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• Sky High Gas Prices Push Europe's Gig Workers to Strike

  22-03-2022 22:30
  
  Drivers and couriers in the UK and Germany are protesting this week as the rising cost of fuel erodes their earnings.
  
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• First people in America didn't arrive by land bridge but by SEA

  22-03-2022 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Whether they travelled into North America over land depends on whether Beringia was actually had an ice-free corridor, allowing travel down to the Great Plains.
  
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• NASA will fly two rockets to the Northern Lights to study how our planet exchanges energy with space

  22-03-2022 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The INCAA mission will study how the aurora borealis stir up the boundary layer between the neutral atmosphere that cocoons our planet and the electrically-reactive plasma of space.
  
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• China plans to open its space station to tourism within a decade

  22-03-2022 19:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While there are no specific details for the future of space tourism in China, it is likely that people without formal astronaut training could be launched 'relatively soon'.
  
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• The three Russian cyber-attacks the West most fears

  22-03-2022 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US intelligence says Russia could launch cyber-attacks on the West. What are the worst-case scenarios?
  
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• Two new species of frogs are discovered in Ecuador with completely SEE-THROUGH bellies

  22-03-2022 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The frogs were found near active mining areas in the Andes and have been named the Mashpi glassfrog and the Nouns' glass frog.
  
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• No point pretending you like your mate's home-brew! Facial expressions reveal our beer preferences

  22-03-2022 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two different facial expressions can truly reveal whether or not we enjoyed a beer immediately after trying it, report experts in Ibaraki, Japan.
  
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• Boris Johnson gets summaries of sensitive government material via WhatsApp

  22-03-2022 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners are challenging the use of messaging apps to discuss government business in the High Court.
  
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• NASA will fly a ROCKET through the Northern lights to study how they affect Earth

  22-03-2022 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The INCAA mission will study how the aurora borealis stir up the boundary layer between the neutral atmosphere that cocoons our planet and the electrically-reactive plasma of space.
  
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• Working from home during Covid has made us switch between social identities more often

  22-03-2022 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Exeter experts found that people were able to switch social identities rapidly 'with no apparent difficulty', which they said was good for those who had to work from home during Covid.
  
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• Water ice on the moon was likely preserved by an ancient magnetic field 

  22-03-2022 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study, by a team from the University of Arizona, suggests that the water is preserved as a result of 'magnetic anomalies' surrounding certain craters.
  
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• Italian scientists create a yeast-free pizza by blowing bubbles in dough

  22-03-2022 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Putting yeast-free pizza dough inside an autoclave (an industrial device usually used to sterilize plastics) can create bubbles of CO2, researchers in Naples report.
  
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• Robot Trucks Could Replace 500K Jobs In U.S.

  22-03-2022 16:01 via technocracy.news
  
  Crisis after crisis provides opportunities for Technocrats to advance their cause of automating everything in society. The twisted, illogical response to a 60,000 driver shortage is to displace  500,000 workers with robot trucks. One robot maker exec says it’s “pretty exciting.” ⁃ TN EditorThe robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception.  Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul fre
  
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• How Technocrats Dabble: Killer AI Invented 40,000 ‘Lethal Chemical Weapons’ In Just Six Hours

  22-03-2022 15:09 via technocracy.news
  Scientists with legitimate concern for people and humanity are rightly terrified by the outcome of this experiment. Technocrats not so much. In the wrong hands, the power of AI could be used to destroy all life on earth. The development of the atomic bomb pales in comparison. ⁃ TN EditorArtificial intelligence was used to ‘easily’ invent 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours.
  This is according to researchers who turned a drug-developing AI into a “bad act
  
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• Medical Conspiracy: With Eyes Wide Open, They Killed, Maimed Thousands

  22-03-2022 14:56 via technocracy.news
  
  Pfizer’s heinous mRNA injections should have been stopped within 30 days of initial release, but were not as data was hidden. Internal documents forced to be released by a court order now show the depth and damage of the greatest medical conspiracy in the history of the world.
  The word conspiracy is fully appropriate because the FDA and CDC helped Pfizer to cover up its crimes and flooded the media with propaganda that deceived the public into taking injections that they knew would cause g
  
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• Working from home during Covid has made us better at switching between different social identities

  22-03-2022 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Exeter experts had assumed that Covid lockdowns would have had an adverse affect on identity switching, by taking away the slow flit between employee and parent during a commute.
  
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• Japanese start-up develops an armband that mimics PAIN in the metaverse

  22-03-2022 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  H2L, a Sony-backed company based in Tokyo, has developed an armband that uses electrical stimulation to deliver physical pain.
  
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• Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet

  22-03-2022 12:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samples from the diamond shaped, half-mile diameter space rock were returned to Earth for study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2020.
  
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• The Entirely Predictable Impact of Salary Transparency

  22-03-2022 12:00
  
  Europe is about to decide whether to make everyone's salaries public, a move that could dramatically narrow the gender pay gap.
  
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• Elon Musk is 'hopeful' SpaceX will launch its $216 million rocket Starship into orbit this MAY

  22-03-2022 11:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX originally planned to launch Starhip in January but was forced to delay following an environmental assessment of the Boca Chica launch site by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
  
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• NASA confirms there are 5,000 planets outside our solar system

  22-03-2022 10:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Another 65 exoplanets have been added to the online NASA Exoplanet Archive, bringing the grand total of known exoplanets to 5,005, the Washington, D.C. space agency has announced.
  
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• Gene-edited lettuce grown in SPACE could protect astronauts against bone loss on missions to Mars

  22-03-2022 10:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from University of California, Davis have developed lettuce that has been genetically engineered to produce a bone-stimulating hormone, and say it could be grown in space.
  
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• Oxidation-proof copper could replace gold, meaning cheaper chips, says prof

  22-03-2022 08:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  One hopes this won't hike the price of Cu Scientists claim to have found a way to stop copper from oxidizing. If they're right, this could potentially allow copper to replace gold in electronics, leading to lower costs and, ultimately, cheaper components.…
  
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• How access to satellite images shifts the view of war

  22-03-2022 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An unprecedented supply of images gives a unique overview of events unfolding on the ground.
  
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• Biden: Russia 'exploring' US cyber-attacks

  22-03-2022 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden says US companies should "immediately" prepare defences.
  
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