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• Grubhub launches alternative food emoji keyboard for iOS

  24-03-2016 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grubhub has launched an alternative keyboard of lively words all focused around eating and food. 'MMMoji' is free to download in the iTunes store and will be available for Android in a few days.
  
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• Google reveals 360 video giving a rare glimpse inside one of its giant data centres

  24-03-2016 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Youtube 360° video lets anyone take a tour through the extremely exclusive Google data centre in The Dalles, Oregon. It can be viewed on desktop, smartphone, or with Google Cardboard.
  
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• Tay the 'teenage' AI is shut down after Microsoft Twitter bot starts posting genocidal racist comments that defended HITLER one day after launching

  24-03-2016 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yesterday, Microsoft launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) bot.Within hours, the AI chatbot was responding to certain questions from Twitter users with racist answers.
  
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• Ideal Conceal's double barrelled pistol designed to look like a smartphone

  24-03-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ideal Concept designed a double barreled, .380caliber pistol that folds down into what appears to be a smartphone. When the safety is shut off, it swings open into a loaded weapon.
  
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• Nintendo’s new NX games console revealed in leaked pictures

  24-03-2016 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images leaked on Reddit this week give the first good look at what is claimed to be a controller for the highly anticipated Nintendo NX, showing wraparound touchscreen and elliptical shape.
  
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• X-ray map reveals the imprint of blackholes, giant galaxies and exploding stars

  24-03-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany created the map by revisiting data collected by Rosat satellite.
  
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• Young cannabis smokers are 'more antisocial, violent and less educated' in their 30s

  24-03-2016 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers assessed the frequency and duration of cannabis use (stock image) among participants in the 40-year Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study in New Zealand.
  
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• NASA's Cassini reveals Titan’s tallest peaks in stunning detail

  24-03-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Titan's tallest peak is 10,948 feet (3,337m) high and is found within a trio of mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes.This compares to the 29,029ft (8,848m) height of Everest.
  
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• Hautlence creates The Playground Labyrinth watch that DOESN'T tell the time

  24-03-2016 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Playground Labyrinth watches, unveiled by Swiss timepiece firm Hautlence, have no dials or numbers but a maze game for the wearer to play.
  
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• Illegal drugs should be decriminalized, say health experts as the war has failed

  24-03-2016 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Top global health experts from the Johns Hopkins-Lancet Commission argue harsh drug laws and zero-tolerance policies have been ineffective; instead, they harmed public health and abused human rights.
  
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• The shape of our faces changed AFTER we left Africa

  24-03-2016 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the first time, researchers from Kyoto University and colleagues, carried out an investigation into the noses in non-human hominoids.
  
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• Scientists create a 'minimal' cell using just the genes needed to survive

  24-03-2016 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists based at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California have created a new artificial bacterial cell nicknamed Synthia 3.0 by stripping down the Mycoplasma bacterial genome to just 473 genes.
  
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• Dyson IS working on an electric car, UK government report reveals

  24-03-2016 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The report originally said: 'The government is funding Dyson to develop a new Battery Electric Vehicle.' This reference has since been removed. James Dyson is pictured.
  
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• Hydrogen-powered car transformed into a mobile power station for homeowners

  24-03-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands worked with Hyundai to add an outlet to the fuel cell of an ix35 (pictured).
  
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• Watch the incredible waddling catfish that can climb WALLS

  24-03-2016 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An unusual fish from Thailand can walk and climb up rocks in a waterfall, similarly to a salamander, according to researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
  
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• YouTube set to take on Periscope: 'Connect' streaming service will let you watch stars like PewDiePie and Zoella LIVE

  24-03-2016 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouTube Connect, a rumoured live video app from the Californian company, would give viewers a new way to watch stars like Zoella (pictured).
  
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• Zika 'World Cup theory' dismissed

  24-03-2016 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Zika virus first appeared in South America in mid-2013, say Brazilian and British scientists, long before the World Cup in Brazil.
  
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• Here's what you'll actually do in Pokémon Go

  24-03-2016 18:55
  
      New details and official screens have emerged for the upcoming Pokémon Go, giving more insight into how the augmented reality smartphone game will actually work.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• NASA claims a 'cheap' $10 billion lunar base will be ready for humans in 6 years

  24-03-2016 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of scientists based at Nasa Ames Research Centre in California has outlined proposals for new low cost solutions for building a permanent base on the Moon to house 10 people by 2022.
  
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• Black holes that produced gravitational waves may be key to missing mass mystery

  24-03-2016 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at John Hopkins University have suggested that the two black holes detected by Ligo could be the kind to make up dark matter, which makes up 85 per cent of universe's mass.
  
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• Power your home with your CAR: Engineers turn an electric SUV into a 'power plant on wheels' to let homeowners go off-the-grid

  24-03-2016 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands worked with Hyundai to add an outlet to the fuel cell of an ix35 (pictured).
  
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• YouTube set to take on Periscope: 'Connect' streaming service will let you watch stars like PiePieDew and Zoella LIVE

  24-03-2016 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouTube Connect, a rumoured live video app from the Californian company, would give viewers a new way to watch stars like Zoella (pictured).
  
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• Female fish develops male organs, impregnates itself

  24-03-2016 16:56
  
  A female fish has undergone a rare process in which it grew male reproductive organs and impregnated itself, going on to have offspring. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Google puts AI programme on the cloud to create huge AI Cloud Platform

  24-03-2016 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The California-based search giant has launched its new large-scale platform (illustrated). It can learn from available information and make predictions 'across a whole variety of scenarios.'
  
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• Lottery calculator tells you how much you could have won with your lucky numbers

  24-03-2016 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based games company, MrGamez.com created the tool that shows whether sets of lucky numbers have ever hit the jackpot as well as showing the most drawn numbers of all time, aren't that lucky.
  
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• First contact in decades with rare rhino in Indonesia's Borneo

  24-03-2016 16:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Environmentalists have made physical contact with a Sumatran rhino on the Indonesian part of Borneo island for the first time in over 40 years. She will be taken by helicopter to a safer habitat.
  
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• Using mobiles during your lunchbreak makes you sluggish and drained

  24-03-2016 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Korea Institute for Research and Behavioural Sciences, said multi-tasking on a phone by, for instance, listening to music while writing an email, can be mentally draining.
  
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• BBC micro:bit, 10 years of Twitter: Podcast 260

  24-03-2016 16:01
  
  
  The BBC has sent one million pocket-sized computers to schools, and we discuss 10 years of Twitter. By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• The Sun's superflares could destroy our atmosphere, astronomers warn

  24-03-2016 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark discovered that, although unlikely, it's not impossible to think our sun (pictured) could produce superflares that would devastate Earth.
  
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• Fossils suggest early humans ventured east 3.5 million years ago

  24-03-2016 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paleontologists in Kenya found fossilised teeth and forearm bone of Australopithecus afarensis, revealing the species roamed much further than previously thought.
  
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• Lego Batman trailer is an antidote to 'Batman v Superman'

  24-03-2016 15:42
  
      Lego Batman trailer is an antidote to 'Batman v Superman'By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Is climate change making wine taste BETTER through high quality vintages

  24-03-2016 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Since 1981, the best years for French wine have been wetter and warmer than they have been in the past, which scientists say is due to climate change producing consistently better wine.
  
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• CYBER RIFLE video shows silent weapon flooring a drone instantly 

  24-03-2016 14:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A video shared on Twitter by the US Department of Defense, shows a soldier take aim at a quadcopter and fire the weapon before the drone becomes drops like a stone.
  
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• Ossic X headphones tracks your head movements to produce realistic sounds

  24-03-2016 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Ossic X headphones (pictured) are the brainchild of a start-up in San Diego, California and are designed to be used with VR headsets, TVs, computers or simply for listening to music.
  
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• Microsoft's Twitter AI Tay starts posting offensive and racist comments

  24-03-2016 14:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yesterday, Microsoft launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) bot.Within hours, the AI chatbot was responding to certain questions from Twitter users with racist answers.
  
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• VIDEO: AI-powered deer rampages through GTA V

  24-03-2016 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A computer-controlled deer is causing chaos in a modded version of the violent game Grand Theft Auto V.
  
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• A product of plundering! Bronze Viking 'buckle' found in Denmark was a religious artefact stolen from the UK 1,000 years ago

  24-03-2016 14:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The origins of the buckle (pictured) initially proved mysterious to Ernst Stidsing of the Museum of East Jutland in Denmark, but experts now think it originally came from Scotland or Ireland.
  
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• Review: Batman v Superman sets up a Justice League we don't need

  24-03-2016 14:09
  
  Superheroes these days seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do saving the world. No Avengers is complete without the obligatory internecine throw-down. Captain America: Civil War finds Steve Rogers trading punches with Tony Stark; the X-Men are always squabbling. But, of course, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice is the daddy of all spandex wrestling bouts. The Dark Knight v the Caped Crusader; wits v brawn; man v god. And holy cash-ins is it ugly
  
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• Hoard of Roman jewellery hidden from the clutches of Queen Bouidcca 2,000 years ago goes on public display for the first time

  24-03-2016 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Fenwick treasure',valuables, believed to have been stashed by a terrified Roman woman in Colchester in 61AD, have gone on display at Colchester Castle in Essex.
  
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• Sony bets on mobile gaming with new studio, ForwardWorks

  24-03-2016 13:09
  
  Sony has plans to open a new game development studio focused exclusively on bringing existing PlayStation franchises to mobile gaming.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Watch WIRED put the Bentley Bentayga 'luxury SUV' to the test

  24-03-2016 12:26
  
  Teased to within an inch of its life, the release of the Bentayga from Bentley has been much anticipated, and straplines like "the world’s first luxury SUV" have certainly helped build the brand momentum before launch.By: Jeremy White, Continue reading...
  
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• US Navy tug that mysteriously went missing along with its 56 crew a century ago during voyage from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor is FOUND off California coast

  24-03-2016 12:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The USS Conestoga left San Francisco Bay for Pearl Harbor in March 1921 - but the boat never made it to Hawaii, and her 56-man crew was declared lost.
  
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• Tokyo phone shop replaces staff with a team of Pepper the 'emotional' humanoids

  24-03-2016 11:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of Pepper robots run the Pepper Phone Shop selling SoftBankphones in Tokyo. The store is the first to be exclusively staffed by robots.
  
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• The Moon used to spin on a different axis

  24-03-2016 11:01
  
  Though the early history of the moon isn't well understood, a new study suggests that it used to "spin on a different axis" that was subject to "polar wander".By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Local Motors wants to 3D-print your next car out of plastic

  24-03-2016 10:41
  
  Local Motors' 3D-printed car, the LM3D Swim, took just two months to turn from a design into a prototype - now they want to print it in a factory near youBy: Daniela Walker, Continue reading...
  
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• Online skin cancer risk assessment tool can predict non-melanoma skin cancer

  24-03-2016 10:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new online tool allows people to assess their risks of developing skin cancer in the next three years. Aimed at people over 40, the tool determines the risk level inonly a few questions.
  
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• Apple opens pre-orders for the iPhone SE and iPad Pro for 31 March

  24-03-2016 10:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prices for the iPhone SE (pictured) start at $399 in the US and £359 in the UK while the iPad Pro starts at $599 in the US and £499 for the same model in the UK.
  
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• Virgin's supersonic plane could cross the Atlantic in 200 minutes

  24-03-2016 09:40
  
  Virgin is aiming to make supersonic travel "affordable" and is going to create a Mach 2.2 plane, that it's claimed can travel from London to New York in 3.4 hours.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Supersonic plane startup Boom has 76 orders and expects flight in 2023

  24-03-2016 09:40
  
  By: Matt BurgessContinue reading...
  
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• Boom completes first wind tunnel tests for its supersonic jet

  24-03-2016 09:40
  
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