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• Regulator sues Musk to force testimony in X probe

  05-10-2023 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Musk accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of "harassment" in the two sides' latest battle.
  
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• Spiders are 'falling' from the SKY in California: Locals report seeing webs with spiderlings floating in the air

  05-10-2023 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reports of spiders falling from the sky are flooding out of California. Locals along the Central Coast are seeing webs with baby spiders floating through the area and sticking onto buildings.
  
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• Australian surfers reveal their 'Seabins' have sucked up more than 7,300 pounds of litter and microplastics from the world's oceans since 2020

  05-10-2023 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Start-up Seabin has now filtered plastic pollution from 12.3 billion liters of water worldwide. Seabin expanded to US in 2022 with operations in Los Angeles and Philadelphia
  
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• Prada to design Nasa's new Moon suit

  05-10-2023 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Art meets science as Prada designers help create the spacesuits for the 2025 Moon mission.
  
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• Dogs at high risk of deadly Apple Snail invading the US because they carry rat lungworm parasites - and the species is crawling in North Carolina

  05-10-2023 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rat lungworm infection can lead to hind-leg paralysis and brain damage in dogs. The southern US is facing waves of an invasive snail that carries rat lungworm.
  
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• Scientists find at least SIX toxins like arsenic and uranium in systems used by 95% of the US population

  05-10-2023 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists are sounding the alarm after finding at least 320 million Americans are drinking water with at least six toxic contaminants, such as arsenic, nitrates, uranium and lead.
  
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• 'Baby brain' may begin in pregnancy - not after giving birth, scientists say

  05-10-2023 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the study, a team from the Francis Crick Institute exposed female mice to mice pups at regular intervals before, during and after pregnancy, scoring their behaviour.
  
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• The Great AI Invasion: Technocracy’s Final Solution

  05-10-2023 18:50 via technocracy.news
  
  Who do you think is pushing the AI invasion? Technocrats and nobody but Technocrats. Altman, Musk, Google, Microsoft, etc. These megalomanic titans have only one goal: the domination of the human race via Scientific Dictatorship. Technocrats have continuously lived in a simulacrum since the 1930s, and they are spreading it everywhere.
  These Technocrats think that we are stupid because we choose reality and not their pipe dreams. AI is too big to fight. They tell us that it unbiased. What rot. It
  
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• Ring is offering a $1 million reward for video footage of aliens captured using  its doorbell camera

  05-10-2023 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon-owned Ring is on the hunt for aliens and is offering a $1 million rewardto anyone who captures scientific evidence of a real extraterrestrial lifeform using its doorbell camera system.
  
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• Dogs at high risk of deadly Apple Snail invading the US because they carry rat lungworm parasites

  05-10-2023 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rat lungworm infection can lead to hind-leg paralysis and brain damage in dogs. The southern US is facing waves of an invasive snail that carries rat lungworm.
  
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• Symphony synchrony! Audience members' heart rates sync up at classical concerts, study finds

  05-10-2023 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Listening to classical music can get the hearts of an audience at a concert beating in sync, according to researchers from the University of Bern.
  
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• Why does the Millennium Bridge wobble? Scientists explain the unusual phenomenon - as London's famous crossing is shut down for urgent maintenance work

  05-10-2023 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Millennium Bridge is closing for three weeks for urgent maintenance works. Here, MailOnline reveals the science behind the unusual phenomenon.
  
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• Could your EV kidnap YOU? As a terrified motorist, 53, reveals his new electric car 'began driving itself', experts reveal whether the same could happen to you

  05-10-2023 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts weigh in after the £30,000 MG ZS suffered a 'catastrophic malfunction' on the A803 towards Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.
  
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• The Queen's Gambit had it spot on! Female chess players are seen as having less potential than males, study finds

  05-10-2023 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research suggests today's young women face a similar gender bias to the female whizz in The Queen's Gambit - because they are seen as having less potential than their male counterparts.
  
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• Amazon is quietly shutting down a popular app in a service shake-up that will affect hundreds of music fans

  05-10-2023 15:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon has quietly pulled the plug on its live-music app, Amp, only a year and a half after the service was first launched.
  
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• How a Zero-Gravity Omega Watch Repair Revolutionized NASA’s Space Station Fixes

  05-10-2023 15:00
  
  When astronaut Don Pettit mended his Omega Speedmaster 260 miles above Earth, he unwittingly transformed the ISS’s supply chain as a result.
  
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• Warmest September on record as 'gobsmacking' data shocks scientists

  05-10-2023 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This year is on track to be the warmest on record after September temperatures alarm scientists.
  
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• Is Maryland a UFO hotspot? Locals have reported nearly 2,000 bizarre sightings in the sky since 1995

  05-10-2023 14:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maryland has reported 1,923 UFOs cases to the National UFO Reporting Center. Locals have seen a 'flat bottom black triangle,' a 'classic flying saucer' and more in the skies.
  
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• Bed bug plague could be headed for Britain: Freakish outbreak ravaging Paris sparks crisis meetings after official warns 'no-one is safe'

  05-10-2023 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tiny blood-suckers have been caught crawling on train seats and inside Paris' Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. Travellers have even complained about infestations inside Airbnbs, hotels and cinemas.
  
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• Kim Catdashian! Women who speak with husky 'vocal fry' use the same technique as cats when they purr, study finds

  05-10-2023 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Vienna have revealed how women like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton who speak with vocal fry use the same technique as cats when the purr.
  
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• Assassin's Creed Mirage: Why Arabic is at the heart of the new game

  05-10-2023 13:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The makers of the latest in the stealth action series have put Arabic front and centre of the project.
  
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• Ozone Hole is one of the BIGGEST on record: Gap over Antarctica is now three times the size of Brazil - and it could get even larger

  05-10-2023 12:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists are not sure why this year's ozone hole is so large but some researchers have speculated that it could be linked to the Tonga underwater volcanic eruption in January 2022.
  
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• Twitter quietly makes a HUGE change to the platform - and users are absolutely baffled by the update

  05-10-2023 12:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk has made yet another big change to X (formerly Twitter ), and users are already furious with the decision.
  
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• Astronaut on board the International Space Station reveals how she makes her morning coffee in zero gravity

  05-10-2023 12:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut with the European Space Agency, has revealed how she made her morning coffee without the help of gravity during her time on the ISS.
  
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• Twitter quietly makes a HUGE change to how you click on links - and users are absolutely baffled by the update

  05-10-2023 11:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk has made yet another big change to X (formerly Twitter ), and users are already furious with the decision.
  
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• Human bones covered in bite marks are discovered in a cave in Cheddar Gorge - suggesting Stone Age people practiced CANNIBALISM as part of their funeral rituals

  05-10-2023 11:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Magdalenians, an early hunter-gatherer culture widespread around Europe, ate their loved ones simply to dispose of their bodies, report experts at the Natural History Museum in London.
  
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• Is this Alexander the Great's escort? Tomb of a courtesan who may have seduced the Macedonian king is discovered after 2,300 years

  05-10-2023 11:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tomb of a courtesan who seduced the elite 'during Alexander the Great's campaigns' has been discovered after 2,300 years.
  
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• Amazon and Microsoft to face cloud computing competition probe

  05-10-2023 10:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The competition watchdog is investigating the tech giants' cloud computing dominance.
  
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• NASA taking its time unboxing asteroid sample because it grabbed too much stuff

  05-10-2023 09:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Dirty deed, done in deep space NASA is running late in its efforts to share 4.5-billion-year-old dust samples with researchers, blaming the delay on its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returning more material than expected. …
  
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• New 3D body scanners are a 'huge step' forward in treating cancer, dementia and other serious illnesses, health chiefs say

  05-10-2023 09:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to experts, the 'game-changing' high-tech machines can do a full-body scan of an adult in five minutes and a child in one minute.
  
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• Men won't go vegan because they don't think it's MANLY, scientists say

  05-10-2023 06:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Men are less likely to be vegans than women because the diet is not seen as masculine, a study from the University of Würzburg suggests.
  
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• Last month was Earth's hottest September EVER, data reveals - and forecasters say 2023 is on track to be the warmest year on record

  05-10-2023 06:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Copernicus Climate Change Service has confirmed that September 2023 was the warmest September on record globally, with an average surface air temperature of 16.38°C.
  
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• Can AI popstars make it in the real world?

  05-10-2023 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Created using motion capture, graphics and AI software, Noonoouri is not your average singer.
  
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