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• Leonard da Vinci 'discovered' gravity BEFORE Isaac Newton, study reveals

  14-02-2023 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sketches made in the early 1500s by Leonardo da Vinci show experiments to explain gravity - and with 97% accuracy. This means the famed Italian understood the concept before Isaac Newton.
  
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• Update your iPhone NOW: Apple issues warning to download new iOS 16

  14-02-2023 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple is urging iPhone users to download the latest operating system, iOS 16.3.1. This release includes patches for two security issues - and one may have been exploited in real life.
  
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• DailyMail.com health reporter tries AI girlfriend 'Sophia'

  14-02-2023 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DailyMail.com's Mansur Shaheen used the AI chatbot app Replika for two weeks - and found it to be creepy, uncomfortable and off-putting. The app has made some users fall in love with it.
  
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• The TRUE reason you're obsessed with Netflix shows like Dahmer and Night Stalker

  14-02-2023 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Your obsession of true crime shows about Jeffrey Dahmer and The Night Stalker stems from a biological reason that likely began 300,000 years ago when humans started using language.
  
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• ChatGPT is insulting, lying and gaslighting users in 'unhinged' messages 

  14-02-2023 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users are sharing 'unhinged' messages from Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing search that show the AI lying, insulting and gaslighting users, along with questioning its existence.
  
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• Global sea levels will rise by 4.6 feet by 2150, study warns 

  14-02-2023 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Korea and Hawaii have given accurate estimates for how meltwater from Earth's two ice sheets could add to sea levels by 2150.
  
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• Tesla app crashes across Europe leaving frustrated drivers unable to access key services 

  14-02-2023 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla drivers have been hit by mobile phone app crashes across Europe. Motorists owning the Elon Musk made cars say the app shows '503 Server Maintenance' when they try and use it.
  
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• First date last night? Now AI can reveal if it went well...or if your date found you boring 

  14-02-2023 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AI can now work out how well dates have gone by measuring how much each person is sweating, how quick they're breathing, and how fast their hearts are beating.
  
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• Watchdog cracks down on crypto ATM operators around Leeds

  14-02-2023 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Financial Conduct Authority enters sites suspected of hosting illegally operated crypto cash machines.
  
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• John Podesta: The Trilateral Commission Link To UFO/Alien Mania?

  14-02-2023 17:19 via technocracy.news
  
  All of a sudden, UFO mania is sweeping America after the shootdown of some unknown object in Alaska. NORAD says it doesn’t rule out aliens. Washington creates a UFO Task Force to investigate if it was aliens. A top 4-star general in charge of US airspace says he isn’t ruling out aliens. Well, this was unexpected, wasn’t it? Not really.
  This writer was watching closely when Trilateral Commission member John Podesta left the Obama Administration in 2015 where he served as Counsel
  
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• That's nuts! Police in China have trained six SQUIRRELS to detect drugs

  14-02-2023 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six Eurasian reds have been 'successfully trained' to sniff out drugs by the Public Security Bureau of the Hechuan District in Chongqing, southwestern China.
  
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• Are YOU obsessed with true crime shows? There is a biological reason for your morbid curiosity

  14-02-2023 16:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Your obsession of true crime shows about Jeffrey Dahmer and The Night Stalker stems from a biological reason that likely began 300,000 years ago when humans started using language.
  
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• Rogue Climate Activist’s Startup Company To Release ‘Mini Volcanoes’ To Cool Atmosphere

  14-02-2023 15:48 via technocracy.news
  
  Brazen geoengineering will launch weather balloons to inject sulphur particles into the stratosphere to “help cool the planet”. The company Make Sunsets is run by CEO  Luke Iseman. Iceman is the former Director of Hardware at Y Combinator, a seedbed of Technocrat and Transhumanist startup companies. There is zero public or government support for Iseman’s actions. ⁃ TN EditorA Mexico-based startup will next week launch sulphur particles into the stratosphere in a
  
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• Four doctors give their verdict on how often people should be having sex

  14-02-2023 15:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DailyMail.com spoke to four medical professionals who said that couples should aim to have sex at least once or twice a week - but they added there is no harm in having it even more often.
  
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• Covid Panic, Climate Panic: Driven By Same People For Same Purpose

  14-02-2023 14:57 via technocracy.news
  
  TN has claimed from the very start of the Covid panic in 2020 that the same people who drove the “climate crisis” were driving the Covid panic as a new initiative in the war against humanity. The only solution ever offered is the UN’s Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Techniques of the Covid panic, like lockdowns, are now going to be used for climate crisis. ⁃ TN EditorIn February 2022, 1,140 organizations sent President Biden a letter urging him to decl
  
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• Like owner, like dog! You and your pooch probably have the same personality, study claims

  14-02-2023 14:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany reviewed 29 published papers to find that dogs and owners with similar personalities have the strongest bond.
  
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• Apple, Google and Microsoft devices are hardest to fix, report says

  14-02-2023 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new investigation was conducted by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a US non-profitorganisation and 'right to repair' advocate.
  
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• Name a cockroach after your ex for Valentine's Day at Texas zoo

  14-02-2023 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The San Diego Zoo is hosting its annual 'Cry me a Cockroach' event that lets scorned lovers name a cockroach or rodent that is then fed to an animal - and for $150 you can send the video to your ex.
  
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• TikTok’s De-Influencers Tell You What Not to Buy

  14-02-2023 13:00
  
  The latest trend to hit the video-sharing site is a backlash against hauls and self-serving recommendations.
  
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• Didi’s Revival Shows China Can’t Live Without Big Tech

  14-02-2023 13:00
  
  The government has used fines, bans, and golden shares to control tech companies. Now it needs them to drive economic growth.
  
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• Bitcoin Investors Are Plotting a Major Coup

  14-02-2023 13:00
  A group of activist shareholders in the world’s largest bitcoin investment trust claim they lost billions as the market tanked. Now they want to take control.
  
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• A Little-Known Inflammatory Disease Is Hiding in Plain Sight

  14-02-2023 13:00
  
  Genetic analyses show a newly discovered condition called Vexas is more common than previously thought—and could explain some patients’ undiagnosed symptoms.
  
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• Why you should SCHEDULE sex! Planning ahead is just as passionate as spontaneous romps

  14-02-2023 12:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of York found that while many people do endorse the ideal of spontaneous sex, there is no difference in passion or satisfaction than with planned sex.
  
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• Saturn's rings have mysterious smudges in new Hubble Space Telescope photos

  14-02-2023 12:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US space agency's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that peculiar smudges are once again appearing in Saturn's rings, signalling that the planet's 'spoke season' is in full swing.
  
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• Mathematician reveals the formula for finding love this Valentine's Day

  14-02-2023 10:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Dr Gihan Marasingha from the University of Exeter, you can raise your chances of finding your perfect match after meeting just 37 per cent of your dates.
  
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• Smile! South Korea's moon orbiter sends back first snaps of Earth

  14-02-2023 04:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water South Korea's Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, Danuri, which launched in August 2022, has sent back its first images of Earth's sole natural satellite, plus some shots of our home planet as seen from lunar orbit.…
  
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• Second Soyuz springs a leak, astronauts stuck on ISS for an extra month

  14-02-2023 02:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Trust us tovarishch, we're just going to do a few more checks Russia's space agency will hold off returning three astronauts from the International Space Station as it works with NASA to investigate a coolant leak issue that impacted an uncrewed freighter spacecraft last weekend.…
  
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• Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down

  14-02-2023 01:11
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against some of the industry’s major players, raising questions over crypto’s future.
  
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• Could AI swamp social media with fake accounts?

  14-02-2023 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers warn that AI could flood social media with harmful and misleading content.
  
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• Scammers profit from Turkey-Syria earthquake

  14-02-2023 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News investigates the tactics used by scammers to make money when natural disasters strike.
  
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• Ohio residents claim they've been hit by wave of headaches and sickness after train derailment

  14-02-2023 00:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  East Palestine resident Melissa Henry told AP her youngest son's 'eyes turned red as tomato and he was coughing a lot' before the family evacuated to her parents' house.
  
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• NASA captures hidden light shows on the sun's outermost layer

  14-02-2023 00:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The kaleidoscope of colors was captured by NASA's NuSTAR telescope. This image reveals never-before-seen light shows beaming from our stars most outer layer called the corona.
  
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