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• Plastic wet wipes ban planned in England to tackle pollution

  03-04-2023 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government plans to ban wet wipes containing plastic but critics say it's not enough.
  
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• Who is Christina Koch? The first female NASA astronaut set to orbit the moon

  03-04-2023 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Grand Rapids, Michigan natuve, 44, already holds two records including the longest spaceflight by a woman and for taking part in the first all-female spacewalk.
  
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• Who is Victor Glover? The man set to become NASA's first black astronaut to orbit the moon

  03-04-2023 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pomona, California, native will be the first person of color to travel into deep space, hundreds of thousands of miles beyond the low-Earth orbiting International Space Station.
  
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• NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight

  03-04-2023 22:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  First for women, people of color, Canucks NASA today named the Artemis Moon program's first crew of astronauts. Among them are the first woman, the first person of color, and the first Canadian set to blast off on a lunar mission…
  
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• Scientists who study centenarians say key to living beyond 100 is lots of exposure to infections

  03-04-2023 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Boston who studied the DNA of seven centenarians found they all shared one thing in common - they all had plenty of experience fighting off infections.
  
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• Ethically Unacceptable: Eugenics By Any Other Name Is Still Eugenics

  03-04-2023 18:20 via technocracy.news
  
  Transhumans are pushing for a eugenics-based society that will create a class of “haves” versus “have-nots”. The “have-nots” will be ultimately bred out of, or eliminated from the human gene pool. This was Hitler’s precious dream and it is just as evil today as it was in the 1930s. Remember, however, that the eugenics originally started in 1909 in Berkeley, California.⁃ TN Editor
  The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held ear
  
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• Should We Heed AI Experts’ Warnings To Stop NOW?

  03-04-2023 17:38 via technocracy.news
  
  99% of the population have no concept of what AI actually is or what kind of threat it poses to humanity. When true experts in the industry issue stark warnings to stop AI development, the rest of the world still has no concept of why anyone should listen to them, and so development continues unabated and unchecked. ⁃ TN EditorA TOP AI expert has issued a stark warning over the potential for world extinction that super-smart AI technology could bring.
  Eliezer Yudkowsky is a leading AI rese
  
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• The Loss Of Free Speech Was Predictable And Preventable

  03-04-2023 17:14 via technocracy.news
  
  As technology has disrupted key elements of society, Technocrats have taken advantage of the chaos to not only implement their own agenda but also to erect barriers to competition or resistance. If this had been recognized early enough, it could have been easily blocked. Now, the mere barriers have hardened into fortresses.⁃ TN EditorThe First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech
  
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• Sainsbury's goes TRAYLESS on whole chickens in change that will save 10M pieces of plastic a year

  03-04-2023 13:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sainsbury's is removing the single-use plastic trays from its packaging, in a change that it says will save over 10 million pieces of plastic a year.
  
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• The mobile phone turns 50! MailOnline looks back at the evolution of the device

  03-04-2023 13:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To celebrate the 50th birthday of the mobile phone, MailOnline looks back at its evolution over the last five decades.
  
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• Your First Lab-Grown Burger Won’t Contain Much Beef

  03-04-2023 13:00
  
  Meat brewed in bioreactors is on the way, but it’s still too expensive. The solution? Add a whole lot of plants.
  
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• ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Turned a Children’s Icon Into a Murderer. Good

  03-04-2023 13:00
  
  As more characters enter the public domain, it’s important that creators use them. Next up: Mickey Mouse.
  
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• Lab-Grown Burgers Have a Secret Ingredient: Plants

  03-04-2023 13:00
  
  The first cultivated beef burger you eat will probably contain only a small amount of animals cells—and a whole lot of green stuff.
  
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• Girl, 3, is bitten by iguana who ran off with her cake

  03-04-2023 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mars family, from San Jose in California, were holidaying on the picturesque beaches of Costa Rica last May when the attack occurred.
  
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• Has NASA finally found life on Mars? Perseverance collects key samples of Martian soil

  03-04-2023 11:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The car-sized Perseverance rover cored down into the sediment of Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, marking the first sample of its new campaign.
  
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• Eating late dinners may NOT harm our health

  03-04-2023 02:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is familiar advice that eating late at night can cause weight gain and health complications.
  
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• The other Chinese apps taking the US and UK by storm

  03-04-2023 02:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four out of the top 10 most downloaded free mobile apps in the US and UK are Chinese-owned.
  
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• Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago

  03-04-2023 02:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marty Cooper, who made the first mobile phone call in 1973, says modern devices are "suboptimal".
  
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• India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane

  03-04-2023 01:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  PLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more Asia In Brief  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday successfully flew and landed an autonomous reusable spaceplane.…
  
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• Would you open up to a chatbot therapist?

  03-04-2023 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AI-powered chatbots are now sophisticated enough that they are starting to be used for therapy.
  
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