Richard Dawkins, Bitcoin pub and Snapcat app

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N E W S Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of the word 'meme' Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins talks to Wired.co.uk about the internet's hijacking of the word "meme", Twitter, molecular genetics, false memories and, er, Celebrity Big Brother » N E W S London's Bitcoin pub On 23 May the Pembury Tavern became one of the first pubs in the United Kingdom to accept Bitcoin payments -- along with its sister pubs in Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough » N E W S Geologists find fault system that could be first signs of future supercontinent Geologists from Monash University have mapped the ocean floor off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, finding the evidence for what lead author Joao Duarte described as "an embryonic subduction zone" » N E W S Snapcat app lets cats take selfies Attempting to occupy the intersection of "cat pictures" and "selfies" online is Snapcat, an Android app which is trying to pioneer the cat selfie » N E W S Google and RSC's digital reinterpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream The RSC has teamed up with Google's Creative Lab to create a one-off digital theatre project called Midsummer Night's Dreaming which will take place live in Stratford-upon-Avon and online over the midsummer weekend » W I R E D   I N S I D E R Promotion: complete our technology survey for a chance to win £200 Take a few minutes out of your day and take part in our technology survey » Promotion Meet the new Windows Work easy. Play hard. Windows 8 lets you do it all. See how it fitted in our day at WIRED and enter our competition to WIN an Asus VivoTab Smart >> Click here N E W S Announcing Wired 2013 Next Generation: a one-day event to inspire future innovators Wired UK is launching Wired 2013 Next Generation, a one-day event curated for young people aged 12-16, which will take place at London's Tobacco Dock on Saturday 19 October >> Click here » P O D C A S T Wired.co.uk Podcast 129: tackling child abuse images, Oculus Rift and Snapcat The week's most amazing, important and interesting stories across science, technology, weirdness and more Listen »

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