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• Ominous black ring appears over US state

  16-08-2024 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An ominous black ring was seen floating in the skies over Williamsburg, Virginia this week, which vanished in just minutes. Locals flooded news stations with reports of the bizarre sighting.
  
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• Archaeologists discover origins of 'prayer road' where Jesus and disciples 'walked every day'

  16-08-2024 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old quarry that's been linked to a street where Jesus once walked in the City of David. The quarry had paving stones that were meant for the street.
  
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• NIH plan to cheat death by repairing aging brains with youthful cells grown in labs

  16-08-2024 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new federal agency created in 2022 by the Biden White House has awarded $110 million to a brain-swap surgery for aging minds that some call 'completely insane'
  
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• UK military satellite launches to boost space power

  16-08-2024 21:04 via bbc.com
  
  British forces are about to get their first dedicated surveillance and reconnaissance satellite.
  
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• Fortnite app returns to iPhones - but only in the EU

  16-08-2024 18:52 via bbc.com
  
  The boss of the game's publisher says he hopes to bring it to UK iPhones in 2025.
  
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• Scientists predict Earth days could become 25 hours long as our moon drifts away

  16-08-2024 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists found that as the moon moves further away, its changing gravitational impact on the Earth is slowing the planet's rotation and making days incrementally longer.
  
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• Barely time to make a cup of tea! World's fastest charger can fully power up your phone in just 4.5 minutes

  16-08-2024 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Realme's SuperSonic Charge Technology can juice up a phone with up to 320W of power - that's 16 times more than a standard iPhone charger.
  
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• I tried Kim Kardashian's £350 Beats Studio Pro - but I'm just not sold on skin-coloured headphones

  16-08-2024 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Beats Studio Pro - Kim Special Edition' went on sale this week, in what Apple is describing as an 'instantly classic collaboration.'
  
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• Fortnite back on Android mobiles and some iPhones

  16-08-2024 15:38 via bbc.com
  
  Fortnite, which is one of the most popular games in the world, has been unavailable for four years.
  
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• Could YOU survive on the ISS? Claustrophobia-inducing virtual tour lets you imagine what it's like for NASA's trapped astronauts - who have to sleep in phonebooth-sized bedrooms, use vacuum-powered toilets, and wear the same underwear for WEEKS on end

  16-08-2024 15:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Growing up, you might have dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
  But once you take this virtual tour of the space station, you might be thankful that dream never came true.
  
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• The germs lurking in your SINK: Handbasins are hotspots for dangerous microbes that can cause pneumonia, Legionnaires' disease and wound infections, study warns

  16-08-2024 12:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Flinders University have warned that handbasins are 'hotspots' for dangerous microbes.
  
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• Britain must act NOW to secure the 'Doomsday wreck' at the bottom of the Thames: Experts call for immediate action amid fears SS Richard Montgomery could explode - unleashing a tsunami towards London

  16-08-2024 12:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The SS Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, Kent, in August 1944, taking some 1,400 tons of WW2 explosives to the bottom.
  
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• Scottish isles may solve mystery of 'Snowball Earth'

  16-08-2024 07:07 via bbc.com
  
  The islands could reveal why animal life first emerged on our planet after its biggest ever freeze.
  
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• Respected gaming magazine praised after sudden closure

  16-08-2024 03:46 via bbc.com
  
  Industry professionals say Game Informer will be "much-missed" after 33 years of gaming coverage.
  
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• American Board Of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Punishes Top Doctors Who Advocated For Early COVID Treatment

  16-08-2024 02:50 via technocracy.news
  
  Inconceivable in America. Outrageous. Top doctors are still being stripped of their Board Certifications to practice medicine. It’s the ultimate punishment for a physician. What, for being “misinformationists” and telling people to take Ivermectin? This, in the face of clear evidence that the doctors were right in the first place? Get the picture: the controllers of healthcare don’t care about evidence, or health, or anybody for that matter; they will crush you. ⁃ P
  
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• 'Nothing stopping' child abuse image sharing on WhatsApp, group warns

  16-08-2024 01:02 via bbc.com
  
  The Internet Watch Foundation is calling for more mechanisms to be put in place to protect children.
  
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• Is this the end for the magnetic stripe?

  16-08-2024 01:01 via bbc.com
  
  Once common on tickets and cardkeys the magnetic stripe is being phased out.
  
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• A glimpse back at 'snowball Earth': Rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland may be the world's most complete record of a global freeze 700 million years ago

  16-08-2024 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's easy to forget today, but Earth wasn't always a lush blue world. 700 million years ago it was a shimmering 'snowball', an ice planet worthy of Star Wars.
  
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