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• Forests of mechanical trees could be built to 'soak up carbon dioxide'

  25-01-2022 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Developed by Klaus Lackner, Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University, the 'trees' are thousands of times more efficient than the natural variety.
  
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• Kim Kardashian's hourglass figure 'more harmful for body image' than Kate Moss's frame, study says

  25-01-2022 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Academics asked female volunteers to compare themselves to three body ideals. The Toronto team found the 'slim-thick' body ideal was worse for body dissatisfaction.
  
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• AT&T rolls out ultra-fast 5Gbps fiber plans to more than 70 cities

  25-01-2022 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This will see the firm increase the maximum speed of its fiber network from 1Gbps to up to 5Gbps in cities like Dallas, Atlanta and LA for the first time.
  
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• New wasp species neuroterus valhalla named after Houston pub near oak tree it was discovered in

  25-01-2022 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuroterus valhalla - which is just a millimetre long - honours 'Valhalla', the Rice University graduate student puboutside of which it was found in a live oak tree.
  
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• Kim Kardashian's hourglass figure is 'more harmful for body image', study says

  25-01-2022 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Academics asked female volunteers to compare themselves to three body ideals. The Toronto team found the 'slim-thick' body ideal was worse for body dissatisfaction.
  
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• Nature: Tiny new species of insect discovered in Houston is named after a PUB

  25-01-2022 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuroterus valhalla - which is just a millimetre long - honours 'Valhalla', the Rice University graduate student puboutside of which it was found in a live oak tree.
  
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• Tesla Cybertruck walkaround video shows the futuristic vehicle in incredible detail

  25-01-2022 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The video, which posted to the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, offers the closest glimpse yet of the Tesla prototype, which generated a lot of buzz when it was brought to New York City last year.
  
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• WEF: What IS Regenerative Capitalism And Who Cares?

  25-01-2022 18:17 via technocracy.news
  
  The World Economic Forum says it is extending the concept of Sustainable Development as Regenerative Capitalism: “business practices that restore and build rather than exploit and destroy.” This is yet one more propaganda phrase like Natural Capitalism, Smart Growth and Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN Editor
  As we continue to live beyond our planet’s limitations, we need to reconsider the capitalist system we live in. This entails looking beyond net-zero em
  
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• Walkers to trial crisp packets made from recycled plastic this year

  25-01-2022 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The trial, announced by Walkers' US parent company PepsiCo today, will take the form of a specially-designed range of Walkers crisps to hit the shelves sometime in 2022.
  
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• NASA's Perseverance rover tries out new tech which lets it spit out piece of Mars rock

  25-01-2022 17:07 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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• Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in British otters

  25-01-2022 16:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Toxic chemicals used in non-stick saucepans are found in otters across England and Wales.
  
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• Tech: Inventor develops a SEATBELT for takeout to ensure you get your fast food home in one piece

  25-01-2022 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brainchild of Atlanta-based Dan Stevenson, 'BAGO' works by hanging out of the glovebox and clipping to the top of the bag resting on the passenger-side floor.
  
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• NASA reveals the real world products to come from its inventions and research

  25-01-2022 15:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Spinoff 2022 list includes an air purifier that could grow plants in space, underwear for race car drivers, and new biometric technologies.
  
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• Impressive budget earbuds rival samsung and apple

  25-01-2022 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon shoppers have struggled to find a fault in the UGREEN £22.09 earbuds, with many agreeing that they even rival brands like Samsung and Apple for their exceptional performance.
  
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• Google sued in US over 'deceptive' location tracking

  25-01-2022 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Washington DC and Texas are among four states taking legal action against the technology giant.
  
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• Twitter feature will let users share tweets with a 'Flock' of up to 150 people 

  25-01-2022 15:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter users outside of a 'flock' won't be able to like, comment, retweet or even see the tweet, leaked screenshots from Rome-based mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi suggest.
  
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• Metaverse: Virtual Utopia Or Technocratic Nightmare?

  25-01-2022 15:29 via technocracy.news
  
  The Pied Pipers of Big Tech are seducing the world into an immersive virtual reality. It creates a blend of The Matrix, Ready Player One and lawless wild west anarchy where anything goes. Worse, it will blur the distinctions between reality and fantasy, rewiring the brain and changing way the mind responds to situations. ⁃ TN EditorThe tech world has been overtaken by the seductive idea of a virtual utopia, but what’s on offer looks more like a late-capitalist technocratic nightmare
  
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• A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on track to hit the moon

  25-01-2022 15:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Falcon 9 booster has been floating around in a somewhat chaotic orbit ever since Elon Musk's company launched its first deep-space mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida in February 2015.
  
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• China’s Technocrat Builders Create Equivalent Of 27 Empty New York Cities

  25-01-2022 15:07 via technocracy.news
  
  I have long claimed that China morphed into a Technocracy starting in 1978 when National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, brought Chairman Deng Xiaoping and China out of the economic dark ages. Today, Chinese Technocrats just keep building things, even though there is no demand or need to do so. ⁃ TN EditorAs of 2016, China’s empty apartment units could house New York City 27 times over.
  What does this mean to you? There are a lot of effects from wasting so
  
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• The EU Has a Plan to Fix Internet Privacy: Be More Like Apple

  25-01-2022 13:00
  
  Lawmakers want all websites to use a similar “Ask App Not to Track” function, but Apple's system might not be as clear-cut as once believed.
  
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• Autistic People’s Human Rights Are Not Being Met

  25-01-2022 12:55
  
  A greater understanding of neurodiversity can and should allow more people to live in a genuinely inclusive society.
  
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• Bataclan survivor finds NFT of her X-ray for sale online

  25-01-2022 12:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The surgeon had put an image of a patient's X-ray on a website that sells NFTs without her consent.
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth

  25-01-2022 09:35 via go.theregister.com
  
  Funnily enough, that's where we want to be right now, too The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex space observatory built by NASA, has reached its final destination: L2, the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, an orbit located about a million miles away.…
  
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• AI: Why chefs are turning to artificial intelligence

  25-01-2022 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How a robot is being used in the highly specialised business of creating flavours.
  
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• Climate change threatening buried UK treasures

  25-01-2022 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Our ability to understand Britain's history is at risk, warn archaeologists.
  
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