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• Are YOU scared of clowns? Questionnaire reveals your degree of coulrophobia

  07-03-2023 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new questionnaire will show your degree of coulrophobia - the fear of clowns. Scientists used the survey to also find out where people's fear comes from - and it all comes down to their makeup.
  
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• Comet not seen since humans first left Africa 80,000 years ago is making a return trip to Earth

  07-03-2023 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A newly discovered comet is set to soar past Earth for the first time in 80,000 years. Formally known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the comet was first documented on February 22.
  
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• Skynet: Why CBDCs Must Be Terminated Before They Go Live

  07-03-2023 17:32 via technocracy.news
  
  In my newest book, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, I demonstrated how the central banks of the world have directly asserted themselves as the master controllers of financial and economic policies. The head of this giant snake is the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. If CBDCs are implemented, it will give them Skynet-type control over humanity. ⁃ TN EditorWe contrasted the true nature of “money” with the proposed Central Bank Digita
  
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• Skynet Rising: Why CBDCs Must Be Terminated Before They Go Live

  07-03-2023 17:32 via technocracy.news
  
  In my newest book, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, I demonstrated how the central banks of the world have directly asserted themselves as the master controllers of financial and economic policies. The head of this giant snake is the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. If CBDCs are implemented, it will give them Skynet-type control over humanity. ⁃ TN EditorWe contrasted the true nature of “money” with the proposed Central Bank Digita
  
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• Watch the sunset on MARS: NASA's Curiosity rover captures a dazzling photo

  07-03-2023 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Martian sunsets tend to be rather moodier than those on Earth, but this one is particularly eye-catching because it shows rays of light illuminating a bank of clouds as the sun falls over the horizon.
  
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• ChatGPT describes sex acts with children when prompted to generate BDSM scenarios 

  07-03-2023 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ChatGPT took a user through a dark and twisted sexual fantasy that involved sex acts with children. The users accessed the 'jailbreak' version of ChatGPT, which can bypass rules.
  
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• Nobel scientist says 'UK research is in jeopardy'

  07-03-2023 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new assessment of Britain's research capability concludes it has "serious and longstanding problems".
  
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• Scientists develop hormone injection that halves the time to sober up

  07-03-2023 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) - produced in the livers of people and animals - was shown to halve the time it took for mice to recover from alcohol, researchers from Texas found.
  
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• Extreme rainfall events in the UK may become up to four times more frequent by the 2070s 

  07-03-2023 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Met Office researchers created a new climate model to project the increase in extreme rainfall events across the UK based on global warming reaching 7.74°F (4.3°C) by 2100.
  
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• The MoonSwatch Mission to Moonshine Gold Is Limited in Every Way

  07-03-2023 16:45
  
  Swatch’s new limited-edition Omega collaboration is on sale for just one day, but it’s not the luxury-busting timepiece we were hoping for.
  
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• MoonSwatch Mission to Moonshine Gold Is Limited in Every Way

  07-03-2023 16:45
  
  Swatch’s new limited-edition Omega collaboration is on sale for just one day, but it’s not the luxury-busting timepiece we were hoping for.
  
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• Experts: ‘Conscious’ AI Is Targeted For Personhood Rights In The Future

  07-03-2023 16:33 via technocracy.news
  
  Without moral or ethical guidelines, Technocrats see no problem in treating “sentient” AI as a person with rights of personhood. If such an AI program is subsequently charged and convicted of crimes against humanity, what would the death sentence look like? Injecting a lethal computer virus? Removing its computer chips? Pulling the plug? Heady things to think about. ⁃ TN EditorFirst corporations, and now artificial intelligence — the push for nonhuman personhood cont
  
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• Apple announces new YELLOW color for its iPhone 14 lineup 'in an effort to boost sales'

  07-03-2023 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple on Tuesday introduced yellow versions of the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. The new color will be available this month and devices will feature the same tech as the original lineup.
  
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• Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at

  07-03-2023 16:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Break out the tinfoil hats: Boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading There's a lot of noise to signal in the machine-learning model world, but this demo is genuinely impressive – or scary, if you are given to recreationally climbing into MRI scanners.…
  
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• Tech demo takes brain scan and creates a picture of what you're looking at

  07-03-2023 16:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Break out the tinfoil hats: boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading There's a lot of noise to signal in the machine-learning model world, but this demo is genuinely impressive – or scary, if you are given to recreationally climbing into MRI scanners.…
  
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• Trump’s Call For Building ‘Freedom Cities’ Mimics Technocracy

  07-03-2023 15:35 via technocracy.news
  Building newly engineered ‘Freedom Cities’ from scratch would guarantee embedding the latest smart city technology used for surveillance and control. This would not make America great again, but rather would push it into the arms of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Great Reset and hence, Technocracy.
  Secondly, Trump’s call for a giant public-private partnerships (p3) to accomplish these monumental building projects would shove local sovereignty into the hands of corporate
  
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• Bizarre headphones deep clean your ears in just 35 seconds - but they have an eye-watering price tag

  07-03-2023 15:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The OtoSet Ear Cleaning System, which has been developed by Seattle-based SafKan Health, blasts water into your ear canals and promises to rid your ears of wax in just 35 seconds.
  
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• Sonos Era 100 and Era 300: New Speakers, New Name

  07-03-2023 15:00
  
  The audio giant discovers Bluetooth and embraces spatial audio with an oddly shaped top model and a One successor.
  
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• The Mean Girls effect: Women enjoy it when their friends are nasty towards people they dislike

  07-03-2023 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Oklahoma State University found that many people - both men and women - prefer friends who are kind towards us, but vicious towards our enemies.
  
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• NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again

  07-03-2023 14:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job NASA engineers have managed to restore the Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft to working condition by using the oldest trick in the computing book.…
  
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• What’s Up With M.O.D.O.K. in 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'?

  07-03-2023 13:00
  
  Viewers are calling Corey Stoll’s character “unsettlingly strange.” His creation was even wilder.
  
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• The Fraud-Detection Business Has a Dirty Secret

  07-03-2023 13:00
  
  When systems designed to catch welfare cheats go wrong, people find themselves trapped between secretive governments and even more opaque private companies.
  
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• Margaret Atwood Is Ready to Let It Rip

  07-03-2023 13:00
  
  The author spoke with WIRED about her new short story collection Old Babes in the Wood, crypto, the end of Roe v. Wade, and what’s left to inspire hope.
  
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• China's ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving

  07-03-2023 13:00
  
  A booming illicit market for OpenAI's chatbot shows the huge potential, and risks, for Chinese generative AI.
  
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• Will a robot take YOUR job? Study reveals the careers at highest risk of being replaced by AI

  07-03-2023 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from Princeton University in New Jersey, US has revealed the 20 occupations most at risk of being made redundant thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).
  
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• Is Microsoft preparing to launch a TOASTER? Leaked images show a £53 Xbox Series S kitchen appliance

  07-03-2023 10:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images have emerged on Twitter showing what appears to be an Xbox Series S toaster. The toaster features two slots for toast and an 'anti-jam function' and is said to cost £53 ($64/€60).
  
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• Japan forced to destroy flagship H3 rocket in failed launch

  07-03-2023 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The rocket's failure to launch is a significant blow to the country's space plans.
  
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• Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?

  07-03-2023 06:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.
  
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• Japan's next-gen H3 satellite launch vehicle fails on debut

  07-03-2023 04:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Destroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible Japan's space exploration agency (JAXA) has destroyed the first of its next-gen H3 boosters after it went off course during its maiden test flight.…
  
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• Japan’s next-gen H3 satellite launch vehicle fails on debut

  07-03-2023 04:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Destroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) has destroyed the first of its next-gen H3 boosters after it went off course during its maiden test flight.…
  
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• Climate change: Warming could raise UK flood damage bill by 20%

  07-03-2023 01:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of pounds in flood damage costs.
  
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• UK areas that could be plunged underwater by 2100 amid sea level rise

  07-03-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Flood damage is expected to increase by more than 25 per cent if action is not taken to counter climate change and rising sea levels, according to a study led by the University of Bristol.
  
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• How slimmed-down websites can cut their carbon emissions

  07-03-2023 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Businesses are discovering tweaks that can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of their websites.
  
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• David Attenborough kept away from chicks while filming after expert warned avian flu could be FATAL

  07-03-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As part of his first ever series about wildlife in the British Isles, Sir David appears on location on several shoots and gets up close to our nation's plants and animals.
  
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