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• Facebook 'prioritises safety above profit'

  05-10-2021 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company rejects claims, made by an ex-employee to US Congress, that its products harm children.
  
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• Ancient ski trapped in Norwegian ice for 1,300 years is reunited with its counterpart found in 2014

  05-10-2021 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The long-lost ski was found seven years after its wooden counterpart was discovered at Mount Digervarden. Melting ice allowed experts to uncover the ski that had been trapped for 1,300 years.
  
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• D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer by 2024

  05-10-2021 22:25 via go.theregister.com
  
  And if it works, it's going into the cloud D-Wave calls quantum computers "solvers." And as with PCs today, these solvers are going to segmented into fast, faster, and fastest.…
  
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• D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer

  05-10-2021 22:25 via go.theregister.com
  
  And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024 D-Wave calls quantum computers "solvers." And as with PCs today, these solvers are going to segmented into fast, faster, and fastest.…
  
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• WASP-76b exoplanet where iron is vaporized and falls like rain is hotter than first thought

  05-10-2021 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Exoplanet WASP-76 b likely has a surface temperature hotter than 4,400°F, which scientists initially thought when it was discovered, according to a new study.
  
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• Facebook down: Zuckerberg apologises for six-hour outage

  05-10-2021 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Billions of users were affected by the outage - which also took down Whatsapp, Messenger and Instagram.
  
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• NASA will launch its mission to deflect an asteroid from hitting Earth in November, agency says

  05-10-2021 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's mission to deflect an asteroid using a spacecraft is targeting a November launch, asthe DART spacecraft will head towards the Didymos binary on November 24 aboard a SpaceX rocket.
  
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• 'The buck stops with Mark' - whistleblower blasts Facebook's aversion

  05-10-2021 20:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Frances Haugen said Facebook researched youth addiction, yet did not act, in order to save profits.
  
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• Triceratops' 'lost relative' that lived in New Mexico is named after CNN founder Ted Turner

  05-10-2021 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The dinosaur, named Sierraceratops turneri, roamed was name after Ted Turner, founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), who owns the ranch where the fossils were discovered.
  
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• Water industry calls for cleaner bathing rivers, amid fears over raw SEWAGE overflow

  05-10-2021 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The proposal, set out by industry body Water UK, would see safer inland bathing areas created, meeting higher water quality standards.
  
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• Facebook and Instagram outage: How did it affect influencers?

  05-10-2021 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Influencers react to Monday's social media outage.
  
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• Near-earth asteroids that are almost entirely of metal could be mined for their resources: study

  05-10-2021 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two near-Earth asteroids that rich in metals, including one that could be worth $11 trillion, may eventually be mined for their resources, scientists said in a new study.
  
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• Cyber Polygon? Facebook Outage May Foreshadow Pearl Harbor-Like Attack

  05-10-2021 18:14 via technocracy.news
  
  Cyber Polygon is a project of the World Economic Forum and has been likened to Event 201 that seemingly scripted the COVID-19 pandemic. Cyber Polygon focuses on the response to a global cyber event where major portions of the Internet are shut down by hackers.
  According to the WEF’s website,
  This year discussions during the live-streamed conference will centre on secure development of ecosystems. With global digitalisation further accelerating and people, companies, and countries becoming
  
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• Russian film team boldly shoot towards space station

  05-10-2021 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An actress and film director dock with the International Space Station in a first for Russia.
  
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• UAE announces its next interplanetary mission to VENUS

  05-10-2021 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The UAE spacecraft, due to be launched to Venus in 2028, will later study the asteroid belts between Mars and Jupiter before landing on an asteroid 350 million miles from Earth in 2033.
  
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• Apple remembers Steve Jobs on the 10th anniversary of his death with a homepage takeover

  05-10-2021 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is remembering its late co-founder Steve Jobs on the 10th anniversary of his death with a homepage takeover that showsvide of Jobs, along with a heartfelt statement from his family.
  
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• Biden’s Attorney General ‘Weaponizes’ DoJ Against Dissenting Parents In Response To The National School Boards Association Request

  05-10-2021 17:38 via technocracy.news
  
  Just one day after the NSBA ask for federal law enforcement protection against parents who are angry with school boards over mask and vaccine mandates, the DOJ agrees to “protect”. This is a blatant and coordinated effort to silence free speech and political opposition of dissenting parents.
  The NSBA is not a government organization! Rather it is a non-profit private-sector NGO, and yet it is instrument that is weaponizing the federal government against citizens. The NSBA website is
  
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• Worm mothers secrete a milk-like fluid through their vulva to feed their young

  05-10-2021 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The selfless and sacrificial act helps to explain a number of mysteries about the biology of ageing in the nematode worm, experts at the University College London's Institute of Healthy Ageing said.
  
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• What happened to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram?

  05-10-2021 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook has apologised after it stopped working for users around the world for several hours.
  
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• Here Is The Web Of Technocrat Propagandists Who Silence Truth

  05-10-2021 16:27 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrat propaganda has risen to levels never seen before as multiple propagandist giants band together to blanket the the world with false and fabricated narratives. Obscuring truth, shaming and marginalizing detractors, slandering, and defaming are a few of their tools used to promote their narrative while denying all others the ability to refute. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> The Publicis Groupe, a leading worldwide PR firm, represents major companies within the technology, pharmac
  
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• Space tourism firm will offer balloon flights to the stratosphere by 2024

  05-10-2021 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World View Enterprises is working on the balloon-based system in Arizona, where it says it will be able to take people up to an altitude of 100,000ft or 18 miles.
  
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• Birds have moved closer to human-inhabited areas like highways and airports during the pandemic 

  05-10-2021 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The vast majority of birds have moved significantly closer to areas inhabited by humans during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study - and scientists are not sure why.
  
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• NIH Director Collins Resigns Over Gain-Of-Function Lies

  05-10-2021 15:57 via technocracy.news
  
  One top medical Technocrat bites the dust in shame as he resigns after 10 years of leadership at the National Institute of Health. Along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Collins was up to his eyeballs in denials of funding gain-of-function research for coronavirus in the US and China. Fauci seems to be more thick-skinned than Collins, resisting demands to resign. ⁃ TN EditorFrancis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced his resignation on Tuesday, just weeks after d
  
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• Why Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger went down worldwide

  05-10-2021 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook, which is based in California, said the problem was caused by a faulty update that was sent to its core servers, which effectively disconnected them from the internet.
  
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• Italian researchers' silver nano-spaghetti promises to help solve power-hungry neural net problems

  05-10-2021 12:23 via go.theregister.com
  
  Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain Researchers in Italy have developed a physical system to mimic properties of human brains that they hope will massively reduce the power costs of neural networks fundamental to AI development.…
  
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• Giant three tonne HIPPOS roamed Britain one million years ago

  05-10-2021 12:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered a tooth in a cave in Somerset, which belonged to a giant hippo called Hippopotamus antiquus, and dates back around one million years.
  
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• Nobel in physics: Climate science breakthroughs earn prize

  05-10-2021 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The physics Nobel has been given for work to understand complex systems such as the Earth's climate.
  
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• The race to grab all the UK’s lithium before it’s too late

  05-10-2021 07:00
  
  Two companies are convinced that the historical mining region of Cornwall holds a bounty of lithium, but first they need to get to it
  
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• Sex in the lab may save coral reefs. But at what cost?

  05-10-2021 07:00
  
  Conservationists hope that playing matchmaker with reef reproductive material can slow the impacts of climate change
  
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• Eco-feminists are tackling climate change head on

  05-10-2021 07:00
  
  A protest movement founded in Uganda in 2016 has exploded into a 7,000-strong force of eco-feminists to be reckoned with
  
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• A simple climate crisis solution? Plant trees

  05-10-2021 07:00
  
  One of the most obvious climate solutions is still one of the most effective, but fresh water and seed availability pose challenges
  
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• COP26: The sculpture created from 1765 Antarctic air

  05-10-2021 02:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Antarctic snowfall two-and-half centuries old forms the basis of a new artwork by Wayne Binitie.
  
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• The flood that drowned American dreams

  05-10-2021 01:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Immigrant deaths in New York's floods lay bare the 'climate apartheid' wrought by extreme weather.
  
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• Facebook and Instagram begin to restore service after SEVEN HOUR global outage

  05-10-2021 01:44 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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• Should you date someone based on their music taste?

  05-10-2021 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Finding love through music, the app matching-up couples based on their 'emotional profiles'.
  
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• Windows 11 launches with redesigned start menu

  05-10-2021 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's latest operating system is being offered as a free upgrade from Tuesday.
  
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• Facebook and Instagram begin to restore service after six hour global outage but WhatsApp still down

  05-10-2021 00:40 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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