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• Amazon customers in the US can donate $1 to plant a tree using Alexa

  12-04-2022 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new skill has been launched in celebration of Earth Month, with the reforestation charity organizing tree planting in places it will do the most good around the world.
  
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• Fitbit gets approval to be used to monitor passive heart rhythms and identify atrial fibrillation

  12-04-2022 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google said the PPG AFib algorithm, available within the Fitbit app, assess users' heart rhythms while they are sleeping, and alert them if they suffer from AFib.
  
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• UK is to build 'brain' of the world's biggest radio telescope

  12-04-2022 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From its headquarters in the UK the Square Kilometre Array Observatory is set to explore the evolution of the early Universe and delve into the formation of our own Milky Way galaxy.
  
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• Record-breaking 'megacomet' is more than 80 MILES wide, NASA reveals

  12-04-2022 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The comet, called C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), was first discovered back in 2010, but its size has only been confirmed today.
  
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• Raidforums marketplace shut down in global operation

  12-04-2022 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A forum which allowed criminals access to stolen personal data - for a fee - has been taken down.
  
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• Ukrainian power grid 'lucky' to withstand Russian cyber-attack

  12-04-2022 17:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cyber experts say the malicious software used points to notorious military attackers.
  
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• Anonymous leaks massive trove of Kremlin files and vows to continue hacking Russia

  12-04-2022 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anonymous has already launched a series of cyber attacks in retaliation for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, including a data leak of Russian soldiers and takeovers of state-controlled TV.
  
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• Supernova that triggered birth of the solar system is recreated in lab

  12-04-2022 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Molecular clouds, like the one that contained the building blocks that led to the Sun and planets, can remain in a state of peaceful equilibrium forever, if left alone. But a supernova shockwave hit.
  
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• Scientists reveal what gives sausages their 'crunch' - and it could lead to better vegan options

  12-04-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research compared meat, vegan and vegetarian sausages at a molecular level to understand what gives meat sausages texture.
  
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• What is a Pink Full Moon? Lunar phase set to dominate sky over Easter weekend

  12-04-2022 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It will appear a goldish color and is also known as the Paschal Moon, from which the date of Easter is calculated in the Christian calendar.
  
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• Our Common Agenda: “Multilateralism With Teeth”

  12-04-2022 16:34 via technocracy.news
  
  The UN’sOur Common Agenda is common to no one except themselves. It is propagandaized to stampede the world into Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Key to their plan is the total digitalization of the entire world and the UN is morphing into its new post-reset form. This is a must-read article. ⁃ TN EditorNow is the historical movement of time, not only to fight the real virus, but to shape the system for the post-corona era. (Klaus Schwab)
  Awaiting us is the total digitalizat
  
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• NASA is testing futuristic spacesuits with built-in cooling systems 

  12-04-2022 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a new video, NASA has shown how astronauts are conducting spacewalks just outside of the ISS while receiving cooled water from an on-board machine.
  
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• April's 'Pink Full Moon' will shine bright on Saturday

  12-04-2022 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It will appear a goldish color and is also known as the Paschal Moon, from which the date of Easter is calculated in the Christian calendar.
  
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• Giant Robot Catches Unmasked Travelers At Dallas Airport

  12-04-2022 16:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats are in their heyday as the implement new AI robots to actively control people. These new robots can harvest and analyze data, determine where you are “disobedient” and then take action to force you to comply.  It can also report what it determines to be suspicious activity to authorities. ⁃ TN EditorYes, those 7-foot-tall machines at Dallas Love Field are watching you. They want to make sure you’re wearing a mask if you’re boarding a flight or not p
  
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• Lawless Frontier: Crime And Punishment In The Metaverse

  12-04-2022 15:58 via technocracy.news
  
  The Metaverse will ultimately become a cesspool of destructive human activity as there are no laws to temper behavior. Already, there have been realistic sexual assaults that have gone unchallenged, and yet left young women traumatized. Laws don’t protect avatars or software code. ⁃ TN Editor“MURDER” in the metaverse isn’t a 25-to-life prison sentence – or even a felony – but it could be a crime, some law experts believe.
  The Sun spoke to two lawyers, wh
  
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• NASA shows off its Psyche spacecraft that will fly beyond Mars to explore a strange asteroid

  12-04-2022 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers are putting the final touches on the probe, which is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in August on its journey to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name.
  
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• Self-driving car stopped by San Francisco police

  12-04-2022 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Video shows how law enforcers are having to adapt to a new era of autonomous vehicles.
  
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• DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop

  12-04-2022 14:00
  
  DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave.
  
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• Electric hydroplane boat: ‘It feels like we’re flying’

  12-04-2022 13:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With the hull out of the water, the craft uses 80% less power than a boat would conventionally need.
  
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• Meteor that hit Earth in 2014 was from another star system, scientists say

  12-04-2022 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a newly-released memo, US Space Command officials have said that a rocky body that lit up the skies near Manus Island, Papua New Guinea in 2014 'was indeed an interstellar object'.
  
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• She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter

  12-04-2022 13:00
  
  A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is.
  
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• Lab-grown exotic meat such as tiger steaks and lion burgers could soon be on British dinner tables

  12-04-2022 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London-based Primeval Foods wants to host tasting sessionsat Michelin-starred restaurants in the city to show off its 'cultivated' products, which are grown from animal cells.
  
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• Netflix introduces a 'Double Thumbs Up' button to let users flag when they really LOVE a show

  12-04-2022 12:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Double Thumbs Up button lets users flag the content they have really loved watching, so the platform can serve up more of the same via their personalised recommendations.
  
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• Having a swell time! Kitesurfer tackles a 50ft wave in Portugal on an electric FLYING surfboard

  12-04-2022 11:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New footage shows Tom Court, a British surfer mastering the waves using an efoil off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal.
  
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• You can save £100 on this highly-rated affordable robot vacuum cleaner on sale on Amazon

  12-04-2022 09:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to over 600 impressive five-star reviews, the Lefant M213 Robot Vacuum Cleaner performs just as well as premium priced robot vacuums but at a much more reasonable price.
  
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• How drones delivering defibrillators could save lives in Britain

  12-04-2022 03:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Statistics show that for every minute that passes without defibrillation, a cardiac arrest victim's chances of survival drop by ten per cent.
  
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• Wind turbines 'taking deadly toll on migrating birds': Map highlights 'collision hotspots'

  12-04-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at GPS data from 65 bird tracking studies to work out where they fly at 'danger height', said to be 15 to 135 metres above wind turbines
  
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• Streaming is driving a 'golden age' for Indian drama

  12-04-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  India's 30 streaming services want to reach 60 million households meaning a lot more work for actors.
  
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• Gang members who offend together are likely to violently turn on each OTHER, study finds 

  12-04-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Cambridge studied 16 years of data from Thames Valley Police in the hopes of understanding patterns of violence within UK organised crime gangs.
  
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