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• Amazon offers to pay college fees for 750,000 US staff

  09-09-2021 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The online shopping giant says all US frontline workers will be eligible as it fights to attract new employees.
  
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• Russian cosmonauts take five-hour spacewalk after smoke alarm goes off on their side of the ISS

  09-09-2021 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrovconducted a spacewalk Thursday after a smoke alarm went off in their part of the ISS, which NASA declared as a 'space emergency.'
  
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• The moon, Venus and binary star Spica will align in a triangle shortly after sunset TONIGHT

  09-09-2021 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  About 45 minutes after sunset, Venus will creep toward a crescent moon hanging in the northwestern region of the sky, where it will also join Spica - one of the brightest stars in the sky.
  
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• Orolia inks €70m deal to provide atomic clocks for second generation of EU's Galileo navigation satellites

  09-09-2021 21:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Time to hit the road Orolia – the Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) outfit with its European HQ in France – has won two contracts worth €70m to provide atomic clocks for the first 12 satellites of the Galileo Second Generation System (G2S).…
  
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• Remains of Great Synagogue of Vilna which was destroyed by the Nazis and Soviets are unearthed

  09-09-2021 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pair of staircases that can be seen in photos of the Great Synagogue of Vilna when it was active were uncovered, along with a stunning mosaic floor that forms a sun pattern.
  
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• World's biggest 'carbon-sucking' machine is switched on in Iceland

  09-09-2021 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $15 million 'direct air capture' (DAC) machine, created by Zurich-based company Climeworks, launched on Wednesday at the Hellisheiði Power Station, Iceland.
  
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• Facebook launches £299 SMART GLASSES with Ray-Ban

  09-09-2021 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Named Ray-Ban Stories, they cost £299 ($299) and come with dual integrated five megapixel cameras, a three microphone array and discreet open-ear speakers.
  
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• Dozy ISS cosmonauts woken by smoke alarm on eve of 5-hour spacewalk

  09-09-2021 18:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Air purified, everyone back to bed, says Roscosmos, studiously ignoring smoke, burning smell Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) had their preparations for an important spacewalk rudely interrupted early this morning when an emergency alarm woke them all up just before 2am UTC.…
  
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• Ray-Ban Stories: Facebook reveals its video camera glasses

  09-09-2021 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook and eyewear brand Ray-Ban have revealed a pair of glasses that contain two cameras.
  
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• Oysters are still plagued with abnormalities from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

  09-09-2021 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oysters collected within the spill zone of the Deepwater Horizon disaster had higher rates ofa condition that causes tissue abnormalities than those from a region unaffected by the oil spill.
  
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• Microsoft study says working from home stifles creativity and teamwork

  09-09-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Working from home makes employees 'more siloed in how they communicate' and forces them to engage in fewer real-time conversations, say a team at the Redmond, Washington-based firm.
  
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• Fossils: Squirrel-sized species from 54 million years ago had oldest cases of tooth decay in mammals

  09-09-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fossil specimens of the prehistoric primate - Microsyops latidens - were analysed by researchers from the University of Toronto Scarborough.
  
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• Technocrats Are Determined To Reduce Every Human To A QR Code

  09-09-2021 16:53 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocracy’s coup d’etat, in full swing, fully intends to flip the world into a Scientific Dictatorship where every human will be tracked, monitored and managed from cradle-to-cradle. The documentation about this is readily available and very clear. The only question is whether citizens will resist or not. ⁃ TN EditorWithout fanfare and with hardly a peep from the corporate-owned establishment media, the United Nations World Health Organization, also known as the WHO, issued a
  
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• All Federal Workers Will Be Forced To Take Vaccines

  09-09-2021 16:16 via technocracy.news
  
  The full force of Technocracy and Scientific Dictatorship has fallen upon America as Biden will announce that all Federal workers will be forced to be vaccinated, with no exemptions or exceptions allowed. The mandate will also likely fall on all contractors and sub-contractors doing business with the Federal government.
  This dystopian nightmare is the greatest national security threat in America’s history because it puts the health of the nation at risk. This is especially draconian in the
  
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• Polar bears are inbreeding because climate change is rapidly melting their habitat

  09-09-2021 16:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Polar bears are being forced to inbred in order to keep the population alive. This is due to climate change melting sea ice and leaving the bears isolated from outside groups.
  
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• IBM Colluded With Hitler, Now Leads In Making Vaccine Passports

  09-09-2021 15:54 via technocracy.news
  
  In 1932, IBM and the Technocracy movement shared the basement of Hamilton Hall, which is where Hollerith tabulator was developed. Both IBM and Technocracy played a role in Nazi Germany, but IBM’s involvement was unspeakable yet thoroughly documented. IBM is now the leader in promoting and developing vaccine passports! ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> Former Clinton adviser and author Naomi Wolf warns that mandatory COVID-19 passports will spell the “end of human liberty in the
  
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• People with more than seven hours of free time per day are less satisfied and happy, study finds

  09-09-2021 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After two hours of free time the increase in wellbeing levels off and by five hours it begins to decline, according to research by the American Psychological Association.
  
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• Archaeology: Irish Sea shipwreck identified as the minesweeper HMS Mercury that sank in 1940

  09-09-2021 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Built in 1934, Mercury served passenger routes on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, for five years before being requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper .
  
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• Astronomers capture best images yet of a bizarre DOG BONE-shaped asteroid

  09-09-2021 14:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The images were taken at different times between 2017 and 2019, with an international team led by the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California processing the pictures.
  
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• Robot vacuum cleaner trained to dodge pet faeces

  09-09-2021 14:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Owners have previously documented robots mindlessly spreading excrement as they "clean".
  
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• Tinder Explore lets users find matches based on common interests

  09-09-2021 12:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Explore allows users to search for matches who have interests in 15 categories - including Foodies, Gamers, Music Lovers, Social Causes and Entrepreneurs, the Los Angeles-based app said.
  
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• PayPal raises fees between UK and Europe

  09-09-2021 12:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  PayPal is bringing in a new fee for commercial transactions between the UK and EEA.
  
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• Facebook is accused of discrimination over male-targeted job adverts for mechanics and pilots

  09-09-2021 12:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based Global Witness claims Facebook may have breached discrimination laws and has filed complaints with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Information Commissioner.
  
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• Three brings in EU roaming charges and ends global scheme

  09-09-2021 12:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three is the third UK network to bring back roaming charges for the EU post-Brexit.
  
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• International Space Station: Smoke triggers alert on board

  09-09-2021 10:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The alarm went off as the space station's batteries were being charged, Russia's space agency says.
  
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• Artificial cell can be used to destroy germs such as E. coli and clean up pollution in water

  09-09-2021 09:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The cells are the size of a red blood cell and can be used to 'eat' bad bacteria such as E coli, deliver drugs to sites in the body and clean up pollution in water.
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope penciled in for launch this century. Yes, Dec 18, 2021

  09-09-2021 08:26 via go.theregister.com
  
  This thing better not explode on the pad The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to launch – surprise, surprise – a little later than expected. Space agencies in America, Europe, and Canada said on Wednesday they're now aiming for December 18, 2021 rather than October.…
  
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• How green is Scotland's space industry?

  09-09-2021 07:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's thriving space sector is trying to have a reduced impact on the planet.
  
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• Spain had a plan to fix the gig economy. It didn’t work

  09-09-2021 07:00
  
  Couriers say their working conditions are worse than ever as gig companies scramble to avoid calling them employees
  
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• How to lose that lockdown weight the right way

  09-09-2021 07:00
  
  These are the flexible dieting tips, training programmes and body measurements to focus on to get results
  
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• A strange Covid-19 origin theory is gaining traction

  09-09-2021 07:00
  
  A spate of studies claim that Covid-19 was circulating in Italy long before the pandemic. But they struggle to hold the theory up
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos fraud trial begins: Defense claims all she did was fail – and that's not a crime

  09-09-2021 02:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Her attorney argues she made mistakes ... like trusting her former partner and COO Sunny Balwani Attorneys representing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the US Justice Department presented their opening arguments on Wednesday in a federal court in San Jose, outlining how they intend either to clear or convict Holmes of conspiracy and fraud charges.…
  
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• Facebook accused of allowing sexist job advertising

  09-09-2021 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An investigation by Global Witness suggests its algorithm is biased in choosing who sees which ads.
  
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• The models that turned Instagram into their DIY catwalk

  09-09-2021 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New York Fashion Week marks a tentative return - but how did supermodels keep working through Covid?
  
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• The Kenyans who are helping the world to cheat

  09-09-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some Kenyans try to escape poverty by helping foreign students to fake their academic work.
  
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• UK 'cut climate pledges' to clinch Australia trade deal

  09-09-2021 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Government ministers agreed to cut climate commitments to clinch the deal it has emerged.
  
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• Climate change: Fossil fuels must stay underground, scientists say

  09-09-2021 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost 60% of oil and gas and 90% of coal must stay in the ground to keep global warming below 1.5C.
  
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• Scientists developing app that uses AI to diagnose what disease person has by listening to cough 

  09-09-2021 00:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have been recording millions of coughs on smartphone apps and training AI to identify what disease or condition someone one and say the AI may be able to pick up patterns.
  
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• Fed-up Midwest farmers can finally kill the black vultures preying on their cattle

  09-09-2021 00:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As black vultures are increasingly preying on calves and lambs, states in the Midwest are speeding up the permit process so farmers can legally kill the federally protected birds.
  
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