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• Watch autonomous robotractor that could take farmers out of the fields

  30-08-2016 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first autonomous tractor has been revealed at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, and it can do everything from planting and spraying to harvesting - without a farmer in sight.
  
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• Report claims military needs 'immediate action' to beat hi-tech enemies

  30-08-2016 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Defense Science Board's report into autonomy concluded the DoD must accelerate its exploitation of autonomy to remain ahead of enemies.
  
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• Is THIS the answer to curbing binge drinking? Scientists find a brain switch that controls the desire for alcohol

  30-08-2016 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University say the finding highlights new targets that could 'deter excessive alcohol consumption with fewer side effects.' (stock image used)
  
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• Culprit of 6th century Justinian plague is revealed: Scientists pinpoint the bacterium that killed 50 million people

  30-08-2016 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in Germany recovered evidence of Yersinia pestis bacteria from two sixth century skeletons found in Altenerding, Southern Germany, which were dug up 50 years ago.
  
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• Ancient skeletons unravel the secrets of how the Justinian plague ravaged its victims

  30-08-2016 23:00
  
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• Google to take on Uber with Waze 'carpool' app that lets commuters give each other rides

  30-08-2016 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The app will use Waze's navigation system to learn the routes drivers most frequently take to work and match them up with people looking for a ride in the same direction.
  
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• Will the next Mark Zuckerberg be a single rich woman?

  30-08-2016 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When personal wealth suddenly increases, single women are more likely to start a new business than men, according to a study from University of Stirling and Royal Holloway, University of London.
  
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• Mystery 'alien' signals from sun-like star, HD 164595 did NOT come from ET

  30-08-2016 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The £76 million ($100 million) Breakthrough Listen project has been using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to hunt down the signals. But so far it has come up empty.
  
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• EU's net neutrality guidelines get published

  30-08-2016 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New guidelines are published setting out how the EU's net neutrality rules should be applied.
  
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• Apple to unveil wireless 'airpods' alongside iPhone 7 next week

  30-08-2016 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Russian filing has revealed Apple is also developing new wireless headphones called 'airpods' to sell alongside its current 'earpod' headphones.
  
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• Twitter to share video advertising cash with creators

  30-08-2016 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twitter will start sharing advertising revenue generated by videos made by individual users with their creators.
  
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• New Solar System objects revealed

  30-08-2016 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronomers in the US have uncovered previously unknown objects in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
  
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• The mysterious 'age-defying' star deep in the Milky Way

  30-08-2016 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The star, known as IRAS 19312+1950, has shown signs of being both extremely young and extremely old, but new research led by Nasa suggests it may still be in the embryonic stage.
  
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• SpaceX reveals historic mission to reuse Falcon 9 rocket to launch satellite

  30-08-2016 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to reuse one of the rockets it launched and landed safely this year by sending it back into space.
  
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• How to sort your socks using SCIENCE

  30-08-2016 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In their book 'Algorithms to Live By', British scientist Professor Brian Christian and science writer Tom Griffith said sock-pairers should try using an algorithm known as a radix sort.
  
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• 200 million-year-old intact skull of a new species of pterosaur is found in Patagonia

  30-08-2016 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur from the Patagonia region of South America. The cranial remains were in an excellent state of preservation.
  
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• Rail firm to test Uber-style mobile payments system

  30-08-2016 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Smartphones could soon replace the traditional rail ticket if an experiment by Chiltern Railways is successful.
  
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• Roko the robomonkey could save your life by delivering first aid kits and supplies

  30-08-2016 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The  bizarre concept is designed to reach places normal drones or even humans would struggle to get to.Roko swings from branch to branch using extendable arms with hook-grip hands.
  
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• Tasmanian devil DNA shows signs of cancer fightback

  30-08-2016 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A genetic study uncovers signs that wild Tasmanian devils are rapidly evolving to fight back against the infectious face cancer threatening them with extinction.
  
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• Mystery of Martian moon's weird craters is solved

  30-08-2016 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, modelled the movement of material that had been ejected during previous impacts.
  
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• Evolutionary adaptations have made humans predisposed to laziness

  30-08-2016 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Daniel Lieberman, an expert in human physiology at Harvard University, claims that evolution has selected for us to do only as much exercise as is needed to survive (stock image used)
  
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• US Navy's $360m littoral combat ship is knocked out of action with mechanical issues

  30-08-2016 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The USS Freedom was knocked out after seawater leaked into its engine on July 11 during an exercise in the Pacific, according to a statement released more than a month later.
  
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• Missing Milky Way mass blown away by bingeing supermassive black hole

  30-08-2016 17:55 via go.theregister.com
  
  Mystery of the missing baryons leads to a surprising find The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy was bursting with nuclear activity when humans' first ancestors roamed the Earth, according to a team of astrophysicists.…
  
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• Here's all the big news coming out of IFA 2016

  30-08-2016 17:47
  
  New phones, new wearables, new landfill: here's what we're expecting to see at Europe's biggest tech show
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• How to sort your socks using SCIENCE: Mundane chore can be sped up with an algorithm, say researchers

  30-08-2016 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In their book 'Algorithms to Live By', British scientist Professor Brian Christian and science writer Tom Griffith said sock-pairers should try using an algorithm known as a radix sort.
  
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• Why we are so lazy: Humans have evolved to conserve energy and avoid exertion, says expert 

  30-08-2016 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Daniel Lieberman, an expert in human physiology at Harvard University, claims that evolution has selected for us to do only as much exercise as is needed to survive (stock image used)
  
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• Mystery of Martian moon's weird craters is solved: Phobos' giant scars are caused by its strange orbit

  30-08-2016 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, modelled the movement of material that had been ejected during previous impacts.
  
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• Planet Nine could destroy Neptune and Jupiter – but not for 7 billion years

  30-08-2016 17:20
  
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• Solving the mystery of the strange 'crater chains' on Martian moon Phobos

  30-08-2016 17:00
  
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• 75m-year-old remains of bizarre flying reptile are found in Patagonia

  30-08-2016 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains of a rare small-bodied pterosaur - a flying reptile from the Late Cretaceous period around 77 million years ago - is the first of its kind to have been found on the west coast of North America.
  
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• Teen science wiz reveals how Mountain Dew dissolves your teeth quicker than Coca Cola

  30-08-2016 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teen science wiz Chase Wiley put one of his sister's molars in a cup of Coca Cola, and another in his favorite beverage: Mountain Dew. Both emerge rotten - but Mountain Dew is worse.
  
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• DNA sequenced in space for first time

  30-08-2016 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  DNA has been successfully sequenced in space for the first time.
  
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• Facebook lets users prompt danger alert

  30-08-2016 16:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook is to enable members to trigger its Safety Check service themselves if a dangerous event occurs near them.
  
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• How Google is putting security at the heart of Android

  30-08-2016 15:58
  
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• Would YOU click on a link from an unknown sender? More than half of us would

  30-08-2016 15:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research led by Dr Zinaida Benenson at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany shows the biggest reason we click is out of curiosity (stock image used)
  
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• Shocking images show how global warming is causing Europe's glaciers to retreat

  30-08-2016 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Europe's glaciers have lost about two thirds of their volume since 1850, but last year the Hornkees glacier in the Austrian Alps retreated by 446 feet while Pasterze glacier retreated by 177 feet.
  
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• Terminator 2 will be back: Judgment Day is returning to cinemas in 3D

  30-08-2016 15:46
  
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• Fastest mobile 4G network speed record 'broken'

  30-08-2016 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new record has been set for the world's fastest 4G mobile internet speed, according to a network operator.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn proposing digital 'bill of rights'

  30-08-2016 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Every home and business in the UK would have guaranteed access to high-speed broadband as part of a digital "bill of rights" proposed by Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Dogs know when they're in trouble by processing language in a similar way to humans

  30-08-2016 14:43
  
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• Hawaii could be hit by its worst ever hurricane as Madeline is set to reach 125mph winds 

  30-08-2016 14:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two huge hurricanes are heading straight for Hawaii, with weather forecasters predicting unprecedented winds and rain for the Big Island, which has never been hit by a hurricane before.
  
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• Kim Dotcom wins right to livestream extradition appeal

  30-08-2016 14:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A New Zealand judge allows internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to livestream his appeal against extradition to the US on YouTube.
  
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• Tesla clamps down on drivers who fail to use Autopilot correctly

  30-08-2016 14:18
  
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• Huge crop circle SWASTIKA appears in a field in Wiltshire

  30-08-2016 14:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The controversial symbol, which has been cut into a huge field in Beckhampton, near Avery, Wiltshire, is roughly 150 to 180 ft wide - but an expert is divided over its symbolic meaning.
  
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• Planet Nine could wreak havoc on our solar system

  30-08-2016 14:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Warwic, have suggested that when the sun dies, Planet Nine could hurl one or more planet out of the solar system, in a sort of 'pinball' effect.
  
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• SES company first to use 'second-hand' SpaceX rocket

  30-08-2016 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Luxembourg-based SES says it is going to be the first satellite operator to launch a spacecraft on a "second-hand" rocket - a Falcon 9 that previously sent supplies to the space station.
  
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• Remembering Gene Wilder, in his own words

  30-08-2016 13:57
  
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• Drone captures stunning view of Uluru

  30-08-2016 13:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of Australia's best-known landmarks, Uluru, has been filmed from a new perspective.
  
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• Aerospace plans to fire rockets filled with CubeSats from F-104s

  30-08-2016 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mountain View-based firm CubeCab wants to fire micro-satellites into orbit from an ageing fleet of F-104 fighter jets. The service could be available as early as 2018 with lead times of less than a month.
  
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• Alcoholics lack a key enzyme in the brain – and this creates a 'vicious cycle' of addiction

  30-08-2016 13:31
  
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