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• Marble head believed to be the missing piece a 2,000-year-old headless statue of Hercules

  21-06-2022 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A larger-than-life-size marble head of a bearded man was recently pulled off the coast of Greece and archaeologists say it could be the missing piece of the headless statue of 'Hercules of Antikythera.'
  
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• Burmese python weighing 215lbs and measuring nearly 18ft long found in Florida

  21-06-2022 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The female Burmese python, which was found outside of Naples, Florida, is not only the largest to be found in the state, but it also had the most proto eggs of any female observed.
  
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• Burmese python weighing 250lbs and measuring nearly 18ft long found in Florida

  21-06-2022 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The female Burmese python, which was found outside of Naples, Florida, is not only the largest to be found in the state, but it also had the most proto eggs of any female observed.
  
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• The Power and Pitfalls of AI for US Intelligence

  21-06-2022 21:38
  
  Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it's not the secret weapon you might imagine.
  
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• Pentagon explores using militarized fleet of SpaceX rockets

  21-06-2022 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The idea is to launch the Starship into space and then have it travel back down to Earth to land at a targeted destination. This would allow cargo and humans on board to be delivered in 60 minutes.
  
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• Generously giving money is an early sign that an elderly person could be suffering from dementia

  21-06-2022 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elderly people who are more generous giving out their money score worse on cognitive tests and are at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's.
  
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• Mysterious fireballs spotted in the sky over Spain may have been caused by Chinese rocket debris

  21-06-2022 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China's Long March-2F rocket broke into multiple fragments which became incandescent, experts said, sparking a row of fireballs that were seen above Malaga, Seville, Huelva and Granada.
  
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• Apple's new iOS 16 will let you skip annoying CAPTCHAs that ask you to prove you are a human

  21-06-2022 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The feature, called automatic verification, will automatically verify that the user is a human and not a robot. Eliminating the need to select specific objects in a range of images.
  
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• The Persistent History Of Population Control

  21-06-2022 17:53 via technocracy.news
  
  Population control is merely part of resource management where people are just another inconsequential and unremarkable group competing for existence on the big blue marble. Thus, eliminating people saves other resources and makes more available to the remaining elitists who push for population control in the first place. Understanding this history is critical.
  This writer was adopted at birth because my mother had been forcibly sterilized by a eugenics doctor in Berkeley, California during the
  
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• NASA tricks Artemis launch computer by masking data showing a leak

  21-06-2022 17:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it? NASA engineers had to work fast to avoid another leak affecting the latest Artemis dry run, just hours after an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) via the Cygnus freighter was aborted following a few short seconds.…
  
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• People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One

  21-06-2022 16:55
  
  Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant?
  
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• Green Energy Climate Change Mania Is Crumbling

  21-06-2022 16:48 via technocracy.news
  
  With the global energy crisis raging, more national leaders are discovering the root cause, namely, greenwashing radicals who have promoted disruptive alternative energy sources like wind and solar, at the expense of destroying existing sources of cheap energy such as coal, oil and natural gas. The trend is begrudgingly reversing as energy shortages threaten economic depression. ⁃ TN EditorAs President Joe Biden waxes poetic about the amazing “transition” his energy policies wi
  
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• Watch an AI-powered tank shoot rounds and blow up targets in the first live fire of the 'Type-X'

  21-06-2022 16:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The AI system in the killer robot navigates the tank, searches for targets and sets up its cannon for the attach. Its creator, Milrem, plans to sell the war machines in specific parts of Europe.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion: Handmaiden Of Technocracy

  21-06-2022 16:33 via technocracy.news
  
  This insightful article explains how deconstruction groups like Extinction Rebellion (XR) are used to enable Technocracy. The Summary: “XR is used to advance ideas that are the basis of a potential global reset to protect the environment, inaugurating technocracy. At which point, XR becomes disposable.” ⁃ TN EditorNo issue in the West has been more pressing for the general public in the last 40 years than an apparent worldwide environmental crisis caused by mankind. Measurement
  
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• Michelin-starred chef teams up with scientists to create fish-free seafood made from fungus

  21-06-2022 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Technical University of Denmark are teaming up with a two Michelin-starred restaurant to create fish-less seafood made from fungus fermented with seaweed.
  
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• 'Affordable' electric cars £9,200 pricier than petrol after grants scrapped

  21-06-2022 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ending the Plug-in Car Grant has made the 23 'most affordable' EVs £1,500 more expensive and on average 44% pricier than a petrol equivalent.
  
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• Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father

  21-06-2022 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech billionaire's 18-year-old daughter has applied to legally change her name and gender.
  
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• NASA prepares to power-down Voyager spacecraft after 44 years

  21-06-2022 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Both Voyagers launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida in 1977 - with Voyager 2 departing a month earlier than 1 - and were designed to last five years to study Jupiter and Saturn.
  
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• Muting notifications will make you check your phone more - not less 

  21-06-2022 13:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Muting phone notifications can be 'psychologically distressing' and will make users check their phone more, not less, say experts at Pennsylvania State University.
  
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• Must see! World's largest freshwater fish caught Cambodia

  21-06-2022 13:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stingray, nicknamed 'full moon,' was caught in the Mekong River by a local fisherman. Scientists tagged the fist before setting it free. They hope to learn more about itsbehavior.
  
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• Moaning is NOT a good measure of the female orgasm, study claims

  21-06-2022 12:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Ottawa have set out to measure the female orgasm for the first time.
  
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• Tough day at work causes you to speak faster and with more intensity, study finds

  21-06-2022 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People talk more quickly and with more intensity when they experience more strains during a day at work, researchers at Saarland University in Germany report.
  
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• Elon Musk's rocket creates spectacular blue spiral after dumping fuel

  21-06-2022 10:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The plume lit up the sky over Nelson, a city at the tip of New Zealand's south island, and travelled 466 miles (750km) south to Stewart Island by about 7.30pm on Sunday.
  
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• COP15: UN biodiversity summit moved from China to Canada

  21-06-2022 10:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The summit had been repeatedly postponed due to the Covid situation in China
  
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• Cloudflare fixes fault that caused hundreds of websites to return a '500 Internal Server error'

  21-06-2022 10:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Websites use Cloudflare to deliver content from the cloud. The error message - affecting Discord, Shopify, Fitbit, Peloton, Ring, bet365 and others - is the result of an outage at the content delivery network.
  
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• Major Cloudflare outage causes hundreds of websites to return a '500 Internal Server error' message

  21-06-2022 09:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Websites use Cloudflare services to help provide more resilience, security and uptime. It is the most popular content delivery network by some margin.
  
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• The technology behind the tennis: MailOnline reveals the systems powering Wimbledon Championships

  21-06-2022 07:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahead of the tournament, MailOnline's Shivali Best visited Wimbledon to hear about these technologies - including AI match insights and Hawk-Eye line calls.
  
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• Could nuclear desalination plants beat water scarcity?

  21-06-2022 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Engineers are developing mobile, floating nuclear desalination plants to help solve water shortages.
  
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• Snow days in the Alps 'will HALVE without faster action to stop climate change'

  21-06-2022 00:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Southern Alpine countries, including parts of France, Italy, and Slovenia, will be especially affected without emissions cuts, according to experts from Eurac Research in Italy.
  
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