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• 'Alien weapon' made 3,000 years ago is found in Switzerland

  02-08-2023 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have made an amazing discovery in Switzerland - a 3,000-year-old weapon made from 'alien metal.' The arrowhead's composition has isotopes that formed in the early solar system.
  
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• Half of all TikTok videos about baby boomers are 'ageist stereotypes' because Gen Z and millennials think older people's views don't align with theirs, study finds

  02-08-2023 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the study, 49.3 per cent of videos posted on TikTok are against against 'baby boomers' - people born in the years following the Second World War.
  
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• Could YOU spot a deepfake? Scientists find humans struggle to detect AI speech even when they've been trained to look out for it

  02-08-2023 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team from University College London used an algorithm to generate 50 deepfake speech samples and played them for 529 participants.
  
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• Brilliant Perseid meteor shower will see up to 100 shooting stars streak through the night sky next week

  02-08-2023 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA expert says 'this year is going to be great' for viewing Perseid fireballs. In mid-August, hundreds of Perseid meteors will blaze into Earth's atmosphere at 37 miles per second each
  
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• America's 25 sweetest drinks RANKED: They contain as much sugar as 18 cookies... so is the juice really worth the squeeze?

  02-08-2023 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While soda and tea can be refreshing on a hot summer day, but many of these are packed with more sugar than handfuls of pastries and cookies. DailyMail.com found the 25 most sugary drinks.
  
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• Worldcoin To Share ID System With Governments, Corporations

  02-08-2023 18:00 via technocracy.news
  
  Worldcoin’s ambition may be as big as that of OpenAI’s ChatGPT: namely, to disrupt the entire world and flip it into an outright Technocracy. It is openly discussed that Worldcoin is a stepping-stone to Universal Basic Income (UBI). Let me set the record straight – UBI is an idea only found in historic Technocracy. Period.
  Altman is a Technocrat promoting Technocracy, not socialism, communism or fascism. There is no conceivable or possible way to deal with the Altmans of the wo
  
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• Extreme Heat Threatens the Health of Unborn Babies

  02-08-2023 18:00
  
  Exposure to excessive heat during pregnancy has been linked to everything from preterm labor to low birth weight, and those risks are rising as the world warms.
  
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• Atlantic orcas 'learning from adults' to target boats

  02-08-2023 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Juvenile killer whales in the Atlantic are learning a dangerous game by copying adults.
  
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• The science behind your sun tan: Experts solve the mystery of why it can take hours (or even days) for human skin to change colour after a day at the beach

  02-08-2023 17:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel reveal the reason behind tans appearing only after we've left the beach.
  
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• Apple AirPods charging case could be worn like jewelry around your wrist, patents suggest

  02-08-2023 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple could be working on a redesign of the bulky AirPods charging case. The tech giant received new patent shows a thin, flexible case that clasps around the wrist, letting you wear it as a bracelet.
  
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• How to spot fake reviews online

  02-08-2023 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Emma Vardy takes a look at UK companies using fake reviews to boost their online visibility.
  
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• Why you shouldn't rely on Google to choose a dentist: Private medical clinics across Britain are boosting their profiles with fake online reviews, investigation reveals

  02-08-2023 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In one case, a woman thanking a Manchester dentist for her 'new smile' had, in the same month, visited a spa in the US, a restaurant in Sweden, and used a removal company in Australia.
  
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• Mika: The World’s First Robot CEO

  02-08-2023 17:08 via technocracy.news
  
  Mika, made by Hansen Robotics, is a robotic sister to Sophia. Mika was “hired” by a Columbia-based rum distilling company, Dictador. It is a proof-of-concept that an AI robot can actually perform as a CEO or any other top executive. Will Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg replace themselves with robots? ⁃ TN EditorAI could pinch the jobs of billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, according to the world’s first robot chief executive.
  Mika – who runs drin
  
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• Is this the heaviest animal EVER? Scientists say colossal ancient whale that lived 39 million years ago and weighed up to 340 tonnes may be Earth's largest creature on record

  02-08-2023 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered a new species of ancient whale, called Perucetus colossus, which weighed up to 340 tonnes and lived in South America more than 39 million years ago.
  
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• Bye Bye Bulb: Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Starts Today

  02-08-2023 16:26 via technocracy.news
  
  The light bulb industry went “pop” for the last time, dimming into the waste-bin of history. Although the ban has been anticipated for some time, it proves how pernicious the global warming cult is to influence industry. Now the light bulb police will levy fines against any retailer caught selling them.⁃ TN EditorIf you like your light bulb, you can’t keep your light bulb. The Biden administration is seeing to that. Well, to be fair you can keep whatever incandescent ligh
  
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• Postie of the future? Britain's first DRONE mail service begins in Orkney as Royal Mail launches bots to carry letters and parcels between the Scottish islands

  02-08-2023 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Royal Mail drones will transport post from the village of Stromness, on the Orkney mainland, to the islands of Hoy and Graemsay.
  
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• Hemel Hempstead boy finds megalodon shark tooth at Walton-on-the-Naze

  02-08-2023 15:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wildlife experts call it a "rare find" but a museum says it may have been restored and sold in a shop.
  
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• X Corp sues anti-hate campaigners over Twitter research

  02-08-2023 13:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm behind X, as Twitter is now known, is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate
  
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• Where ARE Voyager 1 and 2? As NASA detects a 'heartbeat' from humanity's second most distant probe, MailOnline looks at how far the spacecraft and its twin have travelled since 1977

  02-08-2023 13:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Voyager 2 is currently in the constellation of Pavo, more than 12.3 billion miles away from Earth, while Voyager 1 is in the constellation of Ophiucus 1 almost 15 billion miles from Earth.
  
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• MrBeast Burger firm accuses YouTuber of 'bullying'

  02-08-2023 13:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Virtual Dining Concepts responds after MrBeast began legal action to end their partnership.
  
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• One of Gaming’s Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI

  02-08-2023 13:00
  
  Jordi Van Den Bussche, aka Kwebbelkop, opens up about his new video that uses an AI model to reproduce his physical presence. But will fans still watch an AI clone?
  
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• After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine

  02-08-2023 12:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Here's looking at Euclid Astronomers are breathing a sigh of relief that the 600-megapixel Euclid wide-angle space telescope's instruments appear to be working well, despite discovering a gap in the orbiter's hull that allowed sunlight to leak through and contaminate some images.…
  
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• The impact of 'global boiling': Shocking before and after photos reveal just how much the Greenland Ice Sheet melted during the 'hottest month ever recorded on Earth'

  02-08-2023 12:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New satellite images show how snow has depleted on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Here's why this is a problem for the planet.
  
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• WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women's Soccer

  02-08-2023 12:00
  
  As the UK pushes for a law that threatens end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp has given itself a starring role in a doc about a girls’ soccer team fleeing the Taliban.
  
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• Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

  02-08-2023 09:55 via go.theregister.com
  
  Not all heroes wear capes – some are 50-year-old antennas A signal from Voyager 2 has been detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) over a week after communications with the distant probe were lost, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday.…
  
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• Japanese boffins slice semiconductors from diamonds – with lasers!

  02-08-2023 09:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  Chips based on the tech could boost efficiency of electric vehicles Scientists at Japan's Chiba University claim they've developed a method that uses lasers to create diamond wafers that could one day power next-gen semiconductors.…
  
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• MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water

  02-08-2023 04:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor Researchers at MIT claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered carbon black – a crystalline form of the element.…
  
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• MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water

  02-08-2023 04:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered carbon black – a crystalline form of the element.…
  
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• Warning over medical clinics using fake Google reviews

  02-08-2023 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC tracked down UK companies using fake reviews to boost their visibility in Google results.
  
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• Scientists can now control human DNA with electricity using new tech that 'sparks genes back to life'

  02-08-2023 00:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The system stimulated daily insulin production with just 10 seconds of 4.5 Volt current. The new tech uses acupuncture needles already approved by WHO and FDA to activate gene-based therapies safely
  
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