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• World's shark attack hotspots REVEALED: Map reveals the areas with the most encounters

  23-06-2023 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A shocking map has revealed Florida to be the shark bite capital of the world after 16 unprovoked attacks were reported there last year.
  
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• The Seaweed Blob Is Heading to a Beach Near You

  23-06-2023 20:39
  
  The 5,000-mile-wide Great Atlantic sargassum belt has started to shrink. But it's very difficult to know where its decomposing remains will wash up.
  
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• Google sides with WhatsApp on unauthorized access to Android microphones, claims notice was a bug

  23-06-2023 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google said 'privacy indicators' about WhatsApp's microphone spying were false, adding that updates to the latest version of WhatsApp have addressed the bug notices
  
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• Monarch butterfly's spots help it migrate - study

  23-06-2023 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers say that monarchs with more white spots on their wings migrate more successfully.
  
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• Titan sub: Coke can shows how 'implosion' may have happened

  23-06-2023 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A scientist has used a coke can for an analogy of what happened to OceanGate's sub. Authorities said the 22-foot vessel suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'.
  
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• UN Certified ‘Expert’: Religious Communities Must Yield To LGBT Demands

  23-06-2023 18:02 via technocracy.news
  
  The attack on religious freedom is unprecedented with new calls for religious communities to bow before LGBT demands for inclusion and acceptance. In the U.S., the First Amendment enshrines religious liberty as a God-given right; this would be demolished by this LGBT line of thinking. The very small LGBT community has no more right to demand religious subservience than the dog-catchers union. ⁃ TN EditorA U.N.-certified “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity declare
  
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• Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show

  23-06-2023 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warnings over the sub's safety were dismissed by OceanGate's CEO, emails seen by the BBC show.
  
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• The Transhumans’ Billion-Dollar Quest For Immortality

  23-06-2023 17:43 via technocracy.news
  
  The fact that thousands of genetic and medical scientists around the world are working feverishly to cure the “disease” of death should tell us that this isn’t just a fad. Public money funds universities. Billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Theil and Jeff Bezos are investing heavily. Transhumanism is here to stay and it is gaining power and influence over traditional science.⁃ TN EditorIn the pristine cylindrical atrium of Altos Labs’s Cambridge Institute of Science,
  
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• Universal Basic Income And The Anti-Human Agenda

  23-06-2023 17:02 via technocracy.news
  
  No less than eighty UBI trials are underway globally, and many more have already started and ended. UBI is an original construct of Technocracy from the 1930s, where everyone in society would receive the same allocation of energy script that would expire at the end of the allocation period. Today, UBI solves the problem of “unemployables” picking up too many pitchforks and torches to attack the Technocrat earth destroyers.
  That UBI is being tested globally proves beyond a shadow of d
  
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• Britain's Cape Canaveral - decommissioned RAF base tucked away on remote Shetland isle

  23-06-2023 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SaxaVord spaceport in Shetland is on course to get its licence from the Civil Aviation Authority within eight weeks, according to its leadership team.
  
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• Titan investigation: How will they find out what happened?

  23-06-2023 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The focus will now be turned towards understanding what caused the submersible's dive to go wrong.
  
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• The 47 Best Films on Netflix This Week

  23-06-2023 16:00
  
  From Pray Away to The Boys in the Band, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
  
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• Ancient Egyptian cult drank bodily fluid cocktails, study says

  23-06-2023 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A jug found at Egypt's ancient Fayum district carries a depiction of the deity Bes. New analysis of its interior reveals the 'diverse components' of a strange liquid concoction used for rituals
  
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• Eagle-eyed librarian stumbles across segment of Egyptian notebook 'that was bound in 260BC' 

  23-06-2023 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conservator, Theresa Zammi Lupi of Austria's University of Graz, has described the surreal moment she discovered a notebook page from Ancient Egypt, dating back to the third century.
  
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• What was the banging sound heard during the Titan rescue bid? 

  23-06-2023 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It had been thought the 'banging' was SOS noises by the five men. But we now know the sub was crushed as soon as it encountered trouble - so what was the banging. MailOnline investigates.
  
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• The Pain and Promise of Europe’s Abortion Laws

  23-06-2023 13:25
  
  The continent’s abortion laws are a patchwork of progress and setbacks. And for many, accessing the right care at the right time is still a lottery.
  
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• Warning to Android users over glitch which sees their phone accidentally 'silent call' 999 

  23-06-2023 11:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 1,000 'silent calls' have plagued emergency switchboards in recent weeks as police forces across the UK claim a mobile update is to blame.
  
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• Police warn Android phone users over 999 call feature

  23-06-2023 11:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Forces say update that lets button pushes trigger calls is bombarding operators with "silent" calls.
  
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• MIT discovery suggests a new class of superconductors

  23-06-2023 08:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  You who think superconductivity can't happen without spin polarization? Hold my FeSe If research from a group of MIT and Argonne boffins is confirmed, then we're one step closer to improved – and possibly entirely novel – superconducting materials.…
  
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• Millionaires Are Begging Governments to Tax Them More

  23-06-2023 08:00
  
  A group of multi-millionaires has an old idea for new money: tax wealth to solve the cost of living crisis
  
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• Green Parties Are Gaining Power—and Problems

  23-06-2023 08:00
  
  Environment-focused politicians are winning elections across Europe. Their idealism is crashing into reality, but pragmatism risks alienating supporters.
  
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• Why is it so rare to hear about Western cyber-attacks?

  23-06-2023 03:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Could a cyber-attack on a Russian technology company provide a rare insight into a Western hack?
  
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• Facebook and Instagram to restrict news access in Canada

  23-06-2023 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It comes after parliament passed a bill requiring tech giants to compensate publishers for news.
  
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• Students switch to AI to learn languages

  23-06-2023 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Many people are using AI like ChatGPT to improve their language skills but learning that way has drawbacks.
  
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