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• Wish you never upgraded to iOS 10? This trick lets you uninstall Apple’s latest software and go back to iOS 9

  16-09-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With new emojis, technical issues and killing the swipe to unlock, many Apple users regret installing iOS 10. Thankfully, there is a simple trick that uninstalls it and reinstalls iOS 9.
  
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• Pornhub and YouPorn banned in Russia

  16-09-2016 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As of Tuesday, Pornhub and YouPorn now redirect Russian visitors to a page that says they’ve been blocked ‘by decision of public authorities.’ This follows the ban of 11 porn sites issued in 2015.
  
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• RSPCA warns over ‘teacup puppies’ bred on S Korean farms and sold over Facebook

  16-09-2016 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The dogs, often mini versions of breeds like pugs and Pomeranians, are sold on online 'boutiques', which boast that the animals weigh between two and five pounds when fully grown.
  
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• T-Mobile tells customers not to download the latest iOS upgrade after devices lost service

  16-09-2016 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  T-Mobile urged users not to install Apple's iOS 10, as many lost service following the upgrade. The glitch affected iPhone 6, 6 Plus and SE users. Apple has released steps to fix the problem.
  
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• Russia BANS two major porn sites and tells outraged users to 'meet someone in real life' instead

  16-09-2016 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As of Tuesday, Pornhub and YouPorn now redirect Russian visitors to a page that says they’ve been blocked ‘by decision of public authorities.’ This follows the ban of 11 porn sites issued in 2015.
  
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• Dying stars as they are torn apart by supermassive black holes are detected

  16-09-2016 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore worked with Nasa to detect the infrared echoes of four stars as they were destroyed by distant supermassive black holes.
  
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• Pokemon Go caused more than 110,000 road accidents in the US in just 10 days

  16-09-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr John Ayers, who is based at San Diego University, California, said these accidents were becoming a 'dangerous side effect' and drivers playing Pokemon Go.
  
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• 500-year-old kiln could shed light on the construction of Henry VIII's Tudor palace in Essex

  16-09-2016 20:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The find was made by Oxford Archaeology East which, along with engineering firm AECOM was given permission to scour the site in Chelmsford, Essex by building developers.
  
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• Do you have to be born great? The top 1% may benefit from a genetic advantage at birth

  16-09-2016 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Duke University in North Carolina found there is a disproportionate number of people who ranked highly for aptitude as children in the top one per cent among US elites.
  
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• iPhone7 taken apart to show how it works

  16-09-2016 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The teardown was carried out by iFixit in Japan. The site is well known for stripping down flagship devices for a closer look atwhat's inside.It took apart an iPhone 7 Plus in rose gold.
  
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• Expert reveals the patterns of diversity in insects

  16-09-2016 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Australian researcher explores the age old problem of why some groups contain large numbers of species and some do not. Darren Curnoe discusses patterns involved with diversity.
  
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• An airline captain reveals everything you ever wanted to know about turbulence 

  16-09-2016 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The serving pilot talks to MailOnline Travel about turbulence in a bid to help ease passengers' nerves about the phenomenon. He reveals how turbulence once stalled his 747 over Africa.
  
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• Bronze Age settlement of 'national significance' is found on a Norwich bypass

  16-09-2016 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The settlement was found by archaeologists Oxford Archaeology East at Bell Farm, near Horsford in Norfolk. The 246 foot (75m) by 164 foot (50m) enclosure includes between 8 and 10 houses.
  
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• 100 Alpha 1 bots queue for iPhone7 customers in New Zealand

  16-09-2016 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New Zealand firm Spark enlisted a fleet of Alpha 1 robots to stand in line in place of their human counterparts – and they can dance, do kung Fu, and live-stream their way through the queue.
  
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• Solar-powered tuk-tuk completes India to UK trip

  16-09-2016 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Engineer Naveen Rabelli has completed a 6,000 mile journey from India to the UK in a solar-powered tuk-tuk.
  
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• Tesla Autopilot safety row escalates

  16-09-2016 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tesla and its former business partner MobilEye have traded more angry remarks over the safety of the vehicle's Autopilot system.
  
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• Ancient lakes on Mars suggest the red planet could have hosted life for a BILLION years longer than we thought

  16-09-2016 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington found the wet period on Mars likely occurred between two and three billion years ago.
  
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• Why tapas and meze are pushing up the cost of dining: Trendy sharing plates fool us into spending more

  16-09-2016 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research by food industry analysts Horizon found that average price of a starter, a category that includes snacks and sharing plates, rose by 15.6 per cent year on year in the UK.
  
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• Self-driving Ubers, Amazon Echo hype: Podcast 285

  16-09-2016 18:16
  
  We take a ride in Ford's self-driving car and try and work out why everyone's so excited about the Amazon Echo
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• Don't Pokemon Go and drive! More than 110,000 road accidents in the US are caused by the game in just 10 days

  16-09-2016 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr John Ayers, who is based at San Diego University, California, said these accidents were becoming a 'dangerous side effect' and drivers playing Pokemon Go.
  
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• Scio smart scanner maker defends delays

  16-09-2016 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The maker of a pocket spectrometer, which can scan and identify a variety of objects, says his company is working hard to fulfil outstanding orders.
  
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• Revealed: 500-year-old kiln could shed light on the construction of Henry VIII's Tudor palace in Essex

  16-09-2016 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The find was made by Oxford Archaeology East which, along with engineering firm AECOM was given permission to scour the site in Chelmsford, Essex by building developers.
  
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• Look up tonight! Spooky harvest moon eclipse to grace the sky

  16-09-2016 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The phenomenon will be visible to the naked eye from Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia but not North and South America. The best time to view it will be at 7:54pm BST (2:54 ET).
  
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• Echoes of a stellar massacre: Gasps of dying stars as they are torn apart by supermassive black holes are detected

  16-09-2016 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore worked with Nasa to detect the infrared echoes of four stars as they were destroyed by distant supermassive black holes.
  
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• The moment a planet is born: Astronomers spot a star's dust cloud give birth to an icy world

  16-09-2016 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers from Ibaraki University in Japan have observed the growing planet around TW Hydrae – a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA).
  
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• YouTuber Nepenthez charged over video game gambling site

  16-09-2016 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men are charged with offences under the Gambling Act in what is thought to be the first prosecution involving betting on video games.
  
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• Star Wars Rogue One replaces composer

  16-09-2016 16:03
  
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• Alleged hacker Lauri Love to be extradited to US

  16-09-2016 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An autistic man suspected of hacking into US government computer systems is to be extradited from Britain to face trial, a court rules.
  
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• Europe's hottest startups 2016: Stockholm

  16-09-2016 15:27
  
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• Thousands of Apple fans are furious after being guaranteed they’d get their new iPhones today – only to get a text last night saying it could be up to THREE WEEKS 

  16-09-2016 14:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Unprecedented demand' for the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus has led to a 'global shortage of stock' – leaving companies including Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three without phones to send to customers.
  
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• China launches second experimental space station

  16-09-2016 14:48
  
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• How Indonesia's rare birds are facing extinction

  16-09-2016 14:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A BBC team finds rare Java hawks for sale, as environmentalists say more must be done to tackle Indonesia's illegal bird trade.
  
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• Women who don't tie the knot are as content as those who do

  16-09-2016 14:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers, from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, surveyed 51,000 US adults. Married people tend to be happiest, but this changes for women once they reach 60.
  
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• Pokémon Go is getting more Pokémon, battles and live events

  16-09-2016 14:25
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio and Google unveil free technology that lets anyone spy on global illegal fishing from space

  16-09-2016 14:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  American film star Leonardo DiCaprio gave £5.4 million ($6 million) to a new project involving Google that monitors commercial fishing vessels so their locations can be tracked online.
  
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• Rare 8,000-year-old figurine of a voluptuous woman is found at the site of one of the world's first cities

  16-09-2016 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of figurines have been found at the site in Catalhoyuk, Turkey. But Stanford Professor Ian Hodder says this one is special because it is made from stone, not clay.
  
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• Uber starts mapping UK city streets

  16-09-2016 13:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Uber is collecting street images for its own maps of the UK cities in which it operates, starting with London.
  
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• Are driverless cars pointless? Autonomous vehicles WON'T give us any more free time, says study

  16-09-2016 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study from University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute also raises concerns over the effectiveness of current restraint systems for new sitting positions in driverless vehicles.
  
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• From Dumbo octopuses to violet-hued coral: Deep-sea Hawaiian volcano is a hotspot for mysterious life

  16-09-2016 12:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Hawaii and the nonprofit group Conservation International travelled to the underwater volcano on board the three-man Pisces V vessel.
  
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• A powerful generation of 'X-Men' SUPERHUMANS will be here in less than 100 years, claims expert

  16-09-2016 12:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Michael Bess, from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, says a person who can play tennis like Andy Murray, think like Professor Stephen Hawking and live to 150 will soon become a reality.
  
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• Lauri Love should be extradited to the USA, British court rules

  16-09-2016 12:32
  
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• Court to rule on extradition of British 'hacker' Lauri Love

  16-09-2016 12:32
  
  Lauri Love could face up to 99 years in US prison and a fine of £6.2 million if found guilty
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• Move over Nasa: China launches Tiangong 2 space lab to prepare for a space station in 2020

  16-09-2016 12:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tiangong 2 was carried into space on Thursday night on a Long March 7 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northern China.
  
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• The tech that could lead to reading a closed book

  16-09-2016 12:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the best of the week's technology news.
  
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• Uber's city-mapping cars are coming to London

  16-09-2016 12:00
  
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• IBM Watson: Experiencing IBM Watson

  16-09-2016 11:57
  
  See how IBM’s Cognitive Computing revolution is changing how many professions investigate key issues in their work
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• In pictures: the winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016

  16-09-2016 11:51
  
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• Now that's a BIG shock! World's longest lightning bolt stretched for nearly 200 miles across Oklahoma

  16-09-2016 11:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have officially recorded two record-breaking lighting bolts as weather extremes after one travelled 199 miles over Oklahoma and another lasted 7.74 seconds over France.
  
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• IBM Watson: A doctor's digital assistant

  16-09-2016 11:22
  
  This series about IBM Watson will explore how cognitive computing is impacting fields as diverse as finance, education and security.
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• Snowden dismisses 'distorted' US report on mass surveillance disclosures

  16-09-2016 11:17
  
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