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• Uber investigating hack on its computer systems

  16-09-2022 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  A hacker was apparently able to gain access to the company's internal systems.
  
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• Destructive sun storm destroyed 38 Starlink satellites, costing Elon Musk's SpaceX tens of millions

  16-09-2022 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A solar 'destruction event' earlier this year destroyed nearly 40 of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites - costing his company tens of millions of dollars in losses.
  
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• White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects

  16-09-2022 20:04 via go.theregister.com
  Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters The Biden Administration plans to invest heavily in the expansion of offshore wind energy, with a particular focus on floating turbines that can be placed where ocean breezes have more energy-generating potential.…
  
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• Extra-terrestrial water is found in a UK  meteorite for the first time

  16-09-2022 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Winchcombe meteorite, which crashed into a driveway in the Gloucestershire town last year, is also thought to hold clues about where the water in the Earth's vast oceans came from.
  
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• Russia says PRIVATE satellites could become 'legitimate target' during wartime in space provocation

  16-09-2022 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russia said private satellites being used by the U.S. and its allies could become legitimate military targets amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine.
  
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• Elitists Are Building Megalopolis, Where Plebs Will Eat Insects

  16-09-2022 17:50 via technocracy.news
  Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, is anti-human and anti-civilization, but only a minuscule of people understand just how dangerous and pervasive this agenda really is. Yes, cricket protein powder has already been commercialized and will be increasingly seen in grocery store products.
  Citizens will live in their little “smart apartments”, be surveilled 24×7 with no privacy whatsoever while barely nourishing themselves with protein drinks made out of pulverized cricket p
  
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• Declaration Of International Medical Crisis Due To Death And Diseases Co-Related To ‘COVID-19 Vaccines’

  16-09-2022 17:12 via technocracy.news
  Thus far, over 10,000 signatures of medical professionals have been collected to declare an international medical crisis over the deleterious effects of mRNA-based “vaccine” injections. Doctors are scrambling to develop successful protocols to treat vaccine injuries but international cooperation is seen as necessary to do so. Meanwhile, deaths pile up and the shots go on. ⁃ TN EditorWe, the medical doctors and scientists from all over the world, declare that there is an interna
  
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• WaPo: Customs officials Have Copied Americans’ Phone Data At Massive Scale

  16-09-2022 16:48 via technocracy.news
  The entire content of your smartphone can be “extracted” in under two minutes, with or without your permission or awareness,  by sophisticated mobile forensics devices. Many law enforcement agencies are using these devices as government databases are expanded. Technocrats lust for data and the concept of too much data is an oxymoron. ⁃ TN Editor  
  U.S. government officials are adding data from as many as 10,000 electronic devices each year to a massive database they&r
  
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• Distant acquaintances are more likely to help you land your next job than close friends, study finds

  16-09-2022 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from MIT studied LinkedIn connections and found that distant acquaintances are more likely to help you land your next job than close friends.
  
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• Study shows dogs are more visually attuned to actions rather than who or what is performing them 

  16-09-2022 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Emory University have found that dogs visually perceive the world differently to humans, as their brains are more attuned to actions rather than the objects performing them.
  
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• Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples

  16-09-2022 14:28 via go.theregister.com
  Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' NASA says its Perseverance rover has pulled up some exciting samples "deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived" after trundling around an ancient area of wetland that formed when a Martian river emptied water and sediment into a lake.…
  
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• MailOnline reveals the wackiest winners of the annual Ig Nobel Prize

  16-09-2022 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Here are some of the best winners of Harvard's Ig Nobel awards, which have taken place every year since 1991. This year's ceremony was livestreamed on Thursday.
  
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• The World Has Reached Peak Attenborough

  16-09-2022 13:00
  The British documentarian is a national treasure. But soaring strings and stunning drone shots feel frozen in an earlier era of climate activism.
  
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• Death Cab for Cutie's Geotagged Single Is a Trip Down Memory Lane

  16-09-2022 13:00
  “Rand McNally” can only be accessed digitally at the more than 800 venues where the band has played.
  
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• NASA's Perseverance rover finds organic matter 'treasure' on Mars

  16-09-2022 12:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The collection of organic matter from the Jezero Crater, which likely once held a lake and the delta that emptied into it, suggests it had potentially habitable environments 3.5 billion years ago.
  
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• iPhone 14 goes on sale TODAY: No queues at UK Apple Stores but lines form in other countries

  16-09-2022 11:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The iPhone 14 range has been released today, causing lines outside Apple Stores around the world. No queues were formed in the UK as devices are only available to those who pre-ordered,
  
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• TikTok copies BeReal with TikTok Now feature

  16-09-2022 11:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok Now will send users a daily prompt to capture a 10-second video or a static photo using their phone's front and rear cameras within three minutes.
  
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• Hacker claiming to be just 18 years old breaches Uber computers - forcing system SHUT DOWN

  16-09-2022 09:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A hacker claiming to be 18 breached Uber's computer network, prompting the app-hail to shutdown its company's system after the cyberattacker barraged employees with obscene images and messages
  
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• Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk

  16-09-2022 08:23 via go.theregister.com
  Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity' Video  The fireball spotted charging through the night-time skies of Scotland and Northern Ireland this week, initially thought to have been some fallen SpaceX hardware, was a meteor after all, according to the UK Meteor Network.…
  
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• Anti-vax groups use carrot emojis to hide Facebook posts

  16-09-2022 02:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The emojis are being used to hide harmful content about vaccines from Facebook moderation tools.
  
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• Climate change: Pakistan floods 'likely' made worse by warming

  16-09-2022 00:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Emissions from human activities played a role in the recent floods that have brought devastation to Pakistan.
  
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