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• Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

  10-02-2023 23:25 via go.theregister.com
  
  We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead Amazon's plan to launch a series of satellites to offer broadband internet service can move ahead now that the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has endorsed the web giant's plan to keep space tidy.…
  
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• Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport

  10-02-2023 21:18 via go.theregister.com
  
  Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts Neuralink, the Musk-founded brain implant company that's no stranger to controversy, is in hot water again, this time over allegations it may have illegally transported implants removed from deceased animals and infected with dangerous pathogens. …
  
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• Demand for secondhand smartphones hits all-time high amid soaring inflation

  10-02-2023 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Consumers are forgoing new smartphones for second-hand devices due to inflation and 'boring' new features. Sales of used devices increased by 11.5 percent in 2022.
  
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• US Pentagon is developing a new 'weapon of mass destruction' that includes THOUSANDS of drones

  10-02-2023 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US Pentagon is planning a new 'weapon of mass destruction' dubbed AMASS, with thousands of drones that strike by air, land and water. But what if humans lost control of all these unmanned swarms?
  
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• Turkey earthquake fault lines mapped from space

  10-02-2023 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The EU's Sentinel satellite system traces how the ground ruptured during Monday's big tremors.
  
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• It Begins: Bing Adds ChatGPT To Microsoft’s Signature Search Engine

  10-02-2023 18:33 via technocracy.news
  Microsoft is first-to-market by embedding ChatGPT into its search engine Bing and its browser, Edge. It has been upgraded to version 4 of OpenAI’s GPT software. Competitors are racing to catch up. Apple is holding back, which is its traditional practice, but when it announces, its offering may well leapfrog everything else. ⁃ TN EditorAs exciting as some tech innovations may initially sound, their real-world impact is often hard to really notice. But when the developments are in some
  
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• Fish can recognise themselves in photos by identifying their own FACE, study claims

  10-02-2023 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan have discovered that the 'cleaner' wrasse fish is able to recognise itself in a mirror through its face alone, just like humans.
  
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• Twitter could rake in £15 million a year from 10 'toxic' accounts reinstated by Elon Musk

  10-02-2023 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report by the British Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found Twitter is set to generate millions of pounds in advertising revenue from just ten high-profile reinstated accounts.
  
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• Incels are becoming 'more extreme' online, study finds 

  10-02-2023 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Exeter analysed millions of posts across the network of forums known as the 'incelosphere' over the past six years.racist language'.
  
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• Big Tech Jobs Were Once a Golden Ticket. Not Anymore

  10-02-2023 16:57
  
  With mass layoffs and pulled job offers, early-career workers no longer see tech giants as a safe bet.
  
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• Professor: Militant Liberals Are Politicizing Artificial Intelligence

  10-02-2023 16:54 via technocracy.news
  
  Although originally posted in December 2020, this article written by a professor emeritus of computer science and engineering is critical to understand the threat posed by Open AI’s “woke” ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. If they are woke or biased, it is because they were written to be that way.
  One caveat that I must throw in is that the learning process of AI consumes literally everything on the Internet, which contains a high percentage of woke/biased information. Learning
  
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• Exoskeletons help take the strain of heavy lifting

  10-02-2023 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click’s Lara Lewington visits a distribution centre to see the wearable robotic suits in action.
  
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• UK science chief says new department will improve lives

  10-02-2023 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's new cabinet minister for science says that she will have a "relentless focus" on using research to make people's lives better.
  
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• Discovery of 2.6 million-year-old stone tools suggests humans were not the first to use them

  10-02-2023 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the City University of New York believe that an early evolutionary relative called Paranthropus used the newly-discovered tools to butcher meat 300,000 years before humans.
  
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• ADHD and the trend to self-diagnose by TikTok

  10-02-2023 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How the hashtag #ADHD has helped and hindered people.
  
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• Warning: WHO Names Transhumanist Dr. Jeremy Farrar As Chief Scientist For Global Health

  10-02-2023 14:31 via technocracy.news
  
  You are about to understand why I wrote The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, i.e., they are both evil to the bone. The joint coup involves the entire takeover of global health in order to establish a global eugenics program to create Humanity 2.0. It is insane, but it is very real and speeding like a bullet train.
  Farrar will drive the world into Transhumanism and unbridled eugenics, with his unprecedented power at the World Health Organization. ⁃ TN EditorDecember 13, 2022, th
  
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• AI suggests beer based on taster facial expressions

  10-02-2023 14:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aromyx analyses how a person responds to three sample drinks before tailoring its recommendations.
  
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• Ancient stone tools found in Kenya made by early humans

  10-02-2023 13:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Other branches of early humans, not just ancestors of Homo Sapiens, used them to cut and crush food.
  
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• The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret

  10-02-2023 13:00
  
  Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.
  
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• Schizophrenia Drugs Are Finally Getting an Overhaul

  10-02-2023 13:00
  
  Current antipsychotics are plagued by patchy efficacy and unwanted side effects—but a new treatment could change all that.
  
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• Covid Can Boost Your Response to Flu Vaccines—if You’re a Man

  10-02-2023 13:00
  
  Scientists say a mild Covid infection increased immune benefits from a later flu vaccine, but with a biological twist.
  
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• Tech layoffs: Yahoo to slash 20% of its workforce

  10-02-2023 11:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yahoo adds to the growing list of tech companies cutting jobs as consumer and corporate spending shrink.
  
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• Critically endangered dancing lemur is bred for the first time in Europe at British zoo

  10-02-2023 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first ever birth of a Coquerel's sifaka in Europe has taken place at Chester Zoo. The critically endangered species has been nicknamed the 'dancing lemur' due to its sideways gallop.
  
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• Hogwarts Legacy game comes out as online debate continues

  10-02-2023 04:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There have been calls for a boycott, but the big-budget game is expected to be a big seller.
  
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• Dancing lemur: Chester Zoo celebrates Coquerel's sifaka birth

  10-02-2023 02:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The arrival of a Coquerel's sifaka brings the number in European zoos to seven, experts say.
  
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• Can we make the internet less power-thirsty?

  10-02-2023 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New technology promises to ease the strain caused by energy-guzzling data centres.
  
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• Map shows more than 14 million Americans live within 5 miles of cancer gas-emitting plants

  10-02-2023 00:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These facilities are commercialized sterilization facilities that look like warehouses or office buildings. More than 10,000 schools and childcare centers within range.
  
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