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• Panther drone that can fly and drive up to your doorstep

  30-03-2017 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new Panther drone by Advanced Tactics can fly, land on the street and drive up to your doorstep to deliver package. It can lift up to 10 pounds (4.5kg) and operate autonomously.
  
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• Uber allows passengers to move their pickup location

  30-03-2017 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uber is set to let riders change their pickup point if they request a car from the wrong place. Prior to the announcement, riders would have to cancel the trip and start from the beginning.
  
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• Lost in space: 'Peggy, I don't have a shield'

  30-03-2017 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Shane Kimbrough were meant to be installing debris shields on the ISS.
  
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• Microsoft's Windows update will bring 3-D and doodling

  30-03-2017 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A major free update to Microsoft's Windows 10 system will start reaching consumers and businesses on April 11, offering 3-D drawing tools and game-broadcasting capabilities.
  
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• Twitter eases 140-character limit in replies

  30-03-2017 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter has found more creative ways to ease its 140-character limit without officially raising it. When you reply to someone - or to a group - usernames will no longer count toward those 140 characters.
  
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• New measurements reveal how Mars lost its atmosphere

  30-03-2017 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Investigators working with NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft found Mars has slowly lost its argon and other gases as a result of‘sputtering.’ Over billions of years, it's lost nearly all of its atmosphere.
  
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• Toyota to use AI in search for new batteries

  30-03-2017 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Toyota Motor Corpwill use AI in new research to speed up thediscovery of advanced battery materials and fuel-cell catalyststo power electric and other emission-free vehicles/
  
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• How tech helps doctors fill gaps in patient record

  30-03-2017 21:00
  
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• Beware of giving iCloud details over the phone

  30-03-2017 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scammers have been cold-calling people across the US in a bid to access their iCloud accounts. The data thieves are claiming to be from Apple support and ask for personal information.
  
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• Festo unveils terrifying tentaclebot made of soft 'muscle'

  30-03-2017 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Festo has unveiled an unnerving octopus-inspired device equipped with a flexible robotic tentacle. The gripper is made up of soft silicone lined with two rows of suction cups.
  
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• Stunning interactive graphic shows every meteor shower

  30-03-2017 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The visualization, created by engineer Ian Webster, allows users to view each meteor stream in relation to our entire solar system or even watch from the perspective of Earth.
  
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• Tyrannosaur may have had a sixth sense to hunt its prey

  30-03-2017 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of scientists led by Carthage College in Wisconsin discovered a new species of tyrannosaur which carried out a rare form of evolution called anagenesis.
  
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• People imitate attitudes of those around them

  30-03-2017 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris combined mathematical modelling and psychology to explore how attitudes change.
  
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• Derren Brown’s VR Ghost Train is back – and this time it's genuinely scary

  30-03-2017 19:45
  
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• Derren Brown’s VR Ghost Train is back – and this time it's actually scary

  30-03-2017 19:45
  
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• Mexico makes it RAIN tequila in a bid to attract tourists

  30-03-2017 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stunt was a bid by the Mexican Tourist Board to lure Germans to its shores. It enlisted the help of an ad agency to create a cloud of tequila in a Berlin gallery.
  
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• Cannabis genes responsible for different aromas identified

  30-03-2017 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  30 genes that give various cannabis strains their lemony, skunky or earthy flavors have been identified by researchers at the University of British Columbia.
  
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• Lyft rollsout 'fixed route' service to take on busses

  30-03-2017 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lyft is set to take on buses with its new Shuttle service. Users can opt to meet their driver at a predetermine pick-up point and dropped off at another designed spot along a fixed route.
  
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• Human liver-on-a-chip could put an end to animal testing 

  30-03-2017 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have created a sleek microchip that uses real organ tissue to mimic a liver in the human body. The device could be used to test drugs.
  
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• Women with partners remember the faces of love rivals

  30-03-2017 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Abertay University in Dundee suggest that the reason women have the superior memory is to guard against their partners being stolen from them (stock image).
  
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• Musk uses a new Tesla feature to draw 'farting unicorn'

  30-03-2017 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a hidden sketch pad in the software upgrade for the Model S and Model X cars in a very colorful announcement - a drawing of a 'farting unicorn'.
  
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• Samsung smart watch caused mysterious 'burn marks'

  30-03-2017 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The South Korean firm Gear Fit2 has left users with permanent scars after wearing the device, customers claim. Some suggests they could be caused by the device overheating.
  
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• James Webb telescope: Hubble successor set for yet more tests

  30-03-2017 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The spectacular James Webb Space Telescope is bound next for the giant Apollo testing chamber.
  
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• Elon Musk confirms plan to develop cyborg brain chip

  30-03-2017 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called Neuralink, it will work on what Musk calls the 'neural lace' technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts.
  
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• WIRED Health 2017 Startup Stage: apps, gaming and wearables

  30-03-2017 18:23
  
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• Sabre-tooth fish injects predators with heroin-like venom

  30-03-2017 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Queensland found that the fang blenny's venom puts predators into a dizzy stupor that allows the small fish to escape unharmed.
  
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• Brazil snake eats a porcupine and gets pierced by spikes 

  30-03-2017 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A wince-inducing video captures the boa constrictor squirming as dozens of white quills protrude from its skin in Brazil.
  
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• Why Tinder won't find you love

  30-03-2017 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A survey from New Jersey-based LendEdu reveals that for every one person on Tinder looking for love there are 10 who have no intention of meeting someone through the app.
  
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• 'Franken-Tadpoles' can see through their tails

  30-03-2017 17:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Tufts University in Massachusetts wanted to understand how nerves of re-grown or implanted structures integrate into a host.
  
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• World's oldest spacewoman sets spacewalking record

  30-03-2017 17:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's oldest and most experienced spacewoman, Peggy Whitson, broke another record Thursday as she floated out of the ISS to set up a new parking spot.
  
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• Ear from a Roman statue found in North Yorkshire

  30-03-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The three-inch (8cm) fragment was found by a metal detectorist in Catterick. Experts believe the ear broke off from a statue being transported along Dere Street, an ancient Roman road.
  
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• Facebook AI bots will provide news to groups of chatters

  30-03-2017 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook is releasing a global service which will use artificial intelligence to provide real-time updates to groups of chatters using its instant messaging platform, according to industry insiders.
  
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• West Mersea mammoth tusk found on beach

  30-03-2017 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Research will be carried out into the age and rarity of the tusk.
  
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• Clarifai tool tells you who your celebrity lookalike is

  30-03-2017 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The website Clarifai, which was created by New York-based computer scientist Matthew Zeiler, uses facial recognition software to identify famous faces.
  
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• Stair climbing wheelchair Scewo could hit market by 2018

  30-03-2017 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of masters students from Zurich have created a working version of a wheelchair which can climb stairs. Users will be able to control the chair with a joystick or simply by shifting theirbody weight.
  
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• Ruins of old palace where humans were sacrificed in Mexico

  30-03-2017 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Excavations at the site of El Palenque in Mexico by researchers from the American Museum of Natural History in New York have recovered the oldest-known palace in the Oaxaca Valley.
  
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• Campaigners seek 'to sell US politicians' browsing data'

  30-03-2017 14:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Privacy campaigners plan to buy, then sell, US politicians' internet browsing histories.
  
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• Chimpanzees couldn't care less about Justin Bieber

  30-03-2017 14:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of York gave chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo a 'jukebox' and found they were less likely to walk away from Mozart than Justin Bieber or Adele.
  
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• Court to rule on online luxury resellers

  30-03-2017 14:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Legal action brought by German perfume brand Coty aims to ban the online reselling of luxury goods
  
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• MailOnline gets hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S8

  30-03-2017 14:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reporter Luke Johnson has been putting the new flagship Samsung Galaxy S8 through its paces, after the South Korean firm agreed to give MailOnline a sneak peak ahead of its official launch today.
  
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• How British men have changed in the past 50 years

  30-03-2017 14:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In 1967, the average British man was 5ft 7.5in tall, weighed 11 stone 8 lbs and had a chest of 38 inches, but he appears to have ballooned and grown a beer belly in the past 50 years.
  
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• Women with children prefer men with feminine faces

  30-03-2017 13:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from St Andrew's University found that women who strongly believed that men are dangerous to their children preferred less masculine male faces.
  
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• Space-scraper: this high-rise hangs from an asteroid, suspended in Earth's atmosphere

  30-03-2017 13:40
  
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• Space-scraper: this high-rise hangs from a comet, suspended in Earth's atmosphere

  30-03-2017 13:40
  
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• Iron Age chariot and horse skeletons found in Yorkshire

  30-03-2017 13:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rare find is the first of its kind in the last 200 years. It was discovered at a new housing site in Pocklington, Yorkshire, which has forced planners to hold off on their builds.
  
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• Twitter trolls may be nasty because they don't know names

  30-03-2017 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, found that people are three times as likely to be kind to someone if they know their name.
  
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• Look out, London. Berlin's startup scene is ready for a Brexit bonanza

  30-03-2017 13:00
  
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• Watch SpaceX's reused Falcon 9 rocket nail its landing

  30-03-2017 12:52
  
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• Watch SpaceX reuse one of its rockets for the first time tonight

  30-03-2017 12:52
  
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• SpaceX: relaunched Falcon 9 cost 'less than half' as much as a new rocket

  30-03-2017 12:52
  
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