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• Amazon new Rapids app shows stories in the style of a messaging app

  02-11-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon has developed an app both parents and kids will like. Called Rapids, it presents interactive stories and colorful illustrations in a way that looks like the characters are texting each other.
  
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• 'Terror management' study finds thinking about mortality can boost performance

  02-11-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Arizona found that introducing the concept of death led the participants to strive to boost their ‘protective self-esteem, resulting in better performance.
  
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• Forecasters say Polar vortex could hit US in January

  02-11-2016 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts say the Polar Vortex that hit in 2014 is set to make a comeback, but it won't be as severe. Climatologists say the polar vortex is weakening early and could hit in January.
  
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• Apple reveals record orders for new MacBook Pro

  02-11-2016 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's Phil Schiller told The Independent he was been shocked by the response when it was revealed the firm had killed off a host of technologies from USB ports to the SD Card slot.
  
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• Pupils find out results of ISS space seeds experiment

  02-11-2016 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of school children have been helping to carry out experiments to see whether seeds that have been in space grow as well as those that have stayed on Earth.
  
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• NASA unveils the first global maps of human-made carbon dioxide emissions

  02-11-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The maps use data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and focus on three of Earth’s highest-emitting regions: the eastern United States, central Europe, and East Asia.
  
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• Facebook reports better-than-expected rise in revenue

  02-11-2016 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook said about 1.79 billion people were using its site monthly as of Sept. 30, up 16 percent from a year earlier. More than 90 percent access the social network through mobile devices.
  
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• Uber overhauls its app - and now lets you order a takeaway and control the music

  02-11-2016 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uber unveiled its biggest redesign since 2012 that ispacked with new features in Uber feed to keep riders engaged with the app, including Yelp reviews, Pandora stations and even special Snapchat filters.
  
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• Bizarre 'face stealing' specs can fool AIs into thinking you are someone else

  02-11-2016 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University developed glasses that allow the wearer to dodge facial recognition or impersonate another person - even Milla Jovovich.
  
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• US Army to test radical 'Iron Man' bullet-proof liquid armour

  02-11-2016 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (Talos) would effectively give its wearer superpowers, such as the ability to see in the dark, super-human strength and a way of deflecting bullets.
  
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• Facebook blocks Admiral's car insurance discount plan

  02-11-2016 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook blocks an insurer's plan to view young drivers' profiles to set car insurance premiums.
  
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• Aberdeen Bestiary's secrets revealed in 800-year-old book owned by Henry VIII

  02-11-2016 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The book has been digitally enhanced by researchers at the University of Aberdeen, and published online for the first time in high definition, revealing key details previously unseen.
  
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• How to hack your memory and remember almost anything

  02-11-2016 19:48
  
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• Microsoft Teams brings Slack-style messages to Office 365

  02-11-2016 19:39
  
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• Terminator-style robots are a step closer: Circuit boards that REPAIR themselves could lead to self-healing machines

  02-11-2016 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed self-healing batteries and electrochemical sensors using the new state-of-the-art ink.
  
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• Re-writing Australia's history: Humans may have settled in the country 10,000 years earlier than thought

  02-11-2016 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from La Trobe University in Melbourne analysed material discovered during an excavation at Warratyi rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
  
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• LinkedIn, Glassdoor add tools to reveal your pay potential

  02-11-2016 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LinkedIn can now show its more than 460 million users how their income stacks up against the competition. Itis based on anonymized data submitted by members.
  
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• Gawker settles Hulk Hogan privacy case for $31m

  02-11-2016 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The defunct US news website Gawker settles a privacy lawsuit won by retired wrestler Hulk Hogan.
  
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• The genetic secrets behind bad sleep have been revealed by new research

  02-11-2016 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using genetic screens on the mice, researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center tried to better understand sleep defects, finding two interesting mutants (stock image)
  
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• Microsoft Teams challenges work chat rival Slack

  02-11-2016 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft unveils a workplace chat tool that resembles Slack, a popular app from a Canadian start-up.
  
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• Rock shelter used by speedy early Australians

  02-11-2016 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The swiftness with which the first Aboriginal settlers spread across Australia is underlined by the discovery of an ancient rock shelter north of Adelaide.
  
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• Tim Peake schools seed experiment results released

  02-11-2016 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The results of a mass schools experiment led by Tim Peake have been released.
  
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• DNA clues to how chipmunk earned its stripes

  02-11-2016 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New research suggests chipmunks and a type of mouse evolved stripes early in their evolution, which may have given them an advantage in outwitting predators.
  
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• Gear WIRED loves: innovative ways to serve your favourite drinks

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
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• 40,000-year-old tools used by Stone Age artisans to create body paint are found in an Ethiopian cave

  02-11-2016 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Bordeaux analysed 21 ancient tools (pictured) taken from Porc Epic, an important cave site near the city of Dire Dawa in Ethiopia.
  
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• Facepalm emoji, farewell Vine: Podcast 292

  02-11-2016 18:15
  
  2016 gets the emoji it deserves, a fond farewell to Vine and controversy over car insurance based on your Facebook posts
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• Elon Musk is 'risking astronauts lives' experts warn NASA

  02-11-2016 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of space industry experts that advises NASA sais the rockets, which Nasa hopes to use to ferry astronauts to the ISS, poses safety risks for.
  
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• Dramatic Nasa images show the staggering loss of ice at the south pole

  02-11-2016 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IceBridge, a project Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland,is currently flying a set of 12-hour research flights over West Antarctica, including land and sea ice.
  
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• The TUMI x WIRED Innovation in Travel Awards

  02-11-2016 17:51
  
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• Customers are more than just data. IBM Watson is helping brands see people in the numbers

  02-11-2016 17:38
  
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• How did that get there? Curiosity rover discovers a strange 'Egg Rock' METAL meteorite on Mars

  02-11-2016 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using its ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager, a long-distance, laser-guided camera aboard the rover, Curiosity captured several detailed close-ups of the strange object.
  
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• Cancer survivor becomes the first person to get 3D printed face created using SMARTPHONE

  02-11-2016 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Rodrigo Salazar from Paulista University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, performed the procedure on Carlito Conceiçao, after a tumour ravaged a hole in his cheek.
  
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• The science of humor: Researcher reveal the misfortune of others is key to a good gag

  02-11-2016 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From ancient Greece to today, many thinkers have yearned to understand what makes us laugh. Now, an experts from Tufts University discusses humor theories and what deems a joke funny.
  
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• How VR and the CD-ROM have more in common than you might think

  02-11-2016 17:00
  
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• British Airways to offer wi-fi on short-haul flights

  02-11-2016 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British Airways will offer wi-fi internet access on short-haul flights from 2017, owner IAG says.
  
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• Robots are stealing far more jobs than foreign workers, researchers say

  02-11-2016 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite Donald Trump's charge that 'we don't make anything anymore,' manufacturing is still flourishing in the US. But, factories now don't need as many people due to the rise of machines.
  
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• Earth's shadow masks our view of an asteroid as it travels 'very close' to the planet

  02-11-2016 16:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The close call last night was an asteroid called 2016 VA, that was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Sky Survey in Arizona. It swept past at a distance of 46,600 miles.
  
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• Three ways hackers can invade your home

  02-11-2016 16:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Even your kettle could give them a way in, as cybersecurity expert Ken Munro explains.
  
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• Citizen journalism is playing a crucial role in Syria – but it comes at a cost

  02-11-2016 15:58
  
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• Drone-hacking cybersecurity boot camp launched in UK

  02-11-2016 15:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Budding cyberspies will learn how to hack into drones and crack codes at a new government-backed cybersecurity boot camp.
  
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• Why Windows hack is being blamed on Russia-linked group

  02-11-2016 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft says a notorious group of hackers are exploiting a flaw in its Windows operating system.
  
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• Nintendo adds amiibo support and new characters to Animal Crossing: New Leaf

  02-11-2016 14:57
  
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• Admiral car insurer to start checking your Facebook account before it sets your premiums

  02-11-2016 14:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Admiral, one of the largest insurance firms in the UK, will offer first-time buyers the chance to get a discount on their premiums by allowing the company to analyse their social media use.
  
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• Swiss coffee shop will use ROBOTS to give customers oral sex while they have a drink 

  02-11-2016 14:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The company behind the outlet, which is due to be up and running in Geneva by the end of the year, said they are considering using sex robots that cost up to £2,500 rather than real life prostitutes.
  
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• China plans to send commercial tour groups into space from 2025 

  02-11-2016 14:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chinese aerospace manufacturer, ChinaRocket, said it hoped to fly tourists to an altitude between 120 and 140 kilometres (75 and 87 miles) with a large space plane from 2025.
  
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• Watch as Earth's shadow masks our view of an unexpected asteroid as it travels 'very close' to the planet

  02-11-2016 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The close call last night was an asteroid called 2016 VA, that was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Sky Survey in Arizona. It swept past at a distance of 46,600 miles.
  
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• 'Tina the Turner' cheese robot helps keep the wheels of cheddar production in motion

  02-11-2016 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A father and son team at Westcombe Dairy in Somerset has adopted the robotic helper to meticulously tend to thousands of huge wheels of cheddar stacked 12 shelves high.
  
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• The 8 diet tips to increase your chances of having a baby

  02-11-2016 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Green leafy vegetables provide a great source of fibre for healthy digestion, which helps to prevent hormonal imbalances, says London-based nutritionist Henrietta Norton.
  
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• Facebook's Gameroom takes aim at Steam

  02-11-2016 13:24
  
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• Will iPhone of the future be FOLDABLE? Apple is awarded a patent for collapsible technology

  02-11-2016 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based Apple first began researching the technology in 2013, but the new patent suggests the firm is still serious about making foldable phones a reality in the future.
  
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