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• NASA and Fortnite maker Epic Games create virtual reality Mars

  05-05-2022 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space agency have challenged developers and designers to create scenarios inside this virtual world that the first crew could face when they arrive.
  
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• Study reveals the best tactics for flirting

  05-05-2022 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women who just want a short-lived fling from flirting need to signalise this clearly to their potential partner, according to researchers led by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
  
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• World's smallest porpoise faces being fished to extinction

  05-05-2022 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are10 vaquita porpoises left, according to a team from the University of California in Los Angeles, who have been been studying the marine mammal.
  
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• Scientists find groundwater in sediments deep under Antarctic ice

  05-05-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The reservoir of groundwater (water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock) lies beneath the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica, experts say.
  
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• Is this why we act irrationally when we're 'hangry'? Hungry worms make risky decisions to get a meal

  05-05-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Salk Institute in San Diego have studied worms to help unravel the mystery of why we act irrationally when we're 'hangry.'
  
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• Lunar soil could be used to convert carbon dioxide into rocket fuel

  05-05-2022 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysis of coarse and jagged dirt granules brought back by China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft found that regolith on the moon contains compounds that convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.
  
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• VPN Providers Threaten to Quit India Over New Data Law

  05-05-2022 17:55
  
  The country has ordered companies operating VPNs to collect user data and hand it over to officials—but they’re refusing to do so.
  
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• Elon Musk lines up $7bn backing for Twitter deal

  05-05-2022 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The billionaire has tapped the likes of Oracle's Larry Ellison and Sequoia to finance the takeover.
  
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• Elon Musk's Neuralink rival Synchron begins human trials of brain implant

  05-05-2022 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The firm's Stentrode brain implant, about the size of a paperclip, will be implanted in six patients in New York and Pittsburgh who have severe paralysis.
  
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• Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner spacecraft is hoisted on top of Atlas V rocket

  05-05-2022 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Starliner has been stacked on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
  
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• New 'smartwatch for plants' monitors water content in leaves

  05-05-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sensor wirelessly transmits data to a smartphone app, allowing for remote management of drought stress in gardens, according to Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory.
  
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• Kissing Is Coming To The Metaverse. What’s Next?

  05-05-2022 16:25 via technocracy.news
  A sensory-enhanced metaverse is a certainty as devices are created to provide full immersive experiences that will be as real as real life. This promises to completely re-wire a user’s brain to not be able to discern what is real or not. As the pornography industry adapts to the metaverse, perceived debauchery will be indistinguishable from the real thing. ⁃ TN EditorCREEPY metaverse users could soon have the power to lunge in for a kiss thanks to new tech.’
  As if the metaverse
  
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• Greenwald: Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board”

  05-05-2022 16:06 via technocracy.news
  
  The DHS is gaslighting the nation when it says it will protect us from disinformation: the polar opposite is true. Biden has orchestrated the entire Executive Branch of government to intentionally lie and deceive in order to create a monopoly of information based on their own contrived narrative.  Who will supply DHS with “truth”? The myriad disingenuous “fact checkers” and left-wing organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center. ⁃ TN EditorThe power to de
  
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• Screen-sharing scams on the rise, watchdog warns

  05-05-2022 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New report claims fraudsters are using screen-sharing tools to gain victims' trust and then steal money.
  
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• Scientists create a glove with inflatable 'banana fingers' that can grip a Coke can or a tennis ball

  05-05-2022 15:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The glove has been created by researchers from MIT, who used an autonomous knitting machine to create it.
  
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• Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet will charge users $25-a-month to connect while they travel

  05-05-2022 15:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Portability has worked for some users in the past, but was never officially supported by the SpaceX-owned network, although Musk promised it would be introduced.
  
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• Ukraine war: Investigation finds hundreds of fake charity websites

  05-05-2022 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A BBC investigation finds online scammers using real charity logos and Ukrainian volunteers' profiles.
  
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• Instagram copies TikTok's full-screen vertically scrolling feed

  05-05-2022 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It seems that Instagram has taken note of TikTok's successful format and is copying its vertical feed as part of a 'new, immersive viewing experience.'
  
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• Scientists to grow coral on the 'feet' of offshore wind turbines

  05-05-2022 13:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at Danish sustainable energy company Ørsted plan to grow coral on the steel foundations of four offshore wind turbines off the coast of Taiwan.
  
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• After Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Read These 5 Comics

  05-05-2022 13:00
  
  The multiverse is a tricky and confusing place. These books will help you get your bearings.
  
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• Three NASA astronauts and a European astronaut are returning home from the ISS

  05-05-2022 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The three NASA astronauts and one European climbed aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule shortly after 05:00 BST (00:00 ET) and left the space station just over an hour later.
  
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• Two sexually-aroused male dolphins are seen playing with an ANACONDA and carrying it in their mouths

  05-05-2022 11:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Bolivian river dolphins were photographed holding the unfortunate anaconda in their mouths as they swam in Bolivia's Tijamuchi River.
  
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• Male dolphins seen playing with an anaconda 'while sexually aroused'

  05-05-2022 10:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Bolivian river dolphins were photographed holding the unfortunate anaconda in their mouths as they swam in Bolivia's Tijamuchi River.
  
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• 'Splatter' count suggests flying insect numbers have plunged 60% in less than 20 years: report

  05-05-2022 09:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vital insect species have declined by more than three quarters in the past twenty years, a survey found. Moths, flies, aphids and bees are crucial for pollinating and performing natural pest control.
  
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• Belief in the paranormal is a sign of someone who trusts their instincts, researchers say 

  05-05-2022 09:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers say those who believe in spooks and the supernatural trust in their instincts, while the sceptical are more analytical, according to a review of 71 studies covering 40 years.
  
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• Amazon is having a huge sale on Echo devices - including the Amazon Echo Dot 4th Gen now just £28

  05-05-2022 08:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon has launched a massive sale with unmissable discounts on their bestselling Echo devices. Ahead of Amazon Prime Day, rumoured to be taking place July 18 for just 24 hours, shoppers...
  
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• Musk, Grimes, Scientism And The Slippery Slope To Cyborg Theocracy

  05-05-2022 06:16 via technocracy.news
  
  A self-proclaimed pagan witch, Grimes has a thing for Elon Musk and vice versa. Obsessed with brain implants and hooking into the “hive mind” of humanity, Grimes is obviously intending to make her own world and future where she will be its supreme being. Others have gone before her, but they are mostly dead now. She is young now, but will be old later. ⁃ TN EditorTechno-optimists like to say humans are already cyborgs awaiting their next upgrade. Yesterday it was smartphones, t
  
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• Uber loses $5.9bn as Asia investment values fall

  05-05-2022 05:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm said almost all of that loss was a due to falls in the value of investments in other companies.
  
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• Climate change: Spring egg-laying shifts by three weeks

  05-05-2022 03:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 75-year woodland study has measured a marked seasonal shift in the timing of egg-laying in spring.
  
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• Bill Gates on Elon Musk feud and Jeffrey Epstein meetings

  05-05-2022 03:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Microsoft tycoon talks to the BBC about divorce, conspiracy theories and Elon Musk.
  
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