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• Meta's Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook were thrown into chaos for 3 hours as tens of thousands of users reported disruptions caused by  platform's advertising tech

  03-04-2024 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A trifecta of Meta-owned social media sites, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp went down for users worldwide Wednesday afternoon at 2PM ET
  
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• Amazon's Just Walk Out at Fresh stores 'relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts'

  03-04-2024 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is discontinuing its Just Walk Out technology amid reports that it outsourced 1,000 jobs in India to monitor videos of people shopping. Amazon has denied the claims.
  
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• Amazon's Just Walk Out at Fresh stores 'relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts' - and NOT AI tech as company claimed

  03-04-2024 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon is discontinuing its Just Walk Out technology amid reports that it outsourced 1,000 jobs in India to monitor videos of people shopping. Amazon has denied the claims.
  
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• Meta is DOWN: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook outage hits thousands of users worldwide due to issues with company's ads transparency tools

  03-04-2024 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A trifecta of Meta-owned social media sites, including Instagram , Facebook and WhatsApp went down for users worldwide Wednesday afternoon at 2PM ET
  
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• Meta is DOWN: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook outage hits thousands of users worldwide

  03-04-2024 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A trifecta of Meta-owned social media sites, including Instagram , Facebook and WhatsApp went down for users worldwide Wednesday afternoon at 2PM ET
  
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• Sorry, Dolly - scientists think working a 9-5 might actually be GOOD for you!

  03-04-2024 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from New York University analysed data from 7,000 people over 30 to see whether employment patterns in younger adulthood were linked with sleep, physical and mental health.
  
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• Taiwan quake could plunge global smartphone industry into chaos as world's largest chipmaker responsible for 90% of supply halts operations

  03-04-2024 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The historic 7.2-magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's worst in 25 years, has halted its semiconductor industry - but chipmakers reported minimal damage. The quake killed 9 people
  
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• Moment part a CHINESE rocket explodes over California after rouge reentry through Earth's atmosphere - months after spy balloon fiasco

  03-04-2024 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A rocket was seen exploding over Los Angeles, California in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The rocket was believed to be part of SpaceX but was owned by China.
  
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• Tennessee Senate Says “No” To mRNA Vaccines In Food

  03-04-2024 18:29 via technocracy.news
  
  Wait, what? Your food will have mRNA”vaccines” baked into its genetic structure? That’s right! If these crazed transhumanist scientists get their way, you can pick up your “vaccine” at Safeway’s produce section. How convenient: Cross-species, synthetic genetic cocktails to trick your body into creating foreign proteins that could kill you.
  Don’t be fooled. This is 1930s Hitler-esque eugenics on steroids. The presentation I gave to the Corona Investigativ
  
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• Tennessee Says “No” To mRNA Vaccines In Food

  03-04-2024 18:29 via technocracy.news
  
  Wait, what? Your food will have mRNA”vaccines” baked into its genetic structure? That’s right! If these crazed transhumanist scientists get their way, you can pick up your “vaccine” at Safeway’s produce section. How convenient: Cross-species, synthetic genetic cocktails to trick your body into creating foreign proteins that could kill you.
  Don’t be fooled. This is 1930s Hitler-esque eugenics on steroids. The presentation I gave to the Corona Investigativ
  
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• Eco-friendly California is America's BIGGEST polluter - when it comes to little-known greenhouse gas that 'slipped under the radar'

  03-04-2024 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California is leading California is leading the US as the largest emitter of a greenhouse gas released from pesticides. The state accounts for 12 percent of the total 17 percent in the US.
  
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• US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone

  03-04-2024 17:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  What's a few milliseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).…
  
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• How to see a once-in-a-lifetime green comet: Space rock dubbed the 'Mother of Dragons' is now visible in the night sky - here's the best time to spot it before it vanishes for another 70 years

  03-04-2024 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is larger than Mount Everest, should appear as a green blob with a hazy tail.
  
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• Will Truth Social solve Trump's money problems?

  03-04-2024 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trump Media lost nearly $60m last year. So how is it worth billions? We explain the ex-president's windfall.
  
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• Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry are among 200 artists calling for a ban on 'predatory' AI in the music industry - amid fears technology could replace them

  03-04-2024 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an open letter, several of the world's biggest stars have warned the tech 'will set in motion a race to the bottom' if left unchecked.
  
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• How monkeys are being abused to make your coconut milk: Shocking investigation reveals the conditions of animal 'workers' in Thailand - as Co-Op becomes the latest major supermarket to stop selling Thai milk

  03-04-2024 15:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Co-Op has become the first major supermarket to stop selling coconut milk from Thailand. It comes after an investigation revealed cruel treatment of monkeys used to pick coconuts.
  
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• How Taiwan's tallest building survived the earthquake: Taipei 101 has a 660-tonne pendulum that transfers energy into giant shock absorbers - helping the 1,670ft high skyscraper to sway rather than topple

  03-04-2024 14:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Key to Taipei 101's impressive structural integrity is a 660 metric ton golden sphere that hangs from the 92nd floor.
  
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• Did you know ANTS are self-aware? Or that giraffes can do mental math? New book documents the little-known brilliance of animal intelligence that may surprise you

  03-04-2024 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New book 'The Animal Mind' explores how animals engage in complex mental math and language. Even ants and bees prove to be more perceptive than expected
  
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• White House wants Moon to have its own time zone

  03-04-2024 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US government has asked Nasa to develop a way to keep track of time on the Moon.
  
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• Revealed: The 9 towns and cities in the UK and Ireland where you'll be able to see the solar eclipse next week

  03-04-2024 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On April 8, a handful of towns and cities in the UK and Ireland will be able to see a partial eclipse just before sunset.
  
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• Could ROBOTS be the key to protecting Britain against an Asian hornet invasion? Scientists train AI to detect the predators and raise the alarm

  03-04-2024 11:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Exeter say AItrained to recognise insects could be Britain's first line of defence against an invasion of Asian hornets.
  
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• Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries

  03-04-2024 07:46 via go.theregister.com
  
  Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right Alibaba's Taobao e-commerce platform is exploring one-hour delivery by – wait for it – rocket.…
  
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• Pentagon launches tech to stop AI-powered killing machines from going rogue on the battlefield due to robot-fooling visual 'noise'

  03-04-2024 01:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pentagon's innovation office wants to defend AI systems from 'adversarial attacks' - as its research explores how visual 'noise' patches can trick AI into fatal misidentifications
  
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