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• EXCLUSIVE: Royal Navy trials robot spy boats that can scour the seas for up to 12 hours at a time

  13-10-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The P950 boat took part in the Royal Navy's robotic Unmanned Warrior exercise, the biggest ever war game using more than 50 types of drones off the UK coast.
  
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• Luftwaffe pilots blitzed on crystal meth, Goering injecting morphine with a gold syringe and the Fuhrer with the arms of a junkie. How drugs fuelled the Nazis: High Hitler!

  13-10-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to this book by German author Norman Ohler, the whole of the Third Reich was awash with narcotics. The apt title of Blitzed sums up how drugged up he believes the nation was.
  
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• Electric bike scheme first to be launched in the UK

  13-10-2016 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's first city-wide electric bike scheme is launched in Exeter.
  
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• Hyperloop set for first full size test as firm hoping to make Elon Musk's transport dream a reality raises $50m

  13-10-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hyperloop One got its latest round of funding from DP World Group of Dubai, which wants to move containers from ships docked at its flagship Port of Jebel Ali to a new inland container depot in Dubai.
  
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• Periscope extends beyond phones as Twitter ups ante on video

  13-10-2016 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Periscope Producer feature will let media companies and other users pipe live video feeds directly into Twitter, without using a smartphone to record the images.
  
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• Political corruption beats terror attacks and money troubles to top poll

  13-10-2016 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears, over 1,500 adults were asked to rank 79 fears from a wide range of categories, natural disasters, the future, and health.
  
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• Something else for the Russians to blow up: Putin's secret inflatable army decoys revealed

  13-10-2016 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The blow up battalions are designed to bamboozle satellites and surveillance aircraft into thinking forces are more powerful than they actually are.
  
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• Hubble images reveal there could be a TRILLION galaxies

  13-10-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings suggest so many exist that, essentially, every point of the sky contains part of a galaxy, but 90 percent of these are hidden from our view, being either too faint or too far away to be seen.
  
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• Netflix under fire as study finds it only has 31 movies from IMDB's top 250

  13-10-2016 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although Netflix boasts about its improving content, its library is shrinking. Over 50% of its content has been cut from the US streaming platform, leaving just 31 of the 250 top-rated titles on IMDB
  
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• The upside of PMS: Women may become SMARTER just before their period, claims brain scan study

  13-10-2016 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study from Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig found that rising levels of oestrogen enlarge the part of the brain liked to moods and memory (stock image)
  
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• Station state

  13-10-2016 21:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of Vienna-based scientists is working on plans to create a pacifist nation state, called Asgardia, in space.
  
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• VenueNext gets cash plug to bring sports app to Europe

  13-10-2016 21:00
  
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• Albino humpback nicknamed Migaloo makes a rare appearance off the coast of Australia 

  13-10-2016 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Craig Parry, 37, an Australian photographer, took these amazing images of the country's only albino humpback whale who is rarely spotted, as he migrated to warmer waters.
  
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• Captain Kirk to take command of the USS Zumwalt

  13-10-2016 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After months of anticipation, America's largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, willbe officially commissioned into the US Navy.
  
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• Bird tracking could provide flu early warning system

  13-10-2016 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Monitoring wild birds on their long migrations may provide early warning of bird flu outbreaks, say scientists.
  
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• Did a comet strike Earth 55 million years ago? Glass spheres suggest impact may have triggered past global warming

  13-10-2016 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York studied the marine shelf on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and discovered small glass spheres with distinctive features.
  
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• Amoebas shed light on evolution of creatures 800 million years ago

  13-10-2016 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of researchers in Barcelona has found evidence that single-celled ancestor which gave rise to all complex animals today already had the tools to transition to multicellular life.
  
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• Paralysed man is able to feel again after 10 YEARS thanks to a mind-controlled robot hand

  13-10-2016 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In breakthrough tests by the University of Pittsburgh, 28-year-old Nathan Copeland was able to feel subtle pressure in his own fingers when the artificial ones are touched.
  
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• Samsung will offer Galaxy Note 7 customers $25 to spend on an iPhone if they reject a replacement from the South Korean's own products

  13-10-2016 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The electronics giant has been in damage-control mode amid reports of its latest high-end device catching fire in countries including in China, the US and South Korea.
  
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• Now you don't need to bother putting on makeup when you work from home: App puts Snapchat-style 'virtual cosmetics' on participants during videoconferences

  13-10-2016 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new app is designed to help women who work from home always look their best without makeup. TeleBeauty applies virtual makeup to the user's face that can be seen by others invideo conferences.
  
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• Can YOU spot the difference between quotes from a 'lads mag' and a convicted rapist? Study reveals how ‘locker room talk’ has been normalised

  13-10-2016 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a study led by Peter Hegarty at the University of Surrey, 274 undergraduate students were asked to identify quotations used in lads’ mags, and those used by convicted rapists.
  
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• Tinder's new algorithm could get you more right swipes

  13-10-2016 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The LA-based dating app hit the 50 million user mark earlier this year. Smart Photos is the latest in a series of a new features that is has rolled out in recent months.
  
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• Nasa tests its radical 'blended wing' plane using lasers

  13-10-2016 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at Nasa's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, used lasers inside the 14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel to map how air flows over a Boeing Blended Wing Body model.
  
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• Is YOUR IQ high enough to solve this puzzle? Thousands of Facebook users are left completely stumped by mind-boggling 'intelligence test'

  13-10-2016 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The puzzle, which has been labeled the ' High IQ Intelligence Test ', was posted on the Sales-Fiction Facebook page on October 4 along with the message: 'Share if you understand'.
  
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• The map of the universe that could confirm Einstein’s theory of General Relativity

  13-10-2016 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using the largest map ever created of these features, researchers from the University of Portsmouth have developed a new way to detect the Sachs-Wolfe effect on the cosmic microwave background.
  
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• Jumping spiders have real spidey sense! Arachnids can ‘hear’ you moving from across a room

  13-10-2016 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca devised a new method for making neural recordings from the brains of jumping spiders and accidentally discovered they have powerful hearing.
  
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• Tinder's new algorithm could get you more right swipes: 'Smart Photos' shows your best profile pictures first

  13-10-2016 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The LA-based dating app hit the 50 million user mark earlier this year. Smart Photos is the latest in a series of a new features that is has rolled out in recent months.
  
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• Look out! La Niña is set to hit NEXT MONTH - but forecasters say it will be 'fleeting'

  13-10-2016 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, in a monthly forecast pegged the chance of La Niña developing this fall at 70 percent.
  
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• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer reveals origins of the Death Star

  13-10-2016 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It takes place in a galaxy far, far away - somewhere between the birth of Darth Vader and the fall of the Galactic Empire.
  
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• Nasa tests its radical 'blended wing' plane using lasers - and says it could take to skies in just 10 years

  13-10-2016 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at Nasa's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, used lasers inside the 14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel to map how air flows over a Boeing Blended Wing Body model.
  
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• PlayStation VR is now on sale: Sony's virtual reality gaming headset will take on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

  13-10-2016 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sony's virtual reality device is now on sale in countries around the world including the UK, US and Japan and with a price tag of $399 (£349), is cheaper than some of its rivals.
  
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• Traces of 1000-year-old dog sacrifices discovered under Peru zoo

  13-10-2016 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains were uncovered beneath the Park of Legends zoo in Peru's capital city Lima. Before it was a zoo, the park was a sacred site or at least three ancient civilisations.
  
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• Bournemouth man captures bizarre cloud shapes on his phone

  13-10-2016 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Steve Beck, a 40-year-old music producer, captured time lapse footage on his iPhone of the strange hole-punch clouds from the balcony of his apartment in Boscombe, Bournemouth.
  
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• James Bond-style aircraft can be dismantled and stored in the garage

  13-10-2016 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cambridge-based e-Go is currently seeking a buyer to move the company into full production of the single-seat aircraft and future production of the multi-seat variants.
  
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• Taste Buddy device tricks taste buds into thinking bland food is delicious

  13-10-2016 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The prototype for the device, which started out as a fun engineering experiment, has been designed by scientists from City University in London.
  
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• Apple Aiprod 'catcher' earring designed using 3D printer

  13-10-2016 14:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The comical earrings are the work of Maryland-based 3D printer firm M3D. The blueprints can be downloaded from online 3D-printable design community site Thingiverse.
  
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• Australian rock formation may have been built 5k years earlier than Stonehenge

  13-10-2016 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts believe the ancient circle of basalt stones, located southwest of Melbourne, may have been used by Aborigines to track the movement of the sun thousands of years ago.
  
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• London expert reveals why a lack of sleep makes us depressed

  13-10-2016 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over the past decade or so it has become increasingly clear that disturbed sleep often comes before an episode of depression, says Alice Gregory, a professor of psychology at the University of London.
  
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• Darth Vader is back in the second trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  13-10-2016 14:26
  
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• 'Like something out of Independence Day': Bizarre apocalyptic-looking clouds are spotted over Bournemouth

  13-10-2016 14:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Steve Beck, a 40-year-old music producer, captured time lapse footage on his iPhone of the strange hole-punch clouds from the balcony of his apartment in Boscombe, Bournemouth.
  
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• Would YOU wear them? These 3D-printed earrings are designed to catch your Apple Airpods if they fall out 

  13-10-2016 14:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The comical earrings are the work of Maryland-based 3D printer firm M3D. The blueprints can be downloaded from online 3D-printable design community site Thingiverse.
  
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• Hungarian 'cyborg' reveals how he can hack security doors with just a wave of his hand

  13-10-2016 14:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage taken in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, shows a man having the device inserted in his hand before showing how it can expose flaws in everyday security systems.
  
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• Is this the world's oldest observatory? Australian rock formation may have been built 5,000 years earlier than Stonehenge

  13-10-2016 14:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts believe the ancient circle of basalt stones, located southwest of Melbourne, may have been used by Aborigines to track the movement of the sun thousands of years ago.
  
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• PlayStation VR review: can it compete against HTC Vive and Oculus?

  13-10-2016 14:00
  
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• Why a lack of sleep makes us depressed: Expert reveals how you can combat sleeping problems to prevent the blues 

  13-10-2016 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over the past decade or so it has become increasingly clear that disturbed sleep often comes before an episode of depression, says Alice Gregory, a professor of psychology at the University of London.
  
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• Lethal 'death cap' mushrooms on the rise in the UK

  13-10-2016 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An expert from the British Mycological Society and a professor at Cardiff University warns of increasing reports of toxic death cap mushrooms this year.
  
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• Almost 6,000 online shops hit by hackers

  13-10-2016 13:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research.
  
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• Playbuzz math question leaves the Internet stumped

  13-10-2016 13:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A maths-based puzzle - which seems relatively simple at first glance - has been driving people up the wall.
  
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• Norwegian doctor believes there is a link between digit length and mental health

  13-10-2016 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carl Pintzka, a medical doctor and researcher at the National Competence Service for Functional MRI in Trondheim, Norway wanted to see what features are correlated with different finger ratios.
  
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• Revealed: 1,000-year-old remains of strangled dogs are found buried next to skeletons of slain warriors in Peru

  13-10-2016 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains were uncovered beneath the Park of Legends zoo in Peru's capital city Lima. Before it was a zoo, the park was a sacred site or at least three ancient civilisations.
  
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