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• Chile's Atacama Desert is a graveyard for the world's junk - and it is threatening science

  25-11-2022 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chile's Atacama Desert is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world, which is also damaging scientific research. This area is key to helping find life on other planets.
  
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• Humans and octopuses descended from SAME animal that lived 518 million years ago

  25-11-2022 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Octopuses have a large variety of gene regulators in their bran that is similar to the human brain. Experts say it is because they both descended from the same primitive worm-like animal.
  
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• Video captures the moon photobombing the sun

  25-11-2022 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The video was taken by a satellite observing the outer surface of the sun when the moon moved by. It shrouded the sun in a a dark silhouette, and as the lunar orb disappeared, a filament erupted.
  
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• Crypto Contagion Is Spreading, Fast

  25-11-2022 19:17
  The collapse of FTX has set off a chain reaction that threatens to topple one of crypto’s oldest and most well-respected institutions.
  
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• Plastic pollution in the ANTARCTIC is now as bad as everywhere else on Earth

  25-11-2022 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Most of the plastic microfibres detected by the University of Oxford scientists were found in air samples, meaning that Antarctic animals and seabirds could very well be breathing them in.
  
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• Amazing sped-up video of a solar eclipse shows the moon whizzing by the sun

  25-11-2022 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The video was taken by a satellite observing the outer surface of the sun when the moon moved by. It shrouded the sun in a a dark silhouette, and as the lunar orb disappeared, a filament erupted.
  
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• Best Black Friday 2022 Deals Under £50 in the UK: Anker, Logitech, Oral B and More

  25-11-2022 18:09
  Thoroughly decent Black Friday discounts on earbuds, fitness trackers, tablets, gifts and more
  
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• Beyond Meat's Pennsylvania plant may be riddled with deadly bacteria

  25-11-2022 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bloomberg reports Beyond Meat's Pennsylvania processing plant has had Listeria and mold outbreaks during the second half of last year and the first half of 2022 due to food safety issues.
  
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• Archaeologists uncover Egyptian mummies with golden tongues

  25-11-2022 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gold tongues were found in tombs at the Qewaisna necropolis, a burial site in Egypt that has hundreds of tombs from different periods in the country's history.
  
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• Food poisoning outbreak linked to oysters: FDA warns Americans in 13 states

  25-11-2022 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One person in Las Vegas who came down with vomiting and diarrhea has tested positive for the stomach bug sapovirus after eating imported oysters. At least nine others are infected.
  
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• Best Black Friday PS5 and Xbox deals 2022: Plus sales and offers on Call of Duty, FIFA 23 and more 

  25-11-2022 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: Black Friday is finally here, and there are some incredible deals available for gamers.
  
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• Silicon Valley Whistleblower: ‘SMART Cities’ Worldwide Are Being Converted Into ‘Open Concentration Camps’

  25-11-2022 15:33 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy is scientific dictatorship and it is rising up all around us. Americans need to take eyes off of political dogfights and see that the Biden Administration is spending billions to embed “SMART CITY” technology all across our nation. It is the infrastructure of a gulag without physical walls. ⁃ TN EditorAman Jabbi is a native of India and an engineer who worked in Silicon Valley for 25 years, co-inventor of two cellphone camera apps. He emigrated to the United States
  
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• The girl born with a TAIL: Extremely rare 6cm-long defect is 'covered in hair and skin'

  25-11-2022 14:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unidentified infant was born via a C-section at a rural hospital in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to healthy parents in their late twenties.
  
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• Refuse To Install Smart Meter? Prepare To Have Your Power Cut Off

  25-11-2022 14:49 via technocracy.news
  Smart meters that monitor and control energy usage are essential to Technocracy. It’s getting ugly when the power company simply shuts of your power if you refuse to install the digital meter. As more utilities try to extort customers for refusing their smart meter policies, perhaps there will be more active pushback. ⁃ TN EditorAhead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Dominion Energy Virginia disconnected electricity to, threatened to or forced a “smart” meter on more than hal
  
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• Cashless: Now India Is Testing Retail Central Bank Digital Currency

  25-11-2022 14:18 via technocracy.news
  The central banks are emerging as the central column of power and control as they all are ramping  up digital currencies to replace cash. This is orchestrated by the Bank for International Settlements which sits at the top of the global banking pyramid. This will drive most smaller commercial banks out of business. ⁃ TN EditorWe recently reported that the Federal Reserve plans to launch a 12-week pilot program in partnership with several large commercial banks to test the feasibility
  
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• Motion Smoothing: Here's how film fans can turn OFF 'soap opera effect'

  25-11-2022 14:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Motion smoothing works by inserting 'fake' frames, but it makes films appear less cinematic as if they were shot on high-speed video - like a soap opera. Here's how to turn it off.
  
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• Do YOU have what it takes to become an astronaut? MailOnline reveals the key criteria

  25-11-2022 13:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Do you have what it takes to become a professional astronaut? Here, MailOnline reveals the key criteria needed to be considered by ESA.
  
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• Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit

  25-11-2022 13:06 via go.theregister.com
  Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space Nine days into its flight to the Moon and beyond, NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule is due to fire its engines for an insertion burn that will place the craft into a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) about 50,000km from the lunar surface.…
  
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• They Wanted a Baby, Then Twitter Fired Them

  25-11-2022 13:00
  From IVF treatments to parental leave, Twitter staff laid off without notice have had their lives upended.
  
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• The Spooky Quest to Build a Google Maps for Graveyards

  25-11-2022 13:00
  Atlantic Geomatics is creating a map of the UK’s cemeteries to help people track down their ancestors’ final resting place.
  
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• Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think

  25-11-2022 13:00
  Popular redaction tools don’t always work as promised, and new attacks can reveal hidden information, researchers say.
  
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• Interviewers are less likely to hire people if they can't place their accent, study finds

  25-11-2022 11:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Queensland in Brisbane assessed the frequency at which applicants with 'non-standard' accents get a job.
  
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• Covid-like virus is discovered lurking in bats in southern China

  25-11-2022 11:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The virus, known as BtSY2, is one of five found in bats in China's Yunnan province 'that are likely to be pathogenic to humans or livestock', say experts.
  
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• Cheetahs could soon be EXTINCT in the African Savannah, study reveals

  25-11-2022 10:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cheetahs, hyenas and wild dogs are on the brink of extinction due to humans activities, but these dwindling populations have gone unnoticed due to a lack of work in the African savanna.
  
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• King Tutankhamun: The treasure trove revealed inside his tomb 100 years ago this week

  25-11-2022 09:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patience is a virtue - but it must have been wearing thin at Highclere Castle in the summer of 1922 as Lord Carnarvon pondered whether to allow Howard Carter one last season of excavation work.
  
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• Best Black Friday 2022 Deals UK: Samsung, Bose, Xbox and More

  25-11-2022 09:04
  Real Black Friday discounts on top-class tech, handpicked by WIRED’s Gear team
  
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• ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall

  25-11-2022 07:30 via go.theregister.com
  23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew The European Space Agency (ESA) announced its intake of 17 astronauts for 2022 on Wednesday – including five career astronauts, 11 astronaut reserves and one selected from its November 2021 Parastronaut Feasibility Study.…
  
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• Elon Musk says Twitter will offer 'amnesty' to suspended accounts

  25-11-2022 04:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Several accounts - including Donald Trump's - have already been reinstated by the multi-billionaire.
  
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• Why Donald Trump isn't returning to Twitter (for now)

  25-11-2022 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  How the former US president might lose money if he starts tweeting.
  
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• Bargains galore in the market for office furniture

  25-11-2022 01:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Offices are being downsized and that means there is a lot of second-hand furniture on the market.
  
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• Flu-turistic: Scientists create super-influenza vaccine that can fight 20 strains

  25-11-2022 00:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The experimental vaccine - which hasn't been tested on people yet - offered broad protection against 20 influenza A and B subtypes in mice and ferret tests.
  
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