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• The US Offers a $10M Bounty for Intel on Conti Ransomware Gang

  11-08-2022 20:02
  
  The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group.
  
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• Gabrielle Zevin Believes Games Show People Who They Really Are

  11-08-2022 19:46
  
  In Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, the novelist explores the intimacy of gaming together.
  
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• iPhone 14 release date, UK price and specs: Plus what to expect so far

  11-08-2022 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahead of its reported release next month, MailOnline rounds up all the rumoured features the new iPhone 14 series may present. These include a new purple colour and a higher resolution camera.
  
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• 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a BLUE WHALE will zip past Earth tomorrow

  11-08-2022 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Asteroid 2015 FF has a diameter of up to 92 feet - meaning it could be the average size of a blue whale (90 feet) or almost three times as long as a London bus.
  
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• iPhone 14 UK release date and specs: Plus what to expect so far

  11-08-2022 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahead of its reported release next month, MailOnline rounds up all the rumoured features the new iPhone 14 series may present. These include a new purple colour and a higher resolution camera.
  
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• Girl power! Female monkeys with female friends live LONGER, study reveals

  11-08-2022 17:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  UCLA scientists studied the relationships of female white-faced capuchins to investigate any links to survival, and found that strong female-female relationships result in a longer life expectancy.
  
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• Whitehead: Feds Seek To Silence Opposition With Fear, Terror, Repression

  11-08-2022 17:42 via technocracy.news
  
  Biden’s Administration has now made it clear that the authoritarian police state will be the centerpiece of Biden’s legacy and the scourge of all citizens of America. The FBI has established a clear pattern of intimidation of political opponents. The IRS is arming its agents with .40 caliber hand cannons, which are only moderately smaller than a .45 caliber weapon. New IRS enforcement agents must be willing to use deadly force. If gun control laws are needed, it is for government age
  
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• The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, study reveals 

  11-08-2022 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Arctic warmed at a rate of 1.35°F per decade between 1979 and 2021, nearly four times faster than Earth's average, says the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki.
  
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• T.Rex had small EYES to allow for stronger bites

  11-08-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Birmingham experts reveal how the unusual elliptical, or oval eye sockets found in the skulls of these predators may have evolved to help them to better deal with high bite forces.
  
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• THINKING too hard causes a build-up of toxic chemicals in your brain

  11-08-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the Pitié-Salpêtrière University have found that mental fatigue is the result of a build up of a noxious chemical in the brain that causes it to shift towards low-effort tasks.
  
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• Warning: The Metaverse Is A Grave Danger To Child Development

  11-08-2022 16:12 via technocracy.news
  
  The future of the Metaverse is so big that Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of Facebook to Meta. Gaming and educational tech companies are racing to hook children as young as 3 years old into a virtual world that will literally re-write brain functions, warping reality and tricking them into experiences that cannot be distinguished from reality. Parents be warned! Keep your children out of virtual reality. ⁃ TN EditorAccording to a recent poll, half of parents aren’t aware of how muc
  
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• Roomba Rooms: Amazon Buys iRobot To Map Inside Your Home

  11-08-2022 15:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Your Ring doorbell knows who enters your house. Ring Indoor Cameras watch movement in the house. Alexa hears everything that goes on inside. Roomba will map the inside of your home. Amazon gets access to your home network information and flow. Looks like Amazon is a one-stop-shop for total surveillance and complete loss of privacy. ⁃ TN EditorAmazon.com Inc.’s $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot Corp. is a move by the megacorporation to use Roombas to map
  
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• NHS IT supplier held to ransom by hackers

  11-08-2022 14:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.
  
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• New James Webb telescope video reveals incredible Cartwheel Galaxy

  11-08-2022 14:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $10 billion observatory's powerful infrared gaze produced a rare sight of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other galaxies.
  
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• This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed

  11-08-2022 13:00
  
  The Raspberry Pi-powered device can scan for phones around you. If it keeps spotting the same one, it’ll send you an alert.
  
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• Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future

  11-08-2022 13:00
  
  The underground excavation industry is exploring mini robots, plasma torches, and superheated gas to replace the massive boring machines now in use.
  
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• Smiling Dogs? Horses Made of Clouds? Captcha Has Gone Too Far

  11-08-2022 13:00
  
  Users face increasingly impossible challenges to prove they are not bots.
  
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• Look up tonight! Final supermoon of the year will peak this evening

  11-08-2022 12:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The supermoon will be visible tonight, while Friday to Saturday marks the peak of the Perseids - up to 150 meteors an hour, says Royal Observatory Greenwich.
  
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• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: New drug can fight off 300 different types of superbugs

  11-08-2022 12:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US researchers found fabimycin - a man-made antibiotic - works against infections caused by bacteria that are usually near-impossible to treat. The bacteria cause pneumonia and UTIs.
  
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• Earth's continents were formed by giant METEORITE impacts 3.5 billion years ago, study claims 

  11-08-2022 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Curtin University in Perth, Australia analysed crystals of the mineral zircon from the Pilbara Craton - an ancient piece of the planet's crust - to investigate its origins.
  
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• Incredible James Webb video zooms through space to reveal the Cartwheel Galaxy

  11-08-2022 12:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $10 billion observatory's powerful infrared gaze produced a rare sight of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other galaxies.
  
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• SLS v Saturn V: How NASA's new rocket compares to Neil Armstrong's launch vehicle

  11-08-2022 11:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The enormous Space Launch System (SLS) is scheduled to blast into space on August 29 as part of a six-week mission that will see it carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit and back.
  
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• 'Vabbing' is dangerous: Doctors warn against TikTok craze of using vaginal discharge as perfume

  11-08-2022 11:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: TikTok trend sees women put a small amount of vaginal fluid behind their ears and on their necks. Dr Paraskevi Dimitriadi told MailOnline this could cause pelvic inflammatory disease.
  
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• Deal alert! Amazon slashes price on Echo Show 8 with a HUGE saving of 44% off

  11-08-2022 09:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: Calling all bargain hunters, today you can save £48 on the Echo Show 8 (Certified Refurbished) - that's 44 per cent off the listed retail price. The good as new device packs a ton of...
  
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• DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back

  11-08-2022 09:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research After more than 50 years, molten salt nuclear reactors might be making a comeback. The US Department of Energy (DoE) has tapped Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million study into the structural properties and materials necessary to build them at scale.…
  
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• Intel, Amazon, and SpaceX asked to tuck into DARPA's Space-BACN

  11-08-2022 09:06 via go.theregister.com
  
  Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage DARPA's attempt to build an internetwork of communications satellites – which operates under the fabulous name Space-BACN – has tapped Intel, SpaceX and others to build kit that will make its planned "Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node" a reality.…
  
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• Disney adds subscribers but warns over cricket loss

  11-08-2022 08:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The media giant is gaining subscribers as it details plans to launch an ad-supported service in December.
  
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• Climate scientists chase Arctic storms

  11-08-2022 03:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why climate scientists are trying to fly through Arctic cyclones in a small aircraft.
  
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• 'Every day it doesn't rain, the pressure mounts'

  11-08-2022 03:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The heatwave will make conditions on England's farms worse as experts warn of smaller harvests.
  
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• Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'

  11-08-2022 02:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new prototype doesn't think much of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, either.
  
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• Meta launches the first drag show in the METAVERSE 

  11-08-2022 01:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Queens of the Metaverse' is a mixed reality drag show that will demonstrate how technology can 'unlock possibilities in fashion design', Meta says.
  
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• Commonwealth Games takes big step towards esports

  11-08-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Competitive gaming may soon be added to the Commonwealth Games programme, after a successful test event in Birmingham.
  
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