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• Inside Amazon's 'dystopian' new robot warehouses: Fears for company's 1.5 million human workers as Amazon employs humanoids to do 'mundane and repetitive' tasks

  19-10-2023 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Humanoid robots which can pick up packages with robotic arms are working alongside human workers in an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., the retail giant has announced.
  
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• Pentagon says it's received 291 UFO sightings over past year: Warns some craft appeared to display 'unusual maneuverability' and 'high-speed travel'

  19-10-2023 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pentagon's UFO chief said his office has 'concerning' evidence that some UFO cases 'may be attributed to foreign activity' from US rivals who can 'hide in our noise'
  
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• 'The CIA dropped the ball here': Hacker hijacked the CIA's secure contact link for Russian informants due to Twitter flaw

  19-10-2023 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An American hacker was able to use a glitch on the CIA's X account (formerly known as Twitter) to direct potential informants to his own Telegram channel.
  
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• Amazon trials humanoid robots to 'free up' staff

  19-10-2023 20:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US tech giant is looking at ways it can automate more of its operations.
  
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• Crypto Groups Gemini, Genesis, and DCG Sued for $1.1 Billion ‘Fraud’

  19-10-2023 20:22
  
  New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against crypto companies, including the Winkelvoss twins’ Gemini, alleging they misled investors.
  
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• Mysterious fast radio burst signal that could be evidence of an advanced alien civilisation is spotted further from Earth than EVER before

  19-10-2023 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The signal lasted less than a millisecond but it released an enormous amount of energy - the equivalent of our sun's total emission over a 30-year period, according to astronomers in Australia.
  
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• ‘The Whole Health System Is Collapsing Around Us.’ Doctors Say Gaza Is on the Brink

  19-10-2023 19:17
  
  Doctors say they are operating without anesthesia, hospitals have run out of space to put the wounded, and the dead are being buried in mass graves.
  
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• Amazon Already Has 750,0000 Robots In Quest To Eliminate Humans Altogether

  19-10-2023 17:56 via technocracy.news
  750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees” is pretty sobering, but Amazon is just getting started!  When it says it is “freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers,” it means getting rid of them altogether. Like Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos is a Techno-Optimist and utterly unplugged from reality.
  Andreessen wrote, “We believe that there is no material problem – whether created by nature or by technology – that cannot be solved
  
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• EU gives Meta and TikTok formal Hamas disinformation deadline

  19-10-2023 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Both firms must respond within a week to the request for information under the EU's new tech rules.
  
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• Daily Mail's tech reporter reviews the OnePlus Open folding phone that unfurls into a massive 8-inch tablet: 'It makes you feel like a future time-traveler)

  19-10-2023 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Few things can match folding phones in 2023 for 'wow' factor. Genuinely, opening one of these makes you feel like a time-traveler who has gone to the future.
  
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• Welsh Water admits illegally spilling sewage for years

  19-10-2023 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company released untreated sewage at dozens of sites, including near a bottlenose dolphin habitat.
  
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• Revealed: The pitch BLACK river that's so dark you can't even see your hand in front of your face

  19-10-2023 15:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Ruki River, a tributary of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one of the world's darkest bodies of water.
  
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• Amazon, Expedia and Trustpilot unite to fight fake reviews

  19-10-2023 14:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Major online firms will work together to fight fake reviews and share best practice.
  
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• Egypt's forgotten FEMALE king: Archaeologists uncover the tomb of a powerful woman who may have ruled 5,000 years ago

  19-10-2023 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists believe the burial site in Abydos, central Egypt, may actually be the final resting place of the first female ruler of ancient Egypt, Meret-Neith.
  
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• Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

  19-10-2023 13:00
  
  Amazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary reveals. The company also makes it alarmingly easy to sell dangerous items to children.
  
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• Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

  19-10-2023 12:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Finnish telecoms giant reported a fall in sales due to slowing demand for 5G equipment.
  
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• The World's Soils Are Becoming Dangerously Degraded, but Rare Microbes Offer Hope

  19-10-2023 12:00
  
  Puna Bio is taking microbes acclimatized to the harsh conditions of the Andean highlands and deploying them in depleted soils to help crops thrive.
  
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• Spider-Man 2: PS5 developer on stories, game length, and what's next

  19-10-2023 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The PS5 game's creative director Bryan Intihar talks about crafting a follow-up to a beloved hit.
  
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• Netflix users threaten to CANCEL their subscriptions as prices are hiked for millions of UK customers - as furious viewers slam the service as 'greedy'

  19-10-2023 11:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Furious Netflix users have threatened to cancel their accounts as the streaming service announced it was hiking its prices for millions of customers in the UK .
  
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• NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle

  19-10-2023 11:38 via go.theregister.com
  
  OV-103 was there for Hubble and the assembly of the ISS Never one to ignore a bit of history, NASA this week marked the 40th anniversary of Space Shuttle Discovery's public debut during a rollout at the Palmdale manufacturing plant in California on October 16, 1983.…
  
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• Greta Thunberg joins climate protest outside JP Morgan

  19-10-2023 11:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The climate activist is part of a Fossil Free London protest at JP Morgan's Canary Wharf office.
  
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• Why do people from Blackburn and Burnley sound so different? Scientists will scan people's mouths to understand why the accents are so dissimilar - despite being just 10 miles apart

  19-10-2023 11:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite being just 10 miles apart, these accents are surprisingly different, and scientists from the University of Lancaster want to find out why.
  
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• Mars chilled for aeons, but stayed so stressed it gets crusty marsquakes

  19-10-2023 10:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Multiple orbiters failed to find a crater matching rumble. Boffins now blame Red planet's internal problems Mars doesn’t have tectonic activity but still manages to have marsquakes, according to a paper that probed a 2022 shake detected by the InSight lander.…
  
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• Cheaters rejoice! WhatsApp now lets you have TWO accounts logged in at the same time

  19-10-2023 09:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta, the US parent company behind WhatsApp, has revealed that users will now be able to log into two accounts at the same time when using a single phone.
  
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• Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

  19-10-2023 08:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years Amazon on Thursday released photos of its newest delivery drone, the MK 30, and announced will expand its Prime Air drone delivery operations to Italy, the UK, and an unnamed American city in 2024.…
  
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• Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn to build 'AI factories'

  19-10-2023 05:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This comes as the US announced plans to cut off more exports of advanced chips to China, in a blow to Nvidia.
  
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• Is AI about to transform the legal profession?

  19-10-2023 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Law firms are increasingly using artificial intelligence systems, but it comes with risks.
  
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• Sign of the times? America begins prepping for major attack on capital - by simulating incoming missiles and hijacked airplanes

  19-10-2023 00:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) merges data from Army and Air Force. But in the last Washington DC test, the IBCS also used real world Navy sensors
  
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