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• Greenland lost enough ice in three days to cover West Virginia with a FOOT of water

  21-07-2022 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This 'spike melt,' from July 15 through 17, was due to temperatures being 10 degrees warmer than normal. During this time, Greenland's ice sheet lost 6 billion tons of water per day.
  
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• Apple urges users to download the new iOS 15.6 that fixes 39 security vulnerabilities

  21-07-2022 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new iOS 15.6 includes patches for vulnerabilities that allow bad actors to track devices, terminate WiFi access and access sensitive data in the iCloud Photo Library.
  
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• Climate change threatens to wipe out bird species with more 'extreme' features like unique plumage

  21-07-2022 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from the University of Sheffield suggests that birds are adapting to global warming by developing big beaks, that help regulate their body temperature, and losing distinctive features.
  
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• Eurasian beaver to be given legal protection in England

  21-07-2022 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Legal protection for beavers will be in place in England from October, the government says.
  
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• 150 million-year-old marine invertebrate is named after Ukraine's President Zelensky

  21-07-2022 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossil of Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi, which is closely related to sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins, is the first Jurassic feather star discovered on the African continent.
  
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• How Patel's new airport 'contactless corridor' technology would work 

  21-07-2022 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Home Secretary Priti Patel says 'contactless corridors' at UK airports will let Brits skip passport queues and breeze through border controls in just two years' time.
  
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• Footprints of the world's largest dinosaur species that lived 100 million years ago found in China

  21-07-2022 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sauropods are distinguished by their massive size and their long necks and tails. The footprints found at the restaurant are the first evidence dinosaurs lived in this part of China.
  
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• You should eat with your mouth OPEN to improve taste, study suggests

  21-07-2022 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A University of Oxford scientist is encouraging foodies to eat with their mouths open to get the best taste experience. It helps more of the flavour compounds reach the back of the nose.
  
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• Neutron stars: New telescope detects dead suns colliding

  21-07-2022 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Light from the crashes is only visible for a couple of nights.
  
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• Chilling moment robot dog with a submachine gun strapped to its back opens fire

  21-07-2022 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A chilling video reminiscent of Black Mirror of a robot dog opening fire with a submachine gun strapped to its back is a preview of future warfare.
  
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• Automated Killing Machine: Robot Dog Fitted With Machine Gun

  21-07-2022 16:18 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats build because they can, not because there is any good moral or ethical reason to do so. We have repeatedly warned against militarized robots able to use advanced AI, biometric identification and deadly armaments. Now, Technocrats have the ability to fully automate the killing of humans and the destruction of property. ⁃ TN EditorWhile Boston Dynamics show off their robot’s dance moves, others turn similar-looking devices into dystopian killing machines.
  Much like their fl
  
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• Pope Francis: ‘Humanity Must Repent For Abuse Of Mother Earth’

  21-07-2022 16:04 via technocracy.news
  
  The major denominational churches of the world have been coopted and subsumed by Technocracy to actively promote it to their congregations. Pope Francis has turned to worshipping Gaia, the primordial earth goddess in Greek mythology, leaving the trappings of Christianity far behind. ⁃ TN EditorWe humans “must repent and modify our lifestyles” because of our abuse of Mother Earth, Pope Francis states in a message released Thursday.
  In his Message for the Celebration of
  
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• Food Wars: ‘The Dark Cult Of Davos Is Trying To Destroy These Farmers’

  21-07-2022 15:54 via technocracy.news
  If Tiananmen Square was a global wake up call on ruthless totalitarianism, then Dutch Farmers are trying to wake up the world on the war against humanity perpetrated by the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, etc. Collectively, the world is facing another Holodomor event where tens of millions could die from starvation. ⁃ TN EditorThose familiar with the most recent farmer protests in the Netherlands are saying that the Dutch government’s climate nitrogen-reduction policie
  
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• How thunderstorms could REVERSE the damage on your garden from the heatwave

  21-07-2022 14:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Met Office has explained how thunderstorms can help plants to grow, not only thanks to the rain they bring, but also because of the lightning strikes associated with them.
  
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• Scientists create strange new phase of matter that seems to occupy TWO time dimensions

  21-07-2022 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics in New York made the new discovery in a fascinating way by shining lasers at atoms inside a quantum computer.
  
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• This Hardcore Band Is a Product of the Internet—in the Best Way

  21-07-2022 13:00
  
  Turnstile breaks most of the rules of their genre. Their fans, who grew up online and care less about convention, follow them because of it.
  
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• Architects Are Copying Nature to Make Low-Carbon Buildings

  21-07-2022 13:00
  
  Plants and animals have adapted to their environments—and some hope biomimicry tools will help humans do the same.
  
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• A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert

  21-07-2022 13:00
  
  Scientists are turning to the world’s most extreme environments to find new ways of combating drug resistance.
  
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• Europe's heatwaves seen from SPACE in incredible satellite images

  21-07-2022 12:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The images were taken by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3 - a satellite that orbits 506 miles (814.5km) above Earth to measure our planet's oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere.
  
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• Netflix's new advertising tier will block access to some content

  21-07-2022 11:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Netflix's co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the Los Gatos streaming giant's new ad-supported tier won't have access to Netflix's entire content library.
  
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• You're not wrong. The scope for quantum computers remains small

  21-07-2022 11:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC Systems Approach  Back when I was field CTO for VMware in Asia-Pacific and Japan, many of my colleagues expected me to know something about everything in tech, and it was sometimes hard to bring myself to say "I don’t know."…
  
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• You're not wrong. The need for quantum computers remains ever so small

  21-07-2022 11:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC Systems Approach  Back when I was field CTO for VMware in Asia-Pacific and Japan, many of my colleagues expected me to know something about everything in tech, and it was sometimes hard to bring myself to say "I don’t know."…
  
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• James Webb's incredible video zooming through space to Southern Ring Nebula

  21-07-2022 10:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage reveals how the US space agency's James Webb telescope captures dazzling images of the cosmos by gazing back in time towards the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago.
  
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• NASA stalls water-seeking VIPER lunar rover to 2024

  21-07-2022 09:24 via go.theregister.com
  
  Americans need more time rebuilding their Moon sound stage, clearly NASA is pushing back the launch of VIPER, a rover designed to hunt for water ice on the Moon, by a year to November 2024.…
  
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• What a wag! Dogs' tails move to the right when they are with humans they love, research suggests

  21-07-2022 09:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing has found happy dogs' tails tend to wag more to the right when a dog is settled and with someone familiar.
  
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• China ride-hailing giant Didi fined $1.2bn after probe

  21-07-2022 08:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The country's cyber security watchdog launched a probe into the firm just days after its US listing.
  
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• Elon Musk's Tesla sells most of its Bitcoin holdings

  21-07-2022 05:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The announcement comes as the value of the world's biggest cryptocurrency has plunged.
  
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• Baidu unveils new self-driving taxi in China

  21-07-2022 04:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Baidu says its latest robo-taxi has the road skills of a driver with 20 years' experience.
  
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• Dogs that eat raw meat may excrete antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could be passed to humans

  21-07-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dogs that are fed raw meat are more likely to excrete the antibiotic-resistant bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) in their faeces, vets from the University of Bristol have warned.
  
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