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• Russia threatens criminal charges against NASA astronaut for 2018 ISS incident

  30-11-2021 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russia's space agency can now take legal action against NASA's Serena Auñón-Chancellor, who the nation claims drilled a hole in its Soyuz MS-09 vehicle that was docked with the ISS in 2018.
  
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• Twitter will remove images tweeted without consent

  30-11-2021 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Images or videos of private individuals posted without consent could be removed for violating rules.
  
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• The Escapist Fantasy of NFT Games Is Capitalism

  30-11-2021 20:59
  
  In blockchain-based video games like Axie Infinity, wealthier players are becoming bosses in a flourishing international labor market.
  
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• Twitter bans sharing photos and videos of people without their permission

  30-11-2021 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move is to cut down on hate and intimidation. Twitter is notrequiring consent from all individuals in a photo or video before its posted, but will take it down if a person shown requests it be removed.
  
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• Food: Kids who watch smiling adults eat vegetables consume more than DOUBLE the amount themselves

  30-11-2021 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The finding could help fussy eaters develop more of a taste for less popular vegetables and generally facilitate healthier eating in children,researchers led from Aston University have claimed.
  
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• Children engage more with stories if they're read from a real book, study claims

  30-11-2021 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Parents talked more to their children when reading them a real book, while youngsters also responded more than if a tablet was used, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.
  
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• New JELLY ice cubes that never melt and stay cold for 13 hours could revolutionize food shipping

  30-11-2021 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The innovation, called jelly ice cubes, stays cold for up to 13 hours and can be reused again - it just needs to be rinsed and placed back into a freezer. They also eliminate cross-contamination and mold.
  
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• 'Megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is among the most distant active comets, study claims

  30-11-2021 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein has been vaporizing carbon monoxide as it gets warmer during its approach of the sun, experts at University of Maryland report.
  
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• Historian: Elon Musk Was Shaped By Technocrat Grandfather, Science Fiction

  30-11-2021 16:49 via technocracy.news
  
  Now, a prominent Harvard historian sets the development of Elon Musk in proper historic context: raised in a technocrat home and steeped in science fiction. Musk is no leftist but his view of Utopia has more in common with Dystopia as he seeks to save the world by colonizing outer space. Yes, Musk is a Technocrat and he is reshaping the world. ⁃ TN EditorWhere does Elon Musk get his ideas from? What is he trying to achieve and who does he want to be? Many of us are desperate to unders
  
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• WHO Meets To Craft Global Pandemic Treaty With Teeth To Punish

  30-11-2021 15:44 via technocracy.news
  
  The World Health Organization already has broad influence over nations through bi-lateral agreements and memorandums, but it now seeks to consolidate its power by creating a global Treaty that would resemble the Paris Accord on Climate Change. Offenders would be queued up for punishment. ⁃ TN EditorWhen health ministers from around the world converge for a historic meeting this week, just one thing will be on the agenda.
  On Monday, the governing body of the World Health Organization&n
  
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• Synthetic Life: Living, Reproducing Xenobots 3.0 Designed By AI

  30-11-2021 15:24 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demonstrated need to do so. Synthetic life designed by AI is a holy grail of both Technocracy and Transhumanism, taking humanity closer to the Great Reset. It is not known what will happen when synthetic cells interact with organic tissue. ⁃ TN EditorIn a potential breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have created the first-ever living robots that can reproduce.
  The millimetre-sized living machines, called Xenob
  
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• UK competition watchdog orders Meta to sell Giphy

  30-11-2021 15:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The CMA rules Facebook's purchase of the vast Gif database unfair to competing social-media platforms.
  
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• Tech: SALT grain-sized camera can take crisp, full-colour images like 'lenses 500,000 times larger'

  30-11-2021 15:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ultra-compact optical device was developed by a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Washington.
  
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• Closest pair of supermassive black holes are spotted just 1,600 light years apart in the sky

  30-11-2021 14:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers detected the two objects using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile and said they were about 89 million light-years away from Earth.
  
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• You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

  30-11-2021 13:24 via go.theregister.com
  
  Broken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening NASA has delayed a spacewalk scheduled today from the International Space Station amid concerns about debris.…
  
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• Fossils: Huge swordfish-like creature swam the waters of what is now Colombia 130 million years ago

  30-11-2021 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fossilised remains that were unearthed near Villa de Leyva in Colombia's Boyacá department back in the 1970s were reanalysed by researchers from McGill University.
  
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• Europe Went Bananas for Gorillas. Then Its Workers Rose Up

  30-11-2021 13:00
  
  The delivery app raced to a $1 billion valuation, promising to transform a problem-prone industry. Striking riders say it’s no different from its peers.
  
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• More than 70% of small mammals have declined in the UK since 1970

  30-11-2021 12:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Weasels - Britain's smallest native carnivore -have halved in numbers over the past 50 years, according to a study by the Mammal Society, Sussex University and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
  
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• E-scooters in London: Met Police warn retailers not to exploit customers at Christmas

  30-11-2021 12:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of e-scooters ridden illegally have been seized by police in London so far this year.
  
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• Parag Agrawal: India celebrates new Twitter CEO

  30-11-2021 11:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parag Agrawal's appointment has made headlines in India where Twitter has over 30 million users.
  
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• Wood Wide Web: Scientists to map hotspots of fungal life

  30-11-2021 10:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The fungal networks in soil can help fight climate change but are under threat, experts say.
  
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• Hubble space 'scope brings its Cosmic Origins Spectrograph back online

  30-11-2021 07:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out NASA has successfully restored another instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.…
  
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• AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways

  30-11-2021 06:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords In January of 2020, scientists from the University of Vermont announced they had built the first living robots; this week they have published reports that those robots, made from frog cells and called Xenobots, can reproduce and have found a new way to do so.…
  
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• Jack Dorsey: What's next for Twitter's co-founder?

  30-11-2021 04:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The last time the tech visionary left Twitter, he set up another company now worth $100bn.
  
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• MI6 must adapt to new technology to survive, says spy chief

  30-11-2021 01:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Richard Moore says the secret service must partner with the private sector to find new technologies.
  
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• Just The (Actually) Good Cyber Monday Deals Still Live Today

  30-11-2021 01:28
  
  Don’t get lost in a desert of dodgy Cyber Monday discounts, welcome to WIRED’s oasis of delectable deals.
  
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• How a seaweed jab can beat agony of a slipped disc

  30-11-2021 01:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Animal studies have shown that, once injected into a damaged disc in the back, the gel hardens in less than five minutes, reducing pain by encouraging the growth of healthy new tissue.
  
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• Why broken African phones are shipped to Europe

  30-11-2021 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A lack of recycling facilities in Africa has spurred one Dutch company to import broken phones.
  
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