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• El Salvador is mining bitcoin using volcanic energy weeks after making cryptocurrency legal tender

  01-10-2021 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador has successfully mined 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, with geothermic power. The country made Bitcoin legal tender on September 7.
  
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• Keeping older vehicles longer instead of trading them in for all-electric models REDUCES emissions

  01-10-2021 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The average person holds on to a car for about seven years, but a new study finds that if do not swap it for an all-electric model and hold onto it 10% longer, they can dramatical reduce greenhouse gases.
  
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• History: X-ray scans uncover hidden messages shared between Marie Antoinette and her rumoured lover

  01-10-2021 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Paris's Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC) were able to distinguish between the inks used in the redactions and that of the underlying text.
  
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• 10-foot-tall Bronze Age geoglyph of bull found in Russia is 2,000 years older than Nazca lines

  01-10-2021 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists in Siberia have uncovered a large stone outline, known as a geoglyph, of a bull that dates back over 4,000. It's the first animal geoglyph discovered in this part of Central Asia.
  
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• Skull of 14th-century Byzantine warrior with fractured jaw threaded with gold uncovered in Greece

  01-10-2021 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The decapitated skull and jaw of a 14th century Byzantine warrior found in Greece indicate his jaw was broken and then wired with gold thread. Such rare care suggests the man was a high-ranking leader.
  
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• SpaceX's Dragon capsule looks like a shooting star as it causes sonic boom as it returned to Earth

  01-10-2021 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Residents in Georgia and Florida reported seeing a light streak across the sky around 10:30pm ET and hearing a sonic boom shortly after, all of which was SpaceX's Dragon returning to Earth.
  
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• Stunning carvings of human figures and heads are uncovered at Karahantepe

  01-10-2021 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  So far more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions have been found at Karahantepe, in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, along with many 3D human sculptures.
  
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• 60 of the best films on Netflix UK this week

  01-10-2021 18:04
  
  Stuck for a good film on Netflix? Here's our pick of the best Netflix movies to feast your eyes on, updated weekly
  
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• Flashback: Why Coronavirus Will Accelerate The Great Reset

  01-10-2021 17:51 via technocracy.news
  
  This chilling article is a must-read to understand why the pandemic is the ramrod for the Great Reset. One silver lining, it states, “is the chance to experiment with technologies and co-operative approaches across borders”.  Thus, the entire human race is seen their experimental laboratory to try out new technologies like genetic engineering, universal ID, etc.
  This article originally appeared in The Economist, one of the world’s leading publications on globalization. 
  
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• When Elon Musk Hooked Up With The Pagan Witch

  01-10-2021 17:28 via technocracy.news
  
  When Technocrat Musk met Transhumanist/occultist Grimes, they spawned a baby in 2020 whose given name is “X Æ A-XII”. Now a toddler, X Æ A-XII calls his mother by her birth name, “Claire”. Even though Musk and Grimes are recently separated, the connection has been forever established: Technocracy and Transhumanism are joined at the hip like Siamese Twins and shrouded in occult darkness.
  Grimes’ lyrics in the music video below correctly reveals the ultima
  
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• Ofcom approves Openreach fibre price cuts, angering rivals

  01-10-2021 17:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Independent fibre providers warn that the reduction in price could harm investment and competition.
  
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• London Slips Into Technocracy, Becomes Blueprint For The World

  01-10-2021 16:42 via technocracy.news
  
  The tiny City of London, just one square mile in size, is where all the banks and financial institutions are located. This is the yeast that leavens the whole lump of dough, as Greater London and all of England have slipped into Technocrat tyranny. National leadership reflected this with the elections of Theresa May and then Boris Johnson, both having succumbed to the forces of Techno-Populism. ⁃ TN EditorLast week we covered Telosa, a technocratic metropolis slated to be home to 5 mi
  
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• Dinosaurs: 16ft long beast roamed Brazil 70 million years ago

  01-10-2021 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kurupi itaata is a new type of abelisaurid, small-armed dinosaurs that thrived on the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana, and was discovered in Monte Alto in southeastern Brazil.
  
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• UN tool maps floods since 1985 to aid disaster planning 

  01-10-2021 16:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was created by the UN Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) in Hamilton, Canada, with support from Google, MapBox and other partners.
  
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• Nature: Seahorses can spring their heads up in 0.002 seconds to snag unsuspecting prey, study finds

  01-10-2021 15:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ambushing movements of seahorses were characterised using high-speed cameras and laser-scanning tech by researchers from Tel Aviv University.
  
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• DeepMind faces legal action over NHS data use

  01-10-2021 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A law firm is bringing the action on behalf of 1.6 million patients at the Royal Free NHS Trust.
  
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• Lime fights back against QR code snatchers

  01-10-2021 13:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company says vandals have been peeling off QR codes to render its vehicles useless.
  
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• Natural disasters may increase your risk of DEMENTIA, study warns 

  01-10-2021 13:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health and survey data on people living during the 2011 Japanese tsunami and earthquake was studied by experts from Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts.
  
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• Click News: A round-up of the best tech stories

  01-10-2021 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  LJ Rich looks at the week’s technology news including a cryptocurrency trading hamster.
  
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• UK.gov presents its National Space Strategy: Space is worth billions to us. Just don't mention Brexit, OK?

  01-10-2021 12:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  'Putting rocket boosters the size of Saturn V's F1 under Brit space biz.' Yikes. But where's the money, Boris? UK government has published its National Space Strategy [PDF], a document full of big ideas but according to some, no new funding.…
  
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• BepiColombo prepares for its first Mercury flyby tonight

  01-10-2021 12:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BepiColombo, which is made up of two science orbiters from the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will make its first flyby of Mercury at 00:34 BST on Saturday.
  
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• Earth is DIMMING due to climate change, study warns

  01-10-2021 11:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Decades of measurements of earthshine allowed the team from the New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a better picture of the impact of climate change on how much sunlight the Earth reflects.
  
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• Honda to build reusable rockets to sling sats, but won't scare SpaceX

  01-10-2021 07:05 via go.theregister.com
  
  Also plans remote-controlled robots with fingers and jar-opening capabilities, to help run a moon base Japanese auto-maker Honda has set its sights on developing its own rockets and running a satellite launch business.…
  
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• Abattoir labour shortage sees Yorkshire farmer kill piglets

  01-10-2021 07:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A lack of butchers has resulted in the supply chain between farm and supermarket becoming blocked.
  
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• This company is reinventing the lithium-ion battery

  01-10-2021 07:00
  
  Lithium-ion batteries will power the electric vehicles and wider energy revolution we need to tackle the climate crisis. But they need to get much better
  
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• This cargo ship runs on wind

  01-10-2021 07:00
  
  Cargo ships pump millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. From 2022, some will swap fossil fuels for wind power
  
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• FIFA 22 is a slow start to the future of football games

  01-10-2021 07:00
  
  FIFA 22 a perfectly good game – but you can’t shake the feeling that it could have been so much more
  
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• Cookstoves feed the world. But they’re also a killer

  01-10-2021 07:00
  
  Cookstoves and open fires are the main cooking and heating methods for three billion people globally. Each year, they cost millions of lives
  
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• Concrete is a climate disaster. It’s time to clean it up

  01-10-2021 07:00
  
  Producing the cement used to make concrete accounts for eight per cent go global greenhouse emissions. The material must mend its ways
  
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• Blue Origin employees complain of sexist culture that ignores safety concerns

  01-10-2021 03:13 via go.theregister.com
  
  At Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, billionaire egos create fear of flying A group of 21 current and former employees of Blue Origin, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’s rocketry side hobby, have penned an open letter that describes the company as fostering a sexist culture, intolerant of internal dissent, and sanguine about safety.…
  
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• Clean energy from the fastest moving objects on earth

  01-10-2021 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Why fusion promises clean unlimited energy and one firm hopes to spark it with high-speed collisions.
  
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