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• Apple to discontinue the iPod after 21 years

  10-05-2022 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The end of an era for Apple's original music player, which has been overshadowed by the iPhone.
  
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• Fifa: EA Sports to break away from football body

  10-05-2022 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Electronic Arts will instead produce new football games under the banner EA Sports FC.
  
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• Apple discontinues the iPod after 20 years

  10-05-2022 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cupertino tech giant has announced it's discontinued the iPod, more than 20 years after the very first one was released back in October 2001.
  
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• UK blames Russia for satellite internet hack at start of war

  10-05-2022 18:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia launched an attack on Viasat just before invading Ukraine, the UK and its allies say.
  
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• Ancient Romans' answer to Roadchef? Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old roadside 'service station'

  10-05-2022 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'once in a lifetime discovery' was made on the site of a planned football pitch at Grange Paddocks leisure centre in Bishop's Stortford.
  
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• Seasonal flu may be a direct descendant of the 1918 'Spanish flu'

  10-05-2022 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Berlin detected mutations in the make-up of the H1N1 virus - or swine flu - that may have helped it better adapt to human hosts.
  
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• EV Chaos: 25% Of San Francisco’s EV Charging Stations Don’t Work

  10-05-2022 17:10 via technocracy.news
  
  The EV industry is going to hit a brick wall as energy prices soar amidst shortages of energy and disrepair of charging stations. EV charging stations are headed toward the fate of many windmill farms, where as many as 75 percent of the giant towers are stationary. Remember that Technocrat Elon Musk is largely responsible for inventing the EV industry with Tesla. ⁃ TN EditorCalifornia’s bold move toward an EV revolution and eliminating the sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicle
  
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• Scientists study secrets of starling murmurations

  10-05-2022 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theoretical physicists develop a mathematical model to explain how birds dip and dive in whirling flocks.
  
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• Fauci’s Royalties And The $350 Million Royalty Payment Stream HIDDEN By NIH

  10-05-2022 16:46 via technocracy.news
  The NIH files patents on its “discoveries” enabled by taxpayer salaries. The patents are licensed by Big Pharma, turned into huge revenue streams from which royalties are paid back to the NIH and its “inventors”. This is a Technocrat scam of epic proportions, if not an outright criminal syndicate. ⁃ TN EditorLast year, the National Institutes of Health – Anthony Fauci’s employer – doled out $30 billion in government grants to roughly 56,000 recipie
  
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• Power Grid Operators Warn Of Potential Electricity Shortages Amid Transition To Clean Energy

  10-05-2022 16:18 via technocracy.news
  
  There will never, ever be enough windmills and solar panels to energize a modern society. Technocracy’s war on coal, oil and gas is total lunacy but is designed to shrink and control economic activity. Get ready for shortages, rolling blackouts and grid interruptions. ⁃ TN EditorPower-grid operators across the US warn that power-generating capacity struggles to keep up with demand, a worrying sign ahead of summer where heatwaves could lead to rolling blackouts.
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• Vegan labels can make people think the food won't taste good, study says

  10-05-2022 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A vegan label on food products may entice vegans but make omnivores think the food tastes bad, report scientists at the University of Goettingen, Germany.
  
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• The yellow brick road to Atlantis? Incredible rock formation spotted on ocean floor near Hawaii 

  10-05-2022 14:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strange-looking feature was located in the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• 13ft-long, 139m-year-old complete PREGNANT ichthyosaur fossil is found in Chile and named 'Fiona'

  10-05-2022 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains of the creature, which researchers from the University of Manchester have named Fiona, were unearthed from a melting glacier deep in Patagonia.
  
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• Meet Fiona! 13ft-long PREGNANT ichthyosaur with several babies in her belly is unearthed in Chile

  10-05-2022 14:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The remains of the creature, which researchers from the University of Manchester have named Fiona, were unearthed from a melting glacier deep in Patagonia.
  
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• Astra Space to launch satellites from Shetland

  10-05-2022 13:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  Rockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year The UK's SaxaVord spaceport has agreed a deal with Astra Space to launch satellites from the Unst facility from 2023.…
  
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• Hurry! Last chance to shop the bestselling Kindle e-reader for under £50

  10-05-2022 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you love to read, you'll be pleased to hear that the original Kindle e-reader is on sale for just £49.99 at Amazon - but hurry, this deal ends today.
  
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• Supernatural VR Makes Working Out More Accessible Than Ever

  10-05-2022 13:00
  
  The virtual reality fitness program is inspiring users—like me—who say they never felt accepted by traditional gyms.
  
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• EOS Was the World’s Most-Hyped Blockchain. Members Want It Back

  10-05-2022 13:00
  
  Block.One created the EOS blockchain and raised $4 billion in a record-breaking ICO. Now, its users have taken over.
  
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• Rise of the OAT (old-age TikToker)! 7% of UK grandparents are now active on the video app

  10-05-2022 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seven per cent of UK grandparents are now active on TikTok, while 24 per cent say they want to learn how to use the app as a way of bonding with their grandchildren, according to TalkTalk.
  
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• Met Office says there's a 50-50 chance world will warm by more than 2.7°F over five years 

  10-05-2022 11:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The latest update from the World Meteorological Organisation, carried out by the UK Met Office, suggests that one of the years between 2022 and 2026 is very likely to be the warmest on record.
  
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• French engineers launch Cheezam app that uses AI to identify different cheeses from a single photo 

  10-05-2022 11:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cheezam app was developed by a French startup and works by comparing photos against its database of 9,000 images of different cheeses.
  
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• Global whale shark population is plummeting because they are dying in collisions with ships

  10-05-2022 11:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Marine Biological Association and the University of Southampton have led a study which indicates that lethal collisions of whale sharks with large ships are 'vastly underestimated'.
  
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• Solar eruption could deliver a 'glancing blow' to Earth TODAY

  10-05-2022 10:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A coronal mass ejection which erupted from the sun last Saturday (May 7) could strike Earth's magnetic field today, according to experts at US-based website SpaceWeather.com.
  
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• Covid lockdown made people more creative, study says

  10-05-2022 07:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In lockdown, people were forced to adapt to a new situation and 'rethink our habits', which bred creativity, report experts at the Paris Brain Institute in France.
  
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• Apple's head of machine learning quits after being made to come back to the office three days a week

  10-05-2022 05:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ian Goodfellow, who was poached by Apple to head their machine learning division in 2019, is believed to be the most senior employee so far to quit in protest at the return to the office.
  
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• Bitcoin value drops by 50% since November peak

  10-05-2022 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The slide in the value of cryptocurrencies comes as stock markets around the world have also fallen.
  
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• Climate change: Airlines miss all but one target - report

  10-05-2022 01:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say the aviation industry cannot be relied on to tackle their role in climate change.
  
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• Climate change: 'Fifty-fifty chance' of breaching 1.5C warming limit

  10-05-2022 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists say there's now a strong chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C by 2026.
  
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• Why India's poorest children are falling further behind

  10-05-2022 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lack of access to smartphones and computers is widening the education gulf in India.
  
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