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• 'Soft exosuit' can help people run faster and for longer 

  01-06-2017 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Wyss Institute has brought dreams of high performance running to a reality with a tethered soft exosuit that can reduce the metabolic cost of running on a treadmill by 5.4 percent.
  
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• Apple reveals it has paid over $70 BILLION to developers 

  01-06-2017 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's global developer community has earned over $70 billion since the App Store launched in 2008, and in the past 12 months alone, downloads have grown over 70 percent.
  
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• Google adds AI-powered tools to combat phishing in Gmail

  01-06-2017 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google has released AI powered tools to combat phishing in Gmail, including early detection, click-time warnings and unintended external replies and other built-in defenses.
  
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• 5-day forecasts now as accurate as 3-day forecasts in 2005

  01-06-2017 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Both government and private weather forecasting companies are approaching the point where they get tomorrow's high temperature right nearly 80 percent of the time.
  
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• 7% of Americans don't know how a clean water system works

  01-06-2017 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Indiana University, Bloomington, asked students to draw diagrams showing their understanding of how water reaches the sink and how it's returned to the environment.
  
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• Earth on the brink of sixth mass extinction, experts say

  01-06-2017 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a series of studies published this week, researchers around the world examined the current and future threats to biodiversity, and found that a quarter of mammal species are now at risk.
  
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• Facebook shareholders press management on fake news

  01-06-2017 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company has rebuffed a request for a report on the issue, pointing to steps it has already taken.
  
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• Walmart tells staff to deliver online orders on commute

  01-06-2017 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'associate delivery' program would use Walmart's 4,700 U.S. stores and roughly 1.2 million employees to speed delivery and cut costs.
  
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• Trump 'to announce Paris deal pullout'

  01-06-2017 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Trump to announce plans to withdraw from Paris climate agreement, US media say
  
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• Climate change could kill off coastal nesting birds

  01-06-2017 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at The Australian National University found no evidence that Eurasian oystercatcher birds move their nests in response to higher sea levels and tidal floods.
  
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• 15,000 medical records stolen from LA plastic surgeon

  01-06-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The medical records of 15,000 patients of Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Zain Kadri have been stolen allegedly by a disgruntled ex-employee, possibly putting LA's rich and famous at risk.
  
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• US military data found unprotected on Amazon web server

  01-06-2017 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The agencies involved say no classified files were on the server or could be accessed using the data.
  
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• Women ALWAYS regret one-night stands more than men

  01-06-2017 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Norwegian University has found thatboth religious and non-religious people regretted casual sex and missing an opportunity at the same degree - but it was women who regretted it more.
  
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• Facebook and Google boost effort to crack down hate speech

  01-06-2017 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook, Google and other US internet giants have sharply boosted efforts to clamp down on online hate speech, a top European Union official Vera Jourova said today (stock image).
  
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• Game Words with Friends adds Trump's 'covfefe' to its list

  01-06-2017 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The popular mobile word game Words With Friends has added one of the internet's most popular typos in recent days - "covfefe."
  
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• Algorithm can recreate faces based on brain activity

  01-06-2017 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the California Institute of Technology measured the electrical activity of 205 neurons in the brains of macaques to crack the code of how brains learn to recognise faces.
  
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• Skype under fire for ‘copying’ Snapchat with new revamp

  01-06-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft launched the revamped version of Skype across the world today. The updated messaging service is available on Android mobiles and will soon be rolled out to desktops.
  
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• Samsung's Bixby is delayed because it can't speak English

  01-06-2017 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the voice-enabled assistant has been available in Korea, where Samsung is based, a report indicates that Bixby is 'struggling to understand English syntax and grammar.'
  
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• Chimpanzees pass on knowledge to the next generation

  01-06-2017 18:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of St Andrews found chimps can pass down learned skills and improve their abilities by observing others' tactics. This was once thought unique to humans.
  
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• New technique lets researchers control brain cells without the need for surgery

  01-06-2017 18:32
  
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• Big Sur landslide added 13 acres to California's coastline

  01-06-2017 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When California suffered its biggest-ever mudslide on May 20, it lost a quarter of a mile of Highway 1 in Big Sur near to a terrifying torrent of rock and dirt. But it also gained coastline - delighting experts.
  
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• SpaceX to launch Dragon space capsule for the SECOND time

  01-06-2017 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liftoff is targeted for 5:55 p.m. EDT on June 1, 2017, and this morning the rocket was raised to vertical at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  
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• Password manager OneLogin hit by security breach

  01-06-2017 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Encrypted data has been decrypted after a breach on the San Francisco-based sign-on service OneLogin which lets users to use just one password to access multiple apps (stock image).
  
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• Pictures: Google's new London campus plans

  01-06-2017 17:39
  
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• Gravitational waves are detected for a THIRD time by LIGO

  01-06-2017 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The detection was made by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration, an international team of researchers, on January 4, 2017.
  
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• Chatty bots and AI bank managers: getting inside fintech’s future

  01-06-2017 17:36
  
  WIRED / J.P. Morgan Re-Think Business series explores the big trends in fintech’s future. This month: fintech
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• Putin: Patriotic Russians may be involved in hacking

  01-06-2017 17:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "Patriotic" Russians might be engaged in hacking, their President suggests.
  
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• They've done it again! Ligo scientists find gravitational waves for the third time

  01-06-2017 17:00
  
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• Gravitational waves: Third detection of deep space warping

  01-06-2017 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists pick up once again the distortions in space-time resulting from a huge black hole merger.
  
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• Best wireless earphones: Embrace the sound of silence with these Bluetooth earphones

  01-06-2017 16:58
  
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• Breakthrough Listen and Jodrell Bank search for aliens

  01-06-2017 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester has joined forces with Breakthrough Listen, a team backed by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking.
  
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• Three more Kodi add-ons close after legal threats

  01-06-2017 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global operators have been warned they will pay a large fine if they relaunch their services on the Kodi software after they closed following legal pressure from Israeli anti-piracy group ZIRA.
  
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• Skype gets Snapchat-style makeover

  01-06-2017 16:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The popular video-calling app now lets people curate a 'daily story' - just like Snapchat.
  
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• Apple is manufacturing a Siri smart speaker to rival Alexa

  01-06-2017 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new speaker is believed to be aimed at bringing Apple AI into the home and sources say it could be unveiled at the annual developer conference on 5 to 9 June in San Jose (stock image).
  
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• Martial-arts book reveals moves women can use to fight men

  01-06-2017 16:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Japanese text details a number of martial-arts moves that women can use for self defence, including throws, an abdomen strangulation technique and a way to break an attacker's arm.
  
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• How to launch a travel startup to rival the sharing economy

  01-06-2017 16:06
  
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• Ray Massey 'drives' BMW's fully automated self-driving car

  01-06-2017 15:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Not only will drivers have their hands off the wheel, they’ll soon have their feet off the pedals and their eyes off the road, said BMW.
  
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• China commits to Paris climate deal as Trump decision looms

  01-06-2017 15:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China will honour a key climate deal, its premier says, as the US appears poised to pull out.
  
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• Ethiopia blocks internet 'to stop exam cheats'

  01-06-2017 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One government official claimed the blackout was designed to prevent online leaks of exam papers.
  
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• Trident submarines could be hacked to start nuclear war

  01-06-2017 14:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report from the British American Security Information Council, based in Whitehall, has pointed out dangerous security flaws in the UK's nuclear weapons programme.
  
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• Password manager OneLogin hit by data breach

  01-06-2017 14:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Customers are told "unauthorised access" has led to their encrypted data being compromised.
  
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• Storytime is a 'turbocharger' for your child's brain

  01-06-2017 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Cincinntai Children's Hospital Medical Centre looked at the effects of reading on the brains of pre-schoolers (stock image).
  
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• Google unveils plans for its new £1bn London HQ 

  01-06-2017 14:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tech giant's 870,000 sq ft building planned for Kings Cross in London will be the first office it has designed for itself apart outside California.
  
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• US scientists create a 'molecular black hole' 

  01-06-2017 14:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'molecular black hole' was created by researchers from Kansas State University, who were testing the X-ray laser on a small molecule (artist's impression pictured).
  
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• Drones take to the skies to supply doughnuts in Denver

  01-06-2017 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of drones flew through parking lots to deliver doughnuts to Denver's mayor and the city's police and fire department. Texas-based company Drone Dispatch provided the UAVs.
  
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• Microsoft's Paul Allen unveils Stratolaunch airplane

  01-06-2017 14:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen unveiled the world's largest aircraft at a hangar in California's Mojave Desert on Wednesday - the Stratolaunch, which has a wingspan of 385 feet.
  
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• Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht loses appeal against life sentence

  01-06-2017 13:52
  
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• Why did 'power surge' hit BA computers?

  01-06-2017 13:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BA's explanation for its systems' meltdown at the weekend has left many scratching their heads.
  
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• Aliens haven’t made contact because they are hibernating

  01-06-2017 13:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Oxford University claim that alien lifeforms are likely to have shifted to a digital-based existence. Because of this, they chosen to go into hibernation conditions are optimal form machine life.
  
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• UpVote episode 6: Labour's surge and the secrets behind Brexit

  01-06-2017 13:37
  
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