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• Wingsuit jumper aims to break 4 records in just 2 jumps

  17-01-2017 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fraser Corsan is attempting to go where no wingsuit pilot has gone before - 40,000 ft in the air. The British jumper will leap from a plane in May 2017 and beat four world records in two jumps.
  
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• The AI that can write a symphony just for you

  17-01-2017 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japanese researchers have developed an AI headset that composes tailor-made music to improve the wearer’s mood by gathering data from the person's brain waves.
  
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• Li-ion tamers: Boffins build battery with built-in fire extinguisher

  17-01-2017 22:49 via go.theregister.com
  
  Can we just go ahead and call it 'the Samsung device' now? Researchers at Stanford University say they have developed a method for building fire-extinguishing materials into standard lithium-ion batteries.…
  
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• Did life evolve 2.3billion years ago in a 'false start'?

  17-01-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This so-called Lomagundi Event could have provided a fleeting opportunity for complex, animal-like creatures to evolve billions of years before our ancestors first roamed the planet.
  
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• Fast talkers AREN'T more effective communicators

  17-01-2017 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researcher Dr Priva, a professor at Brown University, found that whether we speak slowly or quickly, we end up communicating information at the same rate.
  
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• Take the test that reveals if you HEAR flashes of light

  17-01-2017 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has found that roughly one in five people experience auditory sensations when viewing silent stimuli, suggesting it’s far more common than previously thought.
  
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• Drone footage shows huge Antarctic ice crack

  17-01-2017 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aerial video shows a huge ice crack which is forcing British Antarctic Survey staff to leave their base.
  
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• Drone video shows a huge crack in Antarctic ice

  17-01-2017 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage shows a 25 mile-long (40km) crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf that appears to be a few feet deep. In some areas, the crack has split into two, leaving behind small islands of ice.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg in court for $2bn Oculus Rift lawsuit

  17-01-2017 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old swapped his typical hoodie and jeans for a crisp business suit as he defended Facebook's VR headset in a Dallas court today.
  
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• Wasp develops head of an ANT on its rear end

  17-01-2017 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers based at University of Turku in Finland have identified a new species of wasp which has a behind that looks like an ant's head. The wasp was originally collected in Peru.
  
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• Proxima B could be Earth 2.0

  17-01-2017 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Edward Guinan, professor in Villanova University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, presented the findings during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Texas.
  
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• Animation shows what Huygens saw as it fell onto Titan

  17-01-2017 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new footage has been released by Nasa to mark the nearing end of the Cassini mission, as the spacecraft is due to descend in a self-destruct mission into fiery Saturn in September this year.
  
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• Fruit flies are as picky as humans when choosing a mate

  17-01-2017 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Through a series of experiments, researchers at the University of Washington have demonstrated that male fruit flies display a key component of rational choice: transitivity.
  
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• The 'atmospheric rivers' that brought floods to California

  17-01-2017 19:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has now revealed a hypnotic new animation that shows how three atmospheric rivers, including the ‘Pineapple Express’ phenomenon, carried plumes of moisture to the Western US.
  
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• Adobe find men are more likely to CRY at work than women

  17-01-2017 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, by California-based Adobe, looked at whether reviews at work were beneficial or detrimental to employee morale. Around 18 per cent of women claim they have cried after a review.
  
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• Twitter officially shuts down Vine app

  17-01-2017 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter is pulling the plug on Vine today and the video-looping service is encouraging users to download their archived clips before the app is turned into an new tool - Vine Camera.
  
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• Instagram rolls out live video and disappearing photos in the UK

  17-01-2017 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two months after launching Instagram Live in America, the service is rolling out in the UK.
  
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• Asteroid could cause the world's economy to COLLAPSE

  17-01-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mission to 16 Psyche, which is located in the large asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is targeted to launch in October 2023, arriving at the asteroid in 2030, following a Mars flyby in 2025.
  
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• Humans arrived 10,000 years earlier than first thought

  17-01-2017 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers based at Université de Montréal's Department of Anthropology have found that humans first arrived in America 10,000 years earlier than was originally thought.
  
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• China to develop record setting 'super super computer'

  17-01-2017 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China plans to develop a prototype exascale computer by the end of the year, as it seeks to win a global race to be the first to build a machine capable of a billion, billion calculations per second.
  
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• University of Pavia reveal why gossiping is GOOD for you

  17-01-2017 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Pavia in Italy studied the effects of gossipin women and found it causes the release of oxytocin, a hormone that helps bring people closer together (stock image)
  
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• Signals from a pounding heartbeat can make us more racist

  17-01-2017 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Royal Holloway University, London, were interested in understanding how heartbeats could affect existing racial biases.
  
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• Ambulances to jam car radios in Sweden

  17-01-2017 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ambulances in Stockholm are to test a system that stops radio in cars to tell drivers that an emergency vehicle is approaching.
  
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• WIRED Money 2017: fintech's greatest innovators

  17-01-2017 17:25
  
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• How well do YOU remember these well-known images?

  17-01-2017 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mandela effect is the strange phenomenon in which many people remember something in a particular way, but are wrong. The name was created by Florida-based Fiona Broome.
  
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• Your heartbeat could be making you racist

  17-01-2017 17:00
  
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• Signals from your heart make you more racially biased

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• Racial biases can change in a literal heartbeat

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• 3D-printed phone attachment could help identify TB and Ebola

  17-01-2017 17:00
  
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• Porn videos streamed 'via YouTube loophole'

  17-01-2017 16:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adult video websites appear to be exploiting a YouTube loophole to host explicit material on the platform.
  
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• US and Russian fighter jets in mock dogfight over Area 51

  17-01-2017 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: These are the amazing images which show a US F-16 and a Russian-built Sukhoi Su-27 involved in a mock dogfight high above the Nevada desert near the top secret Area 51 base.
  
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• University of Bath study finds gentler exercise works

  17-01-2017 16:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Demanding exercise regimes provide no extra health benefits for people trying to lose weight, a study by researchers at the University of Bath has found.
  
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• Gmail is the latest victim of a phishing scam

  17-01-2017 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Gmail phishing scam was discovered by Mark Maunder, CEO of Washington-based Wordfence, the security service for WordPress.
  
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• Novels, pop songs and artwork: AI is taking on culture

  17-01-2017 16:00
  
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• Croatian researchers find neanderthals liked decorating

  17-01-2017 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rock was collected more than 100 years ago from the Krapina Neanderthal site in Croatia and kept safely in the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb.
  
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• Watching James Bond could encourage you to SMOKE

  17-01-2017 15:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite kicking the bad habit in 2002, James Bond continues to be exposed to second-hand smoke from his sexual partners, experts from the University of Otago, New Zealand say.
  
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• Russia shows off Tor weapon system that can shoot missiles

  17-01-2017 15:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russia has been showing off a new tank-launched weapon which can be fired at incoming NATO missiles.
  
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• Neanderthals liked home decorating too

  17-01-2017 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rock was collected more than 100 years ago from the Krapina Neanderthal site in Croatia and kept safely in the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb.
  
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• Plans for world's first 'floating city' unveiled

  17-01-2017 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The government of French Polynesia has signed a deal with California-based Seasteading Institute to begin construction work in just two years off the island of Tahiti.
  
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• Squirrel 'threat' to critical infrastructure

  17-01-2017 13:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It's squirrels, not cyber-attacks, that pose the real threat to critical infrastructure systems, says one security expert.
  
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• 3D printing technique lets you change an object's colour using light

  17-01-2017 13:14
  
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• Is this the UK's first SELFIE?

  17-01-2017 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gordon Holmes, an amateur archaeologist, stumbled across an ancient picture of a face etched into a 4,000-year-old rock on Baildon Moor in Yorkshire.
  
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• Apple increases App Store prices by 25% in UK after Brexit

  17-01-2017 12:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Price rises in the UK, India and Turkey have risen for iOS and Mac users. The price change was announced in an email to developers after a 19 per cent fall in the value of the pound.
  
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• Rogue One's Alan Tudyk on developing the backstory and voice for K-2SO

  17-01-2017 12:25
  
  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star Alan Tudyk plays K-2SO, an Imperial droid who was reprogrammed and finds himself on the side of the rebellion. Alan tells WIRED how he developed the character and how tricky it was controlling K-2SO.
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• Apple App Store prices rise in UK, India and Turkey

  17-01-2017 11:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple is raising prices in its UK App Store by 25% to take account of sterling's drop versus the dollar.
  
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• More than 100 entrepreneurs sign up to help Facebook and Station F find the best startups

  17-01-2017 11:45
  
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• Facebook's first startup incubator will be in Paris

  17-01-2017 11:45
  
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• BAE is working on a mirage-maker and invisible shield for the skies

  17-01-2017 11:25
  
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• Toxic e-waste in Asia jumps 63% in five years

  17-01-2017 11:24
  
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• YouTube backdoor lets porn pirates upload adult content

  17-01-2017 11:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By uploading a video and not publicly listing it, pirates around the world are able to get around YouTube's safeguards for porn. The simple trick lets them embed the video on their own site.
  
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