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• 'Throwable' drone that climbs stairs and picks up body heat sent to help at collapsed Florida condo

  30-06-2021 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To help rescue workers at the collapsed condo in Florida, robotics company Teledyne Flir sent the Flir FirstLook, a rugged but lightweight drone that can right itself, climb stairs and squeeze into tight spaces.
  
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• Around 410 million people on the world's coasts will be at risk of rising sea levels by 2100

  30-06-2021 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists used a projection of three feet sea level rise to see what climate change has in store and found 410M people will be at risk of rising sea levels - 143M more than currently.
  
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• Shipwreck found 8ft underwater in Antigua may be 18th-century naval ship used in Revolutionary War 

  30-06-2021 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists in Antigua have uncovered what they believe to be the shipwreck of the Beaumont, an 18th-century French warship used during the Revolutionary War.
  
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• Bronze Age 'infinity pool' built more than 3,000 years ago in Italy was used in supernatural rituals

  30-06-2021 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mysterious wooden structure that was similar to an infinity pool was unearthed in Italy. Ancient humans would worship at the site by tossing goods in to the pit some 3,000 years ago.
  
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• NASA's Curiosity rover may have figured out why methane is not being spotted in the atmosphere

  30-06-2021 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA may be getting close to figuring out why methane is spotted near the Martian surface but not its atmosphere, potentially because of what time of day it's looked for.
  
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• Bentley's Continental GT3 powered by its new biofuel takes fourth place in dangerous mountain race 

  30-06-2021 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bentley's modified Continental GT3 took fourth place in this year's Peaks Pike Hill Climb race in Colorado, but is being hailed the fastest car to compete that was powered by renewable fuel.
  
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• Deadly spitting zebra cobra which can blind its prey is on the loose in North Carolina

  30-06-2021 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A highly dangerous snake, the zebra cobra, escaped its home and is on the loose in Raleigh, North Carolina, police said on Tuesday, June 29.
  
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• Virgin Orbit launches its Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne rocket to deliver satellites into orbit

  30-06-2021 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Orbit launched its Cosmic Girl carrier plane with a LauncherOne rocket attached to its wing. The mission dropped the rocket over the Pacific, in which it will then deliver satellites into orbit.
  
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• Researchers built drone with tiny microphones that can find screaming humans in a natural disaster 

  30-06-2021 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  German engineers have trained a drone's AI to recognize human screams to help rescue victims of natural disasters. It's equipped with small microphones akin to ones found in hearing aids.
  
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• Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m

  30-06-2021 20:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The sale came with a bundle of assets, including an animated video and a letter from Sir Tim.
  
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• Apple is creating an iPad the size of a car wheel, report says

  30-06-2021 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Mark Gurman, a trusted Apple tipster and journalist for Bloomberg, the Cupertino-based tech giant has engineers and designers who are 'exploring larger iPads'.
  
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• UAE releases the first global images of aurora in the Red Planet's nightside atmosphere 

  30-06-2021 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet in February this year.
  
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• Amazon launches 'child-friendly' smart speaker in UK

  30-06-2021 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  But privacy campaigners are warning parents the devices will also be collecting data on their youngsters.
  
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• Self-regulating market existed during the Bronze Age 4,000 years ago, researchers say 

  30-06-2021 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It meant a trader could travel from Mesopotamia to Central Europe without having to change their own set of weights because similar systems were in use, said scientists at the University of Göttingen.
  
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• TikTok removes more than seven million suspected under-age accounts

  30-06-2021 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The video-sharing app is popular with teenagers who are allowed to set up an account from the age of 13.
  
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• Amazon launches Echo Dot Kids amid privacy and security fears 

  30-06-2021 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Echo Dot Kids will be released in the UK by Amazon on July 21 - around 10 months after it was first revealed by the Seattle-based tech giant.
  
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• Technocracy Exposed: Pseudopandemic Designed To Terrorize The Public

  30-06-2021 17:22 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocracy’s coup d’etat is now clearly seen and elucidated by other international authors and investigative journalists. Davis reveals exactly what I have been saying since day one of The Great Panic (pandemic) of 2020, namely, that it is a sham designed to transform the world. ⁃ TN EditorCovid 19 was and is a pseudopandemic. It was the gross exaggeration of the threat posed by a low mortality respiratory illness, comparable to influenza.
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• Delta Variant: ‘Panic Porn Dressed Up As Science’

  30-06-2021 17:04 via technocracy.news
  
  Forget COVID-19. Now it’s the Delta Variant. Be scared. Be very scared. Well, here we go again for round two of medical tyranny brought by Technocrats everywhere. What the world really needs is herd immunity from ‘panic porn’. ⁃ TN EditorEquity futures are in the red Wednesday morning as Dr. Anthony Fauci’s warnings about the supposedly “dire threat” posed by the Delta variant continue to be dramatically amplified by the American media.
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• Fossils: World's oldest beetles found in 230-million-year-old primitive dinosaur faeces

  30-06-2021 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ancient excrement - which experts call a 'coprolite' - was found in the Krasiejów clay pit, near Ozimek, in the southwest of Poland.
  
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• Roman sarcophagus discovered in Bath contained two skeletons, with one laid at the other's feet 

  30-06-2021 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A limestone casket contained two skeletons, with one positioned at the other's feet, was found in Bath's Sydney Gardens. The grave was northern facing, suggesting a pagan burial, researchers said.
  
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• Amazon eagle faces starvation in 'last stronghold'

  30-06-2021 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the world's largest eagles has "nearly zero" chance of surviving deforestation, study shows.
  
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• Life As A Service: ‘You’ll Own Nothing And You’ll Be Happy’

  30-06-2021 16:38 via technocracy.news
  
  According to Technocrats at the World Economic Forum, life as a service will be offered for your happiness. Does anyone else really think they care if you are happy? Who will own all the stuff they want to ‘rent’ to you? Them, of course! ⁃ TN EditorThe title of this article projects an ominous future where the masses are controlled by a few. Over the years I have written several articles covering the elite gathering in Davos. The global elites see the World Economic Forum&
  
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• Friendly dolphin which keeps swimming up to people may be killed by human interaction, experts warn 

  30-06-2021 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After pleading with residents not to interact with a friendly, lone dolphin near North Padre Island, Texas officials are now telling residents they will be fined if they go near it.
  
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• Slowing down grape ripening can improve wine quality

  30-06-2021 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Study authors grew Cabernet Sauvignon wine grapes at a commercial vineyard in the San Joaquin Valley in California then tweaked their growing conditions to measure theimpact of heat and water.
  
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• 'Moonikin' manikin to be launched on NASA'S Artemis test flight

  30-06-2021 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The public have chosen 'Campos' as the name of a dummy on board Artemis I, which is set to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November.
  
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• Psychology: Narcissistic US presidents seven times more likely to pick a fight with rival powers

  30-06-2021 13:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The narcissistic traits of 19 former US heads of state - from William McKinley to George W. Bush - was assessed by political psychologist John Harden of Ohio State University.
  
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• Shortlist for the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 is revealed 

  30-06-2021 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The annual event is in its 13th year, and was launched to showcase the best in astrophotography from around the world by the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
  
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• Boston Dynamics releases video of Spot robot dog dancing to BTS

  30-06-2021 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boston Dynamics has released two videos in celebration of its acquisition by South Korean motor company Hyundai earlier this month.
  
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• Futuristic flying 'AirCar' completes its first ever inter-city flight

  30-06-2021 10:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazing footage shows the AirCar driving down a runway before soaring into the air. It then lands, folds away its wings and is driven along a motorway to the centre of Bratislava in Slovakia.
  
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• You wait ages for a neutron star and black hole to collide, then two pairs come along at once

  30-06-2021 09:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Well, that was a busy month for gravitational wave boffins Gravitational wave detectors have reportedly spotted the merger of a black hole and a neutron star – not once but twice in the same month.…
  
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• This lamp is 3D-printed from orange peel

  30-06-2021 07:00
  
  Meet Ohmie the orange lamp, a completely compostable light made from the peel of three juicy Sicilian oranges
  
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• One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save

  30-06-2021 07:00
  
  It may be too late to save some animals from extinction, but Tullis Matson has a backup plan: freeze their cells to preserve their genes
  
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• El Salvador is racing to be the future of bitcoin

  30-06-2021 07:00
  
  After China's crackdown, the cryptocurrency crowd is looking for a new haven. El Salvador thinks it is the answer
  
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• Flying car completes test flight between airports

  30-06-2021 01:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The vehicle runs on regular fuel and can travel up to 1,000km while airborne, its creator says.
  
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• Fukushima disaster: Tracking the wild boar 'takeover'

  30-06-2021 01:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A genetic study shows wild boar are thriving and breeding with domestic pigs from abandoned farms.
  
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• UK government's 'toothless policies' failing to protect nature

  30-06-2021 01:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs say that the government's plans for nature are wholly insufficient to stem the losses of plants and species.
  
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• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed

  30-06-2021 01:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The competition has received more than 4,500 entries from people in 75 countries.
  
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• Pictured: The eye-opening design for a mini city in the sky in Toronto

  30-06-2021 00:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The project is called Orca Toronto, and if it gets the go-ahead, will also feature a multi-tiered public park below featuring open lawns, playgrounds, walking trails and bike paths.
  
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