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• Now, this is glamping! Porsche reveals luxury camping trailer concept for EV towing

  09-03-2023 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Porsche is changing how people go camping with a luxurious camping trailer that brings a 16-foot home to the outdoors. It features seating that turns into a bed and a small kitchenette.
  
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• WhatsApp Has Started a Fight With the UK About Encryption

  09-03-2023 21:00
  
  The head of the messaging app says a new law will undermine privacy. The government says it’s about protecting children.
  
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• Sea spray tainted with raw sewage found along California beach, study reveals

  09-03-2023 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists reveal people visiting Imperial Beach in California are breathing in particles of raw sewage. Data shows polluted water from the the Tijuana Riveris being dumped into the ocean.
  
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• HALF of us can't tell if copy has been written by ChatGPT or a human being

  09-03-2023 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that 53 percent of Americans failed to spot the difference between content produced by a human, an AI, or an AI edited by a human. Among people aged 18-24, just four in 10 did so.
  
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• Danish public broadcaster advises staff against using TikTok

  09-03-2023 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Journalists needing access to the app for research must ask for permission to use special "TikTok phones".
  
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• London is the most congested city in the world: Drivers take 42.5 minutes to travel 6.2 MILES

  09-03-2023 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The TomTom report also shows that it takes just 32 minutes to drive 6.2 miles in Paris, 28 minutes in Manchester and 25 minutes in Los Angeles.
  
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• How many colors do YOU see? Mind-blowing optical illusion makes fuel pumps appear to change hues

  09-03-2023 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new optical illusion shows a series of fuel pumps that appear to change in color down rows. However, a concept that places lines in the background is tricking your brain.
  
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• California's $10 billion bullet train could take you from LA to Vegas in 2 hours

  09-03-2023 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California is set to begin construction on a bullet train track that will run from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The high-speed trains can reach up to 200mph, cutting travel time in half.
  
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• WhatsApp: Rather be blocked in UK than weaken security

  09-03-2023 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The encrypted app will refuse to comply with the Online Safety Bill if required to scan messages.
  
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• Prince Michael On Europe’s Regulatory-Technocratic Suicide

  09-03-2023 15:21 via technocracy.news
  
  The author concludes, “It was always doubtful that technocrats could develop solutions better than the market does.” Technocratic micro-management always results in gridlock that cannot be rationalized away. Technocrats simply move on to another project to “solve” and micromanage some more. Technocrats are typically too deep in the forest to see the trees.
  It is important to remember that European members of the Trilateral Commission, according to co-founder David Rockefe
  
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• Is The Transhumanist Era Is Already Here?

  09-03-2023 15:03 via technocracy.news
  
  If humans are just “ape-brained meatsacks” in desperate need of an upgrade, then their Utopia isn’t working out as well as hoped. In fact, Transhumanism has been sneaking up on us before anyone recognized it as such. Today, the rush to hack humanity will favor the rich and discriminate against everyone else. ⁃ TN Editor
  At an UnHerd event last night, columnist Mary Harrington and Oxford University AI ethicist Elise Bohan, author of Future Superhuman, came togeth
  
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• Spotify copies TikTok with a redesigned home screen featuring a vertical scroll feed

  09-03-2023 14:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The redesigned Spotify home page features a vertical scroll feed, similar to that of TikTok, which shows video previews of recommended songs, podcasts and audiobooks.
  
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• Scientists Use AI To Turn Thoughts Into Images, 80% Accuracy

  09-03-2023 14:34 via technocracy.news
  
  If the Scientific Revolution is a horse, it is ridden by Technocrats who are driven to examine and expose everything that is human. The mechanistic approach is that humans are just accidental blobs of molecules that deserve to be analyzed. As C.S. Lewis explained in The Abolition of Man, conquering nature ends up conquering man. ⁃ TN EditorArtificial intelligence can create images based on text prompts, but scientists unveiled a gallery of pictures the technology produces by reading brain
  
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• Google company unveils drone delivery-network ambition

  09-03-2023 14:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wing hopes the technology will soon be able to handle millions of deliveries.
  
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• Rare treasures pulled from Gold Rush era shipwreck SS Central America sell at auction

  09-03-2023 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Other items sold at the two-day auction in Reno, Nevada, include a large 18-karat gold quartz engraved brooch and a 19th century daguerreotype metal plate photograph.
  
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• US-China chip war: Netherlands moves to restrict some tech exports

  09-03-2023 13:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The measures will affect Dutch firm ASML, which is a key part of the global microchip supply chain.
  
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• No One Knows if You Need Another Covid Booster

  09-03-2023 13:00
  
  It’s cellular immunity, not antibodies, that probably protects against the coronavirus’s worst effects—and scientists haven’t worked out how long it lasts.
  
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• TikTok is back up and running after a two-hour outage

  09-03-2023 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, a website which monitors such outages, problems with the popular Chinese-owned video app started at around 09:40 GMT but were resolved by 11:40.
  
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• Apple's App Store and the Google Play store are both flooded with fake reviews

  09-03-2023 11:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Up to a quarter of reviews in the health and fitness section of Google's Play Store were suspicious, while 17 per cent appear fake on Apple's equivalent, according to UK consumer group Which?.
  
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• What an anti-climax! Women pursue orgasms less during one-night stands

  09-03-2023 10:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study led by researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey has revealed that women pursue the 'big O' less during one-night stands.
  
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• Virgin Media O2 opens a playground in London where the swings and slides let children make music

  09-03-2023 10:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Media O2 has opened an interactive adventure park in London that allows children to make music while playing on the equipment.
  
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• The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight

  09-03-2023 06:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts NASA is ready to fly a crew of astronauts to the Moon next year after the success of the first test flight of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule. …
  
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• Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise

  09-03-2023 01:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new way of removing carbon from the air is up to three times more effective than current technology.
  
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• Inaugural flight of first (mostly) 3D-printed rocket aborted, rescheduled

  09-03-2023 01:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Relativity Space relatively grounded The inaugural launch of Terran-1, built by aerospace startup Relativity Space from 90 percent 3D-printed parts, was cancelled Wednesday.…
  
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• Inaugural flight of first (mostly) 3D-printed rocket aborted

  09-03-2023 01:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Relativity Space relatively grounded The inaugural launch of Terran-1, built by aerospace startup Relativity Space from 90 percent 3D-printed parts, was cancelled Wednesday.…
  
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• Would these labels influence your takeaway order? Just Eat is trialling carbon labels

  09-03-2023 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Just Eat's The traffic light-style carbon rating system will factor in the farming, production, transport and packaging of dishes.
  
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• Giant 7-foot-long 'demon-slaying sword' used more than 1,600 years ago is unearthed in Japanese tomb

  09-03-2023 00:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An iron sword measuring seven feet long was found in a burial mound with the tomb of an elite that died 1,600 years ago. Japanese experts believe it was a weapon to fight off evil spirits in the afterlife.
  
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• Why do Chinese tech billionaires keep vanishing?

  09-03-2023 00:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mystery over the latest missing business leader comes as Xi Jinping tightens his grip on China.
  
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