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• Waymo announces construction of trucking hub in Dallas and Ryder partnership

  18-08-2021 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Waymo has announced the construction of a trucking hub, and a partnership with transportation company Ryder. Waymo said it will move into the hub in the first half of 2022.
  
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• NASA has found a break in a spiral arm of the Milky Way that stretches 3,000 light-years

  18-08-2021 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA said that it has discovered a 'break' in one of the spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy that looks 'like a splinter poking out from a plank of wood,' stretching roughly 3,000 light-years.
  
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• Students that pet, cuddle dogs have improved well-being and are less stressed, study finds

  18-08-2021 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from the University of British Columbia suggests petting is essential for students to getting the full benefit of a therapy dog, including stress-relief and improved social connectedness.
  
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• Twitter tests option to report tweets as 'misleading' in bid to combat spread of fake news

  18-08-2021 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter announced that a new feature will be available to report tweets that are misleading. A test group already accessed the option that will be available in the US, Australia and South Korea.
  
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• NASA releases new panoramic image of Mars to celebrate Curiosity rover's 9th anniversary 

  18-08-2021 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA marked the Curiosity rover's ninth anniversary on Mars by unveiling a new panoramic image, put together on July 3 by stitching 129 individual images together of Mount Sharp.
  
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• Space: Advanced alien civilizations could be harvesting energy from black holes

  18-08-2021 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Black holes, counter-intuitively, produce energy in a number of different ways. Experts from the National Tsing Hua University explored if any of these power sources might be harnessed.
  
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• VPNs used to stay anonymous online still vulnerable to hackers with fake data packets

  18-08-2021 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  VPNs may be vulnerable to hackers sending data packets to random ports in hopes of gaining access. They'd then modify the source address to look like its coming from the other end of the VPN 'tunnel.'
  
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• 40 million T-Mobile customers hit by US data breach

  18-08-2021 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 40 million T-Mobile customers have been hit by a US data breach.
  
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• Treaty signed in 1987 to protect the ozone layer 'helped save Earth from 4.5°F global warming'

  18-08-2021 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Without the Montreal Protocol, which led to a ban on ozone-depleting chemicals, a team of scientists from the UK, USA and New Zealand said we would already be facing a 'scorched Earth'.
  
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• Apple censors engraving service, report claims

  18-08-2021 19:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple restricts the engraving of political phrases in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, a report alleges.
  
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• Google says Pixel 6 will not include a charger in the box after unveiling Pixel 5a on Tuesday

  18-08-2021 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google announced the Pixel 6 won't include a charger, after unveiling the Pixel 5a. Customers will have to purchase a charger if they don't own one, but there's hype around the Pixel 6.
  
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• Hundreds of items uncovered by archaeologists looking for evidence of an infamous Nazi war crime

  18-08-2021 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despiteefforts to hide the atrocious actions, abundant evidence of the massacres have been uncovered by experts from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
  
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• CFC ban bought time to fight climate change - scientists

  18-08-2021 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A global treaty banning ozone-depleting chemicals in 1987 may have averted a climate catastrophe today.
  
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• 1,700 year-old coins that may be from ancient ship sailing the Mediterranean found in Israel

  18-08-2021 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Coins believed to be 1,700 years-old have been discovered on an Israeli beach after they were found an Israeli tour guide camping with his family on Neveh Yam beach near Atlit.
  
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• US boffins: We're close to fusion ignition in the lab – as seen in stars and thermonuclear weapons

  18-08-2021 17:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  The Reg speaks to chief scientist in fuel-compression experiment The US government's nuclear physicists say they are close to achieving fusion ignition – the point at which a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining – in the lab by compressing matter with lasers.…
  
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• US boffins: We're close to creating in the lab self-sustaining fusion as seen in stars ... and nuclear weapons

  18-08-2021 17:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  The Reg speaks to chief scientist in fuel-compression experiment The US government's nuclear physicists say they are close to achieving fusion ignition – the point at which a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining – in the lab by compressing matter with lasers.…
  
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• Tiny blobs of human brain cells are grown in a lab with rudimentary 'eyes' that can detect light 

  18-08-2021 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in Germany have developed primitive 'eyes' in spherical masses of human brain tissue, known as brain organoids. The optic cups have lenses, retinas, corneas and can see light.
  
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• Nature: Lonely flies start overeating and sleeping less after just one WEEK in social isolation

  18-08-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fruit flies were kept in test tubes in solitary confinement by researchers from Rockefeller University to see how this affected the insects' behaviour.
  
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• TSA Extends Mask Mandate For All Airline Passengers And Employees

  18-08-2021 16:45 via technocracy.news
  
  There is no science proving that masks are able to contain virus particles, and yet the world has gone mad to force people to wear them. Secondly, masks have been demonstrated to be harmful to the wearers and some people with other conditions should never wear a mask under any circumstance. ⁃ TN EditorFederal officials are extending into January a requirement that people on airline flights and public transportation wear face masks, a rule intended to limit the spread of Covid-19.
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• Twitter Says Taliban Can Stay On Platform

  18-08-2021 16:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Anyone who wants to make the world a better place is quickly banned from Twitter. Conversely, the destroyers of societies are allowed to remain, like the Taliban which would like to behead every freedom loving American citizen. What’s wrong with this picture?
  Facebook and Google, by contrast, banned all related parties from the Taliban. Twitter now stands alone as the world’s revolutionary messaging app and is complicit in the unspeakable deaths of women, children and innocent civili
  
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• OnlyFans launches a 'suitable for work' app called OFTV

  18-08-2021 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called OFTV, the app has a library of more than 800 videos and is available for free worldwide on major devices including iOS, Amazon Fire and Roku, according to OnlyFans' British CEO Tim Stokely.
  
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• Flashback 2009: When WHO Was Pressured To Redefine ‘Pandemic’

  18-08-2021 15:32 via technocracy.news
  
  The word “pandemic” is an epidemiological term and traditionally had nothing to do with politics or virulence. Then the WHO changed the definition and set the stage for politicalization and weaponization against global populations. ⁃ TN EditorThe World Health Organization, whose duties include directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system, will soon be writing science textbooks.
  That statement isn’t true, of course. But it was
  
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• China reveals plans to launch a fleet of mile-long solar panels into space

  18-08-2021 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The solar panels will eventually produce a gigawatt of electricity, similar to the output of a nuclear power station, and send it to a base station in Chongqing City in southeast China.
  
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• Japan: Underwater volcano 745 miles south of Tokyo has created a new crescent-shaped island

  18-08-2021 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Niijima - 'new island' - has a diameter of 0.6 miles and has emerged 3.1 miles north of Minami-Iōtō, amid the Nanpō Islands that lie south of the Japanese archipelago.
  
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• Twitter tests 'misleading' post report button for first time

  18-08-2021 13:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Many large social media firms have been accused of not doing enough to fight the spread of disinformation.
  
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• China’s propaganda firehose is going after the BBC

  18-08-2021 13:09
  
  The alleged operation is pushing claims that the BBC is adding a “gloom filter” to its reports to make China look dull and lifeless
  
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• Cat-sized mammal that lived after the extinction of the dinosaurs is named after The Hobbit's Beorn

  18-08-2021 13:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysis of fossils unearthed in Wyoming's Great Divide Basin led to the discovery of three new creatures, including Beornus honeyi, that are the primitive ancestors of horses, cows and hippos.
  
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• Meet the wildlife photographer who's stuck on a game reserve in red-list Kenya - and loving it

  18-08-2021 11:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Felix Rome, from Salisbury, has been stuck at Governors' Camp in the Masai Mara since March this year when the country was added to the UK's red list.
  
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• Amazon Alexa: Woman used smart speaker to tell ex's lover to go

  18-08-2021 11:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Phillipa Copleston-Warren accessed her ex-partner's Alexa app and posted a naked photo of him.
  
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• New regulation could split bitcoin and DeFi in two

  18-08-2021 11:19
  
  An article in the US infrastructure bill led cryptocurrency to acquire a great marker of prestige: a lobby. But can it keep a united front?
  
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• Researchers launch clinical trial to see if aspirin could treat aggressive breast cancer

  18-08-2021 09:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers hope the cheap and widely available drug could work well when combined with immunotherapy for patients with triple negative breast cancer.
  
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• New study finds animals known to be infected with coronaviruses sold at Wuhan wet market for years

  18-08-2021 07:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from researchers in China, the UK and Canada found that more than 38 species of wild live animals were sold for food and as pets at a market in Wuhan linked to early COVID-19 cases.
  
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• They wanted big balls. This startup said it could help

  18-08-2021 07:00
  
  Microbiome science is booming, and Colorado-based UMZU is selling the dream of supersized testicles
  
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• A radical plan to treat Covid’s mental health fallout

  18-08-2021 07:00
  
  The NHS is trialling a new approach to tackling physical and mental health issues: ask what really matters
  
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• Couple's chance of having a baby falls by a THIRD when the potential father is over 50, study finds 

  18-08-2021 06:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Data from thousands of people undergoing fertility treatment allowed a team from the Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health in London to pin down the start of the male biological clock.
  
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• US lab stands on threshold of key nuclear fusion goal

  18-08-2021 01:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.
  
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• The little-known human stories behind emoji designs

  18-08-2021 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The surprising story of how some tiny characters ended up on billions of smartphone keyboards.
  
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