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• Israel uncovers Roman history at Mediterranean port

  26-04-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The finds at Caesarea were the result of 'one of the largest and most important conservation projects ever undertaken in Israel,' the Israel Antiquities Authority said.
  
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• Amazon launches $200 'style assistant' Echo Look camera

  26-04-2017 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon’s Alexa has learned how to be a personal stylists. The AI is powering the $200 Echo Look camera, which uses machine learning to give users a second opinion on their outfit.
  
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• First Americans claim sparks controversy

  26-04-2017 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study that claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago, much earlier than previously suggested, has run into controversy.
  
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• Instagram hits 700M users by adding 100M in 4 months 

  26-04-2017 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It seems people are flocking to Instagram - the firm has added 100 million more monthly users in the past four months. The Facebook-owned app now boasts a user base of 700 million.
  
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• NASA finds 'iceball' planet with same mass as Earth

  26-04-2017 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officially called OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, it is nearly 13,000 light-years away and orbits a star so small, scientists aren't sure if it's a star at all. They believe any surface water would be frozen.
  
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• The AI that could decode what dolphins say

  26-04-2017 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Sweden are set to begin creating a dolphin-language dictionary using technology from Gavagai AB – and, it could one day allow humans to talk to the animals.
  
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• Humanity could face a 'gorilla problem' as AI evolves

  26-04-2017 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At TED2017, computer science expert Stuart Russell explained that engineering something ‘smarter than your own species’ could have consequences, as humans did for ancestors.
  
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• US Marines airlift 1,100 tortoises in Mojave Desert

  26-04-2017 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tortoises will be tracked for 30 years after to monitor their health and reproductive status, said researchers at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California.
  
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• TalkTalk hack attack: Friends admit cyber crime charges

  26-04-2017 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Matthew Hanley, 22, and Connor Allsopp, 20, accessed customer's information during the cyber attack.
  
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• Device lets you play video games with your vagina muscles 

  26-04-2017 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Perifit S consists of a sensor packed device that connects to an app via Bluetooth. Users insert the device into their vagina and contract their muscles around to control a character in a video game.
  
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• Stone weapons from 77,000 years ago found in South Africa

  26-04-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Liège in Belgium said the teardrop-shaped stone tools found in South Africa were used as projectile weapons in the Middle Stone Age 77,000 years ago.
  
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• Did humans conquer America 130,000 YEARS ago?

  26-04-2017 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mastodon remains were discovered at the Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego by palaeontologists from the San Diego Natural History Museum.
  
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• Never-before-seen footage of China's nuclear missile sub

  26-04-2017 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Chinese military authorities last week released footage of the country's nuclear ballistic missile submarines for the first time. Clip is believed to show the Type 092 submarine.
  
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• NASA to investigate unknown fungus on space station

  26-04-2017 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronauts have reported funding the strange microbial growths on walls and surfaces, and it has even clogged waterlines, and will now use a tiny DNA sequencer to identify it.
  
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• Working brain circuitry grown in a lab dish for first time

  26-04-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Stanford University in California stimulated two different types of neuron to join up and work together as they would do in a real human forebrain.
  
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• Markings found on 130,000-year-old bones could rewrite human history in North America

  26-04-2017 19:00
  
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• Fossil of a 507 million year old sea creature discovered

  26-04-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paleontologists at the University of Toronto have uncovered the earliestdetailed example of the anatomy of ancient 'mandibulates', the early ancestor of modern day crabs and millipedes.
  
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• Bone markings suggest humans landed in North America 115,000 years earlier than thought

  26-04-2017 19:00
  
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• Lifelike robot Sophia on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show

  26-04-2017 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A realistic robot with a sassy sense of humour pitted her wits against one of America's top TV personalities but audiences may be divided in their feelings about her appearance.
  
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• Uber will show users their rating to improve behaviour

  26-04-2017 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uber's two new updates go into effect globally today, and aim to make the system fairer. Riders' ratings will be more accessible, and drivers won't be penalized for some factors in Pool trips.
  
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• The ‘anumeric’ people who don't have words for numbers

  26-04-2017 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are numberless indigenous people embedded deep in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest. Instead of using words for precise quantities, they rely on terms analogous to 'a few' or 'some.'
  
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• Brits urged to plant palm trees and artificial grass

  26-04-2017 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) compiled a report with the Met Office and Reading University which found climate change would have a big impact on UK gardening (stock image).
  
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• 'No dogs allowed' icon found on Samsung Galaxy S8 battery

  26-04-2017 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teardowns of the Samsung Galaxy S8 have revealed a bizarre icon on the battery – a ‘no dogs allowed’ sticker. The label warns users not to let their pets use the battery as a chew toy.
  
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• 1,000-year-old treasure is unlike any other artefact

  26-04-2017 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pensioner Peter Fergus, 64, discovered the gilded silver object, with a gold and blue glass setting, on farmland near Plymouth, England. It is believed to date between the sixth and 11th centuries.
  
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• Twitter gets lift from uptick in user numbers

  26-04-2017 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter shares shot higher Wednesday after its quarterly update showed improving growth in user numbers, offsetting concerns over a decline in revenue and...
  
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• Prague scientists warn corpses are altering soil chemistry

  26-04-2017 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Human funerary practices mean nutrients are being concentrated unnaturally in cemeteries instead of being dispersed evenly throughout nature, according to new research in Prague.
  
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• Google's robot dog makes its first delivery in Boston

  26-04-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spot is one of many lifelike robots being developed by Boston Dynamics, a branch of Google. The canine-like machine has started bringing parcels in Boston.
  
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• Chainsaw-powered tricycle is built by Georgia Tech student

  26-04-2017 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wannabe inventors are students at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The children's tricycle is powered by a 33c chainsaw engine with a modified clutch.
  
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• Game guide malware 'targeted more than 500,000 users'

  26-04-2017 17:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  App-based guides for games like Fifa targeted more than 500,000 users with malware, a cyber-security company says.
  
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• Amazon reveals $200 Echo Look – a hands-free camera and style assistant

  26-04-2017 17:12
  
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• India bans social media in Kashmir amid violent unrest

  26-04-2017 16:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook, Twitter and others are banned to stop graphic videos being used to "spread discontent".
  
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• Builders 'behind UK flooding risk'

  26-04-2017 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Government rapped again for failure to tighten flood-prevention rules on new homes
  
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• Baby humpback whales 'whisper' to mums to avoid predators

  26-04-2017 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New recordings show newborn humpback whales and mothers "whisper" to each other, to avoid predators.
  
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• Invite-only Tinder for beautiful people comes to London

  26-04-2017 16:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A San Francisco-based dating app called The League - which has been dubbed Tinder for people who are attractive or famous - is launching in London today.
  
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• Computers of the future could delete or steal thoughts

  26-04-2017 16:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel claims that as'neurotechnology' improves it could be hacked and used to steal private thoughts.
  
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• UK protests Twitter's block on user data

  26-04-2017 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Previously, the firm had allowed the government access to the data when investigating potential terrorist plots.
  
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• China launches first domestically built aircraft carrier

  26-04-2017 16:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The giant carrier, based on the Soviet Kuznetsov class design, was towed from its dockyard just after 9am following a ceremony in the northern Chinese port city of Dalian.
  
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• 'Reading MailOnline saved my life'

  26-04-2017 16:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: James Murray, 47, from Elloughton, began choking on a sandwich he made in his kitchen last Friday. His wife, Rachel's attempts to clear his airways proved ineffective.
  
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• 'Fossil' groundwater's modern secret

  26-04-2017 15:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The deepest and oldest waters on Earth are not immune from contamination, warn scientists.
  
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• Rubric app promises perfect captions for Instagram snaps

  26-04-2017 15:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based entrepreneur and former 'Made in Chelsea' star Amber Atherton has launched a free app that creates captions for your social media images.
  
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• Mother photocopies screen of her iPad in funny tech fail

  26-04-2017 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sometimes technology can be tricky to get to grips with, and now one mother has become an unlikely internet sensation after her son revealed she photocopies recipes direct from her tablet.
  
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• Astronaut takes stunning photos of airports from space

  26-04-2017 14:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, 39, decided to show his love of aviation by documenting dozens of runways from an extreme vantage point 250 miles up on the International Space Station.
  
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• Fitbit investigates report of 'exploding' tracker

  26-04-2017 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman in Wisconsin said she suffered second-degree burns when her fitness tracker exploded.
  
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• Twitter users up but 'headwinds' forecast

  26-04-2017 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More people than ever are regular users of the message-in-brief platform, but it is still losing money.
  
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• Student designs 'Pod Vending Machine' skyscraper concept

  26-04-2017 14:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The conceptual designs for the building, dubbed 'Pod Vending Machine,' were created by Mr Haseef Rafiei, an architecture student at the University of Manchester.
  
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• Pokemon Go and Fifa fake guides hijack 600,000 Androids

  26-04-2017 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 40 apps offering fake walkthroughs of popular games were found in the Google Play Store by experts from Check Point, an IT security company based in San Carlos, California.
  
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• New warning on diesel fumes

  26-04-2017 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Edinburgh University experts say nanoparticles can travel from the lungs into the bloodstream and reach the cardiovascular system where they increase the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke.
  
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• Neil deGrasse Tyson on alien life, Nasa's future and why he doubts humans will ever walk on Mars

  26-04-2017 14:00
  
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• Cassini begins its 'death dive' into Saturn's rings

  26-04-2017 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first of the spacecraft's 22 deep dives between Saturn and its innermost ring has begun. Communications with the small craft have gone dark until Thursday morning.
  
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• Forget drones, deliveries could soon be made by robotic 'dogs'

  26-04-2017 13:42
  
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