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• Apple targets September 7 to launch iPhone 14, three Apple Watch models and new iPads 

  17-08-2022 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is aiming to hold its next launch event on September 7 to unveil the iPhone 14 line - as well as low-end and high-end iPads and three new Apple Watch models.
  
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• TikTok to teach influencers about US mid-term election rules

  17-08-2022 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The platform says it is to do more to ensure influencers understand that it prohibits paid political ads.
  
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• Birthplace of St. Peter FOUND: Mosaic suggests he was born in biblical city of Bethsaida

  17-08-2022 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mosaic was found on the floor of church ruins that experts say was constructed to honor Peter's birthplace in what is now el-Araj in northern Israel, but was the biblical city of Bethsaida.
  
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• Robot security guards seen patrolling Tokyo metropolitan government building with on-board cameras

  17-08-2022 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of three autonomous patrol robots are now providing security at the Tokyo metropolitan government building.
  
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• Megalodon targeted prey as large as killer whales when it roamed the oceans 11 million years ago

  17-08-2022 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study led by the Royal Veterinary College sheds light on megalodon's chosen prey, and suggests the ancient beast feasted on animals as large as killer whales.
  
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• Giving dogs treats DOESN'T make them like you more because they don't remember generosity

  17-08-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Animal psychologists at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna have found that dogs cannot remember instances of generosity and thus conceptualise positive reputations.
  
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• Forget growing potatoes! ALFALFA may be the key to farming on Mars, study shows

  17-08-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Iowa State University researchers found alfalfa grows well in a volcanic soil that mimics Martian regolith, and could be turned into fertiliser to help grow turnips, radishes and lettuce.
  
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• Rocket Lab to search for signs of life in the clouds of Venus

  17-08-2022 19:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  As promised, Peter Beck is sending a Photon next year. Because he can Rocket Lab's Peter Beck is sending a Photon spacecraft carrying a small probe to Venus, marking the culmination of a childhood ambition for the CEO.…
  
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• The Android 13 Privacy Settings You Should Update Now

  17-08-2022 18:24
  
  Google’s new mobile operating system has arrived. Take back some control with these privacy and security tips.
  
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• 136-million-year-old 'living fossil' fish may spawn in Georgia for the first time in 50 years

  17-08-2022 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A prehistoric fish that's been around for 136 million years may once again spawn in Georgia after being wiped out in the 1970s.
  
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• NASA's Space Launch System rolls out to the launch pad ahead of Artemis I mission set for August 29 

  17-08-2022 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's moon rocket rolled out to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Tuesday evening. It took 10 hours for the rocket to complete the four-mile trip. It is now ready for liftoff on August 29.
  
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• SOFIA observatory's last hurrah set back by damage from high winds

  17-08-2022 17:11 via go.theregister.com
  
  Boeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its final month of operations.…
  
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• Scientists relieved as microscopic creature with no anus is NOT the earliest human ancestor

  17-08-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of researchers from China, USA, UK and Switzerland have discovered that humans are not related to a 535 million-year-old microscopic creature with no anus.
  
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• Earth's shifting continents could WIPE OUT marine life in deepest oceans, study warns

  17-08-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University of California, Riverside have warned that movement of Earth's continents could wipe out marine life in the deepest parts of the oceans by starving them of oxygen.
  
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• Andrew Yang Promotes Technocracy With New Political Party

  17-08-2022 16:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Governance and government are not engineering problems looking for a technical fix, but Yang and friends are promoting the Forward Party to promote Technocracy. Yang has also been a vocal advocate for Universal Basic Income (UBI) that was an original Technocracy plank. The odds of the party getting anywhere are slim, but they will plant their Technocrat ideas in many new places. ⁃ TN EditorAlmost as common as recognition that America’s two dominant political parties represent complem
  
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• Sewage hits dozens of beaches in England and Wales after heavy rain

  17-08-2022 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Charity issues warning after water firms discharge untreated sewage to avoid potential flooding.
  
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• UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs

  17-08-2022 14:25 via go.theregister.com
  
  Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement' The UK government has launched formal consultations with the EU over the failure to secure its inclusion in the EU's €95.5 billion ($97.6 billion) research funding program since the island nation left the world's richest trading bloc.…
  
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• Scientists begin project to bring back the Tasmanian Tiger 100 years after it went extinct

  17-08-2022 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colossal Biosciences, a startup based in Dallas, Texas, has announced plans to start the 'de-extinction' of the Tasmanian Tiger using stem cell technology.
  
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• China's new sky train LEVITATES on a magnetic track 33 feet in the air and doesn't need electricity

  17-08-2022 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China has unveiled its first suspended maglev line built with permanent magnets, which engineers claim can keep a 'sky train' afloat even without a power supply.
  
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• Bees struggle to walk in a straight line if they've been exposed to pesticides, study finds 

  17-08-2022 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Honeybees struggle to orient themselves while flying after they have ingested pesticides due to damage of their nervous system, researchers from the University of Oxford have found.
  
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• NASA uses occult means to spot tiny moon orbiting asteroid

  17-08-2022 13:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  Lucy probe is five years away from getting a closeup of Polymele's satellite NASA scientists working on the Lucy mission, humanity's first exploration of the "Trojan" asteroids that orbit Jupiter's Lagrange points, have found a moon around one of the asteroids the probe will visit.…
  
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• The Future Could Be Blissful—If Humans Don’t Go Extinct First

  17-08-2022 13:00
  
  WIRED talked with long-termist philosopher William MacAskill about human extinction, Elon Musk, and his new book, What We Owe the Future.
  
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• New Evidence Points to the Moon Once Being Part of Earth

  17-08-2022 13:00
  
  Gases trapped in lunar meteorites hint that the moon was formed out of material displaced from Earth after a planetary collision.
  
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• Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid?

  17-08-2022 13:00
  
  Treatment options for lasting Covid symptoms are limited, but initial studies suggest hyperbaric oxygen could help.
  
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• Inside the world's fastest airliner: Boom Supersonic Overture jet

  17-08-2022 12:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Here's a look at the key features we expect to see in Boom Supersonic Overture jet, ahead of its launch debut with American Airlines in 2025.
  
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• Modeling software spins up plans for floating wind turbines

  17-08-2022 11:04 via go.theregister.com
  
  Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea … A novel offshore wind turbine design has been waiting for the right modeling software to come along to help make it a reality, and scientists reckon they've finally built it.…
  
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• Climate change: 'Staggering' rate of global tree losses from fires

  17-08-2022 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A report says around 16 football pitches of trees per minute were lost to wildfires in 2021.
  
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• Nursery-aged children with the best vocabulary do better in school, study suggests 

  17-08-2022 09:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children who can name more more objects before they start school go on to perform better in class, setting them up for future success in education, a US study of 900 youngsters suggests.
  
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• NASA wants a hundredfold upgrade for space computers

  17-08-2022 08:05 via go.theregister.com
  
  Does it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something? NASA has awarded a $50 million contract to Microchip Technology, the microcontroller giant, to develop next-generation processors that will enable space computers to be 100 times faster than they currently are.…
  
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• WEF: The Future Of Work Is In The Metaverse

  17-08-2022 06:38 via technocracy.news
  
  “Decentralized autonomous organizations” (DAOs) operating as business entities in the metaverse represent a completely new type of business structure that will look more like cooperatives and less than corporations. Larger companies are already stampeding to the metaverse to establish brands, stores, cooperatives and even social entities. ⁃ TN Editor
  The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of the way we work.
  Next in the evolution of work is the metaverse and a dece
  
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• Bees struggle to fly in a straight line if they've been exposed to pesticides, study finds 

  17-08-2022 06:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Honeybees struggle to orient themselves while flying after they have ingested pesticides due to damage of their nervous system, researchers from the University of Oxford have found.
  
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• UK Official Stats: 1 In Every 482 People Died After mRNA Injection

  17-08-2022 03:16 via technocracy.news
  
  Across every age group, the vaccinated are significantly more likely to die than the unvaccinated. This is a worldwide phenomenon of epic proportions and could turn out to be the largest genocide in world history. And even in the face of these facts, the injections are not stopped. ⁃ TN EditorThe UK Government has revealed that 1 in every 482 people vaccinated against Covid-19 in England sadly died within a month of receiving a dose of a Covid-19 injection.
  For months on end, Government in
  
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• Young watch almost seven times less TV than over-65s - Ofcom

  17-08-2022 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The average 16 to 24-year-old watches TV for 53 minutes a day compared with nearly six hours for over-65s.
  
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• How to make movies without a huge carbon footprint

  17-08-2022 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The film and TV industry is switching towards greener energy sources but the transition has challenges.
  
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• Europe's smallest whale the harbour porpoise is THRIVING in the Thames Estuary

  17-08-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Acoustic and visual surveys by by Zoological Society London have revealed that 'significant numbers' have been living in the outer Thames, where the river meets the sea, for several years.
  
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