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• National Geographic's stunning Mars miniseries includes Elon Musk interview

  24-10-2016 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Set both in 2033 and in the present day, it will feature experts such as Elon Musk explaining exactly what it will take to get to the red planet.
  
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• US changes toddler screen time advice

  24-10-2016 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Until now the American Academy of Paediatrics has recommended that children under two have no screen time at all.
  
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• Smartwatch sales tumble, dragged down by Apple

  24-10-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Global smartwatch sales slid 51.6 percent in the third quarter, amid a steep decline for the Apple Watch ahead of its updated device, a market tracker has found.
  
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• Babies should sleep with parents for a YEAR to avoid sleep-related deaths, new guidelines say

  24-10-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ideally, babies should stay in their parents' room at night for a full year, according to new recommendations released today by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
  
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• Apple's Portrait Mode has arrived. Here's how to use it

  24-10-2016 22:20
  
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• Our brains lose their youthful firmness and become 'slacker' as we get older

  24-10-2016 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Newcastle University say that while more work is needed, monitoring the brain for changes in folding could help to spot premature ageing of the cortex and even brain disease.
  
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• Scuba diver Christian Hauser encounters a massive jellyfish while diving in Mexico 

  24-10-2016 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A remarkable video of the majestic white jellyfish was taken about 50ft deep under the water near Majahuitas Beach in Puerto Vallarta by the diver, Christian Hauser.
  
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• Exercise IS good for your brain: Boosting muscle strength can help stave off dementia

  24-10-2016 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia found that the improvement in cognition function in seen in a group of patients over 55 was related to their gains from weight training.
  
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• Texas robot team defeats Australian counterparts in China showdown

  24-10-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An American team of robots defeated an Australian rival in soccer on Monday to win the RoboCup Challenge as technical problems plagued the Australian side.
  
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• Instagram set to launch live video streaming to take on Snapchat

  24-10-2016 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Screenshots published by a Russian news site suggest Instagram is testing a live video feature. The shots display a live functionality in Instagram Stories with the bright red banner 'LIVE'.
  
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• Is this Larry Page's secret flying car? First images emerge of radical electric vehicle

  24-10-2016 20:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The zee.aero prototype has been spotted at the firm's secretive test lab in Hollister, and was spotted because of its strange shape, odd electrical motor noise, and ability to hover.
  
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• Twitter, Spotify and Reddit are among major sites taken offline in massive cyber attack

  24-10-2016 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A massive co-ordinated series of cyber attacks forced hundreds of major websites including Amazon and Twitter offline Friday - and some fear the security breach could be 'practice for election day'.
  
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• ESA confirms NO signal has been received from Schiaparelli from ExoMars

  24-10-2016 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, says it still has not received any signal from its experimental Mars lander since shortly before it was meant to reach the red planet's surface.
  
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• A voyage of Discovery: a look back at one of Nasa's most important space shuttles

  24-10-2016 20:00
  
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• Mystery as Nasa images show area has changed from blue to gold in just four years

  24-10-2016 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These two natural colour images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn's north polar region between 2012 and 2016, showing a clear change from blue to gold.
  
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• Miniature 3D printed organ could one day put an end to animal testing

  24-10-2016 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built the organ-on-a-chip using a new automated digital manufacturing technique.
  
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• Nasa is working on aircraft with wings that FOLD while flying

  24-10-2016 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers from Nasa’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California are develop the concept for aircraft in flight, called the spanwise adaptive wing (SAW) to be tested on a prototype (pictured).
  
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• Groundbreaking picture was taken 70 years ago today by a camera carried on a Nazi rocket 

  24-10-2016 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taken at an altitude of 65 miles (104km) by a Devry 35-millimetre camera, the black-and-white image reveals the Earth’s curvature and shows a sweep of cloud cover over the American Southwest.
  
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• Apple will unveil THREE new MacBooks on October 27th

  24-10-2016 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  analysts KGI say it will see the launch of three new machines -  a new 13 inch MacBook, a new 13 inch MacBook Pro and a new 15 inch MacBook Pro.
  
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• The Black Sea's treasures revealed

  24-10-2016 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (Black Sea MAP) involves an international team, led by the University of Southampton's Centre for Maritime Archaeology.
  
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• Apple's iPod device turns 15-years-old but the firm forgets to celebrate

  24-10-2016 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In October 2001, Steve Jobs unveiled the first ever iPod. The decision not to celebrate its birthday may have been a conscious effort by Apple not to promote a device no longer listed
  
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• Watch Dogs 2 is masterful, astute and finally lives up to the original's promise

  24-10-2016 18:46
  
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• Little white lies 'desensitise our brains to dishonesty', UCL researchers find

  24-10-2016 18:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study from University College London found that the amygdala, a part of the brain associated with emotion, was most active when people first lied for personal gain.
  
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• Teen hackers study considers link to addiction

  24-10-2016 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study for Europol suggests efforts to stop young people hacking could learn from anti-addiction efforts.
  
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• Mystery of begonia's bizarre BLUE leaves solved: Metallic colour allows the plant to harvest more light

  24-10-2016 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers, from Bristol University, found the leaves only develop this colour when put in almost dark conditions - and in bright light the sheen slowly disappears.
  
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• Activision Blizzard is planning an Overwatch esports league

  24-10-2016 18:11
  
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• Game's PlayStation VR demo charges spark anger

  24-10-2016 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gamers have complained about video game retailer Game's decision to charge for demos of Sony's new PlayStation Virtual Reality headset.
  
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• Little white lies are NOT as innocent as you think: Over time, small fibs may desensitise our brains to dishonesty

  24-10-2016 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study from University College London found that the amygdala, a part of the brain associated with emotion, was most active when people first lied for personal gain.
  
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• Gravitational lensing event could provide ideal conditions for planet hunting

  24-10-2016 17:35 via go.theregister.com
  
  Astronomers will have to wait until 2028, according to predictions A rare gravitational lensing event will give researchers a precious chance at hunting new planets in Alpha Centauri in 2028, astronomers have predicted.…
  
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• Does the iPhone have a ONE-HANDED keyboard?

  24-10-2016 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Steve Troughton-Smith, a developer from Ireland, discovered the feature while using an iOS Simulator. It is unclear why Apple has not made the feature readily available.
  
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• The more we lie, the easier it is for our brains to be increasingly more deceitful

  24-10-2016 17:14
  
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• This 'heart on a chip' could finally spell the end for animal testing

  24-10-2016 17:00
  
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• Rare line-up of stars predicted for 2028 could reveal alien life on other planets

  24-10-2016 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Southern Observatory has predicted a very rare 'gravitational lensing event' which will see Earth-like planets orbiting the stars closest to our own solar system.
  
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• Blogger Luminita Saviuc reveals the 15 things you need to give up to be happy

  24-10-2016 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Romanian blogger and happiness guru Luminita Saviuc has identified the 14 things you need to give up in order to be content in life, including fear, excuses and self-limiting beliefs.
  
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• Chinese firm recalls webcams used in last week's massive cyber attack

  24-10-2016 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last week's web outage which took down sites including Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, both in the US and UK was thought to be the result of a DDoS attack using hijacked smart devices (stock image)
  
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• The universe may have a 'self-destruct button' that could WIPE OUT life in an instant - and we wouldn’t see it coming

  24-10-2016 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An animated video from Munich-based YouTube science explainers Kurzgesagt explores the potentially universe-ending theory of vacuum decay, which could end existence in an instant.
  
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• The ways your office desk, screen and where you sit could be ageing you

  24-10-2016 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dermatologists have shared the ways your office environment could be adding years to your face - and they will shock you.
  
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• Double your Pokémon Go Candy with the Halloween update

  24-10-2016 16:08
  
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• Newly discovered cave-dwelling creepy-crawly is four times the man* you are

  24-10-2016 15:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  Millipede possesses a tetrad of todgers. Oh, and 200 poison glands Scientists have discovered a new species of millipede with four penises lurking deep within the crystal cave of Sequoia National Park.…
  
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• Facebook will now consider 'public interest' before removing controversial posts

  24-10-2016 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The social network will allow certain posts to be made gloablly., even if they violate its community standards. It said the posts will be judged on whether they are newsworthy.
  
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• Earth enters a 'new era' in climate change as CO2 reaches a historic threshold - but is El Niño to blame?

  24-10-2016 15:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The longest established greenhouse gas monitoring station in the world, at Mauna Loa in Hawaii, predicts carbon dioxide will stay above the symbolic 400ppm for the whole of 2016.
  
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• Lost SNES pixel art shows Rayman as you've never seen him before

  24-10-2016 14:35
  
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• Mystery of Tibet's twin avalanches is unravelled

  24-10-2016 14:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The two avalanches happened just two months apart and just a few miles away from each other in the Aru Range of Tibet.
  
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• Pacific islanders may carry the DNA of an unknown human species

  24-10-2016 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings, presented at a meeting in Vancouver, bolsters previous findings that there may be another strand to the human story, with people from Papua New Guinea (pictured) carrying ancient DNA.
  
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• The Great Repeal Bill is under threat by Grant Shapps and his 'sunset clause'

  24-10-2016 14:05
  
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• Your brain on cannabis: 3D image provides the clearest picture yet of the human marijuana receptor

  24-10-2016 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team, led by the iHuman Institute at ShanghaiTech University, used a molecule that made the receptor freeze for long enough that they could see its molecular structure.
  
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• Sony unveils its £1,000 point-and-shoot RX100 V camera

  24-10-2016 13:40
  
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• Gallery: Sony's RX100 V camera

  24-10-2016 13:34
  
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• Can you spot all 60 well-known brand names in this brainteaser?

  24-10-2016 13:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cryptic puzzle contains 60 images representing brand and companies. While some are easy, other rely on your ability to decipher visual puns. Can you solve all 60 successfully?
  
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• Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled

  24-10-2016 13:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Home webcams that were hijacked to help knock popular websites offline last week are being recalled in the US.
  
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