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• Experts reveal the secretive war apps being used to defeat ISIS in Mosul

  19-10-2016 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Threat-Defeat Organization has developed a suite of apps to help detect hidden improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and keep soldiers connected.
  
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• Google signs up CBS for Internet TV service -sources

  19-10-2016 22:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The service, which will be part of Google's YouTube Platform, is expected to launch in the first quarter and will include all of CBS' content, including live NFL games, one of the sources said.
  
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• Russian statue in Siberia underwent medieval 'plastic surgery' to appear more Asian and less European

  19-10-2016 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An ancient sculpture in Siberia, Russia, is believed to have undergone 'racially realignment', to better resemble migrating Asians who had moved into the area.
  
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• Has Adult FriendFinder been hacked AGAIN? Two hackers claim they've breached the database, putting 73 million users at risk

  19-10-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Security experts warn this could be a ‘complete end-to-end compromise,’ with potential to expose 73 million users of the hookup site and leak employees’ personal information.
  
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• 'Zika mosquito' eggs found near Folkestone in Kent

  19-10-2016 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The eggs of a mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases, including the Zika virus, are found for the first time in the UK.
  
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• 2 San Francisco-area earthquake faults found to be connected

  19-10-2016 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hayward and neighboring Rodgers Creek faultsare 188 miles long combined - and if they broke simultaneouslythey could produce a magnitude 7.4 quake, researcher have warned.
  
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• Robo-journalists could soon be writing sports reports in the UK

  19-10-2016 21:00
  
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• Interactive star chart shows Europe's royal ancestral connections over a millennium 

  19-10-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Royal Constellations was created by Nadieh Bremer, an astronomer-turned-designer from Amsterdam who was interested in seeing how 10 of the current royal leaders could be connected.
  
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• An ancient group in Africa used heat to create sharper tools 70,000 years ago

  19-10-2016 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence of humans using fire to produce tools at Klipdrift Shelter, a recently discovered Stone Age site on the southern Cape of South Africa.
  
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• Monkeys make 'tools' in a similar way to our ancestors

  19-10-2016 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bearded capuchin monkeys were observed breaking flakes off stones by researchers from the University of Oxford, at Serra da Capivara National Park in Brazil.
  
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• Mammoth tooth that may be 3 million years old washes up on the Essex coast

  19-10-2016 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The giant tooth was found at the the Naze on the Essex coast. While some experts say the tooth could be up to three million years old, one believes it may be much younger, at around 50,000 years old.
  
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• University of Alabama researchers discover mystery flares in the Milky Way

  19-10-2016 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The data was captured a decade ago by the Chandra x-ray observatory, but remained in the archive until it was discovered by a team led by researchers at the University of Alabama.
  
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• Georgia Tech researchers reveal the 'lurking malice' in major services

  19-10-2016 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of repositories across 20 major cloud services are actively providing malware, including phishing, ‘drive-by downloads,’ and fake sites, according to a study from Georgia Tech.
  
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• Robot arm flies aircraft over US

  19-10-2016 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A robotic arm that can help fly an aircraft has been designed by engineers in Virginia.
  
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• Why old people can't hear in a crowded room: Researchers reveal ageing brains struggle to process multiple sounds

  19-10-2016 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Maryland say older people find it hard to follow conversations not because they can’t hear, but because their brain needs longer to process information.
  
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• Pro-Clinton bots 'fought back but outnumbered in second debate'

  19-10-2016 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study says more tweets were posted by suspected bots in favour of Clinton and Trump in the second presidential debate.
  
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• Facebook adds food ordering feature

  19-10-2016 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook has partnered with sites including delivery.com, Fandangoand Ticketmaster to offer sales straight from its pages for the first time.
  
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• Stone Age people 'roasted rodents for food' - archaeologists

  19-10-2016 18:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Voles appear to have been roasted for food by Neolithic people living on Orkney 5,000 years ago, archaeological evidence shows.
  
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• How Europe's royalty is related: Interactive chart shows family connections over the past 1,000 years

  19-10-2016 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Royal Constellations was created by Nadieh Bremer, an astronomer-turned-designer from Amsterdam who was interested in seeing how 10 of the current royal leaders could be connected.
  
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• The 10 most talked about foods online

  19-10-2016 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Coffee, beer and pizza were all featured as some of the most popular foods and drinks on Twitter in the US last year, researchers from the University of Utah found.
  
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• The breathtaking winning entries in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

  19-10-2016 17:22
  
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• Lewis Hamilton joins Call of Duty's pit crew

  19-10-2016 17:22
  
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• Swiss beat UK's BT to next-gen G.fast broadband

  19-10-2016 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Switzerland is the first country in Europe to deliver so-called ultrafast broadband to customers through traditional copper infrastructure, according to service provider Swisscom.
  
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• Apple hires its first director of AI Ruslan Salakhutdinov

  19-10-2016 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ruslan Salakhutdinov from the Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh is joining Apple to head up its AI department.
  
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• This £20,000 chair is designed to make you feel weightless

  19-10-2016 16:00
  
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• Amazon patents an Alexa-powered drone assistant

  19-10-2016 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seattle-based Amazon has revealed plans for a tiny 'unmanned aerial vehicle assistant', which could launch from a dock on a policeman's microphone. It could also be used to help people find parking spots.
  
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• GCHQ puzzle book will find out if you're smart enough to be James Bond

  19-10-2016 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GCHQ, the Government's listening post, based in Cheltenham, is releasing its first puzzle collection, as well as a Sudoku and picture board conundrum for its competition.
  
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• Venus may STILL have active volcanoes and shows signs of recent lava flows

  19-10-2016 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) lab in Berlin used radar data collected by Nasa's Magellan space probe combined with ESA's Venus Express mission data.
  
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• Chemists accidentally discover a way to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol

  19-10-2016 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol.
  
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• The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 winners

  19-10-2016 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Natural History Museum today announced the winners of its Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 awards in London, with entrants exploring the frail relationship between humans and animals.
  
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• Clearest image ever taken of star system with 6 MILLION miles an hour winds

  19-10-2016 14:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incredible new image was captured using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), located at the ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
  
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• Icy world with a bizarre 20,000-year orbit could lead the way to Planet Nine

  19-10-2016 14:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team at the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (Ossos) in Canada, France and Hawaii, have found that L91 has a strange orbit which takes it far away from the sun.
  
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• Three new 'nauts launched to the International Space Station

  19-10-2016 14:11 via go.theregister.com
  
  Floating space lab will back up to full capacity Three new astronauts are due to board the International Space Station, after blasting off to space this morning.…
  
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• British F1 champion Lewis Hamilton joins Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare cast

  19-10-2016 13:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 31-year-old racing driver will play the role of an engineer onboard the Retribution in Infinite Warfare.
  
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• Sat-nav update 'to prevent stuck lorries'

  19-10-2016 13:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A multi-million pound sat-nav project seeks to stop lorries getting stuck on UK roads.
  
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• Instagram's new tool offers support to people with mental health issues

  19-10-2016 13:27
  
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• The moment of truth: Europe's Schiaparelli robot prepares to land on Mars today in a DUST STORM

  19-10-2016 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A small probe could make history by becoming the first European spacecraft to survive a landing on Mars. The spacecraft is controlled from the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
  
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• Soyuz rocket carrying crew of 3 Russians and 1 American blasts off from Baikonur

  19-10-2016 13:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The crew left Earth from a Roscosmos facility in the steppes of Kazakhstan early this morning (pictured). They will join an expedition trio from the US, Russia and Japan, already aboard the ISS.
  
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• Tinder Boost update puts your profile at the top of the swipe list (but you have to pay)

  19-10-2016 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The update to the dating app was announced earlier month. Following testing in Australia, it is now being rolled out worldwide in the coming days. The price of the service has yet to be announced.
  
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• This luxury Pikachu watch will set you back £20,000

  19-10-2016 12:50
  
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• Is WWI submarine wreckage the U-boat 'sunk by a Loch Ness monster?

  19-10-2016 12:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Almost a century after UB-85 vanished beneath the waves, marine engineers believe they may have stumbled across the 148ft wreck off Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
  
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• You may soon be able to buy broadband from Amazon Prime

  19-10-2016 12:16
  
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• Chemists accidentally turn carbon dioxide to ethanol in breakthrough study

  19-10-2016 12:11
  
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• Ecuador confirms it 'temporarily' shut off Julian Assange's internet

  19-10-2016 12:02
  
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• WIRED2016: Speakers

  19-10-2016 11:47
  
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• Chinese state media call for 'correct' use of social media stickers

  19-10-2016 11:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chinese state media has called for regulation on emojis and stickers as a crackdown on the country's internet continues. Many people have criticised the article published on October 15.
  
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• Singapore will begin trials on self-driving buses to promote public transport

  19-10-2016 11:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Self-driving buses will soon begin testing in Singapore, in the hopes of dealing with the challenges posed by its limited land and labour. It is unclear when the trial will begin.
  
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• Football Manager: 'From hard to soft Brexit'

  19-10-2016 11:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sports Interactive's Ciaran Brennan explains the Brexit scenarios in Football Manager 2017
  
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• Ancient fire at Tel Megiddo leveled city in modern-day Israel in 3 HOURS

  19-10-2016 11:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Haifa University believe the findings offer a window into not only how Megiddo was destroyed, but how fires affected other historical mud brick settlements.
  
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• Stone Age people feasted on RODENTS as reveal in vole fossils from 5,000 years ago

  19-10-2016 11:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers led by archaeologists at the National Museums of Scotland, were trying to find out what humans used rodents for in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae, Orkney.
  
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