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• STDs reach all-time in US for sixth consecutive year

  13-04-2021 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from CDC found that in 2019, there were 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, marking the sixth consecutive year STDs have reached an all-time high in the U.S.
  
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• Critically endangered polar bears are mating with grizzly bears heading north and 'pizzly bears'

  13-04-2021 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Polar bears are on the verge of extinction due to climate change, but a warming world is pushing grizzly bears more north and the two are mating to make a hybrid known as 'pizzly bears.'
  
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• California's 'fire season 2021 is looking GRIM' due to a lingering drought

  13-04-2021 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found no new growth in parts of California, instead they are seeing dead plants that could fuel violent wildfires This is due the lingering drought from 2020 that is said to get even worse.
  
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• Norfolk's 'unique' purple sea sponge named by schoolgirl

  13-04-2021 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The sponge species was unnamed for a decade before nine-year-old Sylvie suggested Parpal Dumplin.
  
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• Human screams can communicate at least SIX different emotions

  13-04-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The results of the Swiss study revealed six psycho-acoustically distinct types of scream calls, which indicated pain, anger, fear, pleasure, sadness and joy.
  
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• Pollution: Richest 1% produce DOUBLE the carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, says UN

  13-04-2021 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This disparity in pollution is highlighted by a recent report from the UK-based Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change.
  
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• McKinsey & Company: Super-Spreaders Of Technocracy

  13-04-2021 18:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Global consulting firm McKinsey & Company has three senior members who are also members of the Trilateral Commission, which is prominent in the modern resurgence of Technocracy according to its New International Economic Order.
  The Trilateral Commission members are:James Manyika, Chair, McKinsey Global Institute; Senior Partner, McKinsey, San Francisco
  Ammanuel Zegeye, Partner, McKinsey & Co., San Francisco
  Vivian Hunt, Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, London⁃ TN EditorOne
  
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• People who experience big dips in blood sugar levels eat more

  13-04-2021 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People experiencing a 'big dip' in blood sugar levels saw a nine per cent rise in hunger and waited half an hour less than others before having their next meal.
  
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• Facebook removes French town's official page because of its 'offensive' name 

  13-04-2021 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook has apologised to the town's mayor and restored the page. The mayor criticised an over-reliance on tech to detect offensive terms.
  
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• Next Up? DARPA Working On Vaccine Plus Implantable Microchip To Detect Virus

  13-04-2021 17:45 via technocracy.news
  
  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is one epicenter of Technocrat invention, but its mission is to build super-soldiers to fight wars. The danger to civilian populations cannot be overstated. ⁃ TN EditorThe Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a COVID vaccine that will work on all variants and has developed an implantable microchip that it says will continuously monitor the human body for signs of the virus.
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• Facebook is testing a video dating app called Sparked that cycles users through four-minute dates

  13-04-2021 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook's Sparked is a web-based service that lets users video chat with potential dates for four minutes at a time and if there is a connection, a 10-minute second date can be setup.
  
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• Find Out If Google Is Tracking You With New FloC System

  13-04-2021 17:05 via technocracy.news
  
  Google is ramping up its monopoly on tracking users with a new system called FloC, or Federated Learning of Cohorts”.  It is currently in test mode with some Chrome users, and you can quickly find out if you are being “FloCed” by going to EFF’s AmIFloced.org site. ⁃ TN EditorGoogle is running a Chrome “origin trial” to test out an experimental new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka “FLoC”). According to Googl
  
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• NHS uses technology that can turn Covid-19 waste PPE into plastic for SCHOOL CHAIRS

  13-04-2021 16:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Machines developed by the Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group can compact bags of PPE into large, reusable plastic blocks in the space of an hour.
  
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• Facebook and Instagram users can now APPEAL any unwanted content

  13-04-2021 16:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook's Oversight Board, launched last October, makes binding rulings on whether posts or ads violate the company's standards.
  
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• Smacking your child can affect their brain development, Harvard study warns 

  13-04-2021 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Smacking appears to alter children's neural responses to environmental threats in a manner similar to more severe forms of maltreatment, scientists reveal.
  
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• Health: Swimming pool water can inactivate the COVID-19 virus in just 30 SECONDS, study finds

  13-04-2021 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virologists from Imperial College London studied the impact of varying concentrations of chlorine in water on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
  
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• Google to trial Chrome controversial ad-tracking system on millions of users

  13-04-2021 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Am I FLoCed' websitelets Google Chrome users know if they are one of the 0.5 per cent of people auto-enrolled in the so-called 'origin trial' of a new advertising technology
  
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• 984-foot-long emission-free 'nuclear-powered' science exploration vessel could launch by 2025 

  13-04-2021 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Earth 300 vessel has been designed to 'unite science and exploration to confront Earth's greatest challenges,' according to Iddes Yacht founder Salas Jefferson.
  
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• Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data

  13-04-2021 15:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  House listing on Rightmove reveals "treasure trove of private data".
  
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• Siri reveals April 20 as date for next Apple event where new iPad Pros expected to launch

  13-04-2021 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's digital assistant Siri will reveal date of the next Apple event when asked. Siri says: The special event is on Tuesday, April 20, at Apple Park in Cupertino, CA.'
  
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• Gmail 'safer than parliament's email system' says Tory MP

  13-04-2021 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tom Tugendhat, Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair, says he was advised Gmail was 'more secure'.
  
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• Rising temperatures are making it harder to grow the potatoes used for French fries

  13-04-2021 14:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Climate change is causing difficulty for American farmers who grow the potatoes which make the best chips, an expert has warned.
  
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• Jake Paul accused of sexual assault by Justine Paradise

  13-04-2021 13:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The YouTuber has not yet commented on allegations from Paradise, a TikTok star.
  
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• The rise and fall of Canary Wharf

  13-04-2021 13:11
  
  London’s iconic financial district is trying to reinvent itself as a place to work and play after the pandemic. But the numbers don’t add up
  
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• Enormous 984-foot-long vessel could launch with 160 scientists on board by 2025 

  13-04-2021 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Earth 300 vessel has been designed to 'unite science and exploration to confront Earth's greatest challenges,' according founder Salas Jefferson.
  
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• Apple smart assistant Siri reveals April 20 as date for next event

  13-04-2021 12:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's digital assistant Siri will reveal date of the next Apple event when asked. Siri says: The special event is on Tuesday, April 20, at Apple Park in Cupertino, CA.'
  
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• Children who SNORE have thinner brain regions which causes bad behaviour study finds

  13-04-2021 11:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brain scans revealed children who snore three or more times a week have less grey matter around the brain's frontal lobes, the zones responsible for impulse control and reasoning.
  
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• Website reveals if you're a Chrome user selected to trial a controversial new ad system

  13-04-2021 11:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Am I FLoCed' websitelets Google Chrome users know if they are one of the 0.5 per cent of people auto-enrolled in the so-called 'origin trial' of a new advertising technology
  
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• NASA delays Ingenuity's maiden Mars flight AGAIN

  13-04-2021 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ingenuity's trip, which is to be the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, was set for Sunday 11, was delayed until April 14 and is now delayed again for at least a week.
  
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• Climate Check, from BBC Weather

  13-04-2021 11:03 via bbc.co.uk
  With record high CO2 levels and destructive tornadoes, Ben Rich has more on extreme weather around the globe this spring.
  
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• Fukushima: Japan approves releasing wastewater into ocean

  13-04-2021 09:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Most experts say it's a normal and safe practice but environmentalists and locals are not happy.
  
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• The homecoming call for Northern Ireland's gaming industry

  13-04-2021 08:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  NI Screen and Hypixel Studios launch incentive to encourage people to work in local gaming industry.
  
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• How a gaming gadget became a Covid early warning system

  13-04-2021 07:00
  
  The pandemic spurred Cecilia Harvey’s wearable device startup to move from avionics and gaming to healthcare
  
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• NASA writing software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight

  13-04-2021 06:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away NASA will upload a ‘minor modification’ of flight control software to the Ingenuity helicopter ahead of its first attempt at powered flight on Mars, and says the process of doing so means it can’t say when attempts to send craft into Red skies will take place…
  
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• NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight

  13-04-2021 06:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away NASA will upload a "minor modification" of flight control software to the Ingenuity helicopter ahead of its first attempt at powered flight on Mars, and says the process of doing so means it can’t say when attempts to send craft into Red skies will take place.…
  
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• World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem'

  13-04-2021 04:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The so-called “polluter elite” must change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says.
  
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• China forces Jack Ma's Ant Group to restructure

  13-04-2021 04:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The overhaul will force the Alibaba-backed group to become a financial holding firm.
  
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• Tube that props open blood vessels could conquer impotence

  13-04-2021 02:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A tube that props open tiny blood vessels may offer a new way to tackle impotence. The wire tube is implanted inside the tiny arteries measuring just 1mm wide that supply blood to the penis.
  
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• Saving the kelp forest that stars in My Octopus Teacher

  13-04-2021 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The makers of the Bafta-winning documentary want to preserve the underwater ecosystem it features.
  
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• Nearly 14 tons of extraterrestrial 'dust' lands on Earth every year, according to new report

  13-04-2021 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over 5,000 tons of interplanetary dust lands on Earth every year, mostly from comets. These micrometeorites are minuscule, ranging from a few tenths to hundredths of a millimeter each.
  
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• 'I put those goggles on and just fell in love'

  13-04-2021 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drones capable of 90mph are being raced in a league which supporters say is close to the big time.
  
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• Thousands of remote workers struggle to log in using Pulse Secure VPN due to expired code

  13-04-2021 00:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of employees are unable to access company resources through Pulse Secure VPN Monday due to an expired that verifies software components.
  
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• Moment when baby giraffe and mother are rescued from a flooded Kenya island

  13-04-2021 00:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The last of nine giraffes stranded on a flooding island in Kenya have been rescued. A calf named Noelle and her month, Ngarikoni, were floated down river in a steel barge to a sanctuary.
  
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• Experts are worried that using the Body Mass Index is not a fat lot of good 

  13-04-2021 00:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Someone who is slim and has a healthy BMI can still have an illness such as heart disease - and someone who is overweight according to their BMI could be fit and healthy.
  
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• Keto diet can help alcoholics who want to quit by easing symptoms of booze withdrawal, study finds 

  13-04-2021 00:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study found that alcoholics who stayed on the ketogenic diet for just three weeks better managed alcohol withdrawal symptoms and drank less booze as a result.
  
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