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• Japan gives up becoming the fourth country to land on the moon after its lunar probe goes dark

  22-11-2022 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Tuesday thatit abounded plans to land its OMOTENASHI probe on the moon because the team could not make a connection with it.
  
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• FTX: Court says Sam Bankman-Fried ran FTX as a 'personal fiefdom'

  22-11-2022 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  FTX's collapse was described in court as "one of most abrupt and difficult" in corporate America.
  
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• NASA's James Webb detects chemistry of an exoplanet's atmosphere that could help find aliens

  22-11-2022 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured atoms and molecules, along with signs of active chemistry and clouds in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 700 light-years from Earth.
  
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• Antarctica penguins: How too much ice triggered population decline

  22-11-2022 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  A large Adélie penguin population off Antarctica has fallen by 43% over the past decade.
  
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• Instagram 'wrong' to take down drill music video

  22-11-2022 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Meta's independent appeals body criticises the decision to remove the video and says it must be reinstated.
  
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• Can you match the car with the director who 'designed' it? AI creates vehicles reflecting filmmakers

  22-11-2022 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If the world's most famous film directors designed a car, what would it look like? Thanks to artificial intelligence, we now have the answer.
  
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• Hive Social sees 1 MILLION signups since Elon Musk bought Twitter

  22-11-2022 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hive Social app, launched in 2019, may be the Twitter alternative users are looking for, as it reported gaining one million signs up since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in late October.
  
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• New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage

  22-11-2022 18:34 via go.theregister.com
  Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27 The range of prefixes used within the International System of Units (SI) has been expanded with new names covering very large and very small numbers, driven in part by the ballooning requirements of data storage in some sectors such as data science.…
  
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• International Space Station will be 'incredibly bright' as it passes over the UK this evening

  22-11-2022 18:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over London, the space station will be visible for four minutes from 17:39 GMT at 10° above the south west horizon, while in Edinburgh it can be seen for 3 minutes at 17:40 GMT.
  
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• Artificial intelligence shows what CARS designed by famous directors would look like 

  22-11-2022 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If the world's most famous film directors designed a car, what would it look like? Thanks to artificial intelligence, we now have the answer.
  
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• Apple and Google face gaming and mobile browser probe

  22-11-2022 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK competition watchdog launches a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers.
  
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• The Race To Save Sam Bankman-Fried’s Other Crypto Exchange

  22-11-2022 17:59
  Following the collapse of FTX, a group of volunteers has gathered to try and salvage Serum. But the work is far from straightforward.
  
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• Studies reveal why we love to watch stars suffer through Bushtucker Trials on 'I'm A Celebrity'

  22-11-2022 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' sees the rich and famous eat animal genitalia and get doused in cockroaches in Bushtucker Trials. MailOnline looks atexactly why it is we like to watch them suffer.
  
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• Ultra-luxury submarine can carry three passengers 984ft underwater

  22-11-2022 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Super Sub's' design has been unveiled by U-Boat Worx - a Dutch company which boasts that the submarine has the same efficient flow dynamics as an electric car.
  
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• Meet the bizarre hybrid animals that could soon roam the Earth because of climate change 

  22-11-2022 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline takes a look at the weird and wonderful hybrid species we could see in the near future as a result of climate change.
  
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• 22 Early Black Friday 2022 Deals: Dyson, Google, And More

  22-11-2022 14:41
  All the worthwhile early offers on TVs, phones, streaming sticks, vacuum cleaners, and more.
  
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• Raunchy lyrics encourage sexting in teen boys, study finds

  22-11-2022 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teen boys are likely to send 'sexts' after listening to raunchy lyrics - but teen girls are not, say experts at University of California, Davis and Brigham Young University, Utah.
  
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• Tongue scraping prevents gum disease, cavities and bad breath, dentists say

  22-11-2022 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: A TikTiok teeth-based trend - known as tongue scraping - can actually boost oral hygiene, dentists say.
  
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• What Artemis I actually doing at the moon

  22-11-2022 13:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline provides a breakdown of what Artemis I is hoping to achieve and at which point in the mission, as the US space agency prepares to send humans next time round in 2024.
  
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• Amazon Black Friday Week: Control your indoor Christmas lights with this smart plug - now £12.99

  22-11-2022 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: Amazon's Black Friday Week sale is jam-packed with savings, including this Amazon Smart Plug, now just £12.99 - meaning you can control your devices remotely.
  
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• Orion captures a stunning photo of Earth 'setting'

  22-11-2022 12:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The amazing image released by the US space agency shows the small blue marble of Earth slipping behind the moon in the foreground, with part of the Orion spacecraft also visible.
  
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• Twitter takes on WhatsApp: Elon Musk plans to ENCRYPT direct messages

  22-11-2022 11:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At a meeting with staff at Twitter's San Francisco HQ on Monday, Musk presented several features that he plans to introduce to Twitter going forward, according to The Verge.
  
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• Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research

  22-11-2022 11:04 via go.theregister.com
  It's a trifling amount compared to the funding received by the EU's flagship science program The UK has earmarked nearly half a billion pounds in "targeted" research investment following what it characterized as the EU's "refusal to finalize UK access to EU programmes Horizon Europe, Euratom and Fusion for Energy."…
  
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• Demographic Winter: Male Fertility Plunges 62% Worldwide And Is Still Accelerating

  22-11-2022 06:01 via technocracy.news
  I have explained the coming demographic winter for the last 15 years, mostly to deaf ears. World leaders continue to push population explosion theories in order to discourage reproduction. Thinking that there are too many people on the earth and that something must be done to curb them is… pure, unadulterated genocidal mentality. ⁃ TN Editor
  The collapse in male fertility rates around the world is accelerating, according to journal Human Reproduction Update.
  Sperm counts droppe
  
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• UN Secretary-General’s Statement Concluding COP27 In Egypt

  22-11-2022 05:18 via technocracy.news
  Blather, blather, blather. Last time I looked, we are not “facing a burning planet.” In fact, cold temperatures at the South Pole this November have shattered all records since data collection started in 1957. Well, don’t bother the United Nations with the facts: they wouldn’t know what to do with them if their lives depended on it. ⁃ TN Editor
  I thank our hosts – the Egyptian government and COP27 President Sameh Shoukry – for their hospitality.
  I also w
  
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• Killing By Drone: Hunting Enemies In Urban Combat

  22-11-2022 04:30 via technocracy.news
  To a Technocrat, efficiency is like catnip is to a cat – it cannot be resisted even to the point of creating automated killing machines. Why get your hands dirty, anyway? And if you make a mistake and kill the wrong person. well, just write that off to occasional collateral damage or friendly fire. This arms race cannot be stopped at this point. ⁃ TN Editor
  A new drone from Israel’s Elbit Systems called Lanius combines a number of technologies that put it at the foref
  
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• Superbug fight 'needs farmers to reduce antibiotic use'

  22-11-2022 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Campaigners say they have found superbugs in rivers and waterways near farms and in livestock waste.
  
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• ESA mulls Solaris plan to beam solar energy from space

  22-11-2022 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The European Space Agency is considering the 'Solaris Initiative' plan to collect solar energy in orbit and beam electricity back to Earth.
  
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• Cancer survival rates could DOUBLE in a decade as research leads to more treatment options

  22-11-2022 01:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World-leading experts from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust said new research will mean more patients get cured while others live far longer.
  
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• US tech layoffs: India workers face painful exit from the US

  22-11-2022 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Indians are among thousands of educated and skilled immigrant workers laid off by US tech giants.
  
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• Why walking in damp leaves may be to blame if you're out of breath

  22-11-2022 00:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mother of four suffers from a debilitating chronic infection called aspergillosis - it's caused by the aspergillus mould (a type of fungus) that affects the lungs.
  
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• Are flying taxis getting closer to lift-off?

  22-11-2022 00:21 via bbc.co.uk
  US air regulators said they would add flying taxis to the list of regulated aircraft.
  
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