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• Real life Skynet? Controversial robot powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT can now have real-time conversations

  15-03-2024 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new robot has independent conversational skills like a human, spurring on flashbacks to Skynet from the sci-fi film, Terminator. OpenAI created the robot called Figure 01.
  
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• Beware searching for Sydney Sweeney nudes on X

  15-03-2024 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sydney Sweeney is taking the world by storm andon X where users are searching for nude images of the Euphoria star. Butexperts urge users to steer clear of posts claiming to have them.
  
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• Norfolk County Council beats Apple in iPhone row

  15-03-2024 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The local authority - and others - had accused the tech giant of misleading shareholders.
  
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• These two hidden iPhone settings free up storage so you don't have to delete precious photos

  15-03-2024 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anyone who has had to delete photos to free up space for a new iOS download knows the pain of parting with cherished memories. These two tricks can help you avoid having to do that.
  
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• Cashews sold at Walmart stores in 30 US states are RECALLED due to undeclared 'fatal' allergen after wrong labels were applied to cans... here is where the tainted nuts were sold

  15-03-2024 18:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Walmart's 'Great Value Honey Roasted Cashews' (left) may contain coconut and milk. Medical researchers say children are most at risk for both milk and coconut allergies
  
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• Social media erupts with memes about Charlotte the virgin stingray as staff at North Carolina say she could  give birth 'any day now'

  15-03-2024 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People around the world are speculating about when Charlotte the stingray will give birth and are sharing memes for comedic relief. Charlotte reportedly was not impregnated by a mate.
  
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• World Sleep Day 2024: Doctor warns how lack of sleep in young women can lead to potentially deadly health risks and issues including infertility

  15-03-2024 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Indian neurologist Dr Pravin Naphade warned about bad sleep for young women. He added that strokes, Alzheimer's disease and depression are other dangers.
  
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• Scientists identify 16,000 plastic chemicals used in products like water bottles, teething toys and blood bags- and at least 4,200 deemed 'highly hazardous' to human health

  15-03-2024 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report outlined 16,000 different chemicals that appear in commonly used plastics. 4,200 of them are 'highly hazardous' to people and the environment, scientists wrote in the report.
  
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• Michelin STAR dining! Six diners will be cooked a meal by a two-star chef on board a balloon at the edge of space next year - but a ticket will set you back $495,000

  15-03-2024 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two-Michelin-star chef Rasmus Munk has announced plans to serve dinner aboard a huge balloon at the edge of space at a cost of $495,000 per ticket.
  
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• The Big Squeeze: Over 140,000 U.S. Farms Lost In 5 Years

  15-03-2024 17:02 via technocracy.news
  
  This editor has an extensive background in farming and ranching, so this story is both sad and maddening. The plight of family farms has been dire for decades, but it is now getting existential. The UN’s Agenda 21 and 2030 Agenda, coupled with the war on carbon and nitrogen-based fertilizers on the one hand, and on the other, the massive consolidation of the food chain into 6 giant global corporations.
  As Technocrats needlessly seek new food sources like insect protein and genetically modi
  
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• McDonald's blames global outage on third party

  15-03-2024 16:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Company says the worldwide issue happened during a 'configuration change' but was not cyber-related.
  
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• Covid DID come from Wuhan lab, says new analysis of patients, records and virus' makeup: '70% chance'

  15-03-2024 16:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Australia and Arizona used a risk analysis tool to determine the chances that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was of 'unnatural' origin.
  
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• The most bizarre laws in US states revealed: Where you could face jail or hard labor for having premarital sex, playing card games on Sunday and dwarf tossing!

  15-03-2024 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dozens of decades-old laws remain on the books in US states. Some are religious or moral relics, while others address old-fashioned technologies that are no longer in use. Here's 13 of the oddest.
  
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• The sociopath next door: Middle-class LA mom-of-two reveals what it's REALLY like living with personality disorder - including 'feeling nothing' when others are in pain

  15-03-2024 14:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patric Gagne, 48, is your typical LA middle-class suburbanite- she is a wife and mother of two who, on the outside, appears to be a caring, kind person to all she meets. There's just one problem.
  
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• Guinness tastes better while listening to Irish music - and its flavour even changes depending on the type of tune being played, scientists say ahead of St Patrick's Day

  15-03-2024 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you want the ultimate drinking experience this St Patrick's Day, scientists from the University of Lincoln say you should listen to Irish music.
  
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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

  15-03-2024 12:31 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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• Unravelling the mystery of the world's oldest tattoos: Ötzi the iceman applied his own ink using a hand-poking technique 5,300 years ago, study finds

  15-03-2024 12:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite the fact he lived between 3350 and 3105 BC, scientists in Tennessee claim to have cracked the mystery of how exactly the iceman's tattoos were made.
  
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• World Sleep Day 2024: Experts reveal the worst sleep positions for you - and why you should NEVER snooze face-down

  15-03-2024 11:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To celebrate World Sleep Day 2024, experts have revealed the best and worst sleep positions.
  
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• Australian farm grows world's biggest blueberry

  15-03-2024 03:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The monster fruit is the size of a ping-pong ball and weighs 20.4g, about 10 times the average blueberry.
  
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• Water voles to benefit from £25m landscapes scheme

  15-03-2024 02:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's fastest-declining mammal is to be protected as part of a new habitats restoration fund.
  
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