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The game's creators Niantic acquired London startup Matrix Mill to make occlusion possible, using an AI that studies the incoming images to learn about them and obscure the digital characters.

Scientists believe the ancient amphibians lived in the rainforest in modern-day Myanmar during the late Cretaceous Period. Their remains were found trapped in tree sap.

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, has given a rare interview on his plans to commercialise the firm's terrifying robots.

People in the UK reporting themselves as very lonely remains at around 10 per cent - and has done since the 1940s, according to a scientist at St George's Hospital in London. (Stock image)

Surviving samples of this pre-solar dust are most likely to be preserved in comets that formed in the outer solar nebula, according to researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Researchers led by Kasia Gdaniec, the senior archaeologist with Cambridge county council, are excavating the site near Highways England's A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon.

Researchers say newborns face a huge host of issues, and warn that basic reproductive processes may simply not work in the Martian atmosphere.

Using Vaseline for cuts is a bad idea, researchers claim. A study led by the University of Leeds found Vaseline stops the body forming its own ‘natural plaster’.

Tesla's Model 3 sedan recorded more registrations in California than its class rivals BMW 3-Series and Mercedes C-Class in the first quarter.

German researchers studied crab spiders to understand how the arachnids 'fly'. They make 'paragliders' from dozens of thin silk fibers to catch the wind.

On Tuesday the 48-foot hull of an 18th century shipwreck washed ashore on Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida. Researchers race the tide to collect enough data to recreate the wreck into a 3-D model.

The Ultra HD trial coverage on BBC iPlayer includes every match from the Wimbledon Centre Court throughout the tournament. Pictured is last year's winner, Spain's Garbine Muguruza

As scientists remotely explore the area using unmanned aircraft, Kilauea shows no sign of letting up; just this morning, it launched a plume 6,000 feet above sea level in yet another explosive event.

Dr Brenna Hasset of the Natural History Museum in London led the team of physical anthropologists at the archaeological dig site at Başur Höyük, in Upper Tigris region of southeast Turkey.

Professor Mark Miodownik, of University College London, said Leeds City Council was working with a team of engineers and designers to pioneer the idea of 'self-repairing cities'.

A pair of American astronauts began a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swap and check on two external cooling boxes, nicknamed 'Leaky' and 'Frosty.'

Experts at Exeter University says the 'superconcrete'  is more than twice as strong and four times more water resistant than existing concretes.

The picture, one of the first images returned by Dawn in more than a year, shows a rough landscape with a relatively smooth surface.

A Portland woman was shocked to discover that her voice-activated Echo device recorded and sent audio of a private conversation to one of their contacts without their knowledge.

University of Alberta paleontologists discovered a new species of marine lizard. It lived 70 to 75 million years ago in shallow waters and was found in Puglia, Italy.

Researchers from Montpellier Medical University in France are using 3D scanners to create 'virtual cadavers' for medical students to learn on.

The skeleton was found around 37 miles (60km) from Venice in the Po valley and had 'particular lesions' on the right heel. It was analysed by Italian researchers led by the University of Ferrara.

Former Le Mans winner Romain Dumas took the I.D. R Pikes Peak prototype up in a time of seven minutes 57.148 seconds on the 19.9 km mountain road on Sunday.

The Boeing-sponsored GoFly contest has announced the first phase winners. Ten teams won $20,000 based on a written report submitted to the competition.

An Oregon lab is still working to identify the wolf-like creature that was killed on a ranch in Montana in May. Scientists said the animal belongs to the dog family, which includes dogs and foxes.

A rare and endangered green turtle died just two days after washing up in the eastern province of Chanthaburi, Thailand. The country is one of the world's largest consumers of plastic.

The secretive DARPA X-Vehicle project is designed to protect troops, and allow them to go almost anywhere.

Experts have described the site, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, as having 'international significance' after organic material like bone and wood was preserved by natural spring waters in the area.

Specialists from Microsoft's New York research lab has revised datasets used to train the system, as well as gathered new data that focused specifically on skin tone, gender and age.

Feeling pain is vital to a fully-functioning limb as the sensation helps us to remove our bodies from danger, according to the researchers at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Maryland.

The test program could make Kroger the first U.S. grocer to make deliveries with robotic cars that won't have a human riding along to take control in case something goes wrong.

An Independent Review Board (IRB) unanimously recommended that the project should go ahead after massive delays and cost overruns. NASA now plans to launch on March 30, 2021

Roll clouds form when a downdraft from an advancing storm causes moist warm air to rise. This then cools below its dew point and forms a tube-cloud. This roll cloud was spotted in Adamsville.

The new vehicles will replace the aging fleet of expensive-to-maintain flat-bottomed amphibious assault vehicles in service since 1972. It is designed to protect Marines in transit from sea to shore.

The concept was created by the firm set up by acclaimed designer Norman Foster, best known in the tech world for his work on Apple's 'spaceship' campus in Cupertino, California.

Experts from the US Strategic Command's Joint Space Operations Center, located at Vandenberg Air Force Base, monitored the drop in altitude for ten days from June 13.

A striking image shared by NASA shows the dramatic atmospheric changes caused by the ‘planet circling’ event in the last few weeks, with sites that were once clearly visible now obscured by dust.

These incredible images from iFixit reveal several surprises inside the handset. Apple managed to cram in two batteries for instance, allowing them to arrange them in an L shape to optimise space.

A stunning new map from Imgur user Fejetlenfej shows the complex network of rivers and streams in the contiguous United States, highlighting the massive expanse of basins across the country.