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‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’: Eight-mile wall of prehistoric cave paintings discovered

Tens of thousands of cave drawings dating back 12,500 years have been discovered in Colombia https://bit.ly/3qo9Ddo

230 million-year-old dinosaur dubbed ‘Godfather of T-Rex’ unearthed in Brazil

Erythrovenator is the oldest relative of meat eating dinosaurs https://bit.ly/2VeKEed

Utah’s mystery monolith has suddenly vanished

The 12-foot metal obelisk has disappeared from the desert https://bit.ly/3ocYgDb

Rita Ora chats tech on tour, old-school Mario and filming that iPhone 12 EE advert

The Let You Love Me singer tells Metro.co.uk all about her go-to gadget choices https://bit.ly/36fIsJv

The best beard trimmers you can buy in 2020

We've combed through the best gadgets for taming your 'tache https://bit.ly/3q9wh9i

The Lust List: new tech we want this week

A stocking filler special of the greatest gadgets that caught our eye this week https://bit.ly/39oWo5R

Jupiter and Saturn to form a ‘double planet’ in the sky for the first time since the Middle Ages

The two planets will create an astronomical spectacle you won't want to miss https://bit.ly/37aWFqx

Ebay has 12 ‘unmissable’ Black Friday deals that include Nintendo Switch, Apple iPhone and Google Nest

Dyson vacuum cleaners and Skullcandy headphones are also among Ebay's Black Friday 2020 gadget deals https://bit.ly/3oe27Qv

Breathtaking video of Earth shot by astronaut aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule

Nasa astronaut Victor Glover has captured a stunning video of our planet from orbit https://bit.ly/2Jd9uIV

The best Black Friday tech and gadget deals at Tesco

The supermarket has dropped prices on plenty of tech for the week leading up to Black Friday https://bit.ly/3nS49W2

This weird pillow promises to ‘eliminate’ snoring

The 'Matrix Pillow' can adjust to different sleeping positions during the night https://bit.ly/3qdT4ki

Co-op is using hundreds of robots to deliver groceries

The robots are locked during delivery and opened by shoppers with a smartphone app https://bit.ly/2KEtl41

Twitter to warn users before they like tweets containing ‘misleading’ information

Twitter is launching its latest attempt to stop the spread of fake news on its platform https://bit.ly/37dyIiu

Black Friday 2020: Shark vacuum cleaner gets huge price cut from Amazon

The popular Shark Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner has been reduced by £150 for Black Friday https://bit.ly/2Jc9acS

Black Friday 2020: Amazon drops early offers on Echo Dot, Fitbit and Nintendo Switch

Amazon has jumped the gun on Black Friday with hundreds of good deals already on offer https://bit.ly/3l5MSae

Proof of aliens? Mysterious 12-foot metal monolith found in Utah desert

The bizarre shape has no markings and resembles the alien monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey https://bit.ly/3619158

China launches ambitious mission to bring moon rock back to Earth

Four modules of the Chang'e 5 spacecraft blasted off on top of a massive Long March-5Y rocket https://bit.ly/3fBtcde

Charles Darwin manuscripts stolen from Cambridge University library

The two notebooks have been lost for twenty years but only reported as stolen now https://bit.ly/2JbgNk8

Bill Gates: ‘almost all’ Covid-19 vaccines will work by February 2021

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates is optimistic but says there's still a tough winter ahead https://bit.ly/33aCAPN

Scientists shocked as microplastics found near the summit of Everest

The highest recorded microplastics ever found on Earth https://bit.ly/3q3yDqa

The best Black Friday 2020 TV deals from Virgin Media, Sky and NOW TV

Black Friday TV deals are available with Virgin Media and Sky offering 'lowest ever prices' https://bit.ly/2J4aNts

Amazon investigate after customers receive bags of rice instead of PS5

Buyers who ordered months in advance found their consoles had been replaced with foot massagers, cat food, and George Foreman grills. https://bit.ly/395yQTM

iPhone 12 mini review: good things come in small packages

The best compact smartphone you can buy https://bit.ly/2IVluOH

Meteorite blazes through Earth’s atmosphere and lights up night sky in dramatic footage

An Australian research vessel filmed the moment the meteorite lit up the night https://bit.ly/3lRvOG1

Lamborghini’s new Huracán hits 0-60 in 3.1 seconds and costs around £260,000

It's road legal too https://bit.ly/3nLRlQT

The best Currys PC World and Carphone Warehouse Black Friday deals already out in 2020

You won't want to miss out on these deals. https://bit.ly/3pMOYz5

Websites crash as desperate gamers try to snag PS5 on launch day

GAME, Tesco and John Lewis are suffering from the demand https://bit.ly/2IH7Krf

Spotify and Epic slam ‘calculated’ Apple move over App Store fee

Apple has dropped the App Store fees for smaller developers https://bit.ly/3kJLcTx

Breast cancer home screening device wins James Dyson Award

The Blue Box is a less invasive way of checking for breast cancer and will receive the £30,000 prize money https://bit.ly/32XL2lg

You can now eat human steak, scientists insist it’s not cannibalism

It's not technically cannibalism. https://bit.ly/3kIixye

Mysterious ‘spike’ in dead whales washing up on beaches has experts worried

Experts are baffled over the appearance of fin whales with no apparent cause of death https://bit.ly/2UCv8IP

Giant dinosaurs were caused by global warming, study claims

A new discovery in Argentina sheds light on the biggest animal to have ever walked the earth https://bit.ly/3fb84tX

Moderna Covid-19 vaccine: everything you need to know about the ‘95% effective’ jab

More than 30,000 people took part in the trial run of the Moderna vaccine https://bit.ly/3lKDqdC

Elon Musk branded ‘Space Karen’ after string of Covid-19 tweets

Want some aloe vera for that burn? https://bit.ly/3lRSqGF

Weed has become almost 25% stronger since the 70s

Street cannabis around the world has become much more potent in the last 50 years https://bit.ly/2UCTsKg

Giant ‘lost world’ prehistoric lake found beneath ice in Greenland

It could be millions of years old and contain a treasure trove of ancient marine creatures https://bit.ly/2IJs9f0

6,000 participants wanted for coronavirus vaccine trial

Phase-three trial of the vaccine from pharmaceutical company Janssen starts this week https://bit.ly/2UtEt5B

SpaceX launches four astronauts to the International Space Station

Nasa's first ever fully-fledged 'taxi' flight by a private company https://bit.ly/3pwS1vl

The Lust List: new tech we want this week

Fender guitars, Beats headphones and a handy pizza oven - we've got it all https://bit.ly/3noXAKA

Snorting chicken antibodies may protect us from Covid-19

Scientists are preparing a phase 1 clinical trial as we speak https://bit.ly/2UskwMc

‘Sobering-up machine’ will cure hangovers three times faster

And it only costs £15,200 https://bit.ly/35sqdQX

‘A wake-up call’: how Pfizer’s Covid vaccine could transform the world

'This will make us more prepared to deal with a different virus that may be more lethal, more infectious, and avoid catastrophic results for the human race.’ https://bit.ly/3nlDnW0

Facebook ‘Vanish Mode’ copies WhatsApp to let you send self-destructing messages

Facebook Messenger users can now 'unsend' texts https://bit.ly/38AACvz

SpaceX set to launch astronauts into orbit this weekend

Elon Musk's private space company will perform its first operational crewed flight to the ISS https://bit.ly/3eTKQse

Covid-19 face masks with valves don’t work

High speed video footage shows just how useless they are https://bit.ly/3eToNSh

Instagram’s new mental health tool is battling with GDPR

The social network has a range of self-harm content detection tools it wants to deploy in Europe https://bit.ly/3nkhwOJ

From smart bins to hologram calls: How 5G is changing the way we live and work

‘Smart bins’ might sound like science fiction, but they’re just one of the wild and wonderful new technologies explored by Hannah and co-presenter comedian Suzi Ruffell in a new podcast on 5G-powered tech, ‘Whatever Next?’ https://bit.ly/3lp8TSf

Jupiter’s moon Europa may glow in the dark

This glow is the result of salty compounds in the moon's crust reacting to the intense radiation from Jupiter below. https://bit.ly/2IrNsBg

Men – want to improve your sperm quality? Just add nuts

Scientists found munching on hazelnuts or almonds will significantly improve your swimmers https://bit.ly/32xVAHL

Free films will be hidden inside Google Maps

Google has partnered up with the BFI https://bit.ly/36k9YEF