willy Wonka-style elevator has been unveiled in Spain. The scale model has two 10 metre shafts and four cabs that move using magnetic levitation technology.
  
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• Nasa's 'time machine' receives its first mirror ahead of 2018 launch

  26-11-2015 01:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When it launches, the James Webb telescope will be able to see back to 200 million years after the Big Bang, making it 100 times more powerful than Hubble.
  
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• Florence Metz wins ‘dance your PhD’ contest with interpretive performance

  26-11-2015 01:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ‘Dance your Ph.D.’ challenges Ph.D. students to present research through interpretive dance. First place was given to a routine on the policies around water protection and conservation.
  
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• Pigeons pick their leader based on how fast they flew on previous journeys

  26-11-2015 01:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Oxford scientists studied flock dynamics of homing pigeons (pictured), to find that a bird's leadership could be predicted by its speed on previous flights.
  
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• Men's brains age FASTER than women's making them more likely to develop diseases

  26-11-2015 01:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Among men, grey matter in the brain declined at a faster rate than women as they aged, a study by the University of Szeged, Hungary, found.
  
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• VIDEO: Switzerland’s vanishing natural wonder

  26-11-2015 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Striking drone footage shows the extent of the retreat of Switzerland's Rhone Glacier, as scientists warn such magisterial ice-masses will have almost vanished by the end of the century.
  
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