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• Regular exercise can help boost pupils' exam grades in French and maths, study finds 

  10-01-2022 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To better understand the influence fitness has on learning, experts from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, tested pupils across eight schools.
  
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• Tesla to increase Full Self-Driving package as it unveils update that adds an 'Assertive mode'

  10-01-2022 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's Tesla made a few updates over the weekend - it announced the Full Self-Driving package will increase to $12,000 and it added three driving modes to the system.
  
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• Veg diet plus re-wilding gives 'double climate dividend'

  10-01-2022 17:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Switching to a plant-rich diet and using land freed up for nature is 'double whammy', experts say.
  
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• Climate change will lead to increase in kidney stones, study says

  10-01-2022 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Higher temperatures are more likely to cause dehydration, which in turn leads to the formation of kidney stones, report researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Pennsylvania.
  
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• Jupiter's fearsome polar cyclones are driven by similar forces to the huge ocean vortices on Earth

  10-01-2022 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Photographs of rich turbulence in the polar regions of Jupiter's gassy atmosphere were sent back to Earth by the NASA Juno spacecraft to be studied by scientists.
  
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• Tesla adds chill and assertive self-driving modes

  10-01-2022 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An update to Tesla cars adds a mode to follow other cars more closely and to slow rather than stop.
  
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• Charge: Google Hammering Competitors By Manipulating Browser Extensions

  10-01-2022 16:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Google is using every available tool and technology to crush its competitors and maintain its dominance in extracting behavioral surplus from humanity. In the 1800s, oil was extracted from the earth; now, Technocrats digitize and extract human behavior for the certainty of control and manipulation. ⁃ TN EditorGoogle is already facing mounting legal challenges from regulators globally who accuse the tech giant of maintaining an illegal monopoly over its search and digital advertising busine
  
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• Oculus Quest 2: Meta to discuss children's VR safety with watchdog

  10-01-2022 16:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The information commissioner wants to talk about child protection in virtual reality.
  
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• Cows Get VR Headsets To Reduce Anxiety, Increase Milk Production

  10-01-2022 16:17 via technocracy.news
  
  Animals may beat a path to the Metaverse before people. Technocrats have found that animals can be tricked into a false reality in order to modify bodily functions, which for cows is producing more milk. If the theory holds true for humans, then their “output” can also be manipulated for economic gain. ⁃ TN EditorA farmer has turned to virtual reality headsets to make his cooped-up cows think they’re outside in a meadow.
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• Rickards: The Supply Chain Is The Global Economy

  10-01-2022 15:54 via technocracy.news
  
  If globalization were a living body, then the Supply Chain represents the cardio-vascular system need to transport goods and services (the blood) between global destinations. When globalization suffers a heart attack, ie, the collapse of the Supply Chain, globalization will fall to the ground like a brick and die.
  Before you cheer at the death of modern globalization, realize that it is intentionally being murdered in order for the Great Reset, aka Technocracy, to rise up out of the ashes. ̹
  
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• Archaeology: Ancient stone board game found at 4,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement in Oman

  10-01-2022 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Completed in December, the digs around Ayn Bani Sa'dah in the Qumayrah Valley were led by the University of Warsaw and Oman's Ministry of Heritage and Tourism.
  
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• Badger uncovers more than 200 Roman coins in a Spanish cave 

  10-01-2022 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hailed as an 'exceptional find', the coins include some 'from the distant mints' of London, Constantinople and Antioch, an ancient city located in what is modern-day Turkey.
  
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• China's Chang'e-5 lander confirms the presence of H20 in moon rocks

  10-01-2022 14:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Chinese team found that in some types of rock, at a mid-latitude on the moon, molecules of H20 were present at about 120 parts per million, and others at 180ppm.
  
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• 'Mystery hut' on the Moon is a rabbit-shaped rock, scientists reveal 

  10-01-2022 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A weird rock on the moon looks like a small but 'lifelike' crouching bunny, surrounded by its own rocky droppings, says Beijing's China National Space Administration (CNSA).
  
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• The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror

  10-01-2022 13:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  And you thought unfolding the table for Christmas dinner was tricky The gold-coated primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was fully unfurled this weekend, marking the end of the epic major deployments of the spacecraft, but only the beginning of months of alignment and calibration.…
  
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• The FTC Wants Companies to Find Log4j Fast. It Won't Be So Easy

  10-01-2022 13:00
  
  The critical vulnerability is buried among endless open source code, and many cyber experts are stumped.
  
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• Past seven years hottest on record - EU satellite data

  10-01-2022 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Analysis shows 2021 was the fifth-warmest with record-breaking temperatures in some regions.
  
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• Virgin Mobile and O2 users will not face EU roaming charges

  10-01-2022 12:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Virgin Media O2 says it will not reintroduce fees for mobile data use and calls in EU countries.
  
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• Fast-food diets are confusing people's immune systems and leading to a rise in autoimmune diseases

  10-01-2022 11:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People are suffering because their immune systems cannot tell the difference between a healthy cell and an attacking virus, experts at the Francis Crick Institute in London say.
  
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• Giant 32ft ichthyosaur found in Midlands reservoir hailed 'one of best fossil finds in UK history'

  10-01-2022 08:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The giant ichthyosaur was found at the bottom of Rutland Water, in the Midlands, last February and experts spent 14 days excavating its skeleton before removing it in August 2021.
  
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• Ichthyosaur: Huge fossilised ‘sea dragon’ found in Rutland reservoir

  10-01-2022 07:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The creature lived more than 90 million years ago and its remains were found poking out of the mud.
  
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• Sulli Deals: Police arrest man for making app to auction Muslim women

  10-01-2022 06:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The arrest came days after a similar app, Bulli Bai, generated outrage and led to four arrests.
  
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• The AI software that could turn you in to a music star

  10-01-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Artificial intelligence is now smart enough to write tracks that earn streaming service royalties.
  
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• Air pollution: Delhi's smog problem is rooted in India's water crisis

  10-01-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Years of ill-conceived farming practices have contributed to India's worsening air pollution.
  
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• Fossils: Meet Britain's largest ichthyosaur, which is some 180 million years old and 33ft long

  10-01-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creature, dubbed 'the Rutland Sea Dragon', is the very first of its species - Temnodontosaurus trigonodon - to ever be found in the United Kingdom.
  
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• Energy bills: Fix insulation to tackle cost of heating, PM told

  10-01-2022 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An industry group is calling for more funding for home improvements to help bring down the cost of heating homes.
  
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