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• Secret pods could hide swarms of hibernating war drones deep below the sea

  13-05-2016 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Darpa 'Upward Falling Payloads'pods will hold naval drones on the sea bed for years at a time. If a threat emerges nearby, the pods are simply released remotely, and float to the surface.
  
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• Museum hope to rebuild UK's first robot

  13-05-2016 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  London's Science Museum launches a Kickstarter campaign to fund the rebuilding of one of the world's first robots.
  
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• Volcanoes expose 4.5 billion-year-old pieces of Earth

  13-05-2016 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The material was found in relatively young rocks both from Baffin Island, off the coast of northern Canada, and from the Ontong-Java Plateau in the Pacific Ocean, north of the Solomon Islands.
  
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• Mike Tyson fight from 1995 'shows a ‘time traveller’ using a smartphone'

  13-05-2016 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Skeptics claim to have spotted a smartphone in the footage of a Mike Tyson boxing match from 1995, although detractors claim it may simply be an early digital camera.
  
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• Getting Botox doesn't just leave YOUR face impossible to read

  13-05-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Botox makes a person unable to replicate expressions they observe, and blocking this subtle response can make it difficult to understand the emotional meaning, a SISSA study found.
  
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• Google takes aim at Oculus Rift VR with dedicated 'Android VR' software and headset

  13-05-2016 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The firm is expected to unveil a dedicated headset alongside an new Android VR software system next week at its developers conference in San Francisco.
  
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• Stone tools found in Florida sinkhole suggest first settlers arrived around 12,500BC

  13-05-2016 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthropologists have discovered stone tools and extinct animals bones in an underwater sink hole under the Aucilla River, near Tallahasse in Florida, which have been dated to 14,550 years ago.
  
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• Nasa reveals funding for futuristic space technology

  13-05-2016 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The eight technology projects are part of Nasa's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, with each receiving as much as $500,000 for a two-year study.
  
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• Dr Pimple Popper tackles the 'mother of all cysts' which explodes in a mountain of pus

  13-05-2016 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The video shows and elderly gentlemen visiting Dr Pimple Popper to have a massive cyst removed. Pus violently oozes out from the huge growth.
  
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• Star Wars-style 3D holograms become a reality and can increase online security

  13-05-2016 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at Harvard University have developed 3Dholograms using nanostructured silicon (pictured) to make the images sensitive to a property of the light called polarisation.
  
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• Dogs can suffer from human tumours and lung disease

  13-05-2016 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two separate research groups, from Michigan and Uppsala universities have identified diseases in dogs that are also known in humans, including a rare form of hypertension and a tumour. Stock image.
  
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• OKCupid slams social science study that released details of almost 70,000 usernames

  13-05-2016 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  No names were released, but other data like location and username were published which- giving enough clues to figure out users' identities.
  
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• FlipFlic clip-on gadget transforms regular shutters into 'smart' blinds

  13-05-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A technology team from Estonia has invented a device that will automatically adjust your blinds according to your light and heat preferences - without having to get up from your sofa
  
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• Ancient Egypt's tombs of pharaohs' butlers are opened following restoration

  13-05-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The elaborately decorated tombs (one shown), in Luxor, belong to the royal butlers of Queen Hatshepsut and King Ramses II who ruled around 3,500 years ago.
  
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• Privacy fears 'deterring' US web users

  13-05-2016 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost half of American households with at least one internet user have been "deterred" from online activity recently because of privacy or security concerns, a survey says.
  
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• Hawaii mega-tsunami warning that could cost $40bn and affect 300,000 people

  13-05-2016 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa estimate that there is a nine percent chance of this happening in the next few decades, and say the damage would total roughly $40 billion.
  
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• Solar Impulse 2 completes Arizona-to-Oklahoma leg of round-the-world trip

  13-05-2016 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The solar-powered aircraft flew 975 miles (1,570km) from Phoenix in Arizona to Tulsa in Oklahoma with Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard at the controls, completing the 11th leg of its 21,700 mile journey.
  
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• Google's superbrain: WIRED Stories Episode 2

  13-05-2016 18:50
  
  
  Are we really on the verge of making machines that think for themselves? And if we are what does that mean for humanity?By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Emoji equality, Facebook bias: Podcast 267

  13-05-2016 18:30
  
  Coming up today, fair emoji representation for women, big changes at the BBC and hyperloop takes one teeny-tiny zoom towards becoming a reality.By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Apple invests $1 billion in China's Uber rival Didi Chuxing

  13-05-2016 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Didi, formerly known as Didi Kuaidi, is China's largest ridesharing service, and the tie up may serve as a way for Apple to get to know the Chinese market ahead of a long-rumoured expansion.
  
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• Google's Smart Reply system produces strange poetry after reading romance novels

  13-05-2016 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the past few months, California-based Google has been feeding novels to a neural network with the hopes of improving its conversation abilities, now a selection of its poems have been published.
  
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• Rwanda forges new path with technology revolution

  13-05-2016 16:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The country leading Africa's technological transformation
  
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• WIRED Money: new speakers and agenda announced

  13-05-2016 15:59
  
  WIRED Money brings together the disruptive thinkers who are changing the financial sector, including blockchain entrepreneurs and fintech startupsBy: Wired.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Hedgehog numbers drop across Europe as their habitats continued to be destroyed

  13-05-2016 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anecdotal evidence suggests hedgehog numbers have dipped in Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium and they have declined by 7.4 per cent in England over 55 years.
  
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• Malin Head feels the Star Wars force

  13-05-2016 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Excitement reaches fever pitch in Malin Head, County Donegal, as actors from Star Wars arrive at Belfast International Airport.
  
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• Florida beach sees Bison remains from 14,000 years ago discovered

  13-05-2016 15:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 14,000-year-old animal remains were found just 10ft (3 metres) below the surface at the Old Vero Man Site in Vero Beach, Florida (pictured).
  
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• Minnesota professors believe the more money you earn, the more you spend with friends

  13-05-2016 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings, from Emily Bianchi of Emory University and Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota, show how our level of income can drastically affect the way we mix with others.
  
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• Russia 'behind German parliament hack'

  13-05-2016 15:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Germany's domestic intelligence agency accuses Russia of being behind a series of cyber attacks on German state computer systems.
  
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• There's now only one person alive who was born in the 1800s

  13-05-2016 15:40
  
  Italian Emma Morano is the world's oldest person at 116, and is the last person still alive to have lived in the 1800s.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• There's now only one living person born in 1800s

  13-05-2016 15:40
  
  Italian Emma Morano is the world's oldest person at 116, and is the last person still alive to have lived in the 1800s.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Supernova bubble clocked at 19,000,000 km/h

  13-05-2016 15:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  X-ray animation shows Tycho's inexorable expansion Astronomers have produced a fetching animation of the inexorable outwards expansion of the remains of the Tycho Type Ia supernova - a white dwarf in a binary star system which went bang in spectacular fashion back in 1572.…
  
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• Google's AI language software named Parsey McParseface in honour research boat row

  13-05-2016 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google has had a cheeky dig at humourless officials in the British government who objected to naming a new research vessel Boaty McBoatface by calling its new artificial intelligence tool Parsey McParseface.
  
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• 'It made me want to cry': Google's neural network produces strange - and sometimes threatening - poetry after reading 3,000 steamy romance novels

  13-05-2016 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the past few months, California-based Google has been feeding novels to a neural network with the hopes of improving its conversation abilities, now a selection of its poems have been published.
  
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• Terrifying maps reveal destruction a nuclear fallout would cause to Europe's largest cities

  13-05-2016 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The map (screenshot shown), created by he Future of Life Institute in Cambridge Massachusetts uses data from a declassified list of US nuclear targets compiled in 1956.
  
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• Dung beetles navigate with 'sky snapshot'

  13-05-2016 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dung beetles record a mental image of the positions of celestial bodies and use the snapshot to navigate, say researchers.
  
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• Apple invests $1 billion in Uber-rival Didi: Tech firm is rumoured to be looking for ways to enter the automobile market

  13-05-2016 14:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Didi, formerly known as Didi Kuaidi, is China's largest ridesharing service, and the tie up may serve as a way for Apple to get to know the Chinese market ahead of a long-rumoured expansion.
  
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• Ice-forming bacteria could be 'sprayed onto clouds' to make artificial rain

  13-05-2016 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Max Planck Institute in Germany studied the structure of bacteria Pseudomonas syringae, a that can induce ice to form at higher temperatures and make it rain (pictured).
  
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• Apple invests $1bn in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing

  13-05-2016 13:50
  
  Didi Chuxing holds 87 per cent of the Chinese car-hailing market while competitor Uber struggles to make an impact.By: Matthew Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• University of Sheffield experts discover protein that could reduce miscarriages

  13-05-2016 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Syncytin-1 protein boosts the growth of the placenta and also helps embryos implant in the womb, researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered.
  
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• UK firm ships 'last' sat-nav payload

  13-05-2016 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK satellite manufacturer SSTL reaches a key milestone in its work on Galileo, shipping its 22nd navigation payload for Europe's version of GPS.
  
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• VIDEO: London delivery bots 'by end of year'

  13-05-2016 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An Estonian startup builds a fleet of delivery robots that it hopes will be dropping off takeaway dinners in London by the end of 2016.
  
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• Facebook investigates censorship claim

  13-05-2016 13:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says the company is investigating claims it suppressed news reports with conservative viewpoints.
  
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• Simple maths question that has social media stumped over answer

  13-05-2016 12:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A debate has erupted over the correct answer to the problem, which reads: 9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1. It originally went viral in Japan, where it emerged that only 60 per cent of adults could get the right answer.
  
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• Barbequed BISON may have been on the menu 14,000 years ago: Remains of 8ft-tall animal found near a Florida beach

  13-05-2016 12:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 14,000-year-old animal remains were found just 10ft (3 metres) below the surface at the Old Vero Man Site in Vero Beach, Florida (pictured).
  
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• Mysterious dwarf planet is third largest in our solar system

  13-05-2016 12:38
  
  New measurements derived by combing data from the Herschel Space Observatory and Kepler space telescope show that a previously overlooked rocky body is our solar system's third-largest dwarf planet.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge review: better than the iPhone 6?

  13-05-2016 12:31
  
      The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge reviewed by a gamer, a professional photographer and a product expert. Is Samsung's latest phone good enough to consider ditching your iPhone?By: Jeremy White and Matt Kamen and Jay Brooks, Continue reading...
  
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• Hubble telescope captures footage of 'Linear' on its closest approach to Earth

  13-05-2016 12:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Washington-based agency captured the images on 4 April, roughly two weeks after Comet 252P/Linear (pictured) made its closest approach to Earth on 21 March.
  
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• EasyJet launches 'Sneakairs' shoes which can connect to smartphones via Bluetooth

  13-05-2016 12:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Sneakair prototype (pictured) has been tested during the Barcelona Street Project with testers walking to landmarks such as Gaudi’s Casa La Pedrera and Casa Batllo’ in the Gracia area.
  
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• Origami robot that can unfold in your gut to remove swallowed foreign objects

  13-05-2016 12:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a foldable robot (pictured) using dried pig intestine that can crawl through the stomach.
  
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• Microsoft's 'mood shirt' can detect how you're feeling

  13-05-2016 12:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patent was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Virginia, and says the clothing can stimulate the nervous system in a way to cheer the wearer up or calm them down.
  
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