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• US banking giant Wells Fargo BANS staff from TikTok

  11-07-2020 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move comes amid heightened tensions between China and the US as Beijing faces widespread criticism for its handling of the outbreak of the coronavirus.
  
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• Scientists reveal dying patients CAN hear last words of family at bedside as they slip away

  11-07-2020 10:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Even when the patient is unconscious and close to death, they still have their sense of hearing and can hear what their loved ones are saying to them.
  
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• The world's nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet

  11-07-2020 10:26 via go.theregister.com
  
  At 65 million miles away, that's what we call social distancing A two-pronged comet with billowing tails of gas and dust will streak across the sky this month.…
  
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• Why I can't stop thinking about The Last of Us Part 2

  11-07-2020 07:00 via wired.co.uk
  
  Naughty Dog's hugely ambitious sequel has numerous flaws, but they're interesting flaws that make it hard to forget and worth playing
  
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• Polestar 2 review: the best EV there is right now

  11-07-2020 07:00 via wired.co.uk
  
  We have a new favourite electric car, and it's the second offering from Volvo's performance sibling
  
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• Nightclubs during coronavirus are going to be really, really, weird

  11-07-2020 07:00 via wired.co.uk
  
  Nightclubs are desperate to welcome revellers back on their dance floors. But the combination of close contact, age, alcohol and confined space make them the perfect place for coronavirus transmission
  
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• How to take better photos with your iPhone camera

  11-07-2020 07:00 via wired.co.uk
  
  Make the most of the camera in your pocket with our guide to the best iPhone photography tips and tricks
  
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• Amazon says memo to employees BANNING TikTok for security reasons was 'sent in error'

  11-07-2020 04:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete TikTok, Amazon said the memo was 'sent in error.'
  
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• Leak reveals user information TikTok shares with police, including IP addresses, phone model, more

  11-07-2020 02:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newly leaked police documents reveal how the video sharing app TikTok shares information about its users with law enforcement, including phone numbers and other social media accounts.
  
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• Iron Age murder victim buried with his hands tied together found in Buckinghamshire

  11-07-2020 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The grisly discovery was made at at Wellwick Farm, where land is being prepared for the Wendover Green Tunnel and North Cutting as part of the high-speed railway line.
  
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• People with high blood sugar levels are more than TWICE as likely to die from Covid-19

  11-07-2020 00:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers working in China reviewed the cases of patients admitted to two hospitals in Wuhan with high blood sugar levels who later died of Covid-19.
  
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• NASA updates policies to protect Moon and Mars from human germs

  10-07-2020 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA is updating its Planetary Protection Policies to include more details of how humans can contaminate space with their germs, as the agency gears up for missions to the Moon and Mars.
  
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• FDA warns against dangerous or even LETHAL hand sanitizers

  10-07-2020 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from the Food and Drug Administration includes a warning against five hand sanitizer products that have caused the death or hospitalization after improper use.
  
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• NASA updates policies to protect the moon and Mars from human germs that may hitchhike on astronauts

  10-07-2020 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA is updating its Planetary Protection Policies to include more details of how humans can contaminate space with their germs, as the agency gears up for missions to the Moon and Mars.
  
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• Amazon bans TikTok from employee devices due to security risks

  10-07-2020 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A memo from Amazon to its staff surfaced online that mandates employees remove TikTok from devices with access to company emails by July 10 in order to retain mobile access to emails.
  
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• Amazon bans TikTok from employee devices with access to company emails citing 'security risks'

  10-07-2020 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A memo from Amazon to its staff surfaced online that mandates employees remove TikTok from devices with access to company emails by July 10 in order to retain mobile access to emails.
  
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• Spotted the ISS in the sky yet? How about pulling out some spare kit and giving it a listen?

  10-07-2020 20:10 via go.theregister.com
  
  ESA emits a guide to picking up Slow Scan TV from the orbiting outpost Got plans for the weekend? No? How about pulling that Pi out of the drawer or dusting off an old laptop and getting ready to grab some images from the ISS, courtesy of locked-down European Space Agency (ESA) boffins.…
  
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• Scientific study confirms again that 5G is 'harmless and benign'

  10-07-2020 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings from a US study into the effects of radio-frequency radiation generated by the wireless technology suggests negligible health impacts on humans.
  
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• Money and happiness linked more strongly in US now than in 70s

  10-07-2020 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Jean Twenge from San Diego University wrote for The Conversation about how money and happiness are more strongly related than they were in the 1970s.
  
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• Contest to find a machine that digs a tunnel faster than a snail

  10-07-2020 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's The Boring Company is challenging the public to dig a 98-foot deep tunnel with a circular opening of 19.7 inches faster than a snail. The firm's machine is 14 times slower than the creature.
  
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• Divide And Conquer: Technocracy Is Tyranny With out A Tyrant

  10-07-2020 18:08 via technocracy.news
  
  As America is deconstructed by multiple forces, Technocrats are taking every advantage of a corrupt political establishment to get their way at everyone else’s expense. They are the ones lurking just behind the ignorant politicians, pulling all the strings.
  Global elite scholar Parag Khanna stated in his book Connectography,
  “We are building this global society without a global leader. Global order is no longer something that can be dictated or controlled from the top down. Globaliza
  
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• Enormous structure stretching 1.4BILLION light-year dubbed the 'South Pole Wall' found in space

  10-07-2020 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wall had remained undetected until now because large parts of it are half a billion light-years away and hidden by the bright Milky Way galactic centre.
  
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• Elon Musk's Boring Company hosts contest to find a machine that digs a tunnel faster than a snail

  10-07-2020 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's The Boring Company is challenging the public to dig a 98-foot deep tunnel with a circular opening of 19.7 inches faster than a snail. The firm's machine is 14 times slower than the creature.
  
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• Enormous 1.4BILLION light-year long structure dubbed the 'South Pole Wall' found in space

  10-07-2020 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wall had remained undetected until now because large parts of it are half a billion light-years away and hidden by the bright Milky Way galactic centre.
  
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• Technocrats Pitch Surveillance System To Detect Next Pandemic

  10-07-2020 17:35 via technocracy.news
  
  Surveillance and monitoring are key tools of Technocracy in order to enforce its “science of social engineering.” There is no level of surveillance or amount of data collected that is “enough”. To a Technocrat, data represents control over the subjects being surveilled.
  Also expect more calls for other surveillance systems to measure temperature, coughing and other symptoms of disease across the entire population. ⁃ TN EditorScientific experts said Thursday that a w
  
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• Dogs shouldn't even be left alone in a car in the winter, scientists warn 

  10-07-2020 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dog welfare experts monitored internal temperatures of cars in the UK, which had no dogs inside, every day for two years.
  
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• How To Read Emergency Orders And Avoid Wearing Face Masks

  10-07-2020 17:21 via technocracy.news
  
  Every city, county or state that issues a “mandate” to wear face masks and practice social distancing must published it publicly and make it available for you to read. Download it and read it! Don’t ever believe what the local media or other individuals say about the mandate, you must read and examine it for yourself.
  The city of Englewood, Colorado issued an emergency order on March 10, 2020 that required all citizens to wear face masks when outside of their home. The entire e
  
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• Coronavirus UK: Days 'go slower' for 40% during lockdown

  10-07-2020 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Liverpool-based expert surveyed the impact that physical and social distancing measures have had on the UK population's feel for the passage of time.
  
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• Major iOS outage sees social media apps crash for Apple users

  10-07-2020 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frustrated Apple customers complained they had been frozen out of apps including Tik Tok, Tinder, Waze and Pinterest.
  
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• This week on The WIRED Podcast

  10-07-2020 16:22 via wired.co.uk
  
  The award-winning WIRED UK Podcast with James Temperton and the rest of the team. Listen every week for an informed and entertaining rundown of latest technology, science, business and culture news. New episodes every Friday
  
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• Whale skulls have become more lopsided over millions of years

  10-07-2020 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As whales have evolved, they have more wonky to help accommodate soft tissue that's essential for sensing objects from reflected sound waves - a process called 'echo-location'.
  
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• The failure of antibody tests

  10-07-2020 16:02 via podcast-assets.wired.co.uk
  
  Matt delves into the failed promise of antibody tests, Amit explains how to eat lots of hot dogs and Vicki reminds us all what a train is
  
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• Days go slower for 40 per cent of all Britons during the coronavirus lockdown

  10-07-2020 15:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Liverpool-based expert surveyed the impact that physical and social distancing measures have had on the UK population's feel for the passage of time.
  
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• Whale skulls have got more lopsided over millions of years

  10-07-2020 15:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As whales have evolved, they have more wonky to help accommodate soft tissue that's essential for sensing objects from reflected sound waves - a process called 'echo-location'.
  
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• NASA starts building its spacecraft which will explore a metal-rich asteroid

  10-07-2020 13:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has finished designing and started building a spacecraft that will fly to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, launching on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in August 2022.
  
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• Nasa Mars rover Perseverance is attached to rocket

  10-07-2020 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US space agency's next rover is placed atop of the rocket that will send it to the Red Planet.
  
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• Etchings of fighting CAMELS are the earliest ever drawings of the animal in Asia 

  10-07-2020 12:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team from the Khakassian Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History in Russia examined the tusk found in the lower Tom river in western Siberia.
  
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• BCG DOES protect against Covid-19, study confirms

  10-07-2020 11:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US cademics conducting a large-scale review of several various studies found a clear link between the vaccine and a lower death rate.
  
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• The Green Homes Grant is a bad deal for you and for the climate

  10-07-2020 11:28 via wired.co.uk
  
  If you thought the government’s new energy grant was going to solve all of your energy woes, think again
  
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• European bison to be introduced into Kent woodland

  10-07-2020 10:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European mammals will restore a rich habitat for local wildlife, conservationists say.
  
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• WHO admits AIRBORNE spread of coronavirus 'cannot be ruled out'

  10-07-2020 08:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The WHO now says that airborne spread is possible but cautions that other modes of transmission might explain the disease's spread.
  
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• 'We're back in action': TikTok says its earlier glitch was due to 'higher traffic than normal'

  10-07-2020 07:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok says that its video-making platform is back up and running like it should after users worldwide feared the Chinese-owned entity was on the verge of being erased completely due to a glitch.
  
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• If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?

  10-07-2020 07:14 via go.theregister.com
  
  There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop The suggestion that the Solar System's hypothesized Planet Nine is actually a small black hole could be supported by searching for outbursts of energy using the Vera Rubin Observatory, scientists say.…
  
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• Here's how boffins can prove Solar System's mysterious 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole – wait, what?

  10-07-2020 07:14 via go.theregister.com
  
  There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop The suggestion that the Solar System's hypothesized Planet Nine is actually a small black hole could be solved by searching for outbursts of energy using the Vera Rubin Observatory, scientists say.…
  
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• These children had Covid-19 beat. Then they got seriously ill

  10-07-2020 07:00 via wired.co.uk
  
  A small number of children who had mild cases of Covid-19 are being rushed to intensive care several weeks after beating the virus. The cause has doctors baffled
  
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• Like it or not, pandemic drive-in entertainment is the future of fun

  10-07-2020 07:00 via wired.co.uk
  
  Drive-in theatres might be the future of entertainment – but will they catch on?
  
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• Quibi lost 92% of its streamers after free trial period ended according to new report

  10-07-2020 01:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The overwhelming majority of people who signed up for the mobile video streaming service Quibi quit after their free trial period was over according to a new analytics firm report.
  
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• England's future water supplies at 'serious risk'

  10-07-2020 01:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs warn some regions will run out of water within the next 20 years unless "urgent action" is taken.
  
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• Climate change: Road plans will scupper CO2 targets, report says

  10-07-2020 01:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The majority of emissions cuts from electric cars will be wiped out by new road-building.
  
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• Wild BISON will roam British woodland for the first time in thousands of years

  10-07-2020 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European bison will live in a cordoned-off area of Blean Woods near Canterbury, close to the University of Kent campus, from spring 2022.
  
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