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‘World’s oldest’ graphic art discovered

May 16, 2012
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Researchers have reportedly discovered what could be the oldest evidence of graphic imagery in a cave in southwest France. The New York Times reports a drawing of a female vulva, thought to be 37,000 years old, has been found on the collapsed roof of a rock shelter at the Abri Castanet site in the...
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The $1b new town where nobody’s home

May 10, 2012
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An artist rendering showing the $US1 billion scientific ghost town that will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, New Mexico. Photo: AP A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology – but no people. A $US1 billion city without residents...
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Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July

April 22, 2012
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For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this July. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up...
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Injecting our guts with fecal bacteria from ancient mummies could cure obesity

April 7, 2012
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Antibiotics have depleted our gut flora and possibly made us fatter. Researchers look for answers in the flora of humans who lived in an era before modern medicine. By Bryan NelsonThu, Mar 29 2012 at 9:19 PM EST Photo: ZUMA Press It sounds outrageous, but King Tut’s stomach bacteria might hold the cure for obesity. Researchers...
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Employers asking interviewees for facebook passwords

March 21, 2012
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When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to...
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Homeless people turned into WiFi hotspots

March 14, 2012
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A marketing project aimed at modernising street newspapers is turning homeless people into walking internet hotspots. The brainchild of branding company BBH New York, the Homeless Hotspots ‘initiative’ was spotted at a music and technology conference in Texas by a New York Times reporter, the Daily Mail reports. Homeless people dressed in T-shirts proclaiming...
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That is one ugly computer – but it’s only $35

March 3, 2012
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BY CLAIRE CONNELLY, TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Sure – the credit card sized computer is ugly but it’s $35. Picture: Raspberry Pi WELL that is one ugly computer – but it’s $35 and the size of a credit card so what are you complaining about? US technology company Raspberry Pi’s creation lets users program their own computer...
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Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence

March 3, 2012
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JAPANESE researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable “SpeechJammer” gun that can silence people more than 30m away. The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing...
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Ageing study looks at fasting to live longer

February 20, 2012
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Picture: Getty Images Scientists in the United States claim people who starve themselves on alternate days may live longer, boost brain power and lose weight. The National Institutes for Aging researchers based their evidence on studies involving animals and humans. Animals were given the bare minimum of calories needed to keep them alive. The...
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Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again

February 6, 2012
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Katie Piper arriving at The TV Choice Awards 2011 in the UK and right, with Lisa Faulkner at a London awards ceremony honouring inspirational women in 2012. Photo: AAP / Getty Images Surgeons in Britain have restored the sight of a woman blinded after having acid thrown in her face in an attack arranged...
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