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• Sweat sensing smart tech could warn of dehydration or heatstroke

  27-01-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have developed smart sensors which can monitor your health by analysing your sweat, and sending the results directly to your smartphone.
  
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• The cellphone store staffed by ROBOTS

  27-01-2016 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pepper robot has been hired to work at a pop-up mobile phone store in Tokyo. The store will be entirely staffed by the humanoids that answer questions and suggest phones and contracts.
  
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• How to build a starship - and why we should start thinking about it now

  27-01-2016 23:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Onwards, upwards and outwards With a growing number of Earth-like exoplanets discovered in recent years, it is becoming increasingly frustrating that we can’t visit them. After all, our knowledge of the planets in our own solar system would be pretty limited if it weren’t for the space probes we’d sent to explore them.…
  
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• AlphaGo computer beat Chinese professional Fan Hui in a Go tournament

  27-01-2016 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An algorithm called AlphaGo has beaten one of the 3,000-year-old game's best players called Fan Hui in a recent tournament set up in London by Google.
  
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• The forest in your mouth: Psychedelic images reveal the bacteria lurking on your teeth

  27-01-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers conducted a study to examine the microbes that lives in our teeth enamel. Samples were taken from participants and painted different colours forming kaleidoscopic works of art.
  
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• Over 50% of PASTORS admit they have have 'struggled' with online porn use as figures reveal teens and adults are going online in record numbers as it’s ‘safer than real sex'

  27-01-2016 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Watching porn may once have been taboo, but now, it’s not nearly as socially condemnable as not recycling, according to aBarna Group study of teens and adults in the US, including pastors.
  
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• The brain on a chip: Radical new 'memristors' work like neurons and could give robots a mind of their own

  27-01-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team led by Russian researchers has created a neural network using the 'neurochip' technology, and say it could lead to radical new types of computer.
  
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• The secret of CONSCIOUSNESS revealed: Researchers find brain becomes 'superconnected' when we are awake

  27-01-2016 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of European researchers has discovered evidence that suggests the conscious state is one in which the brain’s neural network is at its most ‘connected.’
  
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• Cloud formation above Portugal looks like hand of God

  27-01-2016 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Weather blogger Rogerio Pachero snapped the incredible cloud formation, which had formed over the Portuguese island of Madeira and had people comparing it to the 'Hand of God.
  
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• Globular clusters are seen 'adopting' stray gas to form sets of 'baby sibling stars'

  27-01-2016 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at Peking University, Northwestern University, Adler Planetarium, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied three globular clusters (one pictured).
  
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• Uber to use phone data to catch poor drivers and wants to keep drunk passengers quiet

  27-01-2016 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uber has announced it is carrying out a trial to use sensor data from smartphones of passengers and drivers in order to improve its service.
  
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• March of the machines! Computer BEATS one of the world's best players of ancient board game Go using 'human-like' skills

  27-01-2016 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An algorithm called AlphaGo has beaten one of the 3,000-year-old game's best players called Fan Hui in a recent tournament set up in London by Google.
  
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• Space junk isn't just dangerous to astronauts, it could trigger a WORLD WAR

  27-01-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists based at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Ministry of Defence in Moscow have warned that collisions between space junk and military satellites could spark armed conflict.
  
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• The cellphone store staffed by ROBOTS: Pepper will greet customers, answer questions and sell handsets in Tokyo

  27-01-2016 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pepper robot has been hired to work at a pop-up mobile phone store in Tokyo. The store will be entirely staffed by the humanoids that answer questions and suggest phones and contracts.
  
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• What YOUR sweat reveals about you: Sensors that analyse perspiration can warn you if you’re heading for dehydration or deadly heatstroke

  27-01-2016 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have developed smart sensors which can monitor your health by analysing your sweat, and sending the results directly to your smartphone.
  
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• VIDEO: Google AI beats Europe's Go champion

  27-01-2016 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google's DeepMind division says its AI software has beaten Europe's top player of the board game Go.
  
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• Indie game bundle wants to finally reward 'Godus' winner

  27-01-2016 19:17
  
  A new game bundle is set to launch in February, aiming to redress what some consider one of the great gaming wrongs in recent memory -- giving Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube? "winner" Bryan Henderson the prize he's never received.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' at Go

  27-01-2016 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An artificial intelligence program developed by Google beats Europe's top player at the ancient Chinese game of Go, about a decade earlier than expected.
  
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• Pictures reveal thousands of bats huddling in Japanese cave

  27-01-2016 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers discovered thousands of eastern bent-winged bats (pictured main and inset) seeking sanctuary from the winter weather in a public walkway in the mountains of Kochi, Japan.
  
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• Google's AI has beat a human grandmaster at Go for the first time

  27-01-2016 19:00
  
  Google's London-based deep learning unit, DeepMind, says it has achieved one of the "grand challenges" of artificial intelligence.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Google pips Facebook to solve 'grand challenge' of AI

  27-01-2016 19:00
  
  Google's London-based deep learning unit, DeepMind, says it has achieved one of the "grand challenges" of artificial intelligence.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Google DeepMind cyber-brain cracks tough AI challenge: Beating a top Go board-game player

  27-01-2016 19:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Robo elbows bio Go pro A Google-designed artificial intelligence system has for the first time beaten a top human player at the board game Go.…
  
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• University of Waterloo study reveals the nations that can deal with multiple feelings

  27-01-2016 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A recent study from the University of Waterloo examined emotional complexity around the world, and found the ability to distinguish between multiple feelings is tied to cultural orientation.
  
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• 'Passionate debate' on protected areas

  27-01-2016 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The planned introduction of 30 Marine Protected Areas off Scotland has sparked a "passionate debate", says the environment secretary.
  
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• Is the ballistic Jaguar F-Type SVR the ultimate modern-day Jag?

  27-01-2016 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Jaguar F-Type SVR is a hardcore take on its flagship sports car, promising more performance and plummeting jawlines than before. Here's the leaked details.
  
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• The best ways to beat travel sickness revealed

  27-01-2016 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While there is no sure cure to prevent motion sickness, there are a number of ways travellers can ease their symptoms so it doesn’t spoil their time away from home.
  
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• All JetBlue passengers will have free Wi-Fi from gate to gate by 2019

  27-01-2016 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All JetBlue passengers will have Wi-Fi from gate to gate by 2019 in addition to more leg room, bigger screens, over 100 DirecTV television channels and over 300 on-demand movies.
  
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• Kids' inventions made real: ladybird brollies to skip-rope drones

  27-01-2016 17:41
  
      A self-hovering skipping rope; an umbrella for ladybirds; a pneumatic lift to hoist homes -- these kids' inventions are being made for real.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Virtual reality takes porn 'to the next level'

  27-01-2016 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The white Samsung Gear VR goggles, which resemble a prop from a Star Wars film set, is the next baby step to what Lee and others hope will one day become a pure virtual reality experience.
  
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• The best tech toys of London Toy Fair 2016

  27-01-2016 17:29
  
      With London Toy Fair having run its course for another year, WIRED takes a look at some of the more interesting tech and science related toys found on the show floor.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Mystery of the disappearing bats is solved: Pictures reveal thousands of the elusive mammals huddling in Japanese cave

  27-01-2016 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers discovered thousands of eastern bent-winged bats (pictured main and inset) seeking sanctuary from the winter weather in a public walkway in the mountains of Kochi, Japan.
  
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• Which species will inherit the Earth if humans become extinct?

  27-01-2016 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Luc Bussiere from the University of Sterling explains the odds of other species inheriting the Earth and asks whether humans are the best the planet is going to get.
  
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• Death Valley fish a 'recent arrival'

  27-01-2016 16:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Devils Hole pupfish, one of the rarest species in world, may not have existed as a distinct population for as long as once thought.
  
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• Facebook's AI is 'getting close' to beating humans at Go

  27-01-2016 16:06
  
  Facebook has taught its artificial intelligence how to beat humans at the Chinese board game Go.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Unogs tool helps you easily find ANYTHING on Netflix in any country

  27-01-2016 15:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Unofficial Netflix online Global Search, or Unogs, website (grab pictured) lets you search Netflix's global database to find films and TV shows.
  
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• Elon Musk's Hyperloop transport system being built by three different firms

  27-01-2016 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The SpaceX rocket launching firm said Tuesday that AECOM would build a one-mile track at SpaceX headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport.
  
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• Longer return policies make us LESS likely to ask for a refund on products

  27-01-2016 15:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Texas said the findings may be due to the ‘endowment effect’, which suggests that the longer we possess a product, the more attached to it we become.
  
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• Understanding the exposome could help explain diseases

  27-01-2016 15:13
  
  Genetics accounts for ten to 30 per cent of disease; researchers studying the exposome might discover what causes the rest.By: Emma Bryce, Continue reading...
  
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• Safari outage affects iPhone and iPad users worldwide 

  27-01-2016 14:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple’s Safari browser has experienced crashes and service outages, affecting iPhone and iPad users worldwide. The crash is reported to be due to a bug with the browser’ssuggestion function.
  
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• Our brain's GPS also doubles as an internal clock that helps us keep track of time

  27-01-2016 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuroscientists at Boston University have discovered 'time cells' that map out passing seconds by individually firing. Scientists say it may play a crucial role in forming chronological memories.
  
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• Ukrainian soldiers attach camera to tank's gun barrel and capture video

  27-01-2016 14:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The dangerous selfie stick captured footage of the soldiers on their tank travelling through what is believed to be the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
  
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• Google Glass pulled from official Twitter, Instagram and Google+ accounts

  27-01-2016 14:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mountain View-based search giant has wiped its Twitter, Instagram and Google+ accounts (pictured) for Google Glass, a year after the Explorer Program for consumers was closed.
  
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• WhatsYapp Smart collar concept translates your dog's bark

  27-01-2016 13:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fetch.co.uk, which is based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, plans to make one of three concepts into a real product that it could go on to sell. The WhatsYapp concept is pictured.
  
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• Largest solar system discovered

  27-01-2016 13:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronomers discover the largest known solar system, consisting of a large planet that takes a million years to orbit its star.
  
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• This pen can detect cancer

  27-01-2016 13:41
  
  The miniature microscope can "see" cancerous cells and tell surgeons where to stop cutting tissueBy: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• The best Norwegian design for your home

  27-01-2016 13:30
  
      WIRED's guide to functional and beautiful products from the finest in new Norwegian design. By: Chris Haslam, Continue reading...
  
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• Facebook trains AI to beat humans at Go

  27-01-2016 13:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook says its is "getting close" to having artificial intelligence software capable of beating the top players of the board game Go.
  
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• Oculus Quill lets VR illustrators paint in space and time

  27-01-2016 13:03
  
  Oculus Rift has announced its own creative tool, turning its upcoming (and pricey) headset into something artists can use to make things, as well as watch and play things.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Footprints left by Native American farmers, children and their DOG unearthed in Arizona

  27-01-2016 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have discovered dozens of barefoot prints on the site of a new highway bridge to the north of Tucson, Arizona that show a family going about their daily life 2,500 years ago.
  
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• 40% of working Britons are too poor to marry non-EU migrants

  27-01-2016 12:26
  
  More than 40 percent of British workers are too poor to marry a non-EU citizen and live together in the UK, according to new report from Oxford University.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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