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• Low-cut tops bOOST women’s chance in job interviews

  27-06-2016 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, by Dr Sevag Kertechian at the Paris-Sorbonne University, suggests applicants who include a photo of themselves in revealing clothing are more likely to secure an interview.
  
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• The AI 'Top Gun' that can beat the military's best

  27-06-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Alpha AIhas taken on real Top Gun pilots - and beaten them all comprehensively. It could be used to develop smart 'AI 'wingman drones' that fly alongside human pilots.
  
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• Are YOU obsessed with your phone?

  27-06-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dscout, a Chicago-based research firm, discovered the average person touches their smartphone 2,617 times a day. This is all done during 76 different phone sessions over the course of 24 hours.
  
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• The tiny robot that just wants to be your friend: Cozmo develops bond with its owner - and its eyes light up when it sees them

  27-06-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It looks like it could be the child of Pixar favourites Wall-E and Eve, but the tiny robot from Anki is real enough to hold in your palm. Cozmo costs $180 and has a powerful brain and 'emotion engine.'
  
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• Robotic shopping trolley becomes a reality after boy drew one to help grandmother

  27-06-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at the University of Strathclyde have built the design by Aidan McCann from Fortrose, Scotland. He invented the trolley for his granmother, who isn't strong enough to lift heavy shopping bags.
  
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• The 'heli-taxi' set for lift off: Airvinci set to take to the skies in first test of app controlled self flying copter service

  27-06-2016 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The firm behind the radical idea says it is preparing for its first test flights this summer of its ducted fan, fixed-pitch rotor aircraft drone.
  
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• Chinese company unveils a two-storey house printed by a 3-D machine in one go

  27-06-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A company in China has unveiled a house created through a 3D printer. Experts created the 4,305 square foot building in one go at a construction site in Beijing.
  
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• Ukrainian man claims he caught legendary mysterious blood-sucking chupacabra beast

  27-06-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creature was reported to have been hunted down by a pitchfork-wielding farm after it stalked into his barn to feast on his livestock in the western Ukraine's Chernivtsi region.
  
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• Big Pharma's trying to kill us, says man with literally millions to lose

  27-06-2016 22:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Nowt wrong with Theranos, except, you know, everything Despite having lost its biggest customer, being forced to invalidate thousands of test results, being placed under investigation by the US government for fraud, facing sanctions, having had a testing facility shut down, and having had its CEO's worth cut from $4.5bn to $0, "nothing's gone wrong with Theranos."…
  
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• Now even babies can build apps: Google reveals 'smart blocks' that teach children to code

  27-06-2016 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google has unveiled Project Bloks to provide a way for kids to partake in ‘tangible programming,’ allowing them to learn computational skills without looking at a screen.
  
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• Does YOUR child understand their phone better than the real world? Shocking study finds 58% of children aged between 3 and 5 can work a phone, but fewer than 1 in 6 can make their own breakfast

  27-06-2016 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AVG Technologies, a Netherlands-based firm that develops security software, as revealed that more children ages 3-5 know how to operate a smartphone than cook breakfast or ride a bike.
  
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• The twitterbot that can even make Kanye smile: @smilevector can put unsettling grins on any celebrity face

  27-06-2016 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new Twitter bot shows that not all them are bigots --some just want to make you smile. Smilevector uses a generative neural net to manipulate faces by adding or removing smiles on celebrity faces.
  
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• Payout of $10,000 for Windows 10 update

  27-06-2016 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft agrees to pay a California woman $10,000 (£7,500) after an automatic Windows 10 update leaves her computer unusable.
  
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• How hackers hijacked petition demanding second EU referendum

  27-06-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: Hackers deliberately directed their signatures to appear as residents from tiny countries, including states such as Vatican City to 'show your democracies are a joke'.
  
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• Forget the ISS, get ready for the ROS: Russia reveals plans for solo space station

  27-06-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS, it will will include three modules, two of which will detatch from the ISS, with an option to add two more at a later date.
  
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• Are YOU obsessed with your phone? Researchers reveals addicts touch their handset over 5,400 times a DAY

  27-06-2016 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dscout, a Chicago-based research firm, discovered the average person touches their smartphone 2,617 times a day. This is all done during 76 different phone sessions over the course of 24 hours.
  
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• Male employees spend 40 minutes more time in the office than female colleagues

  27-06-2016 21:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Men doing more than 35 hours per week worked for 8.2 hours on average, while women completed only 7.8, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
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• Now you can add STICKERS to Twitter photos

  27-06-2016 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based Twitter is introducing stickers, allowing users to chose from hundreds of icons and pictograms to add to their photos. They will also be able to search posts using stickers.
  
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• 3D-printed device could make surveillance cameras twice the width of a human hair

  27-06-2016 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Stuttgart used short pulses of light to harden material onto which the 3D multi-lens systems (pictured, green,next to a human hair) could be printed.
  
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• Robotic shopping trolley becomes a reality after 13-year-old boy drew one to help his grandmother

  27-06-2016 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at the University of Strathclyde have built the design by Aidan McCann from Fortrose, Scotland. He invented the trolley for his granmother, who isn't strong enough to lift heavy shopping bags.
  
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• The AI 'Top Gun' that can beat the military's best: Pilots hail 'aggresive and dynamic' software after losing to it repeatedly

  27-06-2016 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Alpha AIhas taken on real Top Gun pilots - and beaten them all comprehensively. It could be used to develop smart 'AI 'wingman drones' that fly alongside human pilots.
  
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• Are Siberia's 'Jurassic Pearls' leave locals stumped

  27-06-2016 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ten of the strange spheres were unearthed close together 100 feet underground at the Sereulsky coal mine in the Nazarovo district of Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.
  
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• The AI air traffic control that could eliminate wasted time on the tarmac for travellers

  27-06-2016 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Next Generation Air Transportation System, plans to create an efficient method of information sharing, using a computer-based system to connect everybody involved in arrivals and departures.
  
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• Twitter is introducing Snapchat-style Stickers to tweets

  27-06-2016 18:17
  
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• Twitter introduces Snapchat-style Stickers to tweets

  27-06-2016 18:17
  
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• 'The chupacabra was hunting and I killed it': Ukrainian man claims he caught legendary mysterious blood-sucking beast

  27-06-2016 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creature was reported to have been hunted down by a pitchfork-wielding farm after it stalked into his barn to feast on his livestock in the western Ukraine's Chernivtsi region.
  
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• 100 years later, scarred landscape from Battle of the Somme

  27-06-2016 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the countryside. A century on, a bird's-eye view of the World War I battlegrounds conveys the unprecedented scale of what happened.
  
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• Let's grow a baby universe in a supercomputer, watch black holes collide

  27-06-2016 18:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Good idea, LIGO. Definitely better than throwing cans at cars from the overpass Physicists have created simulations that predict the rate at which gravitational waves from the collision of monstrous supermassive black holes may be detected.…
  
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• The world's smallest lens revealed: 3D-printed device could make surveillance cameras twice the width of a human hair

  27-06-2016 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Stuttgart used short pulses of light to harden material onto which the 3D multi-lens systems (pictured, green,next to a human hair) could be printed.
  
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• Now you can add STICKERS to Twitter photos: Site introduces Snapchat-style 'visual hashtags' to spice up images

  27-06-2016 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based Twitter is introducing stickers, allowing users to chose from hundreds of icons and pictograms to add to their photos. They will also be able to search posts using stickers.
  
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• Instagram blogger slams Samsung as her new camera phone automatically airbrushes selfies

  27-06-2016 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blogger and author Mel Wells, 26, shared the before and after selfie with her Instagram followers revealing that her brand new Samsung phone had the camera's default setting 'beautified' her.
  
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• 'Men work LONGER hours than women': Male employees spend 40 minutes more time in the office than female colleagues

  27-06-2016 17:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Men doing more than 35 hours per week worked for 8.2 hours on average, while women completed only 7.8, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
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• Is Android coming to Raspberry Pi? Eben Upton says claims are 'promising'

  27-06-2016 17:37
  
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• Young Leave voters abused online in days after European Union referendum vote

  27-06-2016 17:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two young Leave voters reveal how they've been accused of racism and xenophobia since revealing they voted for Brexit.
  
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• Rolls-Royce unveils concept fleet of self-driving drone ships - and it could launch by 2020

  27-06-2016 17:15
  
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• Google's Project Bloks will help teach children programming

  27-06-2016 16:59
  
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• Google's SpotMini robot loads the dishwasher

  27-06-2016 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new dog-themed robot is shown loading a dishwasher with dirty glassware.
  
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• US Healthcare records offered for sale online

  27-06-2016 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three US healthcare organisations are reportedly being held to ransom by a hacker who stole data on hundreds of thousands of patients.
  
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• Snowden: Russian data collection plans 'dangerous'

  27-06-2016 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticised new anti-terrorism legislation approved by Russia's parliament.
  
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• The mutant frogs with see-through skin and extra limbs: Scientists blame pollution for rise in weird, transparent amphibians

  27-06-2016 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers captured 60 of the mutant frogs near the town of Krasnouralsk in central Russia. Russian scientists are blaming environmental pollution for the strange amphibians.
  
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• YouTube live set up by Google to rival Facebook and Twitter with streaming app

  27-06-2016 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouTube has taken aim at Facebook and Twitter with live Streaming. The Google-owned firm announced it is building the feature right into the app for easy access.
  
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• Nasa's Curiosity rover to search for briny liquid thought to cascade down nearby mountain

  27-06-2016 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa scientists have applied to extend the Curiosity Rover's mission on Mars by sending up the slopes of the nearby Mount Sharp to investigate dark streaks thought to be made by running water.
  
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• Remains of four teenagers killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted more than 1,900-years ago found in ransacked Pompeii shop

  27-06-2016 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Italian and French archaeologists have discovered four skeletons, including an adolescent girl, along with gold coins in the ruins of an ancient shop on the outskirts of Pompeii.
  
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• Google CEO Sundar Pichai has his Quora and Twitter account hacked by OurMine

  27-06-2016 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Saudi-based hackers, which go under the name of OurMine, appear to have got access to the Pichai's Twitter account using a vulnerability in Quora.
  
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• YouTube and Facebook to take down ISIS videos with new technology

  27-06-2016 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Videos uploaded to the platforms could be checked against a database of banned content to identify new postings of, for example, a beheading or a lecture inciting violence.
  
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• London's hack-proof Metrocab black cab to be unveiled could be the future of transport

  27-06-2016 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The system, developed by Camberley-based firm Frazer-Nash Research, will be unveiled tomorrow at Connected Cars ’16 at Olympia in London and will be fitted in electric Metrocabs (pictured).
  
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• World's cheapest mobile aimed at connecting rural India will ship this week

  27-06-2016 14:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Developed by Ringing Bells, a technology firm based in Noida, more than 200,000 devices will be sold in Indiato pre-registered users during the first phase of delivery.
  
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• Vote Leave wipes homepage after Brexit result

  27-06-2016 14:38
  
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• Playing with MAGNETS 'could make you feel more attracted to your other half'

  27-06-2016 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The natural phenomena make the feeling of attraction stronger in the brain, allowing people to feel closer to their partners, researchers from the Texas A&M University found.
  
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• EU referendum petition hijacked by bots

  27-06-2016 13:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An online petition calling for a second EU referendum has been hijacked by automated bots adding false signatures.
  
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