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• Archaeologists in Israel restoring 2,000-year-old Roman basilica complex destroyed by earthquake

  04-06-2021 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists in Israel are working to restore a Roman-era basilica in Ashkelon destroyed by earthquake in 363 AD. They estimate the structure stood 330 by 130 feet, with 42-foot columns
  
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• Tampons that could cost as 30 cents each can change color when they detect a urinary tract infection

  04-06-2021 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in India are developing a tampon that changes color in the presence of a urinary tract infection. Studies indicate over half of all women will experience at least one UTI in their lifetime.
  
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• Gardeners forced to stay in the UK this year are turning to exotic plants

  04-06-2021 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Met Office data shows the UK average annual temperatures have risen by 3.9 per cent since 2015 with some months seeing a 50 per cent increase, allowing gardeners to grow a wider range of plants.
  
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• 46 of the best podcasts for curious minds

  04-06-2021 18:39
  
  Our pick of the best podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more covering technology, culture, science, politics and new ideas
  
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• WhatsApp launches Fast Playback feature for audio messages 

  04-06-2021 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fast Playback, released globally for users of the app on Android and iOS, lets users change from thedefault 1x playback setting, to 1.5x speed or 2x speed.
  
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• Melting ice sheets and rising sea temperatures could cause 'climate domino effect,' scientists warn

  04-06-2021 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's ice sheets and oceans could be at risk of destabilizing one another, causing a 'climate domino effect' that has wide-ranging implications for the global population, researchers have found.
  
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• Self-Spreading Vaccines Would Deliver All Of Humanity Into The Hands Of Transhumans

  04-06-2021 17:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Medical ethics is rapidly morphing to permit the release of contagious vaccines that would require only a small percentage of the population to be vaccinated. The rest of humanity would contract the vaccine in the same way as any contagious disease. This is fulfillment of the Transhuman goal to create H+, or Humanity 2.0.
  This technology already exists and is currently in trials – read the second article below the first one.
  ⁃ TN EditorIn October 2019, the Johns Hopkins University Ce
  
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• The Technocrat Narrative Begins As FBI Director Likens Cyberattacks To 9/11

  04-06-2021 17:13 via technocracy.news
  
  The careful and pre-planned scripting of Cyber Polygon can be seen playing out as recent cyberattacks are elevated to the status of the 9/11 terror attacks. This will lead to a war on cyber terror, requiring a new kind of Patriot Act to ratchet down police state policies and restrictions on Liberty. ⁃ TN EditorFBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many of which trace back to hackers in Russia, and compared the current spate
  
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• Songbirds produce their melodies by controlling single vocal muscle fibres

  04-06-2021 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fine control is important because females detect these small changes and use it to decide whether they are attracted to a male or not, researchers at the University of Southern Denmark said.
  
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• Biden’s New War On Terror Targets Americans, Not Foreigners

  04-06-2021 16:57 via technocracy.news
  
  America is largely addicted to fear, a dangerous emotion that controls the release of many hormones in the body like adrenalin. Chronic fear produces health conditions like increased blood pressure, risk of heart attacks and stroke, weight gain, suppressed immune system, headaches and insomnia. ⁃ TN EditorThe Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a new warning bulletin, alerting Americans that domestic extremists may well use violence on the 100th Anniversary of the Tu
  
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• Tiktok's new privacy policy lets it harvest biometric data, including 'faceprints and voiceprints'

  04-06-2021 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok has updated its privacy policy to indicate it may start recording users' facial features, voiceprint, and other 'biometric data.' If it does, the company said, it will notify users 'where required by law.'
  
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• NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly within 645 miles of Jupiter's moon Ganymede on Monday

  04-06-2021 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Juno is set to make the closest fly-by of Ganymede - which is larger than both Mercury and dwarf planet Pluto -since Galileo in May 2000.
  
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• This week on Foresight with Greg Williams

  04-06-2021 16:23
  
  How we can defeat global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, poverty, migration and extremism?
  
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• Earth's solid-iron inner core has been growing faster on one side than the other

  04-06-2021 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is growing faster under Indonesia's Banda Sea than under Brazil, but this uneven growth patten hasn't left the core lopsided, experts from the University of California Berkeley discovered.
  
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• WhatsApp hijack scam continues to spread

  04-06-2021 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scammers are using an old trick to hijack WhatsApp accounts by posing as a friend.
  
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• Patient data transfer still set to start in July

  04-06-2021 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government is set to introduce scheme, despite the NHS suggesting a delay until September.
  
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• History: Ford workers at Michigan Central Station discover a message in a bottle dating back to 1913

  04-06-2021 15:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Foreman Leo Kimble and labourer Lukas Nielsen of plaster contractor Homrich found the pre-Prohibition-era bottle in Michigan Central Station's tea room on May 4 this year.
  
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• Apple planning to launch an iPad Pro with wireless charging in 2022 and updated iPad mini this year 

  04-06-2021 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is reportedly working on an iPad Pro with wireless charging capabilities to be released in 2022 and a redesigned iPad mini for 2021, according to a media report.
  
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• Apple updates AirTags after stalking fears

  04-06-2021 14:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Critics say the miniature trackers could be used to secretly monitor people's location.
  
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• 46 of the best films on Netflix UK this week

  04-06-2021 14:21
  
  Stuck for a good film on Netflix? Here's our pick of the best Netflix movies to feast your eyes on, updated weekly
  
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• iPhone users say 'horrific' Apple iOS 14.6 update is draining their battery

  04-06-2021 14:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  iPhone users who have installed Apple's new software update, iOS 14.6, are complaining that it's draining their entire battery within hours.
  
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• It's in your eyes! People with large pupils are more INTELLIGENT, study finds 

  04-06-2021 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Volunteers sat reasoning, attention and memory tests so the Georgia Institute of Technology team could investigate the link between pupil size and intelligence.
  
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• Facebook probed by UK and EU competition watchdogs

  04-06-2021 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities in the UK and EU are concerned the firm is using ad data to gain an unfair advantage over rivals.
  
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• Facebook probed by UK and EU watchdogs over data breach

  04-06-2021 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities in the UK and EU are concerned the firm is using ad data to gain an unfair advantage over rivals.
  
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• Birds are less fooled by magic tricks than humans, study shows 

  04-06-2021 11:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Overall, the Eurasian jay performed better than humans on two out of three sleight-of-hand magic tricks, researchers at the University of Cambridge found.
  
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• Robot Eva mimics human emotions and other tech news

  04-06-2021 11:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak looks at the best technology news stories of the week.
  
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• Anti-theft bike tech tested: Can it keep your cycle safe?

  04-06-2021 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tom Brada tests some of the security tech that could help keep your two-wheeler more secure.
  
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• Kannada: Google apologises for 'ugliest Indian language' search result

  04-06-2021 10:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech giant has apologised and said it had swiftly corrected the mistake.
  
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• Geology: Study reveals how tidal wave demolished 373 MILES of Scotland's coastline 8,200 years ago

  04-06-2021 10:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Soil deposits left behind by the ancient tsunami were analysed by researchers led from Sheffield University in order to model the wave's impact on the Scottish coast.
  
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• 'Polar Pod' floating laboratory to drift around Antarctica

  04-06-2021 09:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The vessel, called Polar Pod, will complete two loops around Antarctica every three years. Construction of the Polar Pod will be funded by the French government.
  
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• Sunak ‘confident’ of reaching tech tax agreement

  04-06-2021 08:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US has delayed imposing tariffs on some global imports in retaliation for taxes on tech firms
  
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• Bus depot bid to be UK's largest electric vehicle charging hub

  04-06-2021 07:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  First Bus will install 160 charging points and replace half its fleet with electric buses at its depot in Glasgow.
  
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• China has triggered a bitcoin mining exodus

  04-06-2021 07:00
  
  A crackdown on mining is sending China’s crypterati scrambling for the exit
  
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• Brain training games are here to end police brutality

  04-06-2021 07:00
  
  New technologies aim to improve police decision making by training their brains. But solving systemic problems will take a lot more than that
  
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• Millions struggle to pay broadband bills in UK

  04-06-2021 02:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Citizens Advice says that about 2.5 million people are believed to be behind with payments.
  
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• Parkinson's, AI and me

  04-06-2021 02:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's tech correspondent looks at how AI could change the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  
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• How AI is working with Parkinson’s patients?

  04-06-2021 02:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's tech correspondent looks at how AI could change the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  
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• How to protect birds and bats from wind turbines

  04-06-2021 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  As wind farm numbers explode researchers are coming up with more ways to keep wildlife safe.
  
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• Pigeons flock together in presence of predators, study shows

  04-06-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pigeons act selflessly in the air when under threat, research from Royal Holloway University of London reveals.
  
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• Geology: Study reveals how tidal wave demolished 379 MILES of Scotland's coastline 8,200 years ago

  04-06-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Soil deposits left behind by the ancient tsunami were analysed by researchers led from Sheffield University in order to model the wave's impact on the Scottish coast.
  
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• Thousands of cancer patients could benefit from radiotherapy treatment that extends life expectancy

  04-06-2021 00:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of men with advanced prostate cancer are expected to benefit from a radical treatment which uses radioactive molecules as 'guided missiles' to find and destroy cancer cells.
  
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