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• Smartphone apps now account for more than HALF the time Americans spend on digital media

  05-09-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Compared with desktop and tablet usage, Americans are spending more than 50 percent of their digital media time using smartphone apps as of this past July, according a comScore analysis.
  
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• Madagascar 'ghost snake' found to be unique new species of cat-eyed reptile 

  05-09-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Though just one has been found so far, the team says the ‘ghost snake’ found at Ankarana Reserve is a new species of cat-eyed snake, earning its name based on its appearance and mysterious behaviour.
  
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• Royal Navy test unmanned drone on the River Thames

  05-09-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The impressive 32-ft Royal Navy reconnaissance vessel, which is equipped with 360 degree camera, radar and GPS, was seen cutting through the water in central London during an exercise earlier today.
  
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• Are you a natural born thrill-seeker? Researchers reveal the science of daredevils

  05-09-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Writing for The Conversation, Valerie Voon explains how dopamine plays a role in humans' thrill-seeking behaviour, along with upbringing, peer pressure, and other factors.
  
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• Future climate change field test doesn't make Earth greener

  05-09-2016 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plants that received extra CO2, as well as those that got extra warmth, didn't grow more or get greener, the groundbreaking study found - despite some claims rising temperatures would green the Earth.
  
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• Jeff Williams tweets incredible video of boats sailing down the Hudson River

  05-09-2016 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Record-breaking US astronaut Jeff Williams revealed the stunning image in a tweet - and Nasa staff on Earth were even able to create a video panorama for him.
  
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• Japan installs rollerskating robots that speak Japanese AND English at Haneda airport

  05-09-2016 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At just 90 centimetres tall, the humanoid named ‘EMIEW3’ will guide users to the proper destination at the terminal and will have the ability to communicate in both Japanese and English.
  
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• Apple to launch app to take on Amazon and Google in the battle for the smart house

  05-09-2016 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's new iOS 10 software, expected to be released on Wednesday, will include a new Home app built by Apple to make home control easier.
  
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• Is this behind the rising rates of Alzheimer’s? Scientists link disease to tiny particles absorbed by the brain from POLLUTION

  05-09-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers who have studied the brains of people in Manchester and Mexico City believe the particles linked with dementia are more likely to have come from air pollution (stock image used).
  
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• Ex-Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was REJECTED by Genius Bar

  05-09-2016 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired - but was turned down after going in for an interview.
  
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• Consumer Reports slams Galaxy Note 7 for failing to make exploding battery issue official

  05-09-2016 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung said on Friday it had stopped selling the Note 7, and would replace models that consumers had already purchased - but consumers Reports says it needs to do more.
  
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• University of Oxford study claims men around the world are now doing more of the cleaning

  05-09-2016 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Oxford reveal how the distribution of housework has changed between 1961 and 2011. Men are now taking on a higher share than they used to, the study found.
  
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• Red Footed Booby is found 6,000 miles from home in Hastings

  05-09-2016 20:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Red Footed Booby is normally found in the tropical Galapagos Islands. But one of the creatures appears to have been blown off course after being spotted on Hastings beach in East Sussex.
  
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• Rare dolphin learns to breathe through its mouth after injuring its blowhole

  05-09-2016 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Biologists at the University of Otago in New Zealand were surprised to see an endangered Hector's Dolphin surfacing in a strange way that allowed it to take gulps of air into its mouth (pictured).
  
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• Planet smash-up 'brought carbon to Earth'

  05-09-2016 19:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Much of Earth's life-giving carbon could have been delivered in an asteroid collision about 4.4 billion years ago, a theory suggests.
  
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• Lil Miquela Instagram fans can't decide if model is real or a computer game character

  05-09-2016 19:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Insta-famous model Lil Miquela has sent her 65,000 fans into frenzy as they debate whether her doll-like features are real or if she's actually computer game character.
  
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• Who does the housework in YOUR home? New study claims men around the world are now doing more of the cleaning

  05-09-2016 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Oxford reveal how the distribution of housework has changed between 1961 and 2011. Men are now taking on a higher share than they used to, the study found.
  
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• The ghosts of U576: German U-Boat is found is 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina

  05-09-2016 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wreckage of the submerged U-576 submarine, which went down during a wild battle in 1942, was discovered by sonar near Ocracoke seven years after the search began
  
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• Peanuts aimed to simplify smart homes

  05-09-2016 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A French company hopes to simplify the smart home of the future with a range of sticky single-purpose sensors.
  
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• Men spend THREE weeks of their lives waiting for their other half in the shops 

  05-09-2016 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study has shown that a man will spend 23 minutes of each shopping trip standing around awkwardly while their other halves shop. This amounts to 24 days over an adult lifetime.
  
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• Brain circuit that helps us get ready for bed also plays a role in helping us feel rewarded

  05-09-2016 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Stanford University in California have found the ventral tegmental area, which is part of our internal reward system, also plays a role in preparing our brains for bed.
  
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• FTC warns drivers over smartphone connections

  05-09-2016 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FTC says many cars will store a user's personal information when they connect a smartphone - including their text messages and even home and work addresses.
  
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• Blogger fury over tax credit rejection

  05-09-2016 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British parenting blogger says she has been denied working tax credits because she is unable to prove her working hours.
  
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• Safer dates

  05-09-2016 18:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As figures suggest that sexual assaults initiated by online dating are on the rise, here are a few ways to stay safe.
  
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• Mercury-sized world may have carried carbon to our world

  05-09-2016 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geochemists at Rice University in Houston Texas, say an embryonic planet similar to Mercury smashed into our planet 4.4 billion years ago, delivering carbon into the mantle and crust.
  
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• North Korea launches missiles the same as China's weapons, ex-US defense chief says

  05-09-2016 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images of the Rogon missiles (pictured) launched into the sea near Japan today show that they look remarkably similar to Chinese JL-1 weapons, according to Dr Bruce Bechtol.
  
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• Crisis as drought causes farms around the world to 'die of thirst'

  05-09-2016 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Both Iran and the US, the two major suppliers, say drought will decimate the number of nuts farmed this year, cutting the global supply by 86,000 tons from 529,000 tons.
  
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• Philae comet lander is found after a year in silence

  05-09-2016 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery comes a few weeks before the European Space Agency plans to crash Rosetta on to the comet end its mission.
  
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• Airlifting ice from the alps

  05-09-2016 18:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ice taken from a retreating Alpine glacier is moved into a freezer at the start of a mission to store it permanently in Antarctica.
  
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• Endangered glaciers: Alpine ice begins Antarctic voyage

  05-09-2016 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ice taken from a retreating Alpine glacier is moved into a freezer at the start of a mission to store it permanently in Antarctica.
  
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• International Space Station astros prepare to rejoin us Earthlings

  05-09-2016 17:56 via go.theregister.com
  
  Human guinea pigs to be subjected to more testing after arrival Three astronauts from the International Space Station are expected to fly home tomorrow after spending 172 days floating in space.…
  
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• Infoporn: the most Shazamed songs – tracked by the second

  05-09-2016 17:47
  
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• AI security guards do NOT stop people from stealing

  05-09-2016 17:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some seven per cent of people were found to completely ignore a robo-security guard and steal 'reserved' food in an experiment by researchers at Cornell University in New York City
  
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• Smart mug keeps your tea at the perfect temperature for 30 minutes

  05-09-2016 17:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thomas Gostelow, an inventor from Chorlton, claims to have designed the world's first fine china heated smart mug. He now hopes to raise money through a Kickstarter funding campaign.
  
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• Why sleep feels so good: Brain circuit that helps us get ready for bed also plays a role in helping us feel rewarded

  05-09-2016 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Stanford University in California have found the ventral tegmental area, which is part of our internal reward system, also plays a role in preparing our brains for bed.
  
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• Freddie Mercury has asteroid named in his honour to mark his 70th birthday

  05-09-2016 16:43
  
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• Rosetta spots the lifeless body of its long-lost Philae lander on Comet 67P

  05-09-2016 16:27
  
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• London to Manchester in 18 minutes? The Hyperloop may be heading to the UK

  05-09-2016 16:21
  
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• London's police are testing silent electric cars that can CREEP UP on suspects

  05-09-2016 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A BMW i3 Range Extender is now on patrol in the Wandsworth Borough Commander, to allow the Met to determine how zero emission electric cars perform in a live operational environment.
  
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• Vaccine for 'flesh-eating bug' Group A streptococcus 'could be on the horizon' 

  05-09-2016 16:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A vaccine for the highly contagious bacteria, group A streptococcus, that causes the flesh-eating bug and results in half a million deaths a year, could be in the pipeline.
  
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• Philae: Lost comet lander is found

  05-09-2016 15:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Europe's comet lander Philae, last seen in November 2014, has been identified in new pictures from the Rosetta probe.
  
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• Incredible aerial photos show Earth as you've never seen it before

  05-09-2016 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From a Japanese volcano mid-eruption to the mesmerising serenity of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, a new book capturing breath-taking aerials of planet Earth will be released this week.
  
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• Freddie Mercury: Asteroid named after late Queen star to mark 70th birthday

  05-09-2016 15:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Freddie Mercury is honoured with an asteroid named after him to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.
  
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• Warner Brothers reports own site as illegal

  05-09-2016 15:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Film studio Warner Brothers asks Google to remove its own website from search results, saying it violates copyright laws.
  
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• Satellite owner says SpaceX owes $50 mln or free flight

  05-09-2016 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Israel's Spacecom, which owned the AMOS-6 satellite, have reportedly been hard hit by the loss. The satellite was supposed to provide home internet for Africa and the Middle East.
  
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• Laser made from human BLOOD could help find tumours

  05-09-2016 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Michigan have been mixing using blood with the medical dye Indocyanine green (ICG) to boost laser signals, showing changes at the molecular level.
  
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• Was SpaceX rocket hit by a drone?

  05-09-2016 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A grainy video uploaded to YouTube appears to show a small object flying over the SpaceX rocket moments before it exploded in Florida.
  
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• Has this baffling new footage of huge hairy legs captured the Sasquatch? 

  05-09-2016 14:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An astonished local Law Enforcement Officer was taken aback by the footage, filmed in the Sequoia National Forest in Northern California by officers trying to catch drug growers.
  
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• Infographic: The top 5 most Shazamed songs

  05-09-2016 14:47
  
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• Travelling around London is about to get cheaper thanks to the 'Hopper' fare

  05-09-2016 14:30
  
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