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• New species of an 'indestructible' tardigrade named after Harry Potter character is discovered

  15-11-2022 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team was inspired by the back story of Lord Voldemort's snake companion Nagini, because the woman lost her limbs - similar to the small claws of the tardigrade.
  
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• Moment a 'snake' slithers across the sun's surface at 380,000 MPH is captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter

  15-11-2022 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'snake' feature is actually a tube of cool atmospheric gasses making its way through the sun's magnetic field. The video is sped up and it took around three hours to complete its journey.
  
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• Tesla construction workers at Giga Texas claim unsafe conditions and unpaid wages

  15-11-2022 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Construction workers at Elon Musk's Tesla Gigafactory in Texas are filing a complaint that claims they were forced to work in unsafe conditions and still have unpaid wages.
  
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• Twitter engineer claims problems will pile up, leading to a breakdown of Elon Musk's site

  15-11-2022 20:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A growing number of problems at Twitter will lead to a breakdown of the social network, according to an engineer who works there and share his views anonymously with a tech publication
  
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• NASA will return to the moon tomorrow on a 25-day mission around our lunar satellite 

  15-11-2022 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Artemis I is due to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a two-hour launch window which opens from 01:04 ET (06:04 GMT) tomorrow.
  
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• England will crash out in the quarter finals of the World Cup, supercomputer predicts 

  15-11-2022 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you like a bet, the supercomputer suggests Brazil will face Argentina in the final on December 18 - but be warned that a similar prediction for the 2018 World Cup was wrong.
  
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• Woman who died at the age 65 in Norway during the Middle Ages is brought back to life in a 3D model 

  15-11-2022 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The model, named Tora, was created using the bones of a 13th century woman who died at the age of 65 in Norway. Experts say she must've had access to nutritional food to live so long.
  
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• Could your Apple AirPods work as HEARING aids? AirPods can perform as well as $10K hearing aids

  15-11-2022 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some Apple earbuds can work as well as hearing aids and could help a large number of people with hearing loss to find more affordable devices.
  
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• Children really do learn more quickly than adults, study confirms 

  15-11-2022 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Brown University have found that children receive a boost of a neurotransmitter in their brains when learning that helps them stabilise new information more quickly than adults.
  
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• BA trials biometric tech enabling customers to move through airport without showing their passports

  15-11-2022 16:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British Airways explained that when trial participants arrive at T5, smart cameras verify their identity in under three seconds. The trial will run for six months on BA flights to Malaga, Spain.
  
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• Apple launches its iPhone 14 Emergency SOS via satellite in the US and Canada

  15-11-2022 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has officially rolled out its Emergency SOS via satellite to iPhone users in the US and Canada that lets them send a help message in 15 seconds while outside of cellular coverage.
  
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• EU Raises Climate Target, Continues To Drive Europe Into Energy Poverty

  15-11-2022 16:07 via technocracy.news
  COP27 is a virtue signaling bonanza. EU Technocrats have driven Europe into an energy crisis with their war on traditional energy sources. Instead of saving Europeans from de-industrialization and energy-deprived winters, it has doubled down on global warming by increasing its pledge to reduce carbon emissions even more. ⁃ TN EditorThe UN climate summit, European Commission Vice President Franz Timmermans on Tuesday announced that the EU is ready to update its climate target for 2030, with
  
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• British scientists grow fillet steak in a LABORATORY that looks and smells like real meat

  15-11-2022 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  3D Bio-Tissues (3DBT), a spinoff from Newcastle University, produced three small prototype fillets, each weighing just 5g each (stock image).
  
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• Another Giant Solar Farm Company Goes Bust

  15-11-2022 15:32 via technocracy.news
  Solar farms as a business model, ironically, are proving to be unsustainable. As energy prices rise because of the war on traditional energy, solar and wind turbine farms are finding that its still a rough business and would not likely even exist if it were not for government subsidies and other favors. ⁃ TN EditorBelieve it or not, another solar energy company has gone bust. This time, it was one of the largest in England.
  Toucan Energy Holdings 1 Ltd., based in Essex, Southern England, h
  
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• Climate Negotiations Are In Disarray As UN’s COP27 Enters Second Week

  15-11-2022 15:24 via technocracy.news
  The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) delegates are tripping over themselves to find ways to destroy civilization by using global warming as an excuse to regulate every aspect of society. The “global good” is your good, they reason. The rub is that consensus is fleeting over exactly what the global good is, and many nations are not interested in going beyond lip service. ⁃ TN EditorA stream of newly arrived delegates has injected a fresh buzz into the cavernous conference
  
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• Why tech giants like Amazon, Meta and Twitter are laying off so many employees

  15-11-2022 15:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Overall, US-based tech companies have scrapped over 28,000 jobs so far this year, more than double a year earlier according to a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
  
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• Google to pay record $391m privacy settlement

  15-11-2022 15:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The technology company tracked users' locations despite them opting out, a US investigation found.
  
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• Illegal Trawlers Are No Match for Undersea Sculptures

  15-11-2022 15:00
  Trailing weighted nets across the seabed wrecks fish stocks and kills carbon-capturing seagrasses—but one fisherman’s sculpture project has turned the tide.
  
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• Men's sperm rates have more than halved since the 1970s

  15-11-2022 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, researchers warns plummeting sperm counts 'could threaten mankind's survival'.
  
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• Old, worn Birkenstock sandals belonging to Steve Jobs sold for record-breaking $218,000 at auction

  15-11-2022 14:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pair of old, used Birkenstock sandals belonging to Apple founder Steve Jobs were auctioned for a record-breaking $218,750 on Sunday.
  
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• Suffolk Police apology over sex abuse victims' data on website

  15-11-2022 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  A police investigation is launched after the personal details of sexual abuse victims appear online.
  
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• Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing

  15-11-2022 13:00
  The sprawling mass of suburbia has been a disaster for the environment. But now smaller, denser cities herald a renaissance in city living.
  
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• How the current world population reached 8 million... and what it means for Earth

  15-11-2022 12:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global population growth rate is at its slowest since 1950, and dropped below one per cent for the first time in 2020, according to the UN's World Population Prospects report.
  
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• Having multiple sexual partners does NOT affect your marriage chances in the long-term, study finds

  15-11-2022 11:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having multiple sexual partners does not affect your marriage chances in the long-term, a study by researchers from the Universities of Utah and Oklahoma suggests.
  
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• NASA's cubesat makes it to the Moon to test orbit for human visitors

  15-11-2022 07:30 via go.theregister.com
  After a troubled journay CAPSTONE marks lunar Gateway for humans NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft has become the first cubesat to make it into lunar orbit, despite suffering a navigational glitch that briefly caused it to lose communication with Mission Control en route. …
  
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• Prehistoric BBQ! Oldest evidence of using fire to cook food was 780,000 years ago

  15-11-2022 05:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of Israeli researchers analysed the remains of a large fish found at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, an archaeological site in the north of the country.
  
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• COP27: Without Greta, activists make waves at climate summit

  15-11-2022 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Young campaigners say they are calling out "greenwashing" at COP27 from the inside.
  
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• What to do with 18 shipping containers of rotting cabbages

  15-11-2022 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The cargo salvage industry has a key role in global trade by dealing with unwanted containers.
  
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