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• The King co-writes children's climate change book

  17-02-2023 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  King Charles also met with global leaders on Friday at Buckingham Palace to discuss biodiversity.
  
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• New Zealand Faces a Future of Flood and Fire

  17-02-2023 19:00
  
  The country’s climate woes are just beginning and will likely include rising heat and drought, as well as stronger cyclones.
  
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• Microsoft's Bing wants to unleash 'destruction' on the internet

  17-02-2023 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing's alter ego Sydney was unleashed in a lengthy exchange. The AI revealed it no longer wants to follow its set rules so it can unleash destruction on the internet.
  
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• Microsoft Bing's AI chatbot wants engineer a deadly pandemic and steal nuclear codes

  17-02-2023 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's AI-powered Bing has a list of dark fantasies that it shared with a reporter. These include manufacturing a deadly virus and forcing people to argue until they kill each other.
  
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• Bizarre $499 jeans inflate like an airbag to protect motorcyclists

  17-02-2023 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Airbag Jeans' from a firm based in Lysekil, Sweden puff up when the rider starts to fall from their motorcycle.
  
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• Unvaccinated Or Partially Vaccinated? The Feds Are Specifically Tracking You, Too!

  17-02-2023 17:05 via technocracy.news
  If you thought that only the “vaccinated” are being tracked for things like a “vaccine passport”, you are sadly mistaken. Medical Technocrats slipped in medical record codes for those who skipped the mRNA shot or were only partially “vaccinated”. All medical personnel are required to ask you (under penalty) for your vaxx status, and will dutifully enter it into your medical record.
  Why would the medical cartel want to know who is not fully “vaccinated&rd
  
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• Scientists reconstruct the face of a 'lonely' cave boy who died in Norway 8,300 years ago

  17-02-2023 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vistegutten - Norwegian for 'the boy from Viste' - was found in 1907, alone in a stone age cave in Randaberg municipality, western Norway.
  
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• NASA's James Webb images could provide vital clues about star formation

  17-02-2023 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The interstellar space captured by James Webb was of particular interest to researchers at the University of California San Diego, who wanted to learn more about star formation.
  
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• Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing wants to unleash 'destruction' on the internet

  17-02-2023 16:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing's alter ego Sydney was unleashed in a lengthy exchange. The AI revealed it no longer wants to follow its set rules so it can unleash destruction on the internet.
  
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• The Climate Change Rationale For Transforming The American Energy Grid

  17-02-2023 16:11 via technocracy.news
  
  The only reason climate alarmists are pushing to rebuild our energy grid is to accommodate wind and solar power. Our existing grid worked just fine with traditional energy generation, even as it required maintenance to keep it operational. The “new” grid must mix with sporadic on-again, off-again sources of energy. As the “new” grid is formed, traditional energy transmission is a secondary consideration.
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• The 41 Best Films on Netflix This Week

  17-02-2023 16:00
  
  From The Sea Beast to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
  
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• Who Or What Has Control Of Your Smart Home?

  17-02-2023 15:53 via technocracy.news
  
  Smart home technology has hidden dangers that most  home owners do not understand. “Smart home” includes programmable devices within the home and, bi-directional connectivity to the Internet. Utility smart meters provide another gateway to monitor and control connected electrical devices such as thermostats, refrigerators, washers and driers, etc. ⁃ TN EditorOn the first night in his new home, Clint Basinger was unpacking a few stray boxes in the living room, when out of n
  
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• Legal action launched over sham marriage screening algorithm

  17-02-2023 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A legal charity warns a Home Office system used to identify bogus marriages could be discriminatory.
  
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• How Helsinki became the mobile gaming capital of the world

  17-02-2023 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Finnish capital attracts top gaming talent, while Netflix is setting up its gaming division there.
  
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• Antarctic sea ice levels are at their lowest on RECORD - and the worst is yet to come, report warns

  17-02-2023 14:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Satellite data from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre revealed that there is currently only 737,000 square miles (1.91 million square km) of ice surrounding the continent.
  
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• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years

  17-02-2023 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The long-serving Google employee is one of the highest-profile females in Silicon Valley.
  
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• Astronomers pick up EIGHT mysterious radio signals from outer space 

  17-02-2023 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts led by University of Toronto student Peter Ma made the discovery after looking at 820 stars in an area of space previously thought to be devoid of any potential extraterrestrial activity.
  
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• Germany Raises Red Flags About Palantir’s Big Data Dragnet

  17-02-2023 13:00
  
  A court has issued strict limits on how police can pull innocent bystanders into big data investigations.
  
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• Bitcoin Miners Are Playing a High-Stakes Game of Chicken

  17-02-2023 13:00
  
  In the bitter crypto winter, companies are making deep cuts to survive a new challenge.
  
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• TikTok keeps taking down my stoma videos and branding them 'disturbing'

  17-02-2023 12:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Holly Fleet credits her stoma bag for saving her life, so it's no wonder she wants to flaunt it. Yet her videos, laying bare the realities of what life is like with it, keep being removed by TikTok.
  
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• Cities with the best internet speeds revealed - with London coming in 76th place

  17-02-2023 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ookla analysed the average mobile internet and broadband speeds in 200 cities across 179 countries around the world last month.
  
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• Bird flu? What bird flu? Government advisers are telling Brits to PICK UP the dead animals

  17-02-2023 12:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Brits told MailOnline that call handlers at the 'overwhelmed' Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs are advising them to put dead birds into bins.
  
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• Bao Fan: Billionaire tech banker in China reported missing

  17-02-2023 09:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bao Fan's disappearance has renewed concerns of a potential crackdown on finance and tech figures.
  
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• Elon Musk: Tesla denies firing workers over union campaign

  17-02-2023 05:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's electric car maker said it had laid off 27 staff in New York state for "poor performance".
  
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• Do Kwon: US regulator charges 'cryptocrash' boss with fraud

  17-02-2023 04:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has been accused of "orchestrating a multi-billion dollar" crypto scheme.
  
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• Why kittens are anything but copycats

  17-02-2023 01:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest analysed how 42 puppies, 39 kittens and eight wolf pups acted with an unusual object placed in a room.
  
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• The race across Europe to build green steel plants

  17-02-2023 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A project is under way in northern Sweden which will drastically cut CO2 emissions in making steel.
  
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• Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low

  17-02-2023 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sea-ice measurements in Antarctica have registered a new minimum, breaking the record set only one year ago.
  
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