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• Hundreds of companies potentially hit by Okta hack

  23-03-2022 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Many household-name companies are clients of the access-management business.
  
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• Part of the Milky Way is around 2 billion years OLDER than previously thought, astronomers claim

  23-03-2022 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The surprising result came from analysis by astronomers Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix, from the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany.
  
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• Vikings left Greenland in the 15th century due to drought, study says

  23-03-2022 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst have analysed sediment samples taken from a Greenland lake adjacent to a former Norse farm.
  
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• Modern apples are bigger, less acidic, and store better than their wild ancestors, study finds 

  23-03-2022 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Dalhousie University have studied how ancestral apples from long ago compare to modern-day varieties.
  
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• Childless people may have their genes to blame for making them less likely to want a family

  23-03-2022 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People with this genetic profile also tend to earn less and are less likely to have a university degree, according to research by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, near Cambridge.
  
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• Forget leather! Your next handbag could be made from eco-friendly FUNGUS fed on stale bread

  23-03-2022 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Borås claim that their fungal leather takes less time to produce than existing substitutes already on the market, and, unlike some, is 100 per cent biobased.
  
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• Spinosaurus had dense bones for hunting underwater

  23-03-2022 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois came to their conclusion after studying the density of spinosaurid bones and comparing them to other animals like penguins and hippos.
  
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• Fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are losing their colour, study finds 

  23-03-2022 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Townsville, Queensland have found a link between dull-coloured fish and corals that have undergone coral bleaching and turned white.
  
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• About time! Instagram FINALLY brings back the chronological feed

  23-03-2022 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram is launching two new ways for users to catch up with their feed - Following and Favourites - which will show posts in chronological order.
  
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• Smart BRA with built-in ultrasound technology can detect early signs of breast cancer

  23-03-2022 16:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The smart bra features small ultrasound sensors in the lining, and was developed by Nextwear Technology, a wearables firm based in Abuja, Nigeria.
  
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• Corbett: Globalists Release Timeline for Health Tyranny

  23-03-2022 15:51 via technocracy.news
  
  This editor has demonstrated for 45 years that the global elite are uniformly boastful in laying out their timeline for the future of their strategies to conquer the world. They are not hard to find but not if you are not looking for them in the first place. James Corbett understands Technocracy and every word of this article is well worth reading.
  You can subscribe to James’ at The Corbett Report and on his Substack account. ⁃ TN EditorOne thing you learn after spending years in the
  
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• The Apple AirPods Pro are at their cheapest price EVER on Amazon - now a very decent £64 off  

  23-03-2022 15:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Apple AirPods Pro with MagSafe charging case (2021) are currently on sale for their lowest ever price on Amazon, now £174.99 down from £239. That's a saving of £64.
  
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• NYPD Sued Over Illegal Collection And Storage Of Citizens’ DNA

  23-03-2022 15:18 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats love to work within a large police force because it is authoritarian and prone to concealment of miscreant policies such as maintaining a DNA database on innocent citizens. This blatantly violates state and national law plus the U.S. Constitution itself. Technocrats crave and hoard data like an addict craves and hoards heroin. ⁃ TN EditorThe NYPD’s DNA database is comprised of an ever-growing number of genetic profiles of thousands of innocent New Yorkers, including child
  
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• Phase 2: Technocracy’s War On Humanity

  23-03-2022 15:06 via technocracy.news
  
  In war, diversionary strategies are legendary: trick the enemy into thinking you are doing one thing, while you secretly do another thing to sneak up from another direction and clobber them. Technocracy is at war with the world since January 2020 with the introduction of COVID. Now, the next phase is underway and you will never see it if you look directly at Russia or Ukraine.
  Phase 2 of the Great Reset, aka Technocracy, will showcase control over energy, famine and the bio-security dominance ov
  
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• Climate change: Extreme weather warning systems for all 'in five years'

  23-03-2022 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UN wants to ensure that everyone on the planet is covered by early warning systems by 2027.
  
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• 'New type of UV light' kills 98% of microbes in a room and could help prevent the next pandemic

  23-03-2022 13:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Far-UVC' light can kill microbes without damaging human skin, say experts at the University of St. Andrews, University of Dundee, University of Leeds, and Columbia University in New York.
  
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• Russia's Mir space station returned to Earth 21 years ago

  23-03-2022 13:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  The project lives on as part of the ISS – but for how much longer? Today marks 21 years since Russia's space station, Mir, returned to Earth.…
  
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• Bulgari's Octo Finissimo Ultra is the world's THINNEST mechanical watch at just 0.07 inches thick

  23-03-2022 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rome-based Bulgari spent three years developing the watch, which is crafted from sandblasted titanium as measures just 0.07 inches (1.8mm) thick.
  
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• Astronomers reveal clearest image yet of mysterious 'odd radio circle'

  23-03-2022 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are now three leading theories about what causes 'odd radio circles' thanks to the new images captured by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory's MeerKat radio telescope.
  
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• Smartwatches are 'less effective at tracking the health of people with dark skin'

  23-03-2022 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research by University of Alberta is the first to pool figures from multiple studies to specifically examine how skin tone may affect the accuracy of heart data in wearables
  
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• Russia Is Facing a Tech Worker Exodus

  23-03-2022 12:00
  
  With founders and developers scrambling for the exit, the Russian tech scene is taking a major hit.
  
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• Nothing’s Carl Pei Wants to Start a Smartphone Revolution (Again)

  23-03-2022 12:00
  
  The former OnePlus cofounder is back with a flagship-bothering, high-spec budget phone designed to be the most compelling alternative to Apple.
  
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• Halo Is Another Carcass on the Heap of Bad Video Game Adaptations

  23-03-2022 12:00
  
  The new Paramount+ series underestimates gamer audiences and falls into the “content-delivery” trap, losing the excitement of gameplay along the way.
  
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• A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine

  23-03-2022 12:00
  
  The biggest hack since Russia’s war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
  
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• Deplorable scam emails fake fundraising for Ukraine

  23-03-2022 11:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Action Fraud warns of fake emails asking for donations to victims of the war.
  
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• Smart BRA has built-in ultrasound technology that can detect early signs of tumours

  23-03-2022 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The smart bra features small ultrasound sensors in the lining, and was developed by Nextwear Technology, a wearables firm based in Abuja, Nigeria.
  
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• 500 MILLION-year-old fossils found in a delta in China were ancestors of many of today's animals

  23-03-2022 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 518-million-year-old Chengjiang Biota - in Yunnan, south-west China - is one of the oldest groups of animal fossils known to science, and a key record of the Cambrian Explosion.
  
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• Arctic winter 2022 sea ice the 10th-lowest on record: NASA 

  23-03-2022 10:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arctic sea ice peaked at 5.75 million square miles (14.88 million square km) on February 25, says experts at NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
  
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• IVF children have a better quality of life, study shows 

  23-03-2022 06:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Those whose parents had medical help such as using IVT to get pregnant were significantly happier with their personal relationships, support from friends, sex lives and quality of life.
  
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• Humans have given wild animals diseases nearly 100 times, study says

  23-03-2022 06:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pathogens spread from humans to wild animals in multiple ways, such as wild animals' contact with human sewage, reports a research team led by Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
  
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• Tall, dark and MINDFUL: People who practice mindfulness are more likely to be considered attractive

  23-03-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Cardiff University have revealed that people with 'mindful' faces are more likely to be considered attractive, competent, and rational.
  
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• Great white sharks form friendships as they prowl the oceans hunting big prey

  23-03-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The insight into great whites' social lives came from experts at Florida International University, who tracked six sharks around Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico.
  
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