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• Climate change made LA fires worse, scientists say

  28-01-2025 23:11 via bbc.com
  
  Scientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming.
  
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• Trump reveals what New Jersey drones REALLY were as White House admits craft were conducting 'research'

  28-01-2025 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has revealed the truth behind the mysterious drones over New Jersey.
  
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• Tech Life: Not as dead as a dodo?

  28-01-2025 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tech Life takes a close look at the controversial process of de-extinction.
  
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• Update your iPhone NOW: Apple releases iOS 18.3 with urgent security fixes - here's how to download it on your device

  28-01-2025 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you have an iPhone, make sure to update your device as soon as possible to protect your data from hackers.
  
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• US tech stocks steady after DeepSeek AI app shock

  28-01-2025 19:04 via bbc.com
  
  DeepSeek's claim that its model was made at a fraction of the cost of its rivals has rocked the AI industry.
  
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• 'Son of Concorde' supersonic jet breaks sound barrier... here's how long it'll take to travel from NYC to London

  28-01-2025 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A jet nicknamed the 'Son of the Concorde' has officially traveled faster than the speed of sound for the first time, paving the way for supersonic flights from New York City to London.
  
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• Doomsday Clock ticks forwards to 89 seconds to midnight - the closest humans have ever been to annihilation

  28-01-2025 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists unveiled the 2025 update for the 'Doomsday Clock' today, revealing that the clock moved one second closer to midnight in 2024, a sign that humanity is close to a catastrophic end.
  
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• Doomsday Clock ticks forwards to just 89 seconds to midnight - the closest humankind has been to annihilation in almost 80 years

  28-01-2025 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists unveiled the 2025 update for the 'Doomsday Clock' today, revealing that the clock moved one second closer to midnight in 2024, a sign that humanity is close to a catastrophic end.
  
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• First mouse with two biological FATHERS reaches adulthood - in breakthrough that could pave the way for gay men to have children

  28-01-2025 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first mouse with two biological fathers has survived until adulthood, a new study has revealed.
  
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• Doomsday clock ticks closer to world annihilation amid fears of nuclear war, AI arms race and another pandemic

  28-01-2025 16:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists unveiled the 2025 update for the 'Doomsday Clock' today, revealing that the clock moved one second closer to midnight in 2024, a sign that humanity is close to a catastrophic end.
  
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• The Dangerous Delusion that Governments, including BRICS, are Sovereign and Can Stop Technocracy

  28-01-2025 16:48 via technocracy.news
  
  Governments are about politics and national autonomy. Technocracy is about governance for the sake of scientific dictatorship and economic control, and it transcends national borders. Like the Borg, Technocracy quietly moves in and assimilates everything in its path. The BRICS nations are already thoroughly saturated with Technocracy.
  You cannot recognize or understand Technocracy if you are obsessed with politics; rather, you will only see your dog in the fight. The rise of Technocracy necessar
  
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• Scientists reveal the surprising flirting tactic that's almost guaranteed to bag you a date

  28-01-2025 16:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has revealed a surprising flirting tactic - and scientists say it is almost guaranteed to bag you a date.
  
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• DeepSeek vs ChatGPT - how do they compare?

  28-01-2025 16:43 via bbc.com
  
  The Chinese AI app has raced to the top of the download charts - does it perform as well as its US rivals?
  
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• Can YOU decipher these symbols? Scientists are offering a $1 MILLION prize to anyone who can read this mysterious Indus Valley script

  28-01-2025 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The country's government has announced that it is offering a whopping $1 million prize to anyone who can crack the mysterious Indus Valley script.
  
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• Breakups are more painful for MEN because they're more emotionally invested in relationships than women, study claims

  28-01-2025 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae to Ben Affleck and J-Lo, several celebrity couples have recently called it quits. Now, a study suggests the breakups were probably more painful for the men.
  
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• Scary moment China's controversial ChatGPT rival, DeepSeek, changes its answers in REAL-TIME when probed about President Xi or the Tiananmen Square Massacre

  28-01-2025 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China's controversial ChatGPT rival, DeepSeek, censors politically sensitive responses in real-time and refuses to even name President Xi Jinping.
  
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• Be careful with DeepSeek, Australia says - so is it safe to use?

  28-01-2025 13:56 via bbc.com
  
  Ed Husic is the first member of a Western government to raise privacy concerns about the Chinese chatbot.
  
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• Experts studied people who live to 100 - and discovered a simple diet change that could help us all be like them

  28-01-2025 13:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Harvard University scientist Dr William Li appeared on a podcast to discuss how bacteria in the digestive system could contribute to 'super-agers', people who live over 100 years, long lifespans.
  
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• 40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw

  28-01-2025 12:45 via go.theregister.com
  
  O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year later.…
  
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• Huge breakthrough in the search for aliens: NASA discovers a 'super Earth' exoplanet just 20 light-years away that could have the right conditions to support life

  28-01-2025 12:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d that could have the right conditions for life to exist, report experts.
  
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• Ocean warming has more than QUADRUPLED over the past 40 years - and scientists say there's only one way to slow it down

  28-01-2025 11:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the late 1980s, ocean temperatures were rising at a rate of 0.06°C per decade, according to experts from the University of Reading. Now, that rate has surged to a whopping 0.27°C per decade.
  
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• China's DeepSeek AI shakes industry and dents America's swagger

  28-01-2025 06:08 via bbc.com
  
  The app spooked the markets as well as the bullish sense of American superiority in AI development.
  
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• Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok, Trump says

  28-01-2025 05:54 via bbc.com
  
  The US President says he would like to see a "bidding war" over the sale of the social media app.
  
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• Shocking images reveal the cities that 'will be flooded by global warming by 2100 as sea levels rise by up to 6.2 FEET'- so, can you tell where they are?

  28-01-2025 03:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In 2100, global sea levels will rise by a staggering 6.2ft according to a study - so artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what this might look like in nine of the world's cities - but can you tell which ones?
  
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• Will young developers take on key open source software?

  28-01-2025 01:01 via bbc.com
  
  The founders of important open source software are getting older, who will take over?
  
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• Lost site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry is DISCOVERED after 900 years: Archaeologists pinpoint the residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England

  28-01-2025 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at the Battle of Hastings, has been located by archaeologists.
  
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• Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets

  28-01-2025 00:22 via bbc.com
  
  Share prices in US and European firms fall as the Chinese technology threatens to disrupt the AI industry.
  
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