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• China claims to have built a working version of NASA's 'impossible' engine

  20-12-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology claim NASA’s results ‘re-confirm’ what they’d already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites ‘as quickly as possible.’
  
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• Inuit people have the same 'caveman genes' that helped an extinct type of human survive the last Ice Age

  20-12-2016 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the New York Genome Center and UC Berkley have traced back the region of the genome responsible for adaptations to the cold back thousands of years, to find its origin.
  
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• Watch Mark Zuckerberg reveals Morgan Freeman voiced his home AI

  20-12-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new video released today reveals Zuckerberg managed to persuade Morgan Freeman to voice the AI - while Arnold Schwarzenegger failed for being too scary.
  
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• NASA releases image of the International Space Station passing in front of the sun

  20-12-2016 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taken from California, it shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016.
  
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• Which way do YOU think the dancer is spinning?

  20-12-2016 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The silhouette of a spinning dancer is playing tricks on people's visual perception and was once used to test individual's intelligence and which side of their brain was more dominate.
  
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• 90 million-year-old bird bones dug up in Arctic show region was once as warm as FLORIDA

  20-12-2016 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The newly discovered species was a toothy ancestor of modern seabirds. The fossils, dug up by researchers from the University of Rochester are around the oldest bird remains ever found.
  
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• Time-lapse reveals the process that gives rise to Earth's cirrus clouds

  20-12-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in the US have replicated the earliest stages of ice formation in the lab to show what happens ‘moment by moment,’ shedding new light on ice nucleation events.
  
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• YouTube video shows how red-hot knife can cut through everyday objects

  20-12-2016 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The oddly enjoyable video was made by YouTube channel Watch It Melt which has amassed over 134,000 subscribers. It shows the blade making short work of a rubber duck and other objects.
  
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• Rating, ranking and recommending are the three R's for the internet age, researchers say

  20-12-2016 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Princeton University discuss the new 3 Rs - rating, ranking and recommending- and how websites' use them to combine, process and synthesize information before presenting it to us.
  
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• Watch the birth of an ice cloud in stunning detail: Time-lapse reveals the process that gives rise to Earth's cirrus clouds

  20-12-2016 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in the US have replicated the earliest stages of ice formation in the lab to show what happens ‘moment by moment,’ shedding new light on ice nucleation events.
  
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• Watch Mark Zuckerberg show off his home AI: Jarvis can recognize friends, control lights, doors, windows and music - and is voiced by Morgan Freeman

  20-12-2016 21:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new video released today reveals Zuckerberg managed to persuade Morgan Freeman to voice the AI - while Arnold Schwarzenegger failed for being too scary.
  
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• Facebook is gunning for radio and podcasts with Live Audio

  20-12-2016 20:59
  
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• Apple's new AirPods are tough to recycle, report claims

  20-12-2016 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AirPods have glued-in tiny lithium batteries that make recycling difficult, said Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, the company which took apart the AirPods and has previously analyzed other Apple products.
  
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• Which way do YOU think the dancer is spinning? Researchers explain the latest hit optical illusion - and how it could show you're a genius

  20-12-2016 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The silhouette of a spinning dancer is playing tricks on people's visual perception and was once used to test individual's intelligence and which side of their brain was more dominate.
  
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• Loyalist flags protester wins £3,000 Facebook damages

  20-12-2016 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook is ordered to pay £3,000 damages to a loyalist flags protester for publishing comments about his children's religion.
  
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• Children who spend time chatting on social media are less satisfied with real life

  20-12-2016 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from the Institute of Labor Economics, a think tank based in Germany suggests children may spend toomuch time comparing their lives to others.
  
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• Apple's wireless AirPod earphones selling on eBay for three times their retail price

  20-12-2016 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While Apple's AirPod earphones have a retail priceof $159 in the US and £159 in the UK, they are being sold for over three times the amount, fetching up to £500 ($620).
  
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• Virgin Media internet blackouts hit the UK until middle of January 2017

  20-12-2016 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the past few weeks, Virgin Media customers in some areas of the UK have been complaining of regular internet outages during peak browsing periods.
  
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• Andy Murray's success could be down to adversity and hardship

  20-12-2016 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Mustafa Sarkar, a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, speculates that AndyMurray's early career hardships could have driven his success.
  
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• Chimpanzees are selfish and do not share our altruistic tendencies finds new study

  20-12-2016 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team from the unis of Manchester, Birmingham, and St Andrews, and the Max Planck Institute, say humans were unlikely to have inherited the trait of kindness from our primate cousins.
  
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• Does hurting a girlfriend's CAT make you more immoral than beating up your girlfriend?

  20-12-2016 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research, led by the University of Kent, suggests that contradictions in our judgement of moral character arise because two separate evil acts trigger slightly different reactions.
  
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• Forget reading, writing and arithmetic - Rating, ranking and recommending are the three R's for the internet age, researchers say

  20-12-2016 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Princeton University discuss the new 3 Rs - rating, ranking and recommending- and how websites' use them to combine, process and synthesize information before presenting it to us.
  
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• Artificial intelligence can predict a woman's personality say researchers

  20-12-2016 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chinese researchers claimed they had trained an AI computer to predict a woman's personality solely based on her looks. Wu Xiaolin and his team analysed images of 3,954 women.
  
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• Our brains fill in the gaps to keep conversation going through loud party noise

  20-12-2016 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two studies from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco showed how the brain adjusts to adapt to noisy situations like parties.
  
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• 90 million-year-old bird bones dug up in the Arctic show the region was once as warm as FLORIDA

  20-12-2016 18:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The newly discovered species was a toothy ancestor of modern seabirds. The fossils, dug up by researchers from the University of Rochester are around the oldest bird remains ever found.
  
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• Apple's new AirPods are tough to recycle, report claims: Breakdown reveals wireless headphones and case contain tiny lithium-ion batteries

  20-12-2016 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AirPods have glued-in tiny lithium batteries that make recycling difficult, said Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, the company which took apart the AirPods and has previously analyzed other Apple products.
  
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• Japan successfully launches solid fuel rocket

  20-12-2016 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 26-meter-long rocket, launched at about 8 p.m. (1100 GMT) from the Uchinoura Space Centre in southern Japan, and released a satellite for studying radiation belts around the earth.
  
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• Would YOU spend £500 on AirPods? Apple's wireless earphones are selling for three times their retail price on eBay

  20-12-2016 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While Apple's AirPod earphones have a retail priceof $159 in the US and £159 in the UK, they are being sold for over three times the amount, fetching up to £500 ($620).
  
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• Brain's party noise filter revealed by recordings

  20-12-2016 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Direct recordings have revealed what happens in our brains as we make sense of speech in a noisy environment, scientists say.
  
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• Children who spend time chatting on social media are less satisfied with real life - and it's worse for girls

  20-12-2016 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from the Institute of Labor Economics, a think tank based in Germany suggests children may spend toomuch time comparing their lives to others.
  
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• Drone flies with artificial feathers in Switzerland

  20-12-2016 16:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Engineers in Switzerland build a drone made with artificial feathers that can cope with strong winds and make sharp turns.
  
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• Self-driving Uber cars are making 'dangerous and illegal' turns across bike lanes

  20-12-2016 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brian Wiedenmeier, executive chairman of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, says that the self-driving Uber he was in 'took an unsafe right-hook-style turn through a bike lane.'
  
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• The first robot-human marriage will take place before 2050

  20-12-2016 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is according to London-based Dr David Levy, author of 'Love and Sex with Robots', who was speaking at the Love and Sex with Robots conference, held at Goldsmith's University.
  
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• PayAsUGym hack exposes members' card details

  20-12-2016 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hackers accessed PayAsUGym users' financial details as well as email addresses and passwords, it has emerged.
  
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• A molten iron 'jet stream' is found below Earth's surface: Remarkable discovery could shed light on our planet's magnetic shield

  20-12-2016 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The jet stream was discovered by researchers from the University of Leeds, using the ESA's Swarm satellites, who believe that further surprises are likely.
  
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• How a hacker could fly a PLANE: Alarming new research reveals that an aircraft's controls could be taken over remotely

  20-12-2016 15:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A US cyber company has exposed vulnerabilities in the in-flight entertainment system on airlines including Virgin, Emirates and Qatar Airways that could allow hackers to take control of an aircraft.
  
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• BMW reveals its future cars could have Minority Report-style holographic displays

  20-12-2016 14:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The display will be created using reflections, giving the illusion of a free-floating panel. HoloActive Touch will be debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from the 5th to 8th of January.
  
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• Where's the donkey? Animal is hidden within a mind-boggling nativity scene

  20-12-2016 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gift wrap depicts classic Christmas nativity scenes each features the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, an angel, a bull, a pig, a sheep and a lamb. But can you spot the solo donkey?
  
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• Brittle bone breakthrough as cells from pregnant women can be used to treat osteoporosis

  20-12-2016 14:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital found injecting amniotic stem cells into mice helped to reduce their chances of bone fracture by 80 per cent.
  
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• Facebook accused over WhatsApp takeover

  20-12-2016 14:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook has been accused by the European Commission of misleading it during its investigation of the firm's 2014 takeover of WhatsApp.
  
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• Experts reveal the top gadget trends this Christmas

  20-12-2016 14:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virtual assistant deviceslike Amazon's Echo speaker are expected to be the big global seller this year, with cheaper virtual reality also expected to do well while higher priced rivals struggle.
  
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• Facebook faces £100 million fine after EU accuses it of providing 'misleading' information during its takeover of WhatsApp

  20-12-2016 14:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Commission, which is based in Luxembourg, claim that Facebook 'intentionally or negligently' submitted misleading information which went against EU merger rules.
  
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• Scientific gauge tests if satsuma is too sweet or sour

  20-12-2016 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New 'Goldilocks Gauge' at Sainsbury's tests the acidity and sugar levels of mandarins before they're put on shelves. The supermarket is trying to reduce the number of people who bin theirs.
  
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• A jet stream of liquid iron has been found deep in the heart of the Earth's core

  20-12-2016 13:30
  
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• Villagers stunned as snow falls in the Sahara for the first time in 37 YEARS 

  20-12-2016 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is just the second time in living memory that snow has fallen, with the last occasion being in February 1979.
  
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• Minecraft arrives on Apple TV as Pocket Edition gets Ender update

  20-12-2016 13:21
  
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• BT tops UK broadband complaints list

  20-12-2016 13:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BT's broadband and pay-TV services received the most complaints during the summer, show figures from regulator Ofcom.
  
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• El Niño and climate change blamed for the spread of the devastating Zika virus

  20-12-2016 13:16
  
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• El Niño and climate change blamed for the devastating Zika outbreak

  20-12-2016 13:16
  
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• Google responds on skewed Holocaust search results

  20-12-2016 13:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google says it is "thinking deeply" about ways to improve search, after criticism over how some results were ranked.
  
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