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• NASA's first asteroid sample on its way to Earth after OSIRIS-REx boosts for home

  10-05-2021 23:52 via go.theregister.com
  
  Boffins will have to wait until September 2023 to get their hands on the goodies OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft carrying NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample, has started its two-year journey back to Earth, the space agency confirmed on Monday.…
  
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• These are the best Android phones you can buy in 2021

  10-05-2021 23:09
  
  Which Android phone should you buy? WIRED Recommends the best Android mobiles, including the best budget Android phone and the best Android phone camera
  
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• NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission begins its 1.4 billion mile journey home from asteroid Bennu

  10-05-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's OSIRIS-REx has started the 1.4 billion-mile journey back to Earth after spending two years on asteroid Bennu. The craft is bringing back samples that could tell us how the solar system formed.
  
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• Gigantic kites flown by robots could harness Mars's strong winds and power human colonies 

  10-05-2021 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dutch scientists have proposed using a massive kite to harness Mars' high winds as a power source. As the kite soared, the attached spindle would rotate, generating enough energy for a base camp.
  
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• Nasa craft carrying 4.5bn-year-old asteroid dust begins long trek home

  10-05-2021 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists believe the dust sample may provide clues on the formation of the Solar System.
  
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• 'Living skyscraper' made from genetically modified TREES wins architecture design competition 

  10-05-2021 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Guess Line Architects' 'living skyscraper' would be shaped from fast-growing trees, with branches grafted to form a network structure. Smaller branches would form individual walls and rooms.
  
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• Colonial hack: How did cyber-attackers shut off pipeline?

  10-05-2021 21:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Attacks on critical national infrastructure are an increasing concern, experts say.
  
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• Intoxication brings strangers physically closer, study finds

  10-05-2021 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Strangers move closer together after boozing, scientists at the University of Illinois show. Alcohol reduces physical proximity at a rate with 'potentially important implications for public health'.
  
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• Elon Musk says SpaceX could re-fly Starship SN15 'soon' following the rocket's historic landing

  10-05-2021 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk may attempt to re-fly SpaceX's Starship SN15 'soon.' The giant rocket is the only prototype to survive a test flight, which allowed SpaceX to capture its first full flight data.
  
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• Yawning cools the BRAIN and does not function to oxygenate our blood, scientists claim 

  10-05-2021 19:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found a direct link between the size or activity levels of the brain and the length of the yawn, suggesting we need to yawn to cool down our brain and stay alert.
  
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• Chinese Military Discussed Weaponizing COVID In 2015 ‘To Cause Enemy’s Medical System To Collapse’

  10-05-2021 19:05 via technocracy.news
  
  The NGO receiving pass-through funds from the NIH to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is EcoHealth Alliance. Its institutional partners include radical environmental groups Planetary Health Alliance,  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Convention on Biological Diversity and Futureearth.
  The goals of EcoHealth Alliance are synonymous with the United Nations’s goal of merging ecology with health systems. Since humans are merely one component of the world&rsquo
  
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• Stress in dogs is linked to an owner's personality, study shows

  10-05-2021 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists investigated stress levels in two types of dogs - solitary hunting breeds and ancient dog breeds - and their owners. They say stress can be passed from human and dog like a 'contagion'.
  
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• NASA ups price of a private stay aboard the ISS to reflect true expense of keeping tourists alive in space

  10-05-2021 17:40 via go.theregister.com
  
  Should cover the cost of the air leaking out of the Russian segment Fancy a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? It is about to get a lot pricier for future private astronaut missions.…
  
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• Scientists keep ignoring ugly plants. That’s a big problem

  10-05-2021 17:09
  
  Research is biased towards good-looking plants and animals, leaving their uglier cousins out in the cold
  
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• NASA's Voyager-1 sends back data of the 'hum' of interstellar gas from 14 BILLION miles away 

  10-05-2021 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The spacecraft,currently further away from the Earth than any human-made object before it, launched 44 years ago to study the gas giants of the outer solar system.
  
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• Medical Utilitarianism: It’s OK To Sacrifice A Few For The Good Of The Majority

  10-05-2021 16:56 via technocracy.news
  
  It is not OK to sacrifice any number of humans for the “greater good.” Utilitarianism is a totally discredited pseudo-ethic that has been used throughout modern history to justify horrific human rights abuses, and it will do so again if not rejected. Thousands are dying from receiving vaccinations, yet this is dismissed as inconsequential. ⁃ TN EditorIn an April 29, 2021, opinion piece published by Newsday,1 Arthur Caplan and Dorit Reiss, Ph.D., argue for the implementatio
  
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• Shock: Canadian Government Openly Embraces Transhumanism

  10-05-2021 16:33 via technocracy.news
  
  The following text and slides are taken directly from Canada’s Federal Government organization, Policy Horizons. It is pure Transhumanism and Technocracy that seeks “full physical integration of biological and digital entities” in order to “change human beings – our bodes, minds and behaviors”. ⁃ TN EditorKristel Van der Elst
  In the coming years, biodigital technologies could be woven into our lives in the way that digital technologies are now. Biologica
  
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• WhatsApp users have 'weeks' to accept controversial privacy update that sparked data sharing fears

  10-05-2021 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WhatsApp users have 'several more weeks' to accept a controversial privacy update. The deadline was originally May 15 - but this has been extended.
  
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• Nature: At least 65 animal species can LAUGH just like humans - including cows, dogs and seals

  10-05-2021 15:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers combed through past studies of animal behaviour, looking for records of vocal play signals that might represent a version of laughter.
  
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• The robots of the future are already among us

  10-05-2021 15:33
  
  From robot priests to apple pickers, these machines are bringing a robotic touch to the workplace
  
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• 400-YEAR-old butterfly discovered in an ancient Cambridge University library book

  10-05-2021 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The butterfly was found pressed next to its corresponding image in Theatre of Insects (1634), in the library of Trinity Hall college.
  
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• Meme crypto-coin literally going to the Moon, if Elon Musk is to believed, on DOGE-1 mission courtesy of SpaceX Falcon 9

  10-05-2021 15:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  Rocket marks 10th successful launch and landing, though Dogecoin's descent was a little rougher Elon Musk has announced a SpaceX mission to the Moon paid for in Dogecoin, just a day after the cryptocurrency tumbled in response to the multibillionare calling it a "hustle" while he hosted Saturday Night Live.…
  
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• NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will leave asteroid Bennu TODAY

  10-05-2021 14:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The spaceship was sent to study Bennu, an asteroid around the size of the Empire State Building and 200 million miles away, between the orbit of Earth and Mars.
  
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• Emily Taylor: Fuel pipeline cyber-attack is 'extortion'

  10-05-2021 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There have been warnings of increased ransomware attacks, the chief executive of Oxford Information Labs says.
  
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• Clubhouse launches on Android as app downloads collapse

  10-05-2021 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The invitation-only audio platform will be available on Google’s Android to users in the US and UK.
  
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• WhatsApp users have 'several more weeks' to accept a controversial privacy update

  10-05-2021 14:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WhatsApp users have 'several more weeks' to accept a controversial privacy update. The deadline was originally May 15 - but this has been relaxed.
  
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• HSBC to pilot Zoom-free Friday afternoons

  10-05-2021 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The trial comes in an effort to tackle stress caused by working from home during the pandemic.
  
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• Nature: Amateur photographer snaps glowing 'blue gold' shores around New Zealand's Hibiscus Coast

  10-05-2021 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Auckland resident Matthew Davison snapped the effect - which he dubs 'blue gold' - at 9pm local time Sunday at Tindalls Beach, on the Whangaparāoa peninsula.
  
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• WhatsApp users have five days to accept a controversial privacy update

  10-05-2021 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WhatsApp users have until Friday to agree to the policy update, or risk losing access to their chat list. But they will be able to answer incoming phone and video calls - 'for a short time'.
  
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• Martin Lewis and Sir Richard Branson's names most used by scammers

  10-05-2021 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The pair are the celebrities whose faces appear in more fake endorsement scams than anyone else, cyber agency says.
  
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• US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

  10-05-2021 12:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US acts to keep fuel flowing after its largest pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack.
  
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• People are now so reliant on their smartphones, the devices are 'becoming our homes', experts warn 

  10-05-2021 11:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthropologists from UCL documented smartphone use in older adults around the world, from Ireland to Italy, over the course of a year.
  
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• Resident Evil Village is intentionally dumb… and terrifying

  10-05-2021 10:41
  
  Even with its goofy plot, Resident Evil Village still taps into our fear of being followed
  
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• Cricket bats made from BAMBOO are 'better than willow', study finds

  10-05-2021 08:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of scientists now believe bamboo may not only be a viable substitute for the more traditional willow, but in fact a superior material for a bat.
  
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• Social media companies say they want to be transparent. So why aren’t they?

  10-05-2021 07:00
  
  The rules that social media companies put in place to maintain user safety are sometimes necessary, and sometimes absurd
  
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• Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA

  10-05-2021 05:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives Bits of China's Long Match 5B rocket have returned to Earth without inconveniencing anyone, but did irritate NASA enough for the agency to issue a sternly-worded statement.…
  
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• Cryptocurrency: Musk's SpaceX to launch dogecoin moon mission

  10-05-2021 05:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The value of the cryptocurrency has fallen sharply after Mr Musk called it a "hustle" on US TV.
  
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• Dangerous eBay listings can be removed by regulators

  10-05-2021 03:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new set of tools will let some regulators pull items from sale on eBay without company approval.
  
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• 'I was injured but the rescue boat found me in seconds'

  10-05-2021 02:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How technology has helped emergency responders save lives during the pandemic.
  
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• Sir David Attenborough: Problems that await greater than the epidemic

  10-05-2021 01:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The broadcaster calls on nations to act in agreement as he is appointed People's Advocate at COP26.
  
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