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• Why your Christmas tree will cost a lot more this year: Climate change damages 10% of mature firs

  01-12-2021 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The heat dome that trapped scorching temperatures of up to 117 degrees Fahrenheit over the Pacific Northwest destroyed thousands of Christmas trees se for this holiday season.
  
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• 2021 hurricane season was third most active

  01-12-2021 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season has now officially ended, and it's been the third most active on record.
  
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• New eco-friendly plastic made of SALMON SPERM is created in China

  01-12-2021 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The plastic uses DNA from the salmon sperm, combined with vegetable oil. This mixture creates a soft gel that can be fashioned into different items - all of which can be recycled.
  
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• Match settles legal fight with Tinder founders for $441m

  01-12-2021 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dating app Tinder's founders claimed in court that Match had undervalued the firm by $10bn in 2017.
  
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• Scientists build robot that uses CCTV cameras to determine if people are social distancing

  01-12-2021 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A research team at the University of Maryland has invented a system that uses AI, CCTV cameras and thermal imaging to detect social distancing breaches and to inform people of them.
  
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• Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

  01-12-2021 20:05 via go.theregister.com
  
  Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module Russian news agency TASS has reported that a chunk of a US Pegasus carrier rocket is due to whizz past the International Space Station (ISS) at a minimum distance of 5.4km this week.…
  
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• Engineers create robotic bird that can grasp branches

  01-12-2021 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SNAG (stereotyped nature-inspired aerial grasper) replicates the impressive grasp of peregrine falcons, researchers at Stanford University report.
  
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• 18 Hours of Omicron Chaos at Schiphol Airport

  01-12-2021 19:47
  
  On November 25, two planes took off from South Africa for Amsterdam. By the time they landed, the Omicron variant had thrown the world into chaos.
  
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• New Biden-era space policy will focus on defending the US and orbital climate change monitoring

  01-12-2021 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris' Office released a new framework for US space policy on Wednesday that keeps much of the Trump administration's priorities like the Artemis program.
  
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• Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy

  01-12-2021 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company had blocked searches for the US teen - and removed praise and support for him
  
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• Burned human remains are found at Spanish conquest-era Century Aztec altar in Mexico City

  01-12-2021 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An alter has been found in Mexico City that was built by the Aztecs in the 16th century. A pot containing burned human remains was also found, suggesting the ashes were from a human sacrifice.
  
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• Memorabilia dealer to fly diamonds on ISS and sell them for £33,700 

  01-12-2021 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Diamonds will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, in September 2022. They will be returned to customers in June 2023.
  
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• New dinosaur species with an armoured tail roamed Chile 75 million years ago

  01-12-2021 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fossils of the new species - called Stegouros elengassen - were found in the Magallanes Region of Chile at the southermost tip of South America.
  
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• Scientists claim big advance in using DNA to store data

  01-12-2021 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists say they have made a major step forward in storing information in molecules of DNA.
  
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• Mysterious footprints discovered in Tanzania were left by early humans 3.7 million years ago

  01-12-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Evidence of a big toe and large heel in the fossilised impressions, discovered at a site in Laetoli, Tanzania in 1976, helped Ohio University researchers classify them as belonging to an unidentified hominin.
  
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• The ultimate gift for gamers? Microsoft launches a £58 Minesweeper-themed 'ugly Christmas jumper'

  01-12-2021 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you have a keen gamer in your life, Seattle-based Microsoft may have just the thing for them, having launched a new 'ugly Christmas sweater.'
  
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• How Science Will Solve the Omicron Variant’s Mysteries

  01-12-2021 16:32
  
  So far, panic about the mysterious new Covid variant has outpaced actual information. Here’s what scientists around the world are trying to uncover.
  
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• Big Pharma Singles Out, Hunts Down Dissenting Doctors

  01-12-2021 16:27 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats at Big Pharma cannot tolerate dissenting doctors, especially those who have successfully treated COVID with early therapies. Thus, they are using every possibly lever to destroy their careers and silence them. This anti-competitive practice could be stopped by local, state or federal government and/or courts, but they are silent. This highlights that it is Technocrats who are in control now, not government.
  Is this behavior legal? Absolutely not. When a local business is targeted and
  
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• Nature: Risso's dolphins perform twisting dives that let them 'drill' deep through the water

  01-12-2021 16:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After spotting the dolphins turning at the water's surface before diving, experts led from the University of Amsterdam studied seven of the mammals as they dived off the coast of the Azores.
  
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• Microsoft Edge buy now pay later scheme met with criticism

  01-12-2021 15:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Its Edge browser has added a credit scheme - which users have labelled as "exploitative".
  
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• Los Angeles Enforces Vaccine Mandates For Indoor Businesses

  01-12-2021 15:34 via technocracy.news
  
  Los Angeles is another glaring example of lawlessness as it uses vax mandates to crush small businesses and further polarize its citizens. It criminalizes the unvaxxed by forcing them to “show their papers” to participate in the economic system; “no shoes, no shirt, no vaccine, no service.”
  The medical Technocrat world must be stopped and rejected while there is still time to do so. Businesses and consumers alike must stand up and tell their city’s tyrants that they
  
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• Federal Judge Rejects DOD Claim That Pfizer EUA and Comirnaty Vaccines Are ‘Interchangeable’

  01-12-2021 15:19 via technocracy.news
  
  When the FDA approved Comirnaty on August 23, +I wrote the next day, FDA/Media Shell Game: Pfizer ‘Vaccine’ Was Not Approved After All and concluded, “The FDA and Pfizer have just played a shell game that leads the world to think that the Pfizer drug has been approved, but it clearly has not!” Now a federal judge has said exactly the same thing: the Pfizer EUA and Comirnaty shots are NOT “interchangeable”.
  The shell game be played by the FDA, Big Pharma,
  
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• Spotify launches personalised Wrapped playlists for 2021 

  01-12-2021 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The playlists showcase your most played songs, albums, artists and podcasts of the year, as well as the top tunes of Spotify's 381 million users worldwide.
  
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• Twitch unleashes AI tool to spot banned users

  01-12-2021 14:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twitch's suspicious-user detection system uses machine learning to spot those trying to evade bans.
  
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• Climate change: Rainfall could replace snowfall in the Arctic by 2060, study warns

  01-12-2021 13:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Arctic is known to be warming faster than most other parts of the globe, producing significant environmental shifts in the region which will only worsen.
  
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• Researchers Have a Method to Spot Reddit’s State-Backed Trolls

  01-12-2021 13:00
  
  Academics claim they can sniff out the telltale signs of troll-like behavior. But is it really as simple as monitoring cute animal postings?
  
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• More Companies Offer Fertility Benefits. It’s Only the Beginning

  01-12-2021 13:00
  
  Employer support for staff who wish to freeze their eggs has great potential—but broader support for parents still lags behind.
  
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• Tesla launches a bizarre £38 'Cyberwhistle'

  01-12-2021 12:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Musk promoted Cyberwhistle with a tweet telling buyers to 'blow the whistle on Tesla' - a possible reference to former employees at the Palo Alto, California company.
  
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• Why Mars-bound astronauts may go to Iceland first

  01-12-2021 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With a similar landscape to other worlds, it could aid research into extra-terrestrial missions.
  
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• Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana had bone disease in its jaw 68 million years ago

  01-12-2021 11:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The dinosaur had an infection of the bone known as tumefactive osteomyelitis, according to researchers at Charité University Hospital in Berlin.
  
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• UK's fastest broadband found in Swansea street

  01-12-2021 11:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Residents can, according to website Uswitch.com, download a two-hour film in 47 seconds.
  
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• ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns

  01-12-2021 10:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over ESA's Solar Orbiter has completed its flyby of Earth, collecting science data as it did so, and appears to be headed back into deep space without any close encounters with orbiting debris.…
  
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• We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide

  01-12-2021 07:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun Not only is comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein the largest of its kind known, it’s also one of the most active, distant comets, likely spewing plumes of gas further out from the Sun than expected.…
  
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• Elon Musk jokes about whistleblowers with new Tesla product

  01-12-2021 04:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In recent months, Tesla has faced lawsuits over alleged sexual harassment and racist abuse.
  
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• Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse search policy

  01-12-2021 04:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company had blocked searches for the US teen after he was acquitted of killing two people.
  
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• Cyclist deaths soar on rural roads in England

  01-12-2021 02:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of cyclists being killed on rural English roads rose sharply over the last year.
  
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• Rules to create gene-edited farm animals must put welfare first - review

  01-12-2021 02:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ethics experts publish a report as the government considers whether to allow gene-edited farm animals.
  
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• Diabetes drug could cut heart failure deaths by a FIFTH, new research shows 

  01-12-2021 02:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A diabetes drug could transform the treatment of heart failure and cut deaths by more than a fifth, doctors revealed. Researchers have found they can be used to treat preserved ejection fraction.
  
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• Duolingo boss: 'Develop your social skills'

  01-12-2021 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of language-learning app Duolingo, shares his business advice.
  
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• Stonehenge builders may have fuelled themselves on mince pies, evidence suggests

  01-12-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neolithic mince pies could have been baked using a flat stone or ceramic pot heated in the embers of a fire, English Heritage says, following excavations at Durrington near Stonehenge, Wiltshire.
  
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• More than a QUARTER of UK bird species are now under threat, report finds

  01-12-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bird species now in the Red List include the Swift, House Martin and Greenfinch (pictured), but the White-tailed Eagle is making a comeback, says the RSPB.
  
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• How does YOUR street measure up? UK's best and worst roads for BROADBAND are revealed

  01-12-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wistaston Road in Crewe has been revealed by Uswitch as the UK's slowest street for broadband, with average download speeds of just 0.24Mbps.
  
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• Officials say people who got second jab or booster in last 6 months are protected against Omicron

  01-12-2021 00:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health minister Nitzan Horowitz said there is indication that people who received two jabs or booster within the last six months protected against Omicron - but did not provide any data.
  
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