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• Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...

  22-06-2022 23:51 via go.theregister.com
  
  Mega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together' Amazon unveiled its first "fully autonomous mobile robot" and other machines designed to operate alongside human workers at its warehouses.…
  
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• Sunspot THREE TIMES the size of Earth is facing directly at our planet

  22-06-2022 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sunspot AR30398has doubled in size in just a 24-hour period, sparking fears that this massive sunspot could release medium-class flares in the near future that would cause blackouts.
  
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• SpaceX's Starlink will experience outages '74% of the time' in US if 5G is launched

  22-06-2022 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX says Dish Network's proposal to operate a high-powered 5G mobile service in the 12 Ghz band will cause service outages in the US making the internet unusable for Americans.
  
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• People who speak their partner's 'love language' have stronger relationships, study claims 

  22-06-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to researchers from the University of Warsaw, the key to a strong relationship is expressing affection in your other half's preferred style.
  
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• Paleontologist Yves Coppens, who discovered 3.2-million-year-old skeleton, Lucy, dies at age 87

  22-06-2022 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French paleontologists Yves Coppens died Wednesday at the age of 87. He is known for discovering the hominid skeleton Lucy in Ethiopia 45 years ago.
  
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• Cryptocurrency may NOT be as safe as advocates claim, researchers warn

  22-06-2022 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm in New York, has investigated the fundamental properties of blockchains and their associated cybersecurity risks.
  
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• Monkey Business: Monkeypox Or Moneypox?

  22-06-2022 18:01 via technocracy.news
  
  When a football team discovers a good play, it will use it over and over until it is no longer effective. So it is with Big Pharma and the biomedical cartel. It is up to people, real medical doctors and professionals to tell them to shove it. Already, there are so many holes in the monkeypox argument that it is almost laughable. ⁃ TN EditorThere are now 2500 moneypox cases diagnosed in the current outbreak, in over 40 countries, and not a single death that anyone can point to, outside of A
  
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• Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results—for Better or Worse

  22-06-2022 18:00
  
  The privacy-focused company's new Goggles tool allows users to weed out the noise—whatever that might mean.
  
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• The Link Between Transhumanism And The Metaverse

  22-06-2022 17:32 via technocracy.news
  
  Reality is already 3D and immersive, so why do we need a cheap imitation called the Metaverse? The answer lies in Transhumanism and its quest to escape mortal bounds to enter into immortality, omniscience and transcendence, all of which are possible in the Metaverse but not in real life. Parents: Keep your children away from the Metaverse. ⁃ TN Editor1. The Gospel of Progress
  Ever since the archaic divergence of humanity from other hominids, our systems of tools and symbols have developed
  
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• Mask Mandates Linked to Increased COVID Death Rates

  22-06-2022 17:05 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy News & Trends published one of the very first warnings about the dangers of face masks on May 11, 2020. The author, Dr. Russell Blaylock, was ridiculed by the pseudo-scientific community and media. To see parental testimonies over damage done to children by forcing them to wear masks, see https://www.NoMasksForKids.com.
  Now that real science has validated the damage done by stupid mask mandates, these findings should be distributed to every single business, restaurant, doctor&rsq
  
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• Meta board hears over a million appeals over removed posts

  22-06-2022 17:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Oversight Board, which oversees Facebook and Instagram, said only 47 were submitted by Meta itself.
  
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• Europe told to prepare for Russia turning off gas

  22-06-2022 16:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The International Energy Agency warns that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.
  
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• Chinese man jailed for sexual assault of Alibaba employee on work trip

  22-06-2022 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The woman was assaulted after being made to drink on a work trip, and then fired after going public.
  
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• NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data

  22-06-2022 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory! Pondering what services to switch off to keep your laptop going just that bit longer? NASA engineers can relate, having decided the Mars InSight lander will go out on a high: they plan to burn through the remaining power to keep the science flowing until the bitter end.…
  
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• Tiny fish-shaped robot that 'swims' around picking up microplastics could help clean up the oceans

  22-06-2022 15:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Sichuan University, China have made a fish-shaped robot that can absorb ocean microplastics. It is only half-an-inch long so can squeeze into cracks and crevices in the seabed.
  
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• Meet Proteus: Amazon unveils autonomous robot designed to move large carts around its warehouses 

  22-06-2022 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Proteus robot uses Amazon's own safety, perception, and navigation technology to move around autonomously and avoid bumping into human workers.
  
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• Microsoft facial recognition tool is no longer able to read emotions

  22-06-2022 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As part of an overhaul its AI ethics policies, the Redmond, Washington tech firm is retiring facial analysis capabilities that detect emotional states in Azure Face.
  
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• EE is DOWN: Network crashes leaving users across the UK unable to use their mobile internet

  22-06-2022 14:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, the mobile network has been down since 12:46 BST, with issues affecting users across the UK.
  
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• NHS warns of scam Covid-test texts

  22-06-2022 13:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fake messages tell recipients they have been in contact with a Covid case and should order a test.
  
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• Six-stone SHARK hooked in Wales is the largest of its kind ever caught in British waters

  22-06-2022 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fisherman from South Wales has caught a six-stone shark off the coast of Pembrokeshire. The tope has been verified as the largest of its kind ever caught in UK waters.
  
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• South Korea successfully launches its first homegrown Nuri space rocket into orbit

  22-06-2022 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Nuri rocket, built by the government's Korea Aerospace Research Institute ​together with hundreds of local companies, ​blasted off at 16:00 local time (08:00 BST) on Tuesday.
  
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• Carlsberg is trialling a fully recyclable beer bottle made from WOOD fibres

  22-06-2022 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The trial will see 8,000 Fibre Bottles sampled in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, Poland, Germany, and France.
  
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• In Russia, Western Planes Are Falling Apart

  22-06-2022 13:00
  
  After months of sanctions that have made critical repair parts difficult to access, aircraft operators are running out of options.
  
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• EV Charging Costs Penalize Urban Drivers

  22-06-2022 13:00
  
  While suburban drivers can comfortably charge at home, those in low-income areas face higher prices—if they can find a station that works.
  
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• Do Birth Control Pills Affect Your Mood? Scientists Can’t Agree

  22-06-2022 13:00
  
  Over 100 million women are estimated to use oral contraceptives, but studies on the pill’s mental health effects raise more questions than answers.
  
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• MailOnline tries the world's first plant-based filet mignon steaks

  22-06-2022 11:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's first plant-based filet mignon steak, created by Slovenian firm Juicy Marbles, contains fat made from sunflower oil and protein fibres that mimic real beef tissue.
  
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• Strange honeycomb pattern on Mars is formed by ice expanding and contracting

  22-06-2022 11:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Arizona experts, who are in charge of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter said both water and dry ice have a major role in sculpting the Red Planet's surface at high latitudes.
  
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• Almost HALF of the world's rivers contain dangerous levels of prescription drugs

  22-06-2022 09:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of York found unsafe levels of drugs including antidepressants, antihistamines, and painkillers in 43.5 per cent of 1,052 sites tested across 104 countries.
  
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• Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years

  22-06-2022 08:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!? The software on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is to be upgraded after nearly two decades, giving the orbiter capabilities to hunt for water beneath the planet and study its larger moon, Phobos.…
  
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• Liftoff at last for South Korean space program

  22-06-2022 07:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks South Korea's Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) yesterday succeeded in its endeavor to send the home-grown Nuri launcher into space, then place a working satellite in orbit.…
  
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• Upskirt photos shared in Facebook groups, BBC finds

  22-06-2022 07:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meta says it has removed accounts and groups showing upskirting, after a BBC investigation.
  
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• Catching Covid-19 on a train is just as likely whether you sit or stand, study finds

  22-06-2022 06:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mathematicians from the University of Cambridge modelled how airborne diseases are transmitted on a train, and found there is no 'safest spot' to sit or stand to reduce your risk of contamination.
  
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• AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center

  22-06-2022 02:52 via go.theregister.com
  
  Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help Not that anything in the quantum hardware world is fully cooked, but quantum computing is quite a bit farther along than quantum networking. Not to be left out with the latter, though, Amazon Web Services is throwing its hat in the ring in hopes of bringing quantum connectivity from the lab to the real world. …
  
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• Meet the mites that have sex on your face and nipples while you sleep

  22-06-2022 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Reading have sequenced a mite's genome for the first time, and found inbreeding is causing them to shed unnecessary genes and cells.
  
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• Cavemen of Canterbury: Britain's early humans lived in Kent, study says

  22-06-2022 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have finally dated ancient flint tools that were found 100 years ago in Fordwich, a market town just northeast ofthe ancient city of Canterbury.
  
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