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• In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated

  11-01-2023 23:37
  Data from Sweden and the US suggests cash incentives increase uptake without denting people’s trust in vaccines or future willingness to get them.
  
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• UK Twitter employees in legal threat over redundancies

  11-01-2023 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  A legal letter seen by BBC News calls workers' treatment "unlawful, unfair and completely unacceptable".
  
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• NASA's James Webb discovers its first PLANET just 41 light-years away - and it is similar to Earth

  11-01-2023 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA announced Wednesday that James Webb has discovered its first planet. Formally classified as LHS 475 b., the exoplanet is 99 percent of Earth's diameter.
  
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• Microsoft's AI can clone your voice after analyzing a 3-second audio clip

  11-01-2023 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft announced its VALL-E, an AI that analyzes your voice in a three-second audio clip and replicates it perfectly. It can also capture your emotional range and acoustic environment.
  
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• Do YOU spend too much time on your smartphone?

  11-01-2023 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sometimes it feels like our entire lives are tied to our phones - with everything from texts, emails, social media, calendars, music, and shopping lists stored on the devices.
  
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• Royal Mail tells people not to send post abroad due to 'cyber incident'

  11-01-2023 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The firm is telling customers to stop sending items abroad while it tries to resolve the issue.
  
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• How to spend less time on your phone in 2023, according to leading experts

  11-01-2023 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you're starting to feel like you're spending too much time on your phone, you probably are. Globally, 4.1 trillion hours were spent staring at screens last year - the equivalent of 470million years.
  
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• Stranded ISS astronauts are getting a new Soyuz to ride home

  11-01-2023 18:45 via go.theregister.com
  The coolant-deprived vessel that got them there will return to Earth alone Russian space agency Roscosmos has decided to send another Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station to rescue crew stranded by a coolant leak in their return ride. …
  
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• Lost grave of dog that played Greyfriars Bobby in 1960s Disney film is FOUND

  11-01-2023 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After being considered lost, the small coffin of the actor dog was found in the grounds of his former home in Dolphinton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  
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• UK investor reported losing £1m in FTX collapse

  11-01-2023 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Twelve others also reported losses in the failed exchange to a City of London Police scam hotline in November.
  
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• Future paleontologist, 9, finds Megalodon tooth at a Maryland beach on Christmas Day 

  11-01-2023 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Molly, 9, received a once-in-a-lifetime Christmas gift when she found a tooth that belonged to a Megalodon while hunting for fossils in the the Chesapeake Bay on Christmas Day.
  
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• NASA's TESS spacecraft spots a potentially habitable Earth-sized planet 100 light-years away

  11-01-2023 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world, which orbits a cool M dwarf star in the southern constellation Dorado, is 95 per cent Earth's size and likely rocky, the US space agency said.
  
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• Technocracy’s Agenda Is Evil And Must Be Rejected

  11-01-2023 17:01 via technocracy.news
  As more writers call out Technocracy’s agenda as twisted and evil, the world has a chance to reject it outright as Americans did during the 1940s. Those Americans recognized that Technocracy would destroy our economic and social systems. Today, however Technocracy is global and not limited to just North America. ⁃ TN EditorIn recent weeks I’ve been seeing an interesting narrative fallacy being sold to the general public when it comes to the designs of globalists. The mainstream
  
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• Biden Administration Seeks (Again) To Ban Gas Stoves

  11-01-2023 16:27 via technocracy.news
  The “green” agenda is patently insane to try to ban natural gas from cooing and heating. Yet, it keeps coming back like a bad penny. This madness is anti-human and anti-civilizational, and yet people are still not rejecting these Technocrat ideologues who are convinced that their pseudo-science is correct and that we should “follow the science”. Don’t follow! ⁃ TN EditorGas stoves, which are used in about 40% of American homes and are loved for their easy and
  
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• Scientist: Net Zero Will Lead To The End Of Modern Civilization

  11-01-2023 16:16 via technocracy.news
  Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, is a resource-based economic system designed to control all resources on earth by a few pseudo-scientists with overinflated egos. If humanity rejects this in the end, it will be remembered as the greatest self-destructive delusion of all time. ⁃ TN EditorA damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists.
  In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said i
  
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• Twitter takes inspiration from TikTok with 'For You' tab on the app

  11-01-2023 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From today, Twitter users on iOS will automatically land on a new tab on the homepage called 'For You'when they open the app.
  
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• Is YOUR street on the list? Report reveals the 15 roads with the worst TRAFFIC in the UK

  11-01-2023 14:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 15 most congested roads in the country have been revealed - and the top four are all in London. Outside the capital, the worst road for traffic is in Birmingham - the A45 eastbound.
  
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• Watch the moment Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket crashed back to Earth 

  11-01-2023 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage was filmed from Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, and matches both the launch trajectory and timing of Virgin Orbit's rocket, experts say.
  
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• Ocean temperatures hit a record high in 2022, data shows

  11-01-2023 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ocean temperatures in 2022 were 'the hottest in the historical record', breaking a record already set in 2021, a team of international experts report.
  
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• The Tiny Indonesian Village That Makes YouTube Stars

  11-01-2023 13:00
  A former retail worker taught his neighbors the art of content creation. Now, his hamlet is the unlikely heart of the country’s growing YouTube community.
  
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• Mass Climate Migration Is Coming

  11-01-2023 13:00
  With rising sea levels  and extreme weather events, the global north needs to prepare to welcome displaced people.
  
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• FTX Has Wrecked the Crypto Party in Paradise

  11-01-2023 13:00
  The digital currency exchange’s stupendous fallout has put local Web3 companies in the Bahamas on the back foot.
  
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• As Gig Economy Companies Flee Europe, Getir Is Taking Over

  11-01-2023 13:00
  Rapid grocery delivery apps are leaving the continent, putting the Turkish startup on top. But, its reign is anything but stable.
  
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• Amazon warns users are putting their Ring doorbells in the wrong place - here's where it SHOULD go

  11-01-2023 12:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seattle-based tech giant Amazon has advised the best way to position your Ring doorbell - and it's much lower than you might think.
  
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• Virgin Orbit says it will 'be back in orbit soon' - one day after rocket launch ended in failure 

  11-01-2023 11:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Orbit tweeted optimistically that its team 'are committed to correcting [their] systems' and 'eager to launch again' after the failure of the 'Start Me Up' mission on Monday night.
  
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• What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they change the weather?

  11-01-2023 10:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Global temperatures and rain patterns are affected by climate phenomena known as El Niño/La Niña.
  
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• iPhone designer Sir Jony Ive pays tribute to Tom Karen

  11-01-2023 07:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir Jony Ive said the late designer "perfectly embodied the ideals and values of a generation".
  
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• Are YOU an emotional eater? It might be bad for your heart, warn scientists

  11-01-2023 01:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University Hospital of Nancy in France studied 1,109 people over 13 years, to assess whether they were emotional eaters.
  
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• Skeleton of the 'Irish Giant' is removed from London museum

  11-01-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The skeleton of 'Irish Giant' Charles Byrne will no longer feature at London's Hunterian Museum - but it still won't be laid to rest as per Byrne's wishes.
  
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