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• Apple update addresses Jerusalem emoji controversy

  16-04-2024 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new software update stops the Palestinian flag emoji appearing when iPhone users type "Jerusalem".
  
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• There's a 50-50 chance AI will be able to do ALL our jobs within a century, experts say

  16-04-2024 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With millions of jobs at risk from AI in the future, a survey of 16,000 workers found nearly half admit the technology can already outperform them in 'routine tasks' - and pays better attention to detail.
  
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• Scientists find 'vampire' bacteria that has a thirst for HUMAN blood

  16-04-2024 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bacteria like E. coli and salmonella can home in on blood, a process called 'bacterial vampirism.' In people with IBD who have small cuts in the gut, these bacteria can easily find their way into the blood.
  
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• Disease killing beavers in Utah 'can spread to humans,' officials warn

  16-04-2024 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Utah wildlife officials have found nine dead beavers contracted tularemia, also called rabbit fever. The disease can spread to humans, becoming fatal if its left untreated and antibiotics aren't taken.
  
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• Tech Life: Fixing undersea cables

  16-04-2024 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Undersea fibre-optic cables help keep us online - but what happens when they break?
  
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• China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip

  16-04-2024 21:26 via go.theregister.com
  
  Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis  Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
  
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• There IS a link between women's periods and the moon after all, study finds

  16-04-2024 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in France and the US discovered there is a link between menstrual cycles and the full moon. The moon affects the body's circadian rhythms, syncing the cycles.
  
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• Experts reveal the most stressful time of day... and how YOU can ease the pressure

  16-04-2024 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts found that 51% of adults said they are 'often overwhelmed' from moment they get out of bed. The new survey, which polled 2,000 adults found 47% feel busier now than they ever have before
  
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• NASA says Mars samples that may contain signs of life are STUCK on Red Planet... as it calls on private sector's help retrieving them

  16-04-2024 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA announced it needs help bringing rock samples back from Mars that Perseverance Rover had collected in its search for signs of life. The existing plan is 'too expensive' and would take 'too long.'
  
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• Hall Of Shame II: Thanks To Congress, The NSA Is ‘Just Days From Taking Over The Internet’

  16-04-2024 19:02 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats have bamboozled Congress into turning over the physical infrastructure of the Internet to the NSA. I have long argued that whoever controls the routers, switches, scanners, fiber optic and copper cables, servers, firewalls, and cell towers, etc., will be the ultimate controllers of all data passing through the network. The Senate will vote on April 19.
  You might remember when AT&T willingly partnered with the NSA to set up listening (“peering”) posts inside the main s
  
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• People are calling $700 AI gadget the worst piece of tech they've ever used - even though it was touted as the 'iPhone killer'

  16-04-2024 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Humane's tiny, $700 wearable computer, AI Pin, vowed to be user's virtual personal assistant and a veritable 'iPhone killer.' But savage reviews blasted its AI for wrong answers
  
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• Tesla reportedly halts ALL Cybertruck deliveries due to fatal flaw that causes EV to accelerate to top speeds

  16-04-2024 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An analysis told DailyMail.com that all Cybertruck deliveries have been put on pause. The recall is due to a potentially fatal issue with the accelerator that will take weeks to resolve.
  
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• Vikings may have practiced ancient form of plastic surgery 1,000 years ago, study suggests

  16-04-2024 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Viking women intentionally deformed their skulls 1,000 years ago, according to a new study. The researchers found the elongated skulls of three women from an island in the Baltic Sea.
  
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• Ex-TikTok employees claim they were ordered to routinely send American user data to Beijing - as company battles all-out ban in the US

  16-04-2024 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok shared extensive user data with Chinese-based parent company ByteDance, a new investigation claims, even after TikTok said it had cut most ties with ByteDance, raising privacy concerns.
  
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• NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack

  16-04-2024 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…
  
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• Proposed design for a train station in Nanjing is ridiculed by Chinese internet users - with one joking 'that is a giant sanitary pad!'

  16-04-2024 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The design of a new train station in the Chinese City of Nanjing has been relentlessly mocked on social media, with internet users comparing the shape to a sanitary pad.
  
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• 'Bad at almost everything': AI wearable panned by reviewers

  16-04-2024 14:32 via bbc.com
  
  A new AI-fuelled gadget has fallen foul of the tech world's expectations.
  
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• Giant kangaroo twice the size of a human roamed Australia 5 million years ago, study reveals

  16-04-2024 13:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from Flinders University have discovered three species of giant kangaroo that roamed Australia five million years ago, with the biggest growing to twice the size of a human.
  
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• WhatsApp has made a subtle change that has left users FURIOUS - as one vents 'it's hurting my soul'

  16-04-2024 12:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users have been left furious following a subtle change within the app.
  'Online' and 'Typing' - words displayed under the other user's name in your chats - now have a capital 'O' and a capital 'T'.
  
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• The shocking extent of Britain's plastic crisis: 1.7 BILLION pieces of rubbish are thrown away by UK households every week, study reveals

  16-04-2024 10:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A shocking report has laid bare Britain's plastic crisis, with households throwing away a whopping 1.7 billion pieces of rubbish every week.
  
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• The enormous stellar black hole hiding in Earth's backyard: Scientists discover a huge void in the Milky Way that's 33 times as massive as the Sun

  16-04-2024 09:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A black hole called Gaia BH3 is 'extremely' close to us, astronomically speaking, according to experts at the Paris Observatory in France.
  
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• NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground

  16-04-2024 08:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop – so it's seeking help from the commercial space sector.…
  
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• My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die

  16-04-2024 01:28 via bbc.com
  
  A former Tesla engineer is in a decade-long battle with the car company, owned by Elon Musk.
  
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• The challenge of upgrading iconic steel windows

  16-04-2024 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Critall windows date back to the 1880s but their steel construction makes them vulnerable to damp.
  
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• This is my secret three-ingredient recipe that gets rid of pesky kitchen bugs and fruit flies in minutes

  16-04-2024 00:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A gardener has revealed her top hack for getting rid of flies, mosquitoes, and bugs in a matter of minutes.
  
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