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• Road and rail building plans under review after Covid

  06-05-2021 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Post-pandemic shifts in travel habits could undermine the logic behind many infrastructure projects.
  
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• Pets: Grumpy dogs are better at learning skills from a stranger than their more friendly peers

  06-05-2021 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Hungary grouped dogs into two categories based on their behavioural traits - and then tested their ability to learn by watching others.
  
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• Desert-living dinosaur Shuvuuia had night vision, study reveals

  06-05-2021 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  About the size of a chicken, the weird bird-like dinosaur had some of the proportionally largest pupils ever measured indinosaurs or modern-day birds, researchers report.
  
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• Men with chest pain receive faster and better medical treatment than women

  06-05-2021 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Compared with men of similar age, women were triaged less urgently, waited longer to be seen, and were less likely to undergo basic tests or be hospitalised, researchers found.
  
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• Remains at a mass grave in Spain were likely killed by the Franco regime in 1936

  06-05-2021 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found the first human remains after a few weeks of digging in a ravine in Granada, saying they could belong to three or four people shot between August and October 1936.
  
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• Trifecta: DARPA, IARPA And Now HARPA To Complete ‘Digital Dictatorship’

  06-05-2021 17:46 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats are merging “Health security” and “national security” to create the ultimate digital dictatorship. Three Technocrat-laced government agencies will operate in a lawless James Bond-esque fashion to sidestep all regulations.
  This is a must-read article. Note that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is right in the middle of HARPA (actually, the acronym is ARPA-H but “HARPA” is more easily pronounceable.) Also note that the HARPA initiative started under t
  
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• Cutting methane gas 'crucial for climate fight'

  06-05-2021 17:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reducing methane emissions needs to play a much more important role in tackling global warming.
  
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• Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them during their long-distance forays

  06-05-2021 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  How sharks navigate thousands of miles to return to the same breeding ground every year has mystified scientists for 50 years, with experiments difficult to run.
  
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• Food: Artificial colour-changing material mimics chameleon skin and can detect seafood freshness

  06-05-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Developed by experts from China, the device switches from pink to green in the presence of the amine vapours released by microbes when fish and shrimp spoil.
  
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• First Propaganda, Then The Criminalization Of Dissent

  06-05-2021 16:37 via technocracy.news
  
  Soft propaganda has been building for decades, but the next phase of globalization is fully engaged: that is, the criminalization of dissent. All revolutions end up at this stage. Cancelling, incarcerating and ultimately killing dissenters. The markers for Technocracy’s coup d’etat are clearly visible. ⁃ TN EditorOne of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal c
  
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• Giraffes have FOUR distinct species, genome study reveals

  06-05-2021 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Visually, they are hardly distinguishable, according to LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics scientists, who carried out the genetic analyses.
  
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• One alcoholic drink per day may cut risk of fatal heart disease 20%, study says

  06-05-2021 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have linked moderate alcohol intake - no more than one alcoholic drink for women and two for men per day -with a 20 per cent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
  
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• NYU Professor/Propaganda Expert Fights Academic Censorship

  06-05-2021 16:19 via technocracy.news
  
  New York University Professor Mark Crispin Miller refuses to be cancelled by the propaganda-laced culture that he has forcefully exposed over the last 20 years. His battle is one that every American should be fighting to cancel the cancel culture. ⁃ TN EditorIn the video above, James Corbett of The Corbett Report interviews1 professor Mark Crispin Miller about mass persuasion and propaganda — topics he’s been teaching at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture
  
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• World's most intense LASER is revealed

  06-05-2021 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in South Korea report the highest laser intensity ever to be reached. The new milestone of 1023 W/cm2 has been pursued by experts globally for more than 15 years.
  
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• BT Smart Hub 2 router 'disrupting' home networks

  06-05-2021 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Users say they are being forced to choose between range or speed, or face an unusable network.
  
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• Covid-19: Bald men up to 2.5 TIMES more likely to suffer severe cases, study warns

  06-05-2021 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that male patients with a common biomarker linked to hair loss appeared to be significantly more susceptive to severe coronavirus infections.
  Pictured: actor Bruce Willis
  
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• DNA identifies first member of Britain's doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition

  06-05-2021 15:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Remains found on King William Island, Nunavut,have now been matched to a living individual, confirming the body is that of Warrant Officer John Gregory, an engineer on HMS Erebus.
  
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• Alcohol in moderation 'may help the heart', study reveals

  06-05-2021 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have linked moderate alcohol intake - no more than one alcoholic drink for women and two for men per day -with a 20 per cent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
  
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• IBM 2nm chip breakthrough claims more power with less energy

  06-05-2021 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Next-gen processor tech gives more performance with less energy use, IBM claims.
  
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• No full-time return to the office for over a million

  06-05-2021 13:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost all of 50 big UK firms tell the BBC staff will divide their time between home and office in future.
  
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• FOUR distinct species of giraffe, not just one, identified by scientists

  06-05-2021 13:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Visually, they are hardly distinguishable, according to LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics scientists, who carried out the genetic analyses.
  
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• Nailed it! Elon Musk's SpaceX launches and LANDS its Starship SN15

  06-05-2021 11:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX launched and landed its Starship SN15 Wed, making it the first prototype to survive a high altitude test. The rocket hit six miles in the air, performed the flip and landed back on the pad.
  
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• Twitter now prompts users to review their 'potentially offensive' tweets

  06-05-2021 11:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The feature, which has rolled out for English-speaking Twitter users on iOS and Android, asks users to think before publishing 'a potentially harmful reply'.
  
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• Darktrace has just salvaged London’s IPO dream

  06-05-2021 11:27
  
  After hyping up Deliveroo’s catastrophic IPO, London desperately needed a win
  
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• Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower will peak this evening with up to 20 shooting stars per hour

  06-05-2021 10:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Met Office forecasters warn of showers and cloud cover for much of the UK, however, they expect some clear patches to break through overnight.
  
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• The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs

  06-05-2021 08:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  There was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody Video  SpaceX’s latest test of its ‘Spaceship’ vehicle has stuck its landing for the first time.…
  
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• Smart face masks? Don’t waste your breath

  06-05-2021 07:00
  
  Face masks could be fertile ground for clever tech. But these aren’t it
  
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• Fix Section 230 and hold tech companies to account

  06-05-2021 07:00
  
  Making social media sites act on content such as nonconsensual porn and violent conspiracies would make the internet more equal and free
  
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• Twitter tells users to be nice and think twice before replying

  06-05-2021 06:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The social media platform will prompt users to review "potentially harmful or offensive" replies.
  
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• If you're the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch

  06-05-2021 05:48 via go.theregister.com
  
  For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals Blue Origin is planning to launch its first crew into space on July 20 – and a seat on this inaugural spaceflight is up for auction.…
  
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• If you're in the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch

  06-05-2021 05:48 via go.theregister.com
  
  For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals Blue Origin is planning to launch its first crew into space on July 20 – and a seat on this inaugural spaceflight is up for auction.…
  
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• Millions at security risk from old routers, Which? warns

  06-05-2021 03:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Research by Which? looked at a selection of older routers still being used by customers.
  
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• Green sea turtles spend their 'lost years' after hatching hanging out in the Sargasso Sea

  06-05-2021 03:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers outfitted green turtles with trackers to see how they spend their 'lost years' between hatching and returning to the coast as juveniles. It turns out they high-tail it to the Sargasso Sea.
  
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• Nailed it! SpaceX launches and LANDS its Starship SN15

  06-05-2021 02:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX launched and landed its Starship SN15 Wed, making it the first prototype to survive a high altitude test. The rocket hit six miles in the air, performed the flip and landed back on the pad.
  
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• Cats really DO love sitting in boxes, even if it is an optical illusion

  06-05-2021 02:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a series of experiments, cats were more interested in sitting in a square, even if it was an optical illusion, than in other shapes. Researchers believe the squares remind them of the security of boxes
  
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