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• Tesla owners in Alaska and Canada say car's heating systems are failing as temperatures plummet

  19-01-2022 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla Model Y and Model 3 vehicles in Alaska and western Canada are not heating in the cabin. One owner called out Elon Musk saying his family could have been killed in the -40F temperatures.
  
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• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Deal and the Post-Console World

  19-01-2022 22:02
  
  Microsoft is betting on a future more focused on games than hardware.
  
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• Rich people are more likely to be mean, while the poor are kinder, research shows 

  19-01-2022 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Popular tropes, of wealth making people less likely to help someone, are  accurate, say the team behind the study, from the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.
  
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• Two cosmonauts complete the first spacewalk of 2022

  19-01-2022 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prichal module was launched and attached to the space station in November last year, but needed extra work to make it ready for use.
  
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• Nature: Tarantula-killing WORMS named after 'Arachnophobia' actor Jeff Daniels

  19-01-2022 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'His character in the film is a spider killer, which is exactly what these nematodes are,' said University of California, Riverside parasitologist Adler Dillman.
  
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• Meta files hundreds of patents for technologies to track users' movements to improve its metaverse

  19-01-2022 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patents describes a device that sits around user's waist to track their body poses, sensor-packed gloves to monitor hand gestures and glasses to immerse players in the digital world.
  
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• Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning

  19-01-2022 18:07
  
  Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow.
  
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• Space: Around 40,000,000,000,000,000,000 black holes make up 1% of the observable universe

  19-01-2022 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new computational approach was developed by experts from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste to estimate how many stellar-mass black holes should have formed.
  
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• Astronomer captures footage of 3,280ft asteroid as it nears Earth

  19-01-2022 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip was captured by Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist and manager of the Virtual Telescope Project, provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy.
  
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• Terror of 1994 Rwanda genocide chemically modified DNA of Tutsi women and their offspring

  19-01-2022 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Rwanda genocide may be over, but the terror lives on in the DNA of victims and their offspring. A study found chemical modifications in genes linked to mental disorders like PTSD.
  
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• ‘Vehicle Kill Switches’ Now Mandated In New Cars By 2026

  19-01-2022 16:23 via technocracy.news
  
  To the delight of UN Sustainable Development ideologues and control-freak Technocrats, private car ownership in America has suffered a fatal blow. Vehicle “kill switches” are now mandated by 2026 in Biden’s infrastructure bill that was just signed into law. Those who warned in December that this was in the bill were called ‘conspiracy theorists’. ⁃ TN EditorThe rumors we first reported on back in December have turned out to be true: the United States fede
  
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• Facebook Messenger: The battle over end-to-end encryption

  19-01-2022 15:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The battle-lines have been drawn - but what is end-to-end encryption and why is it controversial?
  
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• Astrophotographer risks going blind in a bid to capture stunning image of Venus

  19-01-2022 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew McCarthy, from Arizona, US,takes some of the most striking and detailed images of astronomical objects, and shares them online as @Cosmic_Background.
  
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• The Pandemic Narrative Is Undergoing A Radical U-Turn

  19-01-2022 15:29 via technocracy.news
  
  There is now little doubt that the official pandemic narrative is headed for a 180 degree u-turn, but mostly for political reasons. The Democrat party is in shambles and virtually guaranteed to lose majorities in the House and Senate if it does nothing to restore confidence. Backing off of the painful tyranny of mandates and unscientific “science” is the way out.
  On December 31 I wrote in Beware 2022: Technocracy’s War Against Humanity Set To Continue,
  I am quite certain that s
  
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• Air pollution: Diesel fumes confuse butterflies and bees and leaving them unable to sniff out plants

  19-01-2022 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The impact of pollutants found in diesel fumes and ozone on the pollination of black mustard plants was assessed by a team of researchers from the University of Reading.
  
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• Music Of The Resistance In The Age Of Covid Mania

  19-01-2022 14:52 via technocracy.news
  
  Art follows culture as more musical artists release protest songs to lament the state of the people in the hands of tyranny. Scott Helmer’s new release, Shouting it Out, is the latest contribution. He writes, “The world is waking up to the truth about what is happening with these masks and so called, ‘vaccines,’ and for all those that are awake, this is ‘your’ song”.
  The lyrics of the new song are below.
  Shout It Out
  I never thoughtI’d see the dayW
  
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• NASA's Curiosity finds signs of ancient life on Mars. Or maybe not. More data needed

  19-01-2022 14:13 via go.theregister.com
  
  Rover heats up samples, sniffs carbon signature associated with biological processes on Earth NASA's Curiosity rover has collected samples of rock from the surface of Mars that are rich in a type of carbon associated with biological processes on Earth.…
  
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• Two cosmonauts carry out the first spacewalk of 2022 TODAY

  19-01-2022 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prichal module was launched and attached to the space station in November last year, but needed extra work to make it ready for use.
  
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• This Recyclable Boat Is Made From Wool

  19-01-2022 13:00
  
  By adding unwanted wool to the manufacturing chain, this forward-thinking New Zealand firm hopes to save farmers and the planet.
  
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• Two cosmonauts will carry out the first spacewalk of 2022 TODAY

  19-01-2022 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prichal module was launched and attached to the space station in November last year, but needed extra work to make it ready for use.
  
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• SpaceX fires its 2,000th Starlink satellite into orbit

  19-01-2022 12:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's firm launched another 49 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 21:02 ET on Tuesday - taking the total to over 2,000.
  
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• NASA challenges entrepreneurs design a toilet for a trip to Mars

  19-01-2022 12:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the latest campaign by the US space agency, operating in partnership with leading crowd-sourcing platform HeroX, based in Houston, Texas.
  
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• Sewage regularly dumped illegally in England and Wales rivers

  19-01-2022 11:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Analysis suggests seven water companies illegally dumped sewage thousands of times between 2017 and 2021.
  
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• The Very Best Snowboarding Gear for Discerning Riders

  19-01-2022 11:08
  
  It's riders, not boarders. Yes, we know what we're talking about. That's why you should heed this 2022 edit of the finest kit around this season.
  
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• 5G phones: How serious is the threat to US flights?

  19-01-2022 10:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ten leading US airlines are warning that the expansion of 5G services could be disastrous.
  
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• Gut bacteria help pandas stay chubby on a bamboo diet, study finds

  19-01-2022 10:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A bacterium found in the guts of giant pandas called clostridium butyricum can increase the production and storage of fats during a certain time of the year, say experts in Beijing.
  
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• Radar satellite's stunning map of UK and Ireland

  19-01-2022 09:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For some technologies there are never any clouds to spoil the view.
  
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• Sony slides on Microsoft-Activision Blizzard tie-up plan

  19-01-2022 08:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The deal would be a major step for Microsoft's Xbox gaming brand in its battle against Sony's PlayStation.
  
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• ESA boss gives update on stricken Sentinel-1B imaging satellite: All is not lost yet

  19-01-2022 07:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  Still borked, 1C and 1D are waiting in the wings ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher has addressed the issue of the space agency's borked Copernicus Sentinel-1B spacecraft in his first annual press conference.…
  
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• The women facing rape threats and abuses on Clubhouse

  19-01-2022 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The women say right-wing trolls in India targeted them for criticising Narendra Modi and his government.
  
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• Archaeology: Oldest-known drinking straws were gold and silver, 3ft long and used in a communal bowl

  19-01-2022 01:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The eight tubes - which date back more than 5,000 years - were first unearthed from Maikop kurgan, a Bronze Age burial mound in Southern Russia, back in 1897.
  
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• Should bad science be censored on social media?

  19-01-2022 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Royal Society report recommends against censoring scientific misinformation online.
  
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