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• Try the brain training game that could boost your vision: Study finds 8 hours of playing can improve eye sight by 50%

  05-12-2016 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Playing action video games can improve your vision, reveals a new study. Experts found that training children to use their underused peripheral vision for eight hours can improve vision up to 50%.
  
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• Tim Peake's Soyuz spacecraft will go on display in London next year 

  05-12-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Russian Soyuz TMA-19M craft has been refurbished, but remains charred from re-entry into our planet's atmosphere. It will be displayed at London's Science Museum.
  
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• Seattle BMW employees use remote locking technology to trap car thief INSIDE

  05-12-2016 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seattle police arrested a car thief on Nov. 30 who was trapped inside after stopping to take a nap. BMW employees located and remotely locked the stolen car until officers arrived on the scene.
  
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• The future of flying robots is in the claws of a goggle-wearing parrot

  05-12-2016 22:00
  
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• Obi the goggle-wearing parrotlet takes flight

  05-12-2016 22:00
  
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• Fault near Kathmandu could produce magnitude 8 or greater earthquake

  05-12-2016 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research following the 2015 Nepal earthquake suggests a 124-mile stretch of the fault could be in the stages leading up to a massive earthquake of magnitude 8 or greater, experts warn.
  
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• Fossils found in Scotland may help fill a 15-MILLION-year gap in evolutionary history

  05-12-2016 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University Museum of Zoology Cambridge discovered five new species of four-legged vertebrates in the Scottish Borders.
  
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• The REAL paleo diet: More than 9,000 plant remains reveal Paleolithic humans ate a variety of greens

  05-12-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University found over 9,000 remains of edible plants dating back 780,000 years at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov.
  
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• Selling Isobel: how a woman turned her sex trafficking ordeal into an award-winning film

  05-12-2016 21:00
  
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• BMW seeks to be 'coolest' ride-hailing firm as it reveals driverless cars testing

  05-12-2016 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BMW will test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber, which have spent billions on pay-per-use personal transport.
  
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• Amazon unveils plans for grocery shop with no checkouts

  05-12-2016 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Customers will be able to select items and walk out without waiting to pay at the Amazon Go shop.
  
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• Amazon unveils grocery store with NO CHECKOUT

  05-12-2016 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon has unveiled a convince store in Seattle that uses technologies found in self-driving cars. Amazon Go detects whatyou take off shelves and bills it to your Amazon account via an app.
  
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• Rare weasel species released in Washington state after habitat loss 'eliminated' populations

  05-12-2016 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ten Pacific fishers that had been trapped in British Columbia were set free at the park south of Seattle as part of a multiyear effort to reintroduce the native species to its historical range.
  
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• No more queues! Amazon may bring its automated 'Go' shop to the UK

  05-12-2016 18:56
  
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• No more queues! Amazon Go's high-street store lets you walk in, grab items and walk out

  05-12-2016 18:56
  
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• Roman Empire was hit with deadly Malaria outbreak after new DNA research

  05-12-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team led by researchersfrom McMasters University looked at remains from three Italian cemeteries dating back to between the 1st and 3rd century CE in Isola Sacra, Velia and Vagnari.
  
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• Christian computer programmer claims Jesus will return to destroy the planet

  05-12-2016 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nora Roth, a Christian computer programmer, says she has performed complex calculations which suggest the apocalypse will occur by the end of 2016.
  
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• Rare weasel species makes a comeback: Pacific fishers released in Washington state after trapping and habitat loss 'eliminated' populations

  05-12-2016 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ten Pacific fishers that had been trapped in British Columbia were set free at the park south of Seattle as part of a multiyear effort to reintroduce the native species to its historical range.
  
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• NASA image shows dust emerge as an entire galaxy is EATEN by a black hole

  05-12-2016 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New images from Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy sprouting tentacles of gas and dust. University of Cambridge astronomers say it offers new insight into the phenomenon.
  
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• Malaria caused 'widespread death' in ancient Rome: DNA evidence from skeletons reveals a deadly form of the disease hit the empire 2,000 years ago

  05-12-2016 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team led by researchersfrom McMasters University looked at remains from three Italian cemeteries dating back to between the 1st and 3rd century CE in Isola Sacra, Velia and Vagnari.
  
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• Holding AI to account: will algorithms ever be free from bias if they're created by humans?

  05-12-2016 18:00
  
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• Watch out, Uber! BMW seeks to be 'coolest' ride-hailing firm as it reveals driverless cars will be tested next year

  05-12-2016 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BMW will test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber, which have spent billions on pay-per-use personal transport.
  
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• FDA warns pets exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke raises risk of cancer

  05-12-2016 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Food and Drug Administration has released a seasonal advisory urging smokersstudies show even third-hand smoke can kill animals.
  
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• TalkTalk wi-fi router passwords 'stolen'

  05-12-2016 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A security researcher says thousands of TalkTalk customers' wi-fi passwords look to have been stolen.
  
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• Hacks to fight off a cold in MINUTES include sipping black tea and nibbling Brazil nuts

  05-12-2016 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As we head into December, many of us end up skipping the Christmas parties with a towel over our heads but experts have shared the best home remedies for beating the sniffles.
  
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• Area 51 revealed in new Google timelapse video

  05-12-2016 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Nevada-based military facility is steeped in secrecy, but new images using Google's timelapse feature reveal how the base has evolved since 1984.
  
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• Scottish fossils tell story of first life on land

  05-12-2016 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fossils of possibly the earliest backboned four-legged animals to walk have been found in Scotland.
  
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• Morgan Freeman, Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner host the 'Breakthrough Awards'

  05-12-2016 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last night physicists rubbed shoulders with Hollywood actors andaward-winning singers at the Breakthrough Prizes award ceremony, at Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
  
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• Food 'made with love' really is more delicious claims Birds Eye

  05-12-2016 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research by Middlesex-based frozen food firm, Birds Eye, has shown that 58 per cent of people enjoy food more when it has been prepared with a certain level of time and love (stock image).
  
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• Playbuzz quiz asks users to spot the b's among the d's

  05-12-2016 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In each box of letters there is a B hidden among dozens of letter D's - but the puzzle gets harder, with each level featuring more characters than the last.
  
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• 1k-year-old carpenter's box with iron implements found in a ring-shaped Danish fortress

  05-12-2016 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists uncovered the artefacts during a dig at the site of Viking ring fortress called Borgring, near the port of Køge, which provide new insight into life inside the Danish fortress centuries ago.
  
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• Robot aircraft take to British skies

  05-12-2016 16:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Robot aircraft are to be tested in UK airspace to help refine systems that control autonomous planes.
  
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• Cyber criminals could become mass murderers by hacking into 'smart' devices

  05-12-2016 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bruce Schneier, a veteran cybersecurity researcher and lecturer at Harvard University, says cars, drones, medical devices and even home thermostats could become targets for hackers.
  
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• Humpback whales 'talk' with each other by slapping messages on the water

  05-12-2016 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Queensland studied 94 groups of humpback whales while they were migrating southwards along the Queensland coast in 2010 and 2011.
  
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• Facebook and Twitter must tackle hate speech or face new laws

  05-12-2016 15:47
  
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• Seattle 'thief' caught by remote car door lock

  05-12-2016 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police in Seattle arrest a suspect after a stolen BMW was tracked and the doors locked remotely.
  
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• Gear S3 Frontier review: can the smartwatch save Samsung from a difficult 2016?

  05-12-2016 15:00
  
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• Corporate growth still driving deforestation, CDP shows

  05-12-2016 14:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Although progress is being made, up to US $906bn of company turnover is still tied to global deforestation, an assessment suggests.
  
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• Life-like sex robots modelled on celebrities could soon allow fans to live out fantasies

  05-12-2016 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based Dr David Levy, author of 'Love and Sex with Robots', has said in the future it will be common to find sex robots modelled on celebrities.
  
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• UFO hunters claim to have found evidence for star lifting in Nasa images

  05-12-2016 14:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bold hypothesis is based in images which are claimed to originate from Washington-based Nasa that show a small dot nearby the sun, apparently connected by a faint line.
  
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• Luke Cage is coming back! Netflix confirms series two is in the works

  05-12-2016 14:43
  
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• Tim Peake spacecraft will arrive in UK in 2017

  05-12-2016 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK has bought the capsule which sent Tim Peake into space and returned him to Earth.
  
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• The biggest PS4 games revealed at PlayStation Experience

  05-12-2016 14:14
  
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• Bisexual creatures engage in foreplay for an hour before sex

  05-12-2016 14:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt have managed to capture footage of two tardigrades mating for the first time.
  
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• Credit card numbers guessed in 'seconds'

  05-12-2016 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Smart cyber thieves who run queries across lots of different websites can guess credit card numbers in a few seconds, suggests research.
  
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• Breakthrough Prizes awarded to research into black holes, cancer and the origins of life

  05-12-2016 14:04
  
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• WWII design engine that uses a third less fuel is being revived

  05-12-2016 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Diego engine firm Achates has revived an old car engine design. The design was originally inefficient and unclean, but a decade of development has ironed out the flaws.
  
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• Apple invests in driverless cars following years of speculation

  05-12-2016 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having made billions from bringing iPhones, iPods and iPads to the masses, Apple is racing to bring self-driving cars to the roads and has admitted it is investing 'heavily' in the project.
  
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• 2,600-year-old skeletons of male monks found at a Somerset chapel

  05-12-2016 13:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carbon dating revealed that the remains discovered at medieval Beckery Chapel, near Glastonbury, Somerset were from the 5th or early 6th Century AD. Around 50 to 60 male skeletons were uncovered.
  
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• Engineers developing pilotless aircraft that flies itself using computers

  05-12-2016 13:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at BAE Systems have launched a series of test flights in which the high-tech prototype flies by itself using computers while being monitored by operators sitting 15,000ft below it.
  
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