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• Pair of 165-year-old Levi jeans pulled from a Gold Rush-era shipwreck sell for $114,000 at auction

  09-12-2022 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The jeans are the oldest known miner's pants made by Levi Strauss. These were the highlight of items pulled from a California Gold Rush era ship that fetched nearly $1 million at auction.
  
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• 'Hollywood cat,' a California mountain lion that's killed two dogs, needs to be captured

  09-12-2022 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wildlife officials will capture and evaluate the health of a famous mountain lion, known as P-22 or the 'Hollywood Cat,' after several encounters with locals and deadly attacks on two dogs.
  
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• Can you spot all the 'Easter eggs' hiding inside NASA's Orion capsule?

  09-12-2022 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA snuck Easter eggs in Orion's cabin and will reveal the answers on Saturday. The agency has challenged the public to see if they can spot all the puzzles that have hidden meanings.
  
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• What is ChatGPT? Everything you need to know about Elon Musk's new AI chatbot

  09-12-2022 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  What exactly is ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence system created by a San Francisco-based company that lists Elon Musk as one of its founders?
  
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• MailOnline goes behind the scenes at Nothing's first EVER store in London

  09-12-2022 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Nothing released the first British smartphone for six years in the summer. Now, it's opening its first bricks-and-mortar shop - in London's trendy Soho district.
  
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• ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS

  09-12-2022 17:43
  The AI chatbot was trained on text created by humans. Of course its writing is superficially impressive and lacking in substance.
  
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• Moose seen in Washington's Mount Rainier National Park for first time EVER

  09-12-2022 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Park service rangers recorded the first ever moose sighting in Washington's Mount Rainier National Park on Thursday.
  
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• Scientists reveal how Rudolph's nose glowed, Scrooge travelled in time and Grinch's heart grew

  09-12-2022 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have revealed how Rudolph's nose glowed red, the Grinch's heart grew by three sizes and Scrooge travelled through time.
  
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• Terminator-style robot can survive being STABBED

  09-12-2022 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers at Cornell University in New York have created a robot capable of detecting when and where it was damaged and then healing itself on the spot.
  
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• Biodiversity: 'Magical marine species' pushed toward extinction

  09-12-2022 16:00 via bbc.co.uk
  A new extinction list reveals grave conservation concern for a 'sea cow' that inspired tales of mermaids.
  
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• Nokia bundles Christmas trees with its Circular subscription service

  09-12-2022 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nokia is trying to tempt people to its monthly subscription service 'Circular' this festive season - by giving a Christmas tree to new London subscribers.
  
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• Guilt-free green travel at last! New Airbus hydrogen powered fuel cell set for later this decade

  09-12-2022 15:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Airbus is developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine as a potential solution for its zero-emission aircraft. The technology is being tested on its A380 MSN001 aircraft.
  
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• NASA's Orion capsule will barrel into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at 25,000mph

  09-12-2022 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  So far the Orion capsule has had a successful journey to the moon and back during a 1.3 million mile voyage that has seen it fly the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans ever has.
  
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• Travis Barker has competition! Xiaomi trains its CyberOne humanoid robot to play the DRUMS 

  09-12-2022 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new video shows Xiaomi's $104,000 humanoid, CyberOne, drumming along to a song with expert precision.
  
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• US seeks to block Microsoft from £56bn gaming deal

  09-12-2022 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Microsoft said it would fight to buy Activision Blizzard, the studio behind games such as Call of Duty.
  
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• Do robot vacuums actually work? Proscenic 850t test

  09-12-2022 14:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: We test out the Proscenic 850T robot vacuum cleaner's claims ofstrong 3,000pA suction power, voice-command functionality through Alexa and top cleaning power on carpet and hard floors.
  
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• ‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe

  09-12-2022 13:00
  Physicists study starlight to find whether the fine structure constant, whose value makes our universe possible, really is the same everywhere.
  
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• Game Awards: Elden Ring and God of War: Ragnarok are big winners

  09-12-2022 10:22 via bbc.co.uk
  A star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles sees dark fantasy Elden Ring win the night's biggest prize.
  
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• First-ever orbital satellite launch from British soil will be delayed

  09-12-2022 07:30 via go.theregister.com
  It's not our fault, says Civil Aviation Authority Virgin Orbit's plan to launch a rocket into space from the UK has been delayed.…
  
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• Fired Twitter cleaning staff 'treated like garbage'

  09-12-2022 02:28 via bbc.co.uk
  One of them told the BBC a member of Elon Musk's team said their jobs would be replaced by robots.
  
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• A 6ft heart and eyes the size of tennis balls... Meet the largest creature ever to walk the earth

  09-12-2022 00:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Standing 26ft tall - almost twice the height of a London bus - and measuring 121ft from nose to tail, the Patagotitan mayorum weighed 65 tons, as much as nine African bull elephants.
  
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