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• New York ATM keypads contain spoiled food to vaginal parasites that cause STDs

  16-11-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Swab samples from eight neighbourhoods across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, have revealed disturbing new insight on the unseen inhabitants of ATM keypads, including skin microbes, traces of food, and potentially disease-causing parasites.
  
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• Amazon's iOS app update gives customers X-Ray vision to tell what's in a delivery box

  16-11-2016 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is giving its customers x-ray vision to see inside their packages with a new feature called Package X-ray. Usersscan a barcode on the box with the app and the items will appear on the screen.
  
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• 'Hawk's eye view' of a rabbit being hunted down reveals raptors 'think like humans'

  16-11-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Haverford and New Jersey found the neural processes underlying visual search behavior in hawks were similar to those in humans.
  
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• BBC Planet's Earth II's hilarious 'flamingo ballet' shows birds getting ready for SEX

  16-11-2016 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An expert from the University of Exeter explores the fascinating world of flamingos that dance on frozen pools in the Andes to attract a mate and explains how they thrive in these conditions.
  
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• Highlights from WIRED Retail 2016

  16-11-2016 22:47
  
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• Gift Guide: Choosing a streaming device for Christmas without overpaying

  16-11-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ranging in price for $30 to over $100, streamers are big business - and choosing one can be confusing - with some TVs even coming with the required smarts built in.
  
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• When AR takes over we will all rent virtual diamonds and have AI personal shoppers at home

  16-11-2016 21:51
  
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• Researchers say BIRD POOP is helping to keep the Arctic cool by altering cloud formation

  16-11-2016 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Massive colonies of seabirds create an equally massive amount of waste, and Toronto scientists say it could be boosting the formation of low hanging clouds that reflect sunlight.
  
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• University of Nottingham study finds giant hissing cockroaches grow bigger testicles to mate

  16-11-2016 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Giant Magagascar hissing cockroaches face a tradeoff when it comes to their mating tactics, growing long horns to fight off other males or growing bigger testicles to improve the odds of fertilization.
  
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• Fergus Simpson warns that humankind has a one in 500 chance of being wiped out this year

  16-11-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fergus Simpson, a statistics expert from the University of Barcelona, warns that the annual risk of global catastrophe currently exceeds 0.2 per cent.
  
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• Researchers reveal 2.5-million-year-old teeth of our ancestors suggest they ate GRASS

  16-11-2016 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study from the University of Barcelona and the George Washington University in Washington, D.C aimed to investigate an earlier discrepancy in research.
  
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• Pluto 'has slushy ocean' below surface

  16-11-2016 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pluto may harbour a slushy water ocean beneath its most prominent surface feature, known as the "heart".
  
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• Westfield Labs wants to merge physical and digital shopping

  16-11-2016 20:30
  
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• Seawater's DNA secrets to life in the deep

  16-11-2016 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sampling DNA from seawater may be one way to check up on ocean life, according to research.
  
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• HIV breakthrough as scientists discover antibody that neutralizes 98% strains of the virus 

  16-11-2016 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strength and dynamism of the antibody - known as N6 - means it could be developed and re-purposed to treat and prevent HIV infections, according to a National Institutes of Health team.
  
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• DNA secrets to life in the deep

  16-11-2016 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sampling DNA from seawater may be one way to check up on ocean life, according to research.
  
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• Pluto's strange spin points to a subsurface sea and could be hiding an OCEAN

  16-11-2016 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two papers by the University of Arizona and UC Santa Cruz claim that a frozen nitrogen pile-up in the dwarf planet's heart-shaped region changed Pluto's tilt and hint at an ocean below its surface.
  
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• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg accounts are hacked for second time this year

  16-11-2016 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hacking group OurMine was able to change the Facebook CEO’s Pinterest bio on Tuesday, and has gained access to the password and phone number associated with his Twitter account.
  
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• Watching Strictly Come Dancing could make you more emotionally sensitive to your partner

  16-11-2016 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at City University in London, showed short video clips of ballet dancing to trained dancers and a control group, revealing trained dancers are more in tune with movements.
  
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• Infants' brains attuned to baby talk and nursery rhymes

  16-11-2016 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New research indicates that for brain connections to be properly formed in babies' brains, they need to feel safe, secure and loved.
  
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• China clamps down on Kim Jong-un 'fatty' jokes

  16-11-2016 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After - unverified - reports of a direct request by North Korea to China to stamp out nicknames referring to Kim Jong-un's weight, social media users are trying to get around the censors.
  
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• Mystery of London's killer fog in 1952 revealed in new analysis

  16-11-2016 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have pinpointed the chemical processes that combined with natural fog as a result of coal burning, eventually creating a deadly acidic haze that turned the sky completely dark.
  
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• Nintendo NES classic mini edition consoles selling for 5 TIMES real price on eBay

  16-11-2016 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Kyoto-based games firm announced the reissue of the classic 80s console earlier this year, but gamers have been bidding online way beyond the retail price to get their hands on one.
  
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• What is Alibaba? WIRED gets an insight into the retail giant's sprawling empire

  16-11-2016 19:01
  
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• Amulet was created with ancient technology that is STILL used by Nasa today

  16-11-2016 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The amulet was discovered in Mehragarh, Pakistan and analysed as part of a recent study by researchers from the Ipanema research centre near Paris, France.
  
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• Pluto's icy heart might be hiding a slushy ocean

  16-11-2016 19:00
  
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• Researchers reveal why we can best remember things that happen between 15-25

  16-11-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of international researchers explore the phenomenon called the reminiscence bump to understand why we best remember things that happened from between the ages of 15 to 25.
  
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• Google's AI could soon help you shop smarter and faster

  16-11-2016 18:51
  
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• Want to make your millions? Slack bots could hold the key

  16-11-2016 18:41
  
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• Metapixel Studio's rig is making full-body scans hyper-realistic

  16-11-2016 18:11
  
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• Facebook unveils new 'transparent' metrics site as it admits it got MORE sales data wrong

  16-11-2016 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two months after Facebook admitted it had inflated the time it told advertisers that users were watching their video ads, the company is promising better data to give buyers a clearer picture.
  
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• 'Shopping as we know it is dead': how the high street is going digital

  16-11-2016 18:05
  
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• Forget high streets, by 2030 everyone will be shopping in virtual reality

  16-11-2016 17:55
  
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• iPad apps can help children learn as well as human teachers, says study

  16-11-2016 17:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from University of British Columbia suggests , suggests that parents can use interactive technologies like iPads to complement their childrens school-based learning (stock image used).
  
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• Businesses beware! If you're not using big data, you're about to fail fast

  16-11-2016 17:42
  
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• Facebook reveals fresh flaws with its data

  16-11-2016 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook reveals a further four flaws with the data it shares with publishers and advertisers.
  
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• The quest to find the world's oldest ice: 1.5 million year-old sheet could unlock the secrets of global warming

  16-11-2016 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  European researchers will head to a remote and hostile post in Antarctica this month to dig for ancient ice and air. They hope to discover more on historical shifts in the Earth's climate.
  
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• Google Earth gets virtual reality makeover

  16-11-2016 17:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google's globe-trotting app Earth makes its VR debut.
  
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• This 'aware' AI knows what you want to buy and how to make you buy it

  16-11-2016 16:59
  
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• Colourful brainteaser features a very carefully disguised aircraft

  16-11-2016 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Internet is known for its brainteasers and the latest is incredibly tough. The image shows pink and red starfish and green seaweed - but somewhere hidden inside is a plane waiting to be spotted.
  
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• Black Swan's algorithms 'predict the future' – and they even know when you'll take sick days

  16-11-2016 16:45
  
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• Apology over Watch Dogs 2's genitalia gaffe

  16-11-2016 16:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ubisoft apologises after a discovery that killing a woman in Watch Dogs 2 causes her genitalia to be exposed.
  
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• Nintendo NES classic mini edition consoles are selling for FIVE TIMES real price on eBay

  16-11-2016 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Kyoto-based games firm announced the reissue of the classic 80s console earlier this year, but gamers have been bidding online way beyond the retail price to get their hands on one.
  
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• How Cern's data science is helping supermarkets waste less food

  16-11-2016 16:32
  
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• DIY breast reconstruction with AirXpanders' AeroForm device

  16-11-2016 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 100,000 women each year in the United States have surgery to remove a cancerous breast, and many of them choose reconstruction with an implant.
  
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• Kerry: 'Overwhelming majority' back US climate action

  16-11-2016 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US secretary of state John Kerry says that the overwhelming majority of US citizens support the US taking action on climate change.
  
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• AI robot now has to get a 'real job' after FAILING a university exam for the fourth year

  16-11-2016 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The robot, named Torobo-kun, failed an entrance exam to the prestigious Tokyo University. Its creators designed the robot to test the current limits of artificial intelligence.
  
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• How the high street can take on Amazon... and win

  16-11-2016 15:37
  
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• 'Uber for clothes': Chic by Choice lets you rent designer fashion

  16-11-2016 15:02
  
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• Sleep-in cinemas, Kylie Jenner and dog mattresses: how Casper is making sleep a lifestyle choice

  16-11-2016 14:50
  
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