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• Researchers in Hong Kong create 'soft robot' made of magnetic slime

  01-04-2022 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The team hope the slime could one day be used to collect accidentally-swallowed objects.
  
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• Terra Quantum nets $75m for cryptography, security work

  01-04-2022 21:05 via go.theregister.com
  
  Ferroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup A Swiss quantum computing company claiming a world-first discovery has just marked what it believes is one of the largest funding rounds in the history of the quantum tech space.…
  
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• Lapsus$: Two UK teenagers charged with hacking for gang

  01-04-2022 20:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The actions of the relatively new group have led to an international police hunt.
  
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• There are two speeds of sound on Mars

  01-04-2022 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first audio recordings on the Red Planet were obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover after it landed in February last year and deployed its two microphones.
  
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• Roman mercenary's skeleton among 456 found buried in countryside near Barry in Wales

  01-04-2022 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Improvement work on Five Mile Lane near Barry, South Wales led to the 'significant' and 'surprising' finds, which included Iron Age farming tools, ancient burial sites, and the remnants of roundhouses.
  
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• Facebook users angry after accounts locked for no reason

  01-04-2022 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meta said it was investigating the issue but didn't say what caused it.
  
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• Skeleton of a Roman mercenary is unearthed in the Welsh countryside

  01-04-2022 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Improvement work on Five Mile Lane near Barry, South Wales led to the 'significant' and 'surprising' finds, which included Iron Age farming tools, ancient burial sites, and the remnants of roundhouses.
  
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• Giant orchids that can reach up to 3.2ft tall are discovered growing wild in Oxfordshire

  01-04-2022 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stunning pink flowers were spotted on a grassy slope near Didcot, Oxfordshire by trainee nurse Hamza Nobes, while he was out on a walk.
  
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• 'Strawberry squid' is spotted in the 'twilight zone' off the coast of California 

  01-04-2022 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marine scientists filmed the strawberry squid 2,378 feet deep in Monterey Canyon, a submarine canyon in Monterey Bay, Moss Landing, California.
  
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• Best ways to control SLUGS in your garden as pellets are outlawed in the UK

  01-04-2022 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Slug pellets can no longer be used or sold in the UK, as they can poison other animals like birds and dogs. Thankfully, there are several other ways to control slugs in your garden.
  
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• Apple FIXES battery-drain issue affecting iPhones and iPads with iOS 15.4.1 update

  01-04-2022 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has released iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1 to fix the issue that was reportedly causing the batteries in iPhones and iPads to drain more quickly than expected
  
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• And Just Like That, All The Fiat Currencies Simply Vanished

  01-04-2022 16:20 via technocracy.news
  
  As I have said for several years now, obsessing over the dollar losing reserve status is a waste of time; that all fiat currencies will be ripped out of existence at the same time; that Technocrats will institute a centralized, all-knowing digital currency to control everything. Nobody believed me then, but will you now?
  This is the most important story you will read in the decade of the 20s. This global insider lets the cat out of the bag: “We are about to abandon the traditional system o
  
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• Planet almost identical to Jupiter is spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years away

  01-04-2022 16:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The exoplanet is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and distance from its star, which is 60 per cent the mass of our sun, reports scientists at Jodrell Bank Centre in Manchester.
  
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• Americans Sleep As Global Monetary System Being Reset

  01-04-2022 15:57 via technocracy.news
  
  Not surprisingly, the media is dead silent on Biden’s Executive Order to prepare for digital currency. The Technocrat takeover of the world by controlling the economy and consumption requires the replacement of the existing monetary system with another – controlled by them. This is happening NOW. ⁃ TN EditorWhenever the White House says it is working on a plan that would transform a vital part of the U.S. economy, and that the administration is doing so with the “highest
  
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• Sanctions On Russia Being Used To Hasten The Great Reset

  01-04-2022 15:27 via technocracy.news
  
  Sanctions on Russia are killing the West, not Russia. Why? Because the war is not about Russia, but rather killing capitalism and Free Enterprise, which is a requirement for the Great Reset, aka Technocracy, to take over the world. This insightful article is a must read. ⁃ TN EditorSoaring oil prices, energy and food crises on the horizon…is it possible the REAL target of this economic war is us?
  The first tweet I saw when I checked my timeline this morning was from foreign policy a
  
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• Couples who combine their finances have a better connection, study finds

  01-04-2022 15:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Couples with pooled finances had interactions that were more positive and stable, leading to them using shared language to describe their relationships, researchers at Cornell University said.
  
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• Selfies distort your face and make your nose look LARGER, study finds

  01-04-2022 14:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre have revealed that selfies distort your face, making your nose look longer and wider than standard photographs.
  
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• Baby monkeys conceived while mothers were exposed to wildfire smoke have problems with their MEMORY

  01-04-2022 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of California, Davis, found that baby monkeys conceived while their mothers were exposed smoke from wildfires show behavioural changes.
  
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• Meta admits Facebook bug led to a 'surge of misinformation'

  01-04-2022 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to an internal document, engineers at Mark Zuckerberg's firm in Menlo Park, California failed to suppress posts from 'repeat misinformation offenders' for six months.
  
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• Longer and warmer autumns caused by climate change could spell bad news for butterflies

  01-04-2022 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Green-veined whites - common across the UK - fared best when subjected to milder simulations, while their chrysalises lost more weight and used more energy under warmer and longer autumn conditions.
  
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• Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream

  01-04-2022 13:00
  
  For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign internet—a need exacerbated by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Don't call us! Chats on phones are hung up in favour of videos or text messages, survey shows

  01-04-2022 11:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spoken phone calls are in sharp decline as eight in ten now prefer messaging or video calls, a survey has shown.
  
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• Two adorable Giant Galapagos tortoises are born at a British zoo for the first time

  01-04-2022 11:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The hatchlings were born at Crocodiles of the World in Oxfordshire, having been fathered by a 70-year-old male in 'peak physical condition' called Dirk.
  
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• T. rex's short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies

  01-04-2022 11:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kevin Padiana, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that T. rex's arms were so short to keep them out of the way when devouring carcasses.
  
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• Slug pellets are outlawed from today... so gardeners are advised to kill them with BEER instead 

  01-04-2022 09:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  They have been used against the slimy vandals of the vegetable patch since the 1940s. But from today gardeners are banned from putting out slug pellets to tackle the pests.
  
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• China's WeChat suspends some accounts linked to NFTs

  01-04-2022 07:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The popular messaging app said the move was in line with "relevant national regulations".
  
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• Chip shortage: Has Europe's plan arrived too late?

  01-04-2022 02:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Union is investing billions of euros in developing a world-beating chip industry.
  
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• UK farmers call for weedkiller ban over Parkinson’s fears

  01-04-2022 02:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some farmers say studies suggest Paraquat could be a factor in the onset of Parkinson's Disease.
  
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