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• Messages reveal how Musk and Twitter boss fell out

  30-09-2022 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  New text messages between Musk and Twitter boss Parag Agrawal reveal how the relationship broke down.
  
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• Prince William makes online safety plea after Molly Russell verdict

  30-09-2022 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The Prince of Wales says online safety for young people should be "a prerequisite, not an afterthought".
  
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• Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection

  30-09-2022 22:52 via go.theregister.com
  IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources The research arm of US intelligence has begun investigating methods for spotting low doses of ionizing radiation to better protect American service personnel and provide evidence of nuclear technology use.…
  
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• Wreck of World War I German U-boat that sunk a CENTURY ago is found by diver off Virginia's coast

  30-09-2022 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wreck of a long-lost World War I German U-boat that sank a century ago was discovered by a sleuthing diver off the coast of Virginia.
  
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• China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech

  30-09-2022 21:29 via go.theregister.com
  World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy The world's largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) has been connected to the grid in Dalian, China, where it was built using technology patented in the United States.…
  
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• Solar farms in space 'could provide a reliable source of renewable energy to the grid'

  30-09-2022 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a plan that would take advantage of the fact the sun never stops shining in space, and sunlight is much more intense there than on Earth's surface.
  
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• Tesla AI Day: Elon Musk teases the Optimus robot, self-driving updates and artificial intelligence

  30-09-2022 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After months of tweets and teases, Elon Musk is managing expectations around Tesla's AI Day tonight. The company will debut its humanoid Optimus robot and give self-driving updates.
  
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• Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

  30-09-2022 17:30 via go.theregister.com
  Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact Far from being the "digital gold" some claim, Bitcoin's relative climate change impact is greater than the beef industry, and over seven times more than actual gold mining.…
  
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• Meta debuts 'Make-A-Video' AI system that generates videos from nothing but TEXT prompts

  30-09-2022 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta debuted a new type of art-generating AI that can create videos from nothing but text prompts - with results that are creepy, surreal and impressive.
  
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• Not another TikTok clone! Now Twitter is adding a video feed that can be expanded to full screen

  30-09-2022 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter is changing its video player so users can expand videos to full screen with a single tap - just like TikTok videos.
  
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• NASA, SpaceX weigh invoking Dragon to take Hubble higher

  30-09-2022 16:29 via go.theregister.com
  Telescope hasn't been superseded by JWST, so why not try to keep it going? Though it may have been eclipsed by the launch of its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, long-lived Hubble continues to gaze deep into the universe.…
  
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• Facebook Unlike: Users Flee, Sales Drop, Scramble For Relevance

  30-09-2022 15:49 via technocracy.news
  Mark Zuckerberg is having a hard 2022. His personal fortune has dropped precipitously and social media in general is running into a wall. Some call it “social media fatigue”, but users are finding out that they really can do without Facebook and save themselves a lot of stress and drama. ⁃ TN EditorA year ago, before Facebook had turned Meta, the social media company was sporting a market cap of $1 trillion, putting it in rarefied territory with a handful of U.S. tech
  
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• SpaceX offers to help raise the altitude of NASA's Hubble space telescope

  30-09-2022 14:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hubble now circles the Earth at a height of 335 miles (540km) but NASA would like to get it back up to 372 miles (600km), where it was originally positioned when it was launched in 1990.
  
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• From smelling stress to sensing when you're lying: Here's how much your dog knows about you

  30-09-2022 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has revealed that dogs can smell if you're stressed - but that's not all they know about you. Here's a roundup of what dogs have learned about humans since being domesticated.
  
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• Work for a horrible boss? You could end up being just as bad - as bad behaviour trickles down

  30-09-2022 13:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Inappropriate language, sexual harassment, outbursts, humiliation and misuse of power are all examples of hostile behaviour, according to the researchers from Anglia Ruskin University.
  
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• Go Update iOS, Chrome, and HP Computers to Fix Serious Flaws

  30-09-2022 13:00
  Plus: WhatsApp plugs holes that could be used for remote execution attacks, Microsoft patches a zero-day vulnerability, and more.
  
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• NASA's Juno spacecraft captures extraordinarily detailed images of Jupiter's moon Europa

  30-09-2022 12:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The image is the closest look at Europa that any spacecraft has provided in more than 20 years, when the US space agency's Galileo came within 218 miles (351 km) of the surface in January 2000.
  
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• Astroboffins present fresh evidence of moving liquid water on Mars

  30-09-2022 09:21 via go.theregister.com
  Pack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth Liquid water may be lurking beneath the southern polar ice cap on Mars, according to fresh evidence reported in Nature Astronomy.…
  
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• Amazon Adds Sleep Pattern Tracking To Its Surveillance Arsenal

  30-09-2022 04:18 via technocracy.news
  No camera, no microphone but it can sense your sleep patterns and work side by side with Alexa to do your bidding. Might be a good idea to leave it unplugged if you engage in sexual activity, unless you want Amazon to know that as well. Amazon intends to completely take over home surveillance from the inside out. ⁃ TN EditorSoon enough, a bedside Amazon device might know whether you’re sleeping — or not.
  The e-commerce and tech giant said Wednesday it will start selling a devic
  
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• Human Genome Mapping: $200, 2 Days, Twice As Fast

  30-09-2022 04:05 via technocracy.news
  As the price falls and speed picks up, there will be a time in the next few years where everyone’s genome could be mapped and stored. This is a Transhumanist dreamscape because analyzing and comparing everybody’s gene structure would be a goldmine of data, which would be viewed as a pathway to immortality. ⁃ TN EditorThe human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that
  
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