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• Software flaw could let hackers take over US emergency alert system and broadcast FAKE warnings

  08-08-2022 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hackers have the capability to exploit a software flaw in the Emergency Alert System in order to issue fake warnings over radio and TV stations.
  
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• How bad your favourite foods are for the environment

  08-08-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oxford-led experts looked at meat and meat alternative products, such as plant-based burgers, and found that some of the latter had less than a tenth of the environmental impact of the former.
  
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• Tesla could announce its next Gigafactory in CANADA by the end of the year, lobbying suggests

  08-08-2022 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla's next Gigafactory might be built in Canada, if its new lobbying efforts and previous hints from CEO Elon Musk are correct.
  
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• Causes of deadly dry-lightning wildfires revealed

  08-08-2022 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The conditions for dry lightning, responsible for devastating California wildfires, have been identified.
  
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• Enormous 12-story Magellan telescope that will be the most powerful ever gets $205M funding boost

  08-08-2022 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A gigantic new telescope, which will be more powerful than any that currently exist, just got a big boost of funding - $205 million - that will turbocharge its construction.
  
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• How will humans fare against robo-footballers?

  08-08-2022 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Omar Mehtab visits the home of RoboCup champions Tech United to challenge them to a match.
  
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• Deciphering an infant's cry is NOT an innate ability and must be learned, study reveals 

  08-08-2022 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Saint-Etienne discovered that a baby's source of distress can be determined from their cry, but it is a learned ability through childcare experience.
  
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• Creators Of ESG Complain That Behavior Isn’t Changing Fast Enough

  08-08-2022 16:46 via technocracy.news
  
  This offers a little insight to the genesis and history of ESG ideology to kill coal, oil and natural gas through behavior modification. As Technocracy was primarily defined in the 1930s as the “science of social engineering”, ESG is a potent weapon but it is failing to live up to its original promises. Nevertheless, it will continue to create societal chaos until it is totally rejected by society. ⁃ TN EditorThe story of how ESG investing began is almost as wonky as its name.
  
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• Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC

  08-08-2022 16:45 via go.theregister.com
  
  It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them The US Federal Communications Commission is looking at how it can help kickstart manufacturing in space, but said orbital debris needs to be addressed first.…
  
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• Nordangård: UN’s Digital World Brain Seeks To Track Everything And Everyone

  08-08-2022 16:13 via technocracy.news
  
  As TN has warned for 12 years now that the United Nations is gunning for total control of the Internet, seeking to morph it into a digital brain that can control every thing and every one on the earth. The aim is total social control and behavior modification to suit Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorThe seventh commitment in Our Common Agenda is about improving digital collaboration through the creation of a “Global Digital Compact”.[1] This means that
  
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• July 2022 was one of the three hottest Julys on record

  08-08-2022 15:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Temperatures over 104F (40C) were observed in parts of Portugal, Spain, France and the UK, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
  
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• Fake designer sunglasses lack adequate UV protection and can result in cataracts, optometrists warn

  08-08-2022 13:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from the College of Optometrists found that nearly two in five have purchased cheap shades through social media ads, that often lack proper UV protection, in order to save in the cost of living crisis.
  
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• The Chaotic Monkeypox Vaccine Pipeline Is Leaving Everyone Short

  08-08-2022 13:00
  
  A Danish company that’s the sole producer of the only approved vaccine has sold nearly all its supplies to the US, and it won’t be making new doses until 2023.
  
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• 'Real Iron Man' hoverboard inventor is recruiting 25 people to test a new craft 

  08-08-2022 11:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frenchman Franky Zapata's JetRacer is a sophisticated version of his hoverboard - with the distinct advantage that the pilot has a seat.
  
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• The Power Of Where: The UN’s Rapidly Expanding GEOINT Infrastructure

  08-08-2022 07:05 via technocracy.news
  
  Geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) was defined in 2005 by James R. Clapper (Lt. Gen., USAF, Ret) as encompassing “all aspects of imagery and geospatial information and services. It includes, but is not limited to the analysis of literal imagery; geospatial data; and information technically derived from the processing, exploitation, literal, and non-literal analysis of spectral, spatial, and temporal fused products.” ⁃ TN EditorThis is the age in which humans and machines come tog
  
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• India’s latest rocket flies but payloads don't prosper

  08-08-2022 06:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Satellites end up in 'unusable' orbit India’s small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV) made a spectacular debut launch on Sunday, but the mission fell short of overall success when two satellites were inserted into the incorrect orbit, rendering them space junk.…
  
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• Why the long face? Humans CAN tell their dog's mood from its facial expression, research suggests 

  08-08-2022 02:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When 105 people were shown pictures of three different breeds, they correctly identified feelings of happiness, sadness, curiosity, fear, disgust and anger in the animals.
  
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• The plans for giant seaweed farms in European waters

  08-08-2022 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As worldwide sales of the algae soar, the European Union wants to establish giant seaweed farms.
  
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