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• WhatsApp to launch customer-business chat feature

  20-05-2022 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cloud-based software will offer more personalised business using the popular messaging app.
  
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• How to Solve the Problem of Plastic Packaging

  20-05-2022 18:12
  
  Single-use bottles, wrappers, and containers are often simply discarded—but reforms that could make them infinitely recyclable are on the horizon.
  
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• Expert warns trendy foragers to be on the lookout for toxic plants

  20-05-2022 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to MailOnline, Geoff Dann, a British writer and foraging teacher, has outlined some of the biggest risks to novices who may be inspired by trendy foraging chefs on TV.
  
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• Climate change will deprive us of sleep, study says

  20-05-2022 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By the year 2099, temperatures will have taken away somewhere between 50 to 58 hours of sleep per person per year - under 10 minutes per night, report experts at the University of Copenhagen.
  
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• The real-life Jetsons! Footage shows a pilot navigating a £68,000 flying vehicle dubbed Jetson One

  20-05-2022 16:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jetson, the Swedish-Polish company behind the Jetson One flying vehicle, has revealed new footage showing a pilot navigating the flying vehicle.
  
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• Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late

  20-05-2022 16:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station Two and a half years after its first disastrous launch, Boeing has once again fired its CST-100 Starliner capsule at the International Space Station.…
  
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• James Rickards: “We Are On The Precipice Of Global Food Crisis”

  20-05-2022 16:16 via technocracy.news
  
  Both crises of energy and food represent the next waves of attack in Technocracy’s coup d’état that started with the engineered pandemic crisis of 2020. TN has warned for years that Technocrats intended to implement a scorched-earth policy to destroy capitalism and free enterprise in order to flip the world into Technocracy.
  This is the rationale for the WEF’s statement to “Build back better.” Building back implies that the original instance was destroyed. Th
  
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• 45 of the Best Films on Netflix This Week

  20-05-2022 16:00
  
  Stuck for a good film on Netflix? Here are our picks for the best Netflix movies to feast your eyes on, updated weekly.
  
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• 44 of the Best Netflix Series to Binge Watch Right Now

  20-05-2022 16:00
  
  Struggling with what to watch on Netflix tonight? Look no further than the WIRED guide to the best Netflix TV shows in 2022. Updated weekly.
  
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• Regulator: Half Of America Faces Power Blackouts This Summer

  20-05-2022 15:55 via technocracy.news
  
  The “energy crisis” is fabricated from the ground up, first by killing off traditional and reliable sources of energy (coal, gas, oil, nuclear) and replacing them with unreliable and expensive windmills and solar panels. Americans will soon learn what it is like to live in Venezuela. ⁃ TN EditorTens of millions of Americans could be thrown into a summer of hell as a megadrought, heatwaves, and reduced power generation could trigger widespread rolling electricity blackouts
  
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• NASA is offering $70,000 as a prize for the best design for a Martian metaverse

  20-05-2022 15:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US space agency put out a plea for 'a new virtual reality research, development, and testing environment to prepare for the experiences and situations that will be encountered on Mars.'
  
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• No Savings With ‘Green’ Energy: It’s 4 To 6 Times MORE Expensive

  20-05-2022 15:34 via technocracy.news
  
  Cheap, alternative energy is the big lie of the century. It’s also a blatant oxymoron. If Biden and his United Nations cronies force us into the “Green New Deal”, we will be facing a minimum of a tripling of energy prices plus serious energy disruptions in the national energy grid. ⁃ TN EditorPresident Joe Biden keeps claiming that wind and solar energy are going to save money for consumers. But more government subsidies to “renewable energy” is a ke
  
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• This bestselling waterproof Bluetooth speaker is now on sale for £17 on Amazon

  20-05-2022 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Looking for live deals on portable Bluetooth speakers? The bestselling Tribit XSound Surf Bluetooth Speaker is on sale for a steal at £16.82, reduced down from £32.99.
  
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• Canada to ban China's Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks

  20-05-2022 13:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK, US, Australia and New Zealand have also barred the Chinese telecoms equipment makers.
  
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• Nuclear Fusion Is Already Facing a Fuel Crisis

  20-05-2022 13:00
  
  It doesn’t even work yet, but nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium, the key fuel source for the most prominent experimental reactors.
  
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• Cannibal wasp babies devour their siblings when food runs low, study reveals 

  20-05-2022 12:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sibling cannibalism is surprisingly common in larvae of the wasp species Isodontia harmandi, according to researchers at Kobe University in Japan.
  
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• What is biodiversity and how are we protecting it?

  20-05-2022 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The planet is experiencing its sixth mass extinction event, but it is hoped action can be agreed.
  
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• Apple will unveil the iPhone 14 on September 13, leakers claim

  20-05-2022 11:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple-focused site iDropNews claims that Apple's next flagship smartphone will be unveiled on September 13.
  
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• Apple Car could be windowless, patent suggests

  20-05-2022 11:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cupertino tech giant has filed a patent for a VR vehicle systemthat matches up 'virtual views' with physical motions of a car as it's travelling.
  
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• Netflix launches a 'Mystery Box' feature for kids that will suggest new films or programmes 

  20-05-2022 10:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mystery Box is similar to Netflix's 'Play Something' feature, which was launched last year and is essentially a 'shuffle' button.
  
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• Up to 800,000 insomniacs reliant on drugs can now be given app which helps them sleep easier

  20-05-2022 09:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Around 800,000 people in England struggling to sleep, who would usually be offered pills such as zolpidem and zopiclone, are set to be recommended Sleepio.
  
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• Cyber security: Global food supply chain at risk from malicious hackers

  20-05-2022 05:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The growth of "smart" farm machinery is increasing the risk of hacking of food and farming systems.
  
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• Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule launches on test flight

  20-05-2022 01:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The aerospace company sends up its Starliner vehicle on a mission to prove its capabilities in orbit.
  
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• Could contact lenses be the ultimate computer screen?

  20-05-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firms are developing smart contact lenses that can project data in front of the user's eye.
  
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• Stonehenge inhabitants feasted on offal 4,500 years ago

  20-05-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Cambridge-led researchers uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms in humans living at Durrington Walls, a Neolithic settlement dating back to around 2,500 BC.
  
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