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• The Man Who Ate The Zoo by Richard Girling tells the story of Frank Buckland

  17-11-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frank Buckland was born in 1826 in Oxford, son of a geology professor there. He loved animals and in later life he tasted all sorts of animal meat in the hope of finding a new source of food for mankind.
  
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• Verizon's AOL to fire 500 workers as it refocuses on mobile and video

  17-11-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Most of the cuts will be in corporate units, including human resources, finance, marketing and communications, while resources will be shifted to AOL's mobile, video and data businesses.
  
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• Rocket carrying crew of 3 blasts off for Int'l Space Station

  17-11-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Soyuz rocket carrying a veteran American astronaut, a French newcomer and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off for the International...
  
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• Peggy Whitson: Oldest woman in space blasts off to ISS

  17-11-2016 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson, 56, breaks more records as she heads to the ISS for the third time.
  
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• Startup Square Off designs chess board that moves pieces on its own

  17-11-2016 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  InfiVention Technologies has brought Harry Potter's Wizard's Chess to life. Called, Square Off,this smart chess board is designed with robotic arms that move pieces from underneath the board.
  
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• Moscow blocks LinkedIn because it does not store data on citizens on Russian servers 

  17-11-2016 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The action was taken by Roskomnadzor, Russia's communications watchdog, and the Kremlin has refused to interfere with the ruling, declaring that it was 'in accordance with the law.
  
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• UFO hunters claim Nasa cut feed just as a mysterious craft appeared

  17-11-2016 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fast-moving object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments before its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO.
  
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• Countries unite to defy Trump climate threat

  17-11-2016 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Delegates from more than 190 countries meeting in Marrakech issue a united call for action on climate change.
  
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• Maidstone Museum could have found the world's YOUNGEST mummy of a miscarried baby

  17-11-2016 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains are now believed to belong to a miscarried 20-week gestation foetus. It is the latest in a series of discoveries by experts at Maidstone Museum in Kent.
  
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• 3D image provides the clearest picture yet of the human marijuana receptor

  17-11-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The image of the human cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) and its binding site for the chemical THC should lead to a better understanding of how marijuana affects the brain, UT Southwestern says.
  
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• Watch the bizarre 'blimpbot' BALLU that can walk on land and sea

  17-11-2016 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of California swapped out the mechanical parts in a humanoid for helium balloons. BALLU is lightweight and has twig-like legs, allowing it to freely walk around.
  
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• Is alien life EVERYWHERE? Radical theory claims it may have become part of 'the fabric of the universe'

  17-11-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Columbia University astrophysicist argues that our universe may be driven by the reassembled intelligence of an alien civilization that has essentially 'disappeared into ordinary physics.'
  
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• Apple under fire from Russian firm for uploading user's call logs to its iCloud servers

  17-11-2016 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple told Dailymail.com it offers call history syncing 'as a convenience to our customers so that they can return calls from any of their devices' and said all data was encrypted as part of its iCloud service.
  
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• Deer killed off in under a decade in Siberia because of bizarre cold snaps

  17-11-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tens of thousands of reindeer have died in the Yamal peninsula in northern Siberia due to the ground being covered with thick ice for months leaving the animals unable to graze.
  
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• Genetic breakthrough: Crops use more sunlight to grow

  17-11-2016 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A genetic technique makes plants produce more food from sunlight - a key step in feeding the growing global population, scientists say.
  
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• How to make plants use more sunlight

  17-11-2016 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A genetic technique makes plants produce more food from sunlight - a key step in feeding the growing global population, scientists say.
  
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• Amazon’s drone-delivery testing site is top secret as locals stopped from roaming

  17-11-2016 20:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Photographers visiting the testing site in Cambridgeshire has filmed the moment they were turned away from by security guards, who they say were equipped with binoculars and radios.
  
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• US scientists have hacked the process of photosynthesis to increase crop yield

  17-11-2016 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley, found they could increase the productivity of genetically-modified tobacco plants by 14-20%.
  
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• Imperial College study Chicxulub crater and find life may have been triggered by an ASTEROID

  17-11-2016 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Imperial College London studied the Chicxulub crater in Mexico and have found how large asteroid impacts alter rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life.
  
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• 5,310-year-old corn cob sheds light on the history of the world's most produced cereal

  17-11-2016 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists carried out genetic analysis on the cob, known as Tehuacan162 (pictured), which was excavated from the Tehuacan Valley in the 1960s, during a major archaeological expedition.
  
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• Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas'

  17-11-2016 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs moved rock huge distances as it dug out a crater in what is now the Gulf of Mexico, scientists say.
  
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• Pictures show Amazon tribe untouched by civilization stare in wonder at plane

  17-11-2016 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The photographs show an contemporary tribal community near the Brazilian-Venezuelan border the circular shack-like structure is understood to be home to about 100 people.
  
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• Microsoft partners with old rival Linux Foundation

  17-11-2016 19:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Technology company Microsoft is to join the Linux Foundation despite historical differences.
  
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• Airbnb prepping to be IPO-ready, but still has no 'near-term' plans

  17-11-2016 19:45
  
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• Airbnb has taken on hotels, now it's gunning for the whole travel industry with Trips

  17-11-2016 19:45
  
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• Airbnb has launched Trips. Now it wants to be IPO-ready 'as soon as possible'

  17-11-2016 19:45
  
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• Upside down photo of a bed titillates the internet and could prove you have a dirty mind

  17-11-2016 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Taiwanese Facebook user said a female boss of a bedding company had sent the picture to him by mistake to ask if he was happy with the colour of the bedding set.
  
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• University of Nebraska-Lincoln reveals spray that could save us from 'doomsday'

  17-11-2016 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conductive concrete both absorbs and reflects electromagnetic waves, and it could be used in new structures or applied through a spray-on method to retrofit existing buildings.
  
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• Twitter introduces Snapchat-style QR codes to help users find new people to follow

  17-11-2016 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Francisco-based Twitter has introduced a new way to follow people, which removes the need for having to search for them, by generating QR codes unique to each user.
  
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• Nasa's pictures show Mercury's 'great valley' that dwarfs the Grand Canyon and Great Rift

  17-11-2016 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The vast valley is more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) long, larger than North America's Grand Canyon and wider and deeper than the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.
  
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• WIRED Health 2016: Bupa Startup Stage agenda

  17-11-2016 19:20
  
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• Coca-Cola reveals smart bottle that can take a selfie as you swig

  17-11-2016 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  You never have to decide between taking a selfie or sipping a soda again. Coca-Cola unveiled a 'selfie bottle' equip with a built-in camera and sensors that snap selfies of you mid-drink.
  
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• Whale is spotted near the Statue of Liberty: Coast Guard urges New York boaters to use caution after mammal was sighted off Manhattan

  17-11-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Petty Officer Frank Iannazzo-Simmons says the whale was spotted around 8am Thursday near Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
  
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• Paper bike helmet wins Dyson award

  17-11-2016 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A cheap, foldable cycling helmet made of paper wins the international James Dyson award.
  
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• Europe launches Galileo satellite quartet

  17-11-2016 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With an initial service soon to go live, Europe is extends its Galileo satellite-navigation system by putting up another four spacecraft.
  
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• Ancient corn cob shows how maize conquered the world

  17-11-2016 18:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientific analysis of one of the world's oldest cobs of corn shows how maize became one of our most popular cereals.
  
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• Google game 'Quick, draw!' uses AI to guess what you're drawing

  17-11-2016 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The drawing game is the work of California-based Google's Creative Lab and Data Arts Team and is based on neural networks, enabling it to learn as it goes along.
  
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• MekaMon robots can duke it out in virtual and physical worlds

  17-11-2016 18:00
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX aims to bring super-fast internet to the world using 4,000 satellites

  17-11-2016 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The California-based company, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, has proposed an orbiting digital communications array that would consist of 4,425 satellites.
  
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• The future of retail: Podcast special

  17-11-2016 17:49
  
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• Scott Thomas claims Apple Watch saved his life by alerting him to heart condition

  17-11-2016 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scott Thomas, 51from Rhos-on-SeaWales, received the smartwatch as a present from his wife and says that it enabled him to spot an abnormally low heart rate.
  
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• WIRED Health 2016: Speakers

  17-11-2016 17:30
  
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• WIRED Health 2016: Agenda

  17-11-2016 17:22
  
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• New Zealand earthquake lifts the seabed by more than a METRE

  17-11-2016 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Incredible photos have emerged showing the devastating aftermath of the New Zealand coastline - north of Kaikoura - after it was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake around midnight Sunday.
  
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• Just in time! Lecturer, 51, claims that Apple Watch saved his life by alerting him to undiagnosed heart condition

  17-11-2016 16:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scott Thomas, 51from Rhos-on-SeaWales, received the smartwatch as a present from his wife and says that it enabled him to spot an abnormally low heart rate.
  
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• Google Earth just got a stunning free VR upgrade for HTC Vive

  17-11-2016 16:31
  
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• The elusive spider that looks just like a LEAF

  17-11-2016 16:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The species, discovered in a rain forest in Western China, is the first of its kind to mimic a leaf, and researchers still aren't sure why the masquerade is used.
  
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• WIRED Health 2016: About

  17-11-2016 16:01
  
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• Bizarre cosmic radio blasts release an unexplained flash of energy

  17-11-2016 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team at Pennsylvania State University found that one object, called FRB 131104 – named after the date it was spotted – ‘whistled’ gamma-rays after the initial rapid burst of radio waves.
  
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• $5 'Poison Tap' hacks locked computers

  17-11-2016 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A developer has created a $5 device that can hack your computer even when the screen is password-protected.
  
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