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• Israel's AI-powered system that can 'SEE' through walls

  27-06-2022 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Xaver 1000, which users place directly on the wall, produces such high resolution displays that users can determine if a person is sitting, standing or lying down.
  
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• Google WOULD push back on abortion data request from police as other tech companies won't answer

  27-06-2022 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google Chief Privacy Officer said that, while the company has historically complied with valid law enforcement requests, it would still pushback on anything it deems 'excessive.'
  
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• Octopuses and humans brains share the same 'jumping genes,' new study reveals 

  27-06-2022 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although it may seem implausible, humans and octopuses do share genetic traits. Scientists discovered that a type of 'jumping gene' associated with learning and memory can be seen in both.
  
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• SpaceX and Virgin Galactic space ships could destroy the Ozone layer again

  27-06-2022 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With a boom in space tourism, experts warn the soot released by rockets will trap heat in the stratosphere and reversethe recover of the ozone layer.
  
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• Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' are one MILLION years older than previously thought

  27-06-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new study by Purdue University reveals that Australopithecus-bearing cave sediments at the 'Cradle of Humankind' in South Africa date from about 3.4 to 3.7 million years old.
  
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• Octopus and human brains share the same 'jumping genes,' new study reveals 

  27-06-2022 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although it may seem implausible, humans and octopuses do share genetic traits. Scientists discovered that a type of 'jumping gene' associated with learning and memory can be seen in both.
  
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• Climate change could be reducing the likelihood of tropical cyclones

  27-06-2022 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Melbourne-led experts found that the annual number of tropical cyclones decreased by about 13 per cent during the 20th century, compared with the period between 1850 and 1900.
  
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• 'Super earths' may be even more habitable than our own planet, study says

  27-06-2022 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Planets outside our Solar System with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen and helium have surfaces warm enough to host liquid water, say University of Zurich experts.
  
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• Apple makes $1,700 in profit per SECOND, followed closely by Google and Microsoft

  27-06-2022 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple, Microsoft and Google make more money in one second than the average American worker earns in one week. Their software and hardware products generate eye-popping profits.
  
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• Wimbledon scientists reveal the luckiest and unluckiest courts for British tennis players 

  27-06-2022 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To mark the start of the Wimbledon Championships, scientists have looked at the data to find the court with the best British win percentage so far this century.
  
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• New Zealand sea sponges are 'dying by the millions' due to climate change

  27-06-2022 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sea sponges that provide food and shelter to other marine animals are losing their cells and dying. This is due to extreme temperatures warming oceans and causes stress for the sponges.
  
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• Vast European Opposition To Central Bank Digital Currency

  27-06-2022 16:33 via technocracy.news
  
  They asked for public comment. The overwhelming majority said to stuff it. In defiance of public sentiment, the response is “the European Commission will need to step up their efforts to better explain to its population how a digital euro works, to demystify some beliefs, and perhaps to show the benefits of a digital euro.” ⁃ TN Editor  
  he European Commission will close a public consultation on the digital euro on Tuesday (June 14), after feedback from EU citizens indicat
  
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• Catastrophic: Technocrat War On American Energy

  27-06-2022 16:22 via technocracy.news
  During Biden’s election campaign, he said, “No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. It ends.” Now, he is begging Saudi Arabia to sell us oil for $120/barrel when we could have produced the same barrel for under $50/barrel. This is what Technocracy’s plan to control all energy looks like. ⁃ TN EditorThe conflict in Ukraine evokes a World War II strategy we had all hoped was gone forever: the purposeful victi
  
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• People born into money more sensitive to the plight of the poor than those from humble beginnings

  27-06-2022 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of California found people who had moved up the economic ladder tended to see social mobility as being easier than people who were born rich.
  
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• Study: Male Fertility Tanks 15.4% After mRNA Injections

  27-06-2022 16:06 via technocracy.news
  
  Accusations of population reduction keep coming up when studies like this are revealed: sperm count drops over 15% within three months of taking the shot. There are many other side effects of the mRNA injections, which collectively should have shut down the whole program before it ever got off the ground. ⁃ TN EditorA new study conducted by Israeli researchers at Shamir Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Herzliya Medical Center, and Sheba Medical Center, has published disturbing findings
  
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• Fears AI may create sexist bigots as test learns 'toxic stereotypes'

  27-06-2022 14:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The robot showed gender and racial biases by gravitating toward men over women and white people over people of colour during tests by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
  
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• Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound

  27-06-2022 13:00
  
  From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave.
  
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• Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids

  27-06-2022 13:00
  
  Mars is littered with craters made by binary asteroids. These collisions are as intriguing as they are powerful.
  
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• MIT scientists create robotic FIREFLIES that could help search-and-rescue missions 

  27-06-2022 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at MIT have found a way to embed electroluminescent particles into the artificial muscles that power the robot's wings, meaning they emit light during flight.
  
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• Scientists find a way to grow plants in complete darkness using 'artificial photosynthesis' 

  27-06-2022 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of California, Riverside researchers used a two-step chemical process to convert carbon dioxide, electricity and water into acetate - a form of the main component of vinegar.
  
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• NASA orbiter spots double crater left by mysterious rocket booster that crash-landed in March

  27-06-2022 11:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newly-released photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show a surprising 'double crater' roughly 92 feet (28 metres) wide created by the rocket on March 4.
  
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• Nasa launches first rocket from Australian commercial spaceport

  27-06-2022 09:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is Nasa's first launch from a commercial site outside the US - and a landmark moment for Australia.
  
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• Will electric motorbike sales take-off across Asia?

  27-06-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Soaring petrol prices could speed up the transition to electric much faster than expected.
  
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