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• Hubble Space Telescope to switch to backup memory module after instrument computer halts

  16-06-2021 23:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Imagine the service ticket Computer scientists at NASA are trying to fix the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer after the hardware froze due to what's believed to be a degraded memory module.…
  
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• Ollie, Tencent's foot-tall robot on wheels, can leap chasms, somersault, and even bring you a latte 

  16-06-2021 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent debuted Ollie, a bipedal robot on wheels that can smoothly glide along uneven terrain, hop stairs and somersault through the air to bridge a gap.
  
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• 'Pandemic puppies' adopted during COVID-19 are now suffering stress and separation anxiety

  16-06-2021 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pandemic puppies adopted during the height of COVID lockdowns in the US are fearful during encounters with other dogs and humans, and panic when exposed to an unfamiliar environment.
  
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• Why cyber gangs won't worry about US-Russia talks

  16-06-2021 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans to tackle ransomware hackers starts on shaky ground with a disagreement over who is responsible.
  
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• Cutting the working day to five hours temporarily improves employee productivity

  16-06-2021 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts and company CEO have found that working five-hour days can improve productivity and boost overall wellness, as some suggest that is the sweet spot for when focus starts to dwindle.
  
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• Mysterious 3,200-year-old stone carvings in Turkey finally revealed as calendar and map of cosmos 

  16-06-2021 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists say dozens of figures carved into limestone bedrock in Turkey 3,200 years ago are really a map of the Hittite cosmos and a calendar tracking the lunar cycle and passing months.
  
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• Apple denies claims it is censoring 27 LGBT apps in China and blames 'legal issues'

  16-06-2021 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report says Apple's App Store in China removed 27 apps related to LGBTQ+, asserting the tech giant is helping governments isolate, silence & oppress LGBTQ+ people - something it denies.
  
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• Report says 27 LGBT apps being censored by Apple in China - but the tech giant denies that

  16-06-2021 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report says Apple's App Store in China removed 27 apps related to LGBTQ+, asserting the tech giant is helping governments isolate, silence & oppress LGBTQ+ people - something it denies.
  
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• Intermittent fasting 'doesn't help you lose weight quicker', experts claim

  16-06-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In tests, people lost less weight when fasting in comparison with those following a traditional diet - even when their calorie intake was the same overall, University of Bath researchers report.
  
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• Bats in Switzerland harbour viruses from 39 different families

  16-06-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An analysis of 18 species of stationary and migratory bats living in Switzerland allowed the team from the University of Zurich to investigate virus spread.
  
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• Adults who don't have kids are just as happy as those that do, study finds 

  16-06-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There were no differences in life satisfaction, as well as limited differences in personality traits, between parents and child-free individuals, Michigan State University psychologists report.
  
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• Atlantic Ocean water can take up to 2,800 YEARS to travel around our planet, study reveals

  16-06-2021 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Almost half of Atlantic water spends 1,000 years in the Pacific on a three-millennium trip that also takes in the Indian and Southern oceans, experts at the University of California San Diego said.
  
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• 5,000-year-old fingerprints found on Neolithic pottery reveals it was made by two young males

  16-06-2021 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts measured the density and breadth of the fingerprint ridges, and accounted for the shrinkage of the clay during drying and firing to determine the age and sex of the prints' owners.
  
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• Windows 11 leak shows Microsoft looking more like Apple, and might let developers avoid 'Apple tax'

  16-06-2021 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Screenshots from Microsoft Windows 11 have apparently leaked online, suggested the new UI will have a new Start menu, rounded windows and a new start-up sound, among other features.
  
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• 47 of the best films on Netflix UK this week

  16-06-2021 18:19
  
  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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• 9,000 year-old stone artifacts discovered in Lake Huron came from over 2,000 miles away 

  16-06-2021 17:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stone tool artifacts dating back 9,000 years have been discovered in Lake Huron, but experts have determined they came from central Oregon, more than 2,000 miles away.
  
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• Apple is considering launching its own primary healthcare service for users

  16-06-2021 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Wall Street Journal obtained documents that states Apple has been working on its own subscription-based healthcare service since 2016, but is struggling to get it off the ground.
  
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• UK Government Advisor: Mask Mandates Should Continue ‘Forever’

  16-06-2021 17:06 via technocracy.news
  
  Tyrants of all sizes and ilks are drunk on COVID-19 power with no intent to give up what they usurped using emergency powers. The global elite Technocrats who are controlling the narrative are using the Susan Michie’s of the world as “useful idiots”. ⁃ TN EditorA UK government adviser and former Communist Party member Susan Michie says that mask mandates and social distancing should continue “forever” and that people should adopt such behaviour just as they di
  
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• Coating made from a HAIR CONDITIONER ingredient can capture aerosols and droplets containing Covid

  16-06-2021 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To enhance the function of plexiglass protective barriers, researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, developed a new virus-proof transparent coating.
  
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• 15 States Legislating To Strip Public Health Agency Powers

  16-06-2021 16:47 via technocracy.news
  
  Increasingly, state legislators are pushing back against emergency powers that allowed unelected and unaccountable public health agencies to impose medical tyranny on their citizens, destroying lives and businesses in record numbers. ⁃ TN EditorMike Fratantuono grew up in a restaurant. Literally.
  For decades, Sunset Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, was the family business. Over the years, he’d done seemingly every job imaginable: busboy, bartender, and butcher; prep cook and plum
  
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• Scientists develop an ultra-thin crystal film that could allow humans to see in the DARK

  16-06-2021 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The design is still a proof of concept but researchers at the Australian National University and Nottingham Trent University believe it could offer a cheap and lightweight replacement for bulky night vision goggles.
  
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• Technocrat Millionaire Unlocks Secrets Of The Mind

  16-06-2021 16:27 via technocracy.news
  
  The developer says, “To make progress on all the fronts that we need to as a society, we have to bring the brain online.” This is a major Transhuman goal as well, to upload the brain into the cloud of immortality.  ⁃ TN EditorOver the next few weeks, a company called Kernel will begin sending dozens of customers across the U.S. a $50,000 helmet that can, crudely speaking, read their mind. Weighing a couple of pounds each, the helmets contain nests of sensors and other
  
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• Brazil has signed the Artemis accords, becoming the first South American country to do so 

  16-06-2021 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brazil signed the Artemis Accords, becoming the first South American country to signal it will adhere to principles to explore space and the moon to benefit 'all of humanity.'
  
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• People who enjoy sending 'sexts' have dark personality traits, says study

  16-06-2021 15:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sexting is linked with narcissism and Machiavellianism, a study led by researchers at Sapienza University of Rome reveals.
  
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• The best games (and trailers) from E3

  16-06-2021 15:25
  
  The annual gaming event was slightly subdued by the pandemic, but there were still big updates on Zelda, Halo, Far Cry and more
  
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• Spacewalk veterans take a trip outside the ISS to pump up the power with new solar arrays

  16-06-2021 15:07 via go.theregister.com
  
  Lego ISS fans, look away now International Space Station (ISS) astronauts are venturing out of the orbiting outpost today to replace its ageing solar arrays.…
  
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• The Griffin: Shipwreck found in Lake Michigan may be a notorious 'cursed' ship

  16-06-2021 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shipwreck hunters Steve and Kathie Libert say they have found the infamous vessel near Poverty Island within Delta County in Lake Michigan.
  
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• SpaceX ignored warnings that SN8 blastoff in December might not be safe

  16-06-2021 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SN8 successfully launched on December 9 from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas testing facility, but ended up crash-landing in a ball of flames.
  
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• Rare Egyptian vulture is spotted on the Isles of Scilly in first UK sighting for 150 YEARS 

  16-06-2021 12:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bird of prey, also known as 'the pharaoh's chicken' because of its links to ancient Egypt,was first seen at Peninnis Head on St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly on Monday before moving on to Tresco.
  
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• Bristol company hosted notorious child-abuse site

  16-06-2021 10:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Companies are urged to work harder against those "profiting financially from the rape and abuse of children".
  
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• China launching first crew to its own space station on Thursday

  16-06-2021 08:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plans four crewed missions to assemble “heavenly palace” China will on Thursday launch a crew of three on a mission to start assembling the nation’s first space station.…
  
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• NVIDIA and the battle for the future of AI chips

  16-06-2021 07:00
  
  NVIDIA’s GPUs dominate AI chips. But a raft of startups say new architecture is needed for the fast-evolving AI field
  
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• It looks like Apple is after Substack’s email empire

  16-06-2021 07:00
  
  Apple is starting to reshape the newsletter industry in its image. It’s next step could be a real power play
  
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• Is my cat happy? This app predicts feline moods

  16-06-2021 07:00
  
  Tably uses machine learning and the Feline Grimace Scale to decode infamously inscrutable kitties
  
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• Digital ad industry accused of huge data breach

  16-06-2021 06:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Legal action filed over volume of data shared by digital advertising firms during ad space sales.
  
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• NHS to give artificial pancreas to 1,000 diabetics to test if it prevents life-threatening attacks

  16-06-2021 02:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients with type 1 diabetes will be able to use the devices, which continuously measure a person's glucose levels and deliver insulin directly to the bloodstream, Sir Simon Stevens said.
  
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• UK could be left behind in the electric car race, warns report

  16-06-2021 01:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK might soon be reliant on electric vehicles imported from abroad, warns an influential group.
  
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• Orcas have complex social structures including close 'friendships' 

  16-06-2021 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Orcas (killer whales) tend to favour those of the same sex and similar age, reveal University of Exeter researchers who used drones to film the animals in the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Drone cameras record social lives of killer whales

  16-06-2021 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new study suggests killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender.
  
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