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Ancient Zigzag Means World's First Artist Wasn't Human (Newser Daily Digest)

Ancient Zigzag Means World's First Artist Wasn't Human

(Newser) - A human ancestor carved a zigzag onto the shell of a mussel some 430,000 years ago. Now, that shell, recovered from a riverbank in Indonesia more than a century ago, could transform what it means to be human. Artistic creativity has long been considered unique to Homo sapiens. Before... More »

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NASA's 'Mars Ship' Takes Off Today

(Newser) - A spacecraft NASA hopes to one day send people to Mars in will make its maiden voyage today. The Orion space capsule will be launched from Cape Canaveral on a short, unmanned test mission that the Atlantic says will include a "rigorous training gauntlet not seen since the Apollo... More »

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Run 1 Mile While Chugging 4 Beers—Just Don't Vomit

(Newser) - If you've already conquered mud runs and you're able to guzzle down a Heineken in eight seconds or less, there's an adventure-racing category you might want to look into: the "beer mile." This quirky quaff-and-run doesn't sound terribly demanding at first: Run 1 mile.... More »

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New Google System Watches Your Cursor to Tell if You're Human

(Newser) - Google may have just made your web-browsing life a little easier. You're probably familiar with CAPTCHAs, which pop up on websites asking you to read and re-type distorted text to prove you're human and not a robotic clicking system. Well, today, Google revealed a new version of what... More »

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Sony to Blame North Korea for Giant Hack

(Newser) - It may or may not have been over North Korea's thin skin about a Seth Rogen movie , but Sony Pictures Entertainment is set to lay the blame for last week's crippling hack directly at the feet of Pyongyang, reports Re/code, citing two sources close to the investigation. An... More »

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Why on Earth Is SpaceX Hiring a Farmer?

(Newser) - As a company that hopes to rocket passengers into space and colonize other planets, you might expect SpaceX to run some unusual help-wanted ads from time to time. But a new one is definitely raising eyebrows: Elon Musk's company is looking for an experienced farmer in Texas. Applicants should... More »

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Burger King Brings Back Yumbo—After 40 Years

(Newser) - The people asked; Burger King listened. After becoming what BK marketing chief Eric Hirschhorn calls "one of those things we [could] no longer ignore," the Yumbo ham-and-cheese sandwich once more graces the eatery's menu, Bloomberg reports. You probably won't remember this fast-food delicacy if you're... More »

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House Unanimous at Last: No Social Security for Nazis

(Newser) - Suspected Nazi war criminals would be blocked from receiving Social Security benefits under a bill unanimously approved yesterday by the House, shutting a loophole that allowed suspected Nazis to be paid millions of dollars. Under the bill, benefits would be terminated for Nazi suspects who have lost their American citizenship.... More »

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Texas Finds Its Missing Brains

(Newser) - The University of Texas' missing brains have been located: After reports emerged that about 100 human brains had gone missing from UT Austin , psych professor Tim Schallert got a call from UT San Antonio. "They have the brains," he tells the LA Times . “They read a media... More »

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Medieval Palace May Be Buried Underground

(Newser) - A prehistoric fortress is home to a much later structure: what may be one of the biggest medieval palaces ever discovered, one whose remnants remain buried beneath the ground, the Independent reports. The site in southern England is surrounded by huge earthworks that date to the Iron Age. Researchers used... More »

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Japan Launches Explorer to Blast Crater in Asteroid

(Newser) - A Japanese space explorer took off today on a six-year journey to blow a crater in a remote asteroid and bring back rock samples in hopes of gathering clues to the origin of Earth. Hayabusa 2 is expected to reach the asteroid in mid-2018, spend about 18 months studying it,... More »

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Mom Backs Teen's Sex Change in a Very Public Way

(Newser) - When 19-year-old Australian teenager Elizabeth Anne Bogert announced that he identifies as male instead of female, his mother Yolanda took out a classified ad in the Brisbane Courier Mail retracting her son's original birth announcement. She wrote: "In 1995 we announced the arrival of our sprogget, Elizabeth Anne,... More »

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Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could Doom Us All

(Newser) - Add artificial intelligence to aliens and the Higgs boson on the list of things Stephen Hawking thinks could wipe out the human race. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," he told a BBC interviewer yesterday while discussing his communication software'... More »

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