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• The ultimate selfie? Firm claims controversial $200 3D printed 'nudee' can boost your body confidence

  07-03-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Firebox has launched Nudee, which uses 3D-print technology to recreate your face andplaces it one of six almost naked body. The statue is 7.8 inches and costs just $213.09.
  
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• Simulation shows how Pacific Northwest could be decimated by megaquake on Cascadia fault

  07-03-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts say the now overdue ‘Big One’ forthe Pacific Northwest would see upward of 14,000 people left dead dead inworst-case scenarios, with 30,000 injured.
  
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• Does the iPhone have a security glitch? Video claims Siri lets ANYONE bypass lock screen

  07-03-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A video posted by a London YouTube user claims to show a way of accessing the iPhone by asking Siri the time. But some users claim it works by activating Apple's Touch ID feature.
  
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• VIDEO: World's top Go player faces Google AI

  07-03-2016 22:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's top-ranked Go player explains why he is not certain he will be the clear winner against Google's AI software.
  
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• AI battle: Can Google go all the way?

  07-03-2016 22:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Search firm's AI team battles the world Go champion
  
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• Putting things off may be a GOOD thing: Procrastinators are more creative

  07-03-2016 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People asked to submit ideas after playing online computer games were rated as 28 per cent more creative by assessors from Wharton Business School in Pennsylvania.
  
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• People who look 'bright and awake' are rated more intelligent and better looking

  07-03-2016 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of St Andrews showed those that sleep more look 'more bright' (left) by avoiding droopy eyelids and subtle frowning (right).
  
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• Are YOU getting ‘ghost emails’on your iPhone messages claiming to be from 1970?

  07-03-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first email may not have been sent until 1971, but recently some iPhone users have been receiving messages from 1970 with no subject, no sender or content.
  
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• Alien studs on dwarf's erection baffle boffins

  07-03-2016 20:46 via go.theregister.com
  
  NASA's Dawn probe glimpses strange dome and hole on midget-world Ceres Pics  NASA has released images of a smooth-sided dome three miles (five kilometres) high, studded with bright reflective spots, on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.…
  
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• Peeple app is set to launch today and has replaced ratings with recommendations

  07-03-2016 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The free app (pictured), developed by Julia Cordray from Canada, is launching today. It lets you leave recommendations for friends, colleagues and exes.
  
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• Climate change will cause food production to plunge by a QUARTER

  07-03-2016 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Markus Donat at the University of New South Wales, Sydney found extreme daily precipitation over the last six decades shows 'robust increases' in both wet and dry areas (illustrated).
  
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• Mercury's 'pencil lead crust' revealed

  07-03-2016 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The planet Mercury may once have been encased in an outer shell of graphite, the same material used as pencil lead.
  
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• Mercury's carbon secret: Messenger mission solves mystery of the planet's dark hue

  07-03-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings were made with data collected in the final days of the Messenger mission and analysed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
  
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• Underwater photographer Jordi Benitez Castells captures jellyfish off Spanish coast

  07-03-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jordi Benitez Castells, 40, from El Vendrell, in Catalonia's Tarragona, has captured the jellyfish in his home region by diving down ten feet below the surface.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal over e-books

  07-03-2016 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The court in Manhattan rejected an appeal from the firm and left in place a ruling that the company conspired with publishers to raise prices when it sought to challenge Amazon's dominance.
  
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• VIDEO: Tom Clancy's The Division reviewed

  07-03-2016 19:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak gives an early review of the online, third-person shooter Tom Clancy's The Division.
  
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• 'Copyright trolls' targeted after 83-year-old accused of piracy

  07-03-2016 19:12
  
  The UK's business secretary must take action to protect people against "ludicrous" allegations from copyright holders, an MP has claimed.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Are YOU getting ‘ghost emails’? Glitch shows iPhone owners messages claiming to be from 1970 

  07-03-2016 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first email may not have been sent until 1971, but recently some iPhone users have been receiving messages from 1970 with no subject, no sender or content.
  
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• Got a spare £2,000? Truly Exquisite opens pre-orders for its gold and platinum-plated Samsung S7 and S7 Edge phones

  07-03-2016 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London luxury brand company Truly Exquisite is offering custom Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge handsets in gold and platinum, available for pre-order ahead of the official 11 March launch.
  
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• Climate deadline for Africa's crops

  07-03-2016 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers produce a timetable for the "transformations" needed to minimise the impact of climate change on African agriculture and food security.
  
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• Want to appear more intelligent? Get an early night! People who look 'bright and awake' are rated smarter and better looking

  07-03-2016 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of St Andrews showed those that sleep more look 'more bright' (left) by avoiding droopy eyelids and subtle frowning (right).
  
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• Meet Nadine, the humanoid robot set to become your PA and even care for dementia patients

  07-03-2016 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 1.7-metre tall Nadine was created in the likeness of its maker, Nadia Thalmann, a visiting professor and director of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University's Institute of Media.
  
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• Who was Elihana bat Gael? 2,500-year-old seal bearing the name of mysterious 'powerful' woman found in Jerusalem 

  07-03-2016 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The semi-precious stone inscribed with ancient Hebrew was found under a carpark in the City of David, Jerusalem. It is extremely rare to find a seal bearing a woman's name.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal over e-books: Ruling states firm conspired with publishers to raise prices to rival Amazon

  07-03-2016 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The court in Manhattan rejected an appeal from the firm and left in place a ruling that the company conspired with publishers to raise prices when it sought to challenge Amazon's dominance.
  
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• Were Edinburgh's tunnels used for human sacrifice? Hand-carved passages may have been a sacred Druid temple buried by ancient priests

  07-03-2016 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Julian Spalding, former head of Glasgow's museums, said the underground tunnels at Gilmerton Cove, Edinburgh came from a temple built by druids that they deliberately buried to protect its sacred nature.
  
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• Chicxulub crater‬‬ off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula drilled to study dinosaur extinction

  07-03-2016 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geologists are to spend two months drilling 4,921 feet beneath the ocean floor of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula to obtain rock samples from the enormous asteroid crater.
  
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• Public Wi-Fi data can reveal why you really bought that sandwich

  07-03-2016 17:55
  
  Wi-Fi location data is being used to understand why people choose one fast food joint over another.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Peeple is back! Controversial app is set to launch today and has replaced ratings with recommendations to appease its critics

  07-03-2016 17:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The free app (pictured), developed by Julia Cordray from Canada, is launching today. It lets you leave recommendations for friends, colleagues and exes.
  
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• Northern lights seen as far south as Oxfordshire thanks to 'lucky conditions'

  07-03-2016 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The natural phenomenon was seen across much of the UK from about 8pm yesterday. Skies from the tip of Scotland to Oxfordshire were lit up by the vivid colours, caused by strong solar winds.
  
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• Pinpointing violence in the brain: Scans show activity spikes in certain regions BEFORE we decide to be violent 

  07-03-2016 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team at New York University's School of Medicine said this is the first study to link premeditated violent behaviour to a specific region of the hypothalamus.
  
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• BMW's 'car of tomorrow' is a self-driving supercomputer

  07-03-2016 17:20
  
      BMW has revealed its vision of the car of the future -- and WIRED hopes you like bronze.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Mercury's deep, dark carbon secret: Messenger mission finally solves the mystery of the planet's unusually dark hue

  07-03-2016 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings were made with data collected in the final days of the Messenger mission and analysed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
  
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• Study shows anxious people perceive the world differently from others

  07-03-2016 16:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People with anxiety disorders were found to struggle to distinguish new sounds from those linked to a negative event, according to researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
  
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• Solar Eclipse 2016 to be streamed online from South-East Asia

  07-03-2016 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The total eclipse is visible on a path that starts in the Indian Ocean and slices across parts of Indonesia including Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi before ending in the northern Pacific.
  
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• 35 years ago, Shenzhen was just a fishing town

  07-03-2016 16:24
  
      The markets of Shenzhen hawk smartwatches and hoverboards in every conceivable shape and colour.By: Kathryn Nave, Continue reading...
  
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• Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this week

  07-03-2016 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DeepMind's AlphaGo program will take on South Korea's Lee Sedol over five games to played in Seoul this week. The games will be streamed on YouTube and the prize pot is $1milllion (£706,388).
  
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• Wonder if they speak Welsh? Whales from different pods 'talk' to each in different accents based on where they grew up 

  07-03-2016 16:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team from Germany's Max Planck Institute followed six groups of long-finned pilot whales, through the waters off the coast of Norway, and recorded several hundred calls from each group.
  
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• VIDEO: Email inventor on his legacy

  07-03-2016 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson dies aged 74.
  
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• Sony's PlayStation VR set to officially launch with event in San Francisco

  07-03-2016 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Japanese firm is hosting an invite-only VR media event in San Francisco on 15 March, which is likely to feature the official launch of Sony's PlayStation VR. Invitation is pictured.
  
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• Microsoft closes Fable developer Lionhead

  07-03-2016 15:55
  
    Microsoft has announced the closure of Lionhead Studios, the developer responsible for the Fable franchise.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Apple users hit with first ever Mac ransomware as hackers use KeRanger

  07-03-2016 15:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hackers infected Macs through a tainted copy of software called Transmission (pictured), security experts from San Francisco-based Palo Alto said on a blog posted on Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Grey seal twin pups 'a world first'

  07-03-2016 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two seal pups born on a Norfolk beach are the first wild grey seal twins to ever be recorded.
  
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• What it's REALLY like to read with dyslexia: Simulator reveals how letters and words appear to people with the condition

  07-03-2016 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Swedish web developer Victor Widell came up with the idea of simulating what it is like to read with dyslexia after hisfriend told him letters seemed to swap in out of place when she looked at the words.
  
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• Microsoft Surface Book review: power, style and portability

  07-03-2016 15:40
  
      WIRED reviews the latest tablet-computer hybrid from MicrosoftBy: David Phelan, Continue reading...
  
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• Rare element found in 'Curious Marie' meteorite can reveal clues about how the solar system formed and the date of planets

  07-03-2016 14:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team at the University of Chicago discovered evidence of the element curium in a meteorite nicknamed 'Curious Marie', which shows it was present at the formation of our solar system,
  
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• This artificial intelligence is trained on crosswords

  07-03-2016 14:12
  
  Crosswords are helping artificial intelligence systems better understand language.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• The quantum computer that could 'spell the end of encryption': Device uses lasers on atoms to quickly crack 'impossible' codes

  07-03-2016 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) call their scalable quantum computer 'the beginning of the end for encryption schemes'.
  
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• 'Dodgy diesel' threatens biofuel market

  07-03-2016 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There are growing concerns about cheap biodiesel imports from Poland that are alleged to be damaging the European market in biofuels.
  
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• Hundreds of 'lost' Apple II games saved by Internet Archive

  07-03-2016 13:56
  
  The Internet Archive is at it again, offering up hundreds of classic video games, entirely playable in your web browser.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Apple OS X hit by first ever ransomware attack

  07-03-2016 13:15
  
  Apple computers have been compromised by ransomware for the first time after hackers infected a BitTorrent client with malicious code.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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