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• Netflix faces rocky road after pandemic wins

  20-01-2022 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm's membership growth slowed significantly last year after surging at the beginning of the pandemic.
  
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• US taxpayers will have to submit a video selfie to access their IRS accounts

  20-01-2022 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The video selfie is taken on a mobile device and then uploaded to ID.me, along with the person's government ID. The site uses its facial recognition software to verify the individual.
  
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• Instagram tests subscription service that lets creators charge a fee to access exclusive content

  20-01-2022 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram is testing subscriptions with 10 creators in the US, who can set their own monthly fee that users pay to access exclusive Live videos and Instagram Stories.
  
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• The International Space Station could soon have a FILM STUDIO

  20-01-2022 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) , based in London, has revealed plans for a film, TV, sport and entertainment broadcast module for the ISS, to launch in 2024.
  
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• Babies know if relationships are close if two people share SALIVA, study says

  20-01-2022 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sharing food and kissing are among signals babies and infants use to interpret whether people are emotionally close, reveal experts at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
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• Elon Musk's Neuralink could soon implant its brain chip in HUMANS

  20-01-2022 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuralink posted a job listing for a clinical trial director who will 'work with Neuralink's first Clinical Trial participants.' This suggests the company will soon implant its brain chips in humans.
  
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• Ancient Japanese tombs all face towards the arc of the rising sun, study shows

  20-01-2022 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of ancient burial mounds can be found dotted across the Japanese Islands, the largest of which are known as Kofun, and shaped like a keyhole.
  
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• Nature: Albatrosses can plunge up to 62ft underwater after prey-more than twice as deep as thought

  20-01-2022 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Black-browed albatross populations living on New Island, in the Falklands, were studied using accelerometers, depth sensors and GPS by researchers led from the University of Oxford.
  
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• This Fallout TV Show Is a Terrible Idea—Unless It's a Comedy

  20-01-2022 18:55
  
  Game studio Bethesda’s successful franchise is full of surrealist comedy, and Amazon’s forthcoming adaptation should reflect this.
  
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• BT to introduce inflation-busting price rises

  20-01-2022 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Most broadband and phone bills will rise by more than 9% at the end of March, BT says.
  
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• Doomsday clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year in a row

  20-01-2022 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Doomsday clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year in a row. The decision was based on nuclear war risks,climate change, the spread of misinformation and conflict in space.
  
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• Nature: Biologists determine how whales gulp down food underwater without drowning

  20-01-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  No anatomical feature like an oral plug has even been seen before in any other animal, reported the research team from the University of British Columbia.
  
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• Wordle developer donates in-app spend to charity

  20-01-2022 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The developer of a game with the same name as viral hit Wordle gives away the money spent on it.
  
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• Laughing with friends reduces the risk of disability, study claims 

  20-01-2022 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Among people aged 65+, sharing a joke with friends reduces the risk of disability by around 30 per cent compared with those who laugh alone, reveal researchers at Nagoya University in Japan.
  
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• Scientists Are Racing to Understand the Fury of Tonga’s Volcano

  20-01-2022 16:05
  
  The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption and tsunami that have devastated Tonga are unlike anything volcanologists have seen before.
  
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• Apple 'working on a fix' for bug in Safari that exposes users' internet activity and personal data

  20-01-2022 15:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A bug has been uncovered in Apple's Safari 15, the firm's latest search engine. The flaw exposes users' internet activity and personal data to other websites. Apple is said to release a fix soon.
  
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• SpaceX Starlink satellites disrupt almost a FIFTH of images from a telescope

  20-01-2022 15:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX has been launching an increasing number of internet satellites since 2018, with over 2,000 now in low Earth orbit, about 340 miles above the planet.
  
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• CJ Hopkins: The Final Days Of The Covidian Cult

  20-01-2022 15:22 via technocracy.news
  
  If Klaus Schwab saw the pandemic as a “narrow window of opportunity” to achieve Technocracy’s Great Reset, then the resistance has a narrow window of opportunity to thoroughly reject the whole lot of them along with their vain imaginations of conquering the world. The road to victory will not be pleasant, but it is still possible nonetheless.
  Governments may give up on tyrannical mandates and other restrictions, but Technocrats will not give up on Scientific Dictatorship. Becau
  
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• Explore an 80-year-old Japanese submarine wreck in virtual reality

  20-01-2022 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The I-124 had been on a secret mission laying mines off the coast of Darwin when it suffered irreparable damage from dozens of depth chargers detonated by the HMAS Deloraine.
  
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• The Virtual Gulag: Ultimate Technocrat Answer To Punish All Dissent

  20-01-2022 15:03 via technocracy.news
  
  When you are exiled from society into a virtual gulag of isolation, you will lose all rights to Free Speech and ability to be heard. Figuratively speaking, you will become the exhaust fumes from the engine of Technocracy, vulnerable to any further societal reassignment or even physical elimination. Welcome to Scientific Dictatorship. ⁃ TN EditorJack Posobiec, senior editor at Human Events and host of Human Events Daily, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that “the new
  
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• Eye Spy: IRS To Require Facial Recognition To View Tax Returns

  20-01-2022 14:44 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats in the IRS and private industry are combining forces to further the acceptance of a universal id system where people cannot escape being ID’d by facial recognition surveillance systems. Of course, not everyone wants to view their tax returns online, but the new system will make it measurably harder to do so. ⁃ TN EditorThe US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie 
  
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• Surgeons successfully transplant two PIG KIDNEYS into a brain dead human

  20-01-2022 14:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jim Parsons of Huntsville, Alabama, had two kidneys, procured from a genetically modified pig, transplanted in his abdomen after his own kidneys were removed.
  
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• Scientists Are Tinkering With Clouds to Save the Great Barrier Reef

  20-01-2022 13:56
  
  Super-reflective clouds could shelter coral from scorching sunlight. But environmentalists are concerned that such plans could prolong our addiction to fossil fuels.
  
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• Fossils: Early ancestor of diplodocus ran on its back legs and used its forelimbs to grasp FOOD

  20-01-2022 13:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The limb muscles of Thecodontosaurus, a small dinosaur that lived in the UK in the Triassic, was reconstructed by a team of researchers from the University of Bristol.
  
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• Surgeons successfully transplant two PIG KIDNEYS into a human

  20-01-2022 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jim Parsons of Huntsville, Alabama, had twokidneys, procured from a genetically modified pig, transplanted in his abdomen after his own kidneys were removed.
  
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• Simulation Tech Can Help Predict the Biggest Threats

  20-01-2022 13:00
  
  In the face of myriad global problems, Single Synthetic Environments will make life and death decisions easier to navigate.
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope successfully deploys all of its mirrors

  20-01-2022 12:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $10 billion Webb telescope has been in space for nearly a month, and is close to being at the end of its deployment - something that happened faster than expected.
  
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• Black hole is spotted 'giving birth' to stars in a nearby dwarf galaxy

  20-01-2022 10:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New evidence from the Hubble telescope shows a black hole at the heart of dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 that's creating stars, not gobbling them up, report experts from Montana State University.
  
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• River pollution: Shake-up call for investigations in Wales

  20-01-2022 08:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say thousands of incidents are not being investigated because of a lack of resources.
  
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• Giant pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti

  20-01-2022 06:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marine explorers find a "pristine" 3km coral reef at depths of 30m off the coast of Tahiti.
  
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• SpaceX Starlink satellite streaks now present in nearly fifth of all astronomical images snapped by Caltech telescope

  20-01-2022 01:49 via go.theregister.com
  
  Annoying, maybe – but totally ruining science, no SpaceX’s Starlink satellites appear in about a fifth of all images snapped by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope in California, which is used by astronomers to study supernovae, gamma ray bursts, asteroids, and suchlike.…
  
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• SpaceX Starlink sat streaks now present in nearly a fifth of all astronomical images snapped by Caltech telescope

  20-01-2022 01:49 via go.theregister.com
  
  Annoying, maybe – but totally ruining science, no SpaceX’s Starlink satellites appear in about a fifth of all images snapped by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope in California, which is used by astronomers to study supernovae, gamma ray bursts, asteroids, and suchlike.…
  
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• Binge-watching TV in middle-age may raise the risk of blood clots by a THIRD, study suggests

  20-01-2022 01:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People who watch TV for four hours or more a day are a third more likely to suffer from blood clots than those who watch for two-and-a-half hours, University of Bristol researchers have found.
  
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• South Georgia: The museum at the end of the world reopens for business

  20-01-2022 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  On a British island at the edge of the Antarctic is one of the most remote tourist spots in the world.
  
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• Enormous A68a iceberg released 152 BILLION tonnes of fresh water as it melted

  20-01-2022 01:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The massive slab of ice released the fresh water when it scraped past the island of South Georgia last year, according to researchers from the University of Leeds.
  
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• The people moving from high to low-carbon careers

  20-01-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A growing number of people are changing to more environmentally-friendly jobs.
  
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• Doomsday clock will be unveiled for its 75th time TOMORROW to determine humanity's fate

  20-01-2022 00:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Humanity will learn its fate tomorrow during a live event that will unveil Doomsday clock for the 75th time. The clock's hand has remained at 100 seconds to midnight for the past two year.
  
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