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• Best-selling Apple product that's been exposing us to CANCER

  23-01-2025 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has been accused of exposing users to cancer in a new lawsuit that claims one of tech giant's best-selling products contain high levels of cancer-causing 'forever chemicals.'
  
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• Apple is accused of exposing users of one of its best-selling products to high levels of toxic 'forever chemicals' that cause CANCER, new lawsuit claims

  23-01-2025 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple has been accused of exposing users to cancer in a new lawsuit that claims one of tech giant's best-selling products contain high levels of cancer-causing 'forever chemicals.'
  
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• Horror game challenges users to play for 18 minutes without screaming... or they die

  23-01-2025 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A twisted horror game challenges users to play for 18 minutes without screaming or they lose. The format was inspired by the 1999 'The Blair Witch Project' which played psychological games.
  
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• NASA ends DEI programs that 'wasted taxpayers dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination'

  23-01-2025 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA acting administrator Janet Petro notified all staff that the agency would terminate its DEI programs, saying that the initiatives 'wasted taxpayer dollars' and 'divided Americans by race.'
  
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• Scientists warn one of the world's continents is breaking apart at double speed

  23-01-2025 20:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a new ocean and continent on Earth.
  
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• World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' to test America's nuclear weapon stockpile

  23-01-2025 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer in California, which will be used to secure America's nuclear weapons stockpile among other important tasks.
  
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• America's 'zombie' nuclear reactors to be revived to power Trump golden age

  23-01-2025 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As the rise of AI heightens the need for clean energy to fuel data centers, South Carolina aims to restart construction on a partially-built, defunct nuclear power plant. Will Big Tech finish what they started?
  
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• America's nuclear weapons to be tested by world's fastest supercomputer

  23-01-2025 17:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer in California, which will be used to secure America's nuclear weapons stockpile among other important tasks.
  
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• 'A mockery': Trump's new meme-coin sparks anger in crypto world

  23-01-2025 17:48 via bbc.com
  
  The president's meme-coin launch is being criticised as a stunt, while impatience grows for deregulation.
  
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• Revealed: The most BINNED foods in Britain - so, are you guilty of chucking out these items?

  23-01-2025 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new survey of 2,000 Brits has revealed the shocking extent of the UK's food waste problem.
  
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• The five hours that could have saved Pompeii's victims who were turned to glass: Ancient Romans survived initial eruption before agonising death, new minute-by-minute account reveals

  23-01-2025 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how the devastation unfolded.
  
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• ChatGPT back online after outage which hit thousands worldwide

  23-01-2025 16:36 via bbc.com
  
  It comes a day after owner OpenAI announced a massive investment in artificial intelligence (AI).
  
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• Joe Allen: After The Great Remix, Technocracy Is Still Here

  23-01-2025 16:34 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy, with its priesthood of scientists, engineers, and Tech Bros,  is a scourge to humanity. It is the Borg assimilating everything in its path. Resistance is futile. It crushes everything that it cannot control. It is devoid of humanness and human emotion. Technocrats dream of sand gods and algorithmic Mammon. They dream about going to Mars and then to the stars. Reject, reject, reject. ⁃ Patrick Wood,  Editor.The original Technocracy movement offered a solution to human
  
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• ChatGPT is down across the US as users report 'bad gateway' error when using the AI tool

  23-01-2025 14:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OpenAI's ChatGPT is down across the US. Americans report seeing a 'bad gateway' error message when using the AI tool.
  
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• Reddit groups ban X links in protest at Musk arm gesture

  23-01-2025 14:24 via bbc.com
  
  Moderators of groups with millions of users say the block is a result of the billionaire's on-stage gesture.
  
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• Scientists baffled after discovering Earth has two secret mountains more than 100 times TALLER than Everest

  23-01-2025 14:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discoveredtwo mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on the planet.
  
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• Britain's 'weather bomb' explained: Scientists reveal the devastating system behind Storm Eowyn - and whether climate change is to blame

  23-01-2025 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Met Office has issued a red warning ahead of the storm, which is set to bring 100mph gales to parts of the UK within hours. Now, scientists have warned that the storm is 'explosively developing'.
  
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• World's largest iceberg is on a devastating COLLISION course with a remote British island - threatening thousands of local penguins and seals

  23-01-2025 12:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The megaberg is now just 173 miles away from South Georgia - a British territory and wildlife haven that's home to thousands of penguins and seals.
  
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• LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI

  23-01-2025 05:16 via bbc.com
  
  The lawsuit alleges LinkedIn tried to conceal its actions but the firm says the claims are false.
  
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• Paw things! Why dogs suffer with the January blues too

  23-01-2025 02:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dark mornings, disrupted routines, and the sudden absence of owners who were at home all the time during the festive season, can leave dogs out of sorts, new research suggests.
  
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• Giant iceberg on crash course with island, putting penguins and seals in danger

  23-01-2025 01:01 via bbc.com
  
  More than twice the size of greater London, the expanse of ice is unpredictable and dangerous.
  
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