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• Nintendo teamed up with Tag Heuer for a Mario-themed smartwatch that costs $2,150

  13-07-2021 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nintendo and Tag Heuer announced a Super Mario-themed smartwatch that will cost $2,150 that has various face and animations as part of fitness goals and a lively dial.
  
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• Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

  13-07-2021 23:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Monitoring a person's 'iAge' may provide a means to prolong life, say scientists Buck Institute boffins, with colleagues at Stanford University, claim to have created the first "actionable clock" which can figure out when you're likely to croak it, and even help prolong your life: the inflammatory clock of ageing, or iAge.…
  
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• Algae species has THREE different sexes including a 'bisexual' one

  13-07-2021 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pleodornia starri was collected from a lake in Japan that is the first algae to have three different sexes, which includes male, female and a 'bisexual factor' gene that sits on a chromosome.
  
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• Apple's weather app refuses to say it's 69 degrees outside - and instead rounds up to 70 

  13-07-2021 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's weather app does not show temperatures of 65, 69 or 71 degrees as part of iOS 14, instead choosing to show alternate temperatures, a report said on Tuesday.
  
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• 2,000-year-old 'Freedom to Zion' coins withy features of the Jewish-Roman wars are found in Judea

  13-07-2021 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first coin was made during the Great Revolt around 67AD and features 'Freedom to Zion' one one side, while the other was minted in 134 AD and has 'for the freedom of Jerusalem' on one side.
  
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• YouTuber shares footage of a chicken embryo developing into a chick by placing it in a GLASS 'egg' 

  13-07-2021 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yuriy Shevchenko owner of the SlivkiShow YouTube channel, spent three years experimenting with different techniques to get a bird to develop in a glass jar in his lab in Ukraine.
  
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• Four newly discovered planets could help give new insights in what Earth was like in its early days

  13-07-2021 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Four exoplanets that orbit stars TOI 2076 and TOI 1807 were discovered and all are in their 'teenage' years, which could help shed new light on the early days of Earth, researchers said.
  
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• Exercise: Running with your trunk tilting too far can increase your risk of knee and back pain

  13-07-2021 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The impact on the running form of 23 young athletes from various angles of 'trunk flexion' was examined by researchers led from the University of Colorado Denver.
  
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• Shoulder blade of 29-foot-long dinosaur that lived some 81 million years ago is unearthed in Japan

  13-07-2021 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossil is two feet long and seven inches wide, with a a slight curve that would have sat around the dinosaur's thorax. Paleontologists note that it is a left shoulder blade of a bipedal herbivore.
  
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• Social-media giants discuss racist abuse with PM

  13-07-2021 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The prime minister will host a round table with representatives of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Snapchat.
  
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• Euro space boffins hatch comms satellite hijack plan to save Earth from extinction

  13-07-2021 18:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Liv Tyler-friendly Armageddon-avoidance project won't want to miss a thing with repurposed orbiters Space calamity boffins at Airbus and the European Space Agency (ESA) have come up with a new take on that old "massive, rogue impactor striking the Earth and wiping out all life on the planet" chestnut.…
  
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• Eating just three portions of whole grains a day can reduce your waist size, study finds

  13-07-2021 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eating foods such as whole-grain bread, rolled oats cereal or brown rice may also protect against heart disease, according to researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
  
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• Robots may have to dig through at least 1 feet of ice to find life on Jupiter's moon Europa

  13-07-2021 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robots may have to dig through at least a foot of ice on Jupiter's moon Europa, a new study suggests, as the ice moon
  is being hit with 'impact gardening.'
  
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• Massive pottery workshop dating back to the Greco-Roman era unearthed in Egypt

  13-07-2021 17:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A huge pottery workshop was unearthed just north of Cairo, Egypt that consists of multiple rooms for each process to make ceramics. Experts also found mud brick tombs and buildings.
  
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• TikTok users in the UK can get four MONTHS of free Spotify Premium

  13-07-2021 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spotify is attempting to get new sign-ups with a little help from TikTok, the Beijing-based video-sharing app.
  
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• Social media influencers face relentless abuse, MPs are told

  13-07-2021 17:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Em Sheldon says people are "so angry" at her for using her online platforms for commercial gain.
  
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• Mercola: In Washington, DC, Doctors Can Secretly Vaccinate Your Kids Without Your Knowledge Or Consent

  13-07-2021 17:22 via technocracy.news
  
  A stunning breach of medical ethics is turning into outright lawlessness as logic and Federal laws are abandoned. The Technocrat mind sees no point in parental consent over vaccination of their young children because “the science is settled” and why should anyone object to that? However, the science is NOT settled and we object! ⁃ TN EditorThis past year, we have seen many lawmakers in the U.S. and other countries vote to eliminate or severely restrict civil liberties in the na
  
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• Men with longer features and larger eyes are perceived as more promiscuous, study finds

  13-07-2021 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women use men's facial features to judge whether they are interested in short-term uncommitted relationships, say experts at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia.
  
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• Plaster-like strip can generate power from your finger sweat

  13-07-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The prototype would take three weeks of constant wear to power a phone, but developers from University of California, San Diego, hope to increase capacity in future.
  
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• WHO Creating Digital Wallet To Store Vaccination Certifications

  13-07-2021 16:59 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats are pushing for universal blockchain-based digital wallets to store your “papers”, whether your vaccine certification, travel pass, medical information, social credit score, Internet passport, etc. What can be monitored, can be controlled and that’s the point of Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorA World Health Organization (WHO) official said that the organization is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine “digital wallet&rdquo
  
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• US heatwave: Could US and Canada see the worst wildfires yet?

  13-07-2021 16:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The annual fire season has barely started - and there are claims that 2021 might be the worst year yet.
  
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• Post-Vaccine Deaths: Where Are The Autopsies?

  13-07-2021 16:41 via technocracy.news
  
  Dr. Jane Orient weighs in. Yet another facet of standard medical practice is being suppressed. Autopsies were routinely ordered in cases where death is unexplained or needed to be studied for clarification. The Technocrat mimd is essentially stating, “We know people are dying but we don’t care to know why.” ⁃ TN EditorIn this age of supposed scientific medicine and a pandemic, we are relying on death certificates for statistics on the cause of death, even though
  
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• NASA's Lucy spacecraft to the Trojan asteroids will bring a plaque with famous people into space 

  13-07-2021 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids that orbit Jupiter will bring a plaque that will act as a 'time-capsule,' including
  quotes from Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, The Beatles and more.
  
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• Amazon rolls out encryption for Ring doorbells

  13-07-2021 15:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Footage captured by the video doorbells will now be end-to-end encrypted, following a trial.
  
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• Exposure to lead in childhood can affect your personality, study warns 

  13-07-2021 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People who grew up in areas of the US and Europe with higher levels of atmospheric lead had less healthy personalities, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.
  
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• Space: Stars spiralling towards each other 1,500 light years away from Earth will create supernova

  13-07-2021 13:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'hot subdwarf' in the binary system HD265435, was detected first by researchers led from the University of Warwick using NASA's exoplanet hunting TESS satellite.
  
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• Red Dead Redemption research: 'Gamers learn about nature'

  13-07-2021 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Players of a big-budget action-adventure game have a better knowledge of nature, researchers say.
  
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• Google fined €500m by French competition authority

  13-07-2021 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The search giant must propose ways to compensate news businesses for the use of their content.
  
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• Opulent banquet hall discovered in Jerusalem may have welcomed VIPs 2,000 years ago

  13-07-2021 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The hall lies beneath Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter and is accessed by the Western Wall Tunnel, an excavation near to Temple Mount, one of the world's most contested religious sites.
  
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• How MetaHuman Creator helped me create ‘Dana’

  13-07-2021 11:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Realistic digital humans can be produced rapidly with the new software, Epic Games says.
  
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• Giant goldfish problem in US lake prompts warning to pet owners

  13-07-2021 11:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Goldfish released into the wild can grow much bigger and cause major disruption to ecosystems.
  
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• Iranian hackers posed as British-based academic

  13-07-2021 11:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group in Iran pretended to be a British-based academic and compromised a London university website.
  
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• TAG Heuer’s latest smartwatch play? Super Mario

  13-07-2021 08:00
  
  Mamma mia! The new limited edition TAG Connected is a collaboration with Nintendo’s famous Italian plumber
  
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• The best day to go into the office is…

  13-07-2021 07:00
  
  It’s not Monday. Or Tuesday. Or Wednesday. In fact, the very idea of a ‘best’ day to go into the office is misguided
  
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• How to make a genuinely inclusive phone camera

  13-07-2021 07:00
  
  Major technology firms are recognising that more needs to be done to acknowledge darker skin tones and unstraightened hair styles
  
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• Flipkart: India online retail giant raises $3.6bn in latest funding round

  13-07-2021 06:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This brings the Walmart-backed firm's value to almost $38bn ahead of its expected market debut.
  
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• Elon Musk warns Tesla drivers to 'be paranoid' about safety when using new Full Self-Driving 9 beta

  13-07-2021 01:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla rolled out its 'Full Self-Driving' 9 beta, which lets cars automatically obey lights and change lanes. But Elon Musk is telling owners to avoid becoming over-reliant on the assisted driving tech.
  
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• How your driving might reveal early signs of Alzheimer's

  13-07-2021 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Research shows how small changes in the way you drive could expose preclinical signs of disease.
  
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• Climate change: Technology boosts efforts to curb tree loss in Amazon

  13-07-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Smartphones and satellite data help indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon to limit deforestation.
  
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