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• SpaceX Starship launch live: Megarocket successfully takes off from Texas for sixth flight test

  19-11-2024 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With Donald Trump in attendance, Elon Musk's SpaceX will attempt its sixth flight test of Starship, its reusable rocket which may one day take humans to the moon and Mars
  
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• Pilots capture 'multiple UFOs' dancing around their Boeing passenger jet flying over Egypt

  19-11-2024 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Commercial pilots with a Nigerian airline recorded what one described as 'a UFO anomaly [...] in the sky and dancing' during an overnight flight above north Africa this August.
  
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• 'Bomb cyclone' update reveals where Category 1 hurricane-force winds will strike

  19-11-2024 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bomb cyclone moving toward the US is powerful enough to create Category 1 hurricane-force winds. Forecaster have revealed exact locations set to endure the powerful winds.
  
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• Scientists may be able to 'listen' for Alzheimer's disease, study suggests

  19-11-2024 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have begun using eye movements as a clue that someone may get Alzheimer's. Now, some are saying the ears might be an even better way to detect early signs of the disease.
  
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• Tech Life: Donald Trump’s robodogs

  19-11-2024 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who's behind the robot dogs at Donald Trump's house? Plus: Wasting scammers' time.
  
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• See what it looks like to be swallowed alive by a tiger shark

  19-11-2024 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Texas-based undersea photographer Ken Kiefer - who documents majestic sea predators for tourist trips - briefly lost his iPhone to a tiger shark named Jitterbug
  
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• What is a 'bomb cyclone' and how does it form? After urgent warning is issued across three western states

  19-11-2024 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 'bomb cyclone' is forming off the West Coast, and is expected to bring heavy rain, snow and powerful winds to three states this week. But what is a bomb cyclone, and how does one form?
  
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• Technopopulism: When Technocrats Take Over The Government

  19-11-2024 19:46 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats know how to play the long game. In 1932, a little hardcover book, Roosevelt and Technocracy, was published at the time when Roosevelt was riding high on the populist sentiment of hopium, promising to dig America out of a hopeless economic depression that was widely blamed on banksters and corrupt politicians. (Shades of today…)
  The author set the stage for the coup of the century:
  “Technocracy is the most constructive play devised for the attainment of our economic stabi
  
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• Check your iPhone NOW: Apple will permanently delete some people's iCloud device backups next month - how to find out if you're affected

  19-11-2024 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It might be time to update your Apple device's software if you want to keep your photos and videos safe.
  
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• 'Bomb cyclone' maps reveal West Coast states set to endure hurricane-like conditions

  19-11-2024 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  West Coast states are bracing for hurricane-like conditions today as a 'bomb cyclone' drags an atmospheric river onto land. New maps reveal the areas that will see the most intense impacts.
  
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• Experts warn Earth could lose more than HALF of its glaciers by 2100

  19-11-2024 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium have predicted glacier loss under different carbon emissions scenarios.
  
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• Instagram testing tool that resets all recommended posts

  19-11-2024 16:19 via bbc.com
  
  Its reset feature would cleanse a user's feed of personalised content suggested by algorithm.
  
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• Student-built rocket breaks space altitude record as it hits hypersonic speeds

  19-11-2024 14:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Southern California students' 'Aftershock II' went hypersonic - reaching speeds of Mach 5.5, or over five times the speed of sound as it climbed.
  
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• Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome

  19-11-2024 14:05 via bbc.com
  
  It's reported the US government wants the world's most popular web browser to be sold off to address monopoly concerns.
  
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• Experts issue urgent warning over popular phone case loved by celebrities including Hailey Bieber, Molly-Mae, and Kendall Jenner

  19-11-2024 13:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the design might look sleek and trendy, experts have issued an urgent warning about using the case on your phone.
  
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• Listen to the 'scariest sound in the world': Ancient Aztec Death Whistle that sounds like the 'scream of 1,000 corpses' STILL terrifies people to this day, study reveals

  19-11-2024 12:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world', and is somewhere between a spooky gust of whistling wind and 'the scream of a thousand corpses'.
  
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• The countries in Europe where residents live the longest - and it's a bleak picture for Brits

  19-11-2024 11:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An analysis of life expectancy across the continent found people born in the UK can now expect to live about 80.9 years on average, threeyears behind the likes of nations like Switzerland.
  
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• Popular Apple device is now OBSOLETE - and it will leave users without any support if something goes wrong

  19-11-2024 11:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has once again updated its dreaded obsolete products list, consigning more of its tech to the scrap heap.
  
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• Ultra rare all BLACK penguin is spotted on South Georgia Island: Stunning bird is almost completely covered in dark feathers because of a genetic mutation

  19-11-2024 11:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Photographer Yves Adams had just landed at St Andrews Bay in the south Atlantic Ocean this month when a colleague alerted him to the presence of an unusual bird.
  
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• Urgent warning in three states after 'bomb cyclone' is expected to create 'life-threating' hurricane conditions as map reveals where storm is heading

  19-11-2024 10:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three states are bracing for a bomb cyclone and atmospheric river that could bring hurricane-force winds, catastrophic flooding and feet of high-elevation snowfall this week.
  
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• Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened

  19-11-2024 07:24 via go.theregister.com
  
  Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up The South Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has forced one of its robo-dogs to run a marathon.…
  
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• Chocolate makers stoke boom for Indian cocoa beans

  19-11-2024 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  India produces only a tiny fraction of the world's cocoa beans, but that could be changing.
  
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