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• SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats

  01-11-2022 23:30 via go.theregister.com
  Classified mission will █████████ for ████ in █████████ until ███████████ █████ The most powerful operational rocket flying today – SpaceX's Falcon Heavy – blasted multiple military satellites into orbit on a classified mission for the US Space Force on Tuesda
  
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• Rolex Deepsea Challenge 2022: the Deepest Diver You Can Buy

  01-11-2022 23:03
  Capable of operating almost 7 miles down, the titanium Deepsea Challenge takes the watch world’s battle for diver supremacy to new depths.
  
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• China's third and final module docks with Tiangong space station

  01-11-2022 21:15 via go.theregister.com
  Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now? China's third and final space station module, Mengtian, has docked with the Tiangong space station after launching on Monday from a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang Space Launch Center.…
  
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• How every glass of tap water you drink has been consumed by up to TEN people before you

  01-11-2022 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tap water you drink flows through a recirculating process that sends your wastewater to either a purifying plant or the environment and back to the plant before returning it to your home.
  
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• Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission

  01-11-2022 20:30 via go.theregister.com
  If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are NASA has enlisted a cadre of volunteers to track the Artemis I mission, due to launch later this month. If successful, their efforts could help improve spacecraft tracking for future missions beyond the Moon.…
  
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• Boris Johnson confirms he is attending COP27 in Egypt

  01-11-2022 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Rishi Sunak is coming under growing pressure to do a U-turn on attending the UN climate summit.
  
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• Face of 18th century Connecticut man who was mistaken for a VAMPIRE

  01-11-2022 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researches conducted a DNA analysis on the man's femur bones and added it to a machine learning system to predict what he looked like before being riddled with tuberculosis about 200 years ago.
  
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• Baleen whales ingest up to 10 MILLION pieces of microplastic every day

  01-11-2022 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Stanford University in California modelled how many pieces of plastic filter-feeding whales consume each day.
  
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• Marijuana does NOT make you more creative, says study that disproves common myth

  01-11-2022 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Washington put cannabis users through a creativity test either 15 minutes after smoking the drug or 12 hours later when they were sober.
  
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• Twitter: 70,000 users join rival Mastodon after Musk takeover

  01-11-2022 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rival platform Mastodon gained more than 70,000 new sign-ups on Friday, the day after Musk finalised his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
  
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• TikTok is DOWN: App crashes for frustrated users across the UK

  01-11-2022 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, the problems started at around 15:21 GMT and are affecting users across the country.
  
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• UN Wants $4-$6 Trillion To Prop Up Its Failing Global Warming Program

  01-11-2022 16:19 via technocracy.news
  The UN’s global warming hoopla has nothing to do with climate, but rather with stampeding the world into Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Virtually none of goals have been met after already spending hundreds of billions in misplaced activities. The answer? Throw more money at it – except the UN doesn’t have any money of its own. So, it demands massive new funding from the sucker nations that already support it. ⁃ TN Editor Scaremongering Continues
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• Is it goodbye - finally - to the fax machine?

  01-11-2022 16:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Ofcom is consulting on changes to telecoms rules that could see fax machines become obsolete.
  
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• Now It’s UK: Why Are Labs Racing To See Who Can Create The Most Deadly Virus?

  01-11-2022 15:43 via technocracy.news
  Any lab experimenting with the creation of or gain-of-function of human pathogens should be summarily terminated and its researchers banned from further activities. The depth and scope of this kind of research goes far beyond just China and the U.S. This has morphed into an arms race in biowarfare, and it is potentially more dangerous that the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945. ⁃ TN EditorA potentially deadly new strain of COVID has been created in a University lab in London, according
  
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• New Alberta Premier Refuses To Associate With World Economic Forum

  01-11-2022 15:24 via technocracy.news
  As some leaders are shaking off the deleterious aftermath of COVID mania, they are waking up to the fraud and manipulation by the World Economic Forum. Alberta’s new premier has rejected association with the WEF and for good reason: they have done nothing useful for Alberta and have caused a lot of damage along the way. This rejection needs to go global. ⁃ TN EditorRecently noted as an opponent of vaccine and mask mandates, new Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is breaking previously es
  
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• SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy for the first time in 3 YEARS

  01-11-2022 14:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy for the first time in three years. This rocket has 28 merlin engines, making it the world's most powerful operational rocket.
  
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• World's biggest airplane flies over California, carrying a hypersonic prototype 

  01-11-2022 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stratolaunch's Roc carrier plane lifted off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California and took to the skies over the Mojave Desert.
  
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• 'Planet killer' asteroid is spotted lurking in the inner Solar System

  01-11-2022 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly a mile in diameter (1.5km), the asteroid, called 2022 AP7, has an orbit that crosses the orbit of Earth and is described as 'potentially hazardous'.
  
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• This Platform Makes Sure Companies Stick to Their Climate Pledges

  01-11-2022 12:00
  Lubomila Jordanova explains how her carbon-reporting firm—Plan A—uses relentless data analysis to guarantee businesses aren’t greenwashing.
  
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• DC Has a Chance to Save Superman. Here's What It Needs to Do

  01-11-2022 12:00
  Henry Cavill is getting back into the cape, and James Gunn and Peter Safran now control the studio. Here’s how they can bring the Man of Steel back to life.
  
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• Instagram users say their accounts are STILL suspended

  01-11-2022 10:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As of Tuesday morning, Instagram users are still complaining they've been suspended from their account for no reason, despite the app saying the issues have been fixed.
  
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• UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

  01-11-2022 10:30 via go.theregister.com
  Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure Electricity shortages appear inevitable for the UK due to the decommissioning of the nation's aging estate of nuclear power stations, according to evidence submitted by industry to politicians.…
  
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• Rhino horns have SHRUNK over the past century because of hunting by humans, study warns

  01-11-2022 09:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rhino horns have shrunk over the past century because of hunting by humans, suggest scientists from the University of Cambridge.
  
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• Elon Musk dissolves Twitter's board of directors

  01-11-2022 07:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The multi-billionaire has cemented his control over the company by becoming its chief executive.
  
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• Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system

  01-11-2022 07:24 via go.theregister.com
  One may but unlikely to hit Earth. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook Astronomers have spotted an asteroid of sufficient size and orbit to cause Earth-wide destruction – if it were to ever strike our planet. And that's a mighty big if.…
  
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• New EU law could open up messaging and app buying

  01-11-2022 05:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The Digital Markets Act designed to curb the market power of big-tech is starting to come into force.
  
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• Plaster activated by light to kill skin cancer could help transform battle against the disease 

  01-11-2022 02:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The dressing is designed to be worn after a patient has undergone surgery to remove a malignant melanoma - the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
  
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• Pope could mitigate millions of tonnes of emissions by reviving meat-free Fridays

  01-11-2022 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Millions of tonnes of carbon emissions could be mitigated every year if the tradition of meat-free Fridays is revived by the Pope, a study by University of Cambridge has found.
  
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• How solar farms in space might beam electricity to Earth

  01-11-2022 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK government is supporting projects to put solar panels in space and beam energy back to Earth.
  
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