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Fortnite’s new season arrives Mar 21, 2022

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Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 2 is finally here. Epic Games has taken the game offline for the new season titled 'Resistance'. It centres around the battle between the IO and The Seven.

The spring Covid booster vaccine launches for over-75s in England. A taxi driver files a lawsuit against Tesla after a fatal crash in Paris. The UN Secretary General says the rush to use fossil fuels because of the war in Ukraine is threatening global climate targets and the CEO of Cellular Goods speaks out against the social media ban on ads for CBD products.

Also, why the UK chicken’s have entered their own sort of lockdown and a former Apple employee is charged with defrauding more than $10 million from the company.

Plus, Glasgow scientists create a simpler way to test mosquitoes for Malaria and China requires Microsoft’s Bing to suspend its auto-suggest feature.

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UK built Mars rover mission suspended over Ukraine invasion Mar 18, 2022

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A mission to Mars planned between the European Space Agency and Russian Space Agency has been suspended. A British built rover was due to be blasted into space this year, but the ESA said cooperation with Russia is ‘impossible’ because of the invasion of Ukraine.

Plus, divers are heading to the Titanic shipwreck to collect environmental DNA from the site, and find out what lives there. Marine biologists are hoping to learn about the biodiversity of the wreck, and how the ship has impacted the life around it.

Also:

AI suggests 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
Porche’s 718 model to go all-electric
Nasa's giant new SLS Moon rocket makes its debut
New Delta-cron covid variant confirmed
Lithium may decrease risk of developing dementia
Tile release ‘anti-stalking’ safety feature

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This War of Mine maker on $850k Ukraine donation Mar 17, 2022

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Game developer 11Bit Games has raised $850,000 for the Ukraine Red Cross, in just 9 days. It raised the cash purely through sales of its game This War Of Mine, an anti-war title all about surviving conflict. We hear from Pawel Miechowski who called the fundraiser a ‘phenomenon’.

Plus, a crypto compliance firm has suggested sanctioned Russian oligarchs have been using crypto to protect their funds. Elliptic said it is actively investigating crypto-asset wallets believed to be linked to sanctioned Russian officials and oligarchs.

Also:

Bored Ape Yacht Club creates its own cryptocurrency
The fabric that can hear your heartbeat
Netflix to clamp down on password sharing
NSPCC claims Online Safety Bill ‘doesn’t go far enough’
New Covid treatment for people with a weakened immune system
Brie Larson to open her own space in the metaverse

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Ukraine’s cyberarmy 'targets Russian space projects' Mar 16, 2022

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In this episode, we learn about Ukraine’s cyber-army, targeting Russia's Mars and nuclear projects. Jeff Carr, a US-based cybersecurity and digital warfare researcher describes who they are and what they are doing.

Plus, Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs will soon be available on Instagram. He revealed they hope to bring them to the social network in the ‘near term’ at a conference in America.

Also:

Meta joins UK anti-scams initiative
Oxitec's genetically modified mosquito project gets pilot approval
Met Police forensics tech can detect blood specks on dark clothing within seconds
NASA says US astronaut in space will come home “for sure”
Spotify buys naming rights on FC Barcelona’s massive stadium
Apple Face ID update lets users unlock their phones while wearing a mask

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Why AI 'shouldn't tackle disinformation online' Mar 15, 2022

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This week we hear from journalist and Mozilla Fellow Odanga Madung who uncovered a paid disinformation campaign on Twitter in Kenya. He says social media firms mustn’t rely on AI to tackle the spread of false information online. Also, a brand new dinosaur has been discovered in China.

Fossils show it’s in the same family as the Stegosaurus, with large armour plates and spines.

Plus:

Microsoft’s Direct-Storage API speeds up loading times (2.10)
Ford launching 7 new EVs in Europe (2.42)
Dronecoria: using drones to reforest the world (3.12)
The high tech ambulance using 5G from space (4.26)
How to watch NASA’s live spacewalk (5.05)

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Pete Davidson to fly to space with Blue Origin Mar 14, 2022

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In today’s episode:

Ukraine invasion threatens “vital” climate research (0.16)
Plans for ‘space power station’ and quicker Mars to Earth communication (0.56)
Pete Davidson going to space on Blue Origin (1.32)
Researchers warn of Amazon ‘tipping point’ (1.55)
Fears US astronaut could be left in space (2.55)
Scientists reverse ageing process in mice (3.39)

Plus:

Instagram finally lets moderators on live feeds
Ford to ship and sell Explorer SUVs with missing chips
Samsung to launch new mid-range smartphones this week

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YouTube’s iJustine: How I stayed in the game | IWD 2022 Mar 11, 2022

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In the final episode of our week celebrating leading women in tech and science, we hear from Justine Ezarik, aka iJustine, one of the most successful YouTubers of all time.

iJustine launched 16 years ago and she truly was one of the original queens of the platform. Now, she has 6.98 million subscribers, created over 2000 uploads and has more than a billion views across her channel.

Despite the critics in the early days, Justine persevered and she continues to adapt and evolve now, all because of her love of technology.

Get ready to hear from a YouTube legend.

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A brief history of... Lucy Hawking | IWD 2022 Mar 10, 2022

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Next up in our week of special episodes of Tech & Science Daily, we hear from Lucy Hawking, science educator and children’s writer. You’ll also likely be familiar with her father, the theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking.

Lucy created the ‘George’ book series, a collection of fantasy adventure novels based on real science. She’s since gone on to publish many other children’s books but all of them have the same goal, to make science more understandable and entertaining.

Lucy’s latest book ‘Princess Olivia Investigates The Wrong Weather’ is out on 14th April.

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How to find a supermassive black hole | IWD 2022 Mar 09, 2022

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On Tech & Science Daily, we're carrying on our week of special episodes to mark International Women’s Day. Today we hear from Nobel Prize winner, Andrea Ghez, professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA.

Andrea is only the fourth woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in physics which she received for her part in providing evidence of a supermassive black hole, with the mass of four million suns, at the centre of our galaxy. Impressive, right?

She explains the years and efforts that have gone into her research and why she still loves what she does over 25 years later.

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Meet 'the mother of the internet' | IWD 2022 Mar 08, 2022

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This week on Tech & Science Daily, to mark International Women’s Day, we’re speaking to some of the world-leading women in their fields. Today is the turn of computer programmer and network engineer, Radia Perlman. She is known by many as ‘the mother of the internet’ - although she’s been trying to shake that title for years.

Radia invented the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - an innovation that helped make today's Internet possible. Although, she believes it’s not just one person who is responsible for the internet as we now know it.

She explains how she created the STP - and a poem to go along with it - following an ‘impossible’ task set by her boss whilst he was away.

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