Living Well

• newDire needs of southern African flood survivors unmet two weeks on
  By Liisa Tuhkanen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two weeks after floods first swept across southern Africa, tens of thousands of people urgently need clean water, food, shelter and medical care, aid agencies said on Friday, as more rain was fo…
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• Australian boy, 4, gets 'world first' artificial pancreas

  

  A four-year-old Australian boy has been fitted with an artificial pancreas in what researchers said was a world first treatment for managing type 1 diabetes.
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• Bisphenol A 'poses no health risk' says EU

  

  The EU food safety watchdog said Wednesday that bisphenol A, a chemical used in food can linings and other products, poses no health risk to consumers.
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• Obama calls for major new personalised medicine initiative
  President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday that his administration wants to launch a new push to use personalized genetic information to help treat diseases like cancer and diabetes. Obama urged Congress in his address to…
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• Pneumonia raises risk of heart disease, stroke

  

  People who are hospitalized for pneumonia face a higher risk of heart attack or stroke in the following weeks and months, Canadian researchers reported on Tuesday.
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• EU health chief says no clear majority yet for U.S. trade deal

  

  No clear majority has so far emerged among EU states for a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the United States and both sides need to explain the benefits of such a deal, the EU's health chief said. Chancellor Angela Merkel has urg…
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• 'Lifestyle' diseases kill 16 mn prematurely

  

  Diseases linked to lifestyle choices, including diabetes and some cancers, kill 16 million people prematurely each year, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action to stop the "slow-moving public health disaster".
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• Labour pledges ban on unhealthy children's food

  

  The opposition Labour party said on Thursday it would ban unhealthy children's food if they win a national election in May, setting out a hands-on approach to improving public health and reducing the burden on the stretched healthcare system. Ahead…
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• US approves new weight-loss device for obese people

  

  US regulators on Wednesday approved a new kind of pacemaker-like device that aims to help people lose weight by stimulating a nerve that runs from the brain to the stomach.
  - 10 days ago 14 Jan 15, 8:32pm -
• AstraZeneca heart drug boosted by major clinical trial success

  

  By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca's blood-thinning drug Brilinta cut the risk of death or heart attack in patients with a history of previous attacks, according to a major clinical trial that will boost hopes for the closely watched pr…
  - 10 days ago 14 Jan 15, 10:15am -
• Hi-tech trackers will play big role in fitness in 2015 - experts
  By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans will continue to flock to indoor cycling, interval training, group fitness classes and other calorie-burning activities in 2015, but now hi-tech devices will monitor their every waking - and sleepi…
  - 12 days ago 12 Jan 15, 2:04pm -
• Obese preschoolers may slim down with Head Start, study says

  

  CHICAGO (AP) — Head Start programs have been shown to help poor children do better in school, but they may also help them fight obesity, a study suggests.
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• China arrests over 110 people for selling contaminated pork
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has arrested more than 110 people, suspected of selling pork from pigs that died from disease, and confiscated more than 1,000 tonnes of contaminated pork in its latest crackdown on food safety violations. The Ministry of P…
  - 12 days ago 12 Jan 15, 12:50am -
• 'Belty' offers tech solution to weighty problem

  

  Wearable tech can sometimes cut right to the chase: that's the case with "Belty," a smart belt unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show which aims to help people lose weight.
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• Court orders Nevada to say what's in prison food
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A convicted pedophile's complaint about Nevada prison food has the state Supreme Court ordering an accounting of what's in unnamed sack lunches and "chef's choice" dinners given to inmates, and whether the meals are healthful.
  - 16 days ago 8 Jan 15, 10:38pm -
• 5 things to look for as govt writes new dietary advice

  

  WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, the government has told Americans to eat their vegetables. A rewrite of the government's dietary guidelines could include some new advice, too, on sugar, salt, meat and caffeine.
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• Ruling puts foie gras back on California menus

  

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California restaurants can once again feature foie gras after a federal judge cut loose the ban on the fatty goose liver's sale in the state.
  - 16 days ago 8 Jan 15, 7:11am -
• Post-traumatic stress doubles diabetes risk in women

  

  Women who suffer from post-traumatic stress are almost twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as women not affected by the disorder known as PTSD, a US study said Wednesday.
  - 17 days ago 7 Jan 15, 7:50pm -
• 'Healthy obesity' does not last, says study

  

  People who are obese may appear healthy for a while but their condition declines over time, said a study out Monday that followed more than 2,500 people for 20 years.
  - 19 days ago 5 Jan 15, 8:49pm -
• Not all obese people prone to poor health: study

  

  US scientists encouraged 20 obese people to eat extra fast food for several months, and found that about a quarter stayed in good health despite the additional pounds they gained.
  - 21 days ago 3 Jan 15, 6:46am -

The Daily Mash

• newAdrian Chiles becoming a badger
  ADRIAN Chiles has been dropped from ITV's football coverage after admitting he is undergoing a series of operations to become a badger.
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• newLife not worth looking up from your phone for
  THE people, places, objects and locations that make up the physical world are not as fulfilling as smartphones, it has emerged.
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• newPicky bastards making vague claims to have OCD
  FUSSY, demanding people are hinting that they have mild OCD as a means of justifying their behaviour.
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• World hits snooze on Doomsday Clock again
  THE world has greeted news that the Doomsday Clock stands at three minutes to midnight by reaching sleepily out and pressing the button that shuts it up.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 10:31am -
• Tutankhamun’s beard actually a chair leg
  THE facial appendage on Tutankhamun’s burial mask is a hastily-attached chair leg, it has emerged.
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• Fake Sheikh ascends to Saudi throne
  UNDERCOVER reporter Mazher Mahmood, posing as an Arab sheikh, has become the new ruler of Saudi Arabia.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 9:27am -
• FA Cup romance turns to lust
  THE FA plans to tone down the romance of the FA Cup after a fan broke into Wembley Stadium and made love to the trophy.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 9:03am -
• World Economic Forum degenerates into money fight
  DISCUSSIONS at the World Economic Forum have been derailed by world leaders throwing bundles of Euros and dollars at each other.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 8:41am -
• Levi Roots launches Post-Punk Post-Punk Sauce
  DRAGONS’ Den entrepreneur Levi Roots has announced a new condiment inspired by obscure early 80s experimental rock music.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:10pm -
• Page 3 returns with animal nipples
  THE Sun has reinstated semi-naked females on its third page, but will stick with non-human species.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 11:03am -
• Berahino ‘not for sale’ except if money involved
  SAIDO Berahino will not be leaving West Bromwich Albion under any circumstances except in exchange for a large sum of currency, it has been confirmed.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 10:31am -
• Most people go to cinema just to be annoying
  THE majority of cinemagoers only do it to annoy strangers by talking and making rustling sounds, it has emerged.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 9:51am -
• Wolf Hall viewers still waiting for wolf
  VIEWERS of Wolf Hall have complained to the BBC that it did not feature the promised wolves.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 9:12am -
• Internet providers to block images of expensive shit that kids want
  PARENTS have welcomed a move by broadband providers to shield children from images of desirable toys.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 8:58am -
• Minimalist cigarette packets make smoking cool again
  THE government's contemporary plain packaging for cigarettes has made them desirable once again.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 8:53am -
• Iraq report could be damaged by frost, claims Chilcot
  IF the Chilcot report into the Iraq War is released before the general election it could be killed by a late frost, it has been claimed.
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• Cows to get minimum wage
  BRITAIN's bovine milk suppliers are to receive a guaranteed income for their bodily secretions.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 11:15am -
• State school alumni dominating the boring menial jobs sector
  MORE must be done to stop state school pupils monopolising all the repetitive low-paid jobs, it has been claimed.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 10:39am -
• Mirallas unsuccessfully tries to park Baines’s car
  EVERTON midfielder Kevin Mirallas has damaged team mate Leighton Baines’s car after deciding to park it for him.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 10:10am -
• Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob
  Taurus (20 APRIL - 20 MAY)Remember, bad dreams aren't real, they're just your subconscious sketching out scenarios that have every chance of occurring in the near future.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 9:38am -

Famous astronomers and physicists

Business & Finance

• newBank president urges UK to stay in EU
  The president of a US investment bank says Britain should stay in the EU to ensure London remains a "great financial capital of the world".
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• newVIDEO: SkyMall files for bankruptcy
  SkyMall, the catalogue found on most US airlines and popular for selling quirky products like garden gnomes and "orbit wheels", has filed for bankruptcy.
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• newThe man with 26 million students
  The young entrepreneur tackling the 'skills gap'
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• newThe pitfalls of trying to find a decent savings rate
  Can things get any worse for beleaguered savers?
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• newSaxo Bank faces £70m Swiss losses
  Danish currency trading specialist said it could afford to absorb losses if customers failed to meet their obligations
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• newPound at new high against euro
  Investors respond to Mario Draghi's plan to revive flagging eurozone economies by selling the euro, pushing sterling to a seven-year high.
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• newLi Ka-shing set to buy O2 for £10bn
  Asia's richest person Li Ka-shing confirms his company is offering to buy Britain's second-largest mobile provider O2 for up to £10.25bn ($15.4bn).
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• newDeal fever fuels sharp FTSE 100 rise
  Blue-chip index posts biggest weekly gain since 2011 in the wake of ECB stimulus and £10bn takeover of O2
  - 17 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 6:07pm -
• newEconomist chooses first female editor
  The influential 172-year-old publication sells 1.6m print copies a week
  - 18 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 5:10pm -
• newThe man who wants to add O2 to Three
  Li Ka-shing: The man who wants to add O2 to Three
  - 18 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 4:40pm -
• newCarney: Tech firms' tax 'very small'
  The amount of tax paid by some technology firms is "very small" relative to their returns, the governor of the Bank of England says.
  - 19 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 4:09pm -
• newVIDEO: Carney welcomes ECB stimulus
  The governor of the Bank of England welcomes the European Central Bank's decision to roll-out a €1.1 trillion (£834bn) stimulus package.
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• newApple's Tim Cook salary up over 40%
  Tech giant Apple's chief executive Tim Cook's base salary was increased by nearly 43% in February last year, according to the company.
  - 19 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 3:37pm -
• newVIDEO: Botswana's first youth radio station
  Founder of Yarona FM, Percy Raditladi, talks about the rise of the radio station and its plans for the future.
  - 20 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 3:10pm -
• newVIDEO: Kenyan media: Is it profitable?
  With 20 privately-owned television stations and over 370 radio stations, Kenya's media industry is vibrant but not necessarily lucrative.
  - 20 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 2:48pm -
• newEnergy firm price cuts are 'token'
  Energy firms are being accused of "token price cuts" and failing to pass on larger savings to their customers.
  - 20 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 2:27pm -
• newWhat next for Saudi oil policy?
  BBC economics correspondent, Andrew Walker, with his assessment of what a new ruler in Saudi Arabia will mean for oil policy.
  - 20 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 2:19pm -
• newWhat makes a good business leader?
  Are chief executives human enough?
  - 21 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 2:16pm -
• newVIDEO: Osborne against 'major tax rises'
  Chancellor George Osborne has rejected claims that "major tax rises" are needed to fund the UK's public services.
  - 21 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 1:47pm -
• newVIDEO: The rise of India's US franchises
  India is one of the top three target markets for US franchises looking to expand.
  - 22 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 1:12pm -
• newEurozone growth picks up, survey says
  A key survey of eurozone business activity reached a five month high in January, but firms are cutting prices at their fastest rate in five years.
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• newBlack Friday 'may have hit Christmas'
  For some shops, UK retail sales in December may have been hit by Black Friday sales in November, ONS says.
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• UK car production at seven-year high
  Car plants in the UK produced more than 1.5 million vehicles last year, the most since 2007, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
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• Benefits cuts 'cost families £489'
  Coalition austerity changes to taxes and benefits have cost the average UK household £489 a year, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 10:27am -
• VIDEO: Who would you put on a banknote?
  BBC Breakfast asks members of the public whose face they would like to see on Bank of England notes.
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• Jimmy Choo 'delighted' with growth
  Designer shoe maker Jimmy Choo reports yearly net revenue growth of 12%, with Asia its strongest region.
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• Chinese manufacturing growth stalls
  Activity in China's vast manufacturing sector contracted for the second consecutive month, according to a preliminary survey on Friday.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 5:28am -
• VIDEO: Davos focus turns to climate change
  Climate change poses huge potential risks to global economies and will be high on the agenda at Davos.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 3:34am -
• South Korea growth hits six year low
  Growth in South Korea - Asia's fourth largest economy - fell to a six year low in the fourth quarter of last year, latest figures show.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 3:34am -
• Ellen MacArthur's circular economy
  Why Ellen MacArthur is still going around in circles
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• VIDEO: The Business of Tennis - Men v Women
  Have women tennis players smashed the gender pay gap?
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• Regret apps: Delete the embarrassing
  The business of taking back embarrassing messages
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• EU stimulus to 'reinforce' inequality
  The billionaire investor George Soros has warned that the aggressive stimulus policy rolled-out by the European Central Bank could "reinforce inequality" in the EU.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 10:19pm -
• Swiss fear hangover as ECB injects cash
  Swiss fear long hangover as ECB injects cash
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 8:17pm -
• Massive boost for eurozone unveiled
  The European Central Bank will inject at least €1.1 trillion into the eurozone economy through a huge bond-buying programme sending the euro to an 11-year low.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 7:31pm -
• Car-buying spree boosts borrowing
  Consumer borrowing hit a near seven-year high in November, mainly as a result of new car sales, Bank of England figures show.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 1:23pm -
• Olympic cities 'must allow' women
  The head of the International Olympic Committee says any country bidding to host the Games must make a commitment to "non-discrimination".
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:22pm -
• Royal Mail Christmas parcels up 4%
  Royal Mail says it delivered 120 million parcels during December, a rise of 4% on a year earlier.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:06pm -
• What is quantitative easing?
  What exactly is it and how does it work?
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 11:56am -
• Real stay top of football rich list
  Real Madrid again tops the Deloitte football money league, but English Premier League clubs take eight of the top 20 spots.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:11am -
• Cyber attacks worry Davos elites
  Cyber attacks worry Davos elites
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:03am -
• Brazil's tribal groups adopt tourism
  Helping Brazil's tribal groups make the most from tourism
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:01am -
• Davos 2015: In Pictures
  Queues, snowmen and CEOs
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 8:49pm -
• Tootsie Roll boss dies at age of 95
  Tootsie Roll chief executive Melvin Gordon dies at the age of 95 after leading the US confectionery firm for more than five decades.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 7:35pm -
• King confident over Rangers role
  Dave King insists his tax history in South Africa will not preclude him from becoming a director of Rangers.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 6:47pm -
• Targeting employment or unemployment
  Why Mr Cameron is targeting employment
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 6:18pm -
• Royal Mint revives 'refinery' brand
  The Royal Mint is to produce gold and silver bars under its "refinery" brand, last used nearly 50 years ago.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 1:21pm -
• The inspiration behind a bike light
  How UK entrepreneur Emily Brooke was inspired to develop a new bicycle light, the Blaze Laserlight, which as the name suggests, projects a laser onto the road.
  - 5 days ago 18 Jan 15, 11:39pm -
• The woes of Fukushima's sake brewers
  Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, sales of sake from the region have plummeted, with radiation fears putting off Japanese consumers and China banning their import.
  - 10 days ago 14 Jan 15, 9:17pm -
• The fast-food queen who beat adversity
  After her mother died when she was 17, Hala Moddelmog vowed to succeed in life, going on to lead two of the largest US fast-food firms.
  - 12 days ago 12 Jan 15, 12:18am -

Famous mathematicians

Space Exploration

• newMountain-Size Asteroid to Fly by Earth Monday: How NASA Will Watch
  A mountain-size asteroid will zoom past Earth Monday (Jan. 26), marking the closest pass by such a large space rock until 2027. Asteroid 2004 BL86, which is about 1,800 feet (550 meters) wide, will come within 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers)…
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• newNASA Finds Mysterious Bright Spot on Dwarf Planet Ceres: What Is It?
  A strange, flickering white blotch found on the dwarf planet Ceres by a NASA spacecraft has scientists scratching their heads. The white spot on Ceres in a series of new photos taken on Jan. 13 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is rapidly approachin…
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• newNASA spacecraft almost to Pluto: Smile for the camera!
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It's showtime for Pluto.
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• newPatrick Stewart Narrating NASA's 'Trek' to Mars in 'Journey to Space'
  An actor famous for his role commanding a fictional starship will narrate NASA's real 'trek' to Mars in a new giant-screen film. Patrick Stewart, who as Jean-Luc Picard helmed the USS Enterprise on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," is lending his vo…
  - 18 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 5:10pm -
• newRosetta reveals new details about comet
  The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which sent the Philae lander onto a comet's surface in November, has revealed unexpected details about these celestials balls of ice, dust, and rocky particles.
  - 19 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 3:41pm -

• newSurprise! Fish Lurk in Antarctica's Dark Underworld
  In a cold and dark underwater world, where a never-ending rain of rocks keeps the seafloor barren, researchers were startled to find fish, crustaceans and jellyfish investigating a submersible camera after drilling through nearly 2,500 feet (740 met…
  - 21 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 1:23pm -
• newHuge Milky Way Gas Bubbles Clocked at 2 Million Mph
  Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have clocked the speed of gas bubbles, known as Fermi bubbles, at a whopping 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h). "A few million years ago, there was a very energetic event at the galactic center, and we'r…
  - 22 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 12:21pm -
• newChina and Europe Will Team Up for Robotic Space Mission
  China and Europe aim to launch a joint space-science mission by 2021. On Monday (Jan. 19), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA) issued a call for proposals for a robotic space mission that the two organizations w…
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• newSee 3 Moons of Jupiter Perform Rare Triple Transit Friday Night
  On Friday night (Jan. 23), observers all across North America will witness a rare event when three of Jupiter's moons, and their shadows, pass across the face of the giant planet. As Galileo found early in the 17th century, Jupiter has four large, br…
  - 22 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 12:21pm -
• Saudi King Abdullah dies, new ruler is Salman
  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah died early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam said in an official statement. King Salman has named h…
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 2:06am -
• Strange Comet Discoveries Revealed by Rosetta Spacecraft
  Scientists are now getting an up-close-and-personal view of a comet flying through deep space, thanks to Europe's Rosetta spacecraft. The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has now found that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko's is even stranger…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 7:11pm -
• Gamma-Ray Signals from Beyond Our Galaxy Pinpointed for 1st Time
  Scientists have detected the origins of three bright gamma-ray signals from objects beyond our own Milky Way galaxy for the first time, including one signal from a strange "superbubble" of gas. The gamma-ray signals from three very different astrono…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 7:11pm -
• 100 Million Sun Photos! NASA Spacecraft Hits Shutterbug Milestone
  A telescope aboard a prolific sun-watching NASA spacecraft has captured its 100 millionth image of Earth's parent star. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), one of three instruments flying on the sun-studying Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), cap…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 4:54pm -
• NASA's New Curiosity Rover Science Chief Takes Charge On Mars
  Ashwin Vasavada knows he has some pretty big shoes to fill. Vasavada is the newly appointed project scientist for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, in charge of a team of nearly 500 researchers spread around the globe. He succeeds John Grotzinger, who st…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:39pm -
• Mysterious Signal Points to Monster Black Hole Merger
  A mysterious light signal from a faraway galaxy could point to two supermassive black holes finishing up a merger in the galaxy's core, new research reveals. Scientists saw repeating pulses from a quasar — a bright galactic core powered by at leas…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 10:20pm -
• Cosmic Impacts May Have Seeded Early Earth with Ingredients for Life
  Bullets of ice shot at high speeds can deposit organic compounds on surfaces they strike. Craters on the moon are evidence that the Inner Solar System was prone to giant impacts from asteroids and comets during a tumultuous era, known as the Late He…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 7:58pm -
• Virgin Galactic's Next SpaceShipTwo May Be Ready Soon (Video)
  The private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo is really starting to come together, just a few months after the first one broke apart during a tragic test flight accident. In a new video showing the next SpaceShipTwo, Virgin G…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 7:57pm -
• Asteroid 1,800 feet across to whip past Earth on Monday
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid up to 1,800 feet across is headed Earth's way. But don't worry: It will miss us by 745,000 miles, about three times the distance between Earth and the moon.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 7:39pm -
• Obama Hails NASA Astronaut Set for 1-Year Space Voyage in State of the Union
  President Barack Obama recognized the first American astronaut who will spend a year in space during the State of Union address Tuesday night (Jan. 20). NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station for a 12-mont…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 4:48pm -
• How Did Life Become Complex, and Could It Happen Beyond Earth?
  Instead of there being some kind of multicellular organism on, say, Jupiter's moon Europa, scientists instead aim to find something more like a microbe. Frank Rosenzweig, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Montana, is looking into such…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 12:49pm -
• Japan says jets scrambling at record pace to counter Chinese, Russian intrusions
  TOKYO (Reuters) - (This version of the story was corrected to say three quarters from three months in paragraph six.) Japanese air force jets are scrambling at a record pace to counter Chinese fighters intruding into its air space along its southern…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 5:10am -
• SpaceX raises $1 billion in funding from Google, Fidelity
  (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), founded by Elon Musk, said it has raised about $1 billion (0.65 billion pounds) in a financing round with two new investors, Google Inc and Fidelity. Google and Fidelity will collectively own just…
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• NASA Probe Snaps Amazing New Views of Dwarf Planet Ceres (Photos, Video)
  A spacecraft closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres in the solar system's asteroid belt has captured tantalizing new views of the huge space rock, revealing hints of craters and other structures on the surface of this mysterious body. NASA's Dawn spac…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 8:30pm -
• Milky Way 'Bones' Could Reveal Secrets About Our Galaxy
  Scientists are finding more evidence of a galactic "skeleton" lurking inside the appendages of the Milky Way, and studying these massive "bones" could help researchers get a better idea of what our galaxy looks like from the outside. At the time, on…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 5:49pm -
• Satellite startup Planet Labs raises $95 million
  Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists, said on Tuesday it had raised $95 million (62.67 million pounds) to help build its business of selling satellite images and data to customers. Data Colle…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 12:33pm -
• New Telescope in Chile Now Searching for Alien Planets
  A new alien-planet–hunting telescope has just come online in Chile, and it could help scientists peer into the atmospheres of relatively small planets circling nearby stars. The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS for short) — located at the Eu…
  - 5 days ago 19 Jan 15, 3:11pm -
• 1-Year Space Station Mission May Pave NASA's Way to Mars
  The first crew to embark on a yearlong International Space Station mission could help NASA get to Mars. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch to the space station in March with cosmonaut Gennady Padalka. Korn…
  - 6 days ago 18 Jan 15, 2:53pm -
• Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar System
  Researchers studied 13 ETNOs — frigid bodies such as the dwarf planet Sedna that cruise around the sun at great distances in elliptical paths. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+.…
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• UFO hunter believes Nasa cut off live feed when mysterious ship approached space station
  Related Articles Ancient Indians built airplanes and travelled to different planets? Radical claim raises controversy UFO sightings in 1950-60s: It was not aliens, 'it was us', reveals CIA UFO hunter believes Nasa cut off live feed when mysterious s…
  - 7 days ago 17 Jan 15, 8:13am -
• Record-breaking 2014 was hottest in modern history: US
  Record-breaking temperatures scorched the planet last year, making 2014 the hottest in more than a century and raising new concerns about global warming, US government scientists said Friday.
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 8:28pm -
• 2014 Was Earth's Hottest Year On Record
  Global temperatures in 2014 shattered earlier records, making 2014 the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880, U.S. scientists reported today (Jan. 16). Every continent set heat records last year, and the Pacific Ocean was unusually warm de…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 8:20pm -
• Digging for Space History in Surplus Sale of NASA-Flown Gold
  A government surplus auction is selling a NASA space artifact that may be worth its weight in gold. As of Thursday (Jan. 15), the gold plates had attracted seven bids totaling almost $160,000. They are currently the only lot listed under the website…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 8:03pm -
• Asteroids May Not Be Planet Building Blocks After All
  Asteroids have long been regarded as planetary building blocks. Asteroid fragments that fall to Earth as meteorites often contain tiny, round pellets called chondrules that formed when molten droplets quickly cooled in space in the solar system's…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 8:02pm -
• See SpaceX's Rocket Landing Crash Up Close with These Photos & Video
  An incredible video and series of photos show the fiery fate of a rocket stage during a reusable rocket test earlier this month. Elon Musk — founder of the private spaceflight company SpaceX — has released a series of amazing images detailing th…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 8:02pm -
• Barren Deserts Can Host Complex Ecosystems
  Life forms including bacteria, algae, fungi and lichens, as well as plants such as mosses and liverworts, can band together to create biological soil crusts in dry, nutrient-starved environments. "These are incredibly diverse microbial communities w…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 7:40pm -
• Dealing with Space Junk: The Rocky Road Ahead
  Following 50 years of space exploration and utilization, more than 22,000 pieces of space junk at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide are now being tracked in Earth’s orbit. In October, for example, the International Space Station had to be maneu…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 7:39pm -
• National Geographic: First Glimpse of the Hidden Cosmos
  These images appeared in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. In conjunction with the release of National Geographic's January 2015 issue of its magazine, Timothy Ferris discusses the hunt for dark matter and dark energy in this Q+…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 6:53pm -
• Painting Our Way to the Moon (Op-Ed)
  Edward Belbruno is a mathematician and an artist. His paintings are in major collections and exhibited throughout the United States, and he regularly consults with NASA from his position as a cosmology researcher at Princeton University. He is also…
  - 8 days ago 16 Jan 15, 6:52pm -
• Can Crowdfunded Astronomy Work? (Op-Ed)
  The U.S. budget crises over the last decade have been particularly harsh to physics and astronomy. In 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope was nearly defunded until public outcry ensured its continuing operation. In 2011, the U.S. House Appropriations C…
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• Beagle 2 Found 'Partially Deployed' On Mars
  The Beagle 2 was presumed to have been destroyed because it had not been seen or heard from since December 2003. But UK Space Agency chief executive David Parker has confirmed that photos taken by a Nasa orbiter spacecraft show it successfully lan…
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Flying Cars

• Flying car to be 'introduced to buyers'
  One person has been shot dead and a number of foreign-owned shops looted and torched in overnight violence in Soweto. The holidays have come and gone and so has your cash. We have some handy tips to help get you through the New Year's cash crunch...
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• Follow RoF
  The legendary Glamorous Solicitor showcases the style, the beauty and the sophistication for which the legal profession is so rightly known. A man has failed in his attempt to sue Disney for refusing to let him build a flying car shaped like a Star W…
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• AeroMobil flying car to be introduced to buyers at Top Marques Monaco
  The AeroMobil 3.0, a "flying car" that transforms into a two-seater light sport plane, is set to go on show to the public this spring at Top Marques Monaco. The Slovakian invention, created by CTO Stefan Klein and CEO Juraj Vaculik, runs on regular f…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 4:49pm -
• Car flies off overpass after low-speed crash
  Troopers are investigating a crash that sent a car flying off an overpass near Woodinvile. It happened on State route 9 where it runs over 522 early Monday. Troopers said a driver was going about 15 mph when they tried to pull him over. The driver sw…
  - 5 days ago 19 Jan 15, 2:40pm -
• Short Menu
  Ambulances flying over traffic in the future? Quite recently, a long-standing ambition of developing the aeromobile was realised. A flying car prototype was unveiled at a technology show in Vienna, Austria. Its body is steel and carbon-based with a l…
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• Disney Can't Be Forced Into Licensing 'Star Wars' Flying Car
  On Wednesday, the entertainment giant beat a lawsuit claiming it was "stalling the next evolution of human transportation on this planet."
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• Once-futuristic ‘flying car’ up for auction
  Barrett-Jackson to auction off the ‘non-functional’ Sky Commuter
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• Flying Car Prototype From 1990 Going Up For Auction
  Want to own your very own flying car? Will you settle for a prototype that never left the ground? Well then you're in luck! Because the Barrett-Jackson auction in Arizona has a 1990 prototype with your name on it. Read more...
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• Finally, a flying car for everybody?
  There may be plenty of idiots on the road, but is putting them in the skies taking it, quite literally, to the next dimension?
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• 'Flying car' now for sale
  Have you been waiting for your chance to buy a flying car? It’s here!
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Industry News

• newSettlements reached in so-called 'hot fuel' litigation
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Twenty-eight oil companies and retailers have agreed to settle litigation claiming customers were knowingly overcharged when gas station fuel temperatures rose, plaintiffs announced Friday.
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• newCanada's Mobilicity out of one airwaves auction, needs cash for another
  Struggling Canadian wireless operator Mobilicity will not bid for more airwaves in one upcoming government auction and is trying to secure funding to participate in another, its court-appointed monitor said in a filing on the company's website. Mobil…
  - 12 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 10:39pm -
• newBrazil's Oi open to all options as telecom consolidation looms
  By Luciana Bruno, Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Danilo Masoni RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO/MILAN (Reuters) - Oi SA, Brazil's most indebted phone carrier, is open to all options in a potential process of industry consolidation as long as the transaction hel…
  - 14 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 9:08pm -
• newExpedia Inc acquires Travelocity in $280 million deal
  Expedia Inc has acquired online travel agency Travelocity from technology company Sabre Corp for $280 million (187 million pounds) in cash, the companies said in a statement on Friday, as consolidation in the online booking industry continues. The d…
  - 15 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 8:01pm -
• newHutchison to buy Telefonica UK unit for 10.25 billion pounds
  By Julien Toyer and Denny Thomas MADRID/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd has agreed to buy Telefonica's British mobile unit O2 for up to 10.25 billion pounds, hastening the consolidation of Britain's telecoms industry. Hutch…
  - 16 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 6:36pm -

• newHuman 'Atlas' Reveals Where Proteins Reside in the Body
  A new, detailed map of the proteins found in human tissues reveals exactly which proteins are special to organs such as the liver or brain, and which ones are common across all tissues in the body. Understanding how protein production varies across…
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• newDavos bosses fret over threats to Internet free trade
  The issue is a hot topic at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, and the forum is seeking to provide a platform for debate over ways to maintain an open, cross-border Web in the face of pressures for national regulation. Quite frankly, there i…
  - 20 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 2:56pm -
• newExclusive - Samsung talks to BlackBerry about $7.5 billion buyout: source
  By Jennifer Ablan and Liana B. Baker NEW YORK (Reuters) - (Story corrects In paragraph 3 of Jan. 14 story, changes to Representatives from the companies, from Executives) Samsung Electronics recently offered to buy BlackBerry Ltd for as much as $7.5…
  - 20 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 2:27pm -
• newUber restarts service in Delhi; government says company still banned
  By Aditya Kalra and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber, the U.S.-based online taxi-hailing company, has restarted services in India's capital after a ban following rape allegations against one of its drivers, but a government official said t…
  - 21 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 1:29pm -
• newThree Dials O2 To Become Biggest Mobile Firm
  A cash deal of more than £10bn could lead to the creation of the UK's largest mobile phone operator, with Three taking over O2. Three's parent, Hutchison Whampoa - owned by the richest man in Asia, Li Ka-Shing - said it was in "exclusive negotiat…
  - 21 hours ago 23 Jan 15, 1:18pm -
• newAmazon, e-commerce rivals fuel commercial property boom in India
  By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Internet retailer Amazon and its fast-growing local rivals are driving a boom in commercial property leasing in India as their storage needs rise, with shoppers in the country going online to buy everything from t…
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• newFilmmakers blur lines with virtual reality at Sundance
  By Piya Sinha-Roy PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Whether putting moviegoers inside the yurt of a Mongolian tribe, in the studio with a musician or in the path of an oncoming train, filmmakers are blurring the lines of reality for viewers at this year's…
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• Dealmakers in Davos see more M&A despite geopolitical risks
  Some U.S. firms could also seek to benefit from a loophole allowing them to redomicile in Europe and use their overseas cash without having to pay U.S. taxes. In Europe, meanwhile, there will be a division between struggling companies looking at dea…
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 10:24am -
• Box to make market debut after delayed IPO prices at $14
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online storage provider Box has wrapped up its long-delayed IPO at $14 per share, setting up a test of investors' appetite for a rapidly growing technology company that hasn't proven it can make money.
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• Winklevoss twins aim to take Bitcoin mainstream with a regulated exchange - NYT
  (Reuters) - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are trying to firm up support by creating the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in the United States, dubbing it the "Nasdaq of Bitcoin", the New York Times reported. Representatives at Winklevoss Capital coul…
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 5:10am -
• Analyst-turned-fund manager basks in Xiaomi glow
  By Denny Thomas HONG KONG (Reuters) - Richard Ji, whose little-known fund was the biggest investor in leading Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc's [XTC.UL] $1.1 billion (0.73 billion pound) fundraising last month, is a numbers man looking to spot '…
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 2:19am -
• Box wraps up IPO at $14 per share to raise $175 million
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online storage provider Box has wrapped up its long-delayed IPO at $14 per share, setting up a test of investors' appetite for a rapidly growing technology company that hasn't proven it can make money.
  - 1 day ago 23 Jan 15, 1:12am -
• T-Mobile to offer new phone deals to people with bad credit
  T-Mobile says it will offer deals on new smartphones to customers with bad or no credit, regardless of how they pay, and charge no interest. The nation's No. 4 wireless carrier said Thursday that such ...
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• Weird Accident Damaged King Tut's Beard
  The beard on the burial mask of King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1332 to 1323 B.C., was hastily glued back on with epoxy after being knocked off during cleaning, according to conservators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Either…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 7:10pm -
• China air quality dire but 'improving'
  The skies of China's notoriously smog-filled cities saw a marginal improvement last year, according to figures released by Greenpeace Thursday, but pollution remained far above national and international standards.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 2:59pm -
• General Dynamics sees more demand for 'insider' cyber protection
  By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Dynamics Corp, a key provider of cyber services for the U.S. government, said recent high-profile cyberattacks were boosting demand from government agencies for better protections against breaches by so…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 2:44pm -
• Aqua-Spark investments aim to stop plunder of sea life
  An investment fund aimed at prospering while preventing overfishing from wiping out ocean life announced on Thursday it is pumping $4 million into two companies focused on smart farming of seafood.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 2:34pm -
• Reports: Google planning to sell wireless phone service
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is planning to sell wireless phone service directly to consumers using the networks of Sprint and T-Mobile, according to reports published Wednesday.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 3:51am -
• Microsoft springs hologram surprise, but long way to reality
  By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp surprised the tech world on Wednesday with a prototype hologram visor that can bring the Minecraft video game, Skype calls and even the landscape of Mars to three-dimensional life. The ageing tech pio…
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 2:31am -
• Microsoft shows off Windows 10 and 'HoloLens'
  REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off a new version of Windows — and a new wearable 3D gadget it calls the HoloLens.
  - 2 days ago 21 Jan 15, 10:48pm -
• Boy Entrepreneur Invents Lego Braille Printer
  A 13-year-old American boy is thought to be the youngest entrepreneur ever to receive venture capital after he invented a Braille printer using Lego. Proving that Silicon Valley wonder kids really are getting younger, Shubham Banerjee had his light-…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 10:33pm -
• Microsoft to show off more Windows 10 features
  Microsoft will use an event Wednesday to offer a wider glimpse of the next version of Windows. The company is planning to show off new features of its flagship operating system — and possibly an improved ...
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 6:35pm -
• Microsoft to offer up peek behind curtain of new Windows
  Microsoft will use an event Wednesday to offer a wider glimpse of the next version of Windows. The company is planning to show off new features of its flagship operating system — and possibly an improved ...
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 3:32pm -
• Israeli high-tech firms raise record $3.4 billion in 2014
  Israeli high-tech companies raised a record $3.4 billion in 2014 from venture capital and other private investors, led by the Internet sector, the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center said on Wednesday. Last year's total, in which 688 compani…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 1:33pm -
• Silicon Valley, new media get shoutouts in Obama's big speech
  President Barack Obama, whose team is famous for its social media prowess, pleased tech watchers on Tuesday with mentions of Facebook Inc's photo sharing site Instagram and other Silicon Valley companies in his State of the Union address. The White…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 12:09pm -
• In Gaza, an IT company has Google-sized aspirations
  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - His company may not rival Google or German software maker SAP yet, but Gaza-based IT entrepreneur Saady Lozon has plans to change that. In nine years, Lozon and his partner Ahmed Abu Shaban have transformed thei…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 12:07pm -
• In Netflix China push, domestic tech giants, online habits block path to success
  By Paul Carsten and Lisa Richwine BEIJING/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Netflix Inc tackles stalling U.S. growth, the online video pioneer known for hit political drama "House of Cards" plans a play for China that may see it lock horns with potent dome…
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 11:50am -
• IBM profit forecast, fourth-quarter revenue below estimates
  (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp posted a new 2015 profit target and quarterly revenue that both missed analysts' estimates, as the one-time world technology leader continues to grapple with its journey from low-margin hardware maker…
  - 3 days ago 20 Jan 15, 11:55pm -
• Russia sounds alarm as Lake Baikal's water levels drop
  Russia sounded the alarm Tuesday as water levels in Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake, dropped to record lows, with environmentalists blaming dry weather and overuse by local industry.
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 8:59pm -
• Norway updates Arctic ice map in boost to oil exploration
  Norway wants to redefine the contours of the Arctic ice edge, the government announced Tuesday in a controversial decision that would further open the Barents Sea to oil and gas exploration.
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 4:39pm -
• Bye, Bye Baubles: New 3D Printers Could Build Implants, Electronics
  Several new 3D printers showcased at CES 2015 in Las Vegas earlier this month suggest that the 3D printing industry — best known for churning out brightly colored plastic doodads — could be turning over a new, more scientific leaf. Another print…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 1:21pm -
• SAP sees lower margins for years to come as cloud transition bites
  By Harro Ten Wolde WALLDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Europe's largest software group SAP SE has cut key profit forecasts and abandoned a target for higher margins, saying its stepped-up push to deliver products via the cloud would dampen profitability u…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 12:39pm -
• Satellite startup Planet Labs raises $95 million
  Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists, said on Tuesday it had raised $95 million (62.67 million pounds) to help build its business of selling satellite images and data to customers. Data Colle…
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 12:33pm -
• Boy, 13, builds Braille printer with Legos, starts company
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — In Silicon Valley, it's never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee.
  - 4 days ago 20 Jan 15, 8:11am -
• Big data tops humans at picking 'significant' films: study
  By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the escalating battle of big data vs. human experts, score another win for numbers. The most accurate predictions of which movies the U.S. Library of Congress will deem "culturally, historically, or aesthetic…
  - 5 days ago 19 Jan 15, 8:07pm -

Entertainment

• newVIDEO: Winstone giving soldiers a voice
  Actors Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman are helping the armed forces to get involved in theatre.
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• newEmoji portraits: the man making art out of symbols
  Meet the artist who works in symbols
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• newVIDEO: Will celebrity kill page three?
  Will it be celebrity that kills page three?
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• newTwo men, one robot, many questions
  Two humans, one robot and a lot of ethical questions in new film Ex Machina
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• newVIDEO: Mortdecai 'criminally fun to make'
  Johnny Depp talks about his latest film Mortdecai and why he can sometimes be found on the wards of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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• newEd Sheeran to get Tussauds waxwork
  Pop star Ed Sheeran is measured by Madame Tussauds ahead of the creation of his waxwork effigy.
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• newMrs Doubtfire musical in the works
  Composer of Disney's Aladdin and Little Shop of Horrors reveals he's working on a musical based on the 1993 film.
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• newSeven-party TV debate plan announced
  Broadcasters publish new plans for TV election debates including leaders of seven UK political parties, and say they will go ahead regardless of who takes part.
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• newBailey and Tempah for iPlayer shows
  Comedian Bill Bailey and rapper Tinie Tempah among big names fronting 16 new shows exclusively available on BBC iPlayer.
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• newGlitter 'said assault was a secret'
  Former singer Gary Glitter sexually assaulted a teenage girl after she had been taken to meet him backstage after a show, a court hears.
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• newVIDEO: Corrie's Rita receives driving ban
  Coronation Street actor Barbara Knox is fined and banned from driving for 12 months, for driving over the legal alcohol limit.
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• newArtes Mundi winner shares prize cash
  Theaster Gates says he will share his £40,000 Artes Mundi winnings with the nine other shortlisted artists.
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• newCorrie star admits drink-driving
  Coronation Street actress Barbara Knox is banned from driving for a year after admitting a charge of drinking-driving.
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• newWindsor set for EastEnders reunion
  EastEnders veterans Barbara Windsor and Pam St Clement are to appear in a Gogglebox-style programme as part of the BBC soap's 30th anniversary.
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• newSundance opens with Nina Simone film
  The Sundance Film Festival in park City, Utah launches its 2015 edition with a documentary about legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone.
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• newVIDEO: How drummer inspired Charlatans
  The Charlatans say their new album was inspired by the memory of drummer Jon Brookes, who died from brain cancer almost two years ago.
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• newKelly Hoppen quits Dragons' Den
  Designer Kelly Hoppen announces she is quitting BBC Two's Dragons' Den after two series.
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• Cooper brings Elephant Man to London
  Three-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is to play the Elephant Man in London following the critical acclaim he has received for the role on Broadway.
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• Scorsese Bill Clinton film 'shelved'
  Martin Scorsese's planned HBO TV documentary film on former US President Bill Clinton is shelved indefinitely over control disagreements, according to reports.
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• Radio 1's Big Weekend in Norwich
  Taylor Swift will perform at Radio 1's Big Weekender taking place in Norwich in May.
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• Screech actor pleads not guilty in stabbing case
  Dustin Diamond, who played Screech in Saved by the Bell, has pleaded not guilty in a stabbing case in the US.
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• Chastain: Hollywood's diversity problem
  Jessica Chastain on the issue of diversity in the movies
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• VIDEO: Can Artes Mundi top Turner Prize?
  The biggest art prize in the UK, 40,000 thousand pounds, has gone to the winner of Artes Mundi, the international contemporary art exhibition held in Wales every two years.
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• Glitter 'plied girl with champagne'
  Singer Gary Glitter gave a 12-year-old girl champagne after a concert before inviting her into a hotel room and having sex with her, a jury hears.
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• Mexican artist for Tate Turbine Hall
  Mexico's Abraham Cruzvillegas, known for making sculptures from found materials, will be the next artist to fill the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern.
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• Payout for comedian killed in crash
  The family of a comedian killed in a car crash with a Wal-Mart lorry wins an out-of-court settlement with the US supermarket giant.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 2:04pm -
• Italy police recover 5,000 artefacts
  A record haul of rare antiquities is revealed by Italian police after a lengthy inquiry into a Swiss-based trafficking ring.
  - 2 days ago 22 Jan 15, 12:50pm -
• Critics hail Wolf Hall's TV debut
  Critics call the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning novels "close to perfect television".
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• VIDEO: Chastain on gangsters and grandmas
  Actor Jessica Chastain tells BBC Breakfast that taking her grandmother to the Oscars ceremony was the best day of her life
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• Pop star Rihanna wins image battle
  Pop star Rihanna wins a legal battle against high street store Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image.
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• VIDEO: Star guest awol at Kraftwerk course
  Kraftwerk's Wolfgang Flür is a notable absentee at the World's first academic conference on the German group
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• Simon Pegg to co-write Star Trek 3
  The actor and writer Simon Pegg confirms he is set co-write Star Trek 3 and will return to play Scotty in the film franchise.
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• VIDEO: A rare look inside Britain's memory
  David Sillito visits the British Library's high-tech Newspaper Storage Building in Boston Spa, where over 300 years of papers are archived.
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• Fans study Kraftwerk in Birmingham
  German pioneers Kraftwerk draw music academics to Birmingham
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• Man arrested over Madonna hack
  An Israeli man is arrested on suspicion of hacking into the computers of pop stars including Madonna and selling unreleased songs online.
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• Can a city sue a TV channel?
  Can a city sue a TV channel for defamation?
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• Tribute to Kirkbride at TV awards
  Coronation Street star William Roache leads a special tribute at the National TV Awards to on-screen wife Anne Kirkbride, who died on Monday.
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• American Sniper: An American hero?
  Was American sniper Chris Kyle really a hero?
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• Film festival announces line-up
  The European premiere of the new Noah Baumbach film, While We're Young, will be the opening gala at the Glasgow Film Festival, it has been announced.
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• Patterson writes self-destruct novel
  The world's first self-destructing novel, which will have a life-span of 24 hours before it explodes, is offered by author James Patterson.
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 4:29pm -
• Gosling 'stalker' order rejected
  Actor Ryan Gosling fails is denied a permanent restraining order against alleged stalker after she fails to turn up at court.
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• Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story
  The RSC depicts the 'father of the nuclear bomb'
  - 3 days ago 21 Jan 15, 5:32am -