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• Kamala Harris says she's a 'space nerd' before getting cut off from call with NASA astronauts

  09-09-2022 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Space nerd' Kamala Harris on Friday got cut off from her call with astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it orbitedout of range.
  
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• Apple could lose $15B if DOJ forces Google to stop paying to be iPhone's default search engine

  09-09-2022 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple stands to lose up to $15 billion a year if the Justice Department forces Google to stop paying the company to be the default search engine on all iPhones.
  
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• SpaceX's Starship rocket starts a blaze in protected habitat during static fire test

  09-09-2022 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The static fire test released more than 1,000 tons of thrust, which likely melted the concrete blow the rocket. The melted blobs were then launched into the grassy areas surrounding the site.
  
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• Hubble telescope captures stunning star formation in stellar nursery that's 200,000 light-years away

  09-09-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Hubble telescope captured a stunning spiraling star formation in the center of stellar nursery that sits 200,000 light-years away from Earth.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth's message to the Apollo 11 crew is etched on silicon disc left on the moon in 1969

  09-09-2022 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Queen Elizabeth's message was etched on a small disc that was carried along with the Apollo 11 crew to the moon in 1969 and was left on the lunar surface.
  
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• Earliest land animals had fewer skull bones than FISH - limiting evolution for millions of years

  09-09-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new analysis of fossilised animal skullsby the University of Bristol reveals that tetrapods had more complex connections between their skull bones than fish.
  
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• 'Splooting' squirrels are 'freaking people out' in the San Francisco Bay

  09-09-2022 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People in the San Francisco Bay area are freaking out after seeing numerous squirrels stretched out and motionless on the ground - but the animals are dumping their body heat.
  
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• Apple's Emergency SOS is free for 2 years on iPhone 14 but firm won't discuss cost in the long run

  09-09-2022 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's new Emergency SOS satellite feature - available free for two years on all iPhone 14 models - could cost consumers after that, but the company won't discuss its pricing plans.
  
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• How does the iPhone 14 stack up against its Android competitors?

  09-09-2022 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new iPhone 14 series was unveiled on Wednesday. MailOnline takes a look at the new range's selling points, and pits them against top-of-the-range handsets from Apple's biggest rivals.
  
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• Full Harvest Moon will peak tomorrow morning ahead of the official start of autumn 

  09-09-2022 17:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Harvest Moon will peak at 10:59 BST (05:59 EDT) on Saturday, with our lunar satellite appearing full in the sky.
  
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• Duh: Germany Finally Realizes ‘Without Energy, No Economy Can Run’

  09-09-2022 17:29 via technocracy.news
  Climate alarmist loony-toons who have argued nations out of their traditional sources of energy may soon experience their own Waterloo as Germany finally realizes, “Gee, without energy our economy cannot run”. Europe at large is about to face this reality as well.
  This is exactly the outcome desired by radicals like Climate Extinction which states that governments “must cooperate internationally so that the global economy runs on no more than half a planet’s worth of reso
  
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• Advocates blast Amazon over $1.7B iRobot deal that fuels 'pervasive surveillance' in the home

  09-09-2022 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Privacy advocates blasted Amazon's purchase of robot vacuum maker iRobot for fueling 'pervasive surveillance' as the Federal Trade Commission opened a probe into the buyout.
  
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• China discovers a new mineral on the moon that is a phosphate in crystal form

  09-09-2022 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China has become the third country to discover a new mineral on the moon. It found a phosphate in crystal form, which it named Changesite-(Y), in lunar samples it collected in 2020.
  
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• $92,000 flying car that can fly at up to 63mph secures $10 million investment

  09-09-2022 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tuscany-based startup Jetson unveiled Jetson ONE last year - a flying vehicle with top speeds of 63mph and a range of around 20 miles.
  
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• Life Insurance Blowout: Adults Aged 35-44 Died At Twice The Expected Rate In 2021

  09-09-2022 16:22 via technocracy.news
  You cannot fool life insurance companies. Their life-blood is actuarial tables of expected deaths and payouts. If they miss, they go out of business. Since mRNA shots debuted, all-cause mortality has spiked and yet this data is dismissed by Big Pharma as being alarmist or misinterpreted. ⁃ TN EditorDeath claims for working-age adults under group life insurance policies spiked well beyond expected levels last summer and fall, according to data from 20 of the top 21 life insurance
  
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• Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data

  09-09-2022 15:54 via technocracy.news
  Facebook is a top-tier tech company practicing unregulated surveillance capitalism. To expose what personal data exists, where it is stored and for how long it is stored would expose the monster that Zuckerberg has created. Google and Amazon are in the same position. ⁃ TN EditorIn March, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the mishandling of private user information
  
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• Dinosaur skeleton stored in university museum in Germany for 100 years is previously unknown species

  09-09-2022 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was previously identified as a Plateosaurus, but a new analysis by the University of Tübingen has revealed it is a previously unknown species, named Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum.
  
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• FCC floats 'five-year rule' for hoovering up space junk

  09-09-2022 14:49 via go.theregister.com
  Plan mooted to stop debris smacking around, or worse – taking out your space broadband The US Federal Communications Commission wants to shrink a current requirement for space operators to pull their equipment from low Earth orbit from within 25 years to just five years, according to new rules published yesterday.…
  
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• The Queen's environmental legacy, revealed

  09-09-2022 14:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline looks at Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's environmental legacy - and how the new King Charles III will build on her work.
  
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• Instagram confirms it is testing a 'repost' feature for feeds 

  09-09-2022 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram has confirmed that it is planning to test the repost function with a small number of users, after it was spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra.
  
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• How the Queen helped save the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is from extinction

  09-09-2022 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Throughout Queen Elizabeth's 70 year reign, she became known around the world for her love for Pembroke Welsh Corgis, helping to turn them into one of the UK's most popular breeds.
  
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• Scientists develop a new X-ray method that can detect explosives with 100% accuracy

  09-09-2022 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University College London used AI to develop the approach, which they say can detect items with 100 per cent accuracy.
  
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• Creepy corpse-like woman dubbed 'Loab' is haunting the internet after bizarre AI art goes viral

  09-09-2022 11:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Twitter user has shared a series of images of a haunting female figure with pink cheeks allegedly generated by 'multiple' AI image generating tools from different prompts.
  
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• NASA's cursed mission to the moon Artemis 1 hoped to launch late September

  09-09-2022 09:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's cursed Artemis 1 mission is hoped to launch in late September after two previous attempts were delayed by significant technical problems. 
  
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• South American mummies were brutally murdered over 1,000 years ago, scientists find

  09-09-2022 06:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Munich Clinic Bogenhausen have determined the cause of death of two mummies from South America, who appear to have been murdered over a thousand years ago.
  
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• NASA just weeks away from trying again with SLS Moon rocket launch

  09-09-2022 04:32 via go.theregister.com
  Will it be third time lucky? NASA will attempt, for the third time now, to blast off its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the Moon in late September.…
  
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• Ancient reptile evolved the ability to glide due to 'changes in tree canopy'

  09-09-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A change in tree canopy likely facilitated flight in an ancient reptile, report experts at the French National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
  
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