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• Your smartphone fitness tracker can predict your risk of dying

  21-10-2022 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study used the sensors to capture six minutes of walking a day for a week and then extracted characteristics of motion to see how long it takes for a person to walk a specific distance.
  
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• NASA's UFO study recruits astronaut Scott Kelly to help explain undefined aircraft in the skies

  21-10-2022 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronaut Scott Kelly is one of 16 recruited by NASA's UFO study that aims to solve hundreds of unexplained natural phenomena. Their findings will be shared with the public next year.
  
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• Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

  21-10-2022 19:30 via go.theregister.com
  One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet European scientists claim to have achieved a data transmission speed of 1.8 petabits per second, all with a single laser and an optical chip. …
  
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• King Charles should attend climate summit says US envoy

  21-10-2022 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  John Kerry tells the BBC he hopes the King reconsiders his decision not to go to the UN climate summit in Egypt.
  
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• Ed Sheeran: Hacker who stole singer's unreleased music is jailed

  21-10-2022 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Adrian Kwiatkowski offered the songs in exchange for cryptocurrency on the dark web.
  
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• Big Pharma Is Putting All Of Humanity At Risk Of Demographic Collapse

  21-10-2022 18:14 via technocracy.news
  Stillbirths, vaginal hemorrhaging, miscarriages, preeclampsia, premature births, inability to conceive, reduced sperm count in men, etc., are reaching an existential tipping point and yet, Big Pharma, government and media continue to promote mRNA injections for pregnant women. With the refusal to stop this program, it is revealing itself as a major bioweapon attack on humanity. ⁃ TN Editor
  STORY AT-A-GLANCE> Media are reporting that pregnancy complications have spiked during the COVID p
  
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• Gas stoves are leaking cancer-causing benzene - along with 11 other dangerous chemicals

  21-10-2022 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gas stoves are emitting 12 dangerous chemicals, including the cancer-causing benzene, a new study finds. Around 40million households are using these types of stoves still.
  
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• Can YOU stop the squares in this optical illusion from moving for 10 seconds?

  21-10-2022 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientist creates tricky optical square illusion that tricks your brain into thinking it's moving by designing the shapes with luminance-based edges that activate motion-detecting neurons.
  
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• Technocracy: The Full Digitization of Everything, And Then Some

  21-10-2022 17:35 via technocracy.news
  The world is sleep-walking into its own demise, driven by its own desire for convenience and self-indulgent addiction. The global trap is set, primed for the enslavement of humanity. Is this the future you want? Or do you want to reclaim your humanity and reject the Technocratic tyranny? ⁃ TN Editor
  What if we were really at the point where the arrow indicates on the bar-code cartoon below? Or, it could be much worse, we could already be just a tiny little speck on the all-encroach
  
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• Drinking coffee in a takeaway cup just once a week exposes you to up to 90,000 plastic particles

  21-10-2022 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drinking a cup of takeaway coffee once a week could expose you to some 90,000 potentially harmful plastic particles each year, new research from Sichuan University shows.
  
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• Poor In UK? Major Supermarket To Pitch Bugs For Survival Diet

  21-10-2022 17:06 via technocracy.news
  As more of the world is impoverished on the way to 2030 – where you will “own nothing and be happy” – Technocrats have already planned your survival menu: bugs! The world could easily be awash with meat, vegetables and grain, but why waste good food on down-and-outer poor people, right? The megalomaniacal, psychopathic elite cadre of Technocrats need to be thrown out of all public policy. ⁃ TN Editor
  A major supermarket chain in the UK is finalising plans to stock i
  
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• Experts warn against TikTok trend where people place terracotta pots over candles to heat their home

  21-10-2022 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London Fire Brigade is warning that the trend isdangerous, as the outside of the pot will get very hot and creates a burn risk, while trapped moisture inside the clay may result in an explosion.
  
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• Robot athletes including four-legged robot goalkeeper and Google AI ping-pong champion

  21-10-2022 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Following a demo video of the goalkeeper robot's skills by University of California, Berkeley, MailOnline has taken a look at the sports stars that were born in a lab.
  
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• Unfortunate Chinese man develops a horn on the tip of his penis 

  21-10-2022 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: The unidentified 43-year-old sought advice from urologists in Taiyuan, north east China, three years after it initially appeared.
  
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• Simply EXPECTING a meeting to be boring will make you feel more bored, study finds 

  21-10-2022 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Hong Kong suggest we may pay less attention to a talk we think will be boring, and this lack of engagement ultimately makes us feel more bored.
  
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• The flying car that could turn into a biplane

  21-10-2022 13:06 via bbc.co.uk
  An American start-up reveals a novel design, but what is the future of flying cars?
  
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• Meet the first wild bison born in Britain in 6,000 YEARS

  21-10-2022 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A baby bison has been born in the wild in the UK for the first time in more than 6,000 years. The new arrival came just three months after bison were reintroduced to the woods near Canterbury.
  
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• Ukraine Enters a Dark New Era of Drone Warfare

  21-10-2022 13:00
  A series of deadly attacks using Iranian “suicide drones” shows Russia is shifting gears in the conflict.
  
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• Ugandan ivory trader sentenced to life in prison

  21-10-2022 12:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The wildlife authority describes this as a landmark punishment in the protection of rare species.
  
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• Nearly a FIFTH of recyclable items are placed in the wrong bin and go to landfill, study reveals

  21-10-2022 11:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from Biffa has revealed that 17 per cent of items sent for recycling have to be thrown away, this is because Brits are guilty of 'wish-cycling' - assuming contaminated items will be recycled.
  
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• Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health

  21-10-2022 11:30 via go.theregister.com
  Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit Scientists in Canada have developed an electronic device to fit inside a surgical mask which they claim helps monitor the wearer's health and how well the mask is fitted.…
  
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• Baby bison born in Kent countryside

  21-10-2022 10:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The bison is the first to be born wild in the UK for thousands of years.
  
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• Photographer snaps an incredible close-up of an ant's face - and it will give you nightmares 

  21-10-2022 10:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lithuanian photographer Dr Eugenijus Kavaliauskas snapped the ant magnified five times under a microscope, revealing its red eyes and shadowy face in exceptional detail.
  
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• We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water

  21-10-2022 08:29 via go.theregister.com
  Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf Located 580 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer, there lies an extra fluffy exoplanet with an average density similar to a marshmallow, light enough to float on water. …
  
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• TikTok denies it could be used to track US citizens

  21-10-2022 06:51 via bbc.co.uk
  In response to a media report, the firm said it does not collect precise location data from US users.
  
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• Give that slug a hug! We must learn to love garden critters to help ecosystems thrive, experts say 

  21-10-2022 02:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts have suggested gardeners should embrace slugs and snails instead of trying to kill them off, which could d 'take the stress out' of looking after plants and restore ecosystems.
  
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• Deepfaked: ‘They put my face on a porn video’

  21-10-2022 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Campaigner Kate Isaacs describes the horror of seeing her face digitally edited into an adult film.
  
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• Vast marine protected area 'boosts tuna stocks'

  21-10-2022 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  A huge marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean has benefits for both fish and fishers, scientists say.
  
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• Europe faces tough decisions over nuclear power

  21-10-2022 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  With high energy prices and disrupted gas supplies, European nations consider more nuclear power plants.
  
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