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Samsung Galaxy S7 Launch Event Confirmed For 21 February At MWC

(0) Comments | Posted February 1, 2016 | 3:52 PM

The Samsung Galaxy S7 will be unveiled to the world on 21 February at a special Unpacked event taking place in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress conference.

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The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge was the first phone to offer a dual-edge curved...

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Google's Project SkyBender Would Beam 5G Internet From Solar-Powered Drones

(0) Comments | Posted February 1, 2016 | 12:31 PM

Google has started work on a new solar-powered drone which can then beam high-speed internet down to the ground.

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Google's Project Titan solar drone is reportedly being used as a test aircraft.

The Guardian has revealed that the top-secret project...

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UK Scientists Given Permission To Perform Gene-Editing On Human Embryos

(21) Comments | Posted February 1, 2016 | 10:43 AM

Scientists have been given permission by the UK's fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.

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A very early stage human embryo seen through a microscope.

The application led by Dr Kathy Niakan and the Francis Crick Institute in London asked...

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Apple Has A Top Secret Team Working On Virtual Reality

(0) Comments | Posted February 1, 2016 | 9:24 AM

Apple has a top secret team of experts which are working on virtual reality and augmented reality headsets to rival the likes of the HTC Vive and the Microsoft Hololens, reports the Financial Times.

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Facebook's Oculus helped Samsung...

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Snowboarding Kid Being Pulled By A Drone Is The Start Of An Incredible New Sport

(3) Comments | Posted January 29, 2016 | 4:44 PM

Droneboarding is here, and while it's off to a slow start (quite literally), you can bet that it's going to stick around.

Full credit to Mashable for discovering this absolute gem of a YouTube video. In it a father has kitted out his kid in full snowboarding gear...

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Apple Working On Long-Distance Wireless Charging For The iPhone

(1) Comments | Posted January 29, 2016 | 3:15 PM

Apple is reportedly working on an iPhone which will charge over-the-air without the need for a cable or wireless charging pad.

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The feature which Bloomberg claims is currently in development is a far more advanced version of an existing...

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GCHQ's Christmas Card Puzzle Still Hasn't Been Solved

(1) Comments | Posted January 29, 2016 | 12:27 PM

GCHQ Director Robert Hannigan must be feeling pretty smug right about now. The spy master's Christmas puzzle was deemed the 'hardest puzzle in the world' and indeed after 30,000 entries, not one person has got it right. Not one.

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GCHQ Director Robert Hannigan spotted...

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Hand Transplants To Begin In The UK Under The NHS

(0) Comments | Posted January 29, 2016 | 11:26 AM

Hand transplants will begin, starting April, at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The highly complex procedure has only been carried out 80 times in the world and the hope is that the UK will become one of its pioneers.

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Stefano Silleoni,...

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UFO Caused Volcano Eruption In Mexico Claim Conspiracy Theorists

(12) Comments | Posted January 29, 2016 | 9:14 AM

A conspiracy theorist has claimed that this volcano in Mexico might have erupted as a result of outside interference from a UFO.

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Scott Waring from UFOSightingsDaily claims that as the volcano begins to erupt, the camera can clearly make out a long cylindrical object...

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Physicist Shoots Himself Underwater In Ludicrous Slow-Motion Experiment

(6) Comments | Posted January 28, 2016 | 3:27 PM

A Norwegian physicist has shown what would happen if you fired an assault rifle underwater in what might go down as the most foolhardy experiment this year.

The utterly bizarre experiment saw Andreas Wahl put himself in the direct firing line of an assault rifle in a swimming pool with...

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Google's DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Beats Human At Go, World's Most Complex Board Game

(2) Comments | Posted January 28, 2016 | 11:49 AM

Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence software has beaten a human at Go, widely regarded as the world's most complex board game.

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Go has widely been regarded as the 'unsolved' challenge for artificial intelligence.

The AI accomplished the feat beating the European champion 5-0...

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Stunning Light Pillars Phenomenon Sparks Claims Of An Alien Abduction

(2) Comments | Posted January 28, 2016 | 10:36 AM

We know what you're thinking, it's aliens. It has to be, go and get your pitchforks, flaming torches and various other complaining implements and prepare for the worst.

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While most of the internet is ready to accept this image...

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이제까지 발견된 항성계 중 가장 큰 곳은 행성이 하나뿐이고 별에서 엄청나게 멀다

(0) Comments | Posted January 28, 2016 | 3:32 AM

오스트레일리아 과학자들이 새 항성계를 발견했다. 이제까지 발견된 항성계 중 가장 큰 것으로 보인다.

오스트레일리아 국립 대학교의 천문학자 사이먼 머피와 동료들은 2MASS J2126-8140을 발견하고 처음에는 떠돌이 행성이라고 생각했다.

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알고 보니 그건 잘못된 생각이었다. 2MASS J2126-8140은 그냥 우주를 떠돌아 다니는 것이 아니라 993,600,000,000킬로미터 떨어진 별...

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Facebook Unveils The Six Emojis That Will Join The 'Like' Button

(0) Comments | Posted January 27, 2016 | 3:45 PM

Facebook has announced that Reactions, six small animated emojis, are finally rolling out as official additions to the Like button.

The global rollout follows on from a period of intense local testing in Spain, Ireland, Chile and a number of other countries. Well that testing is now over...

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Apple's Budget iPhone 5se Could Be The Company's Secret Weapon

(0) Comments | Posted January 27, 2016 | 1:13 PM

Apple's recent earnings report pointed not at an Apple that wasn't selling enough iPhones, but at a global economy that couldn't buy them.

This simplistic evaluation could be the single biggest hint that Apple will indeed launch a new smaller, cheaper iPhone next month along with...

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New Safari Crash Bug Affecting iPhones And Macs Worldwide Can Be Temporarily Fixed

(1) Comments | Posted January 27, 2016 | 12:05 PM

Apple is in a bit of a pickle this morning as its Safari browser on iPhones, iPads and Macs around the globe has reportedly been crashing.

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The problem appears to happen whenever someone tries to enter in a search term...

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Doomsday Clock To Maintain That The World Is Three Minutes From Apocalypse

(2) Comments | Posted January 27, 2016 | 10:26 AM

The 'Doomsday Clock' has been considered since 1945 as the scientific indicator for how close humanity is to global catastrophe. Well we've got some bad news, today scientists kept the clock at its most severe setting since the Cold War.

The clock allows scientists to set a metaphorical...

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The Largest Solar System Ever Found Has One Planet And It's A Trillion Miles From Its Sun

(1) Comments | Posted January 26, 2016 | 3:36 PM

Scientists in Australia have found what they believe to be the largest solar system ever discovered.

Astronomer Simon Murphy and his colleagues from the Australian National University discovered what they originally thought to be a rogue planet known as 2MASS J2126-8140.

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Well it...

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Tesla's New 'Autopilot' Ad Shows How The Model S Can Become Your Self-Driving Chauffeur

(2) Comments | Posted January 26, 2016 | 12:27 PM

Tesla has unveiled a new advert which showcases the self-driving capabilities of its flagship car the Model S.

tesla model s

Called 'Autopilot', this new mode allows the car to be remotely summoned from a garage, drive by itself on a motorway and...

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Rapper B.o.B Declares Earth Is Flat, There's An Alternate Universe And Human Cloning Is Real In Massive Twitter Rant

(6) Comments | Posted January 26, 2016 | 11:29 AM

US rapper B.o.B has decided that the time has come for the truth to be known, which is that in fact, the Earth is flat.

The Earth is not flat. That is a scientifically proven fact. Even before it was scientifically proven it was postured back in around 384 BC...

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