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• Nasa to reveal 'surprising activity' on Jupiter's moon Europa

  23-09-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa is due to make a major announcement concerning Jupiter's sixth largest moon Europa in a live stream on Monday, which will include new images from the Hubble space telescope.
  
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• UPS spotted testing craft for urgent medical deliveries over Massachusetts

  23-09-2016 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One of the world's largest package delivery firms is stepping up efforts to integrate drones into its system. UPS began testing drones this week with a focus of bringing packages to remote locations.
  
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• Oxygen levels in ancient oceans could explain why animals evolved 550 million years ago

  23-09-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists led by Oxford University have put forward evidence to support the hypothesis that high oxygen levels in oceans were crucial for the emergence of skeletal animals.
  
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• Giant clock at a deserted airfield is made up of 14 LORRIES driving in a circle

  23-09-2016 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bizarre clock was created by Swedish vehicle firm Scania in an unknown location and relied on a carefully choreographed routine in order for the 90 drivers to keep it 'ticking' for a full 24 hours.
  
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• Apple's own Echo-like smart home device has hit the testing stage claims report

  23-09-2016 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is believed that Apple is developing its own Echo-like device. Now, Bloomberg reveals the Siri-driven device has left the research and development lab and entered prototype testing.
  
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• Google's ‘Show and Tell' AI can tell you what's in a photo with nearly 94% accuracy

  23-09-2016 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google's 'Show and Tell' algorithm can now describe images with nearly 94 percent accuracy and may even ‘understand’ the context and deeper meaning of a scene, the firm says.
  
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• What if Yahoo hackers have my details?

  23-09-2016 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's technology reporter Chris Foxx explains how you can stay safe following the Yahoo hack.
  
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• Cancer blogger Anna Swabey fundraising target met

  23-09-2016 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The target of raising £100,000 created by a blogger Anna Swabey, who was killed by brain cancer, is met on the day of her funeral.
  
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• Will UPS beat Amazon to drone delivery? Firm spotted testing craft for urgent medical deliveries over Massachusetts

  23-09-2016 19:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One of the world's largest package delivery firms is stepping up efforts to integrate drones into its system. UPS began testing drones this week with a focus of bringing packages to remote locations.
  
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• Women and queer-inclusive game jam aims to boost diversity

  23-09-2016 19:03
  
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• Yahoo hack hits 500 million users, but who are the suspects?

  23-09-2016 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Yahoo announces a huge data breach by "state-sponsored hackers" - who could that mean?
  
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• How antibiotic-resistant superbugs could end up on YOUR dinner plate

  23-09-2016 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Both resistant and non-resistant bacteria are able to reach the freshwater ecosystem, which is used in agriculture. Meaning it could end up in our food, UN researcher Serena Caucci warns.
  
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• Tick tock truck: Giant clock at a deserted airfield is made up of 14 LORRIES driving in a circle

  23-09-2016 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bizarre clock was created by Swedish vehicle firm Scania in an unknown location and relied on a carefully choreographed routine in order for the 90 drivers to keep it 'ticking' for a full 24 hours.
  
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• Oxygen levels in ancient oceans could explain mystery of why early animals evolved 550 million years ago

  23-09-2016 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists led by Oxford University have put forward evidence to support the hypothesis that high oxygen levels in oceans were crucial for the emergence of skeletal animals.
  
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• Star Wars-like holographic TV is coming: BBC tests display it says will bring its shows to life

  23-09-2016 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The BBC has been testing a prototype holographic display at its headquarters in London to see how its content might appear in the format. Among the holograms it created were CGI dinosaurs walking.
  
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• Nearly HALF of Samsung Galaxy Note 7s returned in US as replacements are shipped out

  23-09-2016 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Approximately 500,000 potentially dangerous Samsung Galaxy Note 7 handsets have now been replaced with non-exploding versions through Samsung's recall program in the US.
  
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• Twitter shares soar almost 20% on takeover talk

  23-09-2016 17:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in Twitter jump more than 20% after a report that it has received takeover approaches, including from Google and Salesforce.com.
  
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• Samsung Note 2 mobile phone 'catches fire' on Indigo flight 6E-054 passenger jet from Singapore to India

  23-09-2016 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Samsung Note 2 is said to have emitted smoke on the IndiGo flight from Singapore to Chennai this morning as it was preparing to land with the phone in the overhead lockers.
  
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• Want to stop global warming? Then STOP having babies, says academic

  23-09-2016 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Travis Rieder, a moral philosophy professor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, explains why the key to stopping climate change is reducing the number of babies born each year (stock image)
  
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• Amazon has been fined £65,000 for trying to fly dangerous goods

  23-09-2016 16:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Online giant Amazon has been fined £65,000 after being found guilty of attempting to ship dangerous goods by air.
  
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• Nasa to reveal 'surprising activity' on Jupiter's moon Europa (but it says it is NOT aliens)

  23-09-2016 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa is due to make a major announcement concerning Jupiter's sixth largest moon Europa in a live stream on Monday, which will include new images from the Hubble space telescope.
  
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• Palmer Luckey vanishes from Reddit after Trump 'shitposting'

  23-09-2016 16:39
  
  The Oculus Rift creator appears to have deleted the Reddit account used to bolster and fund a pro-Trump group
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• Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking to begin search for alien life

  23-09-2016 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The trio are funding an ambitious $100 million (£76 million) project known as ‘Breakthrough Listen’, which will listen for signals from ET on Proxima b, a rocky planet that is just four light years away.
  
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• Plane crew douse smoking Samsung phone

  23-09-2016 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cabin crew on an Indian passenger aircraft have used a fire extinguisher to tackle a smoking Samsung handset.
  
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• Amazon fined for shipping lithium batteries on passenger planes

  23-09-2016 16:02
  
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• Google or Salesforce could be about to bid for Twitter

  23-09-2016 15:37
  
  Report from CNBC claims “several technology companies” have expressed an interest in Twitter with a formal bid expected soon
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• Samsung Note phone 'exploded' and caused a fire on a plane in Chennai

  23-09-2016 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Samsung Note 2 is said to have caught fire on the IndiGo flight from Singapore to Chennai this morning as it was preparing to land with the phone in the overhead lockers.
  
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• Chemical clues in modern birds could reveal what the dinosaurs REALLY looked like

  23-09-2016 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a technique that will allow them to distinguish pigments in fossil feathers and reveal what colour feathered dinosaurs once were.
  
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• Mother reveals her amazing oven cleaning hack

  23-09-2016 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Mumsnet user revealed her discovery that she could clean her oven in just five minutes usinga dishwasher tablet on the popular site - but her method wasn't so successful for everyone.
  
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• Are YOU a jerk? Take this test to find out! Five-question quiz reveals if you have the traits of a narcissist...

  23-09-2016 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Created by Professor Eric Schwitzgebel, from the University of California, the quiz looks at someone's levels of 'jerkitude' by assessing how they react to situations. David Brent is likely to score highly.
  
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• US Navy's $4 BILLION spaceage destroyer, USS Zumwalt, returns to dock after springing a leak

  23-09-2016 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Navy's newest destroyer will remain in Virginia at Naval Station Norfolk longer than expected after crew members detected a leak on the vessel.
  
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• 'The world's most mysterious book' may not contain a secret code after all

  23-09-2016 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gordon Rugg of Keele University claims to have created a simple system that can reproduce nonsensical test similar to that in the ancient tome, suggesting it's not a secret code at all.
  
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• BBC builds 'holographic' TV to show the future of viewing

  23-09-2016 14:26
  
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• BBC builds a 'holographic' TV to see how we may watch shows in the future

  23-09-2016 14:26
  
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• Facebook 'overestimated' video viewing time

  23-09-2016 13:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook has overestimated how much video people have watched for the last two years, the company has admitted.
  
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• Bleat this: Man who lived as a GOAT for 3 days and a scientist who put trousers on rats win spoof Nobel awards

  23-09-2016 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A British man who lived as a goat using prosthetics is among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes for scientific research, which were awarded at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
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• Hubble spots Saturn-sized 'Tatooine planet' orbiting TWO suns

  23-09-2016 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, spotted the strange star system 8,000 light years away from Earth using the Hubble Space Telescope.
  
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• Solar-powered car can travel 115 MILES on a single charge  

  23-09-2016 13:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sono Motors, a car company based in Munich expects their Sion car to hit the roads by 2018, although that depends on their crowdfunding project to build the car, which is currently a prototype.
  
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• Can YOU pass this basic grammar quiz? New puzzle tests your knowledge of the most commonly misused words - and determines if you're really a 'Grammar God'

  23-09-2016 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new Playbuzz quiz is attempting to establish how good you are at identifying the most commonly misused words. Find out how you fare by taking the test.
  
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• Apple iOS 10 has changed the music app - and no one can find the shuffle button

  23-09-2016 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a video filmed in San Francisco, two people suggested shaking the phone, while another admitted he would give up. Only at the end are baffled users shown how to do it.
  
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• This tiny Q-Bot could save you a fortune on heating bills

  23-09-2016 13:00
  
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• Reptile that lived 228 million years ago had a bizarre dinosaur-like bony skull

  23-09-2016 12:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossilised skull of the reptile, named Triopticus primus, was dug up in Big Spring, Texas in 1940 and has now been described. The reptile lived in the Triassic Period about 228 million years ago.
  
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• DON'T use Google's new Allo messaging app, Edward Snowden warns

  23-09-2016 12:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking on Twitter, security expert Edward Snowden, who is currently based in Moscow, claims that the app records every message you ever send and could make them available to police.
  
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• Species body says extra elephant protection could boost ivory trade

  23-09-2016 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The body tasked with managing trade in endangered species will oppose efforts to increase global protection for elephants, saying it could spark a new trade in ivory.
  
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• Alan Turing's homosexual court files go on display

  23-09-2016 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Court files recording details of World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing's convictions for homosexual acts have gone on display for the first time.
  
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• Cosmology is safe and the Universe is one giant version of the Barbican

  23-09-2016 12:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Whichever way you look it's all exactly the same, boffins confirm Scientists have confirmed that the universe is very likely the same in every direction, showing that the assumption of the universe being isotropic can be safely used in cosmology.…
  
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• British unis mull offshore EU campuses in post-Brexit vote panic

  23-09-2016 11:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Also told: ‘Don’t look at France... it’s a nightmare’ British universities are looking to deepen links with their continental counterparts or even open offshore campuses in order to maintain their EU ties.…
  
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• Watch Rosetta's final moments as the probe gears up to 'crash' into comet 67P

  23-09-2016 11:49
  
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• Rosetta will crash into comet 67P next week

  23-09-2016 11:49
  
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• Chinese skeletons found in a Roman cemetery promise to rewrite history

  23-09-2016 11:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have analysed 22 skeletons (pictured) unearthed from a Roman cemetery in Southwark, London. Two of the skeletons appear to be from Asia while four were from Africa.
  
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