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• Mysterious shock wave CRACKS Earth's magnetosphere

  19-12-2022 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mysterious shock wave hit Earth last night and cracked the region that protects us from radiation. While scientists do not know its origin, they believe it came from a solar flare from the sun.
  
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• US Air Force signs $344m deal for hypersonic Mayhem aircraft

  19-12-2022 21:30 via go.theregister.com
  Part missile, part spy plane, all Mach 5+ and coming in 2028, maybe The US Air Force has awarded $334 million to defense contractor Leidos to develop the next phase in its hypersonic arsenal: An unmanned craft meant for super-speed spying dubbed "Mayhem." …
  
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• Elon Musk's Twitter hasn't paid $1M to vendor and intends to stiff them on another $7M in payments

  19-12-2022 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter has failed to pay over $1 million to a software vendor and the company intends on stiffing the firm on another $7 million worth of payments, a new lawsuit alleges.
  
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• Robodog uses magnetic 'paws' to CLIMB up walls and across ceilings

  19-12-2022 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It may spark fears of killer robots, but a robodog that can climb walls is designed to help repair bridges, industrial tanks and buildings. It uses magnets to stick to iron and steel surfaces.
  
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• Will Elon Musk's ultimatum cost him Twitter?

  19-12-2022 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman looks at the future of Musk and Twitter.
  
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• COP15: Five key takeaways from the UN biodiversity summit

  19-12-2022 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Memorable moments from the Montreal meeting that brought a historic deal.
  
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• Fortnite settles child privacy and trickery claims

  19-12-2022 17:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Epic Games pays $520m over claims it violated child privacy laws and tricked players into making purchases.
  
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• Colorado to phase out gas-powered cars by 2050 in EV push - but the state will NOT ban them

  19-12-2022 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colorado plans to phase out gas-powered cars by 2050 by providing more financial incentives to residents to buy electric vehicles and promoting low-come alternatives like e-bikes.
  
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• Giant extinct marine reptile graveyard may have been a birthing ground 230 million years ago

  19-12-2022 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution in the USA believe that an ichthyosaur fossil bed was actually used as a birthing ground where the marine reptile could give birth away from danger.
  
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• Male wasps use sharp spines on their GENITALS to attack and sting tree frogs

  19-12-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Male wasps use sharp spines on their genitals to attack and sting tree frogs, a new study from Kobe University has revealed. It was previously though male wasps' 'pseudo-sting' was harmless.
  
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• Pornhub is BANNED on YouTube over 'multiple violations' of its community guidelines

  19-12-2022 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouTube is the last social media platform to bank Pornhub. The Google-owned company said Pornhub was linking to sites with content that violate its community guidelines.
  
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• Earth hit by 'gamma-ray burst' blast of radiation from neutron stars collision that created kilonova

  19-12-2022 16:42 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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• COP15: Nations reach 'historic' deal to protect nature

  19-12-2022 16:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The plan will put 30% of the planet under protection by the end of the decade.
  
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• Everrati GT40 2023 First Drive: Fast, Furious

  19-12-2022 15:30
  This UK-based EV conversion company took the Holy Grail of American ICE sports cars, and made it suitable for modern-day racers—so we tried the prototype.
  
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• Exoplanet is 'spiraling to its doom' around its aging star, scientists say

  19-12-2022 15:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kepler-1658 is around 5 million miles away from its star, but it's spiraling closer and closer, eventually leading to 'collision and ultimate obliteration', Harvard experts say.
  
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• Poll shows 57.5% of people DO want Elon Musk to step down as head of Twitter

  19-12-2022 14:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk might be on the way out as head of Twitter after nearly 60 per cent of his followers voted for him to be sacked. More than 17million people cast their vote in a poll asking if he should quit his job.
  
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• Dolphins discovered with signs of Alzheimer's disease in their brains

  19-12-2022 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Glasgow found evidence of dementia in the brain's of one bottlenose dolphin, one Atlantic white-sided dolphin and two long-finned pilot whales.
  
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• Disabled 'astronauts-in-training' complete a zero-gravity flight 25,000ft above Earth

  19-12-2022 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fourteen crew members, who have mobility, vision and hearing difficulties, completed a zero-gravity flight 25,000ft above Earth to understand how to make space travel more accessible.
  
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• The Internet Is at Risk of Driving Women Away

  19-12-2022 13:00
  If harassment isn’t tackled soon, many women will go permanently offline to avoid online abuse.
  
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• The Chilling White Lotus Scene That Epitomized 2022

  19-12-2022 13:00
  The moment in season 2 captured exactly what it was like to be alive in another wearying year.
  
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• Embrace Diversity or Get Left Behind

  19-12-2022 13:00
  VCs will need to open their minds as well as their pocketbooks.
  
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• Earth could face a mass EXTINCTION by 2100

  19-12-2022 11:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Earth could lose 10 per cent of all plant and animal species by 2050, rising to 27 per cent by 2100, say scientists at the European Commission and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
  
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• Cheerful music is best at getting infants to nod off, study suggests 

  19-12-2022 09:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fast, happy music gets infants to nod off more effectively than slower nursery rhymes such as Little Bo Peep, a study suggests.
  
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