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• Sleeping less than six hours a night when Covid struck raised risk of mental health problems

  27-04-2022 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers led by Harvard University found those sleeping less than six hours a night were up to 75 per cent more likely to be struggling with the conditions compared to normal sleepers.
  
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• Book characters are four times more likely to be male than female, a gender bias study has revealed

  27-04-2022 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering used artificial intelligence to examine more than 3,000 English-language books.
  
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• Google Pixel Watch REVEALED thanks to leaked images

  27-04-2022 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leaked images that appear to show Google's own Pixel Watch have been revealed. Reports suggest the circular device, with a crown and hidden button, was left in a restaurant.
  
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• Chinese drone firm DJI pauses operations in Russia and Ukraine

  27-04-2022 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Ukrainian government has previously called on DJI to restrict Russian use of its drones.
  
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• Right-Wing Trolls Are Trying to Break Back Into Twitter

  27-04-2022 19:25
  
  Elon Musk's “free speech” promise is igniting an extremist revival, but the "replatforming" has only just begun.
  
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• Working from home via Zoom leads to fewer creative ideas than in-person meetings, study finds 

  27-04-2022 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Columbia University put almost 1,500 people into pairs over either a video call or in-person, and asked them to come up with new product ideas.
  
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• Technocrats Turn To Satellites, Geospatial Intel For ESG Compliance

  27-04-2022 18:12 via technocracy.news
  AI is used to analyze data combined in real time from high definition satellite imagery, drones, Internet of Things, 5G and Smart Grid networks. The stated object is to enforce ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) policies on the world. This is the final frontier of ubiquitous scientific dictatorship, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorESG monitoring is fast emerging as a fairly accurate determiner of corporate willingness to make progress towards social well-being, ecological adaptability, an
  
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• Thousands of disgruntled Twitter users are flocking to rival social network 'Mastodon'

  27-04-2022 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The platform, which has a German-born founder and is often seen as an alternative to Twitter, gained nearly 30,000 new users on the day Musk had his offer for the social network site accepted.
  
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• One in five reptiles is threatened with extinction

  27-04-2022 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Crocodiles and turtles are in a particularly dire situation, according to a global assessment of risks.
  
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• Chula Vista Police Cleared For City-Wide Surveillance Drones

  27-04-2022 17:33 via technocracy.news
  
  The Department of Homeland Security has coordinated with drone makers to turn Chula Vista, California into the first totally surveilled city in America; and it is a dangerous precedent. Technocracy demands total surveillance in order to control the “machine” of society. Citizens should demand that their own city councils block this assault on liberty. ⁃ TN Editor
  This story should serve as a warning to everyone: police are lying about only using drones to cover emergency calls.
  
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• Energy supplier counts cost of devices on standby

  27-04-2022 17:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Turning TVs, games consoles and chargers off at the wall when not in use could help combat price rises, British Gas says.
  
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• More than a fifth of the world's reptiles 'face imminent extinction'

  27-04-2022 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of researchers led by NatureServe in the US, assessed the conservation status of 10,196 reptile species, and found that at least 1,829 were threatened with extinction.
  
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• Robo-hop! Incredible robot can jump 100 TIMES its own height - and could be used on the MOON

  27-04-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, who developed the robot, believe it could one day be used on the moon.
  
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• Masks 4Neva: How Health Freedom Defense Fund Vanquished Technocrat Mask Tyranny

  27-04-2022 16:58 via technocracy.news
  
  The courageous actions of one person sparked the total takedown of the illegal mask mandates and the miserable pseudo-science that was used to justify them in the first place. For all of the myriad doctors, medical professionals, business owners and citizens whose lives have been destroyed by illegal policies, their lives will never be the same. ⁃ TN Editor
  STORY AT-A-GLANCE> April 18, 2022, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle voided the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev
  
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• Asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building will fly by the Earth Thursday

  27-04-2022 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space rock, named 418135 (2008 AG33), will come about two million miles from the planet, which is roughly eight times further from the Earth than the moon.
  
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• Tesla shares slide could put Musk's Twitter takeover at risk

  27-04-2022 14:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The fall in Tesla's shares highlights the issues Elon Musk faces as he tries to run five companies.
  
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• 'Inhumane' glue traps for mice and rats are set to be BANNED in England

  27-04-2022 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A government-backed Private Members Bill received unanimous support for banning glue traps during its final reading in the House of Lords this week.
  
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• 'HAND GRENADES' from the time of the Crusades are unearthed in Jerusalem

  27-04-2022 14:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New analysis of four pot sherds unearthed back in the sixties showed that one contained what looks to be explosive material, according to researchers at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.
  
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• Ancient ceramic pots unearthed in Jerusalem may have been used as explosive hand grenades

  27-04-2022 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New analysis of four pot sherds unearthed back in the sixties showed that one contained what looks to be explosive material, according to researchers at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.
  
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• Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale

  27-04-2022 13:00
  
  From “IT Army” DDoS attacks to custom malware, the country has become a target like never before.
  
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• Europe Has Traded Away Its Online Porn Law

  27-04-2022 13:00
  
  The landmark Digital Services Act has a glaring omission: It ditches plans to tighten rules that could have protected survivors of revenge porn and other forms of sexual abuse.
  
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• Oscar winning actors live five years longer than unnominated co-stars, study finds

  27-04-2022 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Toronto created a model based on an analysis of 2,111 actors who were nominated for an Oscar from 1929 to 2020 or appeared opposite a nominated actor.
  
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• Luxury submarine with revolving seats can carry nine passengers up to 656ft underwater

  27-04-2022 11:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The submarine, developed by U-Boat Worx, based in Breda, the Netherlands, can carry nine passengers up to 656ft (200 metres) underwater.
  
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• Lift off! SpaceX launches crew of NASA and ESA astronauts to the International Space Station

  27-04-2022 10:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Crew-4 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:52 am (08:52 BST) and will arrive at the space station at 8:15 pm Wednesday (01:15 BST Thursday)
  
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• China reveals plans to crash a spaceship into an asteroid to alter its trajectory

  27-04-2022 10:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Beijing's asteroid mission, which was laid out by the deputy director of the China National Space Administration, is scheduled for launch sometime in the mid-2020s.
  
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• Sleep tricks for parents: Bedtime bottle really DOES help babies sleep better, researchers say

  27-04-2022 10:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Infants (stock of baby drinking from bottle) fed just before they fall asleep slumber for an extra hour before waking up during the night, a study has found.
  
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• Rural areas held back by housing and infrastructure woes, report warns

  27-04-2022 08:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There is a “chronic under-appreciation” of the potential of the countryside, says a new report.
  
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• Humans could one day travel to Mars in SOLAR-POWERED spaceships

  27-04-2022 06:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A research team from the University of California, Berkeley examined energy output levels from different types of technology.
  
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• Brain implant helps reverse symptoms of Parkinson's disease

  27-04-2022 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Parkinson's patient has had his symptoms reversed by a tiny device implanted into his brain. Tony Howells, the first person to receive the treatment in a trial, said the impact was 'amazing'.
  
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• Wearable for COWS that 'neutralises' methane wins Prince of Wales' Terra Carta Design Lab 

  27-04-2022 01:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Terra Carta Design Lab invites London Royal College of Art students and recent alumni to develop 'credible and sustainable solutions' to the climate crisis.
  
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• Suspended animation space travel may never be possible

  27-04-2022 01:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chilean researchers set out to investigate whether people could hibernate like bears, which would effectively allow us to snooze during trips through space that last longer than a lifetime.
  
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• Apes can recognise a friendly face, according to a new study

  27-04-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, studied the different ways apes interact with keepers and visitors.
  
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• Twitter employees speak out about Elon Musk

  27-04-2022 00:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As the Tesla boss looks set to acquire the company, Twitter employees show mixed reactions.
  
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