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• iPhone 14 Plus production is slowed due to low demand less than a month after it cut  the iPhone 14

  20-10-2022 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is said to have told told one of its producers in China to stop production altogether, while two others lowered it by 70 percent and 90 percent. The move is due to low demand.
  
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• Texas SUES Google for using millions of residents' biometric data without consent

  20-10-2022 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lawsuit claims Google broke the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act that requires firms to get consent before using such data, which also must be erased after a certain amount of time.
  
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• Texas SUES Google for using millions of residents' biometric data

  20-10-2022 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lawsuit claims Google broke the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act that requires firms to get consent before using such data, which also must be erased after a certain amount of time.
  
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• James Webb may have picked up dark matter around a knot of galaxies

  20-10-2022 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The image shows a tightly packed cluster of galaxies each other at great speeds and this is only possible if a great deal of mass is present. Experts suggest there is dark matter in this region.
  
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• California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal

  20-10-2022 20:45 via go.theregister.com
  Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists Researchers studying the effects of California's record-breaking 2020 wildfire season have uncovered some unsettling evidence. The fires in that single year undid all the state's greenhouse gas emission reductions since 2003 by a factor of two.…
  
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• SpaceX is fined just $18,000 after employee is critically injured on the job

  20-10-2022 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Francisco Cabada, who has been with SpaceX for more than a decade and is a father of three, is fighting for his life in a hospital after sustaining life threatening injuries during a routine engine test.
  
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• Space firm will conduct test flight of its balloon capsule in December

  20-10-2022 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Halo Space, a company based in Madrid, is planning to offer zero emission commercial flights aboard a circular capsule attached to an inflated balloon.
  
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• Orionids Meteor Shower set to peak on Friday evening

  20-10-2022 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Orionids occur every autumn when Earth passes through the stream of debris left by Halley's Comet.
  
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• Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey

  20-10-2022 17:45 via go.theregister.com
  NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water' NASA's long-serving Curiosity Mars rover has finally reached an objective it has been ambling toward since landing on the red planet a decade ago: the "sulfate-bearing unit" of Mount Sharp. …
  
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• After Uvalde: Public Schools In Texas Send Home DNA Kits For Kids

  20-10-2022 17:29 via technocracy.news
  What a great message to parents and kids: when the next shooting occurs, we will need your kid’s DNA for positive identification after he is shot dead. This was actually set into law by the Texas legislature in 2021 (see below)  and apparently received little resistance from parents or educators.
  EDUCATION CODETITLE 2. PUBLIC EDUCATIONSUBTITLE F. CURRICULUM, PROGRAMS, AND SERVICESCHAPTER 33. SERVICE PROGRAMS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIESSUBCHAPTER A. SCHOOL COUNSELORS AND COUNSELING
  
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• Faking a smile makes you feel happier, study reveals 

  20-10-2022 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Stanford University have revealed that faking a smile or even pulling your mouth towards your ears can make you feel happier.
  
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• Retro mobile phones that could earn you the most cash, revealed

  20-10-2022 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research from Protect Your Bubble has revealed that some of our retro handsets could be worth over £500 each, with the world's first mobile - the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X - selling for nearly £1,800.
  
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• 19 Attorneys General To Investigate Six Wall Street Firms Over ESG Investing

  20-10-2022 16:54 via technocracy.news
  The WEF/United Nation’s ESG investing scam is now officially on notice that all practitioners, banks, insurance companies, rating services, etc., will be held accountable. ESG has a stated goal of destroying the traditional energy sector by freezing out investments. Worse, companies and governments are rated according to reflect ESG “worthiness.” ⁃ TN EditorNineteen Republican attorneys general announced an investigation into six Wall Street firms regarding their involvem
  
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• RoboCop: Oakland Police Consider Arming Robots With Shotguns

  20-10-2022 16:42 via technocracy.news
  Five years ago, authorities swore that robots would not be armed with lethal force. Moral and ethical restraint have obviously failed as the barriers are now broken down in Oakland, California as well as New Zealand. Only to be used in “emergency” situations, police leadership reserve the right to declare when and where such emergency would exist. ⁃ TN Editor
  In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whos
  
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• Amazon could pay UK shoppers £900m compensation

  20-10-2022 16:23 via bbc.co.uk
  A group-action claim alleges Amazon breached competition law and caused customers to pay higher prices.
  
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• Amazon workers fail to reach strike threshold in historic UK ballot

  20-10-2022 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  GMB says it was three votes short of reaching the 50% threshold needed for industrial action.
  
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• Simulation reveals how a Russian nuclear strike could trigger a war that kills 34 million people

  20-10-2022 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A nuclear war simulation developed by Princeton University shows how a strike from Russia could trigger a devastating global war.
  
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• How did ESA's gamma ray-spotting 'scope make it to 20? They totally overdid it

  20-10-2022 13:45 via go.theregister.com
  We speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape This week, the European Space Agency's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) spacecraft celebrated the 20th anniversary of its launch – although it was only meant to last five years.…
  
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• Four-legged robot goalkeeper blocks 87.5% of shots 

  20-10-2022 13:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Therobotic goalie was trained up by scientists at the Hybrid Robotics Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.
  
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• The Creators of 'Westworld' Built a William Gibson Dystopia

  20-10-2022 13:00
  Executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan say making their new Amazon show The Peripheral was like being “futurists with an infinite R&D budget.”
  
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• John Carpenter Is Finally Happy—and Making Music

  20-10-2022 13:00
  The horror mastermind spent decades making cinema classics like Halloween and They Live. Lately, he finds much more joy in music.
  
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• Apple Is an Ad Company Now

  20-10-2022 13:00
  Pushing more ads at users would compensate for slowing smartphone sales but risks annoying Apple fans—and antitrust regulators.
  
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• A Clever Way to Map the Moon’s Surface—Using Shadows

  20-10-2022 13:00
  How shade is cast reveals details of the rugged lunar landscape, allowing NASA to create 3D models for astronauts and rovers.
  
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• Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Watch the incredible moment scientists extract 10 TONNES of plastic

  20-10-2022 12:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Located halfway between Hawaii and California, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to contain a whopping 2.41 million tonnes of plastic - and is continuing to grow.
  
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• Paramedic flies up a hill in the Lake District wearing a jet pack in emergency response trial

  20-10-2022 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jet Suits from Gravity Industries are being trialled by the Great North Air Ambulance Service, with the goal of medics eventually using them to reach patients stranded in remote locations.
  
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• Google's ping pong robot pulls off a 340-hit rally

  20-10-2022 11:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a video clip, the Mountain View, California tech giant's robot is seen effortlessly sliding along its side of the ping pong table as it returns the human's shots.
  
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• Amazon launches new Echo Dot 5th generation - its best-sounding device

  20-10-2022 09:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: The all-new Echo Dot is priced at £54.99 and promises to be smarter, bassier and more hi-tech than ever. It even comes in a new deep sea blue colour alongside charcoal and glacier white.
  
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• NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap

  20-10-2022 08:56 via go.theregister.com
  Changes follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek Spacewalks outside the International Space Station are set to resume after NASA temporarily paused all such activity to investigate an issue that caused water to accumulate in one astronaut's helmet.…
  
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• Can floating turbines harvest the world's wind?

  20-10-2022 01:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Our climate editor checks out the world's largest floating wind farm off the coast of Scotland.
  
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• Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: Nasa shows how a war zone faded from space

  20-10-2022 01:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Images of nights skies show power supplies disappearing in Ethiopia as a humanitarian crisis bites.
  
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• Instagram posts by loved ones are 'more dangerous than those by celebrities'

  20-10-2022 01:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram is said to create unrealistic body ideals, but a study led by experts at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge claims our loved ones are more to blame than celebrities.
  
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• Children are watching porn in the UK simply by ticking a box to say they are over 18, report warns

  20-10-2022 01:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children are watching porn in the UK simply by ticking a box to say they are over the age of 18, Ofcom has revealed.
  
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