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• Stunning simulations reveal what happens glaciers crack up

  02-03-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New computer simulations from California Institute of Technology reveal the shock wave created when a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier. This causes sea ice to shift and can even spur ‘widespread fracture,’
  
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• Apple patents 'roman scroll' iPhone design

  02-03-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is reviving the ancient scrolls used by the Romans - but with a modern twist. A new patent highlights a device consisting of two barrel-shaped casings that house a retractable display.
  
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• Amazon reveals a TYPO caused massive server crash

  02-03-2017 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon says an incorrectly typed command during a routine debugging of its billing system caused the five-hour outage of some Amazon Web Services servers on Tuesday.
  
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• Snapchat firm share price soars on debut

  02-03-2017 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in the owner of messaging app Snapchat jump by more than 40% in its first day on Wall Street.
  
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• Google internet beaming balloon crashes in the Amazon

  02-03-2017 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A hot air balloon launched by Google to bring the internet to remote villages in the Amazon has crashed in the rainforest. The large balloon was part of the internet giant's Project Loon.
  
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• Grima: When you hear nails scratch a blackboard 

  02-03-2017 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grima, the unpleasant reaction to certain sounds such as nails scratching a blackboard, may be an emotional response rather than a reflex, researchers at Complutense University of Madrid have found.
  
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• UFOlogists claim a 'crawling circle' is on the seafloor

  02-03-2017 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of miles below the North Pacific Ocean lies what an alien hunter believes is a 2.81m long ‘crawling circle’ that is under artificial control and parked outside of what could be an alien base.
  
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• NASA unveils plan to surround Mars with a magnetic field

  02-03-2017 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jim Green, NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, revealed the idea today at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC. It would protect Mars from solar wind.
  
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• The future of pop music? Hollow shells run by algorithms - and Hatsune Miku is leading the way

  02-03-2017 21:00
  
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• Snapchat debuts on the NYSE at $24 a share

  02-03-2017 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel helped ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday as their company started trading for the first time.
  
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• With Me app lets you snap a selfie with DEAD friends

  02-03-2017 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new app lets users communicate with the dead. Called With Me, it combines 3Dtechnology and artificial intelligence to recreate the image and personality of those who have passed away.
  
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• Bad GENES were to blame for the demise of the mammoth

  02-03-2017 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, analysed DNA from two frozen mammoth specimens and found that the last members of the species were plagued by genetic mutations.
  
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• Could AI bot beat Bond in a Casino Royale style showdown

  02-03-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of scientists from the University of Alberta have created DeepStack, a computer system that could challenge the poker face of even the world's greatest spy.
  
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• Cambridge scientists grow an artificial mouse embryo

  02-03-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Cambridge University used stem cells to create a functioning mouse embryo. The discovery could help us understand why women have early miscarriages.
  
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• Smart condom rates a man's sexual performance

  02-03-2017 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The i-Con Smart Condom, developed by British Condoms, a Nottingham-based company, is billed as the newest form of wearable technology in the ever-growing market.
  
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• Students feel most concentrated when reading print books

  02-03-2017 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the surge in popularity of digital books, a researcher at the American University of Washington DC tried to determine whether students do as well when reading on a digital screen as on paper.
  
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• Floating ice diamond in Caspian Sea is spotted from space

  02-03-2017 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An incredible image taken from space by Nasa shows a beautiful diamond-shaped chunk of ice just off the Volga Delta in the Caspian Sea.
  
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• AI scientists meet to discuss 'doomsday' scenarios

  02-03-2017 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts gathered at Arizona State University for a workshop called ‘Envisioning and Addressing Adverse AI Outcomes.’ They discussed threats, including cyber attacks.
  
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• Elon Musk agrees to ten year old's request for ad contest

  02-03-2017 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michigan fifth grader Bria asked Musk to run a competition to find the best homemade commercial for Tesla's electric cars.
  
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• Robots could be covered in human flesh to grow skin grafts

  02-03-2017 18:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Oxford have predicted that robots built in our own likeness will one day be used to growanatomically accurate skin, muscle and tendons for those in need.
  
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• What it's really like to race in the world's fastest four-seater (spoiler: it's not pretty)

  02-03-2017 18:34
  
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• Pizza Hut reveals shoes that let you order with your feet

  02-03-2017 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Texas-based pizza company has released 64 pairs of 'Pie Tops' with a button for ordering pizza. The shoes use geolocation to connect their owner to their closest Pizza Hut branch.
  
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• 32 MILLION Yahoo accounts accessed using forged cookies

  02-03-2017 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yahoo, which disclosed two massive data breaches last year, said on Wednesday that about 32million user accounts were accessed by intruders in the last twoyears using forged cookies.
  
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• Countries that play more violent video games are safer

  02-03-2017 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the University of Villanova, Pennsylvania, and Stetson University, Florida, claim that the 20 nations where video games are most popular are among the safest in the world.
  
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• The four types of personality in EVERY workplace

  02-03-2017 17:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Deloitte have identified the four types of personality found in every workplace: Guardians, Drivers, Integrators and Pioneers. So which one do you fit into? (stock image)
  
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• Patient plays the guitar during BRAIN SURGERY

  02-03-2017 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rolden Batista, 40, from Santos, Brazil, was handed his instrument in the middle of a complex operation to remove a brain tumour. He managed to play out a popular local song.
  
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• Renaissance couple had hearts buried with each other

  02-03-2017 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Toulouse in France analyzed bodies from the Jacobin convent in Rennes and found heart-swapping burials dating back to the 17th century.
  
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• You can plot exactly where your delayed train is on these mesmerising junction maps

  02-03-2017 16:31
  
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• Catalogue of minerals show human impact on the planet

  02-03-2017 15:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of scientists led by a researcher from Washington say they have uncovered a group of minerals that result from human activity, bolstering support for a new age of man in geological terms.
  
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• Lamborghini's Huracán Performante sets Nürburgring record

  02-03-2017 15:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you're looking for the fastest road car on the planet, this is it!The Lamborghini  Huracán Performante clocked a time of 6:52.01 at the famous 13-mile circuit.
  
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• Technology turns everyday objects into FM radio stations

  02-03-2017 15:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Washington have used a technique known as 'backscattering' to transform random objects into radio stations, ready to broadcast useful messages to your phone.
  
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• People in seemingly happy relationships are missing cues

  02-03-2017 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologists from Washington and Stanford University studied coping mechanisms used by couples, and suggest emotional suppression could damage relationships.
  
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• Ford's future city: hoverboards that carry shopping and drone deliveries to skyscrapers

  02-03-2017 15:00
  
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• Large Hadron Collider experiment gets a 'heart transplant'

  02-03-2017 14:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The complex operation will take place 100m (330ft) underground at the LHC's site near Geneva. The upgrade is to the LHC's CMS experiment, which helped to find the Higgs Boson in 2012.
  
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• Fitness trackers on elephants reveal they sleep less than any other mammal on Earth

  02-03-2017 14:00
  
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• 'Runaway' robot will greet travellers on Moscow Metro

  02-03-2017 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Metrosha, a robot who can wink, share a joke and remember people, will welcome travellers on Moscow's transport network. It is based on the promobot which hit headlines after escaping.
  
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• Earth captured from space in stunning satellite photos   

  02-03-2017 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychedelic views of natural spectacles from around the world were snapped by specialist observation satellites sent up to orbit by Nasa and the United States Geological Survey.
  
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• Radar could save Cambodia's ancient cities and huge temple

  02-03-2017 13:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of scientists carried out two-scale synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) and used high-resolution satellite images to track monument collapse at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
  
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• Nintendo Switch cartridges 'taste so bad'

  02-03-2017 13:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The games company adds a "bittering agent" to stop the small cartridges being accidentally ingested.
  
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• Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars

  02-03-2017 13:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The data deal will be available across the entire range of the carmaker's vehicles.
  
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• Want utopia? Start with universal basic income and a 15-hour work week

  02-03-2017 13:00
  
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• £15,000 rare gold coin found by amateur treasure hunter

  02-03-2017 12:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heating engineer Brian Biddle found the prized coin in a farmer's field in Tolpuddle, Dorset. It was struck during the brief 86-day reign of 12-year-old King Edward V, who was murdered in 1483.
  
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• Can you solve this tricky Year 7 maths homework question?

  02-03-2017 11:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The question, which asked 11-year-olds to work out a series of equations involving fractions, baffled the mother of a girl who attends a school in Springfield, Queensland.
  
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• Classified US satellite launched from California

  02-03-2017 11:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A rocket carrying a classified US satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
  
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• How Big Ben bongs: lasers reveal the secrets of the bell's distinctive sound

  02-03-2017 11:24
  
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• The earliest life on Earth in hydrothermal vents

  02-03-2017 11:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of experts from University College London searched for signs of the earliest habitable environments on our planet by analysing hydrothermal vents in northeastern Canada.
  
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• Mysterious glowing 'blob' 10 million light years away could be hiding a giant black hole

  02-03-2017 11:15
  
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• Mysteries of elephant sleep revealed

  02-03-2017 11:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  African elephants living in the wild sleep for the shortest time of any mammal, according to a study.
  
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• Huge Large Hadron Collider experiment gets 'heart transplant'

  02-03-2017 09:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the Large Hadron Collider's huge experiments has been given what's described as a "heart transplant".
  
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• WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for March 2

  02-03-2017 08:51
  
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