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Heathrow Airport reveals record year for passenger numbers – prompting climate warning from ‘speechless’ campaigners | Science, Climate & Tech News
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A record number of people travelled through Heathrow last year – a trend the airport is celebrating but which others say is a cause for alarm. A record 83.9 million flyers made their way through the west London airport last year, its management said. The figure is 4.7 million higher than 2023, and 3 million…
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Snapchat ‘asleep at the wheel’ when it comes to suicide and self-harm content, says children’s charity | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The social media site Snapchat is “fundamentally failing to act on suicide and self-harm content”, according to the Molly Rose Foundation. Just 2% of reported suicide and self-harm content on Snapchat was removed between January and July last year, according to Snapchat’s latest transparency report. There were 289 posts relating to suicide and self-harm that…
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Jeff Bezos’s New Glenn debut launch called off | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The launch of a huge, partially reusable rocket, built by Jeff Bezos’s company, has been called off this morning after hours of delays. The 98-metre rocket, called New Glenn, is around as tall as Big Ben. It was set to carry up to 45 tonnes of tech to low Earth orbit. However, the team at…
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Millions of people’s ‘intimate’ location data stolen in major hack | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Millions of people using some of the world’s most popular apps may have had their locations leaked in a major hack. Tinder, Spotify, Citymapper, Mumsnet and Sky News were among hundreds of companies named in a sample list of apps linked to the breach. Hackers appear to have targeted a US location tracking firm Gravy…
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‘The future is in our hands’ scientists say, as 2024 becomes first year to pass 1.5C global warming threshold | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Last year was the warmest on record, the first to breach a symbolic threshold, and brought with it deadly impacts like flooding and drought, scientists have said. Two new datasets found 2024 was the first calendar year when average global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels – before humans started burning fossil fuels at scale.…
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Mercury: Pictures capture icy craters and sunlit plains of solar system’s smallest planet | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft were issued by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday after the vessel flew 183 miles (294km) above the planet’s north pole. The close-up images…
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Meta’s new guidelines allow users to say LGBT+ people are mentally ill | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Meta’s updated hate speech guidelines allow users to call people mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity. The guidelines, which were updated on Tuesday, still do not allow Facebook, Instagram or Threads users to insult people based on their mental health – except in this new, specific scenario. The guidelines now read: “We…
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NASA astronauts stuck on International Space Station say they ‘don’t feel like castaways’ | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Two NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station since June 2024 have said they “do not feel like castaways”. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams originally planned to go to space for just eight days but got stuck on the ISS when their Boeing Starliner spacecraft experienced a myriad of problems. By…
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Zuckerberg shows his true pragmatic colours by changing Meta ahead of Trump 2.0 | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The first indication of Mark Zuckerberg’s capitulation to the MAGA movement came when he went to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for Thanksgiving in December. Following which Meta, worth $1.5tn, made a decidedly modest $1m contribution to president-elect Trump’s inaugural fund. But it seems geeks bearing gifts wouldn’t be enough to placate a president-elect who once…
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Meta scraps third party fact checkers – and UFC boss Dana White joins board | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Meta is scrapping its third party fact-checking service in the US after nine years and replacing it with a “community notes” system, similar to the one used by X. It says it will help promote free expression and stop harmless content getting taking down. Users on sites such as Facebook and Instagram will be able…