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• How a bulletproof parachute saved parents and 2-year-old girl from dying in California plane crash by slowing the craft to 0mph in just eight seconds

  14-03-2024 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A family of three landed safely in the forests of Whitehorn, California on Friday, thanks to a novel full-plane parachute. Here's how Cirrus Aircraft parachutes save lives
  
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• Dog-killing worms found in California for the first time: Scientists discover hundreds of snails in Colorado River harboring the parasite that has killed at least one pet

  14-03-2024 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists discovered hundreds of snails in Southern California that are harboring dog-killing worms, suggesting the parasites could be spreading throughout the nation through the river.
  
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• Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

  14-03-2024 19:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Adding caffeine can enhance the efficiency of fuel cells, reducing the need for platinum in electrodes and significantly reducing the cost of making them, according to researchers in Japan.…
  
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• Scientists discover new species in Utah's Great Salt Lake that changes what we know about the 950-square-mile body of water

  14-03-2024 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers discovered tiny worms living in Utah's Great Salt Lake despite assertions that only Brine Flies and Brine Shrimp lived in the lake. This could change the way we look at the lake's ecosystem.
  
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• NASA paid me $1bn to stop an asteroid crashing into Earth… this is the heart-stopping truth about my 'Armageddon' moment, when it could all have ended in disaster

  14-03-2024 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dante Lauretta led the first ever US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.In his new book, The Asteroid Hunter, Lauretta recounts the mission to Bennu for the first time in nail-biting detail.
  
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• It Begins: AI Is Being Used To Deceive Voters, Disrupt Elections Worldwide

  14-03-2024 19:19 via technocracy.news
  The WEF, UN, and the global elitists want to destroy democracy worldwide, even as they say that they will save democracy. The WEF’s main topic in its 2024 meetup in Davos was “disinformation” that threatens its existence, even as calls went out to Big Tech, governments, and  “Fact Checkers” to harness AI to do away with dissent. Thus, the article below should be understood as a Trojan Horse to mask the institutional deceivers while blaming the rest on everybody
  
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• Major internet outages reported across Africa

  14-03-2024 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Outages have been reported in South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana and Burkina Faso.
  
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• New York bill could repeal 1907 law that criminalizes adultery - perpetrators see up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine

  14-03-2024 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The New York State Assembly voted near-unanimously to approve the repeal of a 1907 law that made adultery illegal and punishable with 90 days in jail. It now faces the State Senate.
  
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• Flint water crisis led to spike in children with special needs and drop in school grades a decade later, according to research that likens fallout from disaster to Chernobyl

  14-03-2024 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Flint water crisis, which exposed 12 thousand children to lead, has resulted in all-time high numbers of children with special needs [bottom right] and poor math scores [top right].
  
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• Elon Musk claims SpaceX Starship will take humanity to Mars despite aircraft exploding under atmospheric pressure after launch

  14-03-2024 17:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX revealed around 10:35am ET that the world's most powerful rocket was destroyed during atmospheric re-entry and is missing - about one-hour after Starship launched.
  
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• Elon Musk's Starship goes 'farther than ever'

  14-03-2024 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's most powerful rocket makes a huge leap in progress in its third test flight.
  
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• Why does the US want to ban TikTok?

  14-03-2024 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US politicians are debating whether to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners refuse to sell the company.
  
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• Eating SNAKE is better for the environment than eating beef or chicken, study claims - so, would you try a python pie?

  14-03-2024 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Macquarie University in Sydney claim that eating snake is better for the environment than eating beef, chicken, or even fish.
  
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• How 'grey divorce' reshapes family dynamics: When older couples split, fathers are more likely to lose touch with their children, study finds

  14-03-2024 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When it comes to older couples going their separate ways, fathers are more likely to lose touch with their children, a study suggests.
  
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• Elon's Starship rocket comes crashing back down to earth: $3bn SpaceX craft breaks apart and GOES MISSING in what had been a successful test flight until the last minute

  14-03-2024 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX revealed around 10:35am ET that the world's most powerful rocket was destroyed during atmospheric re-entry and is missing - about one-hour after Starship launched.
  
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• Harvard doctor says animal products are essential for mental health - in blow to veganism: 'The brain needs meat'

  14-03-2024 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eating meat is essential for warding off depression and anxiety, claims Dr Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist, in a massive blow to veganism.
  
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• Judge rules computer scientist not Bitcoin inventor

  14-03-2024 16:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Judge says Dr Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency's mysterious inventor.
  
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• Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

  14-03-2024 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success! SpaceX has launched its third Starship Super-Heavy rocket on a test flight that went almost entirely to plan.…
  
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• Us-AI-n Bolt! Watch as a huge Chinese humanoid robot sets a new world speed record - hitting an impressive 7mph

  14-03-2024 16:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Clocking in at just 7mph, it won't be competing in the Olympics any time soon, but this is still blisteringly fast for a bipedal bot.
  
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• As the Glastonbury 2024 lineup is announced, AI reveals the ultimate headliners - so, do you agree?

  14-03-2024 15:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Who would you see take to the Pyramid Stage in your dream line-up? MailOnline asked ChatGPT for its ultimate headliners.
  
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• SpaceX success! Elon's $3bn rocket performs its first successful test flight in orbit - as Musk moves one step closer to sending NASA astronauts back to the moon

  14-03-2024 14:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk 's next-generation Starship is set to launch Thursday morning. It has a launch window of 110 minutes beginning at 8am Eastern(1200 GMT), despite fog
  
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• Surviving inhabitants of top secret Soviet-era town where more than 400 NUCLEAR BOMBS were detonated reveal horrors of living in 'the most nuked place on Earth' where radiation left 'everyone' riddled with cancer

  14-03-2024 14:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Filmmakers Thomas Brag and Staffan Taylor ventured to Kurchatov, which was a top secret town established in 1947 as the headquarters of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.
  
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• Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble

  14-03-2024 14:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers Engineers are hopeful that the veteran spacecraft Voyager 1 might have turned a corner after spending the last three months spouting gibberish at controllers.…
  
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• SpaceX prepares to launch its third Starship flight from Texas TODAY after previous tests ended in explosions - with hopes of eventually carrying NASA astronauts to the moon

  14-03-2024 13:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk 's next-generation Starship is set to launch Thursday morning. It has a launch window of 110 minutes beginning at 8am Eastern(1200 GMT), despite fog
  
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• Red, yellow, green…and white? Study claims adding a fourth traffic light colour could make congestion a thing of the past

  14-03-2024 12:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers say drivers might spend a lot less time waiting for the lights to change if cities added a fourth white traffic light colour to the familiar red, yellow, and green.
  
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• SpaceX prepares to launch its third Starship flight from Texas at 8am ET TODAY after previous tests ended in explosions - with hopes of eventually carrying NASA astronauts to the moon

  14-03-2024 12:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk 's next-generation Starship is set to launch Thursday morning. It has a launch window of 110 minutes beginning at 8am Eastern(1200 GMT), despite fog
  
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• SpaceX will launch its £2.4 billion Starship rocket for the third time today - here's how to watch the epic test flight live

  14-03-2024 11:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Starship - the most powerful rocket ever built - will launch from the firm's 'Starbase' site in Boca Chica, Texas no earlier than 7am local time (midday in the UK).
  
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• Now scientists want you to eat lab-grown mold to 'save the environment'

  14-03-2024 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at UC Berkeley are trying to turn mold into burgers to create an environmentally friendly alternative to real beef. Yet, studies show that lab-grown meat is worse for the climate.
  
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• Old watercolour painting bought for £100 is revealed as a work by Turner worth £30,000 - after hanging unnoticed on a dining room wall for 30 years

  14-03-2024 09:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The picture - of Bishop Vaughan's chapel at St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales - was purchased during a clear-out of pictures from a Georgian mansion in Suffolk in the early 1990s.
  
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• 'Journalists are feeding the AI hype machine'

  14-03-2024 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AI reporters and experts discuss how well or otherwise the media covers the topic.
  
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• US House passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide

  14-03-2024 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bill would force a Chinese tech giant to sell its stake in the app, but its fate in the Senate is unclear.
  
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• AI weapons scanner backtracks on UK testing claims

  14-03-2024 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Evolv Technology has been asked to change claims its technology has been tested by the government.
  
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