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• Susie Hodge's new book reveals secrets of The Scream and history's greatest paintings

  12-12-2016 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Classic paintings such as Edvard Munch's The Scream have been seen millions of times - and yet they contain hidden secrets that pass many viewers by. Here are some of the most interesting.
  
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• Men! If you want to win at board games this Christmas, turn off the rock music – scientists

  12-12-2016 23:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  Blokes are worse at playing while listening to heavy metal Chaps, listen. Are you sick of losing at Monopoly every Christmas? Do you dread the sight of backgammon or the sound of rattling Scrabble tiles? The trick to winning board games could be to avoid listening to rock music, apparently.…
  
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• Bose launches HEARPHONES with built in smart microphones for 'superhearing'

  12-12-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bose has revealed a set of wireless earbuds that help wearers hear in noisy environments. Called Hearphones, users can pick what they hear by selecting which directions to listen to or cancel out.
  
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• Elon Musk tweets hypnotic 'spinning fire' video of giant nozzle's taking shape

  12-12-2016 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The SpaceX CEO tweeted a 10-second video of a rocket nozzle being manufactured, showing the cone-shaped component spinning under the fire of numerous torches.
  
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• Apple to crack down on calendar spam with new 'report junk' button

  12-12-2016 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple hopes a new system to report junk senders will slash the number of fake appointments users were seeing. The problem peaked around black friday
  
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• Robo-butlers, self-assembling made-to-order rooms and spa treatments based on DNA analysis: Inside the hotels of 2060

  12-12-2016 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The revelations come courtesy of Dr James Canton of the Institute for Global Futures in San Francisco, who produced an eye-opening report on the hotels of the future.
  
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• Apple app to take on cable firms launches - but Amazon and Netflix are missing from it

  12-12-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new TV app makes it easy to find and watch shows in one places - but key content providers are missing from it.
  
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• AwesomenessTV brings the best of YouTube and Hollywood to the social media generation

  12-12-2016 21:00
  
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• 'Brightest supernova ever seen' was in fact a rapidly-spinning supermassive black hole shredding a distant star

  12-12-2016 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Dark Cosmology Centre in Denmark believe the star passed too close to supermassive black hole, creating a flash of light a trillion times brighter than the sun.
  
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• Panasonic basket can detect anything you put in it and automatically bag it for you

  12-12-2016 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Panasonic's a smart basket system for convenience stores that detects items in the basket, calculates the bill and bags merchandise when the basket is placed on a self-registration machine.
  
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• Paradoxal jet could travel from London to New York in two hours via SPACE

  12-12-2016 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ambitious hypersonic jet concept, which would also include brief suborbital trips to space on its flights, is the work of Juan Garcia Mansilla, an industrial designer based in Buenos Aires.
  
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• Brain tests at the age of THREE can predict a child's future: Scientists say scores can reveal if kids will become 'a burden on society'

  12-12-2016 20:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the international team of researchers, it takes just 45 minutes to give three-year-olds a battery of tests, on their language abilities, motor skills, frustration and impulsivity.
  
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• First exoplanet weather forecast reveals the stunning conditions 1,000 light years away

  12-12-2016 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Warwick University claim that powerful winds of rubies and sapphires are striking HAT-P-7b - a planet sixteen times larger than Earth.
  
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• Gear Of The Year 2016: Toys

  12-12-2016 20:00
  
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• Update Pokémon Go now to get 80 new Pokémon, special items and berries

  12-12-2016 19:59
  
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• They're here! Update Pokémon Go now to get 80 new Pokémon from the Johto region

  12-12-2016 19:59
  
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• Pokémon Go update adds 80 new Pokémon, special items and berries

  12-12-2016 19:59
  
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• Pokémon Go adds Gold and Silver Pokémon - and a Holiday Pikachu

  12-12-2016 19:59
  
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• Pokémon Go adds baby Pokémon and a Holiday Pikachu. Here are the new additions

  12-12-2016 19:59
  
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• 80 new Pokémon are coming to Pokémon Go this week including Chikorita and Totodile

  12-12-2016 19:59
  
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• Pokemon Go update seeks to revive interest

  12-12-2016 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pokemon Go releases its first major update, but faces a battle to reinvigorate the gaming craze.
  
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• YouTube inventor reveals his wackiest creations and all those that went wrong

  12-12-2016 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colin Furze from Stamford, Lincolnshire, has been posting videos of his creations on YouTube since 2006, including a man-cave and giant fart machine.
  
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• Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos to lead venture to tackle climate change

  12-12-2016 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Breakthrough Energy Ventures to invest in green energy over 20 years across the world.The fund will invest in transportation and storage of energy, as well as production.
  
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• Imperial College London study shows men should listen to Mozart to win board games

  12-12-2016 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the researchers from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music, listening to classical music could help men concentrate on tasks.
  
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• NASA reveals images of 'coolest landscape on Mars' at the red planet's frozen South Pole

  12-12-2016 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The polar cap is made from carbon dioxide, which does not occur naturally on Earth. The circular pits are holes in this dry ice layer that expand by a few meters each Martian year.
  
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• Trump condemns CIA Russia hacking report

  12-12-2016 19:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump pours fresh scorn on US intelligence claims of Russian hackers meddling in the election.
  
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• Geminids meteor shower set for tomorrow night with up to 120 flashes per hour

  12-12-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At its peak, 120 meteors can be seen per hour under perfect conditions. This year, the peak coincides with a full moon and that could make all but the brightest meteors invisible to the naked eye.
  
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• Killer electrons from Proxima b's star could cause mass extinctions

  12-12-2016 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astrobiologists at the Blue Marble Institute of Space Science in Seattle believe that despite Proxima b being in the right place for life, the planet's magnetic shield could scupper any chance of finding it.
  
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• Rice University astronomers spot a star's dust cloud give birth to a pair of gas giants 

  12-12-2016 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers have spotted gases in three dark rings around a distant star for the first time (pictured). The rings mark spaces where planets are thought to have formed.
  
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• Experts warn the Ice Age doesn't happen for a 'very, very long time'

  12-12-2016 18:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An expert at the University College London says Earth is due for another ice age, but with increased greenhouse gases caused by humans, our planet may not experience one for a very long time.
  
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• Christmas's secret history: Banned, reviled, accused but going strong

  12-12-2016 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A history of Christmas reveals how it has been under siege for almost as long as it has been celebrated, with claims of making children greedy and leading to debauchery dogging it for 1,800 years.
  
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• Amazon customers are warned of a scam email that aims to get their bank card details

  12-12-2016 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fake email purporting to be from the Seattle-based retail giant has been sent to thousands of users around the world. The email claims that there has been a problem with a recent order.
  
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• Why is the Sun's atmosphere hotter than its surface? Nasa explains

  12-12-2016 18:00
  
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• Clouds of ruby and sapphire cover the skies of a gas giant: First exoplanet weather forecast reveals the stunning conditions 1,000 light years away

  12-12-2016 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Warwick University claim that powerful winds of rubies and sapphires are striking HAT-P-7b - a planet sixteen times larger than Earth.
  
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• Brain tests predict children's futures

  12-12-2016 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brain tests at the age of three appear to predict a child's future success in life, according to researchers.
  
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• England, Scotland and Wales will FINALLY get their own emoji flags next year

  12-12-2016 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The call will still be up to providers, meaning Apple and Google, as to which country flags are offered, but they could make an appearance worldwide in the first half of next year.
  
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• The robot with a human touch: Optical sensors allow a machine hand to sense subtle shapes and textures

  12-12-2016 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at Cornell University in New Yorkhave looked to a different approach for robotic sensation, incorporating stretchable sensors which use light to carry signals.
  
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• The eight most ridiculous stunts in the Fast and Furious 8 trailer

  12-12-2016 16:41
  
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• Chinese archaeologists begin excavation of 2,600-year-old city that wiped out by floods

  12-12-2016 16:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bairen, located in central China's Hebei Province, was founded in 624 BC and flooded in 742AD. Archaeologists are excavating the ruins for the first time since the founding of P.R.C.
  
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• The hypersonic concept jet that could travel from London to New York in two hours via SPACE

  12-12-2016 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ambitious hypersonic jet concept, which would also include brief suborbital trips to space on its flights, is the work of Juan Garcia Mansilla, an industrial designer based in Buenos Aires.
  
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• Terrifying 'Popcorn Time' computer virus can only be removed by infecting TWO FRIENDS or paying a ransom

  12-12-2016 16:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The malware is not known to be limited any one region and tricks victims into downloading it by posing as the setup wizard for a piece of software with the same name.
  
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• Reindeer are SHRINKING in the Arctic as climate changes curb food

  12-12-2016 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The average weight of adult reindeer on Svalbard, a chain of islands north of Norway, has fallen to 48 kg (106 lb) from 55 kg (121 lb) in the 1990s as temperatures rise.
  
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• DoNotPay bot is here to save you from parking tickets

  12-12-2016 16:00
  
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• Surge in methane could derail our climate change goals and needs 'urgent attention'

  12-12-2016 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from the University of Versailles Saint Quentin shows that the unexpected - and largely unexplained - increase on methane was especially sharp in 2014 and 2015.
  
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• Video claims to show a disc-shaped object flying across the Moon

  12-12-2016 15:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The object appeared as the Miami Observatory in Florida streamed a live feed of the moon's surface earlier this month. Conspiracy theorists claim the rough edges show it is a UFO.
  
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• Snake 'plays dead' by remaining completely still after realising it can't get away

  12-12-2016 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When approached in Texas, US, the snake began to squirm vigorously to get away but, realising it can't, it stopped dead, mouth gaping and contorts its neck to appear as if it is broken.
  
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• Apples of Eden and voodoo poisoners arrive in the final Assassin's Creed movie trailers

  12-12-2016 15:00
  
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• Northeastern University find older people could still have 'creative breakthroughs'

  12-12-2016 14:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research comes from Northeastern University in Boston, and suggests that people can achieve success at any point in their careers - and achieve it repeatedly - as long as they keep trying.
  
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• Man spends stolen $1m on Game of War

  12-12-2016 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man went on a $1m (£800,000) spending spree on the Game of War app after stealing $4.8m from work.
  
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• A blow in the fight against climate change: methane spiked last year and no-one is sure why

  12-12-2016 14:00
  
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