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Sadiq Khan issued with legal challenge after ‘terrifying’ number plate camera decision | UK News
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If you drive in London, chances are a camera will see you. The city uses a network of Automated Number-Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras to scan the roads for vehicles entering and leaving its road-charging zones. The UK road system is carpeted with these cameras. Every day, around 13,000 capture 55 million “reads”, as number plate…
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South Korean researchers develop nanotech tattoos as health monitoring devices | Science & Tech News
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Researchers in South Korea are developing a new health monitoring device in the form of an e-tattoo that can automatically alert the wearer to potential health problems. The team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have created an electronic tattoo ink made of liquid metal and carbon nanotubes that effectively functions as…
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Ewe-ston we have a problem: Shaun the Sheep named as astronaut aboard NASA lunar mission | Science & Tech News
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Ewe-ston we have a problem? The European Space Agency (ESA) has named its first astronaut to fly on its NASA’s Artemis I lunar mission: Shaun the Sheep. No stranger to outer space following his exploits aboard a UFO in his big screen caper Farmageddon, the space-sheep will be going further than any farmyard friend (or…
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Remote surgery robot to be tested aboard International Space Station | Science & Tech News
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A miniature robot designed to help conduct remote surgeries could be tested on board the International Space Station before the end of 2024. Eventually, the surgical robot could be used to repair “an astronaut’s ruptured appendix on a mission to Mars”, say the researchers behind it. NASA has awarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $100,000 to…
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Conjoined twins who shared fused brains successfully separated in Brazil | World News
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Conjoined twins who shared fused brains have been successfully separated after 33 hours of operations. Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent several surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of UK-based paediatric surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani from London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. The three-year-old boys had a total of seven operations, involving more than…
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Catastrophic effects of climate change are ‘dangerously unexplored’, experts warn | Climate News
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More research is needed into climate change leading to societal collapse or human extinction, researchers have said, warning such potentially catastrophic results are “dangerously unexplored”. A team of international experts led by Cambridge University said not enough research had gone into the possible worst case scenario, despite “ample reasons to suspect that climate change could…
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Suspected debris from SpaceX capsule crashes into farmland in Australia | Science & Tech News
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Part of what is suspected to be a SpaceX capsule has crashed into farmland in Australia, according to farmers and an astrophysicist. After being startled by a bang at about 7am on Saturday, two farmers discovered what seemed to be space equipment scattered across their sheep paddocks. Sheep farmer Jock Wallace initially called Australia’s civil…
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China allows rocket booster to fall uncontrolled to Earth | Science & Tech News
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Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit has fallen into the sea in the Philippines, the Chinese government has announced. The China Manned Space Agency said most of the final stage of the Long March-5B rocket burned up after entering the atmosphere. Earlier the agency had said it…
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40,000 BT and Openreach workers in first national telecoms strike since 1987 | Business News
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Around 40,000 BT and Openreach workers have walked off the job in the first national telecoms strike since 1987. Hundreds of picket lines have been set up across the UK, according to the Communication Workers Union (CWU). It is the first of two strikes, with another being held on Monday, after members of the union…
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Apple and Amazon beat expectations but still see profits slip as inflation bites | Business News
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Tech giants Apple and Amazon saw dips in profits but still defied expectations as the US economy teeters on the edge of a recession. Apple, the world’s largest technology company, is dealing with manufacturing headaches and inflation pressures and saw its profit in the last quarter fall by 10%, while revenue was up 2%. The…