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• The power of chores! GARDENING and cooking lower kids' blood sugar and cholesterol

  10-01-2023 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pilot gardening and nutrition program devised by University of Texas researchers successfully helped children in elementary schools reduce their blood sugar and 'bad' cholesterol.
  
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• Now you can SEXT with an AI-powered avatar for $4.99 a month

  10-01-2023 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Replika AI is making waves on the internet due to scandalous avatars role-playing, flirting and sharing 'NSFW pictures' with users who are sharing the sexual encounters on Reddit.
  
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• Digital 'companions' role-play, flirt and share 'NSFW' photos with users who pay $4.99 a month

  10-01-2023 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Replika AI is making waves on the internet due to scandalous avatars role-playing, flirting and sharing 'NSFW pictures' with users who are sharing the sexual encounters on Reddit.
  
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• UK Treasury considers plan for digital pound

  10-01-2023 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The economic secretary to the Treasury says the UK is committed to becoming a world crypto hub.
  
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• Meta denies African content-moderator firm exit poses risk

  10-01-2023 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Sama, which runs Facebook's moderation hub for east Africa, is to stop providing content-review services.
  
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• Explained: What is causing the storms in California?

  10-01-2023 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For more than a week now, the state has been facing the brunt of two overlapping weather systems - atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones, causing an extreme weather phenomena.
  
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• Richard Branson's history of failed rocket launches revealed

  10-01-2023 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysis by MailOnline reveals that the British billionaire, 72, trails rivals Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos when it comes to launch success rate percentage.
  
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• Twitter tops the' US News' chart on Apple's App Store for the SECOND time since Elon Musk's takeover

  10-01-2023 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter is ranked as the top source for US news in Apple's App Store. This is the second time the platform has taken the top spot since Elon Musk took over -the previous time was in November.
  
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• World's most powerful wind turbine is the size of SEVEN football fields

  10-01-2023 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The H260 offshore turbine from CSSC Haizhuang has a rotor with a diameter of 853 feet (260 metres) and a swept area of 570,500 square feet (53,000 square metres).
  
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• London's roads are the most congested in the WORLD

  10-01-2023 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London's roads suffer more congestion than anywhere else in the world, with its drivers stationary for an average of 156 hours in 2022.
  
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• Biodiversity: Rising tide of extinctions on Madagascar

  10-01-2023 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The island will take millions of years to recover from a wave of extinctions, scientists say.
  
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• UK rocket failure is a setback, not roadblock

  10-01-2023 16:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Plans for the UK to become a satellite-launching state are already well advanced.
  
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• Is wild swimming really all it's cracked up to be?

  10-01-2023 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hannah Murray, 38, an NHS professional from Southsea, Hampshire, first started sea swimming in 2021 for personal health benefits and to lower her stress levels.
  
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• Technocrats-In-Action: Nation-Killing COVID Lockdowns Were Spawned During Trump Admin

  10-01-2023 16:17 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats are apolitical. You cannot cast the COVID pandemic era in terms of political persuasion, left or right.  The fact is, COVID lockdown policy originated during the Trump Administration with Trump’s former FDA Director (2017-2019), Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who just happened to also be a director of Pfizer.
  In another investigative story, it was revealed that fake accounts on Twitter were created to pose as doctors and “they” pushed masking and COVID lockdowns throughou
  
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• Scientists reveal six key relationship 'red flags'- including being gross, clingy or promiscuous

  10-01-2023 16:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Charles University have revealed the six biggest 'red flags' that people see as relationship dealbreakers. These include being clingy, promiscuous and 'gross'.
  
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• The weirdest CES gadgets coming to a store near YOU

  10-01-2023 16:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  VIDEO: The more advanced technology becomes the weirder it gets. You can now print on your eyebrows with a simple applicators and receive a text message from your dog
  
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• Criminal Minds See The Internet of Things Is The Next Big Hacking Prize

  10-01-2023 15:05 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats are building out the Internet of Things using 5G wireless communications to connect everything that can be connected. However, the IoT is infinitely hackable because of so many unsecured points of entry. This hackable playground is also extending to the Internet of Everything and the Internet of Bodies. Imagine someone gaining access to a patient’s pacemaker and turning it off. ⁃ TN EditorJohn Hultquist, vice president of intelligence analysis at Google-owned cybersecurit
  
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• Hackers Drool As California Rolls Out Trackable Digital License Plates

  10-01-2023 14:50 via technocracy.news
  California digital plates are 100% trackable via GPS and 2-way communication. Steal a car? The plate will display STOLEN and every inch of your travels will be recorded. Now researchers discover that the whole system is hackable meaning that a breach could turn California roadways into utter chaos. ⁃ TN EditorSecurity researchers were able to gain “super administrative access” to Reviver, the sole provider of California’s digital license plates, and track the GPS location
  
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• 'Once-in-a-generation' green comet will make its closest approach to the sun this weekend

  10-01-2023 13:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The coloured comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered in March last year while inside Jupiter 's orbit. It will approach the Sun on Thursday and the Earth at the beginning of February.
  
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• Iran protests: Facebook wrong to remove 'death to Khamenei' posts, board finds

  10-01-2023 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Use of the slogan "death to Khamenei" in Persian did not break guidelines, a review finds.
  
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• How Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit flop is the latest UK space disaster after Beagle 2 Mars lander

  10-01-2023 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Orbit's satellite launch ended in failure for Richard Branson yesterday and in it's it wake MailOnline has taken a look back at Britain's last space disaster Beagle 2 Mars lander (pictured).
  
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• Last year was Earth's fifth hottest on record, data shows 

  10-01-2023 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New data from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reveals 2022 was the fifth-warmest year globally and second-warmest year for Europe.
  
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• Sex's sore points... Most common injuries beneath the sheets REVEALED

  10-01-2023 13:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From carpet burns to bruises, a survey has now revealed the most common sex injuries. Women are more injury-prone - with 47 per cent suffering a bedroom mishap of some kind.
  
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• Climate change: Europe and polar regions bear brunt of warming in 2022

  10-01-2023 13:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Last year was the world's fifth warmest year with Europe enduring its hottest summer on record
  
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• Workers Shuffling Jobs Want a Skills-First Labor Market

  10-01-2023 13:00
  Where you went to school won’t matter as much as what you can actually do now.
  
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• These Electric Vehicles Are a Bolt From the Blue

  10-01-2023 13:00
  EVs went mainstream last year—so 2023 is all about bold new forms and weird, wonderful applications of battery tech. Here are a few flashes of inspiration.
  
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• What happens next for Virgin Orbit?

  10-01-2023 12:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Richard Branson's cash-strapped company is now fighting for its survival as it hurriedly probes what went wrong and why the first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil ended in failure.
  
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• UK space launch: Historic Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure

  10-01-2023 09:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has a technical problem on its climb to space.
  
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• Virgin Orbit doesn't

  10-01-2023 06:45 via go.theregister.com
  First sat launch from UK soil experienced 'anomaly' after entering space but did not deploy payloads Virgin Orbit, the Beardy Branson-backed outfit that slings satellites into space from a 747, has failed in its first attempt to launch from the UK.…
  
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• Virgin Orbit doesn’t

  10-01-2023 06:45 via go.theregister.com
  First sat launch from UK soil experienced ‘anomaly’ after entering space but did not deploy payloads Virgin Orbit, the Beardy-Branson-backed outfit that slings satellites into space from a 747, has failed in its first attempt to launch from the UK.…
  
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• Almost 90% of games sold in UK in 2022 were digital - ERA

  10-01-2023 04:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Physical game sales fell 4.5% last year, the digital entertainment and retail association says.
  
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• Why it is becoming easier to sue Big Tech in the UK

  10-01-2023 04:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The amount of damages being sought in class actions leapt from £4bn in 2021 to £26bn in 2022.
  
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• Historic first orbital launch from British soil fails

  10-01-2023 01:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain's historic first ever orbital space launch on UK soil ran into difficulties on Monday night, after Virgin Orbit announced that an 'anomaly' had prevented its LauncherOne rocket from reaching orbit.
  
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• Could floating solar farms survive out at sea?

  10-01-2023 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Engineers are working on building solar farms robust enough to survive in the open ocean.
  
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• Study of thousands of Europe's 'bog bodies' unearths individuals who met a 'gruesome' end

  10-01-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysis by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands reveals the majority of 'bog bodies'met a 'gruesome' end before being intentionally discarded into the wet, spongy bogland.
  
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• Is this the eco future of Britain's homes? Flush using rain and 'blue' roofs to trap water

  10-01-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The changes could be introduced as early as next year in a major drive to save water and prevent flooding.
  
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• Remember the Ozone hole? The satellite that spotted it just caused a space junk scare

  10-01-2023 00:30 via go.theregister.com
  South Korean authorities warned locals to avoid falling space junk, which probably splashed down harmlessly A defunct weather-monitoring satellite came crashing back to Earth over the weekend, and reentered the atmosphere over the Bering Sea, the US Department of Defense confirmed on Monday.…
  
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