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• Record-high seizure of $4bn in stolen Bitcoin

  09-02-2022 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two suspects allegedly conspired to launder the money after it was stolen by a hacker in 2016.
  
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• Assange's NFT Clock Sale Rides a Wave of DAO Crowdfunding

  09-02-2022 22:33
  
  The WikiLeaks founder raised $50 million for legal fees, making him the latest public figure to benefit from decentralized autonomous organizations.
  
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• Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out

  09-02-2022 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.
  
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• Archaeology: Fossilised modern human child's molar from 54,000 YEARS ago found in French cave

  09-02-2022 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery was made in the 'Grotte Mandrin', 1.5 miles south of Malataverne, in the Rhône Valley by researchers led from the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.
  
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• Renewables auctions to be held annually in green energy push

  09-02-2022 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The energy secretary says renewable power is the best way to shield the UK from volatile gas prices.
  
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• Tech: Incredible Cybercat accessory transforms Tesla's Cybertruck into a CATAMARAN within minutes

  09-02-2022 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Cybercat' accessory - the brainchild of US-based materials scientist Anthony Diamond - sees the vehicle outrigged with lowerable pontoons and electric outboard motors.
  
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• What your music choice says about your personality

  09-02-2022 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Agreeable people the world over will tend to like Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, or Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's Shallow, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge.
  
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• Samsung phones with parts made from fishing nets

  09-02-2022 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As part of its Galaxy range unveiling, Samsung talks up its sustainability credentials.
  
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• Boris Johnson accused of not taking online fraud seriously

  09-02-2022 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson says he hates fraud, as he faces calls to apologise for not including it in crime statistics.
  
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• Charge: U.S. Capitol Police Spying On Members Of Congress, Staff

  09-02-2022 17:13 via technocracy.news
  
  To the Technocrat mind, surveillance is seen as some sort of divine right that gives them a moral free pass to look at anything they choose to look at. In this case, the Capitol Police appear to have been flipped into a type of  Praetorian Guard for the radical left to spy on certain Congressmen and their staff. In a sane world, congressional and staff perpetrators would be summarily ejected from the capitol. ⁃ TN EditorThe inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has open
  
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• Final moments in the life of a dead planet seen for the first time as it hits a white dwarf

  09-02-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These observations, made using the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, confirm decades of indirect evidence that debris from disintegrating planets are sent hurtling into these stellar remnants.
  
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• Boom: Biden Admin Officially Targets Free Speech As Domestic Terrorism

  09-02-2022 16:17 via technocracy.news
  
  This outrageous “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin” issued by the Department of Homeland Security pits government narrative against all others. In other words, if you write or speak against the government’s narrative, you are “undermin(ing) public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest.” This, in turn, could “inspire acts of violence”.
  Now the stage is set to completely criminalize free speech that does not bow to the government p
  
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• Samsung unveils Galaxy S22 smartphone with improved nighttime photography

  09-02-2022 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three new smartphones have been unveiled by the Seoul tech giant - the standard Galaxy S22 and two more expensive models with larger screens, Galaxy S22 Plus and S22 Ultra.
  
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• Saskatchewan Lifts All Covid Restrictions Amid Trucker Protests

  09-02-2022 15:38 via technocracy.news
  The massive Canadian trucker protest is bearing enough fruit to encourage them to push on until total victory. Global protests will also be inspired to intensify their protests. Alberta and Quebec are also softening and may reverse course soon.  Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe, who also has supported the protest, says “This policy has run its course”. ⁃ TN EditorAlberta was expected to soon follow suit — despite some pushback from doctors and nurses — while Queb
  
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• Twitter is testing a feature that will give users the ability to change the playback speed of videos

  09-02-2022 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Select Android and web users will have a new option when watching a video, shown as a small cog and the choice to go from a quarter speed, to twice the normal speed.
  
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• Arm boss: We can do it by ourselves

  09-02-2022 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arm's new chief executive speaks about its Nvidia-free future and reveals his favourite British tradition.
  
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• Can YOU tell which of these faces are real? Staged photos, cutouts and masks fool 30% of humans

  09-02-2022 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study by New York-based company ID R&D tested humans and machines by presenting them with common spoofing techniques such as printed photos and 2D or 3D masks.
  
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• Physics: Last year's far-reaching South Atlantic tsunami triggered by almost invisible earthquake

  09-02-2022 14:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The far-reaching disturbance followed in the wake of an apparently magnitude 7.5 earthquake centred near the South Sandwich Islands that struck on August 12, 2021.
  
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• UberSki comes to Europe with a service launching in France

  09-02-2022 14:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's the first time the service has been made available in Europe and it will be accessible from Grenoble railway station between February 16 and March 16.
  
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• Joint European Torus more than doubles fusion record with 59 megajoules

  09-02-2022 13:24 via go.theregister.com
  
  Next stop, ITER? Scientists and engineers running the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford have announced a record-breaking 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion, more than double the previous record achieved by JET.…
  
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• SpaceX says recently-launched Starlink satellites will be destroyed

  09-02-2022 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX sent another 49 of its Starlink satellites into space from Merritt Island, Florida on February 3, but it's announced that up to 40 will reenter or already have reentered the Earth's atmosphere.
  
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• Britain's 'artificial sun' nuclear fusion reactor sets a new world record

  09-02-2022 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain has been one of the leading players in the nuclear fusion field ever since the Joint European Torus was built on an industrial estate outside Oxford in 1978 - and now it has a new world record.
  
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• You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth

  09-02-2022 13:00
  
  Scientists are racing to bring extinct species back from the dead. But does a resurrected mammoth belong to nature, or us?
  
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• Tired: Breaking Up Big Tech. WIRED: Opening it Up

  09-02-2022 12:55
  
  Tech firms’ have hoarded customer data for too long, but sharing will become the norm.
  
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• Smart window that absorbs heat in winter and reflects it in summer could reduce energy use by 34%

  09-02-2022 12:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The glazing can switch its arrangement of atoms to either reflect or absorb light from the sun depending on the seasons, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
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• How augmented reality could spot when building work goes wrong

  09-02-2022 12:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The augmented reality device is able to highlight where construction has deviated from the plans.
  
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• Birmingham 2022: Esports to be included as pilot event at Commonwealth Games

  09-02-2022 09:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Esports are to be included as a pilot event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
  
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• Geomagnetic storm takes out 40 of 49 brand new Starlink satellites

  09-02-2022 05:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  SpaceX launched even though the space weatherman predicted tricky conditions could follow a solar flare SpaceX last week launched 49 shiny new Starlink broadband-beaming satellites, which is good. But but 40 of them have already, or will shortly, meet their demise thanks to a geomagnetic storm that struck a few days after their ascent. Which is bad.…
  
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