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• Apple app store tweak allows in-app sales of weed from licensed pharmacies and licensed dispensaries

  02-07-2021 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is allowing the in-app purchase of marijuana where the drug is legalized, according to an update the tech company made to its developer guidelines on June 7.
  
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• The codes helping visually-impaired people shop

  02-07-2021 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New technology that allows phones to read out labelling is about to make supermarkets much more accessible.
  
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• Clams on Washington state beach are being cooked to death by heatwave

  02-07-2021 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hama Hama Oyster company, a family-run shellfish farm, found dozens to hundreds of dead clams at its bed that cooked on the beach due to the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest.
  
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• US officer plays Taylor Swift song to try to block video

  02-07-2021 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The officer in Oakland wanted to prevent activists filming him from uploading the video to YouTube.
  
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• Leaked iPhone 13 pictures show ultra-wide camera with diagonal lens, larger bump

  02-07-2021 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newly leaked images of a device purported to be the iPhone 13 suggest it will have a larger camera bump with lenses laid out diagonally, allowing users to take better wide-angle and zoomed-in photos.
  
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• Immunotherapy treatments without side effects ARE possible, study says

  02-07-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drugs already used to modulate the immune response in people with arthritis, called TNF alpha, could stopimmunotherapy's adverse side effects, say University of Geneva experts.
  
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• Nearly 90% of all Americans think aliens - if they exist - aren't a threat or a minor threat: survey

  02-07-2021 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sixty-five percent of all Americans believe that extraterrestrials exist, according to a new survey. However, a whopping 87% of them think that they are not a threat in one way or another.
  
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• Humans could live to more than 130 years old by the end of this century, study claims

  02-07-2021 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The number of people who live past the age of 100 has been on the rise for decades, up to nearly half a million people worldwide as of this year, say the team from the University of Washington.
  
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• Yellowstone's Old Faithful could stop erupting if temperatures rise the 10F

  02-07-2021 18:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new climate assessment of Yellowstone warns Old Faithful could stop erupting if temperatures in the park rise another 10F. This would cause a drought, which would dry up the geyser's ground water.
  
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• Education: Kids learn language faster than teens or adults because of how their parents talk to them

  02-07-2021 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ways in which caregivers change their language use to match their children's knowledge was measured by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  
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• Around 200 medieval skeletons unearthed at Pembrokeshire beach

  02-07-2021 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Up to 200 skeletons have been found in total, including 90 in the last three weeks alone, just yards from Whitesands Bay, a Blue Flag beach near the Welsh city of St David's.
  
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• Remains of a 100ft-long, 1,000-year-old church built by Otto the Great discovered in Germany

  02-07-2021 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Foundation walls that were part of a mini cathedral built by Otto the Great have been found in Germany. The 1,000-year-old church was used for 500 years before being demolished.
  
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• Scientists use E. coli bacteria to turn plastic trash into vanilla flavoring 

  02-07-2021 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have converted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) a common plastic found in water bottles, clothing and more, into vanillin, using a benign form of the usually sickening bacteria.
  
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• Richard Branson 'expecting the... trip of a lifetime' when he rockets into space on July 11

  02-07-2021 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Billionaire Sir Richard Branson said in an interview on Friday that his upcoming Virgin Galactic trip to space on July 11 will be 'the most extraordinary trip of my lifetime.'
  
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• Robot dog in dance-off with Korean boy band BTS and other news

  02-07-2021 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week.
  
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• Experts say Hubble is 'beyond repair' despite NASA insisting there are 'multiple options' for a fix

  02-07-2021 16:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has been working to fix the ageing observatory from a control centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, ever since a computer glitch caused it to shut down unexpectedly on June 13.
  
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• Technocracy Rising: World Economic Forum Announces ‘Global Coalition For Digital Safety’

  02-07-2021 16:23 via technocracy.news
  
  The Internet is headed toward total censorship of “unauthorized” content as well as individuals who consume or produce such content. Once you are identified as “unsafe”, you could be banned from Internet presence, denying access to Email and online accounts. ⁃ TN EditorWEF partners with Big Tech and governments to police Internet, encourage ‘coordinated action’ against unauthorized voices deemed ‘harmful’ to collective psyche.
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• NASA launches investigation into claims ex-chief James Webb oversaw a purge of LGBT employees

  02-07-2021 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US space agency has named its $10 billion (£7.3 billion) next generation space telescope after Webb, but some scientists say the legacy of his leadership is 'complicit with persecution'.
  
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• Tech: Amazon urged to rename its personal assistant because children called Alexa are being BULLIED

  02-07-2021 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Parents of children in the US and UK are calling on Amazon to reconsider its personal assistant's name, with the movement 'Alexa is a Human' among the initiatives lobbying for the change.
  
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• Comcast Joins Ranks Of ‘Big Brother’, Suspends User’s Internet Service Over Downloaded Content

  02-07-2021 15:45 via technocracy.news
  
  Censorship is shifting from content to individuals. Comcast made a value judgement over a user’s downloaded files and suspended his service altogether, punishing him by denying access to all Internet content.
  This is tantamount to a utility company shutting off a customer’s electricity because they didn’t like their consumption patterns. I have already warned TN readers over government plans to take censorship down to the ISP and hardware levels, where you could be summarily sh
  
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• Aspirin could cut the risk of death from cancers by 20%, study finds 

  02-07-2021 15:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cancer patients taking aspirin as part of their treatment could cut their risk of death by 20 per cent, according to a new study led by researchers at Cardiff University.
  
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• Amazon’s Predatory Business Model Causes Delivery Revolt

  02-07-2021 15:06 via technocracy.news
  
  Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world because it employed a predatory business model that crushed everything and everyone in its path. This is also an example of what it’s like to live in a Scientific Dictatorship. ⁃ TN EditorLast week, two well-established Amazon delivery companies in Portland, Oregon offered Amazon an ultimatum: agree to a set of conditions that it said would improve revenue and driver safety—or we’ll stop delivering Amazon packages.
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• Facebook tests extremist content warning messages

  02-07-2021 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech firm said pop-ups would appear for some users who may have been exposed to extremist content.
  
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• Temperatures in Antarctica hit record high, UN scientists confirm 

  02-07-2021 13:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The reading was captured at the Esperanza Base, an Argentine research station on the Antarctic Peninsula - the northwest tip near to South America, the World Meteorological Organization has revealed.
  
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• Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

  02-07-2021 13:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  The flight of the bearded one means Shepard will be second. Again Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is set to take his first jaunt to the edge of space ahead of commercial spaceflight rival Jeff Bezos, with an 11 July trip aboard VSS Unity.…
  
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• Microsoft’s Windows 11 blue screen of death to become black

  02-07-2021 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new colour in the Windows 11 operating system matches the new black logon and shutdown screens.
  
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• TikTok increasing video length from one to three minutes

  02-07-2021 12:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The social media platform says the change will allow for 'richer storytelling'.
  
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• Sustainability: Scientists discover microbes in cow stomachs that can break down PLASTIC

  02-07-2021 11:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the diet of cows, these bacterial communities break down natural plant polymers, explained the researchers from Austria's University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.
  
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• Boffins boast of 'slidetronics' breakthrough enabling binary switch just two atoms thick

  02-07-2021 08:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Finding could boost performance and efficiency of future gadgets The latest Apple fondleslab is thin, sure, but it could be thinner – like what boffins at Tel Aviv University have hailed as "the world's tiniest technology," measuring just two atoms thick.…
  
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• We might never reach herd immunity

  02-07-2021 07:00
  
  The Delta variant is putting hopes of reaching herd immunity at risk, but every vaccination will still have a huge impact
  
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• The UK’s summer of travel chaos

  02-07-2021 07:00
  
  The rise of the Delta variant has complicated travel lists. Airlines, holidaymakers and businesses are scrambling to make foreign holidays possible
  
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• The stats show England have been lucky, but they’re still Euros favourites

  02-07-2021 07:00
  
  Gareth Southgate’s team have been fortunate not to concede yet, but other results and the win over Germany mean they're the favourites to win the Euros
  
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• Parents of children called Alexa challenge Amazon

  02-07-2021 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Youngsters are being bullied over their name - also the default wake word for the tech firm's smart speakers.
  
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• Climate change: Will UK mining drive a green revolution?

  02-07-2021 01:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mining returns to the UK as the green revolution drives the need for more minerals and metals.
  
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• How airlines will stop you losing your bags in the future

  02-07-2021 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In 2019, 25.4 million bags went missing, costing the industry billions of dollars - can big data solve the problem?
  
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