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• Apple to allow Spotify, Netflix and Amazon to put a link to their payment page in app

  31-03-2022 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move, long been requested by subscription services operating 'reader apps', where the user may already have a pre-existing subscription.
  
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• Monkeys seek out fruit that is ripe enough to have turned to alcohol, study finds

  31-03-2022 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Biologists from UC Berkeley collected fruit that had been eaten and discarded by black-handed spider monkeys in Panama, as well as taking urine samples.
  
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• Facebook in 'bare-knuckle' fight with TikTok

  31-03-2022 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Washington Post alleges a consultancy was paid by Meta to promote stories of dangerous TikTok trends.
  
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• The human genome is finally COMPLETE

  31-03-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A gap-free genome sequence will help understand genetic contributions to diseases, say experts at the universities of California Santa Cruz and Washington in Seattle.
  
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• Prehistoric mammals prioritised bulking up over brain size to boost their chances of survival

  31-03-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For 10 million years after the dinosaurs died out, mammals prioritised boosting their body size to adapt to radical shifts in the make-up of Earth's animal kingdom, University of Edinburgh experts said.
  
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• Sewage: Urgent plan to stop discharges into rivers and sea

  31-03-2022 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government is putting water firms under pressure after 1,000 sewage spills a day in 2021.
  
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• The Farthest Star Sheds New Light on the Early Universe

  31-03-2022 17:30
  
  A cosmic fluke helped Hubble spy Earendel, a giant star at the edge of the known universe that could tell us more about what happened after the Big Bang.
  
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• Report: ‘Cashless Society’ Would Leave Millions Struggling

  31-03-2022 17:26 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats who are driving the move toward a cashless society could care less about the human displacement and hardships that would be created. No matter what Technocrats tell you about the inevitability of a cashless society, it is pure propaganda to trick you into going along.
  Philadelphia, for instance, banned cashless stores and restaurants because of hardships imposed on those who don’t have bank accounts. ⁃ TN EditorA report into the potential effects of implementing a ‘
  
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• Fish can do MATHS! Stingrays and zebra mbuna can add and subtract just like humans

  31-03-2022 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creatures were trained to recognise the colour blue as a symbol for addition and the colour yellow as a symbol for subtraction,' according to researchers at Germany's University of Bonn.
  
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• DHS Spawns New Types Of ‘Domestic Extremism’ Out Of Thin Air

  31-03-2022 17:01 via technocracy.news
  
  Who gave the DHS the right to make up new crimes and then to enforce them at the point of a gun? Did Congress, where all laws are supposed to be created, make a law? Was DHS ceded the right to make laws, statutes and penalties for violating them?
  This is not to say that there are not bad people in society who do bad things. In the past, traditional and local law enforcement has dealt with criminals just fine. When federal agencies meddle with local enforcement agencies, things start to go haywir
  
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• Ozone may be heating the planet more than scientists realise

  31-03-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are changes in ozone levels in two layers of Earth's atmosphere - the stratosphere and the troposphere, say experts at the University of Reading and University of California Riverside.
  
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• WEF Spews Propaganda, Says Consumers Don’t Blame Climate Policies For Soaring Energy Prices

  31-03-2022 16:23 via technocracy.news
  The WEF promotes all UN climate change policies to kill oil, coal and natural gas in favor of alternative energy like windmills and solar. The world is reeling from skyrocketing energy prices, but now the WEF informs us that it wasn’t climate change policies that did it.
  This is the proverbial snake that ate its own tail. The WEF is gaslighting the entire world while virtue signaling to its own, saying everything is just peachy. They say that price increases do not reflect an alternative e
  
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• Are tech companies removing evidence of war crimes?

  31-03-2022 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Technology companies are removing graphic footage of conflict - but could they also be removing vital evidence?
  
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• Northern Lights could be visible in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Oregon tonight

  31-03-2022 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The spectacular natural phenomenon is the result of a giant 'cannibal' solar eruption that is barrelling towards Earth at 1.8 million miles/hour.
  
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• Airbus A380 'superjumbo' powered by cooking oil completes a three-hour flight

  31-03-2022 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A test model of an Airbus A380 'superjumbo' aircraft, which was filled with 27 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), took off from Blagnac Airport in Toulouse and landed in Nice on Friday last week.
  
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• Scientists develop plant-based STEAKS from pea protein with the same fat marbling as the real deal

  31-03-2022 13:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fake steak (pictured) uses pea protein for the red 'flesh' and an oil-in-water emulsion for the white cow fat, report a team at ETH Zürich in Switzerland.
  
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• The Last Cell Tower in Mariupol

  31-03-2022 13:00
  
  For weeks, a lone mobile base station allowed thousands in the besieged Ukrainian city to stay connected—until Russian troops arrived.
  
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• As Covid Restrictions End, Offices Have a Sick-Pay Problem

  31-03-2022 13:00
  
  Countries aren’t just lifting pandemic restrictions, they’re cutting resources—forcing workers to choose between working sick and losing pay.
  
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• The Northern Lights could be visible as far south as Edinburgh tonight

  31-03-2022 11:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Met Office's Space Weather arm said solar activity had been 'at high levels over the past 24 hours', with 17 solar eruptions blasting from a single sunspot and twoheading for Earth.
  
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• EE launches the world's first augmented reality SUPERSTORE at Wembley Stadium

  31-03-2022 11:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The store opened last week for the England international friendlies against Switzerland the Ivory Coast - both of which England won.
  
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• Manager of Japanese baseball team enters stadium on a flying MOTORBIKE

  31-03-2022 10:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tsuyoshi Shinjo, manager of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, flew into theSapporo Dome in Hokkaidō, Japan on Tuesday aboard the futuristicXTurismo bike.
  
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• 'RoboBurger' VENDING MACHINE opens in New Jersey, serving up fresh patties in six minutes for $6.99

  31-03-2022 10:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The RoboBurger vending machine has opened in Jersey City, serving up fresh burgers in six minutes for just $6.99 (£5.30).
  
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• Assam: 'Mysterious' giant stone jars found in India

  31-03-2022 08:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The jars are thousands of years old and may have been used for ancient human burial practices.
  
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• US astronaut and Russian cosmonauts return to Earth

  31-03-2022 00:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  They landed safely in Kazakhstan after leaving the International Space Station in a shared capsule.
  
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