Innovations, discoveries, and the future of technology.
Innovations, discoveries, and the future of technology.
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WhatsApp has become increasingly popular over the years - and it definitely does have its uses. It's all encrypted, and gives us the option of calling and messaging people even when we're separated by oceans - but many of us are missing out on a lot of secret features. In…
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Remember when Instagram purged bot accounts in 2014? Like many people, I’d built my humble following in the heady days of spammy hashtags and endless filters. I therefore lost about half of my followers and Instagram have performed other purges since. However, that doesn’t seem to have stopped a new…
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This week, NASA announced that an historic spacewalk involving an all-female astronaut team had to be cancelled... because there weren't enough spacesuits for them. No, this isn't a metaphor for women being held back in the working world, it literally happened. "With the first in a series of three spacewalks…
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Porn is a part of modern life. Virtuous it is not, but this is possibly only because millions of years of biology have taught us that sexual experiences should be shared. Yet even this sense that it is a guilty pleasure to be enjoyed in isolation is something of an…
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This week, researchers at North Carolina State University published a case study that has fascinated the medical community. The study, which was published in the Journal of Central Nervous Disease, details the mental health deterioration of an unnamed adolescent boy who developed rapid onset schizophrenia. At first, doctors were baffled by the…
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Over the past few decades, there has been a worrying trend in people opting out of vaccinating their children - despite overwhelming evidence to suggest that it's a terrible idea. Study after study has proven that there is no link between vaccinations and autism (one of the main arguments put…
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Not long ago, in the days of angry rock music and disenfranchised youth, it was cool to be isolated. Society sucked - and the further from it you and your friends could place yourselves, the better. In the internet age, however, everything is different. “Broadcast yourself”, YouTube told us. Now,…
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The world was first introduced to "Momo" last summer. At the time, the creepy Tim Burton-esque creature was said to be a photograph associated with a WhatsApp account that had been linked to the suicide of a girl in Argentina. The WhatsApp account reportedly responded to anybody who engaged with…
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Somewhere between a meme, a challenge and a character, Momo is an elusive figure. The image of her gaunt face has, according to multiple reports, been used in threatening clips hidden inside children's content on YouTube. However, despite warnings from the police, YouTube has told VT that they have no…
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Remember those school days where you would sit at home agonising over your French homework, just wishing there was an easier way to memorise all those new words? There are so many things that all of us tried in order to cram all that new vocabulary into our heads: post-it notes,…
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Whenever something truly bizarre happens in the US, without even reading the article, most people know that it's taken place in Florida. Some of the most bizarre headlines to emerge from the Sunshine State include: "Man claims wife was kidnapped by holograms" and, naturally, "Man attempts to leave store with…
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Earlier this year, the world experienced what is known as a 'supermoon,' which is effectively a full moon that appears much larger in the sky than usual. And now, starting on Tuesday this week, we'll be seeing yet another one, this time one that's reportedly set to be even bigger…
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A woman who plays video games for up to six hours a day - and earns nearly $4,000 some months by doing so - wants women to be taken more seriously in what has traditionally been a male-dominated industry. Former bingo caller Amy Bayliss, 22, has successfully transformed her passion…
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In the last 50 years, the global population has more than doubled. However, as technology advances, the world is getting smaller and smaller. New forms of communication have brought us closer together and even our ancestors no longer seem so far away. Home DNA-testing kits provide us the opportunity to…
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As wonderful as modern technology may be, it is becoming a burden on society in many respects. Parents are worried their children aren't reaching their full potential in school because they're too busy Snapchatting their friends, the dating scene has evolved into hookup culture thanks to apps like Tinder and…
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At first glance, Arthur Ashkin appears to be a frail, old man. However, unbeknownst to those who pass him on the street, his frail body is home to one of the greatest minds of our time. Last year, he won a Nobel Prize in physics for his role in developing…
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On January 28, 1986, the infamous Challenger shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Then, 73 seconds after liftoff, it exploded, killing all those on board. Lt. Gen. Rich Scobee remembers the day well. He was in the Air Force Academy at the time, and was approaching his graduation date.…
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Some things are so morally reprehensible to so many people that the thought of a right-minded individual being in any way involved is unthinkable. However, spare a thought for the unsung heroes of crime prevention. In particular, the ones who have to watch content that might make the rest of…
