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• Sonoran Desert violent burials 4,000 years ago 'sent a message to enemies'

  26-10-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists with the University of Arizona unearthed bodies which indicate brutal treatment both before and after death, thrown haphazardly into their graves in 'continued desecration.'
  
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• Superbatteries based on human body set to power your phone revealed by Beijing researchers

  26-10-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Cambridge createda lithium-sulfur battery with structures (pictured) like the finger-like projections that line the intestines in order to hinder battery degradation.
  
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• Why women get more headaches than men and how they can be triggered

  26-10-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report released this week found that British women are twice as likely to suffer from headaches as men - with 15.8 per cent of women, compared to 8.2 per cent of men, reporting chronic pain.
  
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• Apple admits AirPod 'needs a little more time' to perfect $159 wireless headphones

  26-10-2016 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple said 'we don't believe in shipping a product before it's ready, and we need a little more time before AirPods are ready for our customers.' They were scheduled to go on sale in 'late October'.
  
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• Air steward Gaetan Dugas blamed for AIDS epidemic in US did NOT start HIV spread

  26-10-2016 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gaetan Dugas, a French-Canadian gay man, was posthumously labelled 'Patient Zero' by an unsympathetic media and accused of being responsible for the spread of HIV across the US.
  
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• Stone Age man killing cave lions for pelts may have led to their extinction

  26-10-2016 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of experts led by Marián Cueto from the University of Cantabria, Spain, examined nine fossilised cave lion toe bones from the Upper Palaeolithic cave site of La Garma, in northern Spain.
  
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• MRI scans reveal how child molesters may be wired differently

  26-10-2016 21:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, say the findings could help predict whether or not a paedophile might go on to offend (pictured is a stock image).
  
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• Everything we know about Netflix's production of The Punisher

  26-10-2016 21:00
  
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• Astronomers spot triple star system being born

  26-10-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings come from a new study, involving researchers at the University of Oklahoma, which found a disc of cosmic dust fragmenting due to gravitational instability (pictured).
  
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• Expert says Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons are the 'new reality'

  26-10-2016 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Military expert Vasily Kashin warns that Russia, China, and the US, along with India and Iran will likely soon have ‘domestically-made sophisticated anti-satellite weapons.'
  
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• Apple to launch THREE versions of the iPhone 8

  26-10-2016 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Nikkei , there will be one premium model with a curved edge-to-edge OLED display alongside two models that have standard LCD displays.
  
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• You are not watching a live feed from space

  26-10-2016 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Misleading "live" video from the International Space Station stuns the internet.
  
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• Facebook Live space walk fools millions

  26-10-2016 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Misleading "live" video from the International Space Station stuns the internet.
  
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• Researchers say 1.6 million wealthiest Americans actually run medium sized family firms

  26-10-2016 20:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Concordia University reveals the typical one percent household's wealth doesn't measure up to those on the Forbes rich lists. These people are usually owners of family-run businesses.
  
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• Does this finally end the 'breast is best' debate? Scientists develop the first formula milk with human bacteria

  26-10-2016 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Complex sugars naturally found in breast milk which feed good bacteria in an infant's gut can also be put into formula, researchers from US-based healthcare company Abbott found.
  
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• Do YOU have asthma? Scientists say a tropical parasite that causes stomach bugs could hold the cure

  26-10-2016 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A protein produced by the hookworm - a common cause of stomach infections - relieved breathing difficulties in mice, scientists from James Cook University, Australia, found.
  
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• UK minister promises science budget won't be messed with after Brexit

  26-10-2016 19:21 via go.theregister.com
  
  Ambitious pledges ahead of Article 50 negotiations Universities and science minister Jo Johnson has promised that the UK government will not "dip into the ringfence" of the allocated science budget to underwrite EU funding following the UK's departure from the European Union.…
  
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• President Obama ridiculed on Snapchat by daughter Sasha

  26-10-2016 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president says his 15-year-old daughter Sasha mocked him on Snapchat in a message to friends.
  
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• Stunning image shows what the universe would look like if human eyes could see radio waves

  26-10-2016 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New images reveal the universe in stunning radio colour, with the Milky Way standing out as just one of more than 300,000 galaxies observed in one of the biggest radio sky surveys ever assembled.
  
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• Browsing activity online could reveal your true identity to hackers

  26-10-2016 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Princeton and Stanford Universities were able to identify people from anonymous internet data with a worrying degree of accuracy.
  
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• Windows 10 update and Surface Studio PC unveiled

  26-10-2016 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft details a new version of Windows that adds 3D-creation tools and a new all-in-one desktop PC.
  
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• HIV Patient Zero cleared by science

  26-10-2016 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the most demonised patients in history - Gaetan Dugas - has been convincingly cleared of reports he spread HIV to the US, say scientists.
  
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• Microsoft unveils its folding desktop – the £2,500 Surface Studio

  26-10-2016 18:38
  
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• Microsoft reveals new range of VR headsets

  26-10-2016 18:35
  
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• The drone designed to fly on one propeller

  26-10-2016 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Spencer Kelly finds out why a drone with one propeller was created.
  
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• Inside the brain of a paedophile: MRI scans reveal how child molesters may be wired differently

  26-10-2016 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, say the findings could help predict whether or not a paedophile might go on to offend (pictured is a stock image).
  
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• Microsoft unveils Surface Studio, its first all-in-one desktop PC alongside the 'most powerful Surface Book ever' 

  26-10-2016 18:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new $3,000 all in one PC boasts a touchscreen and a new 'dial controller with Haptic feedback. It was unveiled alongside a new 'creators edition' of Windows 10 which includes VR capabilities.
  
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• Video highlights from WIRED2015: Next Generation

  26-10-2016 18:06
  
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• Wet wipes are wreaking havoc on the environment: Water firms call for 'do not flush' labels to prevent fatbergs

  26-10-2016 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based Water UK has penned an open letter to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, urging it to conduct a full investigation into the damage caused by wet wipes.
  
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• Tinder wants to get millennials swiping right in the US Presidential election

  26-10-2016 18:00
  
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• The top Android security apps to keep your phone and tablet safe

  26-10-2016 18:00
  
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• Does Facebook's facial scanning technology violate privacy law?

  26-10-2016 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A lawsuit filed in Illinois in May under the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Facebook previously argued to have it dismissed but judges said that the case should go ahead.
  
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• Stephen Port told victim's partner 'I hope he wasn't murdered'

  26-10-2016 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man on trial for killing four gay men contacted the boyfriend of one victim on Facebook saying "I hope he wasn't murdered", a jury hears.
  
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• Yahoo scanning order unlikely to be made public -sources

  26-10-2016 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US officials say attempts by other members of Congress to learn more about the Yahoo order are unlikely to meet with success anytime soon due it being a to national security matter.
  
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• WIRED2016: Next Generation partners

  26-10-2016 16:59
  
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• Bizarre optical illusion of shiny legs divides social media

  26-10-2016 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An image of a pair of lady's legs has gone viral on Twitter after users struggled to figure out what was deceiving about the limbs.
  
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• WIRED2016: Next Generation workshops

  26-10-2016 16:44
  
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• Study reveals newborn girls can handle stress BETTER than boys

  26-10-2016 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study from the University of Granada looked at babies born to 56 mothers and analysed blood samples for signs of oxidative stress (stock image used).
  
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• Rise of the photon clones: New method could lead to 'impenetrable' comms

  26-10-2016 16:21 via go.theregister.com
  
  New tech aims to boost security and range of quantum cryptography Physicists have produced "near-perfect" clones of quantum information that can be used to send and retrieve information securely over long distances through quantum cryptography.…
  
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• Tributes to Scottish scientist who died in Antarctica snowmobile accident

  26-10-2016 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of a scientist who died in Antarctica in a snowmobile accident pay tribute to him.
  
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• Grand Theft Auto maker targets cheats

  26-10-2016 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rockstar Games is cracking down on people who cheat on GTA 5, by draining money from their in-game accounts.
  
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• The Beatles, migrants, and sexism: the shortlist for Kantar's Information is Beautiful Awards

  26-10-2016 16:00
  
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• Apple's next MacBook Pro could ditch function buttons for a 'Magic Toolbar'

  26-10-2016 15:55
  
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• Apple set to unveil its MacBook Pro with 'Magic Toolbar' later. Watch the live stream

  26-10-2016 15:55
  
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• Apple reveals thinnest, lightest Macbook Pro with interactive Touch Bar

  26-10-2016 15:55
  
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• 'Alien megastructure' 1,400 light years away will be looked at for signs of life by Stephen Hawking's £80m Breakthrough Listen project

  26-10-2016 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As part of the SETI project to speed up the search for alien signals, a team of astronomers in the US will recruit a huge telescope in West Virginia to study distant star KIC 8462852 more closely.
  
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• Mosquito army released in Zika fight in Brazil & Colombia

  26-10-2016 15:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists are planning to release millions of modified mosquitoes in urban areas of Brazil and Colombia, in an effort to tackle Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses.
  
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• IBM Watson is about to make Slack's chat bot smarter

  26-10-2016 15:06
  
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• Can women read sexual cues better than men?

  26-10-2016 15:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Iowa found that physical attractiveness plays a much larger role in how men make quick judgments, while women are more likely to pick up on style and emotions.
  
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• Couple start building three-bed home with just £500 on Grand Designs

  26-10-2016 14:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jasmine and Simon Dale who feature in this week's Grand Designs have built a three-bed eco-home in Pembrokshire for just £27,000, using reclaimed materials and purchases from eBay.
  
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