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The Star Trek specs which are helping blind people to see: Glasses containing tiny cameras that give verbal commentary through an earpiece

Blind people can now effectively ‘see’ thanks to a new British invention

Blind people can now effectively 'see' thanks to a brilliant new British invention - glasses that tell wearers what they are looking at. The glasses (inset), which contain tiny cameras, can identify everything from shop doorways to the contents of a fridge - giving a verbal commentary through a phone app and earpiece. Users can even have printed text read out loud simply by pointing at the words, while those with partial sight can zoom in as they need. Fans of the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation might spot a resemblance to the device used by the blind character Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge (pictured right).

Forget the Black Widow! These cobwebs are much more deadly: Military scientists spray spider webs with Ebola and the PLAGUE

Scientists at the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Salisbury are using the spider webs to test how long deadly viruses and bacteria can survive.

Grotesque bat kept in a pickle jar for 30 years is actually a brand new species: Creature with pointed teeth is dubbed Francis' Woolly Horseshoe

The newly-discovered bat has been named Francis' Woolly Horseshoe Bat, (Rhinolophus francisi) after Charles Francis who collected the specimen in Malaysia in 1983.

Need friends? There's an app for that: Google launches 'Who's Down' tool to find people near you who want to go out

The free app, which is currently invite-only, lets you confirm you're 'down' for an activity. Nearby friends will see your status and be given the option to join you.

Don't want Windows 10? Check your settings! Microsoft to begin automatically upgrading user's machines

New Microsoft logo is seen above the entrance to a company store in Seattle, America. Microsoft Corp.'s net income fell 22 percent in the latest quarter as it deferred revenue from the sale of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system to PC makers, and as PC sales in general took a dive. The software company's net income was $4.47 billion, or 53 cents per share. That was down from $5.7 billion, or 68 cents per share, a year ago, and exceeded analyst estimates, which had been in the 50-52 cent range. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

The firm said early next year it will begin automatically downloading and starting to install Windows 10 to users of Windows 7 and 8.

Millions of starfish along Pacific coast are dying due to a mysterious disease that causes the sea stars to 'essentially devour themselves'

Scientists are shocked by the epidemic of colorful starfish that are committing suicide along North America's Pacific coast. They are working to determine what has triggered this epidemic.

Being obese IS in your genes! Well, just one to be precise: Mutation 'triggers weight gain by stopping you feeling full'

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health identified a rare version of the BDNF gene, which causes people to produce lower levels of the BDNF protein, which in turn regulates appetite.

The world's rarest whale Omura is captured on film for the FIRST time

Omura, the world's rarest whale is captured on film for the FIRST time

Footage of the little-known species was filmed by an international team of biologists off the coast of Madagascar. Up until now there had never been a confirmed sighting of Omura's whale in the wild by scientists and as such their numbers are unknown. Small for a blue whale, Omura's whale were feared to be extinct until recently and the only sightings of the mammal had been beached animals in Japan and Australia. Along with the incredible video, the team has now catalogued 25 individual Omura's whales.

Who drew a swastika on the steppe 8,000 years ago? NASA images reveal riddle of giant drawings that can only be seen from the air

Known as geoglyphs, researchers believe the structures in the Turgai region could reveal details about ancient rituals in the area, but so far, progress in trying to decipher the shapes has been slow.

Self driving cars are FIVE TIMES more likely to have an accident, researchers reveal (but they say it's human drivers who are at fault)

Researchers found self-driving vehicles had 9.1 crashes, compared to just 1.9 for those with a human operator. However, the report found that none of the accidents were the fault of the self driving car.

Mystery of the Ceres bright spots may soon be solved: Dawn probe is plunging towards the dwarf planet to study the 'alien' marks

Nasa's Dawn spacecraft will descend to 235 miles (380km) above the surface of Ceres in a seven-week manoeuvre that will give scientists their closest look yet at the mysterious bright spots.

Electronic SKIN can 'feel' heat and pressure at the same time: Film is so sensitive it can tell when a human hair is placed on it

The electronic skin (illustrated) was developed by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, led by Professor Jonghwa Park.

Google could soon know if you're depressed... or even suicidal: Firm hires expert who believes wearables may one day track our mental health

Google Life Sciences recently hired leading mental health expert Dr Thomas Insel. In a recent interview he discussed plans for sensors 'that give objective measures of your behaviour.'

Think YOU'VE had a bad week? Astronauts reveal the times they were perilously close to death while in space

Astronauts have revealed the times they diced with death while in space. This included terrifying experiences such as dealing with a fire inside a spacecraft and getting covered in toxic ammonia.

Enceladus up close: Cassini sends back first images after diving through icy plumes in search for life on Saturn's moon

NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunges through Saturn moon Enceladus's icy plumes

Scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have released the first images from the Cassini spacecraft after its dived through plumes of ice and water vapour at speeds of more than 19,000mph. The icy spray (bottom left) is the closest a spacecraft has come to sampling the ocean that is thought to exist deep beneath the frozen crust that covers Enceladus (main image). Although it has no way of directly detecting life, it is hoped data from the flyby will reveal whether the conditions on the distant moon make it hospitable to life.

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Spirals of dust around stars could be hiding Earth 2.0: Stellar material may be disguising massive planets, claims study 

Spirals of dust around stars may be disguising Earth 2.0, claims study 

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, say the discovery could not only help find new planets, but also offer a look into how planets are created in the first place. Ground-based telescopes have photographed two large-scale spiral arms around two young stars, SAO 206462 and MWC 758. To make the grand-scale spiral arms seen in the SAO 206462 and MWC 758 systems, the unseen planet would have to be bulky, at least 10 times the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.

Did DOLPHINS attack a pilot whale off Skye? Calf with teeth marks to its body, flippers and fin had to be put down

The three-year-old calf had to be put down by a vet after it was found stranded and badly injured on a beach in Dunvegan, in Skye.

Teaching old robots new tricks: Machines swap knowledge about how to complete a task despite being hundreds of miles apart

The training robot, called PR2, was built at Cornell University and was trained using an online game called TellMeDave. The learning robot, Baxter, was built and is based at Brown University.

No more plastic in shower gels and face scrubs: Cosmetics firms pledge to remove harmful microbeads to protect the oceans

Cosmetics Europe, which represents 4,000 manufacturers of personal care products, has recommended its members discontinue the use of plastic microbeads (pictured) by 2020.

Won't the real Slim Shady please speed up? How listening to Eminem while running can boost performance by 10 per cent 

Music by Eminem (pictured), The Script and by Swedish House Mafia all had beneficial' effect on fatigue and endurance, a study at Hartpury University Centre in Gloucestershire revealed.

'Climate plans do not go far enough': UN warns that national pledges must go further to prevent dangerous warming of over 2°C

The report comes a month before crunch talks in Paris when the UN believes national plans will form the foundations of a binding global treaty on climate change.

How having children can mean a longer life for women: Study finds mothers are 20 per cent less likely to die early

The researchers from Imperial College London also found breastfeeding is linked to a longer life, as is taking the pill, after a study which took 13 years and analysed the lives of 322,972 women.

Don't hate a cheater, hate their GENES: Video explains the science behind what makes people have affairs

The video, called The Science of Cheating, was produced by Toronto-based Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown from AsapScience.

How to avoid Uber's surge price: Scientists reveal how the car service's algorithm increases prices - and how to beat it

Based on data from Uber's operations in New York, Northeastern University has found waiting five minutes, or walking a few short blocks could cause the surge notification to disappear.

The gigantic 'crack in the earth' in Wyoming: Landslide in the Big Horn Mountains causes canyon-like gash - and it could get even bigger

Wyoming landslide in the Big Horn Mountains causes canyon-like gash

Photos of a so-called 'crack in the earth' have emerged online. The gigantic opening was spotted in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming this month. Now, a geologist has suggested it is in fact a 'slow-moving landslide.' Wyoming Geological Survey's Seth Wittke has said 'From what I've seen on the Internet it looks like a slow-moving landslide.' He said 'A lot of landslides are caused by subsurface lubrication by ground moisture or water and things like that, or in this case, a spring.' Wittke said the crack may get larger 'as long as there's room for it to move it could keep moving.'

The Martian medical crisis: Nasa warned over health hazards for astronauts on missions to the red planet

Film: The Martian (2015) with Matt Damon as Mark Watney. This photo released by 20th Century Fox shows Matt Damon in a scene from the film, "The Martian." (Aidan Monaghan/20th Century Fox via AP)

Nasa has been warned it needs to move quickly to keep its astronauts alive and well on missions to Mars, according to an in-house report issued Thursday.

This space isn't big enough for the two of us! Jupiter bumped giant planet OUT of the solar system four billion years ago

Astrophysicists at the University of Toronto, studied the trajectories of Saturn and Jupiter's moons to conclude the red giant probably ejected another planet from the solar system.

Now you can hide your ex in Google Photos: Updates to Android app lets you easily remove bad memories

According to a recent Google+ post, the new tool will mean that photos with that person will no longer appear under the 'Rediscover this Day' tab.

Smashing news for clumsy phone owners: Motorola claims its new handset is shatterproof and can be dropped without cracking the screen

Motorola says its new Droid Turbo 2 handset boasts the world's first shatterproof screen. It uses a series of technologies from a flexible screen to a hardened lens to protect the phone.

China gives go-ahead to begin building world's biggest 'megacollider' to try and understand Higgs boson god particle

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Magnet Facility, which is used to train engineers and technicians, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva on Febuary 10, 2015 ©Richard Juilliart (AFP/File)

China will begin work on the world's largest super-collider in 2020, a mega-machine aimed at increasing understanding of the elusive Higgs boson, state-run m...

Scientists reveal lithium-oxygen 'superbattery' that could give electric cars the same range as a full tank of gas

EMBARGOED TO 1800 THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 Undated handout photo of four experimental lithium-oxygen batteries being tested in a Cambridge University laboratory. A new battery developed by British scientists could pave the way to electric cars with the same energy storage capacity and endurance as petrol and diesel vehicles. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday October 29, 2015. In theory, one of the batteries would enable a car to travel from London to Edinburgh on a single charge. Compared with current batteries, it would also be a fifth cheaper and lighter. The "lithium-oxygen" battery, built by Cambridge University researchers, is more than 90% efficient and has a very high "energy density" - meaning it can store a lot of extractable energy. See PA story SCIENCE Battery. Photo credit should read: Tao Liu/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the i

Cambridge researchers say the Lithium-oxygen batteries, also called lithium-air batteries,
have the potential to deliver the same amount of energy as gasoline.

Is YOUR food safe to eat? £130 sensor scans meals for ingredients that could cause allergic reactions

Nima was developed by San Francisco-based 6sensorLabs. Electronic sensors inside Nima scan for traces of gluten in small food samples, at a level of at least 20 parts per million (20ppm)

The science of selfies: Neural network analyses 2 million pictures and finds females who show their hair, cut off their forehead and abandon their friends do best

***MUST LINK: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/ What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But once in a while these powerful visual recognition models can also be warped for distraction, fun and amusement. In this fun experiment we're going to do just that: We'll take a powerful, 140-million-parameter state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network, feed it 2 million selfies from the internet, and train it to classify good selfies from bad ones. Just because it's easy and because we can. And in the process we might learn how to take better selfies :) (reference) Yeah, I'll do real work. But first, let me tag a #selfie. Convolutional Neural Networks Before we dive in I thought I should briefly

Researchers trained a neural network designed to think like the human brain to analyse millions of selfies to find what works. They says the key is to be female, show your hair, but cut off your forehead.

Could James Bond REALLY fly a helicopter upside down? Scientists reveal whether stunts in Spectre and other 007 films are possible

Could James Bond REALLY fly a helicopter upside down in Spectre?

Top scientists and engineers from the likes of the British Airline Pilots Association and University of Manchester have studied stunts in James Bond films. They say that while some such as the helicopter roll in Spectre (pictured main), the electrocution of Odd Job (pictured top right) and Jaws' airborne fight (pictured bottom right) are possible, others such as Dalton's cello ride on snow are not. Helicopter pilot Mike Buckley from the British Airline Pilots Association says that it is possible to fly a helicopter upside down for a short period of time. 'Helicopter pilots are highly trained and this footage appears to be a Bo105 undertaking a very skilled manoeuvre with an expert pilot at the controls.' Bond, being Bond, has obviously undergone rigorous training.

Snapchat adds special effects to videos: 'Speed Modifiers' features lets you use slow-mo, fast-forward and rewind filters

'Speed Modifiers' tool allows you to slow motion, fast-forward, or rewind, simply by swiping sideways after shooting footage on iOS or Android.

Self-driving car 'teardown' reveals the companies that Apple could work with on its own rumoured vehicle

Based on the technology currently being used in a range of electric and driverless cars Re/Code has designed a graphic (pictured) showing all the companies currently involved in this space.

No more chilly behinds! $3,400 heated bench feels like 'sitting in a dry hot tub'

San Francisco-based company, Galanter & Jones, produce the heated Helios bench, which is made from metal and poured concrete, with heating elements embedded inside.

Nintendo unveils Miitomo: Firm's first smartphone game lets players chat using Mii avatars - but it won't be available until March

Miitimo (screenshot pictured) is Nintendo's first app with Tokyo-based mobile gaming company DeNA. Players will be able to customise their Mii avatars and chat to other players.

How often do YOU check your phone? Average user picks up their device 85 times a DAY - twice as often as they realise

The study led by Nottingham Trent University asked participants to estimate the amount of time they spend on their phone and compared it with their actual usage.

Why you want your boss to have a daughter and NOT a son: CEOs are nicer to their employees if they father a girl

Researchers from the University of Miami studied the decisions made by almost 400 CEOs. Almost 4% were women, and between them the group had a total of 1,000 children.

Can sharing a husband be GOOD for women? Polygamous households 'are wealthier and have healthier children'

Researchers at UC Davis looked at the established practice in parts of Tanzania. It found women in households with multiple wives, were generally better off than monogamous families.

How watching TV could kill you: Sitting in front of the box for more than three and a half hours a day linked to eight major diseases 

The National Cancer Institute in Michigan discovered that long-term TV watchers are at risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, influenza, pneumonia, Parkinson's and liver disease.

Is this where the first humans will set foot on MARS? Icy Deuteronilus Mensae could be home to astronauts on the red planet

Icy Deuteronilus Mensae proposed as home for astronauts on Mars

Scientists attending a Nasa workshop in Houston are discussing 45 possible landing sites (shown top right) for a manned mission to Mars including one beside the area where the film The Martian (bottom right) was set. Deuteronilus Mensae (pictured left) is thought to have rich deposits of glacier ice buried beneath the surface which could be exploited by astronauts to produce water while the crust there could help to answer key questions about the planet's history.

A three-parent baby step closer: Historic law change makes Britain the first country to sanction the creation of children with two genetic mothers and a father

Legislation that comes in force today allows doctors to use a complex form of IVF - developed by Newcastle University - to prevent devastating illnesses caused by faults in mitochondria.

Is this the world's first ECO-HOME? Stone Age house built in the hollow of an uprooted tree discovered a mile from Stonehenge

Archaeologist at the University of Buckingham claim to have found the remains of a Stone Age home built into the hollow of an uprooted tree at the site of Brick Mead, in Amesbury, Wiltshire.

Workers with a 'male brain' earn MORE than colleagues with 'feminine' minds: Being analytical boosts your earning potential

Dr Nick Drydakis, of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, carried out the research, which he says is the first study into brain type and wages in the UK.

Samsung unveils supersized 18.4-inch Galaxy View tablet so big it has a carrying handle built in

http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/samsung-galaxy-view-offers-a-new-dimension-in-mobile-entertainment-experience/ -- Samsung Electronics announced the Samsung Galaxy View, which delivers an unprecedented mobile entertainment experience by streaming video and media content on the largest Android mobile device on the market. With its large touchscreen display, video-optimized user interface and long-lasting battery life, the Galaxy View lets consumers seamlessly experience the best in video and media from a range of television and other service providers. ?At Samsung, we are committed to creating new possibilities and bringing our consumers the best mobile experience,? said JK Shin, CEO and Head of Samsung?s IT & Mobile Business. ?We are very excited to introduce the new Galaxy View, providing an entirely new way of consuming mobile video and entertainment.? The Galaxy View?s 18.4? Full HD screen is optimized for media consumption. From the screen size to content, the Galaxy View has

The giant Galaxy View will weight 2.65kg, and has a built in carrying handsle which can also be uswede as a stand. It dwarf's Apple's iPad Pro, which has a 12.9inch screen.

Rosetta's 'Most surprising discovery so far': Researchers stunned to find air surrounding comet rich with oxygen

Air surrounding the comet where a European probe landed last year is rich with oxygen, scientists have revealed.

Finally! Facebook clamps down on Candy Crush notifications: Removing annoying game requests is now a 'priority'

Mark Zuckerberg said the request was among the top voted questions he had received before his Townhall Q&A; at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

Race starts could give some athletes an 'unfair advantage': Long gap between 'ready' and 'bang' of the starting pistol can cost competitors a medal

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Utrecht believe the longer the gap between 'ready' and the 'bang,' the less responsive athletes become, and their performance can suffer.

Have scientists discovered a parallel universe? Bright spots from after Big Bang may be another universe bumping into our own

An astronomer from the California Institute of Technology says the signals suggest we collided with an alternative universe very different from our own shortly after the Big Bang.

Would your boss let you use this desk? $4,000 'dentist chair' workstation lets you sit, stand and even LIE DOWN as you type

Flexible Altwork Station lets you sit, stand and even LIE DOWN as you type

The chair-meets-desk is made in Sonoma County, California and the firm behind it claims it will make employees more productive, while boosting their health. It comprises a padded chair with a large metal arm on the left-hand side, which supports a table and mounted computer screen (shown in an upright position top right). The arm swivels out to create a work station that can be raised up and down, so it can be used as a standing desk (bottom right). But its most striking feature is that once reclined (left), the table and monitor move to enable a user to continue to work comfortably.

Would YOU bring deceased family members back to 'virtual' life? Scientist claims we could soon build a 'synthetic person' through social media

Simon McKeown, a lecturer at Teesside University, argues that within 50 years people people could be kept alive forever as avatars that can interact with their relatives.

What happens when you're about to die? Chemists explain exactly how death feels

A video , by the American Chemical Society, reveals how fear and pain change the brain's chemical make up. It also explains how the brain experiences an extra jolt of life just before before it dies.

The two moons that could host aliens: Nasa says it may soon find life-bearing oceans on Enceladus and Europa

Astronomers are studying Saturn's small moon Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon, Europa - both of which are believed to have habitable oceans that lie beneath their icy exterior.

A shocking discovery! Electric eels vary the strength of their electric pulses and can DOUBLE the charge to attack huge prey

Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has found electric eels have a special mode of attack for killing particularly large prey.

Forget X-rays, now you can see through walls using WI-FI: Device captures silhouettes and can even identify people when they're stood behind CONCRETE

RF Capture was developed at MIT. It works by scanning a room in 3D using signals through a wall. These signals reflect off everything behind it, including a person's body, to create a silhouette.

Do women make BETTER astronauts? Russia locks an all-female crew in space simulator for eight days to find out

Anousheh Ansari, the world's first woman space tourist, smiles just before boarding the spaceship at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, early 18 September 2006. The Russian-made Soyuz rocket left the Russian base in Kazakhstan at 0408 GMT, carrying a Soyuz TMA-9 capsule and its three passengers: Iranian-born US citizen and millionaire tourist Ansari, NASA's Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin. AFP PHOTO / MAXIM MARMUR (Photo credit should read MAXIM MARMUR/AFP/Getty Images) MAX027

For eight days, the female volunteers will live inside a wood-panelled suite of rooms at Moscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems.

Turn your iPhone into WEIGHING SCALES: Gravity app uses 3D Touch features to measure small items

Gravity was created by California-based design engineer Ryan McLeod who posted a blog about the development process on Medium.

RIP Facebook's 'Other' inbox: Social network rolls out Message Requests feature that lets ANYONE contact you

The announcement was made by Facebook's David Marcus. Message Requests will soon start appearing at the top of a person's main inbox in the Messenger app (pictured).

Tyrannosaurus rex was a CANNIBAL: Bite marks on a theropod bone confirm it was gnawed 'like a piece of fried chicken' 

Bite marks on a theropod bone confirm Tyrannosaurus rex was a CANNIBAL

The bone (pictured left) found with tooth marks (ringed) was found in Lance Formation, Wyoming. One groove in particular contained smaller parallel grooves alongside it. Palaeontologists said these serration grooves were likely made by a theropod dinosaur and the width of the larger grooves suggests they were made by a Tyrannosaurus rex (illustrated right).

Did DARK MATTER wipe out the dinosaurs? Exotic form of elusive material may have sent comet hurtling towards Earth

A leading cosmologist at Harvard University claims a dense disk of dark (illustrated) matter in the heart of the Milky Way may have sent a comet on a collision course with Earth.

El Niño is bad news for penguins: Dramatic changes in climate force birds to swim more than 80 miles further in search of fish

Between 1992 and 2010, experts from the French National Centre for Scientific Research fitted king penguins with trackers. This allowed them to track the birds in the Indian Ocean.

Why SINGING is the fast way to friendship: Chemicals released from the brain help us bond quickly

Men and women who did a singing lessons at night school became friends more quickly than those who signed up for other classes, researchers at Oxford University found.

Baby crying? Don't talk, SING! Infants are soothed for twice as long when they listen to melodies compared to speech

Psychologists from the University of Montreal, Canada, said babies get 'carried away' by music, suggesting they have the mental capacity to be enthralled.

The $80 billion bomber that will replace the B-2: Air Force picks Northrop Grumman to build next generation stealth aircraft that could even fly without a pilot 

B2 BOMBER NORTHROP GRUMMAN...The B-2 Stealth Bomber, made by the Northrop Grumman Corp. is shown landing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., in this undated handout photo. As President Bush considers a realignment of the nation's defense strategy, there is the possibility the government may place a new order for B2 bombers. The company is also a key member of the Lockheed Martin team that is bidding for a $200 billion contract to build the next-generation Joint Strike Fighter. If the Pentagon chooses the Lockheed fighter over a rivaldesign by Boeing, it would be another boon to Northrop, which would make avionics and radar equipment while assembling the center fuselage of the fighters. An announcement is expected Friday afternoon, Oct. 26, 2001. (AP Photo/Northrop Grumman)...F...A...USA

The Air Force has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp., maker of the B-2 stealth bomber, to build its next-generation bomber.

Apple reveals 'best year ever': $234 BILLION in revenue and 48 million iPhone sales in last three months boost world's biggest company

People queue to buy the last iPhone 6 in front of the Apple Store of the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were launched on September 19, 2014 in the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico and Singapore. The iPhone 6 is available in more than 20 additional countries since today, and 115 countries by the end of the year. AFP PHOTO/ GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Apple's quarterly revenue rose 22.3 percent as sales of iPhones jumped 36 percent, driven by the launch of the 6S and 6S Plus models last month.

Facebook rolls out Google Now-style 'cards': Site starts customising notifications based on your location, Likes and friends

The updates (pictured) began rolling out to US users on Android and iOS on Monday, but it is not known when or if the changes will be seen in other regions.

The decline of Android? Record number of users are abandoning mobile software in favour of Apple

During Apple's latest fourth quarter earnings call, boss Tim Cook said that 30 per cent of customers who bought an iPhone recently had switched from an Android-based phone. The Move to iOS app is shown.

Scientists discover a new human ancestor: 11.6 million-year-old fossil could be the last common family member of all apes

Scientists discover a new human ancestor

A new species of small ape, believed to be a common ancestor to humans, chimpanzees and gibbons, has been discovered in Spain. On the right is an artist's impression of what it may have looked like. Named Pliobates cataloniae, the species existed around 11.6 million years ago, before the evolutionary split between 'large apes' and 'lesser apes'. The discovery fills a gap in the fossil record, giving researchers another piece of information about the evolution of our species. The bottom left image shows the largest part of the skull that researchers discovered.

Identities of 'tens of thousands' of British people are being sold on the 'dark web' for less than £20 after cyber hacks on companies

Personal details of more than 600,000 customers stolen from companies in the UK last year. And they are available to buy on the black market of the internet for less than £20, it has been reported.

Aussies slur their words and use only two-thirds of their mouth to speak because early settlers spent most of their days DRUNK, academic says 

The Australian accent developed because so many early settlers were such big drinkers that the distortion to their speech caused a verbal hangover that persists to this day.

The tender side of a killer whale: Drone captures intimate pictures of marine predator nursing its newborn calf

The intimate moment, clearly showing a calf suckling, was captured off the San Juan Islands, North of Seattle.

'Stellarator' reactor to be turned on for first time: Strange twisted design could finally make fusion power a reality, say scientists

Dubbed Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), the reactor in Greifswald, Germany is hoped to continuously contain super-hot plasma for more than 30 minutes at a time.

Dinosaurs emerged from a baptism of FIRE: High oxygen levels meant massive wildfires swept the world 250 million years ago

Scientists at Royal Holloway University of London have found evidence of widespread fires (pictured) even in areas that were wet bogland during the Permian Period.

What REALLY killed Oliver Cromwell? Civil War leader died of a lethal combination of malaria and typhoid rather than a poisoning plot

The Historical Clinicopathological Conference at the University of Maryland has heard a new theory for what killed the man who led the English revolution against the monarchy.

A gadget fit for James Bond! $2,000 jetpack lets you 'fly' UNDERWATER at 6mph - faster than an Olympic swimmer

The x2 Sport Underwater Jet Pack is designed by Portsmouth-based firm, SCP Marine Innovation, which is raising money on Indiegogo to put the gadget into production.

Extreme solar storms battered Earth 1,000 years ago - and if they strike again they could cause widespread blackouts

An international team of scientists led by Lund University in Sweden have warned solar storms, which are eruptions on the sun (illustrated), could be much more powerful than first thought.

Controversial 'ghost pepper' gun that can cause temporary blindness is revealed (and immediately banned from Indigogo)

‘Ghost pepper’ gun is revealed and immediately banned from Indigogo

The Salt is a CO-powered air-gun that fires hollow plastic spheres filled with a potent powder. Created by Chicago-based start up of the same name, the device is a cross between a gun and pepper spray and has been created as an alternative to firearms for use in self-defence. Founders Adam Kennedy and Andy McIntosh were inspired to create Salt after a fatal shooting killed a young man just steps from their Chicago homes in 2014. The Salt rounds be used directly on an intruder, or shot close to them to create a cloud 4-5 feet in diameter that acts as a barrier against attack.

How women who wield power get a boost to their testosterone: Men's levels remain unchanged while women get a surge in hormone  

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tested male and female actors in a scene in which they fire an employee and found women's testosterone levels rose shot through the roof.

The town hit by 450 earthquakes in just TWO weeks: Seismic swarm hits San Ramon amid fears a 'big one' is coming

Geologists warn the earthquakes from the Calaveras Fault in California may continue for several weeks but have insisted the quakes may not herald a bigger disaster.

First humans in Northern North America: 11,500-year-old baby fossils show humans 'paused' as they spread across the globe

The 11,500-year-old skeletons found in Alaska are significant because the date of the burials is a few thousand years after the first dispersal of people from Beringia into the Americas.

The space station is swarming with GERMS: Study finds bacteria on the ISS that could cause skin problems for astronauts

A Nasa analysis of dust collected from the ISS found that Actinobacteria, a type of bacteria associated with human skin, made up a large proportion of the microbial community.

Robots could soon walk like HUMANS: System that mimics our gait will someday allow AI to join the army, say scientists

The technology, tested on the Atrias robot (pictured), was created by Oregon State University after studying the fluidity and energy efficiency of human and animal motion.

A 'ghost' in the system: Earth-like planet Alpha Centauri Bb spotted in orbit our closest star is just an ILLUSION

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford have reanalysed data concerning Alpha Centauri Bb, thought to be orbiting our nearest star, and found it may be an 'ghost' in the data.

Sabre-toothed tigers may have stopped mammoths destroying the planet: 'Hypercarnivores' kept the number of plant-eaters in check during the Pleistocene

The study, led by the University of California, estimated size ranges for Pleistocene predators using fossils and compared these sizes to the size of mammoths and mastodons.

Scientists reveal test that could tell exactly when a woman is about to go into labour

A pregnant woman expecting a baby boy. D4D5X5

Researchers from The University of Texas have uncovered a cellular signal in the amniotic fluid around the foetus that builds up when a pregnant woman is about to go into labour.

Take a ride on Elon Musk's Hyperloop: Concept video reveals what travelling on the high-speed futuristic capsules will look like 

Take a ride on Elon Musk's Hyperloop in this video

The video was designed by Taiwan-based TomoNews, which specialises in animating headlines and news stories. It shows people climbing into the bullet-shaped pods (top right) before hurtling along at 760mph (1,220 km/h) in what looks like a scene from sci-fi film Tron (left and bottom right). Elsewhere in the animation, screens appear in front of the passengers' eyes that show the proposed route. Hyperloop was unveiled by Elon Musk in 2013, who said it could take passengers the 380 miles (610km) from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes - half the time it takes a plane.

Listen to the MIAOW-sic! Composer creates album scientifically proven to relax cats by mimicking purring and incorporating mewing sounds

Composer David Teie, of Washington DC, created Music for Cats using real and virtual instruments as well as cat and bird noises.

Will Russia put man back on the moon in 2029? Ambitious lunar exploration mission is a 'high priority'

Russia's RSC Energia, which builds the country's Soyuz spacecraft, says it is building a new space vehicle specifically designed to take humans to the moon.

Project Loon gets ready for global lift off: Google plans to have a 'ring' of internet balloons encircling the Earth by next year

Google's parent company Alphabet is preparing to launch its next trial of the internet balloons in Indonesia and hopes to create a 'ring' of 300 floating hotspots before the year ends.

Fossils in flight! National Guard called in to airlift remains of a baby Pentaceratops out of New Mexico wilderness

Sgt. 1st Class Terrill Lee, from left, Sgt. James Ray and Staff Sgt. Noe Amador, secure the remains of a Pentaceratops, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, in the Bisti-De-Na-Zin Wilderness area south of Farmington, N.M. The fossils are encapsulated in heavy plaster jackets. They're being trucked to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque. (Jon Austria/The Daily Times via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

It is a unique sight - the full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, a plant-eating dinosaur with large horns that once roamed what is now North America, soaring above New Mexico.

Meet Motobot: Yamaha unveils robotic motorbike rider that can race round a track at 200km/h and - soon take on self driving cars

MOTOBOT Ver.1 (Technology exhibit)\nThis is an autonomous motorcycle-riding humanoid robot built around a fusion of Yamaha's motorcycle and robotics technology. R&D is currently underway with the goal of developing the robot to ride an unmodified motorcycle on a racetrack at more than 200 km/h. The task of controlling the complex motions of a motorcycle at high speeds requires a variety of control systems that must function with a high degree of accuracy. We want to apply the fundamental technology and know-how gained in the process of this challenge to the creation of advanced rider safety and rider-support systems and put them to use in our current businesses, as well as using them to pioneer new lines of business.

Yamaha said it will use the Motobot to improve rider safety -  but also hinted it will 'pioneer new lines of business' with the technology.

'A glimpse into the future of the living room': Dailymail.com's verdict on the Apple TV that brings apps to the big screen

Apple says apps are the future of TV, and while its new $149 box does have some issues, its combination of streaming services, games and other apps make it the best way to make your TV smart.

Bear-ly plausible! UFO spotter alerts UN to a 'baby bear' living on Mars complete with fur... or at least a similarly-shaped rock

UFO hunter, Scott Waring, who lives in Taiwan, said the 'creature' in the Nasa photograph of Gale Crater on Mars, has hair and is clearly living, although many people will think it's simply a rock.

Star Trek-style tractor beam becomes a reality: Device can lift and move small objects using sound 'holograms'

Scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Sussex have created a tractor beam that uses high intensity sound waves to create 'acoustic holograms' that can manipulate objects.

Mystery of the deep: Tourist baffled by bizarre SEA MONSTER captured on camera in Corfu

Harvey Robertson was on a boat trip on the west coast of Greece when he took pictures in a sea cave. He was shocked to discover an unidentifiable creature had been captured on film.

The face of a 10,000-year-old cave lion cub: Two incredibly well-preserved prehistoric babies discovered in Siberian permafrost

The discovery was made during the summer in the Sakha Republic, otherwise known as Yakutia, and scientists think the two 'sensational' cubs are the best preserved ever found.

Monkeys are heading to MARS: Russian scientists are training macaques to solve puzzles so they can travel to space in 2017 (but is it a one-way trip?)

Scientists from the Russian Academy of Science preparing four rhesus macaques (pictured) for space travel. This includes learning to use a joystick and solving puzzles.

Could the female sex hormone save soldiers on the battlefield? Army funds human trials of estrogen pills that could stem blood loss

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, who made the discovery, claims a single injection of the hormone can extend the 'golden hour' for blood transfusions to six hours.

Is this an 'alien probe'? Strange object set to sweep past Earth in 2017 (but it may just be space junk from the Apollo 12 mission)

Known as 1991 VG, the object was first spotted in 1991 by astronomer James Scotti at the University of Arizona. It's unusual because of its strange rotation and longevity in space.

Ancient warrior's tomb that has laid untouched for 3,500 years discovered in Greece alongside huge hoard of treasure including gold jewellery and signet rings 

The wooden coffin of the unknown soldier - evidently a person of some importance - was found on the site of the Mycenaean-era Palace of Nestor on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula.

Mystery of the moon's eerie 'horizon glow' solved: High-energy sunlight charges dust to make it float three feet in the air

A dust detector invented by University of Western Australia professor Brian O'Brien in 1966 has helped answer a question that's baffled scientists for decades.

London to New York in half an hour? Skreemr concept could travel FIVE times faster than Concorde

Designers Charles Bombardier and Ray Mattison envisage the craft could be launched using a magnetic railgun system to catapult it into the sky to reach a staggering Mach 10.

Can you crack the INDUS CODE? Scientists baffled by ancient carvings of mysterious civilisation that invented the toilet - and had no army

London-based Andrew Robinson, author of ' The Indus: Lost Civilizations', says digital approaches to finding patterns in their mysterious script may soon help decipher the Indus language.

Black hole caught SHREDDING a star: 'Tidal disruption' spotted in galaxy 'just' 290 million light years away

Astronomers at the University of Maryland, observed the event, which is the closest tidal disruption discovered in about a decade.

What will humans look like in 1,000 years? Video suggests we could develop RED eyes, have darker skin and be better looking 

The video, created by Canada-based AsapScience, describes a hypothetical scenario in which our bodies are part-human part-machine.

Pluto's family portrait is complete: New Horizons captures image of tiny double-lobed moon of Kerberos  

The new data shows that Kerberos appears to have a double-lobed shape, with the larger lobe approximately 5 miles (8 km) across and the smaller lobe approximately 3 miles (5 km) across.

William Shatner trolls Star Wars fans: Former Star Trek actor pokes fun at the film's characters on Twitter

In his latest series of tweets, the 84-year-old actor takes aim at the new poster for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', arguing that some of the characters look familiar.

Einstein was wrong: Groundbreaking test reveals spooky 'quantum entanglement' phenomenon IS real

A Dutch team proved the phenomenon using entangled electrons held in tiny diamond traps 0.8 miles (1.3km) apart on opposite sides of the campus at Delft University.

The end of toilet roll? Clip-on bidet could spell the end of 'barbaric' wiping with paper

Miki Agrawal, born in Montreal, Canada, has invented a mini bidet-like device called the Tushy that can be clipped onto most toilets.

Get ready for the battle of the home delivery drones: Wal-Mart set to take on Amazon and Google with fleet of unmanned craft 

DJI Drone Phantom 3 Professional, £1,159. store.dji.com source: http://store.dji.com/product/phantom-3-professional

Wal-Mart has applied to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones
for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse
inventories.

The kiss of DEATH: Hottest and largest double star system ever discovered where the suns are so close they are actually touching

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) say the system, named VFTS 352 (artist's impression pictured), lies about 160 000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Yuri Milner has 50 TVs at home, and he wants to stream Nasa on every screen

The 53-year-old Russian investor says he wants every single screen in his San Francisco home to display streams from Nasa's Kepler space telescope.

Labradors get middle-aged spread too! Canines pile on 2lbs a year until they are 4, risking obesity when they are mature

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh-led Dogslife Project said chocolate-coloured labs fare the worst, weighing on average 1.4kg (3lbs) more than the yellow and black variety.

When Tesla's autopilot goes wrong: Owners post terrifying footage showing what happens when brand new autonomous driving software fails

Two videos show US cars using the new software swerving out of their lane. Tesla says the autopilot functionality is still in test mode and full 'hands-off' driving is not recommended.

Watch out builders! Super-robot can move around construction sites and arrange bricks without any human help

In-situ Fabricator (pictured) has been designed at the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication laboratory by a team of experts led by Matthias Kohler.

Ancient arrowheads reveal the gory practices of Mayan 'life force' rituals: Ears, tongues and genitals were pierced so blood could be 'fed' to the gods

The arrows (pictured) were collected from five sites in Guatemala, including a temple at Zacpetén, where bloodletting ceremonies took place around 500 years ago.

Is ET a ROBOT? Astronomer Royal believes aliens have transitioned from organic forms to machines - and humans will do the same

British astrophysicist and cosmologist, Sir Martin Rees, believes if we manage to detect aliens, it will not be by stumbling across organic life, but from picking up a signal made by machines.

Never worry about a cracked screen again! Apple patent reveals plans for 'bumpers' that extend automatically when an iPhone is dropped

The patent was filed in April 2014 and awarded yesterday. The retractable 'bumpers' could be fitted to the front of a future device and extend if built-in sensors determine the phone is falling.

1,200-year-old Viking sword is found lying at the side of the road in Norway - in such good condition it could be used today

The sword (pictured) was found by a hiker in Haukeli in central southern Norway. It is 30-inches (77cm) long and is believed to date back to between 750AD and 800AD.

Loss of world's permafrost is 'unbelievable': Melting ice could release devastating quantities of methane and accelerate global warming, warns expert

Professor Vladimir Romanovsky has warned that permafrost in Alaska could start to thaw by 2070, which could trigger the release of methane frozen in the earth.

What caused the mysterious 'wormholes' on Pluto? Nasa baffled by pits and troughs hundreds of meters across and tens of meters deep

Mysterious patterns and pits found on Pluto

Each of the pits and troughs - typically hundreds of meters across and tens of meters deep - were spotted in the area, informally known as Sputnik Planum.

What's YOUR Cyber IQ? Security firm creates quiz to reveal how much you really know about protecting your identity online

The Cyber IQ test was compiled by Slovakian internet security firm Eset. It includes a total of 16 questions. The first question is divided into eight true or false statements.

Africa's vanishing lions: Predator population will HALVE in the next 20 years unless they are better protected

Lions in West and Central Africa have seen sharp declines since the 1990s and are most at risk of losing more than 50 per cent of their numbers in the next 20 years, a new study has warned.

Watch the amazing moment a rare black rhino is born: Captive birth gives hope to the critically endangered species

EXCLUSIVE: The footage, taken at Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury, Kent, shows the baby dropping to the floor before his mother, Damara, spins and looks at him for the first time.

The plague was infecting humans 3,300 years earlier than thought: DNA analysis of Bronze Age teeth reveals bacteria was widespread

The University of Cambridge say the ancestral plague would have been spread by human-to-human contact - until genetic mutations allowed the bacteria to survive inside fleas.

Now that really IS a mutant turtle: Archaeologists find bizarre pig snouted created once roamed Utah

This undated illustration provided by the University of Utah shows a pig-snouted turtle that lived alongside tyrannosaurs and duck-billed dinosaurs. A team from the Natural History Museum of Utah discovered the fossil of the strange-looking turtle in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in southern Utah. The University of Utah announced the discovery in a news release Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. The findings were published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. (Victor Leshyk/University of Utah via AP)

A strange pig-snouted turtle that lived alongside tyrannosaurs and duck-billed dinosaurs has been discovered in Utah.

Stellar 'nursery' found near the centre of our galaxy: Young stars spotted hiding in a cloudy region of the Milky Way

Astronomers using the Paranal Observatory in Chile has discovered a cluster of surprisingly young stars hidden within the dust in the central bulge around the centre of our galaxy.

Chemical signs that says baby is coming: Discovery could help doctors accurately predict when labour will take place 

It can strike at any time of the day and night and the first a woman knows it will happen is when her waters break. Researchers believe they have now found a chemical sign that could tell.

Cheese really is like crack: Study reveals the food triggers the same part of the brain as drugs

The University of Michigan study found that cheese is as addictive as drugs because of a chemical called casein that can trigger the brain's opioid receptors.

Cosmic rays to unravel Egypt's secrets: Advanced imaging may discover Queen Nefertiti's tomb and finally reveal how the pyramids were built

Architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan will use infrared technology and detectors to map two pyramids at Giza and the two Dahshur pyramids, south of Cairo.

Should using your phone HANDS-FREE in the car be banned? Drivers' attention is diverted for up to 27 seconds after talking

University of Utah researchers said that just because the ability to use voice commands - such as Siri and Cortana - are available to use in a car, doesn't mean they should be used.

The dawn of time pictured: Hubble captures spectacular images of the universe's oldest galaxies

Nasa and Esa used gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe.

The car that turns into a HOT TUB, a dashboard toaster and a two-storey convertible: Artist unveils weird and wacky vehicles to improve your daily commute

California based artist and inventor Steven Johnson has been dreaming up wacky designs for cars since 1962 during his commute to work, including a car with a toaster in the dashboard.

The phone screen that HEALS itself: $24 Innerexile protector uses microcapsules to automatically repair scratches in seconds

Taiwan-based Innerexile's screen protector is available to pre-order from Amazon for $24 (£16) for the iPhone 6 and 6s and $26 (£17) for the larger Plus models.

Mysterious UFO dubbed 'WTF' is on a collision course with Earth: Space junk will crash into the Indian Ocean next month

WTF1190F (circled in this image from a Hawaiian telescope) is set to crash into the Indian Ocean, around 40 miles (65km) off the southern tip of Sri Lanka, at 6:20 UTC on November 13.

Security services given new rights to spy on your phones and computers: 'Dizzying' range of electronic surveillance equipment set to be made available to MI5, MI6 and GCHQ under new laws

The new laws seek to give security agencies the right to access people's phones and computers and control them to carry out surveillance which they say is necessary to combat cyber-crime and terrorism.

Black just got blacker: Scientists create the darkest material ever made using microscopic rods and spheres

Inspired by the body of an Asian beetle, experts from Saudia Arabia have used the structure of the insect's scales to create an ultra-black material made of a nanorod attached to a nanosphere (pictured).

Mystery of the 'alien megastructure' SOLVED? Bizarre object is more likely to be a lopsided star than a Dyson sphere, blogger claims

Maine-based space blogger Jim Galasyn proposes that the dips in 'flux' around KIC 8462852 (pictured) are caused by the star having a lopsided disc, and two planets obstructing its view.

       

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Facebook's engineering manager Ari Grant said the problems were caused by two issues. The first was caused by 'CPU spin' in the app's network code that meant requests were being constantly repeated.

Car or spaceship? Self-driving minivan with interactive holograms and driveable airbag among bizarre vehicles unveiled at Tokyo Motor Show

Car manufacturers have revealed an array of self-driving, eco-friendly and connected vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show. Toyota revealed a space-age design for a hydrogen-fuel powered car (pictured).

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