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• Safety alert for patients who have had cataract surgery

  07-02-2023 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is thought around 20 trusts have suspended use of the EyeCee One lenses, after the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned of links to higher pressure in the eye.
  
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• Microsoft unveils new Bing with ChatGPT powers

  07-02-2023 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bing will now have "answer" and "chat" options in search using the latest in artificial intelligence.
  
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• Zoom cuts 15% of staff in post-pandemic 'reset'

  07-02-2023 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The video call firm that surged in popularity during the height of Covid is cutting 1,300 people.
  
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• MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it

  07-02-2023 20:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question Academic publisher the MIT Press has announced a new initiative to move from subscription-funded journals to open-access papers that are free of charge.…
  
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• Newly-discovered galaxy 'mirrors the early Milky Way'

  07-02-2023 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dubbed 'the Sparkler galaxy', it's swallowing up the globular clusters and satellite galaxies that surround it to gradually grow bigger and bigger.
  
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• Millions face threat of flooding from glacial lakes

  07-02-2023 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Just four countries account for half of the total population at risk of catastrophic flooding.
  
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• What technology is the private rescue firm using to search for missing Nicola Bulley?

  07-02-2023 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Private firm Specialist Group International (SGI) began aiding the search for Ms Bulley in the waterways of St Michael's on Wyre village in Lancashire on Monday.
  
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• New layer of Earth is discovered 100 miles below the surface

  07-02-2023 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered a previously unknown layer of Earth. The newly discovered region of molten rock sits 100 miles below the crust and covers at least 44 percent of the planet.
  
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• Worst 50 areas in the UK for broadband speed REVEALED - did your town make the list?

  07-02-2023 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Internet provider National Broadband has revealed the worst 50 areas for broadband speed in the country, with Narberth in Wales taking the crown.
  
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• It’s Official: No Global Warming For Eight Years

  07-02-2023 16:18 via technocracy.news
  
  Eight years ago, prominent atmospheric scientists and physicists predicted that global cooling would take place over the next few decades, perhaps even bringing a new mini-ice age. They were scoffed at and mocked. Now the record is official: no global warming is taking place, period. This will not deter the global warming cult, however, from crowing about global warming.
  Technocrats invented the global warming scam in order to flip the world into Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. They ar
  
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• Facebook's parent firm Meta can be sued by ex-moderator, judge rules

  07-02-2023 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Kenyan court has said that Facebook's parent company can be sued by a former content moderator.
  
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• Sri Lanka’s Collapse Over UN/WEF Ag Policies Should Be A Warning To The World

  07-02-2023 15:23 via technocracy.news
  
  Stupid is as stupid does. Elitists at the World Economic Forum and the United Nations are forcing agriculture policies that will literally destroy global food production. Sri Lanka was destroyed when its former President summarily banned fertilizer and drove the nation into starvation and rebellion. Does anyone take a lesson from Sri Lanka? Apparently not. ⁃ TN Editor
  While eating caviar and sipping on fine wine, wealthy elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos hobnobbed with an a
  
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• February's 'micro' Full Snow Moon lights up the night sky

  07-02-2023 15:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  They include spectacular photographs of our lunar satellite above Warwick, London and Lancashire in the UK, as well as the Philippines, Italy and Bordeaux in France.
  
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• ChatGPT Is Thoroughly ‘Woke’ But Google Will Compete To Be Even More Woke

  07-02-2023 14:58 via technocracy.news
  
  We are in the age of AI wars. The competition is not to see who can produce the most intelligent responses to pressing questions, but to drive the world to more extreme wokeness by skewing answers toward racism, love of leftist causes and hatred of conservative ones. Artificial Intelligence is just that… artificial, and it is written and driven by Technocrat’s intent on crushing critical thinking. ⁃ TN EditorAt the end of November, AI research company OpenAI launched ChatGPT,
  
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• How Turkey's deadly quake moved the country by 10 FEET

  07-02-2023 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Data shows that the two earthquakes that struck in Turkey on Monday shifted the Anatolian Plate tectonic plate it sits on by up to 10 feet (three metres)
  
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• What is Bard? Google's ChatGPT competitor explained

  07-02-2023 12:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google officially announced its ChatGPT competitor called Bard. This conversational AI service will first be available to testers, but will be accessible to the public in a few weeks.
  
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• Astronomers find 'rare' Earth-like exoplanet that could host life just 31 light-years away from us

  07-02-2023 11:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Named 'Wolf 1069 b', the exoplanet discovered at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has a similar mass to Earth and orbits a star at a distance that would allow for the presence of liquid water.
  
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• Pye radio and TV sets go on display in Cambridge

  07-02-2023 10:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The film was founded in a garden shed and quickly became one of the biggest employers in Cambridge.
  
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• Parents can now have eyes in back of their watches as new app monitors where their children are

  07-02-2023 01:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has added a new Find My Kids feature on the Apple Watch so that parents can track their children. It is the first of its kind to be approved for use outside of Apple's ecosystem.
  
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• Green alternatives to burial and cremation could be on the way 

  07-02-2023 01:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Church of England is to investigate whether bereaved families should be able to request 'human composting' or 'water cremation' services.
  
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• A wave of tool theft spurs hi-tech security systems

  07-02-2023 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Desperate to protect their tools from being stolen, tradespeople are considering sophisticated security systems.
  
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• Half a million British homes have worse wifi reception than on Everest, analysis shows 

  07-02-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ten of the worst equipped villages in the UK receive less than 10mbps. Even the Moon is set to achieve broadband speeds of 100mbps by 2024.
  
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