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• Apple hits record high but leaves some investors in dust

  13-02-2017 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple shares cruised to a record-high close Monday, helping catapult the S&P 500 stock index over the $20 trillion mark, and leaving Apple with a market value of about $699 billion. 
  
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• Disease 'superspreaders' fueled the Ebola epidemic

  13-02-2017 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Oregon State University found most Ebola victims in West Africa in 2014 could be traced to so-called 'superspreaders'.
  
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• Mammals were first animals to use venom, fossil reveals

  13-02-2017 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, found a fossil of a reptile related to early mammals that had a space in its skull to produce venom.
  
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• Airlander airship ready for lift off after repairs

  13-02-2017 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Airlander team announced it has reinstalled deck instrument panels, overhead console, and the associated wiring, allowing the craft to ‘power-on’ once again after its August crash.
  
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• Officials investigate Oroville Dam after water level drop

  13-02-2017 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officials waited until Monday morning to investigate an erosion scar on the spillway at Oroville Dam, having warned the worst case scenario was a structural breakdown at the emergency spillway.
  
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• NASA creates artificial clouds Alaska to measure aurora

  13-02-2017 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A NASA rocket set to be launched from the Poker Flat Research Range between February 13th and March 3rd in Alaska will form artificial white clouds during a ten-minute flight.
  
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• NASA spots oddly shaped 'Dungeons and Dragons asteroid'

  13-02-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Known as asteroid 2017 BQ6, the 660-foot object safely passed by Earth on February 6 at roughly 1.6 million miles away. NASA astronomers say irregular shape is like Dungeons & Dragons dice.
  
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• US scientists discover 60 planets near our solar system

  13-02-2017 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery of 60 new planets, including Gliese 411b (artist's impression pictured) was made by an international team of researchers, led by the University of Hertfordshire.
  
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• Google car staffers quit because firm paid them too much

  13-02-2017 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google paid some of its early-staffers 'supersized payouts' to keep them from leaving the firm's autonomous car division. But many employees left after the paychecks were enough to build nest eggs.
  
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• iPhone 8 could feature a 'significantly larger battery'

  13-02-2017 21:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is set to pack a larger battery inside its 4.7-in iPhone 8, which would put battery capacity on par with the iPhone 7 Plus. But experts say the new design will jack up manufacturing costs.
  
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• Hidden Figures: the true story behind the women who changed Nasa's place in the Space Race

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
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• UFO spotted during a penumbral lunar eclipse

  13-02-2017 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amateur astronomer Luis Verdiales, from Puerto Rico, spotted a 'small black disc' flying across the face of the moon during Friday's rare celestial event when the planets aligned together.
  
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• The 10 biggest threats that could wipe out humanity

  13-02-2017 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The apocalypse is a subject often explored in popular culture, but researchers at Cambridge University have revealed a list of causes that could be taken straight from science fiction.
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt series 3 is coming to Netflix on May 19

  13-02-2017 20:00
  
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• ‘Netflix cheating’ is on the rise finds a new study

  13-02-2017 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly half of couples around the world are guilty of 'Netflix cheating'. A survey found that the unfaithful act has tripled since 2013 and 81% admitted to cheating multiple times.
  
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• Dying star is the earliest supernova ever seen

  13-02-2017 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel caught the remarkable explosion (artist's impression pictured) using telescopes in California.
  
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• Researchers wears polar bear costume to study muskoxen 

  13-02-2017 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A conservation researcher based at Colorado State University studying Arctic muskoxen dressed as a polar bear to see whether polar bears are a threat to them.
  
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• B&O Play M5 hands-on: exclusive sketches reveal the speaker's hidden intricacies

  13-02-2017 19:00
  
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• Apple says augmented reality will rival impact of iPhone

  13-02-2017 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It comes as a leading expert claims Apple 's augmented reality plans have accelerated, meaning the firm could reveal its first AR glasses this year.
  
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• Mutant mice are genetically modified to resist cocaine

  13-02-2017 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of British Columbia in Canada have genetically engineered mice so that they produce higher levels of protein, which strengthen the connections between brain cells.
  
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• Chemicals banned in the 70s are found in ocean trenches

  13-02-2017 18:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Newcastle University found high levels of toxic pollutants called Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPSs) in the bodies of tiny organismsthat live at the bottom of the sea.
  
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• Self-destructing material could obliterate a smartphone

  13-02-2017 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The innovative material has been made by engineers at the King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia. It consists of a polymer layer that rapidly expands when heated.
  
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• Banned chemicals persist in deep ocean

  13-02-2017 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chemicals banned in the 1970s have been found in the deepest reaches of the ocean, according to a new study.
  
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• Nasa picks three drill sites for Mars 2020 mission 

  13-02-2017 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mars 2020 rover will land at an ancient lake, a rocky volcano or on silica rock deposits. The automated robot rover will take detailed pictures and collect rocky samples to bring back to Earth.
  
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• Splatoon 2 demo is coming to the Nintendo Switch app in March

  13-02-2017 18:00
  
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• Project Cars 2 will merge VR and esports to create the ultimate, hyper-realistic driving game

  13-02-2017 18:00
  
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• How algorithms (secretly) run the world

  13-02-2017 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While automated tools can inject a measure of objectivity into erstwhile subjective decisions, fears are rising over the lack of transparency algorithms can entail, with pressure growing to apply ethics.
  
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• Earth's iron core stays solid because its atoms shuffle

  13-02-2017 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden used computer simulations to model how atoms move in the inner iron core.
  
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• US and Japan demand UN action on North Korea's new missile

  13-02-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The missile, fired on Sunday, was propelled by a solid fuel engine and was an upgraded, extended-range version of its submarine-launched ballistic missile, according to KCNA.
  
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• BBC Travel website is switched off

  13-02-2017 17:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The decision to close the BBC Travel website is part of the wider review of the BBC's online services.
  
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• Chinese firm says self-flying craft will be flying in July

  13-02-2017 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dubai hopes to have a Chinese-built passenger-carrying drone, named the EHang 184, buzzing through the skyline by July following an announcement at the World Government Summit.
  
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• Elon Musk thinks we will become AI-human symbiotes

  13-02-2017 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire, was speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai today, when he said that we will see a 'closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.'
  
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• Ancient signals from the early Universe could unlock secrets of the Big Bang

  13-02-2017 17:00
  
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• Long jail terms for sewer net fraud gang

  13-02-2017 16:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The four men behind the £160m scam are sentenced to a total of 44 years in jail.
  
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• New battery could store charge for more than TEN years

  13-02-2017 15:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a liquid battery which can hold charge for more than ten years.
  
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• Steam Direct will soon let any developer sell their game on Valve's platform

  13-02-2017 15:27
  
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• Asteroid called 2015 BN509 could crash into the Earth

  13-02-2017 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space rock, called 2015 BN509, was caught flying past the Earth earlier this month. Nasa warned the giant object is 'potentially hazardous' - meaning it might one day crash into our planet.
  
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• Should YOU date your best friend? BFFs make great partners

  13-02-2017 15:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an article for The Conversation, Professor Gary W Lewandowski, a psychology expert from Monmouth University, explains the pros and cons of dating your best friend.
  
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• UK prof claims to have first practical blueprint of a quantum computer

  13-02-2017 15:06 via go.theregister.com
  
  Simultaneously is and isn't bollocks A professor at the University of Sussex says he has the first practical blueprint for a quantum computer capable of solving problems that could take billions of years for a classical computer to compute. Oh yeah?…
  
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• Valve to let developers pay to get games on Steam

  13-02-2017 13:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Developers will pay a fee to publish their games directly onto the popular Steam service
  
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• A splash of someone else's sweat could cure BO

  13-02-2017 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research by the University of California, San Diego, suggests you can replace the bacteria under your armpitby applying sweat from a more fragrant relative (stock image).
  
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• Harvard has created a 'liquid' battery that could last for more than a decade

  13-02-2017 13:00
  
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• Digimon World: Next Order review: Tamagotchi meets RPG in this complex throwback

  13-02-2017 13:00
  
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• Is this mating call proof that snow leopards can roar?

  13-02-2017 12:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage of the elusive snow leopard could dispel the idea that the animals are incapable of producing a 'roar'. Video captured in southern Siberia seems to show a male roaring as part of a mating call.
  
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• Ford invests $1 billion in AI startup Argo to make self-driving cars

  13-02-2017 12:50
  
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• UN expert calls on Cameroon to restore net services

  13-02-2017 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The shutdown three weeks ago breaks international laws, says the UN's expert on freedom of expression
  
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• Residents near Oroville Dam evacuate over flooding fears

  13-02-2017 12:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly 200,000 people were ordered to be evacuated as California authorities try to fix America's tallest dam that could unleash uncontrollable floodsif it fails.
  
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