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• People who are always late may be too self-invovled

  05-04-2017 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Washington researchers say the problems could be a result of people always deciding to do 'one more thing' before leaving - and have revealed three simple tricks can could help sufferers.
  
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• Military 'Lightning Strike' plane using 24 fan passes test

  05-04-2017 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first prototype of a mini Lightning Strike has completed its military tests, paving the way for a full sized 741km/h version to begin construction and take its first flight next year.
  
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• Robots exchange 'genetic material' to evolve

  05-04-2017 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Vassar College expanded on efforts in evolutionary robots to include developmental factors for the first time. Robots were able to 'reproduce' to spur 10 generations.
  
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• Microsoft app uses AI to caption selfies and guess age

  05-04-2017 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft has joined the selfie game with a new app that adds flare to your photos. Sprinkles lets users add captions, stickers and text to selfies using the power of machine learning and AI.
  
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• Woman tries (and fails) to make a computer create recipes

  05-04-2017 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Janelle Shane, a Colorado-based blogger and research scientist, is experimenting with computer programs, and made one that generates recipes. None of them are worth eating.
  
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• SpaceX reveals footage of its recycled rocket landing

  05-04-2017 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX and Falcon 9 made history last month, but the journey was filled with a few obstacles. A series of GIFs reveals the success and failures of the rocket over the past two years.
  
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• Older killifish live longer by eating younger fish feces

  05-04-2017 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne replaced the gut bacteria of middle-aged fish with those from younger fish, extending their lifespans by 41 per cent.
  
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• YouTube launches $35 TV service with limited channels

  05-04-2017 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google aims to lure subscribers with more sophisticated program search, personalized recommendations and a more fully featured online DVR than rival services offer.
  
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• Nasa image reveals bizarre looking crater on Mars' surface

  05-04-2017 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A circular structure with a strangely reptilian appearance was discovered on the South Polar layered deposits. A stunning image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals a close look.
  
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• Ghost hunters' eerie footage of 'The Village' in Mansfield

  05-04-2017 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dan Litchfield, 36, and his team were investigating the renowned paranormal hotspot 'The Village' in Mansfield when their camera caught an eerie figure watching them in the darkness.
  
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• Scientists invent nine breeds of super-orange carrots

  05-04-2017 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seed-breeding company Mikado Kyowa, based in Chiba, Japan, have developed new breeds of carrots. One breed called 'Christine' grows in the shape of a perfect cylinder.
  
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• Were Jesus and Apostles eating EELS at the Last Supper?

  05-04-2017 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leonardo Da Vinci's famous Last Supper artwork, which was painted at the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, bizarrely depicts the group eating eels and oranges.
  
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• Great apes can help humans complete puzzles

  05-04-2017 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts had thought only humans could read others' thoughts – a skill children develop at 16 months old. But researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Munich found that apes also have the ability.
  
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• Game reveals mistakes we make when analysing languages

  05-04-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Australian National University analysed millions of results from the Great Language Game to determine which languages were confused the most often.
  
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• Artistic scenes built by mathematical algorithms revealed

  05-04-2017 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Santa Clara University mathematics professor Dr Frank Farris has developed an algorithm to visualize mathematical ideas that have one dimension too many to see in 3-D space.
  
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• Physicists make progress in near-impossible hunt for rare particle decay

  05-04-2017 19:00
  
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• Deliveroo has built a bunch of tiny kitchens to feed more hungry Londoners

  05-04-2017 19:00
  
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• First study finds neonic pesticides in US drinking water

  05-04-2017 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists in the US find traces of the most widely used insecticides in tap water for the first time.
  
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• Uber sued by car-share stab victim

  05-04-2017 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jennifer Camacho was slashed in the face with a knife while in an Uber car.
  
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• The man who lived inside a giant wooden egg

  05-04-2017 18:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Artist Stephen Turner lived on the egg from July 2013 until July 2014.
  
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• Social media firms faces huge hate speech fines in Germany

  05-04-2017 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The German government approves plans to fine firms if they do not remove posts fast enough.
  
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• Facebook will use photo-matching to stop revenge porn

  05-04-2017 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A global crackdown on so-called 'revenge porn' has been launched by the world's largest social network, with a raft of new measures which aim to stop the spread of the pictures.
  
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• Apple iPhone 'blew up with a loud bang' while on charge

  05-04-2017 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Phone owner Yin, from from Suqian City in East China's Jiangsu Province, heard a 'loud bang' as the device randomly 'blew up'. The four-month-old device was blown in half.
  
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• Mount Etna lava caught in breathtaking drone footage

  05-04-2017 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily, close to the 'toe' of the Italian mainland 'boot', is Europe's most active volcano. A drone caught magma rolling out of the volcano's side on March 29.
  
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• WIRED Next Generation 2017

  05-04-2017 17:29
  
  Inspire the next generation of scientists, strategists and entrepreneurs by taking them to WIRED Next Generation, a unique educational and interactive festival dedicated to and designed for youths aged 12-18.
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• WIRED Live 2017: The best of the WIRED world

  05-04-2017 17:29
  
  WIRED Live is the two-day festival that brings to life the fantastic and compelling stories on ideas, business, technology and design found within WIRED.
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• UFO enthusiast mysteriously vanishes in Brazil

  05-04-2017 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bruno Borges, 24, disappeared from his home in Rio Branco in the west of Brazil having spent the past month working on what is being described as a secret project.
  
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• Facebook, Twitter and Google face fines in Germany

  05-04-2017 17:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The German government has long pressed Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube to delete illegal content such as hate speech and fake news from their websites at faster speeds.
  
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• Seattle tunnel machine completes mission three years late

  05-04-2017 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dramatic pictures show the machine, known as Bertha, breaking through a concrete wall at the end of its 1.75-mile journey under Seattle, Washington.
  
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• Don't blame European entrepreneurs for selling to the US – you'd do the same

  05-04-2017 17:19
  
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• Russia may ditch the International Space Station for China

  05-04-2017 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russia could be planning to abandon the International Space Station and build a rival base with the help of China.
  
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• 'Beer slug' which has been extinct for 80 years found

  05-04-2017 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Hamburg announced that the mysterious 'beer slug' had been spotted in the St. Pauli and Grindelviertel districts of Hamburg's red light zone.
  
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• Netflix axed its star rating system for thumbs up or down

  05-04-2017 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new rating system has been launched today that the Los Gatos, California, streaming firm hopes will allow its algorithms to work out what you want to watch and provide the perfect match.
  
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• Dolphin rips octopus apart in never before seen 'handling' technique

  05-04-2017 16:40
  
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• Bookmakers' software under scrutiny

  05-04-2017 16:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two punters complained about software being downloaded on to their computers without their permission.
  
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• 'Spiderman' snail species discovered on Florida shipwreck

  05-04-2017 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Chicago's Field Museum have discovered a new species of worm snail, Thylacodes vandyensis, which was discovered glued to a ship wreck in Florida Keys.
  
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• Music streaming has killed the 80s ballad

  05-04-2017 15:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instrumental intros that averaged more than 20 seconds in the mid-80s are now only around five seconds long, a study from Ohio State University found.
  
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• Cot simulates car to help parents get babies to sleep

  05-04-2017 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Max Motor Dreams cot created by Ford which is based in Dearborn, Michigan, looks like a normal cot but produces gentle vibrations, lights and sounds from car journeys.
  
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• Facebook revenge porn to be blocked from reposts

  05-04-2017 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The social network will prevent intimate images being reposted after they have been identified.
  
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• Scientists create AI that LEARNS like the human mind

  05-04-2017 14:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers, led by the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, were able to fashion connections that 'learn' by strengthening the more they are used.
  
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• Garadget faces backlash after locking out irate user

  05-04-2017 14:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The smart garage door kit-maker prevented the use of its kit by an owner who had called it "junk".
  
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• Lightning storm creates a vision against the night sky

  05-04-2017 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A photographer in western Australia couldn't believe his luck when he captured a rare phenomenon - ionospheric lightning - creating a breathtaking vision against the night sky.
  
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• Global warming killed off Mayans by making them VIOLENT

  05-04-2017 13:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of international researchers have found a link between temperature increase and growing conflicts among the Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula of Central America.
  
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• Star Trek style cloaking device could protect planes 

  05-04-2017 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The slow moving air tankers and cargo planes of the US Air Mobility Command, based in Illinois, could benefit from Star Trek inspired devices which would hide them from enemy radar.
  
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• Combine Lego with a Raspberry Pi to make the most nostalgic computer of all time

  05-04-2017 13:17
  
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• Dysfunctional people make friends with people like them

  05-04-2017 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologists from the University of Georgia have found that people with dysfunctional traits are better at dealing with people who are dysfunctional in a similar way (stock image).
  
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• Broadband in the UK has left 12 million frustrated

  05-04-2017 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Which? survey found that 16 million - or six in 10 (59 per cent) - people in the UK have connection problems. One in five people said bad internet has had a negative financial impact on them.
  
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• Orbiting 'Mars base camp' planned for 2028

  05-04-2017 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  First announced last year, fresh details of the ambitious project were revealed at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, last month.
  
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• Cinematic chemistry: stunning videos capture reactions in vivid detail

  05-04-2017 13:00
  
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• The Honor 8 Pro is coming to the UK and claims to have a battery life of two days

  05-04-2017 12:30
  
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