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• Venus and Jupiter Conjunction: Planets to almost touch in night sky

  29-04-2022 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The dazzlingly bright planets will appear extremely close together in the dark sky on Saturday.
  
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• Loneliness can make it harder to find work in the future, study finds

  29-04-2022 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using pre-pandemic data University of Exeter scientists found those reporting that they feel lonely often were 'significantly more likely to encounter unemployment later'.
  
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• NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good

  29-04-2022 19:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022 Even as NASA publishes images demonstrating progress in the commission of the James Webb Space Telescope, preparations are being made to ground the Boeing 747-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) for good.…
  
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• Water levels in Lake Mead reservoir drop low enough to reveal 1971 intake valve

  29-04-2022 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The reservoir, the largest in the US, is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, sitting in both Nevada and Arizona, about 24 miles from Las Vegas.
  
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• Only a third of dates involve the man asking the woman out, paying, and initiating sex, study finds 

  29-04-2022 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Only 36 per cent of dates now involve the man asking the woman out, paying, and initiating sex, says a new study from the University of Kansas.
  
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• Elon Musk sells $8.5bn worth of Tesla shares

  29-04-2022 18:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The electric car maker's chief executive is moving ahead with his $44bn takeover of Twitter.
  
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• Human DNA Headed To Moon “Seed Vault” For Aliens To Find

  29-04-2022 17:44 via technocracy.news
  
  In case the world is destroyed, scientists are planning to store human DNA, along with the DNA of millions of species, on the Moon. The idea is that aliens might discover it in the far future and recreate the human race. Elon Musk’s SpaceX delivered a payload of DNA into space this month. ⁃ TN Editor
  SPACEX just launched a lot of human DNA to the International Space Station.
  The Crew-4 mission blasted off on April 27 and part of the cargo was a biobank containing DNA from 500 differe
  
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• Amidst Questions Of Stolen Election, Macron Launches Digital Identity App

  29-04-2022 17:15 via technocracy.news
  
  Although Macron survived the French elections, many voters are wondering if the election was stolen. Macron wasted no time in launching a digital identity app that will be required for French citizens to access public and private services. Dystopian digital identity is the bedrock of Technocracy, aka the Great Reset. ⁃ TN EditorThe French government has announced the creation of a new digital identity app for citizens to access private and public services, in line with a broader push for d
  
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• Robo-car breaks world speed record! Fully-autonomous PoliMOVE car reaches an incredible 192.2mph

  29-04-2022 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The car, developed by a team from the Politecnico di Milano, is fully autonomous and took to the track on the Space Shuttle airstrip at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre this week.
  
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• Lockdowns, Masks Destroyed The Mental Health Of Massive Number Of Children

  29-04-2022 16:57 via technocracy.news
  
  If Nuremberg II is ever convened, the children who have been harmed by Technocrat lockdown policies should have their own section of testimony. When children are harmed en-mass without relief, as was the global case during the pandemic, it is certain that merciless wartime conditions exist. ⁃ TN EditorA new study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal found that lockdowns in the UK caused around 60,000 children to suffer clinical depression.
  Researchers detected a 27.1 pe
  
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• Robotic Mayflower ship sets sail for the US again after first attempt failed

  29-04-2022 16:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) departed from Plymouth, England on April 27. It follows a failed attempt to send the ship across the Atlantic in June last year.
  
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• Amazon reports loss as online sales falter

  29-04-2022 15:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  At the same time Apple warns that its sales could be hit by up to $8bn in the coming months.
  
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• World's first FLOATING city! Designs show community being built in South Korea by 2025

  29-04-2022 15:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The project, called OCEANIX Busan, was announced last year, but new design images have now been unveiled.
  
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• North Korean citizens are 'jailbreaking' smartphones to access forbidden media from other countries

  29-04-2022 15:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In North Korea, citizens are forced to use home-grown handsets that simulate the smartphone experience while restricting users to regime-approved apps and propaganda.
  
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• Stone Age BFFs! Hunter-gatherers gave each other friendship pendants 6,000 years ago

  29-04-2022 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Helsinki claim that hunter-gatherers across northeast Europe gave each other ring fragments as a sign of their friendship 6,000 years ago.
  
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• April's SECOND new moon arrives this weekend - as Venus and Jupiter perform a celestial 'kiss'

  29-04-2022 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The second new moon of April, dubbed a 'black moon', is set to occur on Saturday, April 30, at 21:28 BST (16:28 EDT). It will coincide with a partial solar eclipse viewable in the southern hemisphere.
  
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• You Need to Update iOS, Android, and Chrome Right Now

  29-04-2022 13:00
  
  Plus: Microsoft patched some 100 flaws, while Oracle issued more than 500 security fixes.
  
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• Ukraine’s Digital Battle With Russia Isn’t Going as Expected

  29-04-2022 13:00
  
  Even the head of the country's online offensive is surprised by the successes—although they’re not without controversy.
  
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• MiamiCoin Is Crashing, but It Won’t Go Away

  29-04-2022 13:00
  
  The value of the nonprofit's first cryptocurrency has tanked, and users claim they've lost money, but it's still expanding to other cities.
  
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• Enormous MEGARAPTOR was 33ft-long and weighed 5 TONS when it stalked Argentina 70 million years ago

  29-04-2022 11:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research have named the new species Maip macrothorax, and believe it is the biggest megaraptor found so far.
  
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• You can now KISS in the metaverse with a modified VR headset

  29-04-2022 11:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania have created a prototype VR headset that directs haptic feedback at the mouth.
  
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• MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design

  29-04-2022 08:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  The walls are alive with the sound of music Video  Engineers at MIT have created paper-thin speakers using a plastic film and a piezoelectric layer embossed with tiny domes.…
  
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• Gardeners urged to let lawns go wild to boost nature

  29-04-2022 03:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A charity says people should leave their lawnmowers in the shed next month, to let wild flowers grow.
  
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• Whatsapp users are baffled as messaging network goes DOWN

  29-04-2022 01:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 40,000 Brits reported problems with the service just before 10pm on Thursday - with similar reports made by countless others around the world.
  
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• Scooter recall hits India's 'Tesla of two-wheelers'

  29-04-2022 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How a product recall is disrupting one start-up's plans to dominate the electric scooter market.
  
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• Amazon posts loss as online sales falter

  29-04-2022 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The e-commerce giant is wrestling with the impact of rising costs and the war in Ukraine.
  
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• TOM LEONARD: Could life on Earth have arrived on an asteroid 3.8 billion years ago?

  29-04-2022 00:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TOM LEONARD: New research by Japanese scientists suggests that such cosmic impacts may have delivered to Earth the chemical ingredients necessary for life itself.
  
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