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• Virgin with Child and Adoring Angles statues on Florence's Duomo seen in color for the first time

  01-12-2022 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Coloring on the Virgin with Child and Adoring Angles marble sculptures that sit above the door of Florence's Duomo were discovered during restorations of the cathedral's north side.
  
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• Seasonal weather patterns found on Saturn's largest moon by NASA's James Webb

  01-12-2022 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Webb shared its first images of Titan, which show clouds hanging in the atmosphere that proves it is the only moon in the solar system to have seasonal weather patterns.
  
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• Facebook failed to detect death threats against election workers ahead of US midterms

  01-12-2022 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook was not able to detect the vast majority of advertisements that explicitly called for violence against or killing of US election workers ahead of the midterms, a new investigation reveals.
  
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• Nature-based farming-subsidies scheme given green light

  01-12-2022 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  A post-Brexit green subsidy scheme is going ahead - but there is no clarity on what farmers will be paid.
  
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• Former SpaceX engineer, 62, accuses Elon Musk's company of age discrimination

  01-12-2022 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 62-year-old former SpaceX engineer says that Elon Musk's company discriminated against him on the basis of age during his time there.
  
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• Biden Has Handed America Over To The Biodefense Cartel

  01-12-2022 19:26 via technocracy.news
  On the heels of Biden’s September 12th Executive Order titled The National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, I wrote two days later that it “is a complete capitulation of our government to Big Pharma, the biotechnology industry and the entire transhuman cabal that wants to create Humanity 2.0 by changing our genetic structure.”
  The Initiative literally opens the floodgates of taxpayer resources and turns over government control to the biotech and Big Pharma industr
  
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• Disney's age-altering AI can make young actors look 80 or old actors 20 in REAL TIME

  01-12-2022 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The AI predicts which parts of the face should be altered by age by 'looking' at an image of the actor. It then adds effects like wrinkles or smoothed skin as a layer on the actor's face in the film or TV show.
  
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• Woman talks to her past self in 'trippy' conversation

  01-12-2022 17:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michelle Huang used material from 10 years' worth of entries and combined it with the OpenAI language model Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3).
  
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• Plant-based beef tenderloin with protein fibres that mimic real meat goes on sale for £40 

  01-12-2022 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Whole-Cut Loin' is the latest from Slovenian firm Juicy Marbles, which released its first product, a fake filet mignon , earlier this year.
  
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• Boy, 5, dies after eating seeds of a plant containing a poison THIRTY times more toxic than ricin

  01-12-2022 17:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 5-year-old boy died within 24 hours of eating the seeds of a highly toxic plant called rosary pea. The poison, abrin, has been shown to be 30 times more lethal than ricin.
  
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• Scientists develop a smartwatch for COWS that can monitor their health, reproductivity and location

  01-12-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Southwest Jiaotong University in China have developed a smartwatch that can be used to monitor cows' health, reproductivity and location.
  
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• Mars megatsunami 3.4 billion years ago may have been caused by an asteroid collision 

  01-12-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US researchers think the catastrophic flooding event may have been sparked by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub impact on Earth, which wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
  
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• Musk: Robots Will Perform Brain Implant Surgery As Outpatient Procedure

  01-12-2022 16:22 via technocracy.news
  Elon Musk, the consummate Technocrat and Transhuman, is almost ready to connect your brain directly to the Internet: “According to Bloomberg, the billionaire is also aiming for the device to one day become mainstream and allow for the transfer of information between humans and machines. ⁃ TN EditorAt an event at its Fremont, California headquarters on Wednesday night, Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. announced that it is hoping to start inserting its coin-sized computing b
  
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• Trilateral Commission Related Think Tank Pushes $1 Trillion To Rebuild Ukraine

  01-12-2022 16:04 via technocracy.news
  Those who provoked Russia to invade Ukraine in the first place would now have the American taxpayer rebuild the nation at a cost of $1 trillion, assuming that the war will eventually come to an end. ⁃ TN EditorZeroHedge reports that:
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a video address on Tuesday estimated it will cost more than $1 trillion to rebuild his country following the Russian assault, now over nine months in. If this number sounds absolutely shocking and unrealistic&helli
  
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• Russian mercenary videos 'top 1bn views' on TikTok

  01-12-2022 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The platform is said to be hosting hundreds of videos that celebrate the Russian Wagner group.
  
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• Icelandic woman's face was ravaged by SYPHILIS 500 years ago

  01-12-2022 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An artist has reconstructed what a 16th century woman with skull lesions may have looked like before she died, with painful-looking sores running across her face.
  
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• Pop-Up Farming Pods to Help Colonizers Grow Crops on Mars

  01-12-2022 13:00
  Interstellar Lab’s inflatable BioPod is designed to help plants survive inhospitable conditions on Earth and allow explorers to settle on the Red Planet.
  
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• Iran’s Protests Reveal What’s Lost If Twitter Crumbles

  01-12-2022 13:00
  As authorities hit citizens with more violence, the social network is proving key to documenting abuses. If it breaks, a human rights lifeline may disappear.
  
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• Amazon’s Creep Into Health Care Has Some Experts Spooked

  01-12-2022 13:00
  Using the tech giant’s new telehealth service will mean trusting it with your private data.
  
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• How Elon Musk's Starlink of over 3,000 satellites works

  01-12-2022 12:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to help connect the most isolated parts of the British countryside by using broadband beamed from space, ministers announced this week.
  
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• Batteries left in discarded electricals start over 700 fires each year, report warns

  01-12-2022 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from Material Focus has revealed that over 700 fires were started in bin lorries and recycling centres this year by dumped electricals.
  
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• Adorable footage shows football-loving RAYS showing off their ball skills at London Aquarium 

  01-12-2022 11:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at London Aquarium have shared adorable footage of rays playing their own version of underwater football.
  
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• Elon Musk's Starlink to help strengthen internet in remote UK places

  01-12-2022 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  World’s richest man’s company is involved in a trial to get isolated areas of the UK connected to the internet.
  
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• Ex-FTX boss Bankman-Fried: 'I didn't try to commit fraud'

  01-12-2022 07:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Sam Bankman-Fried says he has almost no money left after the collapse of the crypto exchange.
  
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• Foxconn: iPhone maker offers payments for finding new workers

  01-12-2022 06:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Apple has warned shipments of the iPhone 14 would be delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions.
  
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• Batteries linked to hundreds of waste fires

  01-12-2022 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Batteries thrown into household rubbish bins cause about 700 fires a year in waste facilities, a survey suggests.
  
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• Musk says Twitter feud with Apple boss 'resolved'

  01-12-2022 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The Twitter boss says he met Apple's chief Tim Cook after he criticised the company.
  
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• Experts unravel the mystery of Westminster Abbey's lost chapel

  01-12-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 'long-lost' chapel at Westminster Abbey that was demolished in 1503 was used by members of the royal family to worship a martyred saint, academics report.
  
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