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• Netflix says opportunity 'gigantic' despite slowing growth

  17-04-2017 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Netflix gains 4.95 million new subscribers in the first quarter, fewer than the 5.2 million it had forecast.
  
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• Converted nuclear bunker in Georgia for sale for $17.5M

  17-04-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The converted bunker, situatednear Savannah, Georgia, is said to be able to survive natural disasters, civil disturbances and terrorist attacks.
  
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• Mystery of the tiny galaxies with supermassive black holes

  17-04-2017 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new findings from the same group, led by a team at the University of Utah, suggest these dwarf galaxies may be the tiny remnants of larger galaxies that were stripped of outer layers.
  
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• Physicists create negative mass that accelerates BACKWARD

  17-04-2017 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Physicists at Washington State University created a mind-bending new fluid that has ‘negative mass.’ It could improve our ability to study ‘peculiar’ phenomena, like black holes and dark energy.
  
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• Stanford lab grows cornea cells for first time 

  17-04-2017 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stanford University researchers have grown corneal cells in a lab, which could help prevent the need for corneal transplants. In the US, 33,000 people per year undergo the procedure.
  
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• Ability to ‘wing it’ by making random choices peaks at 25

  17-04-2017 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the study, researchers in Paris investigated how the ability to behave randomly evolves over a person’s lifetime. This revealed that 25 is the 'golden age,' and the ability declines after.
  
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• Leaked schematics show Apple's new handset 

  17-04-2017 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New images claiming to be the iPhone 8 have surfaced, boasting a full-frame screen, rounded corners and nearly no bezels - suggesting the firm is ditching a physical home button.
  
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• Electric shocks could help VR headset wearers feel objects

  17-04-2017 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new Virtual Reality System that simulates walls by shocking the users' muscles has been developed by researchers at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.
  
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• Man searching for treasure using map charted from space

  17-04-2017 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maps made in space by an astronaut showing locations of Caribbean shipwrecks, which were charted while looking for nuclear threats during the Cold War, are now being used in a treasure hunt.
  
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• AI could put an end to a lover's quarrel

  17-04-2017 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An AI could notify you whether your partner had a good day or if you will be walking into the eye of the storm when you get home in order to de-escalate conflicts between couples.
  
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• Canada glacier melt rerouted in warming river piracy

  17-04-2017 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of"river piracy" and blame global warming.  Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly switched rivers.
  
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• Archive footage from the 1950s shows US nuclear testing

  17-04-2017 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clips were taken in 1953, 1955 and 1958 on Enemen Island, which lies between Hawaii and the Philippines. The recordings are part of an archive of 750 declassified videos.
  
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• The 'watercolor world' of Saturn revealed in NASA image

  17-04-2017 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strange swirling patterns on the planet are caused by 'megawinds' among the fastest in the solar system that can reach 1,100mph.
  
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• 23,000-year-old 'Venus' statue derriere Kim Kardashian

  17-04-2017 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The figurine (pictured), found in Russia's Bryansk region, was carved from woolly mammoth tusk and shows a 'delicate' prehistoric woman whose backside resembles the curves of Kim Kardashian.
  
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• Trump’s supersonic stealth fighters land in Britain

  17-04-2017 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Supersonic F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters have been sent to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for Nato training drills amid rising tensions between the US and Russia.
  
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• Kids STILL prefer live TV for their viewing

  17-04-2017 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new Nielsen study finds that in the fourth quarter of 2016, viewers aged 2-11 averaged about 17 hours of live (not time-shifted) TV each week.
  
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• A front-row view of a breaching great white shark

  17-04-2017 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Video footage captured off the coast of South Africa on Monday morning shows a great white breaching with its mouth open wide.
  
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• Google takes Android search blow in Russia

  17-04-2017 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Android phones in Russia can now come pre-installed with rival search engines and competing apps.
  
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• SpaceX reveals Hyperloop 'drag race' in August

  17-04-2017 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The races will take place in a specially built Hyperloop track at Space's Hawthorne HQ on August 25-27, 2017, and will see student teams compete against each other.
  
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• NASA's first Orion missions may be delayed, report says

  17-04-2017 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to a new report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General, the space agency will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion capsule, which are set for 2018 and 2021.
  
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• Why telling the truth 'warts and all' could help you find love

  17-04-2017 18:00
  
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• This futuristic battery is powered by nitrogen

  17-04-2017 18:00
  
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• Why today's uber clean environment is BAD for kids

  17-04-2017 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new book written by two scientists leading the investigation into the microbiome says that growing up in too clean of an environment and that it can actually make them sick.
  
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• The 'Star Wars' farms could turn deserts into farmland 

  17-04-2017 17:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A researcher from Nottingham Trent University is working to turn the 'vaporators' used by Luke Skylwaker's family to farm moisture from the atmosphere into a reality in deserts.
  
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• WhatsApp could soon let you DELETE messages

  17-04-2017 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The feature recently appeared in the latest WhatsApp beta release. It remains unknown whether it will be rolled out to all users globally.
  
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• An 'infertile' woman with two vaginas is pregnant

  17-04-2017 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Krista Schwab, 32, from Washington State, was told she would never get pregnant as she has two vaginas, cervixes and wombs. Krista is now five months pregnant with a baby boy.
  
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• Internet pioneer Robert Taylor dies

  17-04-2017 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The engineer launched the Arpanet and also helped inspire the Mac computer and Microsoft Word.
  
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• A 'worrying' new crack has just appeared in Greeland

  17-04-2017 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery was made while researchers were examining satellite images of the Petermann glacier, which moves toward the sea along the northwestern coast of Greenland.
  
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• Netflix looks beyond US as competition mounts

  17-04-2017 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The streaming service is close to having 100 million subscribers, but can Netflix keep growing?
  
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• Ford creates a robotic 'dog nanny' concept

  17-04-2017 14:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'concept robot' was designed as part of Ford's innovation challenge by Itzel Cortés, a designer from Mexico City.
  
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• Now you can play a collection of retro Macintosh programs

  17-04-2017 14:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Internet Archive has created 40 emulators of programs released from 1984 to 1989 for you to use inside your browser. This includes programs such as MacWrite and Space Invaders.
  
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• AI app lets you build your own SEX ROBOT

  17-04-2017 13:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abyss Creations, based in California, has unveiled 'Harmony AI', an app that gives its silicone Realdolls a 'brain' capable of forming relationships with humans.
  
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• Hermes begins trial using self-driving robots in London

  17-04-2017 13:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The six-wheeled robots will collect, rather than deliver, parcels from customers during the trial.
  
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• You're a pain in the neck! April the giraffe kicks a vet

  17-04-2017 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The vet, who was carrying food into April's enclosure at the Animal Adventure Park in New York, started walking out after the first kick, but soon received another one for good measure.
  
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• Holy cow! Mutant calf with FIVE LEGS is found in China

  17-04-2017 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The cow, in south-western China's Guizhou Province, was taken in by farmer Chen Mingguo because he was 'curious'. The animal has matured into an adult without any health issues.
  
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• Microsoft patched 'NSA hack' Windows flaws before leak

  17-04-2017 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tech firm says it fixed flaws in Microsoft Windows about a month before they were exposed.
  
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• Loch Ness Monster declared ‘missing’

  17-04-2017 12:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gary Campbell, keeper of the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, said he was concerned after there have been no reported sightings of the creature for eight months.
  
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• Male jumping spiders risk being eaten when flirting

  17-04-2017 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Florida and Arizona State University studied the courtship habits of four species of jumping spiders in the genus Habronattus who live near Phoenix.
  
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• Britain's answer to Cape Canaveral?

  17-04-2017 11:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Snowdonia Aerospace Centre, in North Wales, needs planning permission from Gwynedd Council and Snowdonia National Park Authority. It is currently the leading contender for the UK's first spaceport.
  
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• Dramatic moment a crocodile fights with an elephant

  17-04-2017 11:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The elephant was drinking from a lake in Liwonde National Park in Malawi when the beast leapt out of the water. At first the rest of the herd backed off as the elephant shook its trunk back and forth.
  
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• Kevin Esvelt could kill malaria – but he's not sure if he should

  17-04-2017 11:00
  
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• Google Hire tool may allow employers to see search history

  17-04-2017 09:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google is working on a global recruitment tool, named 'Google Hire', that users may only be able to access using their personal Google accounts. This means their search history may be exposed.
  
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• Is there a collector's items in your loose change?

  17-04-2017 09:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Mint employee in Llantrisant, South Wales, works out which coins are valuable. Just 210,000 coins were minted in 2009 with the Kew Gardens Chinese Pagoda and are worth a whopping £200.
  
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• Cleveland Ohio Facebook killer hunted by police

  17-04-2017 06:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A search is under way for a man who broadcast the fatal shooting of a "random" victim.
  
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• Found 700 years on, priest who starved to death

  17-04-2017 04:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists from the University of Sheffield are celebrating after unearthing the 700-year-old remains of a medieval priest at an Abbey in Lincolnshire.
  
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• Proof that poorer pupils do need more grammars

  17-04-2017 02:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than two in ten pupils from the poorest families attend a substandard secondary, compared with one in ten of their richer peers, a study by Teach First has found.
  
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• London's 'super sewer' to help stop Thames becoming a toilet

  17-04-2017 02:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Work has now started on a new super-sewer that's big enough to deal with London's waste.
  
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• Flying car prepares for launch

  17-04-2017 02:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anna Holligan went to see what Dutch developers claim is a world first.
  
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• Hear all about it

  17-04-2017 01:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  S-Town and Serial might be hits, but will listening to podcasts ever be more than a niche pursuit?
  
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• The woman whose phone 'misdiagnosed HIV'

  17-04-2017 01:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Are smartphones empowering poor Kenyans or simply causing more problems than they solve?
  
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