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• Apple goes 'woke' with new feature that slows charging when 'clean energy' isn't used 

  28-02-2023 22:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple users are fuming after learning the tech giant 'snuck' in a feature that slows down the charging of iPhones when 'sustainable' electricity is unavailable - but you can turn the option off.
  
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• Stop Saving Cute Animals

  28-02-2023 21:20
  
  One million species are at risk of extinction, but a handful of charismatic creatures get all the hype. A new conservation strategy has a different focus.
  
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• Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let’s Save the Weird Ones

  28-02-2023 21:20
  
  One million species are at risk of extinction, but a handful of charismatic creatures get all the hype. A new conservation strategy has a different focus.
  
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• FTX's Nishad Singh pleads guilty to fraud charges

  28-02-2023 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former FTX engineer says he is 'unbelievably sorry' for his role in the alleged crypto scheme.
  
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• Snapchat launches its own AI chatbot - but warns it 'can be tricked into saying just about ANYTHING'

  28-02-2023 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Snapchat users will be able to ask the 'My AI' chatbot questions while messaging friends to aid their conversation. It has been specially trained so it adheres to its safety guidelines.
  
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• Ford patents self-driving car that repossesses itself if the owner fails to keep up with payments

  28-02-2023 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ford's new technology will make you think twice before missing a payment. The company's latest patent describes a car driving itself back to the showroom if accounts are delinquent.
  
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• All the Best Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2023

  28-02-2023 18:13
  
  Rollable phones, transforming smartwatches, “retina-level” AR glasses, and liquid tech to keep your mobile cool—these are just a taste of what’s coming.
  
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• India’s YouTube Vigilante Is Wanted for Murder

  28-02-2023 18:00
  Monu Manesar built a huge audience with violent content, but he’s far from the only sectarian streamer in Modi’s India.
  
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• Green flights not in easy reach, warn scientists

  28-02-2023 17:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  No clear scientific solutions currently to the emissions caused by flying, scientists conclude.
  
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• Is Elon Musk joining the AI race? Billionaire rumored to be working on an 'anti-woke' ChatGPT rival

  28-02-2023 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report reveals Elon Musk is assembling a team of AI researchers to develop a ChatGPT rival. The move comes as OpenAI's chatbot has been slammed for being 'too woke.'
  
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• English Setter claims the world record for dog with the longest TONGUE

  28-02-2023 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A three-year-old English Setter called Bisbee from Tucson, Arizona has become a Guinness World Record Holder - by having the longest canine tongue.
  
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• World Health Organization: A Public-Health Technocracy

  28-02-2023 15:48 via technocracy.news
  
  Wesley J. Smith has correctly pegged the WHO as an emerging public-health Technocracy, aka Scientific Dictatorship. As a principal agency of the UN, the WHO seeks to control all public health policies and products on planet earth: a universal nanny? There is no “spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down”. This is a war against humanity and people will die. ⁃ TN EditorIn the name of preventing and fighting pandemics, the Biden Administration and international entities are n
  
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• Future Shock: AI Advances Are Trending Toward Vertical Acceleration

  28-02-2023 15:30 via technocracy.news
  Regardless of obvious flaws and errors, ChatGPT is projected to have one billion users before the end of 2023, making it the most transformative and rapidly utilized technology in history. What this will do to global civilization is still unknown but it is certain that “artificial thoughts” are not human thoughts until humans blindly accept them as such. What thoughts? Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorDark Forest
  “Sorry to tell you, but there are no aliens,” said the intelli
  
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• Geoengineering: Dim The Sun To Fight Global Warming

  28-02-2023 14:42 via technocracy.news
  
  The United Nations says, solar geoengineering “is the only known approach that could be used to cool the Earth within a few years.” Since climate alarmists have virtually shut down coal, oil and natural gas, replacing it with solar and wind generated energy, shutting down the sun somehow makes sense to these mad scientists. In fact, it would doom the entire planet.
  Testing has already been accomplished with extensive chemtrails periodically sprayed across the United States and over a
  
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• Anyone for AIPA? Detroit brewery lets ChatGPT create its latest BEER

  28-02-2023 13:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Atwater Brewery in Detroit has created 'AI IPA', the first ever beer using a recipe fully generated by the chatbot sensation.
  
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• TikTok answers three big cyber-security fears about the app

  28-02-2023 13:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Calls in the US for a ban on TikTok have reignited the global debate about its cyber-security risks.
  
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• How to see the Northern Lights TONIGHT as the auroras continue to dazzle stargazers across the UK

  28-02-2023 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Northern Lights are the result of an eruption of charged particles from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, interacting with the Earth's atmosphere.
  
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• China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors

  28-02-2023 13:00
  
  New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region.
  
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• Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws

  28-02-2023 13:00
  
  Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more.
  
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• Meet Liz, the first wild bison born in Britain in 6,000 YEARS

  28-02-2023 12:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain's first bison calf born in the wild for thousands of years is now six months old, and beginning to lose her fluffy coat as these delightful pictures show.
  
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• Rewilding seas: Some waters off England to get full protection

  28-02-2023 12:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fishing will be banned in three areas to allow nature to recover, but critics say plans lack ambition.
  
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• Not enough space on your screen? Lenovo unveils a laptop with an EXTENDABLE display

  28-02-2023 10:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the futuristic device is on display at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it's a very early proof of concept and is unlikely to be released to the public for some time yet.
  
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• The most common disorders in pet CATS - including overgrown nails, flea infestation and obesity 

  28-02-2023 10:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from the Royal Veterinary College in London has revealed a complete list of the most common disorders in cats, based on the veterinary records of more that one million pets in the UK.
  
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• Beard transplant clinic says it's seen a 100% spike in demand and they think Prince Harry is why!

  28-02-2023 09:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: British men aretravelling to a hair clinic in Turkey and paying £2,500 for a beard transplant emulating Prince Harry's facial hair in a trend linked to his memoir Spare.
  
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• Are we on the brink of creating a machine with a human BRAIN?

  28-02-2023 07:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore think a 'biocomputer' powered by an organoid made up of millions of human brain cells could be developed within our lifetime.
  
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• Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change?

  28-02-2023 02:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government hopes a new type of power station will help it meet is climate change targets.
  
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• Northern lights venture south once more

  28-02-2023 01:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incredible display was visible across large parts of the country - including as far south as Berkshire and Wiltshire, where the aurora borealis danced in the sky over Donnington Castle and Stonehenge
  
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• Canada bans TikTok on government devices

  28-02-2023 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The federal government says the video app is an "unacceptable" risk to privacy and security.
  
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• Britain will have to sacrifice 40% of its farmland to biofuel to make net-zero air travel a reality

  28-02-2023 01:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former transport secretary Grant Shapps pledged last year that the UK's aviation sector will be green by 2050 and said 'guilt-free flying is within our reach'.
  
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• The tiny diamond sphere that could unlock clean power

  28-02-2023 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A diamond sphere made in Germany was key to December's breakthrough fusion experiment in California.
  
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