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• Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal

  06-06-2022 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The billionaire accuses the company of "thwarting" his requests to learn more about spam accounts.
  
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• 'Still no Apple Glasses?' Apple WWDC event ends without a single mention of a mixed reality headset

  06-06-2022 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While Apple was highly rumoured to be giving details of its first smart glasses at its WWDC event, the event ended without a single mention.
  
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• Polar bears and brown bears continued to mate with each other long after the species separated

  06-06-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Polar bears and brown bears were still mating with each other long after they had split into two distinct species, a new study has found led by scientists from University at Buffalo.
  
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• Chickens were WORSHIPPED rather than eaten in Iron Age Britain, study finds

  06-06-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team has analysed historical chicken remains found in more than 600 sites in 89 countries, including England, Italy, Turkey, Morocco and Thailand.
  
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• Apple's new MacBook Air is unveiled! $1,200 laptop features a 13.6-inch display and a headphone jack

  06-06-2022 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has unveiled its new MacBook Air laptop at the WWDC event today. The device is just 11mm thick, and comes in at an impressively light 2.7lbs.
  
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• Apple's iOS 16 is unveiled featuring redesigned lock screen

  06-06-2022 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  iOS 16 includes 'the biggest update ever' to the lock screen, which makes it easier to change background photos andthe colour and design of fonts.
  
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• iPhone lockscreen gets a makeover! Apple users will be able to customise in iOS 16

  06-06-2022 19:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The update was announced by Apple's Craig Federighi at the WWDC conference today.
  
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• Regret that message? Apple will let iPhone users UNSEND or edit messages in the iOS 16 update

  06-06-2022 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new feature was announced by Apple's Craig Federighi during Apple's WWDC conference today.
  
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• NASA is to launch a 'priority' mission to explore mysterious domes on the moon

  06-06-2022 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US space agency has unveiled plans for a rover to visit the Gruithuisen Domes, geological features which experts believe were formed by a sticky magma rich in silica.
  
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• Amazon’s Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts

  06-06-2022 17:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Imagine a society that is run like an Amazon warehouse: every move recorded and analyzed by AI for instant correction. “Do what we say immediately, or you are terminated.” These Technocrat slavers are the same people who are engineering society to be subservient to their twisted, inhuman ideology. Is this the future you want? ⁃ TN EditorInfamously, Amazon punishes and sometimes fires warehouse workers who it believes are wasting time at work. A new filing obtained by
  
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• Earth only has a 33% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2029, study warns

  06-06-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Washington have calculated how much warming is already guaranteed based on past emissions of CO2, methane, nitrogen oxide, and aerosols.
  
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• Hohmann: How Technocrats Use Cities To Create Digital Slaves

  06-06-2022 16:54 via technocracy.news
  
  Prisoners of war are slaves when put into concentration camps. Modern cities are headed in that direction as ubiquitous surveillance and monitoring technology is merged into the human condition via implants, wearables and ingested sensors. Add to that the totally immersive Metaverse and you have a perfect recipe for outright slavery.  ⁃ TN EditorThe Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based civil liberties organization, has sent a letter to the City of Hou
  
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• Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously

  06-06-2022 16:44 via go.theregister.com
  
  Carbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal Comment  It's hard to suppress an eyeroll when the world's largest consumers of datacenter resources talk about sustainability. Putting the planet ahead of profits is often not at the top of the to-do list in large-scale, performance-driven environments.…
  
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• Ancient road discovered in Wales follows the route taken to transport bluestones to STONEHENGE

  06-06-2022 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An ancient road discovered in Wales by an Oxford University archaeologistmay have been the route taken by prehistoric people transporting the stones that built Stonehenge.
  
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• Mercola: Fomenting Hatred Is A Propaganda Tool Of Tyrants

  06-06-2022 16:24 via technocracy.news
  “With COVID, it took barely two months for society to go from ‘we’re all in this together,’ to declaring half the population subhuman.” Orwell’s 1984 featured “Two Minutes Hate” every morning to stir up hatred against a mythical enemy, thus leaving only love for Big Brother. The world is now in perpetual war. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> Fomenting hatred is a tool of tyrants, and over the past two years, political leaders, agency heads, a
  
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• China launches three astronauts to the Tiangong space station to finish construction work

  06-06-2022 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The trio blasted into space on a Long March-2F rocketfrom the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern China's Gobi desert at 03:44 BST.
  
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• Apple trails Google, Microsoft and Snap with first pair of AR glasses

  06-06-2022 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cupertino tech giant has lagged behind in a number of product areas, including smart speakers and smart glasses, experts point out.
  
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• How does YOUR city stack up? Experts reveal the top UK cities to own an electric car

  06-06-2022 13:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research has assessed the availability of charging points, accessibility to off-street parking, cost of charging and clean air zones in UK cities, to reveal the top places to own an electric car.
  
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• Arietids meteor shower peaks during the DAYTIME on Tuesday with up to 200 shooting stars per hour

  06-06-2022 13:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A meteor shower with up to 200 shooting stars an hour may be visible on Tuesday morning, according to a US astronomer. This is the annual Arietids shower and occurs during the day.
  
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• Google's Russian Empire Faces an Uncertain Future

  06-06-2022 13:00
  
  After filing for bankruptcy, Google could withdraw from Russia or antagonize the country's regulators from overseas.
  
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• Brute force and whiskey: The solution to all life's problems

  06-06-2022 10:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Just make sure to drink it AFTER the rocket has successfully launched Who, Me?  Welcome back to Who, Me?, where this week a reader tells us how they used brute force and whiskey to solve a pyrotechnic problem.…
  
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• Diabetes drug that 'cuts weight by 20%' is hailed as a game-changer in battle against obesity 

  06-06-2022 03:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The group on the highest dose - 15mg - lost 3st 10lb on average, according to the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  
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• Digital fingerprints of a million child abuse images made

  06-06-2022 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new system for classifying images will help stop them being shared online, a UK charity says.
  
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• Bonn climate conference: World is "cooked" if we carry on with coal, US says

  06-06-2022 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US climate envoy John Kerry says the war in Ukraine is no excuse to prolong global reliance on coal.
  
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• Bonn climate conference: Ukraine war no excuse for prolonging coal, Kerry warns

  06-06-2022 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US climate envoy John Kerry warns the world is "cooked" if countries continue using coal.
  
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• China's plans to go to the Moon, Mars and beyond

  06-06-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China plans to put astronauts on the Moon and send probes to Mars and Jupiter. Why the grand plans?
  
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