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Dogs probably know when you're intentionally withholding treats from them, researchers find

Dogs lie down or stop wagging their tails when they think their owners are intentionally withholding a treat, actions the researchers interpreted as appeasing behaviours.

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WhatsApp hit with record fine for breaching privacy regulations over how it shares user data

Ireland's privacy watchdog found the company broke rules on transparency about sharing people's data with other Facebook companies. The fine is the biggest ever handed out by the Irish Data Protection Commission, and also the second-highest under EU GDPR rules.

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International Space Station could suffer 'irreparable' failures, Russian official warns

He also said that almost 80% of inflight systems on the Russian segment of the ISS had passed their expiry date.

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Facebook and Apple smart glasses will soon be upon us - but are they just another fad?

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg expects the social media giant's products will eventually see the company considered a "metaverse business" focused on helping people participate in the virtual world, while Apple's Tim Cook has hinted he sees augmented reality as the next big thing in tech.

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Venom from one of Brazil's largest snakes could reduce COVID's ability to multiply

The jararacussu is a highly venomous pit viper and is one of the largest snakes in Brazil. It lives in the coastal Atlantic Forest and is also found in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

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Elizabeth Holmes trial begins - the downfall of a Silicon Valley medical hero

Holmes founded Theranos when she was 19 and by 2015 the company had been valued at $9bn - but it was all about to collapse as what the US government alleges was "an elaborate, years-long fraud" unravelled.

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Jesse Lingard buys Rainbow Six Siege e-sports team and rebrands it JLINGZ

Lingard told Sky News that he had high hopes for the e-sports world: "It's only going to grow further. It's the right time to get involved."

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You'll have to tell Instagram your birthday if you want to log in

Facebook plans a range of measures to catch under-age users in the case they lie about their birthdate, ahead of the UK introducing new legal guidance on age appropriate design for social media companies.

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Toyota restarts driverless shuttles after Paralympics accident forced athlete to withdraw from event

Aramitsu Kitazono, a Paralympic judo star from Japan who is visually impaired, was struck by Toyota's self-driving e-Palette vehicle while using a pedestrian crossing in the Olympic village in Tokyo.

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Nine cyber attacks on UK's transport sector missed by mandatory reporting laws

The thresholds set for the mandatory reporting of cyber incidents across the energy, transport, health, water, and digital infrastructure sectors are so high that few if any incidents are actually being reported to government.

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China working on constructing miles-wide 'ultra-large' spacecraft

The enormous constructions would eclipse the International Space Station - which China is prohibited from being involved with - and which only measures 357 feet end-to-end.

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Vaccine candidate backed by project to develop affordable jabs begins late-stage trials

The drug is being developed by South Korea's SKL Bioscience as part of a project that has backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Galaxies are the great polluters, new research finds

Until now, scientists haven't been able to observe the composition of inward and outward flows of matter in a galaxy other than the Milky Way.

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China bans under-18s from playing online games for more than an hour a day

Online gaming companies will force users to register to play under their real identities and under-18s will only be allowed to play between 8pm and 9pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.

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Avocados, ice cream and a robotic arm on their way to International Space Station

A recycled Falcon rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida before dawn on Sunday, carrying almost 2,200kg of supplies and experiments for the ISS's seven astronauts.

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Tesla on Autopilot crashes into police car and another vehicle in Florida

It comes as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigates the carmaker's partially-automated driving system following a number of other collisions between Teslas on Autopilot and emergency services vehicles.

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Expedition crew believe they've accidentally discovered world's northernmost island

Scientists thought they had set foot on another island, but only later discovered they had in fact discovered a new stretch of land 780m further northwest.