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• UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice

  14-09-2021 23:36 via go.theregister.com
  
  First try had a habit of melting its mirrors, apparently DSEI 2021  The UK has awarded contracts for laser cannons to be fitted to tanks and warships, a mere five years after first bounding into the field of directed energy weapons.…
  
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• Apple Watch Series 7 with a 20% larger display and $399 price tag unveiled

  14-09-2021 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple Watch Series 7 has slimmer bezels allowing for a near all-screen designs that provides users with a 20% larger display than the Series 6. The Series 7 starts at $399 and will be available this fall.
  
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• Apple debuts $799 iPhone 13 including new PINK color option and battery that lasts 2.5 hours longer

  14-09-2021 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple debuted its iPhone 13 Tuesday that comes in a new pink color Thesmartphone features 2.5 more hours than its predecessor, a mew powerful camera and costs users just $799.
  
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• Apple unveils a $329 iPad that features the tech giant's new A13 Bionic Chip

  14-09-2021 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple hosted its annual fall event on Tuesday, which opened with the unveiling of a new iPad that is three times more powerful than a Chrome book and six times more than an Android Tablet.
  
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• Apple iPhone 13 brings portrait mode for video

  14-09-2021 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The portrait-mode style video setting can pull focus on its subjects automatically.
  
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• Here’s the new iPhone 13 and everything else Apple just announced

  14-09-2021 20:18
  
  Apple's biggest event of 2021 has revealed the iPhone 13, with a smaller notch and 120Hz for Pro models, and the Apple Watch Series 7. The new devices bring refinements over reimagination
  
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• Workplace cafeterias can cut portion sizes to help stop obesity, study suggests

  14-09-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Workplace cafeterias can cut portion sizes to help stop obesity, the study from University of Cambridge researchers suggests.
  
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• Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter

  14-09-2021 19:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine A group of boffins from the University of Manchester have proposed an innovative if unexpected way of creating structures for any future Mars colony: mixing the bodily fluids of the first colonists with Martian soil to create super-strength concrete.…
  
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• Homemade masks DO work - if they're cotton and three or more layers

  14-09-2021 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Homemade masks can stop the spread of COVID-19 if they are made of cotton and at least three layers, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science found after modeling synthetic cough droplets.
  
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• DNA analysis of prehistoric humans rarely mated with their cousins, study finds

  14-09-2021 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientist from Max Planck Society analyzed DNA from remains of 1,785 individuals and found only 54 of the subjects, or three percent, had the typical signs of their parents being cousins.
  
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• Israel-Palestinian Facebook posts need 'bias' review

  14-09-2021 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the recommendations from the Facebook Oversight Board after ruling on one such post.
  
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• Xiaomi debuts concept smart glasses that take photos, display notifications and have AR capabilities

  14-09-2021 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Xiaomi debuted a concept for a pair of smart glasses on Tuesday that makes calls, snaps pictures, displays notifications and text messages and provides AR graphics among the real world.
  
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• Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs shaped fortunes of snakes

  14-09-2021 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Snakes owe their success in part to the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
  
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• Neuroscience: People subconsciously sync their heart rates with the stories they listen to

  14-09-2021 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As long as they pay attention to the narrative, people's heart rates synchronise with the story they are listening to, researchers led from the Paris Brain Institute found.
  
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• Move over James Bond! World's first hands-free JETPACK prototype is unveiled

  14-09-2021 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maverick Aviation has developed a prototype for a device called the Maverick Jetpack, which it claims will travel at speeds of up to 30mph and could be ready by 2022.
  
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• UN Head Urgently States ‘We Need Multilateralism With Teeth’

  14-09-2021 16:49 via technocracy.news
  
  The head of the UN states, “We must make lying wrong again.” This global gaslighting is astonishing after the UN has amply displayed its own culture of continuous lies on every front, fabricating and corrupting data to show whatever emergency situation that drives their Technocrat agenda. ⁃ TN EditorU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as u
  
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• Whitehead: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex

  14-09-2021 16:22 via technocracy.news
  
  It’s not the structure of government that is the problem, but the lawless Technocrat thugs and criminals who have hijacked it for their own purposes, turning it against the purposes of the American people. The resulting evil has trickled down to the lowest elements of society. ⁃ TN Editor“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking l
  
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• After Vaccine Passports It’s ‘Personal Carbon Allowances’

  14-09-2021 15:55 via technocracy.news
  
  The pandemic and global warming hysterias are one and the same, emanating from the same crackpot Technocrats. Thus, just as vaccine passports are promoted to save us all from COVID, “Personal Carbon Allowances” (PCAs) will save us all from global warming. ⁃ TN EditorThe COVID-19 pandemic offered an unprecedented excuse for wannabe authoritarians to stifle liberty.
  To fight the virus, once unthinkable government controls abound. Entire economies have been shut down, businesses c
  
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• Climate change: North Atlantic jet stream could migrate north by 2060, leading to extreme weather

  14-09-2021 14:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having drilled into Greenland's ice sheets, experts led from the University of Arizona extracted a record of past weather conditions going back some 1,250 years.
  
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• Scientists reconstruct the face of a Neanderthal with a tumour above his eyebrow

  14-09-2021 14:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The reconstruction of a male Neanderthal called Krijn has been based on a solitary bone fragment of the brow, found in 2001 in Zeeland, the Netherlands by an amateur palaeontologist.
  
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• Why Iceland’s volcanoes may aid future Mars exploration

  14-09-2021 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists are using the country to test drone tech that could one day explore the planet's terrain.
  
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• Inspiration4: SpaceX's first all-civilian space mission is set for launch TOMORROW

  14-09-2021 10:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The historic mission, operated by billionaire Elon Musk's firm SpaceX, will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at around 8:02pm ET.
  
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• Climate change: Young people very worried - survey

  14-09-2021 07:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Over half of respondents in a survey believe humanity is doomed and governments are failing to act.
  
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• Instagram insiders reveal its growing TikTok turmoil

  14-09-2021 07:00
  
  As TikTok goes from strength to strength, Instagram is suffering from an identity crisis under the ever-closer control of Facebook
  
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• Germany is bracing for a major electric vehicle shock

  14-09-2021 07:00
  
  Volkswagen and the German car industry are retooling for a future without combustion engines. But thousands of smaller car-part makers fear for their future
  
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• Apple rushes to block 'zero-click' iPhone spyware

  14-09-2021 05:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The flaw allows hackers to access devices even if users do not click on a link or file.
  
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• Eye problems raise the risk of dementia by up to 60%

  14-09-2021 02:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients with deteriorating vision are more likely to end up with an impaired ability to remember, think or make decisions, researchers in China said.
  
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• Green jobs: The new generation of workers making it work for them

  14-09-2021 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Science editor David Shukman on three jobs in growing green industries, and what it's like to do them
  
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• NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day

  14-09-2021 02:08 via go.theregister.com
  
  Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though... NASA scientists can breathe a sigh of relief now that Perseverance has successfully collected not one but two Martian rock specimens, after its first attempt to obtain and store a sample failed.…
  
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• Life at 50C: The toxic gas flares fuelling Nigeria's climate change

  14-09-2021 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Joy and her family are among 2m Nigerians living within 4km of a gas flare in Nigeria's oil-rich south.
  
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• Why even giant ships can't solve the shipping crisis

  14-09-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A shortage of vessels is hampering global trade and may lead to empty shelves before Christmas.
  
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• Megapod of feeding humpback whales in Australia 'so special'

  14-09-2021 00:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 100 humpback whales have been filmed feeding off Australia's New South Wales coast.
  
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