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• Seals could be hit by shrinking portion sizes as scientists warn climate change will hit prey

  01-09-2021 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Climate change will shrink the size and numbers of certain fish that seals feed on, forcing them to eat less fulfilling fish, with population figures dropping 50% by 2025, a new study suggests.
  
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• Twitter rolls out Super Follow feature that lets creators charge followers for exclusive tweets

  01-09-2021 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter has officially launched Super Follows, which lets creators charge $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 a month for exclusive content. The feature is currently only available on the Twitter iOS app.
  
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• Twitch streamers stage #ADayOffTwitch walkout to protest ongoing abusive 'hate raids' by trolls 

  01-09-2021 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Led by three streamers, the #ADayOffTwitch campaign calls for a 24-hour Twitch blackout to draw attention to attacks filling up some streamers' chats with hateful language and images.
  
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• Hubble Telescope takes photo of jet of blue gas that looks like light saber

  01-09-2021 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of a Herbig-Haro object that looks like a lightsaber from Star Wars, located in the Orion constellation.
  
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• Narcissists rise the ranks to become CEOs faster, study reveals

  01-09-2021 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Highly narcissistic individuals become CEOs quicker, regardless of whether the firm is a family business or not, researchers in Bolzano and Milan, Italy report.
  
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• Investigation into hacked "map" of UK gun owners

  01-09-2021 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Animal rights activists have published a "map" of thousands of gun owners and their addresses.
  
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• Wooden floors can harvest enough energy to turn on a light, study says

  01-09-2021 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A wooden 'nanogenerator' uses the energy from footfall to generate electricity, according to experts atETH Zurich in Switzerland.
  
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• Unknown ancient humans made elephant bone tools to carve meat 400,000 years ago

  01-09-2021 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ancient elephant bones excavated from a village on the outskirts of Romein the 1980s have since been re-analysed by a team from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
  
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• Apple Watches may get blood pressure sensor and fertility tool by 2022

  01-09-2021 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US tech giant is expected to release its seventh version of the Apple Watch in the coming weeks, but most of its planned health features are not expected until 2022 at the earliest.
  
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• Twitter tests safety mode feature to silence abuse

  01-09-2021 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Once enabled in settings, the new feature will automatically sniff out abusive tweets.
  
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• Wild cockatoos can make utensils out of branches to open fruit stones, study shows

  01-09-2021 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers found the birds, living on the Tanimbar Islands, a remote archipelago in Indonesia, made use of three different types of tools to get seeds.
  
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• Medieval Russians hid priceless horde of silver jewelry a century before the bloody Mongol invasion 

  01-09-2021 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A trove of bracelets, rings, and other 11th century Russian jewelry was discovered near the site of Old Ryazan. Experts say it was buried a century before the city's bloody Mongol siege in 1237.
  
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• Ultra-aggressive murder hornets attacked officials after they arrived to remove nest they'd built

  01-09-2021 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Washington state officials said that while eradicating the first Asian giant hornet nest of the season, the hornets attacked them and were 'more aggressive' than the ones seen last year.
  
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• Children's internet code: What is it and how will it work?

  01-09-2021 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ICO's Children's Code will make technology companies reassess how they offer services to children.
  
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• Babies laugh like chimps before learning to laugh like adults, study says

  01-09-2021 15:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Human babies laugh during both inhalation and exhalation - just like chimps, experts at Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered.
  
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• Hurricane Ida: Before and after images reveal devastation

  01-09-2021 15:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aerial photographs reveal damage and flooding in parts of Louisiana following Hurricane Ida.
  
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• International Space Station facing irreparable failures, Russia warns

  01-09-2021 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The majority of in-flight systems on the ISS have passed their expiry date, an official warns.
  
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• NASA shares footage of mysterious and 'incredibly rare' brown dwarf

  01-09-2021 14:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There might be more of these unusual 'stars' lurking in our galaxy thanpreviously thought, according to a study by astronomers at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
  
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• Clip reveals how tiny 'indestructible' tardigrades have a 'regular gait' similar to insects

  01-09-2021 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'One of the coolest - and initially most surprising - things about tardigrades walking to me was how... good they were at it,' said mechanical biologist Jasmine Nirody of Rockefeller University.
  
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• Arms not long enough to reach the plug socket? Room-wide wireless charging is on the way

  01-09-2021 11:41 via go.theregister.com
  
  Hold onto your hats, tinfoil brigade! Researchers in Japan have developed a means of wireless charging that would enable electronic devices to be pumped with power anywhere within a room.…
  
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• Majestic birds caught by the camera

  01-09-2021 10:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A selection of the winners in this year's Bird Photographer of the Year competition.
  
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• Women are turned on by macho men who mumble, study finds

  01-09-2021 10:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Males who mumble tend to be seen as more attractive by women, researchers at University of California, Irvine report.
  
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• This drag sail could prevent spacecraft from turning into long-term orbiting junk. We spoke to its inventors ahead of launch

  01-09-2021 09:26 via go.theregister.com
  
  Gadget due to be tested this week Video  Space-flight researchers are ready to test a prototype drag sail that could one day be used to prevent spacecraft turning into hazardous junk stuck for years in Earth's orbit.…
  
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• Climate change: Big increase in weather disasters over the past five decades

  01-09-2021 09:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Floods, storms and extreme events increase five-fold but the number of people dying in them fell.
  
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• They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s

  01-09-2021 07:00
  
  Hundreds of young people are displaying strikingly similar tic-like behaviours. But is it Tourette’s, or something more mysterious?
  
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• The UK thinks it can fix GDPR. It’s wrong

  01-09-2021 07:00
  
  The UK managed to get a data adequacy agreement with the EU. But its planned changes for GDPR could rip this apart
  
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• Speedy grocery delivery firms are racing to survive

  01-09-2021 07:00
  
  The likes of Getir, Gorillas, Weezy and Zapp are taking over our city streets. But on-demand grocery apps are really racing to be too big to fail
  
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• Why Are Crypto Leaders Embracing Transhumanism?

  01-09-2021 05:50 via technocracy.news
  
  Transhumanism seeks to ultimately conquer death by applying advanced technology to the human condition. Crypto leaders are typically young, but also thoroughly saturated with technology that seems to be attractive to the Transhuman movement, creating an interesting crossover. ⁃ TN Editor
  “Blockchain communities are embracing, and funding, life extension technologies. The link stretches back to the cypherpunks’ crossover with the transhumanists.”Ethereum co-founder Vitalik
  
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• Floating Wind Turbines Open Up Vast New Ocean Tracts For Renewable Energy

  01-09-2021 05:25 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats who control the alternative energy narrative invent because they can, not because there is a pressing need to do so. Putting giant floating wind turbines in the deep oceans of the north sea is a recipe for disaster and hugely expensive, compared to simple fossil fuel solutions. ⁃ TN EditorIn the stormy waters of the North Sea, 15 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, five floating offshore wind turbines stretch 574 feet (175 metres) above the water. The world&rsquo
  
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• The Curious Case Of FDA’s Approval Of Comirnaty

  01-09-2021 04:59 via technocracy.news
  
  The FDA has long been criticized for its “revolving door” with Big Pharma where top executives move back and forth in top positions. The case of FDA approval of BioNTech’s Comirnaty gene therapy injection abandoned all traditional precedents in pushing it through: incomplete data and trials, insufficient control group and no review board. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE
  August 23, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the COVID-19 mRNA injectio
  
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• Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her

  01-09-2021 02:56 via go.theregister.com
  
  Judge asks prospective jurors whether they have experience with intimate partner violence The long anticipated fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of biomed upstart Theranos, got underway in San Jose, California, on Tuesday with Judge Edward Davila asking prospective jurors whether they have experienced "intimate partner violence or abuse" or know anyone has.…
  
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• One in three trees face extinction in wild, says new report

  01-09-2021 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk around the world, including magnolias, oaks and maples.
  
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• Wildlife photo: Is this the world's most beautiful mosquito?

  01-09-2021 01:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Both beauty and beast. A Sabethes mosquito is visually stunning but it's also a carrier of disease.
  
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• More cracks found in Russian annex of the International Space Station

  01-09-2021 01:09 via go.theregister.com
  
  Head of Russia's segment says it's time for Roscosmos to build its own orbiting lab Cracks characterized as superficial by Russia have been discovered in the nation's portion of the International Space Station.…
  
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• Expectant mums face discrimination in the workplace, study finds

  01-09-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women who become pregnant face microaggressions, discrimination and harassment in the workplace, researchers at London South Bank University report.
  
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