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• Rogue planets could host life because they may have Earth-like oceans, study says

  29-09-2021 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rogue planets could host life in hidden 'Earth-like oceans,' as the cold of space would be too much for oceans to stay liquid, but a planet's biosphere would be protected from the cold via a layer of ice.
  
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• Smartphone sensors can be used to detect if you are high on marijuana with 90 percent accuracy

  29-09-2021 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An algorithm using GPS and movement data from a regular pot smoker's smartphone can determine if they are high with unerring accuracy, according to a report out of Rutgers University
  
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• Sunlight coming through Venus' clouds could support photosynthesis, make conditions ripe for life

  29-09-2021 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sunlight coming through Venus's clouds could support photosynthesis, resulting in the existence of microorganisms, researchers have suggested in a new study.
  
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• Human jawbone dating back 25,000 years is discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

  29-09-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sulawesi, the world's eleventh-largest island, is a key location in helping to understand how humans first came to the Wallacea region and then moved between islands, experts in Australia say.
  
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• Amazon launches IMDb TV streaming service in the UK

  29-09-2021 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Even if you aren't signed up to Amazon Prime Video, you can still access IMDb TV as long as you have an Amazon account, according to the Seattle-based tech giant, which owns IMDb.
  
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• BepiColombo prepares for its first Mercury flyby on Friday

  29-09-2021 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The probe will make its first flyby of Mercury at 00:34 BST on October 1, capturing images and science data during the approach of the closest world to the sun.
  
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• US declares 23 bird, fish and other species extinct

  29-09-2021 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ivory-billed woodpecker is among the 23 species listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
  
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• American bumblebee may be classified as an endangered species after 89% population decline

  29-09-2021 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service its considering putting the American bumblebee on the endangered species lists. The once-common insect's numbers have declined 89 percent in two decades.
  
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• Elon Musk blasts Jeff Bezos, saying 'you cannot sue your way to the Moon'

  29-09-2021 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Musk has made it clear he isn't happy Bezos keeps taking legal action to stop SpaceX projects, and made the latest comments during the 2021 Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California.
  
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• Mars' surface was carved by furious floods 3.5 billion years ago, study finds 

  29-09-2021 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Huge crater lakes on Mars overflowed with water 3.5 billion years ago, scientists from the University of Texas in Austin say. As it spewed out, water eroded the landscape, leaving deep river valleys.
  
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• DeepMind’s latest trick? Predicting the weather

  29-09-2021 17:01
  
  The Alphabet-owned company is setting its AI on predicting when it’s going to rain
  
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• Russia threatens YouTube ban for deleting RT channels

  29-09-2021 16:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  RT’s German channels were deleted by YouTube for breaching its Covid misinformation policy.
  
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• Kaboom: YouTube Bans ALL Anti-Vaccine Content

  29-09-2021 16:42 via technocracy.news
  
  “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” YouTube and Google are the self-declared arbiters of evil, not truth, and they say evil is any negative information about unapproved gene therapy injections. Consequently, thousands of legitimate doctors, scientists and health professionals are disenfranchised from the world’s largest video platform.
  YouTube’s parent, Google, has also de-ranked any material critical of injections or health policies. ⁃ TN EditorYouTube is t
  
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• NASA's Mars missions face a two-week blackout as the Red Planet is obscured by the sun

  29-09-2021 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rovers Perseverance (pictured) and Curiosity, as well as helicopter Ingenuity and the lander InSight, will all lose connection with Earth from October 2, the US space agency has announced.
  
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• NASA's Lucy mission will launch October 16 to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

  29-09-2021 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's mission to study the Trojan asteroids will launch on October 16, giving experts insight into how the planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they ended up where they did.
  
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• Italy Decrees That Companies Not Pay Unvaccinated Workers

  29-09-2021 16:14 via technocracy.news
  
  The cradle of Western civilization is now the cradle of outright tyranny. Italy is leading the way to crush freedom and liberty by forcing every citizen to be vaccinated and carry the “green pass”. Obey or lose your means of survival, namely your paycheck and your savings as you also pay huge fines for disobedience. ⁃ TN EditorThe Italian government has passed a decree applying to both the private and public sector ordering companies to withhold pay from workers who refuse to t
  
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• Bill Gates: The Figurehead of Modern Technocracy

  29-09-2021 15:59 via technocracy.news
  
  Bill Gates is a ruthless monopolist with visions of global dominance. His tentacles manipulate education, geo-engineering, climate, agriculture, population surveillance, genetics, medicine and governments. He is singularly the most important driver of the pandemic and mandated vaccine policies. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE–> After years of building a reputation as a “ruthless tech monopolizer,” Bill Gates 2.0 was launched with the creation of the Bill & Melinda Gat
  
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• Amazon's new robot Astro is deemed a 'disaster that's not ready for release' by its designers

  29-09-2021 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Alexa-powered household robot was unveiled by the Seattle-based retail giant as an autonomous device that can monitor a person's home while they are not there.
  
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• Amazon's algorithms taken to task in landmark bill

  29-09-2021 13:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warehouse workers can no longer be sacked for time off task if they have good reason to take breaks.
  
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• Scientists develop unbreakable glass inspired by seashells

  29-09-2021 12:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The glass and acrylic composite material, which 'offers a combination of strength, toughness and transparency, was designed by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
  
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• New species of dinosaur unearthed by Isle of Wight fossil hunters

  29-09-2021 12:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About 50 bones of the carnivorous dinosaurs are found on a beach in southern England.
  
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• Human lifespan: Scientists predict people will live to 130 within this century

  29-09-2021 11:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from HEC Business School in Montreal claim it may be possible to outlive Jeanne Calment (pictured), a French woman who died aged 122 years and 164 days in 1997
  
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• NASA halts Mars comms for two weeks as Sun gets in way of Red Planet

  29-09-2021 09:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Who wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise? Martian spacecraft will get a temporary break from their normal work schedules when NASA pauses sending any commands from mission control during the upcoming Mars solar conjunction.…
  
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• Air pollution causes almost 6MILLION premature births around the world every year, study finds

  29-09-2021 09:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global study found indoor cooking stoves was a leading factor in 6 million premature births around the world in 2019 with impact worst in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
  
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• This is why China finally killed its bitcoin boom

  29-09-2021 07:00
  
  Chinese authorities have tried to ban cryptocurrencies many times before. This time, it’s different
  
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• The nuclear submarine fight is totally pointless

  29-09-2021 07:00
  
  The Aukus pact’s new fleet of nuclear submarines may be completely obsolete by the time they dive below the waves
  
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• The BBC’s radical new data plan takes aim at Netflix

  29-09-2021 07:00
  
  The BBC’s R&D team has built experimental systems that pull in data from Netflix and Spotify. The goal? More personalisation
  
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• Lava from La Palma eruption hits the ocean

  29-09-2021 04:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Clouds of steam rise as the red-hot current makes contact with the Atlantic on the Spanish island.
  
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• Brexit paves the way for gene-edited crops

  29-09-2021 02:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministers will relax regulation of gene-edited crops to allow their commercial growing in England.
  
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• CEO Secrets: Don't fire staff for making mistakes

  29-09-2021 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tech firm CEO Jeff Lawson warns bosses not to make hasty judgements about their employees.
  
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