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• Prehistoric man lived alongside Neanderthals in Israel's Negev Desert 50,000 years ago

  15-06-2021 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers now believe that humans and Neanderthals lived together in Israel's Negev desert, approximately 50,000 years ago after evidence to the contrary.
  
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• Michigan Micro Mote works well escargot: Tiny computer makes it into the field strapped to backs of predatory snails

  15-06-2021 23:17 via go.theregister.com
  
  Then solves a longstanding extinction puzzle Scientists at the University of Michigan have celebrated an experiment where ultra-tiny computers were strapped to the backs of snails – solving a long-unanswered extinction mystery.…
  
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• Scientists say culture is surpassing genetics as the driving force for human evolution 

  15-06-2021 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Culture, which includes learned knowledge, practices and skills, is surpassing the value of genes as the primary driver of human evolution, a new study claims.
  
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• The things humans learn are now helping them evolve more quickly than genetics, new study claims

  15-06-2021 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Culture, which includes learned knowledge, practices and skills, is surpassing the value of genes as the primary driver of human evolution, a new study claims.
  
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• E3 2021: Nintendo shows off more Zelda Breath of the Wild 2

  15-06-2021 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A last-minute Zelda segment capped a Nintendo showcase which left some fans disappointed.
  
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• Britons urged to stop invasion of Asian hornets by using interactive map

  15-06-2021 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists want the public to submit potential sightings of the species and their nests so they can record where they are in the UK. The invasive insects are able to eat up to 50 honey bees in a day.
  
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• Satellite made out of WOOD is being launched by the European Space Agency this year

  15-06-2021 18:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Space Agency is helping launch a four-inch square satellite made of coated plywood to test how it survives and fares in the harsh conditions of space.
  
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• Seagliders set to ferry passengers across the Channel by 2028 

  15-06-2021 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seagliders would cut the journey time from Portsmouth to Cherbourg in France from around six hours to just 40 minutes, according to Brittany Ferries.
  
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• Sun maker: World's most powerful MAGNET is ready to be shipped to France

  15-06-2021 17:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This will form a central part of ITER, a £17 billion machine that creates fusion energy on Earth, built in France by 35partner countries to find a 'true renewable power'.
  
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• Amazon to open full-size grocery store that lets shoppers walk out without having to see cashier

  15-06-2021 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is opening its first full-sized Fresh store to feature its Just Walk Out technology. It tracks items grabbed by customers, who can then walk out once they have finished shopping.
  
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• Scientists found gray reef sharks near French Polynesia nap by power surfing on currents' updrafts

  15-06-2021 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that gray reef sharks in French Polynesia can save energy by surfing the updrafts of the currents in the area.
  The sharks, located in Fakarava Atoll, can save up to 15 percent.
  
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• Rare orchids thought to have been extinct in the UK since 2009 are found on a London office ROOFTOP

  15-06-2021 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Serapias parviflora was found growing in the 11th-floor garden of Japanese investment bank Nomura International, in the City of London, and may have been brought there by Saharan dust storms.
  
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• Never-before-seen images of Betelgeuse reveal its 2019 'Great Dimming' was caused by a dust cloud

  15-06-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two new images of Betelgeuse have solved the mystery of the stars 'Great Dimming' in 2019. The images show the star ejected a gas bubble that collected into a dust cloud that blocked its light.
  
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• Speedo's intelligent swimsuit could let swimmers go 4% faster by 2040

  15-06-2021 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The swimsuit has a number of futuristic innovations, which Nottingham-based Speedo claims could allow swimmers to go up to four per cent faster by 2040.
  
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• Isles of Scilly: Egyptian vulture seen in UK for first time in 150 years

  15-06-2021 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The sighting of the Egyptian vulture, if confirmed to be wild, would be the first for 153 years.
  
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• NASA approved the launch of a space telescope that could save humanity from an asteroid crash 

  15-06-2021 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to help the space agency be better prepared for asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth.
  
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• Young adults in serious relationships drink 'significantly less' than their more promiscuous peers

  15-06-2021 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When young adults are more interested in socialising and casually dating, they tend to drink more alcohol, according to a new study from Washington State University.
  
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• Chamoli disaster: Satellites reveal the cause of glacier flood that killed 200 in India in February

  15-06-2021 14:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When the avalanche of debris hit the valley floor it released the energy equivalent to 15 Hiroshima atomic bombs and wiped out everything in its pathin Chamoli, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
  
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• Thousands sign a petition calling for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be DENIED re-entry to Earth

  15-06-2021 14:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tongue-in-cheek petition compares Bezos to superman villain Lex Luthor. He is set to launch to the edge of space on his Blue Origin rocket on July 20 from Van Horn, Texas.
  
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• Apple and Google investigated by UK competition body

  15-06-2021 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK competition authority says it has launched an investigation into the mobile phone market.
  
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• Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

  15-06-2021 13:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From October 2025, there will be no new updates or security fixes for Windows 10.
  
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• Web founder Berners-Lee to auction source code as NFT

  15-06-2021 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the web, is auctioning off a digital certificate for his code.
  
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• Original files of World Wide Web being sold by Sir Tim Berners-Lee - with bidding starting at £708 

  15-06-2021 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Digitally-signed source code documents written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee three decades ago will go under the hammer as a non-fungible token (NFT) at an auction at London's Sotheby's this month.
  
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• More than one MILLION deaths were linked to fossil fuel combustion in 2017

  15-06-2021 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In 2017, 1.05 million deaths would have been avoidable during the year by eliminating fossil-fuel combustion, according to a research team led by Washington University in St. Louis.
  
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• Archaeologists discover 130 dwellings at Germany's 'Stonehenge'

  15-06-2021 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ancient archaeological site, in the village of Pömmelte 85 miles from Berlin, is known as Ringheiligtum Pömmelte, German for 'Ring Sanctuary of Pömmelte'.
  
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• More than HALF of cosmetics likely to contain toxic chemicals that can cause CANCER, study warns

  15-06-2021 12:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 200 products including concealers, eye and eyebrow products and lip products were tested by the team from Notre Dame University in Indiana, with evidence of PFAS in around half of them.
  
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• E3 2021: Forza Horizon 5 - is bigger also better?

  15-06-2021 08:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newsbeat sits down to talk about the next Forza Horizon game with one of the brains behind it.
  
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• This secretive firm has powerful new hacking tools

  15-06-2021 07:00
  
  Mollitiam Industries claims to have created hackings tools that can take control of smartphones and laptops
  
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• The Razer Blade 14 is out to show rivals how it’s done

  15-06-2021 07:00
  
  The ultimate gaming laptop? Designed to crush its Asus rival, Razer’s CEO claims this portable is “generations ahead”
  
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• The perfect number of hours to work every day? Five

  15-06-2021 07:00
  
  Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing holding companies back
  
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• Devialet’s Gemini wireless buds are truly eccentric

  15-06-2021 07:00
  
  Wireless earbuds are usually all business but Devialet has found a way to pack in its patented technologies
  
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• New treatment stops progression of Alzheimer's in monkey brains

  15-06-2021 06:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new therapy prompts immune defence cells to swallow the misshapen proteins that cause Alzheimer's disease, a new study from experts in New York shows.
  
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• Thanks To Pandemic, “Climate Lockdowns” Are Now On The Horizon

  15-06-2021 06:13 via technocracy.news
  
  There has been lots of chatter in environmentalist circles that the COVID-19 panic has much to do with Climate Change. Now that the world is thoroughly acclimated to lockdown policies, they are seen as the next bit and effective strategy for solving global warming. ⁃ TN EditorIf and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won’t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they’ll be rebranded as “climate lockdowns”, and either
  
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• Finally! Bill Introduced To Clamp Down On Big Tech Censorship

  15-06-2021 05:58 via technocracy.news
  
  The “Pro-Speech Act” may not be perfect, but it has been long in coming from a Congress that has bad-mouthed Big Tech while doing nothing to reign it in. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) aims to change that. Technocrats have relied on Big Tech to suppress any criticism of their globalist plans and ambitions. ⁃ TN EditorU.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced a bill aimed at curbing tech censorship called
  
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• Next Up For AI: Learning How To Read Your Lips

  15-06-2021 05:41 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demonstrated need. Lip reading will take the same trajectory as facial recognition as it is pressed into service for surveillance purposes. Reading lips from a distance would obviate the need for microphones. ⁃ TN Editor
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  Because of his recent surgery, the man featured in this marketing vi
  
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• Fancy the ultimate no-Air-outside-bnb? NASA willing to rent out ISS for two weeks

  15-06-2021 05:35 via go.theregister.com
  
  Private companies to sort out the transportation, US agency's fees are non-trivial NASA is hoping to host more amateur astronauts at the International Space Station, putting them up for as much as two weeks at a time.…
  
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• It's safe to leave your bunker: Blame that Chinese nuclear plant alarm on fuel rod faults

  15-06-2021 03:43 via go.theregister.com
  
  Meltdown over a non-meltdown You may have seen in the news some panic about a Chinese nuclear reactor going wrong, and a warning of an "imminent radiological threat." Well, don't worry: it's a routine fuel rod problem.…
  
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• Green light for radical migraine treatment

  15-06-2021 02:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Classed among the most disabling conditions by the World Health Organisation, migraines can take three days to pass and cause 25 million work and school days to be lost in the UK each year.
  
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• Artemis I core stage finally pointing in the right direction at Kennedy Space Center

  15-06-2021 02:03 via go.theregister.com
  
  Had trouble getting vertical at the weekend? NASA used a pair of cranes to hoist the SLS core stage Engineers have hoisted the core stage of NASA's mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, vertical ready to bolt on its boosters and roll the stack to the launchpad later this year.…
  
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• Secrets of tiny diving mammals revealed

  15-06-2021 01:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Biologists have uncovered the genetic secrets of water shrews, the world's smallest diving mammals.
  
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• Why aren't patients being told truth about electric shock therapy?

  15-06-2021 01:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jacqui Quibbell's experience is backed up by the startling results of a Freedom of Information request to hospital trusts for a copy of their ECT patient information leaflet.
  
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• Gigafactories: Europe tools up against US and Asia as a car battery force

  15-06-2021 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As demand for electric cars grows, giant battery factories are being built across Europe.
  
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• Nato and climate change: How big is the problem?

  15-06-2021 01:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Allied members have agreed to "significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from military activities".
  
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• 'Ice' flavoured e-cigarettes may be a gateway to nicotine dependence

  15-06-2021 00:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Use of 'ice' e-cigarettes - which depart a range of icy cool flavours - may be linked to nicotine dependence among the young, report experts at the University of Southern California.
  
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• US model Chrissy Teigen apologises for online 'trolling'

  15-06-2021 00:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It comes a month after Teigen apologised to TV personality Courtney Stodden for online bullying.
  
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