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• Common flu may have originated from a fish 600 million years ago

  01-03-2023 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study conducted by a team at the University of Sydney reveals the family of influenza viruses that infect humans 'first emerged in aquatic animals that lived 600 million years ago.
  
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• Elon Musk is set to host the first Tesla Investor Day: Billionaire will reveal 'Master Plan 3'

  01-03-2023 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla's Investor Day will be hosted Wednesday. Musk is expected to reveal'Master Plan 3' that could highlight the company's expansion plans and a new affordable electric vehicle.
  
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• Norse sea monster story was inspired by a hunting technique used by real whales, study claims 

  01-03-2023 20:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Flinders University in Australia noticed that the hunting technique used by 'hafgufa' is reminiscent of whale 'tread-water' feeding, that was recorded for the first time in 2011.
  
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• Nine ways you can keep your children safe online right now

  01-03-2023 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  How do you keep children safe from harmful websites, and potential predators - without making the children angry (or worse, inspiring them to use technology in secret)? We spoke to the experts.
  
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• New robot enters the human body through the rectum to 3D print living cells on damaged organs

  01-03-2023 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers unveiled a flexible robotic arm that enters the human body through the rectum or mouth to 3D print living cells on damaged organs - eliminating the need for open surgery.
  
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• Twitch streamer Kai Cenat breaks subscriber record

  01-03-2023 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 21-year-old has amassed 300,000 subscribers, after a month-long 'subathon' to increase viewers.
  
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• TikTok sets 60-minute daily screen time limit for under-18s

  01-03-2023 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 13 to 18-year-olds will be limited to 60 minutes a day on the service, but can opt out of the measure.
  
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• Flashback: Transhumanism’s “Wail Of Despair” For Immortality

  01-03-2023 17:19 via technocracy.news
  
  This article compares the path of Transhumanism with Christianity, noting similarities and contrasts. The Transhuman’s Holy Grail is achieving immortality, but alas, without a truly human body. Such a post-human dream is a dead end street because it strips away all that it means to be human. ⁃ TN EditorTranshumanism’s time seems to have come. The movement’s goals and most prominent personalities are ubiquitously boosted with laudatory stories in the media, its scientific-
  
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• NASA's asteroid deflection test shaved 33 minutes off the rock's orbit

  01-03-2023 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On September 26, at 19:14 ET, the US space agency's DART spacecraft intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos.
  
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• £25 Nitrosurge device lets you pour the perfect Guinness at HOME

  01-03-2023 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'ground-breaking' £25 electronic contraption attaches to the top of a Guinness can and pours a perfectly-straight jet of liquid - as if it's coming from draught.
  
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• See Earth's toxic algae from SPACE: Phytoplankton blooms cover 12.1 MILLION square miles of ocean

  01-03-2023 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China has found that the total area affected by phytoplankton growth has increased by 13.2 per cent since 2003.
  
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• Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz

  01-03-2023 16:35 via go.theregister.com
  
  Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start NASA is scrambling to fix glitches affecting its Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) missions.…
  
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• See the Northern Lights from SPACE: NASA astronaut on board the ISS snaps a STUNNING photo

  01-03-2023 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Josh Cassada, who launched to the ISS back in October, shared a stunning photo of the Northern Lights on Twitter.
  
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• “Organoid Intelligence” (OI): Biocomputing And Intelligence-In-A-Dish

  01-03-2023 16:00 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demonstrated need to do so. Now scientists are intending to use real human brain cells to leapfrog silicon technology to create a competitor to AI that is being called Organoid Intelligence, or OI. This is another slippery slope that could push boundaries in both directions. ⁃ TN EditorMachine-learning models like the one that powers ChatGPT are generating essays, short stories, and entire podcasts. But scientists are looking into
  
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• Musk To Start His Own Non-Woke AI Company To Compete With OpenAI?

  01-03-2023 15:42 via technocracy.news
  
  Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI that created ChatGPT. It turned out much darker than he had anticipated, with ChatGPT spewing woke diatribes and false information. Now, Musk is jockeying to create a non-woke competitor to OpenAI and challenge Microsoft’s domination of the resulting marketplace for the product.
  Microsoft has now added ChatGPT technology to its search engine, Bing, its browser, Edge, and its Office suite that includes Microsoft, Excel, etc.
  Since both Musk and Sam Altman (OpenAI
  
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• Twitter back after two-hour outage affected tweets

  01-03-2023 14:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The problems arose two days after the social media company reportedly laid off 200 employees.
  
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• Twitter is back up and running after a three-hour outage

  01-03-2023 14:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'following' tab, which many people across the world have as their home screen on the social media platform, either malfunctioned or was taken down deliberately.
  
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• TikTok will LIMIT screen time for users under-18 to 60 minutes a day

  01-03-2023 14:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children will have the screen time limit set automatically and will have to enter a passcode in order to continue watching.
  
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• Police in Peru seize an 800-year-old MUMMY rom a man who claimed it was his 'girlfriend'

  01-03-2023 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former delivery man was approached by police at the Mantaro viewpoint in the Peruvian city of Puno, known for its important archaeological significance.
  
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• The Mountain Village in the Path of India’s Electric Dreams

  01-03-2023 13:00
  The country has discovered enough lithium to electrify every vehicle on its roads, but the massive deposit has tensions running high.
  
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• Restaurants are urged to serve 'nutritious' grey squirrel meat

  01-03-2023 11:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Exmoor Squirrel Project, which is seeking to eradicate grey squirrels on Exmoor, so they can be replaced with native red squirrels, says the non-native creatures could be served in stews and pies.
  
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• Twitter is DOWN: App crashes for thousands of frustrated users around the world 

  01-03-2023 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter has crashed this morning, leaving thousands of frustrated users unable to see tweets in their feeds.
  
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• Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee

  01-03-2023 11:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins Scientists have discovered that the tiny insects commonly known as sharpshooters use superpropulsion to ensure they can efficiently eject the huge volumes of urine they produce each day.…
  
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• iPhone users claim Apple is trying to TRICK them into upgrading by quietly slowing charging

  01-03-2023 11:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users believe Apple quietly added the Clean Energy Charging feature 'to trick' them into buying new iPhone models when their device was taking ages to charge.
  
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• Is YOUR lifestyle good for your heart? See for yourself by trying this new quiz by cardiologists...

  01-03-2023 09:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Cardiologist Dr Ameet Bakhai, who works at the Spire Bushey Hospital in North London, said: 'Looking after your heart health is essential.'
  
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• If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

  01-03-2023 07:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems There are a lot of technical challenges humanity will have to tackle as we prepare a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and the European Space Agency just reminded us of one more: we don't have an agreed, coordinated method of telling time on our natural satellite. …
  
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• 'Dehydrated' moisturiser that looks like confetti could revolutionise the beauty industry

  01-03-2023 02:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A tiny packet contains a flat circle of material the size of a pound coin. The product needs only a drop of water to become moisturiser - because the product is mostly water.
  
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• The carbon footprints of six popular diets - so how does YOURS stack up? 

  01-03-2023 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Tulane University in New Orleans calculated the carbon footprints of six popular diets, and compared these to their nutritional values.
  
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• YouTube accused of collecting UK children's data

  01-03-2023 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The video platform faces a challenge over claims it is gathering and using the data of under-13s.
  
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