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• Apple's Tim Cook: VR is 'not a way to communicate well' and people can't even DEFINE the metaverse

  03-10-2022 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that most consumers can't even define what the metaverse is and was dismissive of the notion that they'd spend their entire lives inside a virtual world.
  
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• Wild monkeys 'are disease SUPERSPREADERS of the animal kingdom', study finds

  03-10-2022 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University mapped how such diseases including coronaviruses and influenza spread among wildlife populations.
  
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• New York will join California in BANNING the sale of new gas cars by 2035

  03-10-2022 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New York is following in California's footsteps by banning all new sales of gas cars by 2035. The state, however, has yet to reveal how it plans to make this happen in New York City.
  
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• Bill Gates admits that telling people not to eat meat WON'T fix climate change despite past comments

  03-10-2022 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bill Gates said climate change won't be solved by telling people to make radical changes to their lifestyle, such as giving up meat, despite his previous statements.
  
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• Nuclear fusion plant to be built at West Burton A power station

  03-10-2022 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  West Burton A will be the site of the prototype fusion energy power plant, the government announces.
  
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• Success on Twitch No Longer Comes on Twitch

  03-10-2022 19:24
  Major streamers are stepping back from the Twitch grind, and smaller ones fear the platform is more interested in removing features than growing audiences.
  
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• Ancient footprints found on Formby beach reveal Liverpool's history

  03-10-2022 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that the area close to the modern shoreline in Formby, Merseyside was a hub of human and animal activity in the first few thousand years after the last glacial period.
  
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• Biotech firm wants to create human embryos from stem cells and raise them in a 'mechanical womb'

  03-10-2022 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A biotech firm wants to create human embryos from stem cells for the purpose of harvesting tissues to use in transplants after demonstrating success with mouse embryos.
  
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• 'World's most walkable city' promises to provide a 'net zero' lifestyle for 100,000 residents

  03-10-2022 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The plans for the city, named XZERO, came from development and consulting firm URB. It has been designed to reduce car access and maximise the amount of area that is safe to traverse on foot.
  
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• Jupiter and Saturn will be visible in the night sky throughout October

  03-10-2022 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US space agency is urging stargazers to enjoy 'evenings with giants' this month - as the massive planets Jupiter and Saturn will be visible in the night sky for the next few weeks.
  
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• What is Web3? All you need to know about the next phase of the internet

  03-10-2022 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Here's MailOnline's guide to the next era of the World Wide Web, dubbed Web3, and what it will mean for internet users.
  
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• Hohmann: Technocrats Float Idea Of Digital Families To Plug Declining Population

  03-10-2022 16:07 via technocracy.news
  The Beatles may have hit a prophetic chord with Yellow Submarine: “So we sailed up to the sun / Til we found the sea of green / And we lived beneath the waves / In our yellow submarine”. Just hum a few bars and you will see what I mean. Technocrats and Transhumanists are increasingly living below the waves in a fantasyland that is more bizarre than Alice in Wonderland. ⁃ TN EditorExperts in artificial intelligence are predicting that within a few decades we will not only have d
  
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• Technocracy Rising: Carbon Rationing, CBDCs and Sound Money

  03-10-2022 15:54 via technocracy.news
  The rising tide of currency replacement accompanies the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Great Reset and, Sustainable Development, all of which are synonyms for the new economic order known as Technocracy. Price-based economic systems require existing currencies. Technocracy, a resource-based economic system, is based on energy as its currency, which is based on carbon. ⁃ TN EditorIronically, the push toward carbon-rationing and CBDCs is based on the same insight by sound money advocates:
  
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• Vodafone and Three in merger talks

  03-10-2022 15:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The third and fourth largest mobile phone networks reportedly hope to strike a deal by the end of the year.
  
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• Kim Kardashian pays $1.26m over crypto 'pump and dump'

  03-10-2022 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Kim Kardashian agrees to pay $1.26m after regulators charge her in EthereumMax case.
  
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• Uranus' whopping 98-degree tilt may be due to a moon migrating away from the planet

  03-10-2022 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers from the National Centre for Scientific Research in France claim it wouldn't even have needed to be a big moon to have this effect.
  
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• How Apple's iPhone 14 Crash Detection feature works

  03-10-2022 13:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On Sunday night, an iPhone 14 automatically called first responders after six people were killed in a car crash in Lincoln, Nebraska. Here's how the Crash Detection tool works.
  
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• Archaeologists hail 'dream discovery' as pink granite sarcophagus is unearthed near Cairo

  03-10-2022 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sarcophagus of Ptah-em-wia, who served as head of the treasury under Ramses the Great, has been found in an underground burial chamber in Saqqara, Egypt.
  
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• US Cities Are Recycling Trees and Poop to Make Compost

  03-10-2022 13:00
  Wood and biosolids from water treatment plants can be used to improve the soil—and keep remaining trees healthy.
  
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• There’s Still No Quick Fix to Make Offices the Right Temperature

  03-10-2022 13:00
  An energy crisis has followed a blisteringly hot summer, driving workers to leave their at-home setups.
  
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• Nobel Prize goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal work

  03-10-2022 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Sweden's Svante Paabo wins the prize for discoveries on humanity's extinct relatives.
  
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• Real-life 'invisibility cloak' could be available within 10 years

  03-10-2022 12:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London start-up Vollebak is working with the University of Manchester on a Thermal Camouflage Jacket that's designed to make the human body invisible to infrared cameras.
  
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• Popular Minecraft YouTuber Dream reveals face

  03-10-2022 12:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The YouTuber's 30 million subscribers finally find out what he looks like without a mask.
  
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• Liverpool was once the 'Serengeti of northwest Europe, ancient footprints reveal

  03-10-2022 11:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that the area close to the modern shoreline in Formby, Merseyside was a hub of human and animal activity in the first few thousand years after the last glacial period.
  
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• Police called to scene of worst ever car crash in Lincoln, Nebraska by IPHONE that was in car

  03-10-2022 11:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six people in their 20s were killed in a car crash in Lincoln, Nebraska on Sunday. Police have described as 'the worst crash in Lincoln in recent memory'. 911 was called automatically by iPhone.
  
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• Record avian flu outbreak sees 48m birds culled in UK and EU

  03-10-2022 10:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The largest outbreak of avian influenza on record saw 48m birds culled in the UK and EU in the past year.
  
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• BBC's technology evolution shown at National Museum of Computing

  03-10-2022 07:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park is marking the corporation's 100th anniversary.
  
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• Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada

  03-10-2022 01:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.
  
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• Ancient footprints reveal 'Irish Sea Serengeti'

  03-10-2022 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Prehistoric footprints on Formby Beach have revealed how the British coast transformed over 9,000 years.
  
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• Can electrical stimulation improve your gym workout?

  03-10-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Whole-body EMS suits are the new big thing in fitness, but do they work?
  
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