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TikTok is telling users to stop scrolling and ditch the app in a bid to curb smartphone addiction. Influencers with thousands, and in some case millions, of followers, make videos that are posted and promoted by the account @TikTokTips, which is run by the site. The videos feature earnest pleas from internet celebrities talking about … Read more
Mysterious star Betelgeuse has officially STOPPED dimming and started getting brighter as scientists admit predictions that it might explode were premature Betelgeuse is still about 40 per cent of its normal brightness but it is increasing Dimming is a sign that a giant star is about to explode in a massive supernova It could also … Read more
Evidence of a previously unknown ancient civilisation that existed for around 800 years has been found in Southern Turkey. Archaeologists stumbled across an ancient inscribed rock which reveals the existence of the long-lost civilisation after a farmer found it in an irrigation canal. The stone was inscribed with hieroglyphs in the ancient Luwian dialect and experts … Read more
Monkeyface prickleback fish that can survive entirely on vegetarian foods is described by scientists as ‘the new white meat’ that could help feed the world The Monkeyface prickleback lives in rocky waters off the West Coast of the USA It is said to have a delicate and mild flavour meat that has become a delicacy … Read more
TikTok is telling users to stop scrolling and ditch the app in a bid to curb smartphone addiction. Influencers with thousands, and in some case millions, of followers, make videos that are posted and promoted by the account @TikTokTips, which is run by the site. The videos feature earnest pleas from internet celebrities talking about … Read more
A doting vet has given a twelve-week-old bird a beautiful new pair of wing tips made from donated feathers after a ‘severe wing trim’ left it unable to fly. Like many pet birds, Wei Wei — a young Green Cheeked Conure — had her wings clipped to stop her from flying away. However, the procedure … Read more
Robodog ‘Spot’ designed to sniff out BOMBS goes into ‘sit’ mode and refuses to move during trial by Massachusetts police Massachusetts police bomb squad were testing the robodog for three months It was given to them as a ‘free of charge’ pre-release trial in return for feedback In August 2019 the ‘dog’ was sent to … Read more
Monitoring climate change from the sky: DRONES could play a ‘critical role’ in tracking the effects of global warming but only if their battery life improves, expert claims Longer-range drones already exist but they are expensive to deploy at scale Three teams of researchers from Southampton will create new types of drones Future drones will … Read more
A team of scientists at MIT have developed a computer program that will help humans decide how to best deal with the end of the world, so long as that comes in form of a catastrophic asteroid collision. Experts say there as many as two or three new asteroids, sometimes called ‘Near Earth Objects,’ discovered … Read more
Cameo app that lets users pay celebrities to do custom shout-outs was found exposing passwords, email addresses, and private videos Cameo was found to have credentials accessible in the code of its app The credentials gave access to Amazon buckets containing user data Data includes email addresses, hashed passwords, and full names Motherboard found that … Read more