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• Blazing meteorites from the outer solar system triggered life on Earth 4.6 billion years ago

  27-01-2023 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the first evidence to show meteorites traveled from the outer solar system and collided with Earth, triggering life has been revealed in a new study that found these space rocks sparked life.
  
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• Are you 'Spotify snooping'? Stealth feature allows users to spy

  27-01-2023 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Social media has erupted with people sharing what they have learned about others when 'Spotify snooping.' There is a feature that users are taking advantage of to learn about their crushes.
  
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• AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule

  27-01-2023 21:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  Work isn't original if it was taken from a plagiarism engine like ChatGPT Science and Springer Nature, two leading academic journal publishers, introduced new rules addressing the use of generative AI tools to write papers in their editorial policies on Thursday.…
  
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• Glass bottles preserve milk's flavour better, scientists say

  27-01-2023 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at North Carolina State University say glass bottles preserve milk's flavour and freshness better than trendy paperboard.
  
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• 'Menswear Guy' Marks a Shift in Twitter's Main Characters

  27-01-2023 17:41
  
  It used to be someone who stepped into the fray. Now, it can be anyone.
  
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• Brain implant thinner than a single human hair could allow you to use social media with your MIND

  27-01-2023 17:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of scientists at Precision Network have created a brain implant which helps people with paralysis use phones or tablets using only brain signals.
  
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• Stunning drone footage captures a huge pod of dolphins off the coast of Florida

  27-01-2023 16:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The drone footage shares a close up view of bottlenose dolphins frolicking through the clear waters off the coast of southeast Florida. And some of them were playing keep away with seagrass.
  
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• Top AI Conference Bans ChatGPT From Writing Academic Papers

  27-01-2023 16:43 via technocracy.news
  
  ChatGPT stands for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer”. It can perform natural language generation at such a high level of accuracy that it can pass the Turing Test, i.e., fooling humans that they are communicating with a computer. Even Technocrat AI leaders are recognizing the dangerous implications and are erecting stop signs. ⁃ TN EditorAI tools can be used to ‘edit’ and ‘polish’ authors’ work, say the conference organizers, but text &lsqu
  
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• Car-sharing app offers private vehicles for hire

  27-01-2023 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Nick Kwek test drives a car from a firm offering an alternative to traditional rentals.
  
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• The 10 Best Amazon Prime Films Right Now

  27-01-2023 16:00
  
  From One Night in Miami… to Licorice Pizza, these are the best films available on the streamer.
  
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• Microsoft Invests $10 Billion In ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI

  27-01-2023 16:00 via technocracy.news
  
  ChatGPT is turning the AI world on its head. Google is in a panic because it doesn’t own OpenAI, which threatens its monopoly on AI. Microsoft invested $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019 and it now looking to pour in another $10 billion – ten times the original investment. ⁃ TN EditorMicrosoft on Monday announced a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
  Microsoft declined to provide a specific dollar amount, but Semafor reported earl
  
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• 39 of the Best Films on Netflix This Week

  27-01-2023 16:00
  
  Stuck for a good film on Netflix? Here are our picks for the best Netflix movies to feast your eyes on, updated weekly.
  
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• First: Congressman Delivers Speech Written By ChatGPT AI

  27-01-2023 15:44 via technocracy.news
  ChatGPT seemingly wants to take over the world, but it is just a chatbot after all and not sentient. Still, it is a slippery Technocrat slope to use it to create or speak about legislation before Congress. This is Pandora’s box and suggests a dumbing down of real people who are hired/elected to to a particular job. ⁃ TN EditorWhen U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss decided to deliver a speech on a bill that would create a U.S.-Israel artificial intelligence center, he opted to let the AI do
  
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• Rotation of Earth's inner core could be lengthening days, study reveals

  27-01-2023 15:10 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 significantly in the last 14 years, altering the length of a day.
  
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• Blue Origin plans to fly an all-FEMALE crew into space next year - led by Jeff Bezos' girlfriend

  27-01-2023 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lauren Sanchez, the girlfriend of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, told the Wall Street Journal that she will lead the mission in early 2024.
  
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• Crispr Wants to Feed the World

  27-01-2023 13:00
  
  The power to fight human diseases put genome editing on the map. But similar technology could help crops withstand the stress of climate change.
  
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• Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People

  27-01-2023 13:00
  
  Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped.
  
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• New trend sees grandparents in the UK turning to gaming with the younger generation

  27-01-2023 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung UK surveyed 1,000 over-65s who are interested in gaming: 85% of people over 65 play video games at least once a week, and 36% of them play every day.
  
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• Dentist warns scrolling through cute pictures of dogs and cats could damage your teeth

  27-01-2023 10:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Do you ever find yourself scrolling through pictures of cats and dogs thinking, 'It is so cute I could eat it'? Well, it's called cute aggression and it might be bad for your teeth, according to one dentist.
  
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• Truck-size asteroid makes one of the tightest fly-bys of Earth ever recorded

  27-01-2023 08:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  What a tease A box-truck-sized asteroid has made one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded, brushing past our home world at a distance of a couple of thousand miles on Thursday. …
  
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• Asteroid 2023 BU: Space rock passes closer than some satellites

  27-01-2023 01:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About the size of a bus, the space rock whipped over the southern tip of South America.
  
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• Lockdowns linked to tenfold rise in child sex imagery

  27-01-2023 01:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A charity says its data highlights how predators took advantage of the worldwide Covid-19 situation.
  
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• Lockdowns linked to tenfold rise in child abuse imagery

  27-01-2023 01:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A charity says its data highlights how predators took advantage of the worldwide Covid-19 situation.
  
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• It's a Mars bear! Image resembling Paddington is seen on the surface of the Red Planet 

  27-01-2023 01:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As any schoolchild knows, Paddington comes from Peru. Or does he? This quirky picture from Mars seems to have captured the marmalade sandwich devotee smiling back at us from the Red Planet.
  
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• Loyalty cards could be used to spot cancer cases sooner, study suggests

  27-01-2023 01:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shop loyalty cards could be used to flag up cancer cases sooner based on purchases of over-the-counter medicines, a pioneering study suggests.
  
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• Hemp makes a comeback in the construction industry

  27-01-2023 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A revival of hemp cultivation in Portugal has spurred the use of hemp blocks in construction.
  
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• Warning over risky electric blankets sold online

  27-01-2023 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The consumer rights group Which? found products being sold online that could cause electric shocks.
  
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• Cannabis helps women have MULTIPLE orgasms per sexual encounter - including masturbation

  27-01-2023 00:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study suggests women should use cannabis before sexual encounters - the drug helps them have multiple orgasms. The findings could treat sexual dysfunctions.
  
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