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• Back-to-back meetings really are stressful - they increase brain activity linked to mental efforts

  07-12-2022 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study was conducted by Microsoft's research lab. The team found one meeting after another spikes beta wave activity in the brain, which is a characteristic seen during mental efforts.
  
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• How ChatGPT could make it easy to cheat on written tests and homework

  07-12-2022 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI could make it much easier for students to cheat on tests and homework that require written answers.
  
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• Scientists shed light on oddball gamma rays from deep space

  07-12-2022 22:00 via go.theregister.com
  They thought they'd grokked short and long types.... then an awkward third kind came along Once the data looked straightforward, at least in terms of bursts of gamma rays from outer space. The high-energy electromagnetic radiation was classified into two types: short bursts of less than a second, thought to come from two merging neutron stars in a binary system; and long bursts of a few seconds or more from the collapse of a massive star.…
  
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• New interactive map lets you drop asteroids on Time Square, London or any place in the world

  07-12-2022 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  You can choose wherethe asteroid will make landfall, along with its size and speed of impact. Called Asteroid Launcher, it also reveals how many people are killed when it hits.
  
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• Earth hit by 'gamma-ray burst' blast of radiation from neutron stars collision that created kilanova

  07-12-2022 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists traced a high-energy blast of radiation - called a gamma-ray burst - to the merger of two neutron stars and an explosion called a kilanova that resulted from the cosmic collision.
  
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• Humans are poor at predicting when dogs are about to get aggressive, study finds 

  07-12-2022 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology fin Germany found that people could only correctly predict aggression between dogs just over 20 per cent of the time.
  
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• Dinosaurs 'were not in decline when an asteroid hit 66 million years ago'

  07-12-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research by an international team of palaeontologists and ecologists from Spain and the UK provides the strongest evidence yet that dinosaurs were thriving when an asteroid hit Earth.
  
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• Energy being expensive and trickier to source is good news ... for renewables

  07-12-2022 18:15 via go.theregister.com
  Green tech will be largest power source by 2025, says IEA, but even accelerated rollouts might not stave off disaster The International Energy Agency is revising its predictions for renewable energy growth upward by 30 percent, and reckons renewables like wind and solar will overtake coal to become the largest energy source on the planet by 2025.…
  
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• Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars

  07-12-2022 18:02
  On cybercrime forums, user complaints about being duped may accidentally expose their real identities.
  
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• Oldest DNA reveals two-million-year-old lost world

  07-12-2022 18:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Genetic material extracted from soil has revealed the ancient plants and animals of North Greenland.
  
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• Robins can get more physically aggressive around traffic, study finds

  07-12-2022 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In experiments, researchers played traffic noise to both rural and urban robins using speakers fixed to trees in and around Istanbul, Turkey.
  
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• Heartbreaking moment orphaned baby wombat sucks its thumb in the arms of a Sanctuary staff member

  07-12-2022 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The orphaned wombat was captured laying in the arms of a Two Songs Sanctuary staff member, sucking its thumb and slowing nodding off. The animal was brought in after its mother was killed.
  
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• San Francisco Just Reversed Its Killer Robot Plan

  07-12-2022 17:30
  The city’s board of supervisors has rolled back a controversial decision to let robots use lethal force without human intervention. But the fight is far from over.
  
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• San Francisco Has Reversed Its Killer Robot Plan

  07-12-2022 17:30
  The city rolled back a controversial decision to let robots use lethal force without human intervention. But the fight is far from over.
  
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• Amount of alcohol you get through is 'significantly' influenced by your genes, study finds

  07-12-2022 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For those from a European background, the 10 per cent of people with the highest genetic score linked to drinking put away more than seven drinks a week on average.
  
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• World's oldest DNA is discovered in Greenland dating back two MILLION years

  07-12-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have found two-million-year-old DNA for the first time, breaking the previous record by one million years.
  
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• A Row Erupts Over Texas’ Bold Bitcoin Battery Plan

  07-12-2022 16:04
  Bitcoin miners say they can help stabilize a shaky power grid and prevent blackouts. Experts say it will make the problem worse.
  
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• China Is The Pied Piper Of Global Technocracy

  07-12-2022 16:02 via technocracy.news
  China’s zero-Covid lockdowns may be little more than theatrics to further Technocracy in the world. The author concludes, “A system neither communist nor capitalist, but absorbing the worst vices of whilst purging the virtues. Zero Covid is just China working as the other side of the scissors.” When human lives mean nothing, sacrificing them for gaining an objective is par for the course. ⁃ TN EditorMost of the Western world is no longer in lockdown, some vaccine mandates
  
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• Apple Music feature lets you sing along to songs with backing vocals and real-time lyrics

  07-12-2022 15:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple Music Sing will allow subscribers to adjust the volume of a track's original vocalist, so they can sing along with just the music. It is due to be rolled out on compatible Apple devices later this month.
  
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• Despite War, Ukraine Is Diving Headlong Into Technocracy

  07-12-2022 15:30 via technocracy.news
  Digital solutions, digital government, digital ID, CBDCs, privatized, automated and outsourced. The Russia/Ukraine war is turning out to be little more than a distraction while Technocrats take over everything in sight. The cost is not merely money, but human lives. A scorched-earth Ukraine is the perfect setting for a test of the Great Reset and Build Back Better – and they are already laying the groundwork for it. ⁃ TN Editor“The Government needs to become as flexible and mob
  
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• Britain And The Revenge Of The Technocrats

  07-12-2022 15:15 via technocracy.news
  Britain has jumped from the frying pan into the fire by taking on Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. A former Goldman Sachs banker, Rishi is the consummate picture of a Technocrat. The author notes that the Technocrat track record is not as rosy as they would have you think: “So their record is not at all one of competence. It’s one of repeated near-disaster.” ⁃ TN Editor
  The point about these people is they’ve learned nothing. There’s no practical way of going ba
  
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• Tim Cook confirms Apple will use chips made in AMERICA in 2024 thanks to new Arizona factory

  07-12-2022 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple will start to use chips from a factory that's under construction in Arizona in the coming years - as it diversifies where it gets this crucial component that's primarily produced in Asia.
  
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• Amazon is back online following a one-hour outage that left thousands of Britons unable to checkout

  07-12-2022 14:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is back online following a one-hour outage that left thousands unable to checkout.
  
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• Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket set to launch from Spaceport Cornwall on December 14 

  07-12-2022 14:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Orbit's 70-foot-long LauncherOne rocket is set to finally blast off from Spaceport Cornwall near Newquay after 10pm GMT Wednesday, December 14.
  
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• Amazon is DOWN: Website crashes leaving thousands of Britons unable to checkout 

  07-12-2022 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 12:20 GMT and are affecting customers accross the UK.
  
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• How to get your own avatar on WhatsApp

  07-12-2022 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users worldwide can create a digital version of themselves from billions of combinations of 'diverse hair styles, facial features and outfits' on the US messaging service.
  
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• Nintendo lands Call of Duty in 10-year Microsoft deal

  07-12-2022 13:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Microsoft says it has offered the same deal to Sony, with Call of Duty also continuing to appear on PCs.
  
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• Electronic Second Skins Are the Wearables of the Future

  07-12-2022 13:00
  Flexible e-skins could be used to measure wearers’ blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen levels in real time, assisting with diagnoses and health care.
  
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• A Recession Looms Over the Posh World of Influencers

  07-12-2022 13:00
  With energy prices soaring and inflation taking off, the business of flaunting luxury might stop booming.
  
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• WhatsApp launches avatars with billions of combinations of hair styles, facial features and outfits

  07-12-2022 12:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users worldwide can create a digital version of themselves from billions of combinations of 'diverse hair styles, facial features and outfits' on the US messaging service.
  
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• Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket will launch from Spaceport Cornwall on December 14 

  07-12-2022 11:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Orbit's 70-foot-long LauncherOne rocket will finally blast off from Spaceport Cornwall near Newquay after 10pm GMT Wednesday, December 14.
  
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• When should I see a doctor if I think my child has Strep A?

  07-12-2022 10:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  VIDEO: Here, we team up with Dr Nicole Robb for a video Q&A to answer all your questions about the illness.
  
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• POTATOES could hold the cure for cancer

  07-12-2022 09:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Polish researchers thinkbioactive compounds in vegetables can also help patients dodge the brutal side effects of existing treatments.
  
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• COP15: UN calls for biodiversity 'peace pact with nature'

  07-12-2022 05:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Countries are meeting in Montreal for a once-a-decade opportunity to put nature on the path to recovery.
  
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• San Francisco makes U-turn on 'killer robots' plan

  07-12-2022 04:14 via bbc.co.uk
  San Francisco reverses its decision to allow police to use robots equipped with lethal weapons.
  
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• Neuralink reportedly under investigation by Uncle Sam for 'animal welfare violations'

  07-12-2022 01:45 via go.theregister.com
  Rushed 'hack job' surgeries cause monkeys, pigs to needless die, staffers claim Neuralink is reportedly being investigated by the US government for possibly mistreating animals in lab experiments as the company rushes to build an implantable brain chip.…
  
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• ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it

  07-12-2022 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Open AI's ChatGPT generates convincing human-like answers in response to users' prompts.
  
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• Armoured dinosaurs used their sledgehammer-like tails to fight each other, study finds 

  07-12-2022 01:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum have discovered that thearmoured dinosaur 'Zuul crurivastator' would use its tail to fight others of its species, rather than just for self-defence.
  
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• The moon as it looked 50 years ago in newly-remastered images

  07-12-2022 01:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The images by Cheshire-based author Andy Saunders capture in amazing detail what Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt saw during their mission in 1972.
  
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• Tech layoffs at Meta, Twitter, Amazon: The good people helping Indians find jobs

  07-12-2022 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Tech workers are rallying together to help peers who face having to leave the US after being laid off.
  
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