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• Facebook fake news: Zuckerberg details plans to combat problem

  19-11-2016 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg outlines plans for how he hopes to combat fake news on the site.
  
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• WHALE is spotted near the Statue of Liberty in New York

  19-11-2016 18:57 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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• Fab Lab teaches children everything from coding to design and 3D printing

  19-11-2016 15:00
  
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• Crimes of the future will be solved by robo-CSIs, smell and VR

  19-11-2016 13:00
  
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• Academics 'must not be used as Brexit pawns'

  19-11-2016 04:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May is being warned not to use scientists and academics as pawns in negotiations over Brexit.
  
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• Climate talks: 'Save us' from global warming, US urged

  19-11-2016 03:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The next head of the UN global climate talks calls on the US to save Pacific islands from global warming.
  
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• Why hunter-gathering made men so bad at multi-tasking

  19-11-2016 02:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow found men’s brains work far harder to juggle tasks while women’s brains evolved to cope with managing the family.
  
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• East Tennessee State University finds rich men live longer than poor men

  19-11-2016 01:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although women tend to live longer than men, the study by East Tennessee State University found those with the longest lifespan were men living in the nation's richest counties.
  
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• Surgeon behind world's first HEAD transplant reveals virtual reality system to help patients

  19-11-2016 01:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Sergio Canavero, based in Turin, wants to carry out the operation next year and believes it could lead to people paralysed from the neck down being able to walk again.
  
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• Toddlers love to play hide and seek because they believe they are invisible behind hands

  19-11-2016 00:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the University of Southern California says kids feel that unless two people make eye contact, they can't see each other.
  
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• Chinese tourist town Wuzhen is using facial recognition to allow visitors to enter

  19-11-2016 00:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The system is being used in Wuzhen - a tourist town, which welcomes around 5,000 visitors every day. It was created by Baidu, a web firm which is often referred to as 'Chinese Google' (stock image).
  
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• Qualcomm Quick Charge launched today can charge your phone in FIVE MINUTES

  19-11-2016 00:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Diego-headquartered Qualcomm has released the Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0, that will fill your phone with enough power for five hours of battery life after just five minutes of charging.
  
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• Google teaches its AI to DREAM so it can boost its learning speed

  19-11-2016 00:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google's DeepMind borrowed from how animals dream in order to speed up its AI's learning process. After it began 'dreaming' about a game called Labyrinth, it learned stages 10 times faster.
  
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• Carbon dioxide can be turned into ROCK in just two years, researchers reveal

  19-11-2016 00:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings suggest CO2 could be converted into stable carbonate minerals by injecting it into basalt, trapping it as solid rock – rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere – for good.
  
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