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Netflix customers flee amid cost-of-living squeeze Apr 20, 2022

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Netflix blames inflation, war in Ukraine and competition for loss of 200,000 subscribers, sending stock price tumbling over 25 per cent. Next stop: Uranus, space scientists tell Nasa. Prostate cancer: new bacteria link to aggressive illness. Would you trust Alexa to pre-empt your life? Watching TV in future self-driving cars ‘to become legal’ in UK - at up to 37mph. Space treat for Earth’s stargazers as Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn come into view. LOL, it’s the FBI’s internet slang dictionary.

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Space peace: US bans satellite-blasting missile tests Apr 19, 2022

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Vice-president Kamala Harris has announced America will stop using missiles to blast old orbiting satellites for weapons tests, hoping to reducing the risk of galactic conflict between nations. Beanstalk nightmare as ethereum-based stablecoin crashes after $182 million hack. TikTok probed by Department of Homeland Security over child abuse material. How Twitter could look under Elon Musk’s management. Research finds overweight women are at nearly double risk of womb cancer. Was Boris Johnson’s phone targeted by Israeli spyware? Very old PlayStation sparks airport bomb scare.

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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter Apr 14, 2022

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It’s not over for Elon Musk and his Twitter debut. Musk tweeted that he made an offer to buy the social media site, plus reports show a regulatory filing of $41.39 billion dollars.

In other Twitter news, the NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet isn’t as valuable as some thought. We hear from BPI about its “All About the Music” yearbook 2022 and how Central Cee, KSI & AJ Tracey create millions of streams in the UK.

A study suggests diverse life forms existed on Earth much earlier than previously thought and there’s a rare planetary alignment that will grace the UK night sky next week.

Plus, hear about the green paradise coming to London’s Canary Wharf, with thanks to Cornwall’s Eden Project. Why monkeys who groom themselves may have more empathy, and how a high frequency device called a ‘pinger’ could help save the lives of dolphins.

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NASA: 'Megacomet' travelling towards Earth Apr 13, 2022

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A record-breaking, huge comet has been spotted heading towards Earth, but don’t worry, it will stop before reaching our planet.

NASA, who made the discovery, says its icy nucleus is bigger than any ever seen – measuring around 80 miles across, and 50 times bigger than the heart of most known comets.

A major producer of Apple's iPhone has become the latest manufacturer to halt operations in Shanghai, China’s ‘Earth 2.0’ spacecraft could finally find life on alien worlds and NASA are to test a catapult that flings objects into space at 5,000mph.

We hear from Space Prize who are launching a first of its kind competition to encourage girls around the world to pursue careers in space, a global police sting takes down the ‘world’s biggest’ hacker marketplace and a US cryptocurrency expert is jailed for helping North Korea evade sanctions.

Plus, research finds that 35% of people don’t know what cookies are and celebrity interest helps ‘MoonPay’ become worth billions.

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Twitter’s Crypto Lead on Web3 Apr 12, 2022

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We speak to Twitter’s Crypto Engineering Lead on the future of Web3. Tess Rinearson tells us how she thinks blockchain tech will change and adapt plus the challenges of working in such a new emerging field. Nasa is to resume its moon rocket test with modifications today, Meta is to start testing its money-making tools for its metaverse and Apple could be about to reveal its first hints of its augmented reality headset. A study suggests that a psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms can open up people with depression’s brains, Harvard Scientists and the US Space Command confirm the first alien meteorite to hit Earth and researchers ‘crack’ an egg-forging evolutionary puzzle. Plus, more than 50% of people around the world could be suffering from headaches, Epic Games is valued at about $32 billion and a driverless car pulls away after being stopped by police.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter U-turn Apr 11, 2022

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Elon Musk has made a U-turn decision not to join Twitter’s board and the social media company’s CEO says “it’s for the best”. It comes after Musk makes numerous suggests for Twitter Blue.

Moondust collected by Neil Armstrong after he walked on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, will be auctioned off this week in New York. We hear from the technology, science and space specialist at Bonham’s, who is facilitating the sale of the sample.

The CEO of a tech firm tells us why experiencing real-life events in 3D video games and the metaverse will be the future of how we consume content. The UK is to build a software ‘brain’ for a giant radio telescope and a new ‘killer’ immunotherapy shows promise in attacking hard-to-treat cancer. Plus, speed camera app developers face abuse from UK drivers.

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Human cells ageing 'reversed by 30 years' Apr 08, 2022

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Researchers have found a way to reverse the ageing of human cells by 30 years. They tried a new technique on human skin cells, and managed to partly restore the function of older cells, while renewing their biological age at the same time.

London Zoo is using jumping spiders to try to help people overcome their arachnophobia. The neon-coloured spiders can leap six-times their body length.

Plus, Activision Blizzard is giving a thousand game testers full-time jobs, a dinosaur specialist explains the significance behind the North Dakota asteroid fossil site, a post mortem of ‘extraordinary’ Greenland shark reveals it had meningitis, the new Snapchat lens that can teach you sign language, and Returnal is named best game at Bafta Games Awards.

In this episode:

Cambridge researchers reverse the ageing process in human skin cells (0.16)
London Zoo uses jumping spiders to cure arachnophobia (0.55)
Activision Blizzard gives game testers full-time roles (2.03)
Why the asteroid fossil site in North Dakota is so significant (2.30)
Greenland shark post mortem shows it had meningitis (3.52)
Snapchat launches sign language lens (4.43)
Returnal wins Best Game at Bafta Game Awards (5.11)

Hear the full interview with Natural History Museum Professor Paul Barrett here.

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Asteroid strike dinosaur fossil found Apr 07, 2022

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Scientists reckon they’ve found a fossil of a dinosaur that was killed by the asteroid which sent the species into extinction. It was found at a fossil site in North Dakota - and experts believe the dinosaur was killed and its leg preserved on the actual day the asteroid struck, 66 million years ago.

As the UK Government has announced plans to regulate stablecoins, an expert believes it will hugely benefit businesses. Teana Baker Taylor, director at Crypto UK, said using them to send money abroad will save time and cost, and keep businesses in the country.

Plus Mario Golf is coming to the Nintendo switch, Paramount plans to join the metaverse, astronomers spot the most distant object ever seen, and how mushrooms might communicate like humans.

In this episode:

Dinosaur fossil linked to asteroid (0.18)
What’s the end game for regulated stablecoins in the UK? (0.55)
Mario Golf coming to Nintendo Switch (2.23)
Paramount launching its own space in the metaverse and Star Trek NFTs (3.03)
Pinterest bans climate misinformation (3.36)
Astronomers spot the most distant astronomical object ever seen (4.35)
Covid-19 linked to increased risk of serious blood clots (5.12)
How fungi appears to communicate like humans (5.50)

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3D-printed fingertip with 'human' sense of touch Apr 06, 2022

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Police have issued a warning about cannabis sweets after a 23-year-old who consumed sweets suspected to be laced with the drug died in London. Law student Damilola Grace Olakanmi bought the “gummies” via a messaging app. She and a 21-year-old friend immediately fell ill after having the sweets, which came in packaging branded with “Trrlli Peachie O’s”.

A new 3D-printed fingertip that has a sense of touch like human skin has been created by researchers at Bristol University. It’s been made to produce artificial nerve signals, similar to the ones made by human nerve endings in the skin. It’s hoped the tech can be used in future to massively improve prosthetics.

Also in this episode:

Twitter is adding an edit button (0.45)
First Light Fusion develop cheap new way to generate nuclear power (1.16)
Report claims Instagram isn’t doing enough to protect women from misogynistic abuse (2.50)
Big-screen actors returning in new Lego Star Wars game (3.39)
Lexus to reveal first electric car (4.23)
Barclays warns businesses over scammers targeting invoices (5.00)
Hubble telescope discovers the most distant star ever seen. (5.58)

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UK government's crypto plans Apr 05, 2022

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UN scientists have announced we are in a ‘now or never’ situation to fix climate change. We spoke with Ian Bateman, professor of environmental economics at the University of Exeter about the IPCC report, and why wind and solar power might be better than nuclear.

Plus - two notebooks owned by Charles Darwin that went missing in 2001, have been anonymously returned to the Cambridge University Library. We spoke with a Cambridge University librarian about how significant the notebooks are.

Also in this episode:

The Royal Mint to create first ever NFT + UK gov to regulate stablecoins (2.50)
Axiom to launch the world’s first all-private space mission to the ISS (3.24)
US Palaeontology professor’s new theory on T-rex’s small arms (4.10)
Study finally proves birds are more colourful near the equator (4.44)
Date set for launch of electric Delorean concept car (5.21)

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