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• Tesla: Elon Musk ‘rather hates’ being company boss

  12-07-2021 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Speaking in court on Monday, the entrepreneur said he prefers spending time on design and engineering.
  
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• Goldfish the size of FOOTBALLS take over Minnesota lake after people release unwanted pets

  12-07-2021 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Football-sized goldfish are being pulled from Keller Lake in Minnesota. Officials say they were once pets and released into the wild where they have enough food sources to grow.
  
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• 3,100-year-old inscription on a pottery fragment uncovered in Israel features a biblical name

  12-07-2021 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fragment of a 3,100-year-old ceramic pot bears the name 'Jerubbaal,' who was a military leader, judge and prophet whose story is recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges.
  
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• Goldfish the size of FOOTBALLS take over Minnesota lake

  12-07-2021 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Football-sized goldfish are being pulled from Keller Lake in Minnesota. Officials say they were once pets and released into the wild where they have enough food sources to grow.
  
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• Fossils of vicious 8ft-long predator that stalked oceans 460 MILLION years ago are rediscovered

  12-07-2021 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Endoceras fossil lost in an Australia museum for years has finally been rediscovered. The giant cephalopod lived in Australia 460 million years ago, when the Outback was a shallow sea.
  
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• Gas on Venus may actually be produced by volcanoes, study says

  12-07-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Phosphine gas in Venus' upper atmosphere was announced in September 2020, but according to scientists at Cornell University in New York state, it's a geological signature.
  
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• Children in areas with high levels of air pollution, noise and traffic are more likely to be OBESE

  12-07-2021 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of more than 2,000 children in Sabadell, near Barcelona, Spain, explored these key environmental factors and their impact on children's weight.
  
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• Number of 'extremely hot days' in UK could increase FOURFOLD if global temperature rises 7.2°F

  12-07-2021 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, published in the journal Climatic Change, found that the worse global warming gets, the more severe weather the UK will experience, according to the Exeter-based Met Office.
  
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• Pets: Dogs get humans in a way their relatives like wolves don't, study finds

  12-07-2021 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dog and wolf puppies were put through a series of tests - involving locating hidden food by picking up on human clues - by researchers from Duke University.
  
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• EU puts its digital tax plan on ice

  12-07-2021 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The EU says suspending the plan will help achieve a global tax deal, but Ireland is still unhappy.
  
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• Stone Age Europeans wore makeup 6,000 years ago that they carried in portable jars

  12-07-2021 18:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chemical analysis of a substance found in 6,000-year-old jars in Croatia suggests they contained primitive cosmetics, including beeswax and the white lead-based mineral known as cerussite.
  
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• Scientists develop an inflammatory ageing CLOCK to predict frailty

  12-07-2021 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The system can also determine frailty levels in old age seven years in advance, say researchers from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California.
  
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• Climate change: Just 25 mega-cities emit 52 per cent of the world's urban greenhouse gases

  12-07-2021 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A first-of-its-kind inventory of the greenhouse emission levels of 167 cities located across the globe was recorded by researchers from China's Sun Yat-sen University.
  
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• Thousands of juvenile fish are dropped from a plane into Utah lakes [Video]

  12-07-2021 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of fish were dropped from Utah planes last week to help restock some 200 remote lakes not accessible by trucks. The fish, juveniles under three inches long, 'flutter down slowly' to the water.
  
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• Heat Dome killed 1 BILLION sea creatures in the Pacific Northwest with temperatures at 104F

  12-07-2021 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The heat dome that covered the Pacific Northwest two weeks ago caused a mass death of sea creatures - 1 billion died due to extreme temperatures that last for 5 days straight.
  
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• What really happened in Iceland’s four-day week trial

  12-07-2021 16:00
  
  The success of the trial made global headlines. But the actual results tell a more complex story
  
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• Two-thirds of romantic couples start out as friends, study finds 

  12-07-2021 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Out of a sample of just under 2,000 romantic couples, 68 per cent started out as just friends, report experts at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
  
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• NASA signs $1bn deal with Northrop Grumman to build studio apartment in lunar orbit with room for 3 vehicles

  12-07-2021 15:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  HALO to form the crew habitat module of the Gateway outpost NASA has inked a $935m contract with Northrop Grumman to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for the Lunar Gateway.…
  
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• Euro 2020: Why abuse remains rife on social media

  12-07-2021 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Racist abuse aimed at football players following Sunday's tournament finale has been widely condemned.
  
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• Trains: Luxury 'palace on rails' concept features a 1,300ft-long GLASS panoramic design

  12-07-2021 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brainchild of French designer Thierry Gaugain, the 'G Train' is envisaged as 'palace on rails' that will heighten the railway travel experience itself.
  
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• Free and open internet is 'under attack', Google boss warns 

  12-07-2021 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An open internet - information online being free and available to all - is a 'tremendous force for good' that's 'taken for granted', said Pichai, head of the Mountain View, California firm.
  
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• Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5m at auction

  12-07-2021 12:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An original Zelda cartridge and a Mario game set successive records at auction within days.
  
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• Unique diamond with ANOTHER gem trapped inside is discovered in Russia

  12-07-2021 12:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strange diamond was mined in Yakutia at the Nyurba mining and processing division of ALROSA.
  
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• High-tech TOILETS could spread superbugs, study warns

  12-07-2021 11:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Multidrug-resistant bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRP) have been discovered on water jet nozzles on electric toilets in hospitals in Japan.
  
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• Jeff Bezos congratulates Richard Branson on his maiden space voyage

  12-07-2021 10:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Richard Branson andfive crewmates reached an altitude of 53.5 miles (86 kilometers) over the New Mexico desert before gliding safely back to Earth on Sunday.
  
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• Florida breaks manatee death record in first six months of 2021

  12-07-2021 10:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wildlife authorities say the unprecedented number of deaths was primarily caused by starvation.
  
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• Richard Branson uses two planes to make 170km round trip

  12-07-2021 07:10 via go.theregister.com
  
  Went into space and made it home in time for lunch British billionaire Sir Richard “Beardy” Branson on Sunday made a round trip of just over 170 kilometres in around 90 minutes.…
  
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• Other nations are vaccinating kids. Why isn’t the UK?

  12-07-2021 07:00
  
  The UK is still considering whether to recommend vaccination for under-18s even though many countries have already decided the benefits outweigh the risks
  
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• The Evil Twins Of Transhumanism And Technocracy

  12-07-2021 01:50 via technocracy.news
  
  The dots between Technocracy and Transhumanism are easily connected once its understood that both sit atop the pseudo-science religion of Scientism, which posits that science is god and scientists and engineers are its priesthood. This article provides the current framework to understand this nexus. ⁃ TN EditorTechnocracy is to the transformation of society as Transhumanism is to the transformation of the human condition of people who would live in that society.
  Both are underpinned by a r
  
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• mRNA Vaccine Inventor Concerned That Anti-Vaxxer’s Concerns Will Be Validated

  12-07-2021 01:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Be careful with this interview. Dr. Robert Malone’s biggest concern is that the mishandling of mRNA gene therapy shots will validate the claims of anti-vaxxers and ultimately hurt the Big Pharma industry as more people push back against vaccines in general. ⁃ TN Editor“What would happen to the entire vaccine enterprise—I’m talking about pediatric vaccines, the fundamental bedrocks of public health—if we basically validate the criticisms of those that have been
  
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• Google boss Sundar Pichai on tax and his personal tech habits

  12-07-2021 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google boss Sundar Pichai defends company record on tax – and explains his personal tech habits.
  
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• Voice cloning of growing interest to actors and cybercriminals

  12-07-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why voice cloning is not just a threat to actors but could benefit cybercriminals too.
  
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• Jigsaw: Google’s Private Intelligence Agency

  12-07-2021 00:56 via technocracy.news
  
  Google and it’s parent company, Alphabet, are maneuvering to replace the functions and boundaries of the nation-state. Collectively, the have more power to influence propaganda, events and elections than most regimes have. In view here is their organized effort to create a private intel agency. ⁃ TN EditorIt’s no secret that Google regularly collaborates with intelligence agencies.
  They are a known NSA subcontractor. They launched Google Earth using a CIA spy satellit
  
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