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• Astronomers reveal how Martian moon Phobos got its distinctive shape

  12-10-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have found numerous scenarios that could have created the crater without entirely destroying Phobos, including impact with an asteroid or comet roughly 250 meters across .
  
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• Can the Galaxy S8 save Samsung? Artist's impression reveals radical redesign of flagship handset

  12-10-2016 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the death of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, many users are eager for the next device. An artists impression of what could be the Galaxy S8 has surfaced and it shows a full screen design.
  
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• President Obama warns AI could learn to manipulate stock markets

  12-10-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Obama, AI has been ‘seeping into our lives’ for some time, even in ways we don’t notice – and while there are many potential benefits that come with the technology, there may consequences.
  
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• 4 beauty bloggers put handbags under the microscope looking for diseases

  12-10-2016 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts have discovered that handbags and makeup bags as little as six months old could contain unsafe levels of potentially lethal bacteria in recent laboratory tests.
  
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• Samsung engineers are STILL unable to pinpoint what causes the Galaxy Note 7 to overheat and explode

  12-10-2016 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'As of this week, Samsung’s testers were still unable to reproduce the explosions,' the Wall Street Journal says. On Tuesday, Samsung said it was killing the Galaxy Note 7 in an unprecedented move.
  
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• President Obama warns AI could learn to manipulate stock markets and even launch nuclear missiles as White House launches smart machines study

  12-10-2016 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Obama, AI has been ‘seeping into our lives’ for some time, even in ways we don’t notice – and while there are many potential benefits that come with the technology, there may consequences.
  
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• WIRED Security 2016: Speakers

  12-10-2016 21:51
  
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• Researchers say average American suffers 40,000 bouts of 'tech rage' over their lifetime

  12-10-2016 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Unreliable technology will thrust anyone into a fit of 'tech rage'. A study from 24 Hour Fitness reveals this causes stress among 65% of Americans, but there is a simple solution to combat the stress.
  
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• Google's secretive DeepMind AI learns to navigate the London Underground

  12-10-2016 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab has taught a machine to navigate London Undergound on its own. The system combines both data processing with self-learning code.
  
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• Disco balls could be the key to interstellar travel

  12-10-2016 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The interstellar disco ball would have a in the centre, according to the Harvard research. When a laser beam hit the thin, mirror-like surface, the light would bounce off and push the probe along.
  
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• Why baddies are always triangular and the good guys round: Mathematician reveals the hidden geometry of hit films

  12-10-2016 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouTube channel, Now You See Me, studies the influence of shapes on characters’ personalities in a new video and how geometry affects the visual storytelling of the films we love.
  
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• Mid-Ulster is revealed as a hotspot for abnormally tall people

  12-10-2016 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have identified a 'giant hotspot' in Northern Ireland, where people carry a gene mutation causing them to grow abnormally tall. One in 150 people have the gene mutation in mid-Ulster (stock image)
  
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• The evolution of birdsong: 68-million-year-old voicebox reveals how first singing avians honked and quacked

  12-10-2016 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found the organ in an Antarctic fossil of a relative of ducks that lived during the age of dinosaurs.
  
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• World's most accurate clocks are synchronised to a quadrillionth of a second

  12-10-2016 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To make such precise measurements, a team at the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology in Colorado fired a laser from one building to another, more than seven miles away.
  
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• BMW reveals helmet-free motorcycle concept

  12-10-2016 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Motoring giant BMW unveils a self-balancing concept motorcycle, which it says could represent the future of transportation.
  
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• The floods that shaped the red planet: Model reveals how catastrophic bursts of water carved out Mars' canyons

  12-10-2016 19:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the California Institute of Technology modelled the way floods shaped the canyons on Earth and Mars.
  
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• The floods that shaped the red planet: Catastrophic bursts of water carved out the dramatic canyons on Mars

  12-10-2016 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the California Institute of Technology modelled the way floods shaped the canyons on Earth and Mars.
  
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• Fossil sheds light on evolution of birdsong

  12-10-2016 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have reconstructed the "voicebox" of an extinct bird that lived at the time of the dinosaurs - and they say it honked or quacked like a duck.
  
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• How old is our Moon? Hundreds of previously unseen craters could finally unlock its true age

  12-10-2016 19:00
  
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• DeepMind's AI learned to ride the London Underground using human-like reason and memory

  12-10-2016 19:00
  
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• What a stinger! 100-million-year-old wingless wasp preserved in amber is the only known specimen of its kind

  12-10-2016 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Russia, England and the US pinpointed the new species of extinct wingless wasp, but were unable to determine how it died out. The fossil was found in Myanmar.
  
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• Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider

  12-10-2016 18:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In a very unusual case of genetic theft, a virus has been caught with a gene that codes for the poison of black widow spiders.
  
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• Video captures the moment wild chimpanzee mothers teach their young to 'fish' for food using tools for first time

  12-10-2016 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Videos at the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo shed light on the evolution of teaching, showing how chimps learn from their mothers to catch termites with ‘fishing probes.’
  
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• Pre-orders open for the developer version of Microsoft's augmented reality headset

  12-10-2016 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The software giant announced it will be rolling out pre-orders for the mixed reality headsets in six countries, including the UK, Ireland and Australia, for two versions of the device (pictured).
  
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• Rare blue shark usually found in the deep seas around Norway is discovered

  12-10-2016 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The body of what is believed to be a blue shark (pictured) was discovered by a passer-by walking his dog on Tentsmuir Beach next to the River Tay in Fife on Monday.
  
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• Researchers warn constantly checking handsets can cause conflicts with kids

  12-10-2016 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Michigan Health System found that parents' technology use is causing conflict at home. Not only does it take attention away from kids, but it causes parents to become more stressed.
  
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• Meet the Elytron: Futuristic biplane takes off and lands like a helicopter, but travels TWICE as fast

  12-10-2016 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elytron is working with Nasa to test a scaled version of its aircraft concept, at Nasa's Ames Research Centre in California. Wind-tunnel tests are expected to take place early in 2017.
  
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• The hunt for 'Planet Nine' reveals a dwarf world at the edge of our solar system

  12-10-2016 18:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor David Gerdes, from the University of Michigan, found the new dwarf planet, named 2014 UZ224 when searching through images taken by the Dark Energy Camera.
  
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• Bullies could use VR to 'torture' their victims

  12-10-2016 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The concerns were raised by the Institute of Ideas who will meet in London to discuss the best way to police VR technology before it spirals out of control.
  
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• Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service

  12-10-2016 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon Music Unlimited is being positioned to compete against existing services such as Spotify and Apple Music, and will be offered to Echo owners for just $4 a month.
  
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• Did Ancient Greeks help build the Terracotta Army?

  12-10-2016 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sudden appearance of life-sized statues is one reason experts think China had influence from Ancient Greece, The terracotta army was found close to the tomb of Emperor Quin Shihuang in Xi'an in central China.
  
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• Taking on the Fancy Bear hackers: how to negotiate if your data is being held ransom

  12-10-2016 18:00
  
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• Great British Bake Off effect sees budget baking gadget sales soar on eBay

  12-10-2016 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sales of baking gadgets 'soar' in the hour after an episode of GBBO airs, according to eBay. But it seems online shoppers are favouring budget buys instead of premium products.
  
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• Can YOU see it? This baffling optical illusion will make you hallucinate without touching drugs

  12-10-2016 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mind-boggling video is part of a study by researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia that they hope will lead to treatments for people with Parkinson's Disease.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Note 7: The unanswered questions

  12-10-2016 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Samsung urges customers to return its ill-fated Note 7 handsets, questions remain about what went wrong.
  
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• Alibaba's new payment system lets virtual reality shoppers pay by nodding

  12-10-2016 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The VR payment technology means people using virtual reality goggles to browse virtual reality shopping malls will be able pay for purchases without taking off the goggles.
  
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• WIRED Security 2016: Be there or be hacked

  12-10-2016 17:24
  
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• WIRED Security 2016: Delegates

  12-10-2016 17:17
  
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• WIRED Security 2016: Startup Stage

  12-10-2016 17:16
  
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• WIRED Security 2016: Partners

  12-10-2016 17:16
  
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• WIRED Security 2016: Agenda

  12-10-2016 17:16
  
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• World's most accurate clocks are synchronised to a quadrillionth of a second - and it could change how we define time

  12-10-2016 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To make such precise measurements, a team at the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology in Colorado fired a laser from one building to another, more than seven miles away.
  
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• Radford University research shows millennials are not lazier than baby boomers

  12-10-2016 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By analysing the findings from a large number of studies carried out on work ethic, researchers from Radford University in Virginia found no difference in work ethic across the generations (stock image).
  
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• Would you ride this bizarre bike? Two-wheeler designed to be used while LYING DOWN could prevent injuries

  12-10-2016 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bike is the brainchild of John Aldridge, an inventor from California. Rather than riding in a seat, cyclists lean forward with their weight resting on their hips and arms.
  
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• A Call Of Duty commentator totally lost it during an eSports tournament

  12-10-2016 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "That could be the greatest ending to a game of Black Ops 3 i've seen in my life," screams announcer Ben Bowe.
  
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• Day of the Dead-inspired UE speaker designed by artist Ernesto Yerena Montejano

  12-10-2016 16:00
  
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• Cancer Research scientists claims rates will rise for women but fall for men

  12-10-2016 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cancer Research UK scientists calculate that taking into account someone’s age, the risk of the average woman getting cancer will rise 0.11 per cent every year between now and 2035.
  
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• How the new five pound note plays vinyl records

  12-10-2016 15:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new polymer five pound note has a secret power - it can play vinyl.
  
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• Imgur photo has scary hidden illusion

  12-10-2016 15:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A creepy photo showing a dark basement with a red circle is causing confusion on Imgur as users try to work out what is sinister about the picture. But can you figure out what's scary about it?
  
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• Gap's PACE program wants to boost confidence and life skills in teenage girls

  12-10-2016 15:30
  
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