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• YouTube AI is putting explicit language into captions for videos aimed at children

  25-02-2022 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To better track the problem, a team from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, along with others, sampled 7,000 videos from 24 top-tier children's channels.
  
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• Cleaning products could expose people to pollution at the same rate as cars, study says

  25-02-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new findings may have implications for people who have worked with disinfectant sprays during the Covid pandemic, report experts at at University of California, Davis.
  
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• Chelyabinsk meteor may have been involved in the impact that formed the moon

  25-02-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers led by the University of Cambridge think it may have been been part of an ancient collision that broke off a chunk of baby Earth to form the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
  
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• NASA's Artemis 1 mission and first launch of the SLS mega rocket won't lift off until at least May

  25-02-2022 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is set to lift off atop the massive Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but has been hit by a number of delays.
  
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• The weapons Ukraine is using to hold back invading Russian Army

  25-02-2022 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From cutting edge drones to artillery that was first designed in the 1950s, MailOnline looks at what military aid has been sent to help Ukraine, and which Western nation it has come from.
  
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• Chernobyl: Why radiation levels spiked at nuclear plant

  25-02-2022 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Radiation levels increased, but a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is 'extremely unlikely', experts say.
  
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• Chernobyl: Radiation spike at nuclear plant seized by Russian forces

  25-02-2022 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  But a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is "extremely unlikely", experts say.
  
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• Russian vigilante hacker: 'I want to help beat Ukraine from my computer'

  25-02-2022 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of "patriotic" Russian hackers say they revel in causing chaos with cyber-attacks on Ukraine.
  
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• Bitcoin less green since China ban, research suggests

  25-02-2022 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mining new bitcoins now uses less renewable energy and creates more pollution.
  
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• UN Propaganda: Will Alarmism And Faux Panic Ever Stop?

  25-02-2022 16:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Remembering that propaganda is meant to deceive, we can see that the United Nations promotes only Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Global warming is not in the hands of mankind to cause or change, yet it is declared to be a planetary emergence of existential proportions.  ⁃ TN EditorKeynote Speech EVP Timmermans for the World Sustainable Development Summit
  Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today on multilateralism and our road to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh.
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• Russian space agency boss warns against sanctions that could block cooperation on the ISS

  25-02-2022 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin posted a long thread on Twitter, complaining about President Joe Biden's threat of sanctions against the Russian space program.
  
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• Global treaty to tackle plastic waste will be hammered out next week by the UN

  25-02-2022 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The UN's Inger Andersen spoke about 'turning off the plastic tap', alluding to a striking art installation situated outside the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi.
  
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• Filter out 'unverified' accounts, tech giants told

  25-02-2022 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Social networks should let people hide anonymous accounts, the government has proposed.
  
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• Global Technocrats Likely Behind Trudeau’s Sudden Reversal Of Emergency Orders

  25-02-2022 15:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Justin Trudeau was likely drawn up short by his Technocrat superiors because he let the cat out of the bag too early. That is, he revealed the workings of the dystopian financial controls being set in place to completely control a population through financial access, or lack of it.
  First, Trudeau’s actions to freeze accounts of protestors and those who gave money to the cause, caused a massive withdrawal of cash from the banking system by everyone else. If continued, this could have flared
  
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• Confiscation: The War On Cash Enters Bold New Phase

  25-02-2022 15:06 via technocracy.news
  
  Always look beyond the obvious headlines to see what is going on in the shadows. In this case, the tools of outright wealth confiscation are being fine tuned: negative interest rates, limits on cash withdrawals, transfers and freezing assets. To keep cash alive, one must use it daily. ⁃ TN EditorWith so much news about Ukraine, inflation, massive government spending and exploding deficits, it’s easy to overlook the ongoing war on cash. That’s a mistake because it has serious im
  
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• New frog species with a tapir-like nose discovered in the Amazon

  25-02-2022 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new species, found at the lower Putumayo basin in Loreto, Peru, has a long, curved-down snout, much like the tapir, the herbivorous Amazonian mammal.
  
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• How the Games Industry Shake-Up Could Play Out

  25-02-2022 13:00
  
  Many devs are leaving their studios to found new ones, and indie players are getting bought up. But where will it all lead?
  
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• Europe Is Scrambling to Turn Its Back on Russian Oil and Gas

  25-02-2022 13:00
  
  The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to the EU has been scrapped. It is far from clear what will replace it.
  
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• Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of

  25-02-2022 13:00
  
  A year after Australia forced tech giants to pay news outlets for the content they display, other countries want to follow suit.
  
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• Elusive variety of snowdrop is discovered in a garden in Northamptonshire after more than 50 years

  25-02-2022 12:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stunning variety was spotted in the grounds of the 1,000-acre Courteenhall estate in Northamptonshire, after which it is named.
  
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• NHS Scotland's Covid Status app criticised over privacy failings

  25-02-2022 11:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's data watchdog reprimands the Scottish government and NHS National Services Scotland.
  
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• World's biggest airplane takes to the California skies for almost two hours

  25-02-2022 11:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Described as the largest plane in the world due to its 383-foot wingspan, Stratolaunch lifted off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 15:23 EST (18:23 GMT) on Thursday.
  
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• QUARTER of the northern sky is mapped, revealing 4.4 million objects in astonishing detail

  25-02-2022 11:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of astronomers have been using the low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a pan-European radio telescope, to capture details of the universe.
  
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• Malaria: Aberystwyth University drone system used in Zanzibar

  25-02-2022 07:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The drones are being used to find pools of water that mosquitos use to breed.
  
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• How Taiwan used simple tech to help contain Covid-19

  25-02-2022 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The low-tech approach that helped Taiwan efficiently fight off coronavirus.
  
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