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• Smart sunglasses change tint with the click of a button and can even take phone calls

  02-06-2021 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ampere's Dusk sunglasses shift tint with the click of a button on the temple. A deluxe model comes with an open-ear audio system and built-in mic so you can listen to music or make calls
  
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• Workers at the Tampa zoo still trying to figure out how all 12 manta rays died overnight last week 

  02-06-2021 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All the stingrays at ZooTampa at Lowry Park died suddenly under mysterious circumstances last week.The deceased rays include seven cownose, four Southern and one Atlantic stingray.
  
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• Donald Trump's 'communications' platform permanently taken offline

  02-06-2021 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former US president will return to social media, an aide says - but exactly how remains unclear.
  
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• NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy with a 'LOPSIDED' appearance

  02-06-2021 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 31-year-old Hubble Space Telescope discovered the spiral galaxy, NGC 2276, is being twisted by a nearby galaxy, known as NGC 2300.
  
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• Male students anticipate being paid 9.7 per cent MORE than females in their first job

  02-06-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gender wage gap is a well-established phenomenon in the labour market, and the team from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland wanted to find out why.
  
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• Half male, half female blue crab found in Maryland bay is 'true cellular abnormality'

  02-06-2021 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A waterman in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay found a blue crab that's half male, half female, an extremely rare condition known as bilateral gynandromorphy. It's the first of its kind found in over 15 years.
  
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• Cats: Scientists reveal the FIVE kinds of relationships between felines and their owners

  02-06-2021 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly 4,000 cat owners were polled by researchers from the University of Lincolnabout their own behaviours towards their feline friends - and vice versa.
  
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• Men's brains have similar genes and proteins commonly found in testicles study finds

  02-06-2021 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The male brain and testes are very similar. The two tissues have more than 13,000 proteins in common, many of which are involved in tissue development and cell communication.
  
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• US delays tariffs in 'tech tax' row

  02-06-2021 18:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Extra US tariffs on UK and other goods are delayed as international tax talks continue.
  
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• Tesla files trademark applications related to possibly opening its OWN restaurants

  02-06-2021 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla has filed for three trademarks related to joining the restaurant business, an idea that CEO Elon Musk first broached several years ago.
  
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• UK is ranked LAST in Europe for bathing water quality

  02-06-2021 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The UK's bathing water quality is rated among the worst on the continent, with just 110 coastal and inland sites judged as excellent in the latest data from Europe's environmental watchdog.
  
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• Amazon's bestselling sound bar is now on sale for under £50 

  02-06-2021 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Enhance your listening experience ahead of the Euros 2021 with this bestselling affordable soundbar. Priced at just £49.95 you can get a powerful surround-sound like effect for less.
  
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• For Memorial Day, U.S. Embassies Worldwide Are Flying BLM Flags

  02-06-2021 17:27 via technocracy.news
  
  The destruction of the United States has now become the official policy of its own government, by intentionally ordering embassies worldwide to commemorate Memorial Day by prominently flying the Black Lives Matter flags and banners this week. ⁃ TN EditorUS embassies and consulates across the globe this week flew Black Lives Matter (BLM) flags after being authorized and encouraged to do so for the first time ever in a memo by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. It’s
  
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• Earth's lakes 'are losing oxygen rapidly' due to global warming, study warns 

  02-06-2021 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oxygen levels in the world's temperate freshwater lakes are declining faster than in the oceans, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York say.
  
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• Crime: Urban lawbreaking fell by over a THIRD around the world during COVID-19 lockdowns

  02-06-2021 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daily crime rates before and during pandemic-related stay-at-home orders in 27 major metropolitan areas were studied by experts led from the Universities of Cambridge and Utrecht.
  
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• NASA is delaying James Webb Telescope again, agency says

  02-06-2021 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA is once again delaying the launch of its $10 billion James Webb Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, to 'no earlier than October 31.'
  
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• You Have Until June 8 To Opt Out Of Amazon Sidewalk

  02-06-2021 16:50 via technocracy.news
  
  Amazon is creating a massive spy system by allowing its devices to build city-wide “mesh networks”. If your Internet fails, such devices will automatically link up with and communicate through your neighbor’s units to continue broadcasting information. Opt out NOW! ⁃ TN EditorAmazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company’s plan to fix co
  
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• What's popping? Study finds thickness of a kernel's outer layer is the key to larger popcorn pieces

  02-06-2021 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists looking to improve America's favorite snack found that the thicker a kernel's out layer is, the larger it will expand when exposed to heat. The findings could lead to better breeding of corn.
  
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• EU’s Digital Wallet: The Rise Of Universal ID

  02-06-2021 16:13 via technocracy.news
  
  The master plan here is “single recognized identity” to be used for all online access. Globalists, are calling for universal id systems in order to track and control personal and economic behavior. This is the face of Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorThe European Union is set to unveil plans for a bloc-wide digital wallet on Wednesday, following requests from member states to find a safe way for citizens to access public and private services online.
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• Eating just TWO portions of fruit daily can reduce diabetes risk

  02-06-2021 16:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 7,600 volunteers involved in an Australian diabetes and obesity study provided information on their fruit and fruit juice intake for this new research.
  
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• Tesla failed to stop Musk tweets, says regulator

  02-06-2021 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court order requires the automotive giant's lawyers to pre-approve some of the CEO's tweets.
  
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• Premature birth less likely for pregnant women on healthy diet from conception to second trimester

  02-06-2021 15:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eating well in pregnancy also lowers the risk of gestational diabetes, experts from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in Bethesda found.
  
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• Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims

  02-06-2021 15:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A union-led group says Amazon's injury rate is twice that of its closest competitor.
  
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• Samsung's new virtual assistant leaks online showing a Pixar-like character

  02-06-2021 14:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung looks set to reveal a new virtual assistant, called Sam, who has been personalised in some creative 3D artwork, created by Brazil-based agency Lightfarm.
  
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• Geology: Ancient Sumatran supervolcano harmed the ozone layer and led to human population bottleneck

  02-06-2021 14:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ozone levels fell by half as a result of the eruption of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra, experts from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry found.
  
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• South Korea's first fully indigenous rocket now on launch pad, ready for tests

  02-06-2021 13:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plans test launch this year, satellite-lifting in 2022 and moonshot not long after South Korea has revealed a test version of a locally developed rocket with satellite launch capabilities.…
  
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• Falcons have natural 'eye makeup' that improves their targeting ability

  02-06-2021 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using photos of peregrine falcons from around the world shared by bird watchers, the University of Cape Town team scored the size of dark eye strips on each bird.
  
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• Can COVID-19 stress cause dandruff? Trichologist reveals how stress may be ruining your scalp

  02-06-2021 13:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In addition to hair loss, increased stress from the coronavirus pandemic can cause dandruff, according to experts. Here's everything you need to know including how to combat symptoms.
  
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• Teen T.Rex could deliver bone-puncturing bites from age 13, study finds

  02-06-2021 13:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A teenage Tyrannosaurus rex was able to exert up to 5,641 newtons of force, somewhere between the jaw forces of a hyena or crocodile, according to a University of California, Berkeley study.
  
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• Your company needs to go carbon neutral. It’s next target is your dodgy boiler

  02-06-2021 12:28
  
  Employees working from home are being asked to hand over their energy bills and swap providers to help their companies reach net-zero
  
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• Blue Abyss: Plans to build world's deepest pool in Cornwall

  02-06-2021 12:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The £150m project to build a 50m deep pool would be used for deep sea and space research.
  
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• Major project aims to clear clean energy hurdle

  02-06-2021 11:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A major project aims to overcome a barrier to electricity grids wholly supplied by renewable energy.
  
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• Experts reveal global 'hot spots' where new coronaviruses may emerge

  02-06-2021 11:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conditions are 'ripe' for the zoonotic diseases like Covid to jump from bats to humans, particularly in China, due to changes in land use by humans, researchers reveal.
  
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• China's 'artificial sun' sets a new world record after running at 216MILLION°F for 100 seconds

  02-06-2021 11:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The device, located in China's eastern Anhui province, also achieved a peak temperature of 288million°F (160million°C) - more than ten times hotter than the sun.
  
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• Alaska: Biden to suspend Trump Arctic drilling leases

  02-06-2021 10:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The president will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
  
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• Surviving eclipse season and resurrecting 25-year-old software with Windows for Workgroups 3.11: One year with Mars Express

  02-06-2021 10:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  ESA's veteran probe left for its mission 18 years ago today Space extenders  Today marks the 18th anniversary since the European Space Agency' (ESA) launched the extraordinarily long-lived (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in 2003.…
  
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• What does the city of the future look like? Oakland

  02-06-2021 07:00
  
  The Californian city reinvented urban planning to tackle the pandemic. That change could be here to stay
  
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• Elephants are SUPER SUCKERS and can inhale foods at dizzying speeds of 335mph

  02-06-2021 03:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To find out how they do this and what's involved, scientists from Georgia Tech filmed the inside and outsides of the pachyderm trunks to probe their suction ability.
  
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• NASA marks Perseverance's 100th day on Mars in tweet celebrating its biggest achievements

  02-06-2021 01:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Perseverance marked its 100th Martian day on Mars Tuesday. The milestone is celebrated by looking back at the rover's biggest achievements since touching down on February 18.
  
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• Farmers' opposition to UK-Australia trade deal grows

  02-06-2021 01:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Opposition among UK farmers is rising towards the trade deal close to being concluded with Australia.
  
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