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• Interactive video reveals what NYC sounded like 400yrs ago

  08-05-2017 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Calling Thunder: The Unsung History of Manhattan is a ‘360 story’ that revives the ‘green heart of New York,’ revealing the forgotten soundscape of 400 years ago.
  
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• Saturn's massive hexagonal storm gets moment in the sun

  08-05-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stunning new images reveals the massive hexagonal storm at Saturn's North Pole, and its gigantic rings that has fascinated astronomers for 30 years.
  
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• Hackers can make 3D images of your home using Wi-Fi signal

  08-05-2017 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Your Wi-Fi could let hackers 'see' inside your home. The Technical University of Munich used microwave radiation to create 3D images of an area and the objects and people inside of it.
  
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• The BACTERIA that could mean the end of the pothole

  08-05-2017 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One of the solutions, developed by researchers at Delft University in the Netherlands, is a concrete mixture with special bacteria inside that produce calcium carbonate, filling in cracks.
  
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• What Earth was like 4.4 billion years ago

  08-05-2017 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers say only a few small islands penetrated the global ocean engulfing our planet, and say conditions were 'quiet and dull' just 4.4 billion years ago.
  
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• April 2017 was second wettest April on record in US

  08-05-2017 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The NOAA said Monday it was the second wettest April on record, averaging 3.43 inches for the nation, nearly an inch above the 20th century average. Only 1957 had more April rain. Records go back to 1895.
  
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• Microsoft set to release a Cortana powered smart speaker

  08-05-2017 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Watch out Alexa, there is a new digital assistant in town. Microsoft and Harman Kardon are set to release a smart speaker this fall that is powered byCortana in a bid to take on Amazon's Alexa.
  
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• Elderly people should smoke POT to prevent memory loss

  08-05-2017 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Germany, who are set to begin human trials later this year, cured elderly mice of memory loss with cannabis - and say the drug may even help delay Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• Scientists transplant rat testicle onto neck of another

  08-05-2017 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Researchers in Japan found that transplanting the testes to the neck is ‘more simple and reproducible,’ with potential to improve the success rate.
  
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• People think cheap new violins sound better

  08-05-2017 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In tests at concert halls in Paris and New York, audiences were asked to listen to soloists performing on brand new violins, and three made by master fiddle maker Stradivari.
  
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• Music fans can't tell the difference between a new violin and a traditional Stradivarius

  08-05-2017 21:00
  
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• Climate talks cool on idea of accommodating the US

  08-05-2017 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Delegates are wary of changing the Paris climate agreement just to keep the Americans on board.
  
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• US Air Force's secretive space plane lands after two years in orbit

  08-05-2017 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After almost two years in orbit, the X-37B Orbit Test Vehicle has returned to Earth - but what has it been doing?
  
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• Rare ammonite 'death drag' fossil discovered

  08-05-2017 20:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The creature's shell made a 8.5m-long mark as it drifted along the seafloor 150 million years ago.
  
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• X-37B space plane returns after two-year secret mission

  08-05-2017 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What was the US Air Force's X-37B doing during its almost two years in orbit?
  
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• Scientists complain the EPA is sacking them from board

  08-05-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At least five members of an Environmental Protection Agency scientific review board were told Friday that their terms had expired and would not be renewed.
  
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• Cyber attacks 'number one problem' warns Warren Buffett

  08-05-2017 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Warren Buffett also said that businesses will have to contend with the increasing threat of AI. The comments were made at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha.
  
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• Simulation reveals the secret behind stealthy solar storms

  08-05-2017 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using data from NASA’s STEREO and SOHO missions, the simulation reveals how processes in the sun’s magnetic fields cause tension to build, creating a twisted ‘bubble’ that eventually snaps off.
  
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• Toyota Land Cruiser becomes world's fastest SUV at 230mph

  08-05-2017 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The turbocharged vehicle set the speed record along a 2.5 mile (4km) runway in Mojave, California, smashing the previous record of 211 miles per hour (340km/jh).
  
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• America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit

  08-05-2017 19:20 via go.theregister.com
  
  Mysterious craft likely to be surveillance testbed Pic  The US Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space drone has landed – a mere two years after it took off.…
  
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• Electrick spray paint can turn ANYTHING into a touchpad

  08-05-2017 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The technology, developedby researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, works by applying an electrically conductive coating to objects. It's been used on the surface of a guitar and even a Jell-O brain mold.
  
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• Autonomous 'capsule robot' explores colon for first time

  08-05-2017 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An 18mm magnetised capsule colonoscope can search for tumours in the bowel, researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville have found.
  
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• Stove that charges smartphones while food is cooking

  08-05-2017 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Russian inventor is marketing special stoves to fire up mobile phones. The first 100 wood-burning stoves, priced at £80, have been sold, including to US and British tourists to Russia.
  
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• Hackers can use BRAINWAVES to steal passwords

  08-05-2017 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brainwave-sensing-headsets can help malicious software guess bank PINs and passwords by reading a person's brain signals, research from the University of Alabama has found.
  
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• Android apps can pick up ultrasonic sounds to spy on you

  08-05-2017 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Braunschweig University of Technology found 234 Android apps have ultrasonic listening technology that lets marketers pick up 'beacons' to learn your location and interests.
  
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• The UK cities where you're MOST likely to get hacked

  08-05-2017 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Young people from London, Birmingham and Bristol are most likely to be victims of cyber-fraud in the UK, according to a survey by London-based bank Barclays (stock image).
  
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• Study makes musical link to evolution of stone age tools

  08-05-2017 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of East Anglia have refuted arguments that advances in stone tool making were not caused by developments in language as previously believed.
  
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• New UK facility to test engines for a spaceplane

  08-05-2017 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reaction Engines has begun constructing the test facility in Westcott, Buckinghamshire, where it plans to undertake the first ground-based demonstration of its Sabrerocket engine.
  
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• Amazon sweeps U.S. market for voice-controlled speakers

  08-05-2017 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study conducted by eMarketer found Amazon's Echo and Echo Dot, which feature Alexa, are dominating the market and will claim a 70.6 percent share of the U.S. market this year.
  
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• USA Today asks FBI to fight Facebook bots

  08-05-2017 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US newspaper's Facebook page is swamped with fake users, its parent company says.
  
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• Google Street View used to discover 'lost' cycle ways

  08-05-2017 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A historian uses the Google Maps feature to locate miles of forgotten cycle ways up and down the UK.
  
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• Man puts his Suzuki in Jurassic Park in viral car advert

  08-05-2017 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the amazing video featuring Israeli-based Latvian Eugene Romanovksy who wants to sell his 21-year-old Suzuki Vitara - which he said was his best friend over the past ten years.
  
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• iPhone 8 'on track' for September announcement

  08-05-2017 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The latest iPhone 8 report may excite many iOS users. Sources have revealed that Apple is on track to unveil the smartphone in September, which means it will go on sale in October.
  
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• Explorer walks through Soviet-era bunker in Russia

  08-05-2017 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The secret bunker was found deep under a working factory in the industrial area of an unknown city, believed to be in Russia.
  
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• Amazon is using artificial intelligence to solve problems

  08-05-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, was speaking during a Fireside Chat at the Internet Association's annual gala in Washington, DC this week.
  
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• The science of choosing the fastest queue

  08-05-2017 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Sussex statisticians Dr Nicos Georgiou and Professor Enrico Scalas claim that without the right information, it could be disadvantageous to join the shortest queue.
  
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• Dancing gorilla at Devon zoo shows off his moves

  08-05-2017 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Visitors were given much more than they bargained for at Paignton Zoo, where they were treated to a 'ballet' performance by its resident gorilla, the 15-year-old ape Kionda (pictured).
  
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• The AI chatbot capable of understanding emotions

  08-05-2017 16:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tsinghua University in Beijing has developed an emotionally intelligent bot that can reply to messages from human users with an appropriate response based on their mood.
  
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• Google Docs phishing email 'cost Minnesota $90,000'

  08-05-2017 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The state of Minnesota was among various parties affected by the scam email, which was sent to one million people.
  
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• Why the future of banking is mobile-only

  08-05-2017 16:00
  
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• Could Chernobyl disaster pave the way for life on MARS?

  08-05-2017 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Nasa have sent eight fungi species from the Chernobyl exclusion zone into space where they are being tested on board the International Space Station.
  
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• The Emmanuel Macron email hack warns us fake news is an ever-evolving beast

  08-05-2017 15:07
  
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• Gravitational wave could be key to finding extra dimension

  08-05-2017 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam say hidden dimensions could be found in ripples in space-time, caused by the motion of massive objects..
  
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• Staying on course

  08-05-2017 15:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Land Speed Record holder Andy Green describes how the Bloodhound supersonic car will drive in a straight line.
  
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• Ofcom to probe high cost of directory enquiry calls

  08-05-2017 14:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some providers charge at least £10.50 for calling 118 directory enquiries numbers.
  
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• £38m to make technology for 5G

  08-05-2017 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The funding is to make compound semiconductors in Newport, creating highly skilled jobs.
  
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• Audi rover mission to the moon in 2018

  08-05-2017 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists sponsored by Audi and Vodafone are planning to send a lander to investigate the Apollo 17 landing site next year, in the hope of understanding how the rover has fared after 46 years in a vacuum.
  
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• Telepathic computer can read your MIND

  08-05-2017 14:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research, from scientists at Beijing's Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a big step toward direct telepathic connections between humans and computers (stock image).
  
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• Citymapper's next stop? Launching a London bus

  08-05-2017 14:10
  
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• Air Force X-37B lands with a sonic boom in Florida

  08-05-2017 14:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed at Kennedy Space Center Sunday with a sonic boom, concluding an almost two-year mission in orbit.
  
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