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- By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
- 04 September 2012
It's hard to recollect much about my first cat café besides the unmitigated pleasure of the whole experience »
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- By Liat Clark
- 31 August 2012
They've had their own musical, they're all over the internet and now someone is finally bringing together cat-loving artists, poets and musicians in a creative mêlée celebrating the ultimate feline form -- lolcats. About time »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 14 August 2012
Palaeontologists from the University of Zurich have "rediscovered" a skull bone that was thought to have been lost during the course of evolution for many mammals »
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- By Lewis Wallace
- 13 August 2012
While making Tibs, a short film about a cat's hunt for approval, director Sam Huntley discovered it's not as easy as it looks to crank out a cat video »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 07 August 2012
Staff at the Seattle Children's hospital have created the Cat Immersion Project -- an audiovisual installation that brought thousands of virtual cats to a teenage cancer patient's room »
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- By Liat Clark
- 27 July 2012
A geneticist has developed a cat ancestry test that will reveal your pet's lineage »
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- By Kim Zetter
- 20 July 2012
If you see a bat signal, or rather a laughing cat signal, hovering in the sky over Gotham City, San Francisco or New York this Thursday night, it won't just be a sign that the new Batman flick has opened »
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- By Christina Bonnington
- 16 July 2012
Necomimi's Brainwave Controlled Cat Ears is an impossibly cute headset that theoretically puts all your mind's machinations on display »
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- By Liat Clark
- 26 June 2012
When computer scientists at Google's mysterious X lab built a neural network of 16,000 computer processors with one billion connections and let it browse YouTube, it did what many web users might do -- it began to look for cats »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 07 June 2012
Cat ladies should offer "felitherapy" (contact with their many cats) as a treatment for spa-goers who want to be infected with toxoplasmosis »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 11 April 2012
German artist Boris Petrovsky has created a huge kinetic sculpture made up of 520 waving 'Maneki Neko' -- Japanese cat figurines thought to bring good luck to the owner -- which perform a series of choreographed moves »
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- By Mark Brown
- 16 February 2012
Apple has announced that the next version of OS X will hit the Mac this summer, and it's going to be called OS X Mountain Lion »
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- By Nate Lanxon
- 02 February 2012
It has transpired that recently the scientific community has been dealing with something called "space cats", and it's an intriguing cosmic anomaly to be aware of »
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- By Nate Lanxon
- 14 November 2011
"No-one wants to see ads anymore -- they want cat videos," the advertising exec claims, and it's a sentiment I can vouch for »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 19 October 2011
Web designers looking for placeholder images need look no further. PlaceKitten.com will generate an image of a kitten at any size »
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- By Angela Watercutter
- 19 October 2011
YouTube commenters have turned rudeness into an art form, and a new “search engine for insults” lets you easily harvest the fruits of their ludicrous invective »
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- By Angela Watercutter
- 11 October 2011
What’s better than a great I Can Has Cheezburger moment? A collection of them animated with an adorable lost kitteh looking for fame »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 23 September 2011
Sphero is a robotic ball that you can control with a tilt, tap or touch on your iOS or Android smartphone. Answering the question "what is technology for?", one of its first applications is as a remote controlled cat toy »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 19 July 2011
Sepiolite is a porous clay mineral that is commonly used in cat litter because of its ability to absorb odours and fluid. Material scientists have now, for the first time, analysed its properties to see what other applications it could have »