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• Scientists develop AI that can flirt by using 'non-word sounds' such as sighs and breaths

  14-02-2022 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sonantic, based in London, England, produces expressive artificial intelligence voices for a range of uses, including Hollywood movies and computer games.
  
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• World's rivers suffer 'toxic levels' of pharmaceutical pollution, study warns 

  14-02-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers sampled 258 rivers across the globe, including the Thames in London and the Amazon in Brazil, to measure the presence of 61 pharmaceuticals.
  
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• MoviePass is back but with eyeball tracking to make you watch ads

  14-02-2022 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The original service allowed movie fans to watch an unlimited number of films for $10 a month. It proved popular but failed to make any money for its owners.
  
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• Full Snow Moon set to light up the skies on Wednesday evening 

  14-02-2022 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In February, the moon will reach peak brightness at 4:56pm GMT this Wednesday, according to Royal Museums Greenwich.
  
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• Transhuman: Is Humanity 2.0 The New ‘Master Race’?

  14-02-2022 17:39 via technocracy.news
  
  Over the next two years, I predict that the intersection of historical and modern research on Transhumanism will reveal a plethora of comparisons between modern Transhumanism and Hitler’s Aryan “master race”. What Hitler could not achieve with selective breeding, sterilizing and extermination, can now be easily achieved through gene editing. ⁃ TN Editor
  STORY AT-A-GLANCE> The U.K. Ministry of Defense and the German Bundeswehr Office for Defense Planning Human stress th
  
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• Rocket part on crash course with Moon 'not from Elon Musk's SpaceX'

  14-02-2022 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.
  
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• Artifacts linked to famed 16th century Coronado expedition are part of a 'history-changing site'

  14-02-2022 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an undisclosed location, in Arizona's Santa Cruz County, Deni Seymour found a haul of artifacts she says could 'rewrite the history of the Coronado Expedition.'
  
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• 74% of ransomware revenue goes to Russia-linked hackers

  14-02-2022 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Crypto-currency researchers say more than $400m of cyber-crime funds go to Russian gangs.
  
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• Coming Soon: Centralized Control Over DNS Abuse Reporting

  14-02-2022 15:44 via technocracy.news
  
  Most ISPs have their own way of dealing with domains that deal with malware, botnets, phishing, pharming and spam. A global registrar could easily be expanded to include misinformation and disinformation regulated by opinionated fact-checkers. Like Orwell’s 1984, your domain could be erased from existence. ⁃ TN EditorThe DNS Abuse Institute (DNSAI) is currently developing a Centralized Abuse Reporting Tool (CART).  This tool is intended to provide a single platform to report DNS
  
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• Ancient crocodile's last meal was a dinosaur, study reveals

  14-02-2022 15:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossilised bones were recovered from a sheep station near the north western margins of the Winton Formation, a geological deposit in Queensland.
  
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• Top 20 Companies That Rule The Web

  14-02-2022 15:07 via technocracy.news
  
  Since 2008, Google has essentially dominated the Internet, which is not surprising. According to Prof. Shoshana Suboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, it was Google that invented Surveillance Capitalism in the first place. Those chasing Google to the top include Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. ⁃ TN EditorWith each passing year, an increasingly large segment of the population no longer remembers images loading a single pixel row at a time, the earsplitting sound of a 56k mode
  
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• Astronomers in Germany have discovered a 'strange' new type of star

  14-02-2022 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's thought that this new type of star was formed by the merger of two white dwarfs - the hot, dense remnants of long-dead stars, report scientists in Tübingen, Germany.
  
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• This Startup Is Trying to Make Juicy Steaks Out of Thin Air

  14-02-2022 13:00
  
  Air Protein is transforming carbon emissions into delicious cuts of meat, with the helping hand of bacteria.
  
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• Tech Must Accept Its Role in Delivering Change for Good

  14-02-2022 12:55
  
  The challenges world faces will be tackled by collaborations across technologies, sectors and companies.
  
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• NFTs Have Changed the Art of the Possible

  14-02-2022 12:55
  
  Artists, engineers, collectors, and auction houses are exploring bold new ways to blend the blockchain with creativity.
  
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• Sony launches a £60 carrying strap for its robotic dog Aibo

  14-02-2022 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tokyo-based firm has unveiled the 'Aibo Thong' - a 9,790 yen (£63) carrying strap designed to allow owners to hold their robo-dog while they're out and about.
  
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• Ancestors of two venomous front-fanged snakes arrived in Australia by SEA, study reveals

  14-02-2022 11:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study led by the University of Adelaide claims that the ancestor two of Australia's most dangerous snakes - brown snakes and tiger snakes - arrived in Australia by sea, and not by land.
  
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• Doctors develop new prostate cancer test that could prevent thousands of unnecessary treatments

  14-02-2022 02:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A test developed by Cambridge University scientists may allow doctors to distinguish benign prostate tumours from active, fast-growing ones that need urgent intervention.
  
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• Bionic eye tech aims to help blind people see

  14-02-2022 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Several firms are working on artificial eye tech that incorporates wireless, embedded sensors.
  
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• HMRC seizes NFT for first time in £1.4m fraud case

  14-02-2022 00:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tax authority says it is the first UK law enforcement body to seize a Non-Fungible Token.
  
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