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• Stunning image gives sneak peek at green comet passing Earth next week

  23-01-2023 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A green comet is making a return trip toward Earth and while it will not make its closest pass until next week, an astrophotographer was able to get a sneak peek of the stunning ice ball.
  
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• NASA's James Webb spots 'building blocks of life' frozen in a molecular cloud

  23-01-2023 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Webb snapped a stunning image of the coldest ice ever measure in space, which is also found to feature ethane, sulfur, nitrogen and ethanol - the 'building blocks of life.'
  
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• BT customer contracts face probe by regulator

  23-01-2023 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ofcom says it is looking into whether two BT companies, EE and Plusnet, have breached rules.
  
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• Asteroid the size of Sydney Harbour Bridge is 'hard to destroy', study finds 

  23-01-2023 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Itokawa, around 1.2 million miles from Earth, is a 'rubble pile' asteroid - so a spacecraft would pass through it, report experts at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
  
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• Bee-harming pesticide use given emergency authorisation

  23-01-2023 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Permission to treat sugar beet seeds with a pesticide that can harm bees is given by the government.
  
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• ChatGPT: Microsoft to invest billions in chatbot maker OpenAI

  23-01-2023 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It announces a "multi-year, multibillion dollar investment" with OpenAI to accelerate breakthroughs.
  
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• Warning: ChatGPT Is Coming For White-Collar Work

  23-01-2023 18:18 via technocracy.news
  ChatGPT is a generative AI program; that is, it is unsupervised in the creation of text, images, video, audio, etc. Ask a general question and get a specific answer. ChatGPT is only the leading edge of this technology, but it promises to quickly displace a massive number of white-collar jobs. ⁃ TN EditorIn the next five years, it is likely that AI will begin to reduce employment for college-educated workers. As the technology continues to advance, it will be able to perform tasks that were
  
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• Were aliens behind mysterious radio signal sent from 9 billion light years away?

  23-01-2023 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cosmologists from the Indian Institute of Science and McGill University say the radio wave was emitted from a star-forming galaxy 8.8 billion years ago.
  
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• Britain's energy shortage explained

  23-01-2023 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts have blamed the energy shortage on cold weather ramping up demand, lower than usual wind power, and uncertainty over whether the UK will be able to import power from Europe.
  
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• Rotation of Earth's inner core could be reversing and lengthening days, study reveals

  23-01-2023 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Calculations made by a team from Peking University in China reveal that the Earth's inner core may have slowed down, or even reversed, in the last 14 years, altering the length of a day.
  
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• From curing sausages to brewing beer: Here's 10 potential uses of human waste

  23-01-2023 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline looks at 10 weird and disgusting future uses of human waste, from brickmaking, charging electronics and storing poo in banks for transplants.
  
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• How Technocrats Used The Pandemic To Crush Thousands Of Churches In America

  23-01-2023 15:48 via technocracy.news
  
  For the Technocrats who orchestrated the “pandemic”, there were three main goals: crush capitalism and free market economics; start the genetic editing of humanity; crush the evangelical/protestant church. Today, thousands of churches in America continue to shutter each year.
  Scientism, the de facto religion of Technocracy and Transhumanism, is a mortal enemy of Christianity and will continue to squeeze out competing religions that make any claim to truth outside of science alone. Fu
  
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• Spotify cuts jobs in latest round of tech layoffs

  23-01-2023 15:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The music-streaming company says it is shedding 6% of its workforce.
  
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• Merriam-Webster buys Wordle-style hit game Quordle

  23-01-2023 15:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster buys Quordle, a Wordle-style five-letter-word guessing game.
  
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• Carbon Credit Scam: Pay Indulgences For Sin Of Breathing

  23-01-2023 15:18 via technocracy.news
  Breathing in is free. Breathing out will cost you because you emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Humans are carbon-based entities that exist because of the carbon lifecycle of nature. Basically, the global Technocrat scammers want to penalize you for living. You can easily see the population reduction agenda at work. ⁃ TN EditorIn the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church convinced the commoners to buy indulgences to alleviate their sins. And they made a fortune in the process.
  Similarly,
  
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• Scientists reveal what was behind mysterious radio signal sent from 9 billion light years away

  23-01-2023 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cosmologists from the Indian Institute of Science and McGill University say the radio wave was emitted from a star-forming galaxy 8.8 billion years ago.
  
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• Chimpanzees also seek teenage kicks! Adolescent chimps take more risks than older apes, study finds 

  23-01-2023 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Michigan have revealed that adolescent chimpanzees also take more risks and are more likely to throw tantrums than older apes.
  
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• Thousands of Amazon shoppers are 'gobsmacked' by these £28 Anker earbuds now on sale

  23-01-2023 14:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SHOPPING: Over 18,000 Amazon shoppers have awarded a pair of wireless earbuds a five-star review, claiming they give high-end brands a run for their money. And they're under £28.
  
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• Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?

  23-01-2023 13:00
  
  In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed.
  
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• The Internet Is Breeding Hordes of Adult 'Bluey' Fans

  23-01-2023 13:00
  
  Sure, three-year-olds and critics love this animated series about a family of dogs. But its most vocal fans may be grownup commenters on TikTok.
  
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• Tesla’s Problems Go Way Beyond Elon Musk

  23-01-2023 13:00
  
  The EV giant is alienating its customers, bringing in less revenue, and falling behind legacy carmakers.
  
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• Hacktivism Is a Risky Career Path

  23-01-2023 13:00
  
  The IT Army of Ukraine saw a huge influx of first-time hackers. But what happens to them after the war?
  
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• What is freezing fog? Cold weather in the south of the UK is supercooling water droplets in the air

  23-01-2023 12:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Freezing fog sparked disruption across the south of Britain this morning, but what causes it, when is it most likely to appear and why is it so dangerous? MailOnline explains.
  
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• What is the Doomsday Clock? Everything you need to know about the Armageddon-predicting symbol

  23-01-2023 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tomorrow, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago, US, will make its Doomsday Clock announcement at 3pm GMT (10am EST).
  
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• Loch Ness Monster is NOT just a giant eel, mathematician claims 

  23-01-2023 11:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A data analyst has put one of the most popular theories about the Loch Ness monster to bed, after discovering that if it does exist, it is likely not a 20-foot-long eel.
  
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• Pigs do not try to show interesting things to humans like dogs do, study finds

  23-01-2023 11:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from Eötvös Loránd University found that pigs do not intentionally direct humans towards things, in what's known as 'referential communication'.
  
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• Egypt zoo overhaul plan raises animal welfare fears

  23-01-2023 03:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Activists say not enough has been made public about controversial plans for the outdated attraction.
  
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• Antidepressants can numb enjoyment as well as pain, scientists say 

  23-01-2023 02:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One class of antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), targets serotonin but have a side effect of 'blunting' patients' enjoyment.
  
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• Government to offer £600m for green steel switch

  23-01-2023 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's two biggest steelmakers are expected to get support to move away from old-fashioned coal.
  
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