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• Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Deals a Blow to Europe’s Startups

  13-03-2023 23:01
  
  The US lender filled a niche for European tech companies that no one else could, or would.
  
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• Moment a tarantula releases an oozing egg sac is captured in rare video

  13-03-2023 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An incredible video captured the moment a female tarantula releasing an egg sac on a bed of webbings has been released. The egg sac is believed to have more than 1,700 offspring.
  
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• SVB’s Collapse Is Causing Chaos in India’s Tech Sector

  13-03-2023 22:00
  
  The bank was popular among Indian founders who needed US accounts. But many have struggled to get their money out.
  
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• New smart 'band-aid' heals wounds 30 PERCENT faster than traditional bandages

  13-03-2023 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new 'band-aid' features electrodes, an energy-harvesting coil and sensors that work to heal wounds 30 percent faster than traditional bandages by sending electrical signals to the injury.
  
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• Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades

  13-03-2023 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Streaming may be king, but fans of physical albums are weighing in with record sales growth
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg was 'warned about platform's potential for addiction and harm on children'

  13-03-2023 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The statements come from recently unsealed parts of a lawsuit filed against Meta by parents who claim Facebook and Instagram caused harm to their children's mental health.
  
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• HSBC swoops in to rescue UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank

  13-03-2023 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Bank of England and government worked all night to secure a deal involving no taxpayer money.
  
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• Iceberg the size of Greater London has broken off Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf

  13-03-2023 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The enormous A81, which is as big as England's capital, broke free from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in late January and has just been photographed aerially for the most time.
  
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• Chinese scientists use stem cell technology to grow antlers on MICE

  13-03-2023 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China have grown antler-like structures on the foreheads of mice by transplanting stem cells from deer.
  
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• The science behind 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'

  13-03-2023 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Everything Everywhere All At Once' may be marked as science fiction, but the award-winning film pulls inspiration from two science-backed theories about the multiverse.
  
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• Judges in India and Pakistan are more lenient with criminals when they're fasting during Ramadan

  13-03-2023 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Moscow investigated if fasting during Ramadan had an effect on criminal sentencing decisions by judges in Pakistan and India using half a century of daily data.
  
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• Medical Technocracy: The Forced Medication Of All Citizens

  13-03-2023 16:32 via technocracy.news
  
  It should be, “your body, your choice”. That’s over. The combined forces of Technocracy and Transhumanism are now in control of your body, both of what you put into it and what comes out of it. All disease, whether real or faked, will be treated by protocols from on high and at their discretion and timing. ⁃ TN Editor“…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
  It all starte
  
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• The Census’ Technocratic Data Grab And What You Can Do About It

  13-03-2023 16:08 via technocracy.news
  
  The American Community Survey (ACS) is a technocratic data grab, under the threat of severe fines for non-compliance, designed to force you to reveal the most personal information about yourself and others in your household. Here is how you can resist and practice non-compliance. ⁃ TN Editor“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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• Barbara Malthusian Hubbard: From Limits to Growth to UN Agenda 2030

  13-03-2023 15:36 via technocracy.news
  Klyczek: “Malthusianism is the bedrock of Darwinism, which is the foundation of eugenics, which is the cornerstone of transhumanism. Put another way, transhumanism encompasses both the Malthusian-sustainable control of population quantity and the Darwinian-eugenic control of population quality by means of technocracy. ” ⁃ TN EditorFor decades, New Age guru Barbara Marx Hubbard preached a futurist gospel of “conscious evolution” guided by “love and light.&rdquo
  
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• Silicon Valley Bank: Lessons learned from failed 'tech bank'

  13-03-2023 15:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC talks to some of the UK-based tech firms which had accounts with Silicon Valley Bank.
  
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• ChatGPT-4 is coming this week and will be able to turn text into VIDEO

  13-03-2023 13:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The updated version of ChatGPT will have 'multimodal models', according to Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun, meaning it will be able to generate, text, images and videos.
  
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• Meet the ordinary people who helped NASA shoot an asteroid off its course 

  13-03-2023 13:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ordinary people around the world used small telescopes to help NASA shoot an asteroid off its course in humanity's first planetary defense test known as the DART mission.
  
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• How does YOUR town stack up for broadband? Report reveals the UK regions with the slowest speeds

  13-03-2023 12:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Think Broadband's State of Broadband report shows that when it comes to full fibre coverage, the City of Kingston upon Hull, Belfast and Coventry District top the list.
  
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• Facial-recognition: How Sports Direct and Spar are using Chinese-made cameras to spot shoplifters

  13-03-2023 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Privacy rights group Big Brother Watch has launched a legal challenge over the use of Hikvision cameras in the UK after branding them 'Orwellian' and 'unlawful'.
  
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• How does YOUR town stack up? Report reveals the UK regions with the slowest broadband

  13-03-2023 12:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Think Broadband's State of Broadband report shows that when it comes to full fibre coverage, the City of Kingston upon Hull, Belfast and Coventry District top the list.
  
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• The Silicon Valley Bank Contagion Is Just Beginning

  13-03-2023 12:00
  
  The collapse of SVB isn’t just a tech industry problem—as the rest of the world is about to find out.
  
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• Helium’s IoT-Crypto Network Is Barely Hanging On in Lebanon

  13-03-2023 12:00
  
  People in the country hoped to earn a steady payout from Wi-Fi hot spots. But many are left holding useless hardware.
  
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• After 'The Last of Us,' Everything Will Be Transmedia

  13-03-2023 12:00
  
  The HBO series’s wild success has changed the game. Expect to see a lot more world-building franchises.
  
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• A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos

  13-03-2023 12:00
  
  PimEyes appears to have scraped a major ancestry website for photos, without permission. Experts fear they could be used to identify living relatives.
  
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• Avatar: The Way of Water's Oscar-winning visual effects

  13-03-2023 11:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  We go behind the scenes with the visual effects artists of James Cameron's Avatar sequel.
  
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• Silicon Valley Bank: Money in failed US bank is safe - US government

  13-03-2023 02:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Depositors with Silicon Valley Bank can access all their money from Monday, US officials say.
  
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• Still time to save Our Wild Isles, say UK conservation charities

  13-03-2023 02:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three of the biggest conservation charities team up to try and halt the destruction of nature in UK.
  
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• UK firms await government help after US bank collapse

  13-03-2023 02:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government is expected to announce support for companies after Silicon Valley Bank went bust.
  
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• TikTok users shrug at China fears: 'It's hard to care'

  13-03-2023 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Political outcry about TikTok national security risks has made little dent among users.
  
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