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• Moon may have been siphoning water from Earth's atmosphere for billions of years

  04-05-2022 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, study claims
  
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• Scientists identify the most extreme heatwaves ever recorded

  04-05-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The most extreme heatwave ever was in south-east Asia in April 1998, according to University of Bristol experts.
  
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• Children's clothing labelled as 'green' and 'non-toxic' found to contain toxic PFAS

  04-05-2022 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Among the products found to contain PFAS, by a team from the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Massachusetts, where toys, furniture and bedding.
  
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• Cyber-security chiefs warn of malicious app risk

  04-05-2022 19:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Devices from smart speakers to fitness trackers have apps, and cyber-criminals are exploiting weaknesses.
  
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• First Human Trials Starts For Brain Computer Interface

  04-05-2022 19:41 via technocracy.news
  
  The first human trials are in view, and it isn’t Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corporation that is leading the charge.  Synchron vision is “to transform medicine with unprecedented access to brain data” collected by using the blood vessels of the brain as “natural highways”. It is “the science of restoring, treating, and mapping the electrical activities of the brain.” ⁃ TN EditorSynchron Inc., which develops a so-called brain-computer interface
  
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• You Don't Have to Quit Meat to Save the Planet—Just Eat Less

  04-05-2022 19:33
  
  If everyone ate just 20 percent less beef, deforestation rates by 2050 could be half as bad.
  
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• CDC Tracked Millions Of Phones To Surveil COVID Lockdown Orders

  04-05-2022 19:28 via technocracy.news
  Why should a private company be allowed to collect information related to your cell phone and your travel? And worse, to sell that data to government entities who are bound by legal constraints from collecting such information directly? Wherever data flows, you can be sure that there is a group of unprincipled and lawless Technocrats at the other end. ⁃ TN EditorThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in
  
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• Kindle will finally support ePub files - making it easier to load e-books you DIDN'T buy from Amazon

  04-05-2022 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon Kindles have traditionally only supported e-books stored in its own propriety e-book file format, but it seems to have finally bowed to pressure.
  
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• UK MPs invite Musk to be quizzed on Twitter plans

  04-05-2022 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It comes amid concerns about the billionaire's plans to relax content moderation rules on the platform.
  
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• Amazon makes it easier for Kindle owners to load e-books they didn't buy from Amazon 

  04-05-2022 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon Kindles have traditionally only supported e-books stored in its own propriety e-book file format, but it seems to have finally bowed to pressure.
  
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• Fury at Facebook outages proves social media is as essential as gas and electricity for many people

  04-05-2022 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Penn State University analysed 223,815 tweets following the Facebook outage in October, that used the hashtag #facebookdown.
  
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• Fungi-based food could halve deforestation by 2050, study claims 

  04-05-2022 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People shouldn't feel pressured to only eat greens as they can make a big difference by eating meat alternativesinfrequently, suggests a study from experts in Potsdam, Germany.
  
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• 'Black widow binary' is discovered by astronomers

  04-05-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say the new stellar system is unique because it appears to host a third, far-flung star which orbits around the two inner stars every 10,000 years.
  
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• How Technocrats Turned Your Face Into A Weapon Of War

  04-05-2022 15:54 via technocracy.news
  
  Controversial Clearview AI has benevolently donated its facial recognition software to Ukraine to use to identify Russian invaders both dead and alive. This may be the first instance for a person’s face to be used as a weapon of war and does not bode well for future warfare. Clearview scrapes images from social media and the Internet to maintain the largest repository of faces in the world. ⁃ TN EditorWho owns your face? You might think that you do, but consider that Clearview AI, an
  
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• Roblox: Gamers frustrated by lengthy outage

  04-05-2022 15:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Issues with the game popular with children began before midnight and continued into the morning.
  
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• Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak on Friday - with up to 50 shooting stars visible every hour

  04-05-2022 15:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Royal Observatory Greenwich, the Eta Aquariid meteor shower will peak between midnight and dawn on Friday (May 6).
  
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• These popular wireless earbuds that shoppers say are 'amazing value for money' are on sale for £30

  04-05-2022 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The £29.99 Soundcore by Anker Life A1 Bluetooth Earbuds have gained over 2,800 five-star reviews on Amazon, with shoppers raving about the sound, battery life and comfortable fit.
  
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• Scientists are developing a robot with electronic HAIRS that mimic the natural touch of human skin 

  04-05-2022 13:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Chemnitz University of Technology say the 'e-skin' could have a range of uses in the future, including skin replacement for humans and artificial skin for humanoid robots.
  
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• Shanghai Is Rewriting Chinese Censorship Amid Lockdown

  04-05-2022 13:00
  
  Censors are cracking down on free speech online, but people are finding new ways to get around them.
  
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• India’s New Super App Has a Privacy Problem

  04-05-2022 13:00
  
  Tata Neu is the country’s latest do-everything app. When users signed up, their personal information was already there.
  
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• SpaceX Starlink has 150,000 daily users in Ukraine just five weeks after being activated

  04-05-2022 12:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ukraine's vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted that Elon Musk's Starlink was providing 'crucial support' for the country's infrastructure and 'restoring the destroyed territories'.
  
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• Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak on Friday - with up to 50 shooting stars visible every hour

  04-05-2022 12:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Royal Observatory Greenwich, the Eta Aquariid meteor shower will peak between midnight and dawn on Friday (May 6).
  
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• Alien civilisations grow so large they miss the chance to set out for new worlds, study claims

  04-05-2022 11:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Michael Wong, of the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Dr Stuart Bartlett, of California Institute of Technology, believe they may have an answer to the Fermi paradox.
  
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• NASA to send female manikins to the moon to study radiation risk 

  04-05-2022 10:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The manikins, affectionately called 'Helga' and 'Zohar', will launch aboard the Orion spacecraft from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in August.
  
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• Robot chef is trained to taste food at different chewing stages

  04-05-2022 06:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The machine, created at the University of Cambridge, comprises a conductance probe, which acts as a salinity sensor, that's attached at the end of a robotic arm.
  
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• £5m Virtual Reality centre launches in Portsmouth

  04-05-2022 03:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The university centre received more than £3m in government funding to help businesses create VR.
  
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• People with square faces are seen as more AGGRESSIVE than those with oval faces, study finds

  04-05-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study claims that people with a square face like Zac Efron and Margot Robbie are seen as more aggressive than those with oval faces, such as Rihanna and Ben Affleck.
  
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• Largest known Native America cave art dating back 1,000 years is uncovered

  04-05-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists made their discovery in the 19th Unnamed Cave in Alabama, which was first found in 1998 but has had its location kept secret to keep it safe.
  
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