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• Parler set to return to Apple's App Store

  19-04-2021 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The controversial social media app is returning after it was pulled following riots at the US Capitol.
  
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• NASA shares incredible new video of first ever HELICOPTER flight on Mars

  19-04-2021 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has shared the first flight of a powered craft on a different planet. The new video shows Ingenuity soaring 10ft above the surface, hovering, turning and then landing back on the Martian surface.
  
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• Earth's biggest mass extinction took TEN times longer on land than in the water

  19-04-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team say it took about 100,000 years to kill life in the oceans as the waters quickly adapt to higher levels of carbon dioxide, but a million years on Earth.
  
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• Dreaded middle-aged spread is getting WORSE

  19-04-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Data from 65,000 people in four studies was collated and revealed modern people are getting fatter in their 40s and 50s compared to past generations.
  
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• Facebook announces plans for its Clubhouse chatroom copycat, along with new 'soundbites'

  19-04-2021 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook now appears to have confirmed plans to launch a copycat of audio chatroom app Clubhouse, as it revealed plans summer as an audio-only version of its 'Rooms' feature
  
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• Apple to unveil new products at its 'Spring Loaded' event tomorrow

  19-04-2021 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is expected to showcase some brand new hardware on Tuesday evening, 18:00 UK time. Here's how to catch the unveiling event - and what the tech giant is expected to unveil.
  
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• Jumping worms that thrash wildly when disturbed invade US from East Asia

  19-04-2021 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jumping worms have been reported in more than a dozen states in the Midwest. They feast on organic material and deplete soil nutrients, which could be detrimental to the agriculture industry.
  
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• WIRED Pulse: Quantum

  19-04-2021 18:47
  
  WIRED Pulse: Quantum explores the future of quantum
  
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• Psychology: Men who wear large logos on their shirts are seen as more PROMISCUOUS, study finds

  19-04-2021 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A US psychologist set out to see whether - in the manner of peacock feathers - ostentatious, blingy clothing made men appear more attractive to women.
  
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• 2020 was one of three warmest years on record, study says

  19-04-2021 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  2020 was one of three warmest years on record, along with 2016 and 2019, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
  
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• Flashback: How And Why The CIA Made Google

  19-04-2021 18:02 via technocracy.news
  
  This masterful white paper documents the events and people surrounding the founding of Google. It should be read and understood by every American because it represents the greatest social engineering program of all time. Google was not accidental, nor was it simply fulfilling the needs of a new marketplace. ⁃ TN EditorPart I
  In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, western governments are moving fast to legitimize expanded powers of mass surveillance and controls on the internet,
  
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• The Military/Intelligence Origins Of Facebook

  19-04-2021 17:08 via technocracy.news
  
  The CIA along with its venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects), both bastions of Technocrat social engineering, were knee-deep in the original creation of social media.  Their objective was to create extensive folios on every citizen. ⁃ TN EditorIn mid-February, Daniel Baker, a US veteran described by the media as “anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists, and anti-police,” was charged by a Florida grand jury with two count
  
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• Scientists say 'forgotten' coffee with superior flavour is climate change-proof

  19-04-2021 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists say Coffea stenophylla - a rare and threatened species from West Africa - has the potential to ensure the future of coffee under climate change.
  
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• Olympic Games have become less eco-friendly since 2002

  19-04-2021 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London 2012 received the fourth worst 'sustainability score' from researchers who scrutinised the eco-credentials of 16 Olympics since 1992, Only Sochi '14, Rio '16 and Tokyo 2020 rated worse.
  
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• Health: Men who drink while trying for a baby are more likely to father kids with birth defects

  19-04-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers analysed the pre-conception alcohol habits and pregnancy outcomes of more than 500,000 couples across mainland China.
  
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• Climate change: Future-proofing coffee in a warming world

  19-04-2021 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A "forgotten" coffee plant that grows in warmer conditions could help ensure the drink's future.
  
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• Priti Patel: Facebook encryption plan ‘must not hamper child protection’

  19-04-2021 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Home Secretary criticises Facebook's privacy plan for its apps in a speech on child protection.
  
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• UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm

  19-04-2021 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government is to examine Nvidia's planned purchase of the UK firm on national security grounds.
  
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• How The CIA Took Over U.S. Media

  19-04-2021 16:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats in the CIA have virtually taken over U.S. media to spin a globalist narrative that ultimately doesn’t even include a functioning nation. Eisenhower warned us about the “Military Industrial Complex” and the “Technological Elite”, but political representatives took no notice or action. Now the endgame is at hand. ⁃ TN EditorBack in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covert
  
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• Adorable baby dinosaur's footprint is just 6cm long and is the smallest stegosaur print EVER found

  19-04-2021 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The imprint measures jut 2.24 inches (5.7cm) long and the exact species that made it remains unknown. But it is thought the footprint, found in China, belongs to a baby stegosaur.
  
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• On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies

  19-04-2021 13:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  NASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg The first human-made helicopter to take flight on another planet, Ingenuity, has hovered in Martian skies after NASA at last launched the device into the air.…
  
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• Audi's electric A6 e-tron concept has hi-tech headlights that beam video games onto walls

  19-04-2021 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the event you get bored waiting for your Audi A6 e-tron to charge its batteries, instead of reading a newspaper you can play a video game in the car - and have it beamed onto a wall by the headlights.
  
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• Greta Thunberg: Meeting David Attenborough was 'indescribable'

  19-04-2021 13:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The teenage activist spoke to Greg James about climate change and Ikea meatballs.
  
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• Sculpture: Flora bust argued to be by da Vinci wasn't created until 300 years AFTER his death

  19-04-2021 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sculpture of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, is held in the collections of the Bode(formerly the Kaiser Friedrich Museum) in central Berlin.
  
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• Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars

  19-04-2021 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The Ingenuity drone completes the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
  
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• Scientists may find ALIENS by 2026 thanks to a new space telescope

  19-04-2021 12:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Graduate student Caprice Phillips said the results of her study show that we may 'realistically find signs of life on another planet in the next 5 to 10 years.'
  
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• Self-driving cars may 'struggle to recognise dark-skinned faces'

  19-04-2021 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Law Commission has warned autonomous cars may also be prejudiced against women and the mobility-impaired, because their operating systems have largely been created by able-bodied men.
  
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• Britons 'empty Lake Windermere' every year washing their clothes

  19-04-2021 11:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Researchers at Oxwash, a sustainable laundry and dry cleaning service, looked at average water consumption, the number of washing machines and laundry habits.
  
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• The future digital battlespace

  19-04-2021 10:32
  
  In a new ebook created with WIRED, Microsoft highlights how technology is revolutionising the future of defence
  
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• The search is on for a drug that can stop Covid-19 infections

  19-04-2021 07:00
  
  Although vaccines have been more successful than many imagined, a the hunt is still on for a drug that can stop people getting infected with Covid-19
  
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• Here’s how to fix online harassment. No, seriously

  19-04-2021 07:00
  
  By letting third parties build moderation and safety tools, social media platforms could limit harassment — and give users more agency in how they engage
  
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• The best climate solution you've never heard of

  19-04-2021 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meet the teams who track down and destroy hidden sources of greenhouse gases.
  
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• How product placements may soon be added to classic films

  19-04-2021 01:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Getting consumer goods in shot is big business for movies and TV series, and items can now be added digitally.
  
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• Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox and PS Now put to the test

  19-04-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google's Stadia, Nvidia's GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming and PlayStation Now are put to the test.
  
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• Teenage blacksmith Ben Perkins forges social media following

  19-04-2021 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Perkins built a blacksmith's forge in his back garden and taught himself the traditional craft.
  
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