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• Analysis of pollen and marine fossils reveals Earth SANK

  04-05-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and colleagues found that there were two periods lasting less than a million years each during which the Eastern Amazon sank.
  
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• The noise pollution map of America

  04-05-2017 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists measured sound levels at 492 places and found in two-thirds of the Lower 48's parks, the noise can at times be twice the natural background level.
  
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• Orangutan rescued after two years in box in Indonesia

  04-05-2017 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the moment a young ape is freed after two years locked away in a wooden cage in Indonesia.
  
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• Archaeologists discover ancient funerary garden in Egypt

  04-05-2017 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden in Luxor, Egypt that may once have been planted with symbols of fertility and the resurrection of the dead.
  
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• Apple's calculator app has secret backspace feature

  04-05-2017 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 19-year-old Baylor University student posted a video on Twitter showing that you can swipe left or right on Apple's calculator app to erase the last number typed, instead of erasing the whole line.
  
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• Google's Eric Schmidt says an AI WON'T take your job

  04-05-2017 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt told an audience at MIT 'I've taken the position of 'job elimination denier,' claiming there's no question that there's job dislocation.'
  
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• Qualcomm threatens Apple with iPhone ban in the US

  04-05-2017 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In its ongoing battle with Apple, Qualcomm could soon seek a ban on iPhones being imported to the US from Asia just months before the highly anticipated iPhone 8 is set to be released.
  
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• Genetic study reveals how Africans descended from a group

  04-05-2017 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris found that Bantu Speaking People first moved southward through the rainforest before migrating further south and east.
  
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• Boatman discovers 18th century Asian sword in River Towy

  04-05-2017 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Andrew Davies, a coracleman from Carmarthen, dredged up the sword while casting his net in the River Towy.
  
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• Wild dolphins are sicker than captive ones: US study

  04-05-2017 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wild dolphins are exposed to more pollutants than captive ones, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have found. It could explain why wild dolphins they face higher rates of illness and disease.
  
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• How SKUNKS could hold the key to beating climate change

  04-05-2017 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers based at Texas Tech University found that skunks learned to protect themselves from glaciers by living in different climate refuges, which drove the evolution of three distinct genetic groups.
  
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• De Beers pilots plan to store CO2 in diamond rocks

  04-05-2017 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anglo American's diamond unit De Beers is piloting a project to capture carbon in the rock from which diamonds are extracted to offset harmful emissions, the company said.
  
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• Lockheed's fusion reactor is 100 times larger than planned

  04-05-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Matthew J Moynihan, a self-proclaimed '‎Nuclear Fusion Evangelist' from Houston has released technical specifications on Lockheed's fusion reactor project.
  
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• Eta Aquarids meteor shower will light up skies tomorrow

  04-05-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak this weekend, with the best viewing times occurring overnight on Friday, and early Saturday. People in the southern hemisphere will have the best view.
  
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• NASA tests Orion motor that could save crew in emergency

  04-05-2017 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has completed tests on the Launch Abort System’s altitude control motor, further readying the craft for a crewed mission to Mars. It is one of three motors that will steer crew to safety in an emergency.
  
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• Nasa reveals recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

  04-05-2017 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp was revealed as the best pudding to eat in space, according to a culinary competition held in the Nasa Space Centre in Houston.
  
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• Does YOUR office have a 'Dark Knight'?

  04-05-2017 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Canadian experts found that 57% of Americans have worked with a 'Dark Knight' employee, who turned their co-workers in for any wrongful acts - and a majority of them were women.
  
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• Americans hang up on landlines as cellphone homes dominate

  04-05-2017 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  a government survey found homes and apartments with only cellphone service exceeded 50 percent for the first time, reaching 50.8 percent for the last six months of 2016.
  
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• The unlikely secret behind Benfica's fourth consecutive Primeira Liga title

  04-05-2017 17:46
  
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• S.L. Benfica: Building the perfect team

  04-05-2017 17:46
  
  A behind the scenes with S.L. Benfica and the data it uses at its football campus
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• Inside Benfica's tech lab as it leads the team towards its fourth consecutive Primeira Liga title

  04-05-2017 17:46
  
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• Infographic: How data is powering S.L Benfica’s football campus

  04-05-2017 17:46
  
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• World's biggest X-ray laser sees first light

  04-05-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European XFEL is located at the DESY research center near Hamburg. It is designed to capture images of structures and processes at the atomic level.
  
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• Vancouver pigeons using hypodermic syringes to build nests

  04-05-2017 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the shocking scene of how a pigeon in Vancouver used hypodermic syringes left behind by drug addicts to build a nest so she could lay her three eggs.
  
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• Eerie photographs show rusting Soviet-era space shuttles

  04-05-2017 16:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The test shuttles were found inside a derelict Soviet warehouse near the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan, 125 miles east of the Aral Sea.
  
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• From the Editor: how Russia hacked the internet

  04-05-2017 16:39
  
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• Cigar-shaped 'alien spaceship' is seen in Paris

  04-05-2017 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage was posted on YouTube by Ohio-based Secureteam10, a well-known conspiracy channel that regularly posts supposed UFO sightings
  
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• Robots will make Tesla worth as Apple says CEO Elon Musk

  04-05-2017 16:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk said Tesla's global success in the coming years would rely heavily on programming robots, according to his statement on the company's earnings on Wednesday).
  
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• Psychopaths more likely to study business or economics

  04-05-2017 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark used personality tests to establish whether 'psychopathic' personality traits can affect the type of subjects chosen for study by students.
  
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• 'Unlock iPhone', says judge in US sextortion case

  04-05-2017 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A reality TV star accused of extortion may face jail if she does not give officials access to her phone.
  
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• WhatsApp offline for several hours

  04-05-2017 14:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The instant messaging app was unavailable to users around the world for several hours on Wednesday.
  
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• 3D printing is yesterday's news. Westworld-style liquid printing is the future

  04-05-2017 14:42
  
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• 3D printing is yesterday's news. Rapid liquid printing is the future

  04-05-2017 14:42
  
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• Handheld devices for 30 MINUTES a day stunts speech

  04-05-2017 14:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Toronto looked at the effects of handheld devices in the early years on communication (stock image).
  
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• Body of serial killer H.H. Holmes exhumed in Philadelphia

  04-05-2017 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Henry H. Holmes, an infamous killer and conman in Chicago in the 19th century, was executed on May 7, 1896 in Philadelphia after a life of horrific crimes.
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX to bring satellite internet in 2019

  04-05-2017 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a Senate hearing in Washigton the SpaceX vice president of government affairs, Patricia Cooper, revealed that the company wanted to launch their satellite internet in 2019 (stock image).
  
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• WIRED Retail 2017: Startup Showcase

  04-05-2017 13:30
  
  Discover the most exciting eCommerce, payments technology and virtual platforms that aim to alter the retail industry forever
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• Facebook expands its reactions feature to comments

  04-05-2017 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A global update to the way Facebook's desktop site works is being rolled out to users, which will allow them express a range of emotional reactions to comments made under status posts.
  
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• World's smallest 4G smartphone launched on Kickstarter

  04-05-2017 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Unihertz, a group of Shanghai-based smartphone experts, are launching a miniature handset created to function alongside larger smartphones rather than replacing them altogether.
  
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• Jurassic animal found on Skye 'fed milk to young'

  04-05-2017 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fossil found on Skye of the early mammal suggests it had a set of milk teeth, say palaeontologists.
  
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• WIRED Security 2017: Startup Showcase

  04-05-2017 13:00
  
  The WIRED Security Startup Showcase will feature the most exciting and fastest-growing security and cyber defence firms from around the world
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• Nasa runs competition to help make old Fortran code faster

  04-05-2017 12:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two coders will share a $55,000 prize for what a Nasa official calls the "ultimate 'geek' dream assignment.
  
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• First lunar colonists could live in BRICK houses

  04-05-2017 12:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust in a solar furnace at 1,000°C (1,830°F) by researchers from the European Space Agency in Colonge.
  
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• Google adds new anti-phishing security check to Gmail

  04-05-2017 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google has introduced a security feature for Gmail on Android that will show a warning when users click on a suspicious link. The feature is being rolled out to Android users worldwide this week.
  
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• STI nurses reveal some questions they've had to answer

  04-05-2017 12:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One confused British woman asked this question after she had seen the technique work on TV. But nurses were adamant the method would not be effective at all.
  
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• UpVote episode 2: does social media matter, and why the Digital Economy Bill is a coalition of chaos

  04-05-2017 12:11
  
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• Apple steps up its effort to emphasize its economic impact

  04-05-2017 12:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, announced the fund on Wednesday, although he gave no details on how it would be given out, or to whom. The company is emphasizing its role in the American economy.
  
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• The White House just got scammed. Here’s how to avoid phishing scams

  04-05-2017 11:50
  
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• Phishing scams: how to avoid them and what to do if you click a dodgy link

  04-05-2017 11:50
  
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• How to avoid the Google Docs phishing scam – and what to do if you clicked the link

  04-05-2017 11:50
  
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