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• Wozniak startup to share orbital space junk data

  28-03-2022 23:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Privateer to help avoid collisions and more debris around our planet Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak opened up about his space startup Privateer at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week.…
  
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• Ukraine war: Major internet provider suffers cyber-attack

  28-03-2022 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ukrtelecom says a powerful cyber-attack carried out against its infrastructure was "repulsed".
  
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• 'Super ants' that start fires could be wiped out by a fungus, study says

  28-03-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A naturally occurring fungus, called microsporidia, can decimate local populations of crazy ants, researchers in Austin, Texas report.
  
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• Methane could be the most reliable sign of alien life, study says

  28-03-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Methane (CH4) is one of the few potential signs of life, or 'biosignatures', that could be readily detectable with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), experts in Santa Cruz say.
  
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• Hiding in plain sight: HUNDREDS of new species of mammals are yet to be discovered

  28-03-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Ohio State University say that most of these hidden creatures are small bodied, including bats, rodents, shrews and moles.
  
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• Fossil skeleton of an extinct owl that lived more than six million years ago is unearthed in China 

  28-03-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Detailed analysis of the skeleton's fossilised eye bones by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences reveals that, unlike most modern owls, this species was active in the daytime, not the night.
  
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• Twitter is back online following a two-hour outage

  28-03-2022 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 13:13 BST and affected users worldwide.
  
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• Oxymoron: Christian Transhumanism Is Trending

  28-03-2022 16:56 via technocracy.news
  
  There are no common points of belief between Transhumanism and Christianity, but that doesn’t stop the Christian Transhuman movement from throwing in together. The resulting rhetoric doesn’t make sense to either side, nor to the public-at-large. ⁃ TN EditorSo-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology, has been around for some time. But there has been a recent resurgence of interest in t
  
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• 'Medieval Wanderer' found in Edinburgh travelled there from the Southern Highlands or Loch Lomond

  28-03-2022 16:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the University of Aberdeen have revealed that the man, dubbed the 'Medieval Wanderer', was not a local and had travelled to Edinburgh.
  
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• Defense Department ‘Encryption Keys’ Found On Hunter Biden’s Laptop

  28-03-2022 16:15 via technocracy.news
  If any Washington outsider were ever caught with DOD encryption keys in their possession, they would flee for their life like Edward Snowden who fled to Russia. For Joe Biden’s son, however, barely anyone raises an eyebrow.  Who gave the codes to Biden in the first place? Nobody knows and nobody seems to  care. ⁃ TN EditorOld Joe Biden’s chip off the old block, Hunter Biden, has been many things: board member of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma; vice chairman
  
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• How The C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns And Economic War

  28-03-2022 15:46 via technocracy.news
  
  C-Suite are those execs whose titles start with “C”, such as CEO, CFO, etc. Global corporations have been lured into policies and actions that are destructive to shareholder value. I will suggest this is the irresistible Siren call of Technocracy, beckoning the ships to head for the rocks.” ⁃ TN EditorAwhile back, corporate America was bending over backwards to appease the Virus Patrol with lockdowns, mandatory masking and threats to fire anyone who didn’t take the
  
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• Twitter is DOWN: Social media app crashes for thousands of frustrated users around the world 

  28-03-2022 15:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 13:13 BST and are affecting users worldwide.
  
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• No Time To Die: How we made the Bond film’s visual effects

  28-03-2022 14:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  VFX Supervisor Jonathan Fawkner tells the BBC about the challenges of making the Bond film.
  
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• iPhone 14 Pro's camera bump will be even bigger, rumours suggest 

  28-03-2022 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will have bigger camera components on the back of the device, according totwo leakers - one based in Connecticut and the other in Taiwan.
  
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• Elon Musk's Starlink satellite dishes CAN'T be camouflaged from Russian military attacks: experts

  28-03-2022 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian users of SpaceX's internet could be making themselves targets of Russian military attacks, due to the distinctive appearance of the company's dishes, experts have warned.
  
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• Dune: How we made sand dunes and sandworms real

  28-03-2022 13:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  VFX supervisors Tristan Myles and Brian Connor tell the BBC about bringing a desert planet to life.
  
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• Saturn, Venus and Mars will appear in a triangle in the sky close to the crescent moon this week 

  28-03-2022 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Saturn, Venus and Mars are set to appear in a triangle in the night sky, alongside the sliver of the crescent moon.People in the southern hemisphere will also get a glimpse of Jupiter.
  
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• The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?

  28-03-2022 13:00
  
  Covid forced the world to develop some of the best epidemiological surveys ever done. Now they’re being cut back, even as the threat of the virus lingers.
  
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• A Bold Idea to Stall the Climate Crisis—by Building Better Trees

  28-03-2022 13:00
  
  Changing the genetic makeup of trees could supercharge their ability to suck up carbon dioxide. But are forests of frankentrees really a good idea?
  
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• Instagram AUDIO could let users reply to Stories with voice messages 

  28-03-2022 11:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rome-based leaker Alessandro Paluzzi shared a screenshot from Instagram Stories, showing what the feature will look like.
  
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• Social media negatively affects female teens before males, study finds

  28-03-2022 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sensitivity to social media use might be linked to developmental differences, like puberty, which occurs later in boys than in girls, report experts at Oxford and Cambridge.
  
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• Impact of social media varies across adolescence, study finds

  28-03-2022 11:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sensitivity to social media use might be linked to developmental differences, like puberty, which occurs later in boys than in girls, report experts at Oxford and Cambridge.
  
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• Beating noise pollution with smart tech

  28-03-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A growing number of firms are offering solutions to cut the excessive noise that's harming our health
  
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