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• Thousand-year-old fish bones show native Canadians fished sustainably by releasing female salmon

  12-11-2021 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Before Europeans' arrival, the Tsleil-Waututh of British Columbia used sex selection when fishing to keep the population healthy. Only males salmon were taken - females were tossed back.
  
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• COP26: Climate talks into overtime as nations near deal

  12-11-2021 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Divisions remain over continuing subsidies for fossil fuels and financial help to poorer nations.
  
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• Rare 'earthgrazer' meteor flew 186 miles across Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee before vanishing

  12-11-2021 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An 'earthgrazer' meteor flew across the night sky in the southeastern US earlier this week, NASA announced. It became visible on November 9 and was spotted over Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
  
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• Rare 'earthgrazer' meteor flew 186 miles across George, Alabama and Tennessee before vanishing

  12-11-2021 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An 'earthgrazer' meteor flew across the night sky in the southeastern US earlier this week, NASA announced. It became visible on November 9 and was spotted over Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
  
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• Climate change is altering the bodies of Amazonian birds, study says

  12-11-2021 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Birds in the Amazon have become smaller and their wings longer over generations, say experts who studied data on 77 species captured over 40 years near Manaus, Brazil.
  
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• Exosuit uses ultrasound to 'profile' wearers' muscles to help walk in changing terrain

  12-11-2021 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A soft exosuit developed at Harvard reduced metabolic demand on wearers by nearly 16 percent. The suit uses ultrasound to swiftly image calf muscles and calibrate to the individual activity.
  
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• Engineer builds iPhone that uses USB-C charging and sells it for $86,000 on eBay

  12-11-2021 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An engineer has created a USB-C version of an iPhone X and sold it on eBayKenn Pillonel sold the altered device for $86,001, more than 80 times its original asking priceThe winner received a black iPhone X 64GB, along with a box, but no accessoriesApple has long resisted using USB-C charging on its devices, saying that having all devices with one charging option would stifle innovationThe European Union has introduced legislation that would mandate all device makers make USB-C standard
  
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• Geophysics: Intense pressurised conditions of Earth's outer core recreated in a LAB

  12-11-2021 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At the extreme pressures found at the bottom of the Earth's outer core, iron assumes a stronger form to cope with the stress in a process called 'twinning', researchers from SLAC have determined.
  
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• Earth's wobbly companion is probably the result of a lunar impact, reckon space boffins

  12-11-2021 18:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Reflected light points to Moon-like material on recently discovered rock A freshly discovered train-sized rock that tags along with Earth as a constant companion orbiting the Sun is most likely a fragment of the Moon resulting from an ancient lunar impact.…
  
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• Bizarre 'eggshell exoplanets' with a thin outer layer may exist, study finds 

  12-11-2021 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eggshell planets likely have an outer layer a few miles thick, are unlikely to have plate tectonics, and may not be habitable, report a team led by Washington University in St. Louis.
  
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• Astronomers find object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that is blocking cosmic rays

  12-11-2021 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers have discovered a presence at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that is blocking cosmic rays and they are not sure what it is just yet.
  
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• US President Joe Biden tightens restrictions on Huawei and ZTE

  12-11-2021 16:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new law stops companies judged to be a security threat receiving telecoms equipment licences.
  
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• TikTok is BACK! Hour-long outage left thousands of US users without access

  12-11-2021 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok has stopped working for many users in the U.S. on Friday, with more than 14,000 outages reported shortly after 9 a.m. EST.
  
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• Councils and police must 'weigh CCTV firms' human rights records'

  12-11-2021 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Surveillance camera watchdog's call follows MPs' plea for a ban on tech used in Uyghur camps.
  
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• As Vaccine Mandates Spread, Italy Shows What To Expect

  12-11-2021 15:43 via technocracy.news
  
  Medical Technocrats in Big Pharma have government leaders eating out of their hand as lockdowns and mandates expand for yet another season. People of the world are being levered into taking the shot, whether they want to or not, by disallowing personal freedom and privileges on a mass scale. ⁃ TN EditorItaly last month took a groundbreaking step for a Western democracy: Requiring the nation’s workers — public and private — to get government-issued health passes. The
  
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• TikTok is DOWN! Thousands of users in US report that the social media platform has stopped working

  12-11-2021 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok has stopped working for many users in the U.S. on Friday, with more than 14,000 outages reported shortly after 9 a.m. EST.
  
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• Singapore: No Free Healthcare For Those “Unvaccinated By Choice”

  12-11-2021 15:23 via technocracy.news
  
  Singapore’s health system is more complicated than “free” but it has opened pandora’s box to turn all those “unvaccinated by choice” into second class citizens. This is a not-so-subtle effort to force compliance. If personal health choices become the standard to judge who gets health care, then bodily sanctity is gone. ⁃ TN EditorSingapore’s government announced Monday that it would no longer cover the healthcare costs of unvaccinated COV
  
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• Whitehead: Metaverse Is ‘Freedom’ Meted Out By Technological Tyrants

  12-11-2021 15:08 via technocracy.news
  
  For anyone looking forward to experiencing the Metaverse, you have been warned. If you let your children participate in the Metaverse, you have been warned. If you think it’s just a game, an educational tool or a place for cheap entertainment, you have been warned. The Metaverse is a place where souls will be trapped and enslaved. ⁃ TN Editor“The term metaverse, like the term meritocracy, was coined in a sci fi dystopia novel written as cautionary tale. Then techies t
  
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• Whiitehead: Metaverse Is ‘Freedom’ Meted Out By Technological Tyrants

  12-11-2021 15:08 via technocracy.news
  
  For anyone looking forward to experiencing the Metaverse, you have been warned. If you let your children participate in the Metaverse, you have been warned. If you think it’s just a game, an educational tool or a place for cheap entertainment, you have been warned. The Metaverse is a place where souls will be trapped and enslaved. ⁃ TN Editor“The term metaverse, like the term meritocracy, was coined in a sci fi dystopia novel written as cautionary tale. Then techies t
  
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• Space: NASA's Juno spacecraft captures a stunning photo of 'mocha swirls' on Jupiter

  12-11-2021 14:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Juno - which is to continue studying Jupiter's atmosphere until 2025 - caught the breathtaking view during a flight over the mid-southern latitudes of the fifth planet in our solar system.
  
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• Apple to fix iPhone 13 Face ID screen repair glitch

  12-11-2021 14:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm promises a software update to enable unofficial repairers to replace broken iPhone screens.
  
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• Gmail is finally back up following a five HOUR outage

  12-11-2021 14:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gmail is finally back up, following a five hour outage that left frustrated users unable to send or receive emails.
  
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• Rare 'Henry VII half groat' is likely the oldest English coin found in Canada

  12-11-2021 14:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'major find' was minted in Canterbury, England more than 520 years ago, sometime between the years of 1493 and 1499, Government of Newfoundland reveals.
  
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• The Best Budget Watches

  12-11-2021 13:00
  
  No, you don't need to spend thousands to get a proper, fully automatic timepiece.
  
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• Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed

  12-11-2021 13:00
  
  The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?
  
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• Geology: Elusive crystal predicted decades ago is discovered inside a DIAMOND from the lower mantle

  12-11-2021 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The high-pressure form of calcium silicate perovskite was predicted in 1967 but never before seen in nature. Experts led from the University of Nevada found it within a diamond from Orapa Botswana.
  
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• E-Cigarettes Could Be the New Nicotine Patch

  12-11-2021 13:00
  
  England will allow doctors to prescribe vaping devices to people who want to quit smoking—if manufacturers can develop a product that works.
  
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• Look up next week! Leonids Meteor Shower will peak on Wednesday

  12-11-2021 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Leonids Meteor Shower is set to peak on Wednesday night and through to Thursday dawn, Royal Observatory Greenwich says.
  
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• £6,830 version of iPhone 13 Pro Max contains a fragment of a real 80 million-year-old T.REX TOOTH 

  12-11-2021 12:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based phone brand Caviar has unveiled a £6,830 version of the iPhone 13 Pro Max called the Tyrannophone, which features a fragment of a real 80 million-year-old T.Rex tooth.
  
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• Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it an Electron rocket descending to the ocean?

  12-11-2021 12:12 via go.theregister.com
  
  Everything but catching the thing: Rocket Lab prepares for recovery Interview  New Zealand's Rocket Lab is set to launch another Electron rocket - a precursor to the rocketeer's first attempt at catching a descending booster. The Register caught up with CEO Peter Beck to discuss helicopters, Mars and visiting Venus.…
  
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• Robot gives needle-free injections and other tech news

  12-11-2021 11:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  LJ Rich looks at the best of the week's technology news stories.
  
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• Eco-friendly greenhouses grow food with waste heat

  12-11-2021 11:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers are being grown with warmth harnessed from a water treatment works.
  
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• What is COP26 and what is being agreed at Glasgow climate conference?

  12-11-2021 11:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A crucial climate change summit is being held in the UK which could change our everyday lives.
  
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• Gmail is DOWN: Google's email service crashes for frustrated users around the world 

  12-11-2021 10:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, the issues with Gmail started at around 08:44 BST.
  
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• Fossilized cranium of 4.5 million-year-old elephant shows how it become the dominant speices

  12-11-2021 08:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossilized cranium is of a Loxodonta adaurora that lived 4.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya. And is the extinct cousin of the modern African elephant that dominates the country today.
  
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• COP26: Fear of failure on final day, and just how green was summit?

  12-11-2021 08:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Five things you need to know about COP26 - the United Nations climate change conference - on Friday.
  
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• COP26: Flooding lessons from Hull, a city below sea level

  12-11-2021 07:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hull has been at COP26 to share its innovative approach to tackling flood threats with the world.
  
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• How green was the COP26 climate summit?

  12-11-2021 07:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A report has suggested the carbon footprint of the Glasgow summit is more than double that of COP25.
  
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• Singles Day: Alibaba's annual event sees slowest ever sales growth

  12-11-2021 06:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's biggest online shopping event was muted this year amid a crackdown on technology firms.
  
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• COP26: Fear of failure as climate summit enters final day

  12-11-2021 02:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UN chief Antonio Guterres says the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C looks unlikely.
  
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• How high-speed electric vehicle racing is advancing tech

  12-11-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From rally cars to scooters new electric racing competitions are a test bed for new technology.
  
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• Seven ways to curb climate change

  12-11-2021 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What are the practical things countries need to do in order to tackle climate change?
  
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