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• Hacker, 19, takes control of more than 20 Teslas through a flaw in third-party software

  12-01-2022 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Colombo, 19, shared the warning on Twitter, saying the flaw was found in a third-party software that stores the Tesla owner's sensitive information. Tesla is looking into the matter.
  
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• Cannabis compounds can stop the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells, study finds

  12-01-2022 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pair of cannabinoid acids were identified in cannabis that are able to bind with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking it from infecting human cells. The compounds can also be taken orally.
  
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• One tumble dryer can release 120 million microfibres a year, study says

  12-01-2022 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tumble dryers release up to 40 times more microfibres into air than washing machines do into water, report scientists in Hong Kong.
  
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• Cronutt the sea lion cured of epilepsy after pig brain cells were transplanted into its cerebrum

  12-01-2022 18:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Surgeons conducted an experimental therapy that transplanted healthy pig brain cells into Cornutt's brain to cure his epilepsy. Nearly 16 months after the operation and Cronutt has not had an episode.
  
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• Saturn's moon Mimas may be hiding a 'stealth' ocean buried beneath its ice, study finds 

  12-01-2022 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study into icy Mimas, which is the smallest astronomical body known to still be round in shape due to self-gravitation, was carried out by the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado
  
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• NASA's Mars InSight trips into safe mode and ESA's Sentinel-1B gives scientists the silent treatment

  12-01-2022 18:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Space is hard While there were whoops and cheers for the James Webb Space Telescope, other missions on Mars and in orbit around the Earth have fared less well in recent weeks.…
  
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• People spend 4.8 hours per day on mobile apps, research shows

  12-01-2022 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More time than ever before is spent on mobile apps - 4.8 hours per day, or about a third of average waking hours, according to San Francisco firm App Annie.
  
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• Just 17 Britons have died from cardiac arrests while having sex over the past three decades

  12-01-2022 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  UK study of nearly 7,000 heart deaths found only 17 were linked to having sex. The authors say the findings should reassure Brits with heart conditions that their sex life isn't putting them at risk.
  
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• Neuroscience: Playing recorded prompts as you enjoy good quality sleep improves your memory

  12-01-2022 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In tests involving subjects trying to learn 80 new names, recorded prompts played during quality deep sleep improved recall by 1.5 names on average, Northwestern University experts found.
  
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• Ancient human remains discovered in Ethiopia are much OLDER than first thought

  12-01-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study by the University of Cambridge found that the remains have to pre-date a colossal volcanic eruption in the East African Rift valley, which happened 230,000 years ago.
  
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• WEF Global Risks Report 2022 Imagines All The Critical Threats To The World

  12-01-2022 16:37 via technocracy.news
  
  Hiding behind the respectability of scholarship, wealth and position, the WEF offers a smorgasbord of propaganda and fear-producing possibilities: Vaccine inequality, social fractures. geopolitical tensions, environmental collapse, global warming disaster, cybersecurity failure, migration disorder, war in space.
  All of this is to prepare the world for the necessity of a “Great Reset”, aka Technocracy, that will facilitate the greatest transfer of wealth in world history, leading to K
  
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• Can you spot Mount Everest? NASA astronaut shares stunning image of the massive mountain range

  12-01-2022 16:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei snapped a stunning image of Mount Everestwhile on the ISS and asked his Twitter followers if they can see the massive mountain in the image.
  
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• Othering: Tyranny Always Creates A Scapegoat To Demonize

  12-01-2022 16:07 via technocracy.news
  
  More and more warnings are appearing over the scapegoat phenomena that characterizes the unvaccinated as less than human and require forced compliance to protect the “common good”. Continued non-compliance must be punished by driving them out of society. ⁃ TN EditorIn my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I ob
  
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• Beer and drugs helped a South American empire rule, study finds

  12-01-2022 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have analysed botanical remains of seeds from the vilca tree, used as hallucinogens for thousands of years, that were found in Quilcapampa, Peru.
  
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• Nature: Red squirrels are being put at risk by conifers planted across the UK to PROTECT them

  12-01-2022 15:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the warning of a team of researchers from Queen's University Belfast, who studied squirrel populations at 700 different sites across Northern Ireland.
  
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• Boom: Secretary Of Education Solicited Letter From NSBA To Criminalize Angry Parents

  12-01-2022 15:13 via technocracy.news
  
  When the NSBA’s letter to Attorney General Garland suggested that angry school board parents should be likened to domestic terrorists, the AG responded by immediately unleashing the FBI. Now we find out that the Secretary of Education was the one who solicited the letter in the first place.
  In plain terms, this qualifies as a full-blown conspiracy: The Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, secretly requests that a non-profit NGO write a damning letter to the Attorney General requesting F
  
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• Will I live until I'm 100? Online calculator works out your average life expectancy

  12-01-2022 15:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures predicted the chance of becoming a centenarian for men and women at all ages in the UK. One in five girls born in 2020 are expected to live to 100.
  
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• Flying hypercar for inner city travel completes test flight in Dubai 

  12-01-2022 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bellwether Industries completed its test flight of the half-scale Volar eVTOL prototype in Dubai and plans to build a full-scale version in 2023.
  
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• China has built an 'artificial moon' research facility with a lunar-like low gravity environment

  12-01-2022 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The simulator is based in Xuzhou in the Jiangsu province of China, and has been designed in a way that can 'make gravity disappear,' according to its designers.
  
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• Omega's New Speedmaster Is the Latest to Cash In on Vintage Vogue

  12-01-2022 13:00
  
  Watch brands are plundering their archives to produce pieces that combine both past and present, hoping to deliver innovation with added authenticity.
  
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• As Kazakhstan Descends into Chaos, Crypto Miners Are at a Loss

  12-01-2022 13:00
  
  The central Asian country became No. 2 in the world for Bitcoin mining. But political turmoil and power cuts have hit hard, and the future looks bleak.
  
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• North Korea says it's launched a third hypersonic missile, this time reaching Mach 10

  12-01-2022 12:43 via go.theregister.com
  
  South Korea piqued as FAA grounds west coast aircraft North Korean state-sponsored media has said it launched a third hypersonic missile on Tuesday, hitting a target at sea 1,000km (621 miles) away. According to news agency KCNA, President Kim Jong Un attended the test-fire.…
  
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• Bacteria may have transferred life to distant worlds after being blown into space, study claims

  12-01-2022 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Creating a model to estimate the impact of wind speed on biologically-sized particles allowedUniversity of Edinburgh experts to make their observation.
  
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• CES 2022: A smart spoon and home security tech

  12-01-2022 09:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A mild electric current passes through the spoon which the manufacturer says will enhance the food.
  
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• People devote third of waking time to mobile apps

  12-01-2022 09:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  During 2021, billions were spent on apps, with TikTok, YouTube and Netflix leading the way.
  
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• Massive rugby-ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings

  12-01-2022 07:23 via go.theregister.com
  
  It was worth a try Just over 1,500 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules there’s a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet orbiting a star. It’s the first time astronomers have been able to detect such an unusual shape of an alien world.…
  
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• A year on, has Trump benefited from a Twitter ban?

  12-01-2022 01:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-president was expelled from Twitter a year ago. What impact has it had - and will he be back?
  
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