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Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum in Tokyo and Kyoichi Mori of the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association in Tokyo collected more than 550 digital images taken over more than four hours. These show the squid repeatedly attempting to detach a bait dangling beneath the camera, which was at a depth of 900 metres. During these attempts, the club of one of the squid’s long feeding tentacles became caught in the bait equipment. It eventually broke off, and the team retrieved and genetically sequenced the 5.5-metre-long severed section to confirm that the animal was indeed Architeuthis dux. They estimate the squid’s total length was at least eight metres.

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A mobile phone is susceptible in theory to the same threats that face computers, he added, including viruses and denial of service attacks. Berger argued that security technology embedded on a chip could prevent such attacks from reaching the handset. The TCG is a non-profit organisation which defines security standards for the high tech industry, including the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chip for desktops and laptop.

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When Reiter and his team compared past weather bulletins with the raw forecast data on which they were based, they found a striking variability in the choice of words used by different forecasters. For instance, when they talked of "evening" weather, some meant conditions around 6 pm, while others meant much nearer midnight. "Late morning" could mean anywhere between 9 am and noon. The UK's Met Office is also reviewing how effectively its forecasters communicate.

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The probe carries a suite of seven science instruments to study Pluto and Charon during its fly by past the planet-moon pair. Researchers hope New Horizons will not map the surface composition of Pluto and Charon, but also record their temperatures, geology and landform history, and study Pluto’s atmosphere.