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• Zoom orders workers back to the office

  07-08-2023 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company says staff living near offices should work in person at least twice a week.
  
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• Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works

  07-08-2023 20:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Greater yield than last year, but don't ditch your solar panels just yet Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consumed.…
  
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• Zoom can use your private calls and messages to train its AI systems thanks to new terms and conditions that YOU agreed to

  07-08-2023 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The San Jose company's new terms and conditions - which came into force in March but were spotted this month - have sparked a wave of outrage online, with users threatening to cancel their accounts.
  
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• Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, say Scottish boffins

  07-08-2023 19:50 via go.theregister.com
  
  An electrically charged spring in your step A group of Scottish engineers claim to have come up with a new way to harvest the electricity wasted by everyday human movement: electrically conductive foam.…
  
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• Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, maybe

  07-08-2023 19:50 via go.theregister.com
  
  An electrically charged spring in your step A group of Scottish engineers claim to have come up with a new way to harvest the electricity wasted by everyday human movement: electrically conductive foam.…
  
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• The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes

  07-08-2023 18:32
  
  Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.
  
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• Apple to release new iPhone 15 on September 22, insiders say

  07-08-2023 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple will reportedly reveal its latest iPhone in mid-September at its California headquarters. The iPhone 15 will have four models and include a new charging port and more powerful camera.
  
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• When does Virgin Galactic's first space tourism mission launch and who is onboard? All you need to know as mother and daughter join ex-British Olympian on historic trip this week

  07-08-2023 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Galactic 02' mission will send a crew of six into orbit (including three 'space tourists') aboard the VSS Unity spaceplane when it blasts off from New Mexico on Thursday.
  
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• Melbourne meteor: Loud boom and 'earthquake' felt after 'comet' seen in the sky

  07-08-2023 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shortly after midnight, residents took to Twitter to say they had felt the Earth move - while others posted pictures of something glowing in the night's sky.
  
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• Have scientists discovered a new species of HUMAN? Ancient skull belonging to a child with no chin who lived 300,000 years ago suggests our family tree 'needs another branch'

  07-08-2023 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossilised remains, which included a jaw, skull, and leg bones, were discovered in Hualongdong, China in 2019.
  
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• Fortnite suffers major global outage with gamers complaining of 'supervised settings' glitch

  07-08-2023 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly half of players impacted by the outage said they could not even log on. Another 8% who managed to get into the game, reported lags, response issues
  
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• Warfare: Cyberattack Launched Against Hospitals Across U.S.

  07-08-2023 17:00 via technocracy.news
  
  Cybercriminals continue to be blamed as the primary actors in cyberattacks, but any logical analysis reveals the massive scale of these attacks would absolutely require institutional support. The U.S. intel community could certainly identify the geographical and organizational source of these attacks, yet choose to cover up the tracks by feigning unknown cybercriminals.  ⁃ TN EditorA cyberattack has disrupted hospital computer systems across the United States, forcing emergency rooms
  
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• Extent Of De-Banking Revealed: Nearly One Million UK Accounts Shut In Past Four Years

  07-08-2023 16:28 via technocracy.news
  
  Nigel Farage is taking on the global bank cartel on two counts: De-banking based on political views and forcing cash out of society. Britain is the canary in the coal mine because the Bank of England is arguably the most powerful central bank in the world. BoE is pushing its member banks to crush opposition while taking over all monetary policies.
  The war between central banks and their respective governments is fully in the open. The concept of the nation-state is over, they reason, and therefo
  
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• Why Twitter's blue tick rebrand has men in the dog house: Husband jokes he is 'sleeping on the couch' after wife finds 'X Premium' on his credit card statement - as users claim it sounds like a porn site

  07-08-2023 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter Blue is now called 'X Premium' as part of Musk's rebrand of the platform - but users have commented that the new name 'sounds like a porn website'.
  
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• Aussie Intel Agency Funds Research To Merge Human Brain Cells With AI

  07-08-2023 15:48 via technocracy.news
  
  Pure Transhumanism is on display here. Even though research scientists perform the work, it is funded by intelligence agencies and the military, both arms of the government and part of the industrial/military complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned the west about in the 1950s. ⁃ TN Editor
  Australia’s Office of National Intelligence, the equivalent of the US Director of National Intelligence, is funding a project to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligen
  
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• Could a Yorkshire mine help solve the universe's greatest mystery? British scientists want to build a giant particle detector 3,000ft below ground to pinpoint the source of dark matter

  07-08-2023 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The working mine in Boulby, Yorkshire (pictured) is in the running to be the new International Dark Matter Centre, along with a site in South Dakota and a state-of-the-art underground lab in Italy.
  
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• Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones

  07-08-2023 13:00
  
  Cybercriminals are touting large language models that could help them with phishing or creating malware. But the AI chatbots could just be their own kind of scam.
  
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• Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth

  07-08-2023 11:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  Voyager's mix of tenacity and discovery should worry its science icon competitors Opinion  The true measure of technology is not how well it matches human intelligence, but how well it survives human stupidity. Humanity's most iconic robots, the Voyager space probes, seem to be up to that job. Nearly 20 billion kilometers from home and nearly 50 years in deep space, Voyager 2 has just been told to point its antenna away from Earth and await further orders.…
  
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• Baby monitors and smart speakers enabling abuse, say MPs

  07-08-2023 11:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs demand government action on the growing problem of 'tech-enabled' domestic violence.
  
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• Zuckerberg 'not holding breath' over Musk cage fight

  07-08-2023 08:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech billionaires have also been going head to head over their rival platforms, X and Threads.
  
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• Mother and daughter first to go to space together

  07-08-2023 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anastatia Mayers and Keisha Schahaff won a place on Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight in a prize draw.
  
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