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• Astronomers say newly discovered asteroid is also a comet because it contains 'icy material'

  04-10-2021 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Planetary Science Institute says a newly discovered asteroid is also a comet. 'It is likely icy and is ejecting dust into space, even though it also has the orbit of an asteroid,' said astronomer Henry Hsieh.
  
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• Apple Watch Series 7 pre-orders are starting THIS Friday, launching October 15 

  04-10-2021 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple announced on Monday that its Apple Watch Series 7, which starts at 399, will be available for pre-order starting Friday, October 8 and in store on October 15.
  
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• Apple lets users report fraudulent apps with new 'Report a Problem' button

  04-10-2021 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Free apps that offer in-app-purchases now include a 'Report a Problem' option. iOS users can also select a specific reason to why they are reporting the app, such as it has quality issues.
  
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• Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp all down in global outage

  04-10-2021 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Between 11.50am EST and 11.52am EST, Facebook made a series of updates which caused it to 'disappear' from the internet, according to the Chief Technology Officer at CloudFare.
  
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• Boy, 6, finds mastodon tooth while hiking at Michigan's Dinosaur Hill Nature Preserve

  04-10-2021 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A six-year-old boy has discovered a fossilized tooth of a mastodon, roughly the same size as a human hand, at a nature preserve in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
  
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• X-rays of 390-million-year-old trilobite fossil show it had hundreds of tiny eyes inside each eye

  04-10-2021 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After a half-century, German researchers have proven an amateur paleontologist's theory that a 390-million-year-old trilobite had hyper-compound eyes, with 100s of lenses in each.
  
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• Exposure to deadly urban heat has TRIPLED worldwide since the 1980s

  04-10-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The worst-hit city is Dhaka, the fast-growing capital of Bangladesh, which has seen a huge rise in urban heat over the past 40 years, experts at Columbia University's Earth Institute said.
  
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• Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp all down after changes to DNS systems

  04-10-2021 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Between 11.50am EST and 11.52am EST, Facebook made a series of updates which caused it to 'disappear' from the internet, according to the Chief Technology Officer at CloudFare.
  
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• Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Amazon Web Services are down along with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon

  04-10-2021 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T - all major cellular services - crashed around 11:30am ET, leaving tens of thousands of users worldwide without service.
  
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• Number of people killed while taking selfies triples after lockdowns lift

  04-10-2021 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As pandemic lockdowns ease, the number of selfie deaths has leaped from seven in 2020 to 24 in the first three-quarters of 2021. India has seen the most selfie deaths by far, with over 180 since 2011.
  
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• Hubble Space Telescope takes stunning snap of NGC 5728 galaxy that has 'celestial eye'

  04-10-2021 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an image of galaxy NGC 5728, 130 million light-years from Earth. It is a Seyfert galaxy, which are 'powered by their active cores.'
  
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• Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T are DOWN, leaving thousands without mobile internet and phone services

  04-10-2021 19:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T - all major cellular services - crashed around 11:30am ET, leaving tens of thousands of users worldwide without service.
  
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• Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram suffer outage

  04-10-2021 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Social media sites owned by Facebook were knocked offline on Monday, tracking sites showed.
  
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• Melting Arctic permafrost could unleash Cold Ware era nuclear waste and antibiotic-resistant viruses

  04-10-2021 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Up to two thirds of the Arctic's permafrost could be lost by 2100 due to climate change, which could release Cold War era nuclear waste and deadly viruses into the atmosphere.
  
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• Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule

  04-10-2021 18:23 via go.theregister.com
  
  William Shatner joins crew for Bezos' number two The game of billionaire one-upmanship has continued with the confirmation that Blue Origin's next flight of its New Shepard sub-orbital capsule will contain veteran actor William Shatner.…
  
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• Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are DOWN

  04-10-2021 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, the issues started at around 16:44 BST, and are affecting users globally.
  
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• Drugs didn’t help her depression. Brain-zapping did

  04-10-2021 17:57
  
  For decades, scientists have unsuccessfully tried to prove that zapping the brain can treat depression. The results of an ongoing deep brain stimulation trial hint that it could work
  
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• National School Boards Association Asks Biden For Protection From “Extremist” Parents Angry Over Mask And Vaccine Mandates

  04-10-2021 17:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Elected school boards are whining to the federal government for protection from parents who are angry over their mask and vaccine mandates and Critical Race Theory curricula. This is equivalent to the President ordering the military to crush political opposition in order to remain in office.
  Thus, it is the NSBA that is promoting extremist and domestic terrorism policies, not the parents who elected the school board officials in the first place. The First Amendment guarantees the right to &ldquo
  
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• Self-driving Citroën Skate has swappable passenger pods that can be installed in 10 seconds

  04-10-2021 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French automaker Citroën has unveiled the Skate, a driverless electric transport with three modules - including a luxury banquette and a fitness pod - that can be swapped in 10 seconds.
  
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• US Air Force's ultra-secretive X-37B plane has now spent 500 days in orbit

  04-10-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B robotic space plane recently surpassed 500 days flying around Earth after it took from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in May 2020.
  
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• Depression: Woman, 36, shows 'rapid improvement' with brain-zapping device

  04-10-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 36-year-old, Sarah, had already been unresponsive to multiple antidepressant combinations and electroconvulsive therapy, researchers in San Francisco report.
  
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• Apples: Mathematical analysis reveals how the apple gets its shape

  04-10-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apples are relatively spherical apart from the dimple, prompting experts from Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts to find out exactly how they grow the way they do.
  
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• Captain Kirk: Bezos' Blue Origin to send William Shatner into space

  04-10-2021 16:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk, is set to become the oldest person to fly to space.
  
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• All UK's electricity will come from clean sources by 2035, says PM

  04-10-2021 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson says the UK can get all its electricity supply to "complete clean energy production" by 2035.
  
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• Chinese space tourism firm's rocket appears to be inspired by SpaceX and Blue Origin's spacecraft 

  04-10-2021 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CAS Space, a commercial offshoot from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, unveiled renders of its space tourism rocket that looks similar to Blue Origin's New Shepard and SpaceX's Starship rocket.
  
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• More than half of UK children have used PayPal or Apple Pay to buy online without parent permission

  04-10-2021 16:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British kids are using their parents' Apple Pay and PayPal accounts, as well as debit cards, without permission, a new survey from Weybridge, Surrey-based firm Panda Security reveals (stock image).
  
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• Huntington Beach: California oil spill sparks concern for wildlife

  04-10-2021 16:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The spill has been described by one official as a potential ecological disaster.
  
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• Susan Rice Surfaces Again To Save Biden’s Agenda

  04-10-2021 16:09 via technocracy.news
  
  Former member of the Trilateral Commission and Biden’s top lieutenant is scrambling to save Biden’s agenda – or is it Rice’s agenda on behalf of her Great Reset handlers? Perhaps both, as she is increasingly seen as being the only adult in the room and behind-the-scenes master of the Biden Administration. ⁃ TN EditorThe White House deployed Susan Rice to Capitol Hill late Thursday evening to help push President Joe Biden’s agenda through Congress.
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• Having high blood pressure in your 30s raises your risk of developing dementia by 60%, study warns

  04-10-2021 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Team of Australian and Chinese doctors found Brits with high blood pressure in their 30s and 40s are 61% more likely to get dementia later in life and they also experience brain shrinkage.
  
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• Star Trek icon William Shatner will become the oldest person ever to visit space

  04-10-2021 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blue Origin confirmed Star Trek actor William Shatner will be a part of the company's next space tourism flight later this month, becoming the oldest person to visit space.
  
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• Whitehead: Are Government Roundups Of Resistors In Our Future?

  04-10-2021 15:31 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocracy and the surveillance state it has created has one main natural enemy: unpredictability. What is predictable is marketable. What is not predictable spoils the predictability of the herd, and hence, marketable profits. Thus, taking the unpredictable, the non nudge-able, the narrative spoilers, etc., out of circulation makes perfect sense.
  Resistors are not targets just because of political ideology, but rather because they choose to operate outside of the Technocrat narrative, and henc
  
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• SpaceX's all-civilian crew gets their astronaut wings

  04-10-2021 15:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mission 'commander' Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux and Chris Sembroski received their astronaut wings in a presentation at SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
  
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• ESA and JAXA release Mercury eyecandy, courtesy of spacecraft BepiColumbo

  04-10-2021 14:13 via go.theregister.com
  
  Fourth of nine scheduled planetary assists completed as spacecraft inches closer to releasing its orbiters The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) joint mission BepiColombo sent back its first photos of Mercury on Friday as it completed the fourth of nine planetary flybys enroute to study the solar system's smallest and innermost planet.…
  
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• Dozens of near-Earth asteroids formed from the breakup of a comet 20,000 years ago, study finds

  04-10-2021 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studying the various objects within the 'Taurid complex' allowed astronomers from the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, to further understand theirorigin.
  
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• The best tech and design in 2021

  04-10-2021 12:13
  
  The most essential tech of 2021 across rides, home, adventure and more
  
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• Mature trees can boost the amount of CO2 they absorb, study finds

  04-10-2021 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mature oak trees will increase their rate of photosynthesis by up to a third in response to the raised CO2 levels expected in 2050, University of Birmingham experts report.
  
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• Making Facebook safer means less money - whistleblower

  04-10-2021 11:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Frances Haugen tells CBS that changing the algorithm would mean people spending less time on the site.
  
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• Around 3,760 TONNES of plastic debris are currently floating in the Mediterranean

  04-10-2021 11:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A model to track the pathways of plastic debris from land-based sources in the Mediterranean Sea has been created by experts from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Greece.
  
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• Sharing food on Instagram and other social media sites is bad for your waistline, claims new study 

  04-10-2021 08:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Georgia Southern University in the US have found that sharing snaps of tasty treats on sites such as Instagram before tucking into them could be bad your waistline.
  
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• Direct air capture sucks carbon right out of the skies

  04-10-2021 07:00
  
  Climeworks opened the largest carbon capture plant in Iceland this year, but it’s not a magic solution to emissions
  
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• Deep in the Arctic, a town fights for zero emissions

  04-10-2021 07:00
  
  Svalbard’s Longyearbyen is feeling the brunt of the climate crisis, and wants to set an example for how to handle it
  
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• Frances Haugen: Facebook whistleblower reveals identity

  04-10-2021 05:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook ex-product manager Frances Haugen says the company prioritises "growth over safety".
  
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• A Barbie doll likeness of astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is sent on a zero-g flight

  04-10-2021 01:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The trip on the 'vomit comet', which provides 20 seconds of near-weightless as the plane enters freefall before pulling up again, marks the start of World Space Week.
  
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• The classic cars being converted to electric vehicles

  04-10-2021 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Historic cars are being retrofitted with recycled electric motors and batteries.
  
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• Life at sea by world's largest offshore wind farm in North Sea

  04-10-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fancy a job with great sea views? Meet the engineers who maintain 174 turbines in the North Sea.
  
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