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• Stephen Hawking's papers to be saved for the nation

  26-05-2021 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prof Stephen Hawking's scientific papers and personal possessions to be saved for the nation.
  
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• SpaceX completes its 100th successful flight in a row following a Starlink launch

  26-05-2021 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX launcheda new batch of 60 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket today that marks the firm's 100th successful flight since one exploded in 2015.
  
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• Lockheed Martin and GM are building an electric Moon buggy that greatly differs from the Apollo-era 

  26-05-2021 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lockheed Martin and General Motors are creating a new electric, autonomous lunar rover for NASA for its return trip to the moon as part of the Artemis program.
  
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• Planks used to board up New York shops during George Floyd unrest are being transformed into art

  26-05-2021 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of pieces of plywood used to board up New York stores last summer have been repurposed as outdoor sculptures as part of a public art series on view across the five boroughs.
  
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• Uber recognises union for first time in landmark deal

  26-05-2021 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trade union GMB can negotiate for drivers after it was recognised by the ride-hailing giant.
  
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• Who gave dusty Soviet-era spacecraft that unwanted lick of paint? It was an idiot, with a spraycan, in Baikonur

  26-05-2021 21:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  'This is why we can't have nice things' A further indignity has been heaped upon Russia's Buran Space Shuttle as images surfaced showing at least one of the surviving Soviet-era spacecraft was defaced by a graffiti "artist".…
  
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• The best low-cost standing desks to ease your WFH backache

  26-05-2021 20:55
  
  Mixing up your WFH routine by sitting and standing will keep your mind sharper and body in better shape. Here are the best low- and no-cost options to transform your home office
  
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• The best soundbars for any budget in 2021

  26-05-2021 20:53
  
  Which soundbar should you buy? WIRED picks the best soundbars for multi-room and Dolby Atmos
  
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• Bill Gates: The Last Technocratic Hero Falls?

  26-05-2021 19:47 via technocracy.news
  
  The carefully-crafted image of Bill Gates as benevolent geek, model husband and father, corporate philanthropist and all-around genius savior of the world – is shattered. His divorce is revealing that he is little more than a greedy reprobate philanderer who seeks to fill his own carnal lusts.
  What better way to do that than taking over the whole world? Not only untold wealth accrues, but also 3.5 billion women. Well, his image is tarnished but he will not go away. His PR people are consta
  
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• Shell: Netherlands court orders oil giant to cut emissions

  26-05-2021 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the first time a company has been legally bound by the Paris climate accord, campaigners say.
  
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• Scientists have figured out a way to use grass to replace plastic in food packaging 

  26-05-2021 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Denmark have created a way to use grass fibers instead of plastic for take-away food that they say is '100 biodegradable.'
  
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• Long Arm Of China: Biden Shuts Down State Department Investigation Of COVID-19 Origins

  26-05-2021 19:13 via technocracy.news
  
  China’s strong-man influence on the Biden Administration is painfully obvious as Biden cancels the U.S. investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 virus, in favor of relying solely on the China dominated World Health Organization to sort it out. ⁃ TN EditorThe Biden administration pulled the plug on a Trump-era State Department investigation into whether COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, according to a Tuesday evening report by 
  
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• Robotic arm with a sense of touch allows paralyzed man to perform tasks by 'feel' rather than sight

  26-05-2021 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Electrodes attached to a paraplegic's sensory cortex allow him to 'feel' what a robot arm is touching and complete basic tasks twice as fast-in some cases, as quickly as an able-bodied person
  
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• Google Algorithms To Direct Patient Treatment Options To Physicians

  26-05-2021 18:43 via technocracy.news
  
  Google will provide treatment guidance to doctors; what could possibly go wrong with that? “Data are spun off of every patient in real time… Part of what we’re building is a central nervous system to help interpret the various signals.” ⁃ TN EditorAlphabet Inc.’s Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare
  
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• Scientists turned food scraps like banana peels, and cabbage leaves into construction materials

  26-05-2021 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Japan created a way to turn food waste, such as banana peels or cabbage leaves into building products for construction.
  
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• Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson, 61, will return space on a SpaceX private flight

  26-05-2021 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is returning to space, but this time as a tourist. She and racecar driver John Shoffer have purchased a private SpaceX flight set to launch next year.
  
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• Stem cell research: Scientists DROP the 14-day embryo rule in huge guideline update

  26-05-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The changes published by the Illinois-based International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will allow scientists to explore the development of embryos from 14-28 days.
  
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• Google employee helped UK government switch from disastrous COVID-19 strategy, according to Dominic Cummings

  26-05-2021 16:21 via go.theregister.com
  
  Explosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, now part of Google, is said to have been instrumental in convincing the UK prime minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings to “hit the panic button and ditch the official plan” in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020.…
  
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• Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure

  26-05-2021 16:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Users across the world will be able to choose whether to hide the Like Counts on their app.
  
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• 56 million-year-old fish fossils found in Egypt thrived in 95 degrees sea conditions, study shows 

  26-05-2021 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A large number of 56 million-year-old fish fossils were discovered in an eastern Egyptian desert, showcasing that they were able to exist in seas with temperatures approaching 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
  
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• SpaceX: Satellite operator calls for a halt to Starlink launches pending an environmental review

  26-05-2021 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Broadband firm Viasat called on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday to stay a license modification allowing for Starlink's expansion in low orbit.
  
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• Giant tortoise on Galapagos is confirmed to be a species thought to have gone extinct 100 YEARS ago 

  26-05-2021 15:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sighting came during an expedition to the island of Fernandina in the western Ecuadorian region of the archipelago in 2019.
  
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• Instagram and Facebook now let you CHOOSE if you want to hide likes or not

  26-05-2021 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The popular apps began hiding like counts for users in seven countries back in 2019 to understand if it 'reduces pressure associated with posting'.
  
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• Fatty meats are not as bad for you at BREAKFAST as they are for dinner, study finds

  26-05-2021 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eating a plant-based evening meal reduced the risk of heart disease by 10 per cent when compared to those eating a fatty meat-filled dinner, the team from Harbin Medical University in China found.
  
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• Amazonian tribe with the 'healthiest hearts ever studied' may also hold key to slowing down AGEING

  26-05-2021 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy as they age than their American and European peers, researchers in California have found.
  
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• Having a hot bath can mimic many of the health benefits of exercise

  26-05-2021 14:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Regular hot bathing increases blood flow, body temperature and heart rate, helping to improve cardiovascular health and reducing inflammation, according to research from Coventry University.
  
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• All the best non-sporty deals from Amazon’s Summer of Sports sale

  26-05-2021 13:18
  
  Summer is closing in and we’re allowed to play outside again. Here are some good but not particularly sporty deals
  
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• Simple thumb test can indicate if you're harbouring an aortic aneurysm

  26-05-2021 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you stretch your thumb across your palm and it passes the edge of your hand you may have an aortic aneurysm that can kill in minutes, a study by Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut found.
  
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• Unravelling the mystery of the first MICROSECOND of the Big Bang

  26-05-2021 12:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Finding the first plasma evolved into atomic cores allowed astronomers from the University of Copenhagen to explore the state of the universe a microsecond after its explosive beginning.
  
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• The best gaming mouse for every type of gamer

  26-05-2021 12:14
  
  In a mouse-related muddle? Our WIRED Recommends guide picks out the best gaming mouse for any budget in 2021
  
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• Seeking an escape from the UK? Regulations aimed at rocket and satellite launches from 2022 have arrived

  26-05-2021 12:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  Unclear if 'space' is on the green, amber or red list Good news for wannabe Brit rocket operators: regulations have finally arrived before UK lawmakers aimed at allowing commercial operators to launch from local soil.…
  
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• 'Supertasters' who notice extremely subtle flavours in food are at lower risk of Covid-19

  26-05-2021 11:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Supertasters are less likely to get Covid-19, and are less likely to be hospitalised for the infection if they do catch it, according to researchers from Sinus and Nasal Specialists in Louisiana.
  
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• Astroboffins think strangely porous boulders found on asteroid Ryugu may be the stuff of proto-planets

  26-05-2021 10:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Pumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water Asteroid Ryugu, the rock from which Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe brought home some samples, is home to highly porous boulders that might just have been the stuff of which planets were made.…
  
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• This Arctic mine is a warning the world must heed

  26-05-2021 07:00
  
  As the Arctic thaws, developers are rushing to take natural resources. The Indigenous communities trying to stop them are fighting a battle for us all
  
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• How to save Citymapper

  26-05-2021 07:00
  
  Citymapper has raised millions from fans who love the app. To turn a profit, it may need to sell their data
  
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• 'I thought I was too old to be on TikTok'

  26-05-2021 02:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Spencer West has garnered legions of fans sharing his perspective as a disability advocate.
  
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• Mast Upgrade: UK experiment could sweep aside fusion hurdle

  26-05-2021 01:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Results from a UK experiment could help clear a hurdle to achieving commercial fusion power.
  
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• AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs

  26-05-2021 01:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A software engineer tells BBC's Panorama about installing the system in police stations in Xinjiang.
  
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• Apes clasp hands while grooming one other - and each group has a distinct grip 

  26-05-2021 01:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The apes are known to be a cultural species, and the new study by University of Antwerp scientists focused on hand clasping in two different groups over 12 years.
  
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• Vegetarians who drink and smoke appear to be healthier than meat-eaters, study finds

  26-05-2021 00:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vegetarians appear to be healthier than meat-eaters, even if they smoke or drink alcohol, a new study finds. This is because they have lower cholesterol, inflammation and cancer risk.
  
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