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• Some pet food brands are now using proteins from insects to reduce their carbon impact

  14-06-2021 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Black soldier larva, crickets and mealworms are taking the place of meat proteins in pet food, as companies hope to reduce the 64 million ton carbon footprint of meat-based products.
  
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• Baltimore's garbage interceptor Mr Trash Wheel is gobbling up marine garbage and making lots of fans

  14-06-2021 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr. Trash Wheels, Baltimore's googley-eyed garbage interceptor, redirects marine litter onto its conveyer belt and into a Dumpster. The goal is to prevent trash from going out to the Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Amazon wants to use robots to make its warehouses safer for its workers

  14-06-2021 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is doubling down on technology in an attempt to make its warehouses safer, amid mounting claims. It unveiled four new robots that will help employees perform tasks safer.
  
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• Snail fossilized in amber while giving birth 99 million years ago

  14-06-2021 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in Myanmar discovered a snail trapped in amber as it was giving birth 99 million years ago. Live births are rare among snails and it may have been an adaptation to protect her young.
  
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• Satellites take images of depleting reservoirs that serve nearly 75M Americans

  14-06-2021 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Satellite images of the western US reveal the mega-drought's impact on major reservoirs that serve millions of Americans. Compared to 2020, the bodies of water are dramatically depleting.
  
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• Honda links arms with JAXA to prepare humans for life in outer space with 'circulative renewable energy system'

  14-06-2021 19:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech Honda and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to embark on a joint feasibility study to supply oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity to humans and rovers in outer space.…
  
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• Researchers in Florida find evidence of long-lost Native settlement missing since 16th century 

  14-06-2021 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in northern Florida believe they've uncovered Sarabay, a 'lost' Native American city cited by European colonists in the 1560s. The pottery they've unearthed aligns with Mocama culture.
  
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• 'Highly unusual' creature locked in amber for 99MILLION years is confirmed to be a LIZARD

  14-06-2021 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new species of the previously misclassified 'world's smallest dinosaur' has been identified in a study involving the Florida Museum of Natural History - reinforcing the belief it was actually a lizard.
  
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• New Apple Watches could focus on blood glucose and scan someone's TEMPERATURE

  14-06-2021 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Later versions of the Apple Watch could be focused more on health than prior models, including the ability to read someone's body temperature and blood sugar levels.
  
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• Scientists identify distinctive rumbles that point to rocket launches

  14-06-2021 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using a nuclear testing network, researchers listened through thousands of hours of low rumbling to find instances of over 1,000 rocket launches mainly in Florida and Kazakhstan.
  
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• UK government pledges a 'nature-positive future'

  14-06-2021 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say government position is 'a step in the right direction but 'not yet on the money'.
  
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• Researchers find evidence of long-lost Native settlement in Florida missing since the 16th century 

  14-06-2021 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in northern Florida believe they've uncovered Sarabay, a 'lost' Native American city cited by European colonists in the 1560s. The pottery they've unearthed aligns with Mocama culture.
  
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• Apple's $150 Beats Studio Buds are now available to buy: Daily Mail reviewed the wireless earbuds

  14-06-2021 17:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple launched its new Beats Studio Buds for $149.99. DailyMail.com tested a pair two weeks prior and found the noise cancellation is supreme, but the earbuds do not have volume controls.
  
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• 'Ultra-processed' foods make up more than 60% of the calories consumed by British children

  14-06-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers used data from thousands of children in the Avon area in the West of England born in the 1990s to explore the link between obesity and ultra processed food consumption.
  
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• Mercola On Convergence: Transhumanism And The Great Reset

  14-06-2021 16:48 via technocracy.news
  
  The World Economic Forum is not only thoroughly bonded to Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, but also to Transhumanism leading to biodigital convergence. All is based on scientism and the worship of science as the only source of truth for mankind’s future. ⁃ TN EditorThe COVID pandemic has ushered in a new era of biodigital convergence — one that’s been in the works for decades but is now accelerating in the name of public health and new normalcy. As I said June 7,
  
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• The moons of rogue exoplanets could have liquid water and be a good place to find life

  14-06-2021 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Humanity has yet to find the existence of extraterrestrial life, but a new study suggests that the exomoons of 'rogue planets' could be a good place to look.
  
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• DNA Wars: Privacy Being Destroyed At The Cellular Level

  14-06-2021 16:09 via technocracy.news
  
  Your DNA, responsible for making you who you are, is the ultimate surveillance quest for Technocrats and Transhumans. TN has repeatedly warned against giving up samples of your DNA, but the government has broken down those barriers to harvest samples throughout society. The risks and dangers are immense. ⁃ TN Editor“When you upload your DNA, you’re potentially becoming a genetic informant on the rest of your family.”— Law professor Elizabeth Joh
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• Pakistan Shuts Off Phone Service To Non-Vaccinated Citizens

  14-06-2021 15:50 via technocracy.news
  
  The Technocrat hand of tyrannical government is coming down on the “un-vaxxed” all around the world. Pakistan now has at least two programs in place; disabling sim cards in cellular phones for all citizens and refusing to pay government employees who refuse to take the vaccine. ⁃ TN EditorThe extreme decision was made during a meeting of high-ranking civil and military officials chaired by Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid.
  Rashid said that the policy would disable SIM cards
  
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• Prehistoric crocodile the length of a BUS roamed Queensland's waterways up to five million years ago

  14-06-2021 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The prehistoric crocodile is estimated to have been about 23ft (7m) long, while its skull alone is thought to have been at least 31 inches (80cm) in length, according to University of Queensland researchers.
  
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• NASA finishes assembling its $18.6BILLION Space Launch System 'megarocket'

  14-06-2021 14:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Space Launch System will launch for the first time in November this year from Florida, sending the Orion capsule on an uncrewed jaunt around the moon as part of the first Artemis mission.
  
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• Netflix launches e-commerce site 'Netflix.Shop'

  14-06-2021 14:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Netflix.Shop is now delivering items to customers in the US, although it will expand into other countries around the world in the coming months, the California streaming giant says.
  
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• Vodafone picks Samsung for 5G network

  14-06-2021 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Korean firm's contract win called a market "breakthrough" by one analyst.
  
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• Irish police to be given powers over passwords

  14-06-2021 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New legislation in the Republic of Ireland will compel suspects to give police their details.
  
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• $28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight

  14-06-2021 13:26 via go.theregister.com
  
  Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen $28m has secured someone a seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard, with the mystery bidder scoring the right to breathe the same air as fellow passenger Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.…
  
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• Xbox is launching a Series X-style MINI FRIDGE  

  14-06-2021 13:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Xbox Series X console was mocked for looking like a fridge ever since it was unveiled in 2019. Now, the Washington-based firm has joined in on the jibes with a new launch.
  
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• Our earliest childhood memories begin from the age of two-and-a-half, scientists claim 

  14-06-2021 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A review of decades worth of data by researchers from Memorial University in Newfoundland revealed that our earliest childhood memories may begin even earlier than previously thought.
  
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• Early Prime Day deals 2021: Ring Video Doorbell Wired is on sale for £45

  14-06-2021 12:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Early Prime Day 2021 deals: Today, Prime members (sign up for a free 30-day trial) can save 42 per cent off the Ring Video Doorbell Wired and Chime bundle in this early Prime Day deal.
  
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• Ibuprofen kills pain BETTER than codeine with fewer side effects, study finds

  14-06-2021 12:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 5,000 people across 40 trials took part in the study from McMaster University, which found that patients given a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug felt less pain than those taking codeine.
  
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• Orbex is creeping towards orbit from a UK launchpad, but first there are courts, birds, and billionaires to overcome

  14-06-2021 12:08 via go.theregister.com
  
  Sutherland Spaceport: A Prime location? Interview  We spoke to Chris Larmour, the CEO of UK rocketeers Orbex, about the challenges of launching a rocket from the UK and scaling things up.…
  
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• Out of this world! Mystery adventurer pays £20m to take a trip into space with Jeff Bezos 

  14-06-2021 09:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space tourist, whose identity will be revealed soon, secured their place on the first crewed spaceflight by Bezos's Blue Origin rocket company in an auction.
  
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• Now you can stay at The Wave, a £25m artificial lake in Bristol that's become the UK's surfing Mecca

  14-06-2021 09:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Wave in Bristol is a giant pool shaped like a pizza slice where a reverberating machine can churn rideable waves. Guy Adams went for a surfing lesson and found it was 'exhilarating'.
  
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• The UK’s big GMO food plan might not be that big

  14-06-2021 07:00
  
  The government wants to blow away the cobwebs of EU legislation. But the trickiest scientific and legal questions are yet to be answered
  
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• How governments and spies text each other

  14-06-2021 07:00
  
  Matrix has become the messaging app of choice for top-secret communications
  
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• Today at E3: Halo returns and Starfield first look

  14-06-2021 06:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Today at E3: Halo returns and Starfield first look
  
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• WhatsApp launches privacy campaign after backlash

  14-06-2021 01:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The head of WhatsApp says governments should "demand more security" as encryption comes under fire.
  
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• Tech firms use remote monitoring to help honey bees

  14-06-2021 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From Ireland to Israel, companies are coming to the aid of the environmentally critical insect.
  
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• ‘Really, really rare’ seahorse spotted off UK coast

  14-06-2021 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A marine biologist says it’s the first time he’s ever seen a long-snouted seahorse in the wild.
  
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