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• Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

  30-08-2024 22:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  An ignominious, uncrewed end to Boeing's misfire Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft is set to return to Earth just over a week from now with managers setting a date of no earlier than September 6 for undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) and September 7 to land at White Sands in New Mexico.…
  
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• Boeing's stranded astronaut fiasco takes sickening twist that could leave NASA duo stuck in space for even longer

  30-08-2024 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A federal watchdog has grounded SpaceX 's Falcon 9 rockets to investigate a fiery crash landing following a satellite launch. This is bad news for the stranded Starliner astronauts,
  
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• What your birth order might say about who you date, according to science

  30-08-2024 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The birth order dating theory has millions of people rethinking the way they date. Science suggests that where you fall in your family's birth order directly influences relationship habits.
  
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• Historical hints that the Turin Shroud is REAL and how it was hidden by early Christians, according to bombshell new book

  30-08-2024 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The cloth that we know today as the Shroud of Turin was first shown off in around the year 1355 in a small French village of Lirey, drawing pilgrims to wonder at the Holy image
  
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• The U.S. Department Of State Leads The Attack To Kill Free Speech Globally

  30-08-2024 19:38 via technocracy.news
  
  Trilateral Commission members have dominated the Department of State since its founding by Rockefeller and Brzezinski in 1973. No less than 11 out of 16 Secretaries of State, or almost seventy percent, hailed from its membership. Anthony Blinken is a member. They have all been traitors to America. Oh, let me count the ways (now in my 48th year!).Henry A. Kissinger (1973-1977)
  Cyrus Roberts Vance (1977-1980)
  Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1980-1981)
  Alexander Meigs Haig (1981-1982)
  George Pratt Shultz (19
  
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• Warning to millions of Chrome, Safari users after Russian cyber attack

  30-08-2024 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google is urging its users to 'apply patches quickly' after discovering a nine-month-long cyberattack - that its security team has tied to Russian spies and a Greek spyware firm
  
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• Badger culling to end in England within five years

  30-08-2024 18:24 via bbc.com
  
  Efforts to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis will now focus on vaccinating badgers not killing them.
  
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• SpaceX grounded after fumbling Falcon 9 landing for first time in years

  30-08-2024 16:34 via go.theregister.com
  
  Failure has become rare, but the FAA needs to look into it regardless SpaceX's Falcon 9 has been grounded following a rare mishap during the landing of a veteran booster.…
  
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• How to never forget where you left your keys or why you walked into a room: Cambridge scientist reveals ingenious memory trick - and it's deceptively simple

  30-08-2024 16:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Professor Jon Simons, actively trying to remember something is what can stop the memory from being retrieved.
  
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• Gen Z Oasis fans taunt tech-illiterate Millennials ahead of scramble for tickets to the reunion tour - and cite key trick they'll use to boost their chances

  30-08-2024 11:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taking to TikTok, British social media creator @kattycarruthers revealed her advice for getting ahead of the Oasis ticket race on August 31 at 9am, and shared a hack for millennials.
  
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• NASA discovers an invisible electric field surrounding Earth - and claims it's 'as important as GRAVITY'

  30-08-2024 11:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA scientists have discovered a hidden electrical field around the Earth which could be just as important as gravity.
  
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• Deep sea expedition uncovers 20 never-before-seen species living on a huge underwater mountain on the Nazca Ridge - including a sea toad, two flying spaghetti monsters, and a Casper octopus

  30-08-2024 11:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The seamount is over 1.9 miles tall - one-third as tall as Mount Everest - and is home to at least 20 never-before-seen species.
  
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• Faulty valve sent Astrobotic's Peregrine lander straight back to Earth's atmosphere

  30-08-2024 11:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  What goes up must come down – just not always on the Moon Astrobotic has continued its policy of transparency with a report into the failings that resulted in its Peregrine lander burning up in Earth's atmosphere rather than making a soft landing on the Moon.…
  
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• Is NatWest down? How to check if banking app is not working in your area and what to do

  30-08-2024 11:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leading bank NatWest has seen its mobile banking app go down, with the outage leaving thousands of customers unable to make transactions.
  
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• Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?

  30-08-2024 10:35 via go.theregister.com
  
  Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues In May, Sam Altman, CEO of $80-billion-or-so OpenAI, seemed unconcerned about how much it would cost to achieve the company's stated goal. "Whether we burn $500 million a year or $5 billion – or $50 billion a year – I don't care," he told students at Stanford University. "As long as we can figure out a way to pay the bills, we're making artificial general intelligence. It's going to be e
  
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• China is beating the world at scientific research, think tank finds

  30-08-2024 04:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Could monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue Think Tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, revealing that China leads the way in 89 percent of the technologies it tracks.…
  
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• Will sustainable aviation fuels take off?

  30-08-2024 03:14 via bbc.com
  
  Sustainable aviation fuels work, but can they be made in sufficient quantity to replace fossil fuels?
  
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• Why scientists say you should masturbate before a public speaking event

  30-08-2024 02:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have studies how the brain behaves during sex - and found an explosion of activity occurs during orgasm - making them feel better after. Some researchers now 'prescribe' orgasms.
  
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• SETI boldly looks beyond the Milky Way in latest alien hunt

  30-08-2024 01:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins say Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century - today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of alien intelligence.…
  
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