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• Mars helicopter to take a breather, recharge batteries

  14-07-2022 22:44 via go.theregister.com
  
  Like a lot of us hope to do, Ingenuity goes on summer break The Mars Ingenuity helicopter is to take a breather to recharge its batteries after its latest successful flight a little over a month ago.…
  
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• Amazon secretly gives over $1 million to coalition opposing new antitrust regulation 

  14-07-2022 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is quietly funding a group that bills itself as a grassroots and fights against new federal antitrust legislation.
  
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• Spectacular photos show horseshoe crabs thriving in protected area in the Philippines 

  14-07-2022 21:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stunning new images of horseshoe crabs show the colorful sea creatures thriving in a marine protected portion of the Philippines.
  
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• Panasonic picks Kansas for $4b EV battery plant

  14-07-2022 19:45 via go.theregister.com
  
  Tesla's biggest battery supplier will reportedly hire 4,000 staff Kansas has landed the largest economic development project in its history, with Japanese tech giant Panasonic set to build a $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in the state.…
  
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• Python nursery raid in Florida reveals pair of female pythons measuring up to 17 feet long and eggs

  14-07-2022 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two female Burmese pythons were captured in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve this week. One measured 10ft long, while the other was 17ft. Dozens of eggs and hatchlings were nabbed.
  
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• Ashes of 8,000 victims of the Soldau concentration camp in Poland are found in mass graves

  14-07-2022 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The some 8,000 victims were assassinated and buried at one point, but then dug up and burned in 1944 by members of the Nazi party in an attempt to cover up the murders.
  
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• Environment Agency seeks jail for polluting water bosses

  14-07-2022 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The agency made the call after awarding water companies lower marks for pollution.
  
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• Woodpecker heads 'act like stiff hammers', not safety helmets, study finds

  14-07-2022 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An analysis of woodpeckers led by a University of Antwerp expert has shown their skulls don't act like shock-absorbing helmets, but more like metal hammers.
  
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• How To Destabilize A Nation With Food And Energy Shortages

  14-07-2022 17:34 via technocracy.news
  
  Sri Lanka is a warning of what happens when there isn’t enough food and energy for the populace: they rebel and topple governments. This is the exact outcome desired by Technocracy because Technocrats can then be appointed to take over and run things directly. The State Ministry of Education is already “transforming Sri Lanka into a smart nation through the ICT sector”. It’s website address? “technocrats.lk”  ⁃ TN EditorWhile the culture wars and in
  
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• DNA from fossils unearthed in southern China suggest Native Americans have East Asian roots

  14-07-2022 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DNA from ancient fossils in southern China has revealed that Native Americans may have roots in East Asia.
  
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• Ashes of 8,000 victims of the Soldua concentration camp in Poland are found in mass graves

  14-07-2022 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The some 8,000 victims were assassinated and buried at one point, but then dug up and burned in 1944 by members of the Nazi party in an attempt to cover up the murders.
  
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• Social support can lower stress levels in orphaned elephants, study shows

  14-07-2022 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have measured stress levels of African savanna elephants from the Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves in Kenya by sampling their dung.
  
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• “Polycrisis Of Doom”: Technocracy’s Mother Of All Wars To Conquer the World

  14-07-2022 17:05 via technocracy.news
  
  This writer first stated in 2015 that Technocracy had declared war on humanity. Today’s “polycrisis” is the expansion of the scorched-earth policy to reduce society to rubble, making possible the World Economic Forum’s policy to “Build Back Better.” The Energy crisis is fabricated. The Food crisis is fabricated. The Financial crisis is fabricated. Nation-states are crumbling. Is anyone listening?
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• Social support helps orphaned elephants 'cope'

  14-07-2022 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  'Friends and family' lower long-term stress in orphaned elephants, study finds.
  
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• Albatross-inspired glider designed for Mars flight

  14-07-2022 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists are developing a sailplane to soar above the Martian surface like the big seabird.
  
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• Technocracy: A Digital Slave System Where No Dissent Is Allowed

  14-07-2022 16:35 via technocracy.news
  
  This article is the succinct view from a European scholar on where the world is headed, namely, straight into outright Technocracy. The evil and twisted religion of Scientism can be easily identified where “scientific expert councils erode democracy.” Indeed, Technocracy intends to completely remove the entire political layer of society in order to control people directly, without discussion or recourse. ⁃ TN Editor“We must make lying wrong again,” writes UN Secreta
  
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• Eat gazpacho and rub your skin with ONION juice at night are some heatwave tips from overseas

  14-07-2022 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Spanish cold vegetable soup rich in refreshing tomatoes and cucumbers and an alternative Indian remedy of rubbing onion juice on the skin are two ways sweltering Britons could beat the heat.
  
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• Several hundred birds found dead at Norfolk nature reserve

  14-07-2022 15:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bird flu is devastating several sea bird species along the UK coastline.
  
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• Thousands of users report Twitter outage as app breaks down

  14-07-2022 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Users on mobile devices and desktop were met with blank feeds, logged out and told to "try again later".
  
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• Sir Patrick Vallance warns MPs that we will be plunged into crisis due to impacts of climate change

  14-07-2022 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Patrick Vallance warned MPs in a briefing that we face '50 years of really big problems relating to climate' compared to the two-and-a-half-year pandemic.
  
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• Tesla Autopilot head Andrej Karpathy leaves as company faces renewed crash probes

  14-07-2022 15:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla's head of artificial intelligence and autopilot Andrej Karpathy is leaving the company at a critical time - as it faces renewed probes over crashes and growing scrutiny.
  
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• Twitter is back up and running after brief outage

  14-07-2022 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, a website which monitors such outages, reports of problems first began to surface at about 12:45 BST (07:45 ET) for users across the world.
  
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• Twitter crashes leaving users unable to login or post and view tweets

  14-07-2022 14:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's the go-to social media app for users around the world, but it appears that Twitter has crashed this afternoon.
  
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• Here's the emoji set to be coming to your smartphone by 2023

  14-07-2022 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emojipedia, part of the Mountain View, California-based Unicode Consortium, has officially revealed draft candidates for the next emoji release, Emoji 15.0.
  
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• The Very Best Prime Day Deals Still Live Today in the UK

  14-07-2022 13:04
  
  From headphones and blenders to smartwatches and a fan, these are the actually good deals still live today on Amazon
  
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• Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s a Flying Ferry

  14-07-2022 13:00
  
  An electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future of public transportation in Stockholm—and beyond.
  
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• F1 22 Perfectly Simulates the Morality Vacuum of Formula 1

  14-07-2022 13:00
  
  The new game is great at capturing the excitement of motor racing. It's even better at mirroring the sport's rampant commercialism.
  
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• Bill Gates vows to drop off world's rich list

  14-07-2022 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Microsoft co-founder says he will move a further $20bn into his philanthropic foundation.
  
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• BMW sparks controversy over £15/month heated seat subscription service

  14-07-2022 10:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BMW's new subscription service will see drivers charged £15/month to turn on heated front seats, and an additional £10/month to switch on the heated steering wheel.
  
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• Netflix and Microsoft team up for cheaper plan with adverts

  14-07-2022 09:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In April, the firm said subscriber numbers had fallen for the first time in more than a decade.
  
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• Uber sued in US over sexual assault claims

  14-07-2022 07:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ride-hailing giant said last month that it received 998 reports of sexual assault incidents in 2020.
  
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• Dolphins are so cultured they even enjoy listening to Beethoven and Bach, study suggests 

  14-07-2022 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study suggests dolphins are fond of classical music. Dolphins played Bach, Grieg, Saint-Saens, Debussy and Beethoven showed more sociable behaviour.
  
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• New fungi species unearthed in Cairngorms mountains

  14-07-2022 01:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The discoveries included a fungus previously recorded in the Arctic and another in Antarctica.
  
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• Boost for patients as NHS gets green light for two new breast cancer drugs

  14-07-2022 01:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of breast cancer patients are to benefit from two new drugs on the NHS.Around 3,000 women a year will benefit from the life-extending drug Alpelisib.
  
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• Areas across England set to be hardest hit by heatwaves in coming years

  14-07-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leicester, Coventry, Bristol and Southampton, as well as Peterborough, Reading and Luton, also make the top 30 at risk areas, according to research by the University of Manchester.
  
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• Online Safety Bill put on hold until new prime minister in place

  14-07-2022 00:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bill's passage through Parliament has been delayed until MPs return from summer break.
  
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• A 'milky sea' is caught on camera for the first time

  14-07-2022 00:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It seemed nothing more than a legend for centuries, but sailors have capture the first images of a milky sea that is caused by luminous bacteria communicating with each other.
  
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