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• Google and Microsoft hit by slowing economy

  25-10-2022 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The tech giants say customers are cutting back amid growing signs of an economic downturn.
  
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• Harvard neuroscientist condemned for stitching infant monkeys' eyes shut to study vision disorders

  25-10-2022 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The neuroscientist stitched the eyelids of at least two infant monkeys and left the stitches in for an entire year. The expert says the work builds on Nobel Prize winning science that has helped with vision loss.
  
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• FDA recalls $50 heating pads sold on Amazon and Walmart

  25-10-2022 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled 544,000 'Mighty Bliss' heat pads used by arthritis patients and some athletes. It warns they could leave people with severe burns or scars.
  
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• What's your favorite scary movie? AI reimagines classic horror film posters

  25-10-2022 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The terrifying movie posters were created by inputting keywords into an AI system specifically designed to generate artwork. The results are 'arguably even more terrifying than the original.'
  
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• Fruity and menthol e-cigarettes may cause deadly irregular heartbeats

  25-10-2022 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Louisville found mice exposed to e-cigarette vapor suffered irregular heartbeats, which can be deadly in humans. Fruity flavored vapes were the most dangerous.
  
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• Biblical stories of military campaigns against kingdoms of Israel and Judah are proven

  25-10-2022 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists used a collection of mud stones containing magnetic minerals that record magnetic fields when heated to prove that several cities were burned to the ground.
  
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• Secret communication of sea animals discovered

  25-10-2022 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  A scientist says his recordings of 53 marine species changes what we know about the evolution of sounds.
  
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• Snakebites are responsible for 63,000 deaths every year, study finds

  25-10-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from James Cook University in Queensland have revealed that more than 63,000 people died from snakebites in 2019.
  
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• Mars: Organisms could survive on the Red Planet for 280 million years, study says

  25-10-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ancient microbes could survive for hundreds of millions of years beneath the surface of Mars in 'suspended animation', a new study claims, report experts at Northwestern University in Illinois.
  
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• Boom: Single Chip Can Transmit Twice The Throughput Of Entire Internet

  25-10-2022 16:50 via technocracy.news
  This is a breakthrough of epic proportions as a single chip has set a new data transfer record of 1.8 Petabytes per second. One Petabyte is equal to 1,000 Terabytes, or roughly 500 billion pages of standard printed text. The entire Library of Congress could be transmitted 100 times in a single second. The implication for global digitization is inconceivable. ⁃ TN EditorAn international group of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology in
  
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• International Space Station fires up thrusters to avoid Russian space debris AGAIN

  25-10-2022 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The debris was leftover from Russia's anti-satellite test last year that saw the nation launch a missile into space. The satellite was blown up into some 1,500 pieces that are freely floating in orbit.
  
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• Neom: Sci-Fi City Of The Future Breaks Ground In Saudi Arabia

  25-10-2022 16:23 via technocracy.news
  The first order of business was to forcibly evict and displace over 1 million Saudis from Jeddah, none of whom will ever actually live in Neom. This extraordinary, high-tech smart city will push sci-fi to the limit with robotic avatars, holograms, flying taxis, high speed rail and no roads. Ubiquitous surveillance features will be built into everything.
  The Arab world knows how to build. Just look at the UAE and Dubai. Some observers have already questioned the potential resemblance of Neom to a
  
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• Technocrat Eric Schmidt: Helping To Write AI Laws In Washington Without Disclosing Massive Investments In AI Startups

  25-10-2022 15:57 via technocracy.news
  Schmidt is a member of the Trilateral Commission.  While at Google, he pioneered secretive “surveillance capitalism” using AI that skirted and defied legal control while making multiplied billions in the process. Now he is helping to write AI legislation in Washington without publicly declaring his own massive investments in AI. ⁃ TN EditorAbout four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by th
  
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• Scientists discover six new species of rain frog in Ecuador

  25-10-2022 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  They name one of the new species "resistencia" (resistance) in honour of killed environmentalists.
  
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• Ditch the cutlery! Eating with your HANDS 'improves texture and flavour of food', scientist claims

  25-10-2022 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food.
  
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• Having a boy really IS tougher! Brains age quicker in parents who have sons, scientists find

  25-10-2022 14:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of more than 13,000 over-50s in the US found that parents with at least one son experienced a quicker cognitive decline, compared to those without a son.
  
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• Furious Apple customers react to Music and TV+ price hikes

  25-10-2022 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has bumped up the prices for Apple TV+, Apple Music and bundle service Apple One - and customers aren't happy.
  
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• Solar eclipse: Stunning photos show the sun over the UK, Italy and Turkey this morning

  25-10-2022 13:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This morning's partial solar eclipse began at 10:08 BST in London, with the maximum eclipse appearing at 11:13 BST, when the moon covered about 15 per cent of the solar surface.
  
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• Sustainable Farming Has an Unlikely Ally: Satellites

  25-10-2022 13:00
  Growers are using images taken from space to quantify how much carbon is stored in their soil and validate the credits they’re selling.
  
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• WhatsApp back online after worldwide outage

  25-10-2022 12:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Users started to report problems just before 08:00 BST but Meta says the issue is now fixed.
  
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• Earth's magnetic signals are converted into sound - with terrifying results 

  25-10-2022 11:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite and converted them into sound waves.
  
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• Always losing your keys? Try getting a loved one to jangle them next to your head while you SLEEP

  25-10-2022 11:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Northwestern University experts believe hearing sounds linked to objects helps reactivate the memory of where those objects are, storing that knowledge more efficiently in the brain.
  
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• WhatsApp is back online following a two hour outage

  25-10-2022 11:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WhatsApp is finally back online following a two hour outage that left users unable to send or receive messages.
  
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• WhatsApp is back online following an two hour outage

  25-10-2022 11:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WhatsApp is finally back online following a two hour outage that left users unable to send or receive messages.
  
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• WhatsApp down for users across the UK and world

  25-10-2022 10:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Users are complaining that they are unable to send messages from the Meta-owned platform.
  
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• WhatsApp down in UK today: App service updates

  25-10-2022 10:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, the problems started at around 08:20 BST, and are affecting users across the UK.
  
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• WhatsApp crashes for users across the UK - leaving them unable to send or receive messages

  25-10-2022 09:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, the problems started at around 08:20 BST, and are affecting users across the UK.
  
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• Competition regulator needs teeth to curb big tech, MPs say

  25-10-2022 02:56 via bbc.co.uk
  They urge publication of a draft bill that could see firms fined 10% of turnover for market abuses.
  
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• Cats can distinguish between speech directed at them and humans, study reveals

  25-10-2022 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Université Paris Nanterre analysed how 16 cats reacted to voices from both their owner and that of a stranger when saying phrases directed at cats or humans.
  
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• The ships full of gas waiting off Europe’s coast

  25-10-2022 01:25 via bbc.co.uk
  In the middle of an energy crisis, giant ships full of liquefied natural gas are waiting off Europe's coast.
  
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• MailOnline tests HOLOGRAM technology that allows you to beam yourself into meetings in real-time 

  25-10-2022 01:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline had a chat with the firm's CEO David Nussbaum, who was appearing from the Proto M while at his home in Los Angeles.
  
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