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• Did YOU use Facebook between May 2007 and December 2022? Meta likely owes you money

  17-04-2023 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta recently agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it misused user data. Now, eligible users can submit a claim to see if they are owed some of the lump sum.
  
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• I was a hacker for 30 years. These are the scariest things I saw on the dark web

  17-04-2023 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An unethical 'black hat' turned 'white hat' hacker revealed the scariest things he saw on the dark web. This includes bad actors stealing millions of dollars to those who want to see the world burn.
  
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• Winner of Sony World Photography Award refuses his prize after revealing portrait was created by AI

  17-04-2023 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boris Eldagsen tricked competition organisers with his entry, Pseudomnesia: The Electrician - a haunting close-up of two women in a grainy sepia which won the creative open category.
  
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• Polestar 4 2023 Reveal: No Rear Window

  17-04-2023 20:45
  
  The 350-mile Polestar 4 attempts to maximize interior space and right the wrongs of the much-maligned SUV coupé.
  
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• IMF Unveils UNICOIN As Legal Tender CBDC Settlement

  17-04-2023 19:31 via technocracy.news
  
  Individual CBDCs are coming together through interoperability. Now, the International Monetary Fund has introduced the Unicoin that may be the “master” key to the rest of CBDCs. CBDCs may still transfer peer-to-peer with other CBDCs but Unicoin could provide temporary and stable storage space when necessary.⁃ TN EditorDuring last week’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced the launch of an interna
  
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• Netflix apologises as Love is Blind reunion show delayed

  17-04-2023 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The special episode was pre-recorded and aired in the US, but global viewers are left waiting.
  
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• Eat Your Vaccines: mRNA Gene Therapy Foods?

  17-04-2023 19:17 via technocracy.news
  The idea of eating vaccine technology through plants and animals is not new. Transhumans and Technocrats have been intent on taking over all genetic material on earth since at least 1992 with the advent of Sustainable Development and Agenda 21, where the term Biodiversity was redefined as “genetic manipulation.” ⁃ TN Editor“I’ve got documents from the NIH – from 2002 – talking about integrating vaccines into foods,” announced attorney Tom Renz in a
  
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• Why playing video games might be a good thing for your child

  17-04-2023 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The poll, commissioned by YouTube, also asked Generation Z how they felt hours spent on games such Minecraft and Roblox could be helping their future job prospects.
  
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• Tonga underwater volcanic eruption was equal the largest natural explosion in more than a CENTURY

  17-04-2023 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Miami used satellite and underwater data to create a simulation of the colossal tsunami striking the Tongan Archipelago.
  
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• Why you should never try Sephora tester makeup on

  17-04-2023 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new video will make you think twice before using makeup testers at Sephora. A TikToker swabbed lipsticks, blushes, eyeshadows, concealers, multi-sticks and mascaras.
  
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• Tech company patents: Apple car to Amazon floating warehouse

  17-04-2023 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Is Apple really going to bring out a car with no windows - and are floating Amazon fulfilment centers about to appear over a city near you? DailyMail.com reveals 12 inventions that could upheave our lives.
  
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• Why Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship did NOT launch today

  17-04-2023 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's Starship is still waiting on the launchpad after its first orbital launch was scrubbed due to technical issues. SpaceX needs at 48 hours to recycle fuel for the next launch.
  
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• The science of Super Mario: How Nintendo's famous plumber would CRUSH the human high jump record

  17-04-2023 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To celebrate the release of 'The Super Mario Movie', MailOnline takes a look at what physical features the Italian hero must have for his superhuman jumps and speed.
  
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• Ocean species found living on the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'

  17-04-2023 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Species originating on the coast are capable of surviving and reproducing on plastic debris that may have travelled thousands of miles, US researchers report.
  
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• Spotify makes 'difficult decision' to drop Heardle

  17-04-2023 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The move comes less than a year after the music streaming service bought the name-that-song game.
  
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• SpaceX feels the pressure, scraps first orbital launch of Starship

  17-04-2023 15:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Another attempt is possible later this week, depending on how the troubleshooting goes Today's first orbital launch of SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy booster was canceled due to a pressurization valve malfunction in the first stage of the combined craft.…
  
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• Mysterious 300-million-year-old 'Tully monster' was an invertebrate, scientists say 

  17-04-2023 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have been debating the morphology of the 'Tully monster' since the discovery of its fossils in the 1950s. Now, a team at the University of Tokyo say it definitely did not have a backbone.
  
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• Elon Musk's first orbital Starship launch is CANCELED just minutes before blast off

  17-04-2023 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's Starship is still waiting on the launchpad after its first orbital launch was scrubbed due to technical issues. The next launch will be no earlier than Wednesday.
  
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• Elon Musk creates AI company to rival OpenAI 

  17-04-2023 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Twitter, Telsa and SpaceX boss has registered a company with the name of 'X.AI', thought to be the new home of his AI efforts.
  
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• All you need to know about Elon Musk's Starship

  17-04-2023 12:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  What is Musk's vision for Starship, how does NASA plan to make use of it for the moon, and why is it so important for the future of humanity? MailOnline investigates ahead of the craft's maiden orbital flight.
  
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• Angry Birds: Sega agrees to buy video game maker Rovio

  17-04-2023 11:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Japanese gaming giant Sega will pay £625m for Rovio to "strengthen its position" in gaming.
  
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• James Webb telescope keeps finding galaxies that shouldn't exist, scientist warns

  17-04-2023 11:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six galaxies spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are far too massive to be the age their data suggests they are, according to a University of Texas at Austin scientist.
  
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• Elon Musk's Starship to make maiden launch today

  17-04-2023 11:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk's $3 billion (£2.4 billion), 395ft-tall Starship is due to life-off from Boca Chica in Texas from 08:00 local time (14:00 BST).
  
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• Don't bark orders at dogs but speak nicely instead for better results in training, experts say 

  17-04-2023 08:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team, from the Wolf Science Centre at the University of Vienna and the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, studied the way nine mixed-breed dogs behaved.
  
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• Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Is this the UK's most abused traffic bollard?

  17-04-2023 07:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Installed in a Low Traffic Neighbourhood, it has been repeatedly run over, bent, burned and, finally, stolen.
  
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• Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned

  17-04-2023 05:24 via go.theregister.com
  
  And sets a Martian height record for good measure NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was designed to fly just five times, but last week the little rotorcraft that could clocked up its 50th flight in the red planet’s thin atmosphere.…
  
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• How artificial intelligence is matching drugs to patients

  17-04-2023 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Health-tech firms around the world are increasingly using AI to help tailor drugs for patients.
  
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• Greener flights will cost more, says industry

  17-04-2023 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Demand for air travel will be hit as decarbonisation drives up ticket prices, says industry.
  
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