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• California gives first look at towering bullet train stations for $3 BILLION high speed route in the Central Valley that will cover 171 miles at 220 mph

  05-03-2024 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California has offered a first look at towering stations for the incredible bullet trains that will soon soar across the West Coast at speeds of 220 miles per hour
  
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• SpaceX shares stunning images of Starship launch rehearsal that loaded more than 10 million pounds of propellant on the craft - as Elon Musk eyes orbital mission this month

  05-03-2024 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX released incredible images of its Starship rocket's 10-second launch test, marking the third time the company has tested the rocket since April of last year.
  
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• Zuckerberg's million dollar outage: Finance expert reveals Meta lost roughly $100 MILLION during two-hour glitch that took down Facebook, Instagram and Messenger

  05-03-2024 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A finance expert told DailyMail.com that Meta's two-hour outage cost the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company roughly $100 million. Meta has blamed the glitch on 'technical issues.'
  
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• Bitcoin price briefly tops $69,000 for new high

  05-03-2024 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The cryptocurrency has leapt in value after US finance giants poured billions into buying bitcoins.
  
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• NASA's James Webb spots one of the very first galaxies in the universe that formed just 430 million years after the Big Bang - and astronomers reveal why it is still so bright

  05-03-2024 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers now know why one of the universe's oldest galaxies is so bright. The 430-million-year-old galaxy GN-z11 hosts a supermassive black hole at its center, 2 million times the mass of our sun.
  
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• BBC Verify: How to spot AI fakes in the US election

  05-03-2024 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Marianna Spring explains the key to recognising AI-generated images circulating on social media.
  
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• Was Taylor Swift to blame? Conspiracy theories about Facebook, Instagram and Messenger flood Elon Musk's X - with some pointing fingers at the popstar, the New World Order and data cables cut in the Red Sea

  05-03-2024 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conspiracy theorists took to X and Facebook to accuse Meta of trying to silence them as the presidential primaries get underway. Super Tuesday marks the beginning of the 2024 presidential election.
  
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• How YOU can name an asteroid: Japan asks for help in creating moniker for space rock the size of the Golden Gate Bridge that its craft will investigate in 2026

  05-03-2024 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japan's space agency JAXA is open to any, 'non-offensive' name under 16-characters. The winning name will join asteroids like Bennu - named after a mythical Egyptian bird
  
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• Dinosaur-age 'nightmarish' sea lizard fossil found

  05-03-2024 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists believe the species hunted the oceans 66 million years ago with "teeth like knives".
  
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• Meta blames mass outage on 'technical issue' but won't say what caused issues after hundreds of thousands report not being able to use Facebook, Instagram and Messenger

  05-03-2024 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta has blamed the massive outage out 'technical issues' and apologized for the inconvenience, but users have pleaded with the company for more answers.
  
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• Practice run for the presidential election': Internet theories run wild as Facebook and Instagram crash on Super Tuesday

  05-03-2024 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conspiracy theorists took to X and Facebook to accuse Meta of trying to silence them as the presidential primaries get underway. Super Tuesday marks the beginning of the 2024 presidential election.
  
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• Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are back online following a 1.5hr outage that left users worldwide unable to access Meta's social media platforms - as experts say 'a cyberattack can never be fully ruled out'

  05-03-2024 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta's Facebook and Instagram went down worldwide, leaving users unable to access accounts after they were mysteriously booted out. The issues appeared around 10:20am ET.
  
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• Facebook and Instagram restored after outages

  05-03-2024 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parent company Meta blames "technical issue" for widespread problems with services.
  
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• 90million adults could be addicted to porn- as study unveils new concerns about 'problematic' use that affects 3% of global population

  05-03-2024 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly 100 million adults could be addicted to pornography, a global study of 80,000 adults from 42 countries, which was conducted by the University of Montreal, found.
  
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• Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are back online following a 1.5hrs outage that left users worldwide unable to access Meta's social media platforms - as experts say 'a cyberattack can never be fully ruled out'

  05-03-2024 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta's Facebook and Instagram went down worldwide, leaving users unable to access accounts after they were mysteriously booted out. The issues appeared around 10:20am ET.
  
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• Musk attacks 'dumb eco-terrorists' over Tesla fire

  05-03-2024 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Production at car-maker's factory in Berlin has been halted after suspected arson attack.
  
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• Astonishing moment orca kills great white shark after slamming into it at high speed is captured in rare footage

  05-03-2024 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage, captured by National Geographic as part of the series 'Queens', shows a 60-year-old grandmother killer whale called Sophie pounding into a great white shark off the coast of South Africa.
  
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• Stingray experts explain Charlotte's 'immaculate conception' - and why the North Carolina aquarium doesn't know when she'll actually give birth

  05-03-2024 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charlotte the stingray's immaculate conception is likely to be caused by its body cloning itself to produce offspring without a mate. The stingray's due date has not been confirmed.
  
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• French designer Coperni uses NASA's silica aerogel to create a bag made of 99% AIR

  05-03-2024 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Would you buy something that was 99 per cent air? This stunning bag is made of NASA's aerogel material, the lightest solid on Earth and weighs only 33 grams in total.
  
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• The Arctic could be mostly ice-free in just 10 years - and it means intense heatwaves will plague Earth

  05-03-2024 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Arctic will see its first ice-free period within the decade and in is little as two years, scientists say. Sea ice normally melts and re-freezes each year, but it is getting smaller every year, according to a study.
  
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• The Arctic could be mostly ice-free sooner than we thought - and it means intense heatwaves will plague Earth

  05-03-2024 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Arctic will see its first ice-free period within the decade and in is little as two years, scientists say. Sea ice normally melts and re-freezes each year, but it is getting smaller every year, according to a study.
  
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• Meta is DOWN! Facebook, Messenger and Instagram hit with worldwide outage

  05-03-2024 16:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meta's Facebook and Instagram are down worldwide, leaving users unable to access accounts after they were mysteriously booted out. The issues appeared around 10:20am ET.
  
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• AI Wars: Anthropic Trys To Upstage OpenAI With Claude 3

  05-03-2024 16:25 via technocracy.news
  
  AI was in its infancy in 2023 with a single product, ChatGPT, by OpenAI. 2024 is the explosion phase, where startup companies pop out of obscurity to surprise with even more robust AI models. Anthropic’s Claude 3 joins Google’s Gemini, IBM’s Watsonx, Perpexity, Microsoft’s Bing, and others. The battle is on to see who will be first to achieve AGI—Artificial General Intelligence.
  I will stand by my prediction that AGI will be a reality before the end of 2024. Some th
  
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• Shocking graphic reveals the serious health issues gamers face if they spend just three hours a day hunched over their consoles - including eye strain, stiff wrists and 'gamer neck'

  05-03-2024 14:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Queensland have warned that while it might be fun, prolonged game play can lead to serious health issues.
  
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• See the birth of a PLANET: Incredible photos reveal the weird and wonderful ways worlds form in different regions of our galaxy

  05-03-2024 14:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stunning new images released by the European Southern Observatory show 'planet-forming discs' - swirling rings of gas and dust surrounding young stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
  
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• Don't call girls 'cute' or 'sweet' because it might stifle their creativity, woke researchers claim

  05-03-2024 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Woke researchers claim that calling girls 'cute' or 'sweet' rather than 'cool' or 'brave' might be stifling their creativity and making them less willing to try new things.
  
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• Do YOU have social anxiety? Scientists find the condition lives in your gut

  05-03-2024 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mice who received fecal microbiome transplants from people with social anxiety disorder developed symptoms of the disorder themselves and had brain changes, but remained healthy otherwise.
  
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• American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party data breach - account numbers and names among details accessed in hack

  05-03-2024 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  American Express revealed some of its customers had their credit card information exposed due to a third-party vendor falling victim of a data breach.
  
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• Northern Lights light up skies across the UK for the second night in a row - and the Met Office says they could be visible again tonight

  05-03-2024 12:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Viewers have been posting their photos to X (formerly Twitter), including one based in Moffat in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, who called the display 'stunning'.
  
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• The truth behind the 'alien' in Colombia: As mysterious corpse is discovered, scientist reveals what it could really be - and whether or not it is an extraterrestrial

  05-03-2024 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mysterious remains surfaced in Colombia this week , which some say could have their origins beyond this world.
  
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• Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected

  05-03-2024 11:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter's icy moon Jupiter's moon Europa has a lot less free oxygen than previously thought, narrowing the odds that life may have evolved in this remote orb.…
  
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• Uzbekistan is the ONLY nation more miserable than Britain: Global report says the Dominican Republic tops world wellbeing charts

  05-03-2024 09:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The UK only ranked 70th out of 71 countries in terms of mood, outlook on life and self-esteem in 2023, scoring only 49 on the mental wellbeing score when the global average was 65.
  
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• US-Russian crew successfully enter space station

  05-03-2024 07:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A SpaceX capsule carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has arrived at the International Space Station.
  
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• N Korea hacked S Korea chip firms, Seoul says

  05-03-2024 04:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Korea's spy agency says Pyongyang is trying to produce its own semiconductors for weapons.
  
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• Extraterrestrials could be stuck on their exo-planet 'home world' due to 'physical limitations,' study claims - is this why we haven't found aliens?

  05-03-2024 01:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Large exo-planets may be 'impossible to leave,' due to their heavy gravitational pull, trapping even advanced civilizations home, one researcher and author tells DailyMail.com
  
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