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NASA is sending two missions to Venus for the first time in decades

NASA is sending two missions to Venus for the first time...

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NASA has selected two missions to Venus, called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to launch...

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People who are blind navigate better after echolocation training

People who are blind navigate better after echolocation...

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After a 10-week training programme, blind and sighted people learned to complete...

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Anthropomania review: Our love of animals and how we live with them

Anthropomania review: Our love of animals and how we live...

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From hippos escaping from drug lord Pablo Escobar’s private zoo to plant intelligence,...

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‘Hangry’ male fruit flies attack each other if they go without food

‘Hangry’ male fruit flies attack each other if they go...

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When male fruit flies go without food for 24 hours, they get hangry and become aggressive...

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Cosmic smash-ups may push huge black holes away from their homes

Cosmic smash-ups may push huge black holes away from their...

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Astronomers have found 9 supermassive black holes that may have been hurled out...

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Covid-19 news: UK cases on the rise as delta variant becomes dominant

Covid-19 news: UK cases on the rise as delta variant becomes...

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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest...

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How do you travel abroad safely during the covid-19 pandemic?

How do you travel abroad safely during the covid-19 pandemic?

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As countries start to open their borders to holiday-makers, confusion remains over...

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Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't "override" merit in hiring decisions, claiming other CEOs feel the same way but are reluctant to say so publicly (Bloomberg)

Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't "override" merit...

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Bloomberg:Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't “override” merit in hiring decisions,...

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Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11 (Wall Street Journal)

Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of...

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Wall Street Journal:Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware,...

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Mozilla report found more than a dozen TikTok influencers who had undisclosed paid relationships to post political messages; TikTok banned political ads in 2019 (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Mozilla report found more than a dozen TikTok influencers...

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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:Mozilla report found more than a dozen TikTok influencers...

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Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web (Bloomberg)

Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through...

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Bloomberg:Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account...

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Xometry, an online marketplace for companies to find manufacturers with excess capacity, files its S-1, revealing a loss of $31M in 2020 on revenue of $141M (Sara Gilgore/Washington ...)

Xometry, an online marketplace for companies to find manufacturers...

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Sara Gilgore / Washington, D.C. Business Journal:Xometry, an online marketplace...

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Facebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently signing off on a concrete policy change, shows the Board's valuable, if limited, function (Gilad Edelman/Wired)

Facebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently...

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Gilad Edelman / Wired:Facebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently...

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IBM and the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council announce a five-year $297.5M AI and quantum computing research initiative (Damon Poeter/VentureBeat)

IBM and the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council...

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Damon Poeter / VentureBeat:IBM and the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council...

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Synchron, which is developing a brain-computer interface that helps paralysis patients text, email, and shop online, raises $40M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Andrea Park/FierceBiotech)

Synchron, which is developing a brain-computer interface...

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Andrea Park / FierceBiotech:Synchron, which is developing a brain-computer interface...

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Cross-border payments startup dLocal's shares closed up 54% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, after raising $617.6M in its IPO, valuing the company at ~$10B (Luisa Beltran/Barron's Online)

Cross-border payments startup dLocal's shares closed up...

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Luisa Beltran / Barron's Online:Cross-border payments startup dLocal's shares closed...