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• Carbon dioxide reached a high in 2020 that hasn't been recorded since in 3.6 MILLION years ago

  09-04-2021 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Greenhouse gases are on par with where they were in the mid-Pliocene, when sea level was 78 feet higher and the Earth was 7 degrees warmer. Since 2000, global CO2 levels have risen 12 percent.
  
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• NASA announces $85m Ingenuity helicopter will fly on 11 April

  09-04-2021 23:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has confirmed April 11 for when Ingenuity will attempt its first flight on Mars. The helicopter is set to takeoff at 12:30pm local Mars solar time, which is 10:54pm ET here on Earth.
  
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• All-natural blue pigment found in red cabbage could replace artificial food coloring dye 

  09-04-2021 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists with Mars Wrigley used a designer enzyme to convert the red pigment, or anthocyanin, in red cabbage to a cyan blue. They successfully tested the results with blue ice cream and donut icing.
  
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• Is a Jaffa Cake a biscuit? Physicist uses AI to solve debate

  09-04-2021 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A physicist has used the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the age-old debate about whether Jaffa Cakes are biscuits or cakes. She says they're 'without a doubt cakes'.
  
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• Global sea levels could rise two feet as Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' melts FASTER than expected

  09-04-2021 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thwaites in Western Antarctica is the size of Britain and melting at an alarming rate. If it was to collapse, it would lead to an increase in sea levels of around two feet (65cm).
  
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• SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts

  09-04-2021 20:37 via go.theregister.com
  
  As the constellation stands anyway SpaceX's Starlink has been described as the solution to dismal rural broadband. Like any project linked to Elon Musk, the satellite internet constellation is surrounded by a thick cloud of hype. But is it justified?…
  
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• Amazon defeats historic Alabama union effort

  09-04-2021 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The contest was test for the e-commerce giant, which has faced global criticism for worker treatment.
  
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• Eye-brain connection humans first evolved in fish 100 MILLION years earlier than previously thought

  09-04-2021 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The human eye-brain connection was already present in the ancient gar fish 450M years ago. This means it evolved 100M years earlier and not in terrestrial creatures as previously thought.
  
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• More than 80 percent of bald eagles in the US may have deadly rat poison in their system, study says

  09-04-2021 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 80 percent of dead bald and golden eagles examined between 2014 and 2018 were found to have rodenticide in their system from feasting on animals that at the poisoned rodents.
  
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• Food: People expect chocolate to taste more BITTER if it is in black packaging, study finds

  09-04-2021 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Brazil asked 420 individuals to predict the taste qualities of slabs of milk and dark chocolate that came presented in different coloured packaging.
  
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• NASA's Mars helicopter spins up its blades ahead of hoped-for 12 April hover

  09-04-2021 19:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Things to look forward to on Monday morn: Our Who, Me? column and 1st flight of Ingenuity The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is set to take its first flight after engineers spun its blades up to 50rpm in preparation.…
  
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• Health: 92% of women and 35% of men on a diet eat under the recommended calorie intake of a CHILD 

  09-04-2021 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nutrition brand Feel polled 2,644 British adults, 80 per cent of whom said they were trying to lose weight by May 17, when social distancing rules will likely loosen.
  
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• COVID Became Excuse To Run Statewide Surveillance Programs

  09-04-2021 17:07 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats invent because they can, especially when it comes to surveillance and monitoring. Recor’s business leverages the use of AI tracking by offering new revenue streams to cash-strapped states. ⁃ TN EditorCash-strapped states are using COVID as an excuse to create AI-driven vehicle recognition or license plate reader surveillance programs.
  As Rekor Systems president and CEO Robert Berman proudly boasts, “because our technology works so well for vehicle recognition,
  
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• 'Manly' men make better DADS, study claims 

  09-04-2021 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While these traits are often seen as old-fashioned male stereotypes, the researchers say that they can result in more positive parenting behaviours (stock image).
  
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• Scientists warn against 'dangerous' TikTok trend of deep frying WATER 

  09-04-2021 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The pointless trend involves combining water with calcium alginate to form a sphere of water, before coating it in flour, egg and breadcrumbs and dropping it into a fryer.
  
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• Nature: Intermittent warm passages let sea turtles cross cold waters on their 9,000 mile migrations

  09-04-2021 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In what experts call their 'lost years', some loggerhead sea turtles spend up to two decades migrating from the Japanese beaches of their birth to Baja California.
  
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• Huge asteroid three times the size of a London bus will zip between Earth and the moon TOMORROW

  09-04-2021 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dubbed 2021 GT3, the 62ft (19m) space rock will fly by the Earth on April 10, making its closest approach to the planet at about 22:30 BST.
  
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• Big Tech: “They Leave No Paper Trail For Authorities To Trace”

  09-04-2021 16:21 via technocracy.news
  
  Epstein rightly suggests that Google’s monopoly over information could be immediately broken by declaring its search database a “public commons”, allowing transparent access by any other service.
  The fact that Google crawled the Internet to amass this database is not connected to its manipulation of the data to influence and deceive the world into perceiving a reality that is not reality. Hiding, obfuscating, cloaking, selectively allowing, etc., are all post-database operation
  
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• Killing Capitalism: WEF Warns Of Cyber Attack Leading To Systemic Collapse Of The Global Financial System

  09-04-2021 15:34 via technocracy.news
  
  If the pandemic represented stage one of Technocracy’s coup d’etat, then there remains a grand finale yet to come. Now the World Economic Forum is preparing for a massive cyber attack leading to the collapse of the global financial system. This could complete the “Great Reset” where everything flips. ⁃ TN EditorA report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence agenci
  
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• Elon Musk's Neuralink 'shows monkey playing Pong with mind'

  09-04-2021 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The entrepreneur makes bold claims for how the technology can be used to help paraplegics walk again.
  
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• Software flaw led to 'serious incident' on Tui flight

  09-04-2021 13:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A language difference meant some women were labelled as children, throwing out weight calculations.
  
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• French army is testing Boston Dynamics' robot dog

  09-04-2021 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images have been shared by France's military school, the Saint-Cyr, of Spot the robot dog with soldiers during military exercises.
  
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• Early access releases: Should we buy video games before they're finished?

  09-04-2021 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Early access releases help makers smooth out glitches and build hype, but what's in it for gamers?
  
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• NASA's Ingenuity helicopter moves its blades before its maiden flight

  09-04-2021 12:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA shared a short animation to Twitter of the copter's blades spinning, captured by cameras attached to Ingenuity's parent craft Perseverance.
  
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• COP26: Greta Thunberg says Glasgow summit should be postponed

  09-04-2021 12:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The climate campaigner is concerned about the impact of Covid on attendance at the Glasgow summit.
  
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• Artist will.i.am launches facemask and other tech news

  09-04-2021 12:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week.
  
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• Dogs get jealous when they imagine their owner is fussing another pooch, study finds

  09-04-2021 11:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research now supports what many dog owners firmly believe - dogs exhibit jealous behaviour when their human companion interacts with a potential rival.
  
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• Neuralink has a monkey play Pong with its MIND - and it is appealing for HUMAN volunteers next 

  09-04-2021 11:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brain computer interface was implanted in a nine year old macaque monkey called Pager, who was first taught to play video games with a joystick.
  
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• Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away

  09-04-2021 10:08 via go.theregister.com
  
  Duplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic Scientists working on the psychology of problem solving may have hit upon why things always seem to get more complicated.…
  
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• Lift-off! Three space travellers launch on a Soyuz for the ISS

  09-04-2021 10:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Mark Vande Hel, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskly and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos will make the three hour journey to dock with the station.
  
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• Watch LIVE as three space travellers launch on a Soyuz for the ISS

  09-04-2021 09:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Mark Vande Hel, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskly and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos will make the three hour journey to dock with the station.
  
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• Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans' 'year of quiet'

  09-04-2021 08:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marine scientists set out to study the 'year of the quiet ocean' following the pandemic.
  
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• Sonos Roam review: late, not great

  09-04-2021 07:00
  
  Sonos likes to be tardy to the audio party, but excuses itself by impressing when it does eventually arrive. Not this time
  
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• Did invention make us human?

  09-04-2021 07:00
  
  Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen argues that our unique ability to invent tools is what sets us apart from other animals
  
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• A new type of Bill Gates conspiracy theory is going viral on Facebook

  09-04-2021 07:00
  
  Arabic Covid-19 conspiracy theories are going viral on Facebook – and little is being done about them
  
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• US blacklists seven Chinese supercomputer groups

  09-04-2021 05:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Biden's actions continue US moves to make it harder for China to obtain its technology.
  
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• Pets' names used as passwords by millions, study finds

  09-04-2021 02:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A survey suggests 15% of us are using an easily-guessed dog's or cat's name as a password.
  
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• Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp BACK online following worldwide outages

  09-04-2021 02:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger are back online following worldwide outages. The services crashed around 5pm ET, but appeared to running as usual around 7pm ET.
  
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• Amazon holds early lead in historic union election

  09-04-2021 02:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Workers in Alabama were voting on whether to create the first unionised warehouse in the US.
  
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• Covid US: Army starts clinical testing trial for its OWN vaccine

  09-04-2021 02:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In early tests, the shot appears to prompt high levels of antibodies that should block the older 'wild-type' coronavirus, three major variants and even the related pathogen that caused SARS.
  
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• US gun violence: Biden takes action on 'international embarrassment'

  09-04-2021 01:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As the White House announces new measures, Biden calls gun violence an "international embarrassment".
  
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• What will self-driving trucks mean for truck drivers?

  09-04-2021 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trucking is a big employer but autonomous trucks are on the horizon - are they a threat?
  
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• Is Netflix's Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans?

  09-04-2021 01:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Are the activities of the fishing industry destroying the world's oceans as a new film suggests?
  
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• Uber Eats launches new Dine-In feature to allow diners to order in-person at restaurants

  09-04-2021 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: 'Dine-In' goes live today in the UK ahead of the easing of lockdown restrictions on April 12 which will see pubs and restaurants welcome patrons for the first time in 2021.
  
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• What's this about a muon experiment potentially upending Standard Model of physics? We speak to one of the scientists involved

  09-04-2021 00:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us Physicists are this week giddy with excitement after a decade-long experiment looking at the inner-workings of a muon, a type of particle similar to the electron, hints that there may be another fundamental force waiting to be discovered.…
  
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• UN report warns of 1.M undiscovered viruses in nature, half of which could infect humans

  09-04-2021 00:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In their report, an international team of 22 experts said that unless steps are taken,pandemics will emerge more often, spread faster, kill more people and do more economic damage.
  
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