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You wish you could work here

You wish you could work here

LOCATED in one of San Francisco’s roughest areas, this tech giant’s office is a dreamland of free food and fun zones. We took a look inside.

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In this Sept. 14, 2015 photo provided by Eyman Mohamed, her brother Ahmed Mohamed stands in handcuffs at Irving police department in Irving, Texas. The 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday, Sept. 16 and got an invitation to the White House after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to class with a homemade clock that school officials thought resembled a bomb. (Eyman Mohamed via AP)

From cop shop to White House

HIS innocent invention was so controversial that he was arrested. Now, the world’s most powerful men have weighed into his extraordinary ordeal.

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AN image of crown-of-thorns starfish dining-out on coral at Lizard Island has won PhD student Richard Wylie a ‘highly commended’ award in the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography for 2014. The School of Education at Southern Cross University student’s graphic photograph, aptly entitled ‘Thorny Problems’, shows that even one 40cm wide crown-of-thorns can eat its way through a large area of reef. MUST CREDIT

Starfish, meet your terminator

A KILLER robot is about to be let loose in Australia. It’s mission: To hunt down and destroy the crown-of-thorns starfish that are murdering the Great Barrier Reef.

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A robot developed by Toshiba Corp. is demonstrated at its laboratory in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. As Japan struggles in the early stages of decades-long cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Toshiba has developed the robot that raises its tail like a scorpion and collects data, and hopefully locate some of melted debris. The

Meet Fukushima’s latest robot hero

IT’S been four years since a 15-metre high tsunami shattered the Fukushima power plant. Only now do we have a hope of finding out what’s going on inside — via a robotic scorpion.

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FOR SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ONLY - Zoo Month. Dora the Greater One-horned rhino pictured at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. Dora has been part of a global breeding program which has helped to produce offspring in zoos around the world. Picture: Toby Zerna

The idea that could save a species

IT’S worth more than gold or cocaine on the blackmarket. Now one pioneering company has come up with a brilliant idea that could save a species from extinction.

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JULY, 2001 : Make-up man Rick Baker at work on an ape for 2001 film

CGI killed the special effects guy

RICK Baker transformed Michael Jackson in Thriller, and brought Star Wars, Men in Black and Planet of the Apes to life. But now computers have killed the special effects star.

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airplane in the sky seen from behind with copy space in the top and a clipping path in the plane

Broken wings that fix themselves

A GROUP of researchers from the University of Bristol are on the verge of making a discovery that will allow self-healing technology to become commonplace.

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