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• ESA's Cheops snaps image of a rugby ball-shaped planet 1,000 light-years from Earth

  11-01-2022 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The exoplanet, known as WASP-103b, is the first the planet found not to be shaped like a sphere. It's rugby ball-shape is due to a strong tidal forces between the planet and its host star.
  
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• Robot with 'claws' at the end of humanoid-shaped arms performing hysterectomies in the US

  11-01-2022 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hominis features a pair of 'pinching claws' attached to two humanoid-shaped arms. This robotic assistant is helping US surgeons perform transvaginal hysterectomies.
  
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• Milky Way is 'getting fatter' as it 'eats' 12 star systems, experts say

  11-01-2022 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers have mapped a dozen streams of stars - called 'stellar streams' - which they say orbit the Milky Way like fairy lights around a Christmas tree.
  
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• Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World

  11-01-2022 21:23
  
  Security experts say there's little reason for the criticism from Europe’s mobile operators and US limitations over the VPN-like iCloud tool.
  
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• Nasal spray could prevent Covid infection for up to eight hours

  11-01-2022 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new nasal spray treatment - developed by scientists at the University of Helsinki may be able to give high-risk people immunity from COVID-19 for up to eight hours at a time.
  
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• Nottingham man who used girl's webcam to spy on her jailed

  11-01-2022 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Robert Davies secretly accessed dozens of people's devices and stole their data and photos.
  
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• Health: Corkscrew-shaped microrobot developed to swim through blood vessels and clear blockages

  11-01-2022 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The microrobot design - concocted by engineers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong - was inspired by the tails of bacteria like E. coli.
  
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• US experienced 20 extreme weather events in 2021 that cost $145 BILLION in damages

  11-01-2022 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US was hit with 20 extreme weather events, including droughts, flooding, tropical storms and wildfires, in 2021 that resulted in 688 deaths and cost $145 billion in damages.
  
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• European Space Agency: Come on, hack our satellite if you think you're hard enough

  11-01-2022 18:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Space: The final frontier for cybersecurity The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting applications from attackers who fancy having a crack at its OPS-SAT spacecraft.…
  
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• 'Mega air yacht' with helium-filled blimps is designed to FLY

  11-01-2022 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called Air Yacht, the extravagant vehicle has been revealed in detailed concept images by the Rome-based company Lazzarini Design Studio, which has not revealed how much it might cost.
  
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• Stars might be born much faster than previously expected, study claims

  11-01-2022 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using the Five-hundred-metre Aparture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou, southwest China,astronomers probed the molecular cloud Lynds 1544.
  
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• Climate change destroying homes across the Arctic

  11-01-2022 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New research shows the huge threat posed by permafrost thaw to millions living in the Arctic.
  
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• Nature: Tasmanian devils 'break the laws of scavenging' because they exhibit personal tastes

  11-01-2022 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The diets of 71 devils captured from seven sites across Tasmania was studied by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
  
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• Google/YouTube Has Buried Content About ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’

  11-01-2022 16:49 via technocracy.news
  
  The Google complex is running scared of the psychological tool of social engineering revealed as “Mass Formation Psychosis”. Whoops. It is THEIR tool, after all. Patrick Wood’s interview on the topic with Erskine Overnight was banned from YouTube. Search results are buried at Google. In 1938, Technocracy defined itself as the “science of social engineering”. Indeed. ⁃ TN EditorThe concept of mass formation psychosis as an explanation for our lingering nonsensi
  
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• Dutch Politician Calls “BS” On Obama’s Claim That 97% Of Scientists Agree On Manmade ‘Global Warming’

  11-01-2022 16:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Former President Barak Obama institutionalized the blatantly false claim that “97% of scientists agree on manmade global warming”, but it has been endlessly repeated ever since. This was a common propaganda trick called “Bandwagon”: eg, all the experts believe it so you should too. In truth, only 1.6% of scientists sided with man-made global warming. ⁃ TN EditorDutch Member of Parliament Thierry Baudet has decided to take the conservative battle for reason and
  
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• Scientists want to fire 'indestructible' Tardigrades to distant stars

  11-01-2022 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Small space probes containing tardigrades could be propelled up to 30 per cent the speed of light into space, scientists at University of California, Santa Barbara have proposed.
  
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• Wesley J. Smith: Obamacare Architect Ezekiel Emanuel Is Pushing For Permanent Medical Technocracy

  11-01-2022 15:42 via technocracy.news
  
  This is a MUST-READ article. Medical technocrat Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to political hack Rahm Emanuel, famously said he hopes to die at age 75. Currently 64, he has 11 years left. Now he is advocating for a permanent medical Technocracy by aggregating all respiratory diseases into a single statistic so that the government can declare perpetual health emergencies.
  While most would laugh Emanuel out of the room, it would be foolish because he is incredibly influential. Notably, he was the chief
  
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• Fighting the darknet drug dealers who keep coming back

  11-01-2022 15:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC research finds hundreds of dealers who have survived multiple police shutdowns of darknet marketplaces.
  
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• Moxie Marlinspike leaves encrypted-messaging app Signal

  11-01-2022 14:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The co-founder and chief executive of Signal steps down but remains a board member.
  
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• Pokémon Go: Police fired for chasing Snorlax instead of robbers

  11-01-2022 14:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A pair of LAPD officers lost their jobs after ignoring a robbery to play Pokémon Go instead.
  
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• Nature: Antarctica's unique ecosystems are under threat from invasive species 'hitchhiking' on ships

  11-01-2022 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The movements of those ships entering Antarctic waters between 2014-2018 were traced back by researchers led from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.
  
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• Drought did not spark the collapse of the Maya, study suggests

  11-01-2022 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mayans had enough drought-tolerant plants to eat when their society collapsed, suggesting that something else was to blame for their downfall, University of California, Riverside experts say.
  
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• US-China Trade Tensions Threaten Europe's Biggest Tech Company

  11-01-2022 13:00
  
  ASML quietly built a chip machine manufacturing empire but a sales ban on its most advanced tech in China may hinder its growth plans.
  
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• NASA's Perseverance hits a snag as debris prevents its robotic arm from storing sixth rock sample

  11-01-2022 12:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The SUV-sized vehicle has been on the Red Planet since February 2021, and is slowly trundling through the Jezero Crater taking rock samples for later retrieval.
  
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• NICE approves home ECG smartphone device for use in the NHS for the first time

  11-01-2022 11:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AliveCor's KardiaMobile costs £99, and involves the patient placing two fingers from each hand on either side of a small monitoring device, that sends data to an app.
  
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• Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant

  11-01-2022 11:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental surgery, doctors say.
  
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• Perseverance runs into a rocky problem: Pebbles are clogging up the rover's Martian rock sample collection

  11-01-2022 08:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Engineers are trying to clear the issue so Mars bot can continue drilling NASA engineers have temporarily paused Perseverance’s ability to drill and collect Martian rock samples due to pebbles piling up in the rover’s caching system.…
  
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• Perseverance on the rocks: Pebbles clog up the rover's Martian sample collection

  11-01-2022 08:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Engineers try to clear material so Mars bot can continue drilling NASA engineers have temporarily paused Perseverance’s ability to drill and collect Martian rock samples due to pebbles piling up in the rover’s caching system.…
  
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• The controversy of wood pellets as a green energy source

  11-01-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wood pellets are touted as a 'green' way to make electricity, but many reject these claims.
  
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• HS2 dig finds ancient road and 2,000-year-old coins

  11-01-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stunning artefacts have been found near the village of Chipping Wardenin Northamptonshire. The site is known as Blackgrounds after the black soil found there.
  
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• Google says Apple uses 'peer pressure and bullying' to convince users iMessage is a symbol of status

  11-01-2022 00:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google attacked Apple saying it uses 'peer pressure and bullying' to convince users, mainly teens, that its iMessage is a status symbol and Android is a sign of lower class.
  
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• Antarctica: Invasive species 'hitchhiking' on ships

  11-01-2022 00:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ships travelling to Antarctica could bring invasive species to the ocean’s last pristine ecosystem.
  
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