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• Christmas trees are set to cost 20 percent more in the US because of the relentless drought

  30-11-2022 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This summer's drought has increased the cost of the average Christmas tree to nearly $100. Farms across the US report lost tens of thousands of trees due to abnormally low rainfall.
  
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• SpaceX grounds Falcon 9 carrying first private lunar lander

  30-11-2022 23:30 via go.theregister.com
  Lift-off postponed for 'additional pre-flight checkouts' SpaceX postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a lunar lander and rover built by a private Japanese aerospace company and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency rover to the Moon, by one day.…
  
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• Advert in Canada promotes euthanasia: Slammed for being 'dystopian'

  30-11-2022 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'All is Beauty' video ad, launched by La Maison Simons, centers around a terminally ill Canadian woman named Jennyfer, 37, who ended her life with medication intervention in October.
  
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• San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'

  30-11-2022 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The measure permits police to deploy robots equipped with explosives in extreme circumstances.
  
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• Children who watch TV more than two hours a day are more likely to face addictions later in life

  30-11-2022 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in New Zealand tracked 1,000 people from birth until they were 45 years old. Those who watched more TV in childhood were more likely to have addictions later on.
  
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• Wormhole is created inside a quantum computer that 'teleported' a message from one side to the other

  30-11-2022 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wormhole was created by scientists simulating two black holes in the quantum computer, one on each side of the system, and used the holographic tunnel to 'teleport' messages.
  
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• UK strikes digital trade deal with Ukraine

  30-11-2022 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The agreement is expected to improve cooperation on cyber security, AI and new technologies.
  
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• Boffin's beam forming kit opens the door to more realistic holograms

  30-11-2022 21:06 via go.theregister.com
  MIT's hardware speeds up light manipulation by a factor of 10 A research team led by MIT has developed anovel piece of kit that can drastically increase the speed and capability of optical beam forming technology and that's easy to produce at scale.…
  
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• China completes world's largest solar telescope array with 1.9-mile-wide ring of 313 dishes

  30-11-2022 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China has completed construction on the world's largest array of telescopes that will be pointed directly at the sun to study how its behavior impacts Earth.
  
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• Elon Musk's Neuralink to share progress of its brain chip tonight

  30-11-2022 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuralink is hosting its annual Show and Tell event tonight at 9 pm ET, which will be livestreamed. Elon Musk's startup is expected to share its progress of its brain-machine interface.
  
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• Spotify Wrapped drops but Apple Music Replay fans have it trending

  30-11-2022 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline looks at how the two US platforms compare when stacked up against each other, as fans of Apple Music Replay get it trending following the launch of Spotify Wrapped 2022.
  
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• Twitter's former head of safety says platform is LESS safe under Elon Musk and decries layoffs

  30-11-2022 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth now says the platform is less safe under Elon Musk - despite the platform having taken down a hateful trolling campaign after the mogul took over.
  
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• Technocracy In China: The World’s First Technate – Part 1

  30-11-2022 17:17 via technocracy.news
  As more journalists and researchers examine Technocracy, the tidal wave of alarm is spreading rapidly throughout the world. As TN has claimed for 15 years, China is a full-blown Technocracy hiding behind the trappings of Communism; but it isn’t Communism. This is a must-read investigative report. ⁃ TN EditorWe are being rapidly transitioned into a new system of centralised, authoritarian global governance. This system is designed to be a technocracy and it is truly totalitarian.
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• Amelia Earhart's disappearance: Unseen text on metal panel could hold clues to aviator's fate

  30-11-2022 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Scientific analysis revealed the code 'D24', 'XRO' and either '335' or '385' etched on an aluminium panel which washed up on an island in the Pacific close to where Earhart's plane vanished.
  
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• NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project

  30-11-2022 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  Being over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light NASA has cancelled its mission to launch a greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite called GeoCarb, but climate-conscious individuals shouldn't be worried it's giving up on tracking climate change, the space agency said.…
  
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• G20 Signs Declaration for International Vaccine Passport

  30-11-2022 16:25 via technocracy.news
  It’s not about health. It’s about control. Absolute control. “Your papers, please.” Anyone who does not want to receive mRNA-based injections that Pfizer admits was never tested for transmission of a virus, is grounded from international travel. Nations will the adopt the same passport for domestic travel on airplanes, trains, busses, automobiles.
  This should be treated like a five-alarm fire, but citizens worldwide are just sitting on their hands. They will think differe
  
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• Dutch Farm Nightmare Continues As Government Demands ‘Compulsory Purchase’ Of 3,000 Farms

  30-11-2022 15:42 via technocracy.news
  The old saying, “You ain’t much if you ain’t Dutch” is now turned on its head with “If your’e Dutch, you ain’t got much.” As predicted, environmental extremism is driving thousands of Dutch farmers off their land, first by limiting essential nitrogen-based fertilizer and now by direct government land grab, as ordered by the Technocrats at the European Union. ⁃ TN EditorSeventy-one percent of the earth’s atmosphere is made up of nitrogen
  
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• Software claiming to expose nudes on TikTok installs malware that can steal your passwords and more

  30-11-2022 15:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cyber criminals are using a TikTok filter that promises to expose nudity to trick users into downloading malware that can then steal their passwords and credit cards.
  
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• Dogs prefer ELECTRIC cars to diesel vehicles as they give a smoother ride

  30-11-2022 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Lincoln researchers took 20 dogs on a 10 minute drive in an electric car and a diesel car. Results revealed the dogs were more restless in the fuel-powered vehicle.
  
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• How to see my Spotify Wrapped 2022 stats

  30-11-2022 14:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The steaming giant's annual Wrapped feature reveals the songs you've played the most over the year - regardless of whether they're cool or cringey.
  
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• Solar storm could launch 1.8 million mph solar winds at Earth TOMORROW

  30-11-2022 13:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A'canyon-like' cavity in the sun's atmosphere known as a coronal hole will launch a solar storm towards our planet tomorrow.
  
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• Drop What You're Doing and Update iOS, Android, and Windows

  30-11-2022 13:00
  Plus: Major patches dropped this month for Chrome, Firefox, VMware, Cisco, Citrix, and SAP.
  
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• When is Spotify Wrapped 2022?

  30-11-2022 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The steaming giant's annual Wrapped feature will reveal the songs you've played the most over the year - regardless of whether they're cool or cringey.
  
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• Dogs prefer ELECTRIC cars to petrol or diesel vehicles as they give a smootherride

  30-11-2022 12:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Lincoln researchers took 20 dogs on a 10 minute drive in an electric car and a diesel car. Results revealed the dogs were more restless in the fuel-powered vehicle.
  
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• When is my Spotify Wrapped 2022 out? How can I see my top songs and artists?

  30-11-2022 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The steaming giant's annual Wrapped feature will reveal the songs you've played the most over the year - regardless of whether they're cool or cringey.
  
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• Climate change will cause waves of migration into Britain, says former head of MI5

  30-11-2022 11:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, who was director general of MI5 from 2002 to 2007, said that migrants will flee from areas made 'uninhabitable' by climate change.
  
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• The flood-proof home of the future amid rising sea levels

  30-11-2022 10:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The eye-catching house design is the vision of flood scientist Dr Jess Neumann, an associate professor at Reading University, and DIY SOS star Gabrielle Blackman.
  
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• UK sinks millions into future energy storage tech

  30-11-2022 10:30 via go.theregister.com
  Move comes as National Grid decided not to go live on blackout prevention scheme last night The UK has awarded £32 million ($38 million) funding to five projects that are developing new energy storage tech the day after the country's National Grid decided not to switch on a blackout prevention scheme that pays consumers not to use electricity.…
  
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• UK cuts China from Sizewell nuclear project, takes joint stake

  30-11-2022 10:30 via go.theregister.com
  Move comes as National Grid decided not to go live on blackout prevention scheme last night The UK government today confirmed it would take a joint stake in the Sizewell C nuclear plant, allowing for "China General Nuclear's exit from the project," which it said was "set to generate reliable, clean electricity for 6 million UK homes."…
  
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• Twitter ends Covid misinformation policy under Musk

  30-11-2022 03:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The Twitter website says it stopped enforcing its misleading information policy on 23 November.
  
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• The 'dangerous' ways people are trying to get rid of their ear wax

  30-11-2022 01:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than a quarter of those who have suffered from ear wax building up said they could not afford to get it removed privately, according to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID).
  
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• Shenzhou-15: China sends new crew to Tiangong space station

  30-11-2022 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  The mission will see the first in-orbit crew handover on the new Tiangong space station.
  
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• More trees were blown down than planted last year in England

  30-11-2022 01:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Devastation wreaked by Storm Arwen in November last year brought down 8,164 acres of woodland in England. 31,506 acres were felled in the UK last year or 39million to 52million trees.
  
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