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• Drone saves the life of man, 71, suffering a heart attack by delivering defibrillator to his home

  07-01-2022 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Within moments of receiving the call from Sven's wife, emergency unmanned aerial vehicle services dispatched drone an carrying an AED, which arrived at Sven's home in less than four minutes.
  
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• COVID vaccines prolong menstrual cycles by 19 hours, study reveals 

  07-01-2022 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many women have reported changes in their menstrual cycle after getting the COVID vaccine and new study validates these claims - it found after one shot cycles can be prolonged for 19 hours.
  
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• Feeling virtuous with a good old paperback? Well, don't. Switching to traditional media does not improve mood

  07-01-2022 19:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Study hopes to take the elitism out media consumption Those attempting a digital detox might settle down with a paper book in the assumption they are nurturing their well-being. But the benefits of traditional versus new media are not as clear as received wisdom leads us to believe.…
  
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• Hubble reaches another major milestone: ONE BILLION seconds in space 

  07-01-2022 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space telescope was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay on April 25, 1990, sitting 340 miles above the surface of the Earth.
  
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• The sun may have been surrounded by giant rings of dust similar to Saturn

  07-01-2022 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These rings have been seen around a number of Sun-like young, distant stars, according to astronomers from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  
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• Scientists create vegan egg whites using fungus

  07-01-2022 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A vegan and eco-friendly egg white has been created using fungus, which could provide an alternative to intensive chicken farming, reports scientists in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland.
  
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• Traffic jams build up in Elon Musk's 'Vegas Loop' tunnels while shuttling around CES attendees

  07-01-2022 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is shuttling CES attendees through three stations, but a video shows this 'future of transportation' is not the traffic jam killer Musk had hoped for.
  
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• Bronze horned helmets taken from a Danish bog didn't belong to the Vikings, study says

  07-01-2022 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two bronze helmets with elaborate horns were found in the 1940s in a bog in Viksø, Denmark. Now, researchers say they were deposited in the bog around 900 BC, before the first Vikings in the region.
  
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• London e-scooter collisions jumped in 2021

  07-01-2022 16:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Between January and June 2021, 258 collisions were recorded, compared with 266 in the whole of 2020.
  
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• Google loses Sonos smart speakers patent fight

  07-01-2022 15:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US trade commission rules against the tech giant over the use of smart-speaker technology.
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope prepares to unfold another mirror

  07-01-2022 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It has been slowly unfolding, part-by-part, as it makes the million mile journey to the second lagrange point, a gravitationally stable point between the sun and Earth.
  
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• Medical Technocracy: Then They Came For The Children

  07-01-2022 15:29 via technocracy.news
  What kind of monsters can stand silently by and watch the intentional medical abuse and death of innocent children? More children have died from the EUA mRNA shots than have died of COVID itself. Hospital nurses are screaming out the truth as legislators and regulators turn a deaf ear. Welcome to Technocracy. ⁃ TN Editor
  https://www.technocracy.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kids-dying-testimony.mp4STORY AT-A-GLANCE–> According to Collette Martin, a practicing nurse who testified
  
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• France fines Google and Facebook over cookies

  07-01-2022 15:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  French regulators have fined Google and Facebook for violating EU privacy rules.
  
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• Wood On Free Speech: The Weapon To Fight Scientific Dictatorship

  07-01-2022 14:53 via technocracy.news
  
  As Technocracy reveals its iron-fisted tyrannical nature and intentions to conquer the world, the war on Free Speech is their vanguard. When the resistance is silenced, there will be no more resistance and Technocracy will roll over the world at breakneck speed. This is a must-view interview.  ⁃ TN EditorAmericans need to be vigilant and exercise their right to free speech to push back against the social control that has been accelerated by governments across the world durin
  
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• Instagram blocked hashtag in memory of Iran plane crash victims

  07-01-2022 14:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The social media giant says it did so by mistake, as families tried to memorialise the 176 victims.
  
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• NASA's TESS exoplanet mission discovers mysterious signals from a dusty object

  07-01-2022 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, wanted to find out why an object dubbed TIC 400799224 emits strange signals.
  
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• Scientists ramp up their search for the elusive 'Asian unicorn'

  07-01-2022 14:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Asian unicorn', also called the saola, is native to the mountains of Vietnam and Laos, but it's 'critically endangered' according to the IUCN Red List.
  
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• Down Under: Unvaxxed Aussies Not Allowed To Exercise Or Travel To Work

  07-01-2022 14:03 via technocracy.news
  
  The demonization of the unvaxxed continues to intensify around the world. There is no defensible science to justify any of these actions, but tyranny cannot be bothered by the facts. Other nations are following suit. The new mantra is “Deniers deserve to be punished”… and they are! ⁃ TN EditorUnvaccinated Australians in the Northern Territory have been put under a new lockdown during which they won’t be allowed to go outside to exercise or travel to work.
  Yes, real
  
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• Health: Stress may contribute to flare-ups of Crohn's disease by weakening the innate immune system

  07-01-2022 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Working with mice, researchers from McMaster University in Canada found that stress hormones could suppress the rodents' innate immune system and leave them vulnerable.
  
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• CES 2022: Colour changing cars and remotes that eat wi-fi

  07-01-2022 13:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A look at some of the innovations on display in Las Vegas at the annual CES tech show.
  
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• The Next Wave of Extremist Cults Will Make QAnon Look Tame

  07-01-2022 13:00
  
  And they’ve already taken root.
  
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• Facebook’s Data Center Plans Rile Residents in the Netherlands

  07-01-2022 13:00
  
  The country has become a magnet for Big Tech facilities, but locals say they will syphon away all their green energy.
  
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• Robotic arm on China's space station does a demo, swings out 20 degrees and back while holding cargo ship

  07-01-2022 12:44 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plan is to use the arm to finish putting the outpost together The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) says it has completed load-bearing tests on its space station's 10m robotic arm.…
  
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• Nokia 6310 review: Rebooted handset is a blessed relief from apps and social media

  07-01-2022 12:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nokia's latest reboot may be the answer to a smartphone detox in 2022. The Espoo, Finland-based firm says the new handset is a 'perfect tonic' for a yearning for nostalgia.
  
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• E3: Gaming convention cancels in-person event due to Covid

  07-01-2022 12:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  E3 will not be held in LA this June and organisers have not yet said if it will be held online instead.
  
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• Bitcoin prices fall to lowest in months after US Fed remarks

  07-01-2022 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bitcoin prices tumble amid rumblings from the US banking body and unrest in Kazakhstan.
  
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• Captivating new image of the Flame Nebula's 'spectacular firework display' is released

  07-01-2022 11:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was taken with the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), located on the cold Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama Desert.
  
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• CES: Should the world’s biggest tech show have gone ahead?

  07-01-2022 11:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has gone ahead in Las Vegas, despite the pandemic.
  
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• SpaceX sends another 49 Starlink satellites into orbit 

  07-01-2022 10:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's company SpaceX launched the satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 16:49 EST (21:49 GMT) on Thursday (January 6).
  
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• Global chip shortage: Samsung expects its profits to jump by 52%

  07-01-2022 06:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The South Korean electronics giant benefited from strong demand for server memory chips.
  
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• Astronomers watch rapid self-destruction of a massive star in real time

  07-01-2022 01:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Throes, a red supergiant, was seen exploding and collapsing into a supernova by astronomers in real time. This is the first time this type of event has been witnessed by human eyes.
  
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• The companies offering delivery to the Moon

  07-01-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Intuitive Machines and its rivals hope to make the first US moon landings since Apollo 17 in 1972.
  
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