HEALTH NEWS: CHINA YOUTHS OBESITY EXPLOSION IN RURAL AREAS

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Image captionObesity is more prevalent in boys because they are likely to enjoy more of the family's resources, the study says

Obesity has rapidly increased in young rural Chinese, a study has warned, because of socioeconomic changes.

HEALTH NEWS: SECRET OF YOUTHFUL LOOKS IN GINGER GENES

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Scientists say they have made a leap in knowing why some people retain their youthful looks while others age badly.

HEALTH DAILY: GENE THERAPY REVERSE SIGHT LOSS AND IS LONG-LASTING

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Image captionA life transformed: Joe Pepper was slowly going blind until a gene therapy reversed his sight loss.

A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind.

TECH NEWS: COURT EXPANDS FBI ALONG POWERS

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The US Supreme Court has approved a rule change that could allow law enforcement to remotely search computers around the world.

TECH NEWS: MICROSOFT BANISHES GOOGLE FROM CORTANA

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Image captionMicrosoft is tying Cortana more closely to Bing and Edge

Microsoft is forcing people to use its Bing search engine with the Cortana digital assistant in Windows 10.

TECH TODAY: HACKERS STEAL MILLIONS OF MINECRAFT PASSWORD

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Image captionMillions of people regularly play the block-building game Minecraft

Hackers have stolen login data for more than seven million members of the Minecraft site Lifeboat.

SCIENCE DAILY: TIM PEAKE DRIVE REMOTE ROBOT ON EARTH FROM ORBIT

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The rover known as Bridget enters the "cave" at the Airbus simulation "Mars yard"

UK astronaut Tim Peake has performed a challenging remote control experiment on the International Space Station.

HEALTH NEWS: SKIN CELLS TURN TO HEART AND BRAIN CELLS

A human heart cell that was chemically reprogrammed from a human skin cell.

Credit: Nan Cao, PhD, Gladstone Institutes

In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes transformed skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using a combination of chemicals.

SCIENCE DAILY: JAMES WEBB'S MIRROR IS REVEALED

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Image captionEngineers remove the last two covers used to protect the mirror segments during assembly

Revealed for the first time in all its glory - the main mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched in 2018.

SCIENCE DAILY: BEAGLE PROBE 'SEEN IN SHARPER VIEW'

Image captionA more definitive shape emerges in the newly processed images

Supporting evidence that the Beagle-2 probe is sitting intact on the surface of Mars has come from a new imaging technique developed by UCL scientists.

TECH NEWS: US GOVERNMENT DROPS ANOTHER IPHONE CASE

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Image captionApple says it has received 5,000 requests for help gain access to iPhone data in 2015

The US government has dropped a case against Apple that sought to compel the company to provide access to an alleged New York drug dealer's locked iPhone.

TECH NEWS:STEAM SIGNS FILM RENTAL DEAL

Steam, the digital gaming platform, has started offering Hollywood film rentals to users after signing a deal with production studio Lionsgate.

TECH NEWS: APPLE, TWITTER AND FACEBOOK IN SCRUTINY

Image captionOut with the old: Facebook employees see the old Sun Microsystems logo when they head home

Sun Microsystems was a Silicon Valley giant. 

TECH NEWS: FULLSCREEN LAUNCHES YOUTUBE RIVAL

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Image captionDean Dobbs and Jack Howard are two of the popular YouTube stars on the new service

Online talent firm Fullscreen has launched its own subscription video platform to rival YouTube's offering.

HEALTH TODAY: VACCINES ARE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN ADMINISTERED IN THE MORNING

Flu vaccinations are more effective when administered in the morning, study suggests.

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New research from the University of Birmingham has shown that flu vaccinations are more effective when administered in the morning.

TECH NEWS: STARCRAFT 2: E-STARS CHARGED WITH MATCH FIXING

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Image captionLee "Life" Seung Hyun is accused of receiving money for intentionally losing matches

Two professional Starcraft 2 players have been charged with match fixing.

TECH NEWS: MILLIONS OF MEXICAN VOTER RECORDS 'WERE ACCESSIBLE ONLINE'

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Image captionVoter records made publicly accessible online have since been removed

A massive database of Mexican voter records was made publicly accessible on the internet, a US security researcher has discovered.

TECH NEWS: BANGLADESH HACK TARGETED BANK SYSTEM

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Image captionHackers allegedly targeted the Bangladesh central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

British defence contractor BAE Systems has claimed bank hackers in Bangladesh targeted software from Swift, a key part of the global financial system.

TECH TODAY: FORD: 'WE ASSUME APPLE IS WORKING ON A CAR'

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Image captionMr Fields says non-traditional competitors are "an opportunity not a threat"

Ford is in the technology business.

TECH NEWS: FACEBOOK HACKER DISCOVERS TRACES OF OTHER INTRUDERS

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Image captionFacebook has paid out more than $1m to hackers who have found security bugs on its site

A hacker looking for ways to breach Facebook's internal network has uncovered traces of another hacker who got there first.