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• French officials told to abandon gaming Anglicisms

  31-05-2022 18:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Use “jeu video de competition” instead of "e-sports", language watchdog the Académie Française says.
  
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• France races to save 30,000-year-old undersea Stone Age cave art

  31-05-2022 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To get to the 30,000-year-old paintings, archaeologists first have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean near Marseille, before navigating a 450ft tunnel to reach a huge cavern.
  
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• Megalodon shark extinction may have been linked to great white competition

  31-05-2022 18:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The great white shark could have helped push the megalodon to extinction through a battle for food.
  
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• Iconic DeLorean from 'Back to the Future' is rebooted as an all-electric car

  31-05-2022 17:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New renders show the DeLorean's upcoming reboot, called 'Alpha5 EV', with the original car's silver body and iconic gull-wing doors either side.
  
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• Megalodons were driven to extinction by great white sharks, study claims

  31-05-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology looked at whether great white sharks could have played a role in the megalodon's extinction.
  
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• Ruins of a 3,400-year-old submerged city in Iraq reappear above river surface as dam dries up

  31-05-2022 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ruins of a 3,400-year-old city have emerged after decades underwater in the Mosul reservoir in Iraq. University of Tübingen and University of Freiburg archeologists excavated the new buildings.
  
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• Rape victim: It felt like I was being investigated when I reported my assault

  31-05-2022 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sex assault victims face intrusive "digital strip-searches" with records and phones seized, a report warns.
  
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• Betelgeuse star dimming puzzle has finally been solved

  31-05-2022 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chance observations from a Japanese satellite that is actually designed to monitor weather on Earth show the so-called Great Dimming was caused by a combination of cooling and dust condensing nearby.
  
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• Apple AirPods are back at their lowest price EVER on Amazon - now just £99 

  31-05-2022 14:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The phenomenally popular Apple AirPods with wired Charging Case (2nd generation) has returned to their lowest ever price on Amazon, now on sale for £99, down from £119.
  
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• US's Frontier supercomputer becomes the fastest in the world

  31-05-2022 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frontier, based at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, is the first to achieve a level of computing known as 'exascale'.
  
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• Fusion won't avert need for climate change 'sacrifice', says nuclear energy expert

  31-05-2022 13:16 via go.theregister.com
  
  But the potentially abundant, if distant, source of sustainable energy could offer hope Nuclear fusion will not provide an answer to the medium-term "sacrifice" the world population will have to endure to get to net-zero carbon emission by 2050 — the target for keeping average global heating within the 1.5˚C margin.…
  
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• You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP

  31-05-2022 13:00
  
  Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.
  
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• Rhythm of love? Male wolf spiders lay down elaborate BEATS to woo females, study finds

  31-05-2022 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Nebraska have revealed how male spiders unleash a leg-tapping performance lasting up to 45 minutes when they encounter a receptive female.
  
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• As Bitcoin Falters, Crypto Miners Brace for a Crash

  31-05-2022 13:00
  
  Electricity costs more, bitcoin is worth less. What can possibly go wrong?
  
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• Digital proof-of-age app being used in UK cinemas could just lead to more 'cheating', expert warns

  31-05-2022 12:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A digital proof-of-age app being accepted by UK cinemas could open up new ways of'cheating' for children wanting to watch inappropriate films, an expert has warned.
  
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• Rise of the 'Tamagotchi kids': Virtual children will be commonplace in 50 years, AI expert predicts 

  31-05-2022 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  They will cost next to nothing to bring up, as they will require minimal resources, according to Catriona Campbell, one of the UK's leading authorities on AI and emerging technologies.
  
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• Humanoid robot soldiers will be used to train British Army paratroopers

  31-05-2022 11:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Troops at 16 Air Assault Brigade will be put through their paces at a special VR facility in Colchester, Essex where they see the robots as real troops.
  
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• Report blasts "manipulative" video game loot boxes

  31-05-2022 09:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Consumer groups from 18 countries in Europe are calling for governments to clamp down on loot boxes.
  
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• What is Google's new skin tone scale?

  31-05-2022 07:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google has introduced a new skin tone scale - what is it and why does it matter?
  
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• Remote Learning Apps: Children’s Data Shared At ‘Dizzying Scale’

  31-05-2022 05:56 via technocracy.news
  
  In one of the biggest data grabs in the 21st century, the pandemic forced remote learning on students of all ages. Those apps, in return, sucked uniquely identified data out of millions of students without their or their parents knowledge. Data is then sold to a host of third-party companies. This is the ugly side of surveillance capitalism. ⁃ TN EditorMillions of children had their online behaviors and personal information tracked by the apps and websites they used for school during the p
  
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• CRISPR Gone Wrong: Fluffy Hamsters Turn Into ‘Aggressive’ Rage Monsters

  31-05-2022 05:37 via technocracy.news
  
  Scientists concluded, “We don’t understand this system as well as we thought we did.’ Yet, the Chief Medical Officer of Moderna (mRNA “vaccines”) said, “We are actually hacking the software of life. We think about it as an operating system. So if you could actually change that, if you could introduce a line of code, or change a line of code, it turns out it has profound implications for everything.”
  Politicians would do well to place a moratorium on
  
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• California Shuts Off Water To Farmers To Save Fish

  31-05-2022 05:23 via technocracy.news
  
  As a former rice farmer in northern California, I can testify to the stupidity and insanity of environmentalists who favor obscure fish over humans. Water to farmers is now below growing levels and will cause devastation to the 2022 rice industry, taking down farmers as well as all related industries. The fact that the world is facing a major food shortage means nothing to these environmental zealots. ⁃ TN EditorColusa County in Northern California is the top producer of rice in the Sacram
  
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• How artificial intelligence 'blew up' tennis

  31-05-2022 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coaches now have powerful tools which can find patterns in play that humans would struggle to see.
  
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