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• The $400bn F-35 is 'not on a path to success': Damning test report warns fighter jet is 'running out of time and money'

  25-08-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pentagon's director of testing said it is 'not on a path toward success but instead on a path toward failing to deliver' the plane's full combat capabilities on time, according to Bloomberg.
  
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• Volvo's 'Iron Knight' sets double record as it hits 169 km/h

  25-08-2016 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Volvo Trucks' The Iron Knight, driven by Boije Ovebrink, now holds the official speed records for the 500- and-1000 metre distances.
  
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• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's gated community 'invisible' on Google Street View

  25-08-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of homes sit inside the high-end Hidden Hills community in California. But the public is unable to get a curbside view in Google Street View, suggesting residents may pay for their privacy.
  
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• Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's... er, Graphene bubbles – 200 times stronger than Superman

  25-08-2016 22:46 via go.theregister.com
  
  Miracle material bests Man of Steel, withstands incredible pressure, say eggheads Tiny graphene bubbles can withstand enormous pressures and are 200 times stronger than steel, according to scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK.…
  
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• Mathematician solves the puzzle of the perfect parking lot

  25-08-2016 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Based on his analysis, a mathematician from the University of Salford says designs should favour one-way traffic and a diagonal space layout rather than a grid to optimize efficiency.
  
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• Mathematician solves the puzzle of the perfect parking lot - and says leaving your car at an angle is key

  25-08-2016 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Based on his analysis, a mathematician from the University of Salford says designs should favour one-way traffic and a diagonal space layout rather than a grid to optimize efficiency.
  
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• CIA reveals Spacenet 'AI in the sky' that could constantly monitor activity on Earth

  25-08-2016 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CosmiQ Works, a division of the CIA’s venture arm, has revealed SpaceNet, a projectto train algorithms to work out what's happening on our planet.
  
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• Apple boosts iPhone security after Mideast spyware discovery

  25-08-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple says it is issuing a security update after powerful espionage software was found targeting an activist's iPhone in the Middle East.
  
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• Museum of London creates maps to mark 350 years since Great Fire of London

  25-08-2016 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three maps have been created by the Museum of London to mark 350 years since the blaze broke out. The latest map will show how the fire started and spread through the city.
  
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• North and South America animal migration shown in interactive map

  25-08-2016 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a new visualization, researchers have mapped the projected movement patterns of mammals, amphibians, and birds across North and South America as they follow hospitable climates.
  
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• Watch AI robots react to horror movies 

  25-08-2016 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two robots watched the movie trailer for 'Morgan' in order for researchers to gauge their reactions. One of the cyborgs vocalized its fear, while the other sat quietly and made human-like facial expressions.
  
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• Pizza Hut reveals the world's first playable DJ decks made from a PIZZA BOX

  25-08-2016 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite being made mostly out of cardboard, the box features two decks, a cross-fader, pitch volumes, cue buttons and the ability to rewind music. Five will be made available in the UK.
  
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• Solar Express could travel at 3,000km/s and take man to Mars in just 37 HOURS

  25-08-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stunning Solar Express is described as 'a space train', and would travel a neverending high speed route, meaning it never slows.
  
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• Dodo skeleton could be worth £500k at auction

  25-08-2016 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The extinct bird will be sold by Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex, who say it could fetch £500,000 when it is sold at auction later this year.
  
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• McDonald's fitness bands recalled after skin-burn complaints

  25-08-2016 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  McDonald's is recalling millions of fitness wristbands that it bundled with Happy Meals after customers complained of skin irritation and burns.
  
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• Driverless taxis roam Singapore streets

  25-08-2016 19:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Driverless taxis are being tested on the streets of Singapore for the first time.
  
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• 'Ghost galaxy' made almost entirely of DARK MATTER could help unravel the secrets of the mystery substance

  25-08-2016 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Named Dragonfly 44, the galaxy is 330 million light years away.Scientists now want to find dark galaxies that are even closer to us, so we can look for feeble signals that may reveal a dark matter particle.
  
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• Meet Dragonfly 44, the galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter

  25-08-2016 19:00
  
  The galaxy is roughly the same mass as the Milky Way, but our galaxy has a hundred times more stars
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• Tiny tribute

  25-08-2016 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A tiny marsupial lion, extinct for at least 18 million years, is named after Sir David Attenborough after fossilised remains are found in remote Australia.
  
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• Extinct 'lion' named after Attenborough

  25-08-2016 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A tiny marsupial lion, extinct for at least 18 million years, is named after Sir David Attenborough after fossilised remains are found in remote Australia.
  
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• A cockroach and a DNA nanorobot just changed drug delivery

  25-08-2016 18:34
  
  Researchers released drugs into a cockroach using only the thoughts of a man hooked up to an EEG machine
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• HP laptop blocks over-shoulder snooping

  25-08-2016 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Computer firm Hewlett-Packard has developed two new laptops that feature an optional privacy mode that obscures the screen unless viewed face-on.
  
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• Rare dodo skeleton could be worth £500,000: 350-year-old bones of extinct bird may be one of the most complete specimens in the world

  25-08-2016 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The extinct bird will be sold by Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex, who say it could fetch £500,000 when it is sold at auction later this year.
  
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• Samsung's Dolby Atmos soundbar goes on sale for £1,300

  25-08-2016 18:04
  
  The Samsung HW-K950 soundbar is the first to feature Dolby Atmos technology
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• Infamous pirate Blackbeard's blood-thirsty reputation is quashed by historian

  25-08-2016 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colin Woodward, a New York-based researcher, says all the guidebooks, plaques, posters and history books have been getting Blackbeard's real name and reputation wrong all this time.
  
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• Star Wars Millennium Falcon shed attacked by raiders

  25-08-2016 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A shed replica of the Millennium Falcon cockpit from Star Wars is vandalised during a raid on a charity-run farm.
  
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• From blue lobsters to pink grasshoppers: Meet the bizarre animals with incredible colouring 

  25-08-2016 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This week, a rare pink grasshopper was spotted in Lincolnshire, with a fuschia-pink body and bright beady eyes. A rare blue lobster was also spotted off the coast of Devon.
  
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• Inscribed stone slab reveals mysteries of ancient Italian civilisation

  25-08-2016 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have been studying the inscription on a 500lb stone stele
  It was found embedded in the foundations of a temple in Poggio Colla, Italy's Mugello Valley to the northeast of Florence.
  
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• How Call of Duty took David Hasselhoff back to the 80s

  25-08-2016 17:08
  
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• Head teacher Ashley Yates jailed for filming pupils in toilets

  25-08-2016 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A primary school head teacher who used a spy pen to film pupils in the toilets at his school is jailed.
  
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• One in six people would rather die young than be alive in their 80s

  25-08-2016 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hispanics have the highest preference for a shorter life while African-Americans are more likely to want to live to 100 or more, researchers from the Columbia Aging Center, New York, found.
  
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• 2000AD publisher bags Roy of the Rovers and other classic British comics

  25-08-2016 16:39
  
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• Airlander 10: Longest aircraft hit power cable before nosediving

  25-08-2016 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's longest aircraft came into contact with "high voltage power cables" before nosediving on landing, UK Power Networks says.
  
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• Surface water shifting around the Earth

  25-08-2016 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have used satellite images to study how the water on the Earth's surface has changed over the last 30 years.
  
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• Toxic time bomb: Here's the science that explains why microbeads are a disaster

  25-08-2016 16:06
  
  They're tiny, there's trillions of them and they're getting everywhere – cosmetic microbeads are bad news for everyone
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• Leaving a child at home alone ISN'T always unsafe study claims 

  25-08-2016 15:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of California, Irvine, researchers claim disapproval of a parent's morals inflates the level of danger a child is in - and children left alone on purpose are safer than those left alone accidentally.
  
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• Scientists cut whiskers off rats to learn more about how the rodents hunt

  25-08-2016 15:53
  
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• Italy quake rescuers ask locals to unlock their wi-fi

  25-08-2016 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rescue teams searching for earthquake survivors trapped in central Italy have asked locals to unlock their wi-fi passwords.
  
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• WhatsApp users to receive adverts

  25-08-2016 15:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  WhatsApp changes its privacy policy so that businesses can send messages to people using the service.
  
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• Facebook, Twitter and Google are 'failing to tackle extremism', claim MPs

  25-08-2016 15:06
  
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• Solving the unsolvable: are there questions science will never be able to answer?

  25-08-2016 15:00
  
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• Hooked on coffee? Your drinking habits may be written in your DNA

  25-08-2016 15:00
  
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• Now that's a time bomb! 700-year-old hand grenade used in the Crusades is found off the coast of Israel

  25-08-2016 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clay hand grenade, which is shaped like an acorn with a fuse hole in the top, was found as part of a collection of metal jugs and candle sticks pulled from the sea off Hadera in north Israel.
  
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• WhatsApp is going to share your phone number with Facebook

  25-08-2016 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move, which impacts users worldwide, is a subtle but significant shift for the message app, which has long promised to safeguard the privacy of more than one billion users around the world.
  
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• Gawp at this galaxy cluster and travel back 10 billion years

  25-08-2016 14:06
  
  Researchers are trying to find out why some galaxies produce fewer stars than others
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• Free range chicken really DOES have better flavour

  25-08-2016 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to researchers at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, the experiments show the power of a person’s beliefs on shaping their perception of their food (stock image used).
  
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• WhatsApp is now sharing your phone number with Facebook

  25-08-2016 13:48
  
  The phone number you use for WhatsApp will be used to target advertising and find friends on Facebook
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• Arthur C Clarke award won by Andrew Tchaikovsky

  25-08-2016 13:44 via go.theregister.com
  
  Children of Time features talking space spiders The book Children of Time by British sci-fi author Andrew Tchaikovsky has been announced as the winner of this year’s Arthur C Clarke award.…
  
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• Arthur C Clarke award won by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  25-08-2016 13:44 via go.theregister.com
  
  Children of Time features talking space spiders The book Children of Time by British sci-fi author Adrian Tchaikovsky has been announced as the winner of this year’s Arthur C Clarke award.…
  
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• Uber to let Londoners book journeys weeks in advance

  25-08-2016 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uber began offering scheduled rides in June in Seattle, targeted particularly at business customers. Now the feature is being introduced for the first time in Europe, to Londoners.
  
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