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• AI beats professional poker players in Pittsburgh

  31-01-2017 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot named Libratus that beat four of the word's best professional poker players at a casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  
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• Ferret has successful pacemaker surgery at Kansas State

  31-01-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zelda had a third-degree block in her heart, which caused a low heart beat and a lack of energy – but, thanks to the ground-breaking surgery, she’s expected to live out a full ten year ferret lifespan.
  
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• Shopping online DOESN'T save you money: finds MIT study

  31-01-2017 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from MIT found that companies sold items for the same prices in their brick-and-mortar and online stores nearly three-quarters of the time. But drugstores will always charge more in-store.
  
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• Dutch experiment with 'Tinder for orangutans

  31-01-2017 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An animal reserve in the Netherlands is having apes respond to images of their fellow creatures on a tablet, a programme dubbed 'Tinder for orangutans' by the Dutch press.
  
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• Device could help people with 'locked-in' syndrome

  31-01-2017 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To help people with locked-in syndrome to communicate, researchers at the Wyss Centre for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva created a new brain-computer interface.
  
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• Axiom reveals plans for private commercial space station

  31-01-2017 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Axiom Space has already been granted NASA approval to attach its first commercial module to the ISS in 2020, and the firm says this could eventually provide the building blocks for their own station.
  
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• Video reveals 'firehose of lava' flow from Kilauea Volcano

  31-01-2017 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage captured by the USGS’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reveals the remarkable volcanic ‘firehose’ in action as it produces dangerous blasts that pose a threat both on land and at sea.
  
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• Netflix headband reads brain activity to select shows

  31-01-2017 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Netflix took laziness to a new level. A group of the firm's engineers, called MindFlix, modified a brain-reading headband that lets the wearer scroll through the platform and select items using just their brain.
  
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• Final Fantasy announces 30th anniversary event with games, DLC...and wine

  31-01-2017 21:00
  
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• 'Ghost particles' could shed light on dark matter

  31-01-2017 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New measurements, collected at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, have allowed researchers from Michigan University to see these neutrinos changing into different states.
  
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• Northern Lights could stop appearing in the UK

  31-01-2017 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Reading predict plunging solar activity will shrink the size of the sun's 'atmosphere', potentially causing the Northern Lights to vanish from British skies.
  
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• PENGUINS could keep self driving car's safe from hackers

  31-01-2017 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Hull are taking inspiration from the group hunting tactics of penguins to find optimum software's for smart cars to prevent them from being hacked.
  
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• Facebook officially verifies an Illuminati page

  31-01-2017 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook has chosen to officially endorse an Illuminati page. The group has over 380,000 likes and boasts in its page description: 'We are always watching out for you.'
  
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• Uber strikes adds self-driving Mercedes-Benz to fleet

  31-01-2017 19:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daimler is the first auto company to join Uber as it opens up its platform for manufacturers to introduce their own self-driving cars
  
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• Vespa reveals Gita, your personal robot cargo carrier

  31-01-2017 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The makers of Vespa scooter has built a new two-wheeled vehicle that is not made to carry humans. Called Gita, the cargo robot can haul 40lbs of goods while following behind a human user.
  
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• AI software algorithm can track your every move at work

  31-01-2017 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based start-up, StatusToday, has created AIthat will allow your boss to spy on you. It works by tracking your activities. If it notices anything out of the ordinary, it will flag it (stock image)
  
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• Crystals carried in lava reveal a hidden continent

  31-01-2017 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Wits University, in Johannesburg, found evidence for a continental crust beneath Mauritius (pictured), which would have been part of the continent 'Mauritia'.
  
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• Nintendo makes $53 MILLION from Super Mario Run

  31-01-2017 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Super Mario Run was launched on December 15 in 151 countries, and has been downloaded roughly 78 million times – but, Nintendo didn't convert as many users into paying customers as hoped.
  
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• New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutes

  31-01-2017 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
   Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. 
  
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• Meet the ex-policeman who saves seahorses

  31-01-2017 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Paul Ferber, an ex-British policeman who lives on Koh Seh in the Gulf of Thailand, tells World Service how he catches illegal fishermen plundering Cambodia's ecosystem.
  
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• Details of 2.5 MILLION PlayStation and Xbox users leaked

  31-01-2017 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global hack breached forums 'XBOX360 ISO' and 'PSP ISO' in September 2015 but details of the leak are only just coming through. Forum users are being advised to change their account passwords.
  
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• Theory claims to offer the first 'evidence' our Universe is a hologram

  31-01-2017 17:50
  
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• Watch bizarre dance of 500-million-year-old 'naked' worm

  31-01-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University of Toronto have found a worm-like animal with soft legs from fossils found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
  
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• Is Tesla working on BRAIN computers?

  31-01-2017 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The astonishing revelation came in response to a tweet, asking California-based Elon Musk if he was working on 'neural lace' – a way of installing computers into the human brain.
  
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• 'Startling' dinosaur protein discovery

  31-01-2017 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ancient proteins dating back 195 million years have been found inside a dinosaur bone.
  
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• AI program beats humans in poker game

  31-01-2017 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An artificial intelligence program has easily beaten four top poker players in a landmark game.
  
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• WIRED2016: Give refugees basic human freedoms and everyone will be better off

  31-01-2017 16:45
  
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• India to launch free Wi-Fi hotspots in 1,050 rural villages

  31-01-2017 16:26
  
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• Man who can TASTE sounds reveals flavours of 2016's hits

  31-01-2017 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Wannerton has synaesthesia, a neurological condition that links senses such as taste and hearing. He has made a music flavour chart listing how hit songs of 2016 taste to him.
  
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• Driverless cars could soon hit British roads

  31-01-2017 16:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New laws set to come in next month will rule who is to blame if an autonomous vehicle crashes. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling claims that Britain will become a 'world leader' in driverless cars.
  
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• Your Whatsapp friends could soon track your location

  31-01-2017 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Known as 'Live Location Tracking', the feature was spotted in the beta version of the messaging app and Android and iOS. It would allow users to see the location of their friends while in a group chat.
  
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• Website crowdsources archaeological digs

  31-01-2017 15:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A website that allows "an army of 21st Century explorers" to find potential new archaeological sites has been launched.
  
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• Laurel & Hardy's antics caused 88 serious eye injuries

  31-01-2017 15:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The actors behind Hollywood's Laurel and Hardy likely shed real tears off-screen after an ophthalmologist predicted they suffered more than eighty eye injuries throughout their career.
  
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• Stunning images show life in the Amazon Reef

  31-01-2017 15:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of experts has now visited the reef, which runs from French Guyana to the Brazilian state of Maranhão - an area larger than the cities of São Paulo or London.
  
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• Lazy children more prone to developing adult depression

  31-01-2017 15:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research published by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that youngsters who regularly exercise are less likely to develop mood disorders as adults.
  
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• NASA spots birth of the biggest black holes ever seen

  31-01-2017 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Light from the most distant object began its journey to us when the universe was 1.4 billion years old, or nearly 10 percent of its present age, and experts say they could shed fresh light on black holes.
  
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• US halts internet 'six strikes' anti-piracy scheme

  31-01-2017 14:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A controversial programme to reduce internet piracy has been halted in the US with no explanation.
  
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• Chimpanzee brutally attacked, then eaten, by his own family

  31-01-2017 14:15
  
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• Alexander the Great's will found 2,000 years after death

  31-01-2017 14:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based expert Richard Grant claims to have unearthed the elusive text from a well-known ancient book of fables detailing Alexander the Great's mythical adventures.
  
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• First commercial fusion reactor could be built by 2025

  31-01-2017 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oxfordshire-based Tokamak Energy's technology revolves around high temperature superconducting magnets, which allow for low-power and small-size devices, but high performance.
  
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• Marvel reveals cast for Cloak and Dagger TV show

  31-01-2017 13:29
  
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• Home habits that prove you're more intelligent

  31-01-2017 13:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From how you organise - or fail to organise - your home to what time you go to bed, these are the telltale signs that suggest your intelligence could be higher than everyone else's.
  
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• Tech firms back legal fight against Trump's travel ban

  31-01-2017 12:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon, Microsoft and Expedia have backed a legal challenge to President Trump's travel ban.
  
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• The surprising new food rules to banish acid reflux

  31-01-2017 12:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Acid reflux affects millions worldwide, but many don't even know they have it. According to US dietary specialist Dr Jonathan Aviv, the best way to banish your it for good is by changing your diet.
  
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• Bilingual people could be protected from Alzheimer's

  31-01-2017 12:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Italian researchers found the brains of people who spoke two languages had greater connectivity in key brain areas – particularly in the part of the brain which governs 'executive control'.
  
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• Can YOU locate these obscure countries?

  31-01-2017 12:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A challenging new test asks users to pinpoint the locations of the world's more 'obscure' countries, and it is harder than you would expect.
  
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• Porn stars replaced by realistic computer-generated actors

  31-01-2017 12:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ian Pearson, a senior futurologist at the Ipswich-based communication agency Futurizon, claims a human porn star won't be able to compete with virtual characters.
  
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• There's something creepy about this 'soft' robot hand that picks fruit without bruising it

  31-01-2017 12:00
  
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• Ocado trials fruit-picking robot

  31-01-2017 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The online grocery firm already has a warehouse operated by robots in Andover, UK.
  
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• Apple plans to start using your iCloud data to make Siri smarter

  31-01-2017 11:48
  
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