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• Birkenstocks worn by Apple founder Steve Jobs are expected to fetch up to $80,000 at auction

  10-11-2022 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pair of old, used Birkenstock sandals belonging to Apple founder Steve Jobs - who popularized the idea of tech executives wearing the same outfit in public - is up for auction.
  
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• Piece of NASA's Challenger shuttle is FOUND by divers in the Atlantic Ocean

  10-11-2022 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A crew was diving off the coast of Florida when they discovered what was part of the Challenger's heat shield, marking 'the first discovery of wreckage' from 1986 craft in more than 25 years.
  
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• Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of BILLIONS in FTC fines, company lawyer warns

  10-11-2022 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A lawyer working for Twitter warns the social network could face billions in FTC fines over violations of the consent decree it's been under - from Elon Musk's changes that impact user privacy.
  
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• Collector opens a museum in Brooklyn to showcase a HUMAN bones

  10-11-2022 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jon Pichaya Ferry has been collecting human bones since 2018 and recently moved his large collection to a space in Brooklyn, which will officially open to the public next month.
  
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• FTX woes: 'I'm waiting to get £2,000 back from crypto giant'

  10-11-2022 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  One user told the BBC he was able to lodge a withdrawal request on the beleaguered exchange.
  
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• The Amazon Echo Auto to bring the Alexa voice assistant to your car is reduced by 70% to $14.99

  10-11-2022 20:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: Upgrade your driving experiences with Alexa in your car. With Alexa you can play millions of songs and podcasts,as well as call friends, check traffic and read and reply to emails and texts
  
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• Musk tells Twitter staff remote working will end

  10-11-2022 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The boss of the social media firm also warns workers to prepare for "difficult times", reports say.
  
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• NASA's Artemis rocket - hit with Nicole's 100-mph wind gusts - faces the EXPIRATION of its boosters

  10-11-2022 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's long-delayed Artemis mission to the moon now faces a new potential hurdle - the expiration of the rocket's boosters looming in mid-December.
  
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• Elon Musk's 'Twitter circus' gets Tesla booted from top investments list

  10-11-2022 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wedbush Securities said Elon Musk's Twitter 'antics' are tarnishing Tesla and therefore removed it as a top investment on its Best Ideas List. The firm said Twitter is causing a 'PR nightmare.'
  
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• Cows are getting high off industrial hemp in their feed, study finds

  10-11-2022 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cattle that eat hemp show increased yawning, salivation and unsteady movements - all indicators of intoxication, according to researchers from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.
  
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• The Reason for Meta's Massive Layoffs? Ghosts in the Machine

  10-11-2022 17:29
  The social media company's failed projects required thousands of staffers who swelled the ranks and never left.
  
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• Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Scammer's Paradise

  10-11-2022 17:25
  Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.
  
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• Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers

  10-11-2022 17:25
  Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.
  
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• COP27: BP chief listed as delegate for Mauritania

  10-11-2022 16:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Chief executive of leading oil company is registered for COP27 as a delegate from poor African nation.
  
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• Spending Your Money: It’s ‘Finance Day’ At COP27

  10-11-2022 15:58 via technocracy.news
  Al Gore is the ultimate huckster when pumping the UN delegates to climate action. In bunko terms, this is the practice of “shaking the money tree” to loose money that is easy to grab. Gore’s climate claims are patently absurd and not one of his predictions over the years have come true. This is Technocracy and pseudo-science at its worst, and it’s coming for the world. ⁃ TN Editor
  The first of the ‘thematic’ days kicked off on Wednesday at COP27, focused
  
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• Leg-lengthening: The men who have their legs broken so they can be taller

  10-11-2022 15:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Surgeons in the US and Turkey are offering life-changing cosmetic surgery that can add up to 6.2in to someone's height. The practice involves breaking a leg bone in half.
  
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• Global Stink: UN COP27 Attendees In Egypt Greeted With Sewage

  10-11-2022 15:34 via technocracy.news
  COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt drew over 30,000 global meddlers by jet to plan how to railroad the world into Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Appropriately, a sewage spill let them meditate on the global stink they are causing to the rest of the world. Private jets are given a free pass because their self-praised work is so essential to “saving” humanity. ⁃ TN EditorAttendees of this year’s U.N. climate conference in Egypt found themselves stepping over streams
  
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• UN Seeks Control Over Agriculture, Blames For Global Warming

  10-11-2022 15:12 via technocracy.news
  World famine is all but guaranteed as the UN blames farming and ranching for over one-third of so-called greenhouse gas emissions, and then seeks to impose policies to limit those emissions. Restricting farming and ranching reduces life-sustaining food needed to keep humans from going extinct. The UN is trying to refocus an existing $18 trillion investment into solving the food problem. ⁃ TN EditorThe U.N. food agency aims to launch a plan within the year to make the world’s food sys
  
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• Elon Musk: Twitter asks NI secretary what 'tosh' looks like

  10-11-2022 14:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Twitter's owner responds to Chris Heaton-Harris after fake resignation rumours about the Tory MP.
  
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• Twitter struggles to keep up with 'verified' impersonator accounts

  10-11-2022 14:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter users have noticed a wave of accounts easily being able to impersonate celebrities by changing the name on their account and paying to get a blue tick next to it.
  
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• Scientists reconstruct face of a 2,000-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy who died 28 weeks pregnant

  10-11-2022 13:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Forensic experts in Poland have used the mummy's skull and other remains to produce two images showing what she may have looked like when alive in the first century BC.
  
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• This Billion-Dollar Crypto Collective Is Tearing Itself Apart

  10-11-2022 13:00
  One of the world’s biggest crypto groups just voted to back its enigmatic founder. The only problem is, no one understands his plan.
  
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• 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Alters How Superhero Stories Handle Death

  10-11-2022 13:00
  Comic book saviors get resurrected all the time. Chadwick Boseman’s 2020 death made that impossible for Black Panther’s sequel.
  
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• NASA launches a huge flying saucer-like inflatable heat shield

  10-11-2022 11:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LOFTID, an inflatable 'aeroshell', launched from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in California on Thursday at 04:49am ET (09:49 GMT).
  
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• NASA to launch a huge flying saucer-like inflatable heat shield

  10-11-2022 10:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LOFTID, an inflatable 'aeroshell', will launch from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in California on Thursday at 04:25am ET (09:25 GMT).
  
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• Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!

  10-11-2022 08:33 via go.theregister.com
  They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market A recent demonstration has proven the feasibility of the European Space Agency's (ESA) plan to beam power to Earth from space, giving the astro agency some additional ammunition as it prepares to ask its governing body for more cash to fund solar energy research. …
  
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• UK-Swiss science deal as both barred from EU scheme

  10-11-2022 08:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Political tensions mean both nations have been shut out of the EU's prestigious Horizon programme.
  
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• Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel

  10-11-2022 06:45 via go.theregister.com
  'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent An Cygnus cargo ship has successfully made it to the International Space Station despite the failure of half its solar panel array.…
  
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• Elon Musk foreign ties worth looking at, Joe Biden says

  10-11-2022 06:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The US president was asked whether Saudi Arabia helping the Tesla boss to buy Twitter should be probed.
  
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• Tractors and crops targeted in rural crime wave

  10-11-2022 03:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Suspects are almost 25% more likely to be charged for crimes in urban areas than the countryside.
  
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• COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit

  10-11-2022 03:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Data shared exclusively with the BBC show large numbers of oil and gas lobbyists attending COP27.
  
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• God of War: Ragnarok 'accessibility needed to be better'

  10-11-2022 02:49 via bbc.co.uk
  The studio behind God of War: Ragnarok on its hopes for more accessible blockbuster games in future.
  
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• COP27: The Namibia-Botswana oil project being called a sin

  10-11-2022 02:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Indigenous people warn of risks to the Okavango Delta, and an ex-bishop calls on COP to take action.
  
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• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech

  10-11-2022 00:33 via go.theregister.com
  Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead Elizabeth Holmes, founder of debunked blood-testing startup Theranos, will be sentenced next week after a federal judge denied her request for a new trial.…
  
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