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• Army's new night vision goggles look like tech used in Halo video games

  27-04-2021 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US Army's Lancer Brigade shared footage of its new advanced night vision goggles that outlines figures in a glowing light, which some have likened to the system used in the 'Halo' video games.
  
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• Loneliness increases CANCER risk in middle aged men 'as much as smoking or being overweight'

  27-04-2021 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There was a 'clear link' between loneliness and an increased risk of cancer, the team explained, with being lonely increasing the risk of cancer by about ten per cent.
  
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• NASA DELAYS return of SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts until Saturday due to bad weather in Florida

  27-04-2021 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA is delaying the return trip of Crew-2 from the International Space Station due to poor weather in the splashdown zone. The crew is now set to return to Earth at 5:55 Saturday, May 1.
  
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• Fully vaccinated Americans can go maskless outside - except in crowds

  27-04-2021 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vaccinated Americans can now exercise and go to small gatherings without masks, as long as they are outside, according to new CDC guidance issued on Tuesday. Masks are still advised indoors.
  
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• Apple's Night Shift tool does NOT help you sleep, says study

  27-04-2021 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's Night Shift cuts short-wavelength light emissions to improve iPhone users' sleep, but experts have found 'no differences in sleep outcomes' attributable to the iOS tool.
  
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• CC Clarke: The mum-shaming on social media is mind-blowing

  27-04-2021 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Beauty influencer CC Clarke on dealing with "mum-shaming" from trolls on her social media accounts.
  
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• China’s ‘Social Credit Scoring’ Is Expanding Globally, Now Openly Operational In Western Canada

  27-04-2021 18:19 via technocracy.news
  
  This is not Communism, it is Technocracy. Technocrats in China are spreading their web of control into every nation where they can get away with it. Now Western Canada has succumbed and allowed the tyrannical surveillance systems to infiltrate its social fabric. ⁃ TN EditorChina’s Orwellian “social credit system” that records the social and financial behaviour of individuals and corporations across China, using a vast surveillance system, has expanded globally, and is now
  
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• Dogs are NOT seven times as old as a human. study finds

  27-04-2021 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study reveals a dog becomes a teenager at just six months old, is a fully-fledged adult by the time it is two years old and is a 'senior' at around seven.
  
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• Taking photos can actually IMPAIR your memory of events

  27-04-2021 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many people take photos as a way of preserving important moments in their life, but a new study suggests this doesn't actually work.
  
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• Rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft are making traffic jams worse, MIT study reveals 

  27-04-2021 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Services like Uber and Lyft are not just adding to congestion, but are also increasing time spent in traffic jams because people are using the apps more than public transportation.
  
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• Citizen Fury As One Billion GMO Mosquitos To Be Released In Florida

  27-04-2021 16:51 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrat genetic scientists think it’s a wonderful idea to wipe out a species of mosquito, but residents of Florida do not. Everyone hates mosquitoes for obvious reasons, but releasing GMO mosquitos into the environment is the stupidest solution. ⁃ TN EditorThe Florida Keys will soon be buzzing with close to a billion ‘fraken-squitoes’ – gene-hacked mosquitoes aimed at eradicating a disease carrying mosquito.
  The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (F
  
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• COVID Commission Planning Group Plans 9/11-Style Investigation Into Pandemic

  27-04-2021 16:34 via technocracy.news
  
  The coverup is well underway with a star-studded roster of global Technocrats setting up to create the ultimate “official” investigation about what happened over the last year. They even brought in Philip Zelikow, the former executive director of the 9/11 Commission. The foxes are building their own hen-house. ⁃ TN EditorHaving gone as far as he can with the World Health Organization’s cover-up, Bill Gates takes another bite at the apple with his corporate-funde
  
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• 'Miracle' cave in South Africa may be the earliest known human dwelling EVER found

  27-04-2021 16:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts examined the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, dating its 'human' contents to 1.8 million years ago, including tools and signs of fire use.
  
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• Online calculator shows how many followers you'd need to earn a living as an 'influencer'

  27-04-2021 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The online 'social salary calculator' lets you enter your desired yearly salary - and reveals how many followers and postsneeded to earn that as an 'influencer'.
  
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• Applying deep heat can boost performance and keep you going for longer, study finds 

  27-04-2021 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team discovered that those who used the lotion, rubbing it into feet, calves, thighs and buttocks, could continue exercising for two minutes longer than normal.
  
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• Sperm whales form BROMANCES that can last for at least five years

  27-04-2021 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research has found nomadic male sperm whales can talk to other males and build long-lasting friendships which can span several years.
  
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• Cockapoo Doyle waits to have his feet wiped

  27-04-2021 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage captured by owner Howard Godkin, 50, at his home in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, shows his two-year-old cockapoo Doyle wait to have his paws wiped before entering the house.
  
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• Electric car concept can hoover up the pollution from other vehicles

  27-04-2021 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Airo is being designed by British Heatherwick Studio for the Chinese green-vehicle firm IM Motors and could go into production as soon as 2023.
  
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• Could Covid-19 vaccine passports use biometric data?

  27-04-2021 13:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some governments are looking at coronavirus status systems but it is not without controversy.
  
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• Cyber-attack hackers threaten to share US police informant data

  27-04-2021 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The FBI investigates as a group says it has accessed Washington DC police computers, US media report.
  
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• Pink Supermoon dazzles the early morning skies

  27-04-2021 12:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  April's Pink Moon peaked at 04:31 BST on Tuesday (April 27), dazzling the night's sky with a gentle shade of gold before it set in the west.
  
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• Zoom launches new Immersive View tool that places participants into realistic SCENES

  27-04-2021 12:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zoom's 'Immersive View' will place participants into realistic settings, such as board rooms, classrooms or a conference auditorium.
  
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• Listening to HIP-HOP music in theatre can make surgeons perform better, study claims 

  27-04-2021 10:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While playing music in the operating room is a common practice, researchers from Heidelberg University Medical School set out to understand the effects of different genres.
  
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• Tesla: Bitcoin sales and environmental credits boost profits

  27-04-2021 08:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The electric car maker reports record deliveries for the quarter despite production hurdles.
  
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• NASA reveals ambitious plans to send an Interstellar Probe 92BILLION miles away

  27-04-2021 08:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Currently dubbed the Interstellar Probe, NASA wants to send the spacecraft out to 1,000 AU (astronomical units), that is 1,000 times further than the distance between the Earth and the sun.
  
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• This is what Monzo is planning next

  27-04-2021 07:00
  
  TS Anil took over the challenger bank at a time of existential crisis. A year on, he’s got a plan to (finally) break even
  
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• Apple’s new iOS update is its most significant privacy update ever

  27-04-2021 07:00
  
  iOS 14.5 upends how apps track your behaviour. From now on you will have to opt-in to send advertisers your data
  
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• A Covid breakthrough could fix the broken economics of vaccines

  27-04-2021 07:00
  
  Pharmaceutical firms have spent decades shunning expensive vaccines, but mRNA vaccines could change that for good
  
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• Five things to know about Apple's iOS update

  27-04-2021 02:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New update includes new privacy features, emojis and a way of turning on an iPhone with a mask on.
  
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• Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

  27-04-2021 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In the next 10 years millions of old electric car batteries will need to be recycled or discarded.
  
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• Hundreds of stone tools used by homo erectus a million years ago discovered in abandoned Sahara mine

  27-04-2021 00:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A gold rush in Sudan has led miners to find hundreds of Paleolithic axes and cleavers made by homo erectus. Stone flakes found near tools at one mine led experts to believe it was a workshop.
  
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• Mom makes edible crayons from cabbage, rice and apples to get kids to eat healthy food 

  27-04-2021 00:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vegetable Crayons are made from rice bran oil and wax, byproducts of the rice polishing process. Coloring comes from discarded produce, like the dregs from squeezed blackcurrant juice.
  
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• Living with a smoker raises your risk of developing mouth cancer by 51%, study warns

  27-04-2021 00:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New findings from KCL confirm what experts feared; second-hand smoke increases a person's risk of oral cancer risk by 51%.
  
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