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New hangover prevention pill goes on sale in UK Jul 04, 2022

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A new pill designed to stop you from getting a hangover is now on the market in the UK. The tablet from probiotic firm Myrkl is designed to break down alcohol in the gut before it gets to the liver. The CEO of Myrkl said it’s designed for moderate drinkers, and not those planning to get drunk.

The Army is investigating a breach of its social media channels, after its official Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked. Its YouTube was flooded with videos on cryptocurrency and pictures of Elon Musk, and its official Twitter account retweeted several posts apparently about NFTs.

Also in this episode:

Giant Waterlily grown at Kew Gardens named ‘new to science’
Oxford Uni social psychologist discusses ‘mindless scrolling’ on social media
Tidal power firm achieves major milestone after securing £8m
The humpback whales sharing songs with others
Ubisoft shutting down online services for older games
The “Rise of the Gentleminions” TikTok trend hitting cinemas

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Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade’s farewell to fans Jul 01, 2022

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Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade’s farewell to fans, narrated by his father, hits nearly 3 million views in just a few hours following the 23-year-old’s death from cancer. His dad says his son wrote the message eight hours before passing away.

LGBTQ+ rights campaigners are attacking Amazon on social media because the company’s restricting search results for some gay and trans-related products in the UAE. It comes as London celebrates the 50th anniversary of the capital’s first Pride march, including an augmented reality exhibition using tech from Snapchat. The show will display work from six artists on iconic buildings in Soho.

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The “Missing Cryptoqueen” has been placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list
Why Google’s offering $90m to small app developers
Fifa’s been showing off how VAR will work at the World Cup
Astronauts are losing more bone mass in space than initially thought
Flavoured heated tobacco could be banned across the EU
A study suggests 16 and 17-year-olds are more than three times more vulnerable to developing a cannabis addiction than adults
The curse of Vecna hits Netflix… Fans had to wait a little longer to catch the final episodes of season 4

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The killer whale duo’s shark killing spree Jun 30, 2022

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Researchers believe a pair of killer whales off the coast of South Africa have been on a great white shark killing spree. They said the duo, named Port and Starboard, have been murdering sharks and eating their organs, slaughtering at least eight great whites since 2017. Experts believe the whales behaviour is behind a drop in great white shark sightings in the area over the last five years.

The man behind L’Oreal’s Research and Innovation tech team said they’re planning to bring some form of beauty offering to the Metaverse. Guive Balooch told the Evening Standard he thinks there will be a real appetite for beauty in the virtual world.

Also in this episode:

Tesla opens 800th Supercharger location in Europe
‘Napalm Girl’ received final skin treatment, 50 years after Vietnam War
UK’s first mass-produced hydrogen truck unveiled
Work starts on ‘Mammoth’ direct air capture plant in Iceland
Shrimps and worms ‘were among first to recover after largest mass extinction’
Xiaomi phone to use huge 1-inch camera sensor co-developed with Sony
Atari is bundling up over 90 classic games for its 50th anniversary

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New AI cane to help visually impaired people Jun 29, 2022

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A visually impaired university student and entrepreneur has created a brand new hi-tech version of the classic white cane, to help those with visual impairments.

19-year-old Ramneek Kaur Ahluwalia who’s CEO of ‘MyVision’ said it uses AI, LiDAR and GPS technology, and can notify users with audio directions or haptic feedback.

She has secured £10,000 in funding after winning the Samsung ‘Solve For Tomorrow’ national technology competition.

The government’s official advisors on climate change say we’re currently not on track to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

The Climate Change Committee has called for improved policies on energy efficiency and land use, and said there’s still an urgent need to cut demand for fossil fuels.

Also in this episode:

Fashion blogger Maxim Sapozhnikov reveals Monkeypox symptoms after testing positive
VFX artist explains vegas scenes in new Elvis movie
Highly antibiotic-resistant MRSA strain that arose in pigs ‘can jump to humans’
Electric Gamebox launches team Angry Birds game
Social media companies ‘should do more to crack down on car insurance scammers’
The iceberg which lets you show off your favourite artists

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Roe v. Wade: American's urged to swap period apps Jun 28, 2022

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The founder of a tech education company is advising women in America not to use period tracking apps, and increase their digital privacy after the recent law change that allows states to criminalise abortions.

Sinead Bovell, founder of WAYE Talks and UN speaker on tech and the future has been sharing the advice through her social media accounts.

The Roe V Wade decision has prompted a growing number of women in America to swap period tracking apps to ones that claim to have stricter security.

Medical students at the University of Cambridge are using AR headsets to experience realistic procedures. The university has developed a new app with Los Angeles-based tech company GigXR which uses life-like holograms to train students through simulation.

Plus:

PlayStation launches new subscription service at double original price
Overwatch 2 is set to replace the original Overwatch
Study suggests exoplanets may provide habitable conditions for billions of years
Samsung’s next phone will have a removable battery
AI trained to play Minecraft after watching 70,000 hours of Youtube videos
Mysterious lights spotted in sky over San Diego

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How AI at Wimbledon helps fans this summer Jun 27, 2022

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New AI technology is being used to help tennis fans better enjoy Wimbledon this year. The All England Tennis Club have teamed up with IBM to collect and combine data on player and ball movements using tech like Hawkeye. The stats will be used to give predictions on who might win or lose a match.

A fan hyper-car has broken the Goodwood Hill record with a time of 39.08 seconds. The McMurty Spéirling car beat the record set in 1999 by racing driver Nick Heidfeld in an F1 car.

Also in this episode:

Ofcom: Two thirds of young people see harmful content online, but just 16% report it
Nasa makes history with first rocket launch from Australia
Why space tourism could damage the o-zone layer
Earth’s oldest known wildfires raged 430 million years ago
The gamer recreating Simpsons hit-&-run into an open world game

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Electric car falls from third floor of Shanghai building Jun 24, 2022

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Chinese electric carmaker NIO’s revised a statement it issued following the deaths of two test drivers which emphasised that the accident wasn’t “related to the vehicle itself”. It followed an outcry on Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter, after a car apparently crashed out of the third floor of the company’s HQ in Shanghai. Some users said the statement was insensitive, while others said it pre-empted the conclusion of an investigation.

Meanwhile, Toyota’s recalling thousands of its electric cars over concerns the wheels might fall off.

And a language app says it’s been inundated with users from Ukraine as people in the country look to escape the war there. We speak to Babbel’s CEO, Arne Schepker.

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Netflix is laying off three hundred staff worldwide and confirmed adverts are coming
Scientists now think Jupiter may have got to its size by ‘eating’ other worlds
A bacterium so big it’s visible to the naked eye has been described as like meeting a human as tall as Mount Everest
A robot called IG-1 can serve up to 80 drinks per hour
Keanu Reeves seems to have changed his mind about NFTs
Several species of tortoises and turtles appear to have found the secret of eternal youth

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Polio: Parents urged to vaccinate children Jun 23, 2022

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Parents of children not vaccinated against polio are being contacted in parts of London after the virus was detected in the city’s sewer system. We spoke to our Health Editor for the latest. Twitter trials ‘notes’ to increase its character limit and an edit button is finally here. Elon Musk says Tesla’s US and German plants have become “gigantic money furnaces” because of Covid-19 supply problems in China. Apple boss Tim Cook’s been talking to China Daily USA about augmented reality; is Apple’s rumoured augmented reality headset actually real? The exact co-ordinates of Ernest Shackelton’s Endurance wreckage under the Antarctic ice have been revealed. Real-time translations is coming to Zoom. Plus, Instagram will now ID you if claim you’re over 18, Meta’s Oversight Board says it’s dealt with more than a million appeals in its first year and Alexa might soon be able to mimic people’s voices… alive or dead.

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Behind the fastest-growing supermassive black hole discovery Jun 22, 2022

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Astronomers have discovered the fastest-growing supermassive black hole of the last 9 billion years - and it's believed to be swallowing the equivalent of Earth each second. We speak to Lead Researcher behind the discovery, Dr. Christopher Olken. Meanwhile, a comet once spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, and has the width of six Jupiters, is getting closer to Earth to see.

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Elon Musk: Twitter shareholders are expected to vote on whether he should buy the company
We speak to EE about their giant Wi-Fi rooster at Glastonbury Festival
Speaking at No.10 Downing Street, Rio Ferdinand’s called for a new social media platform to be built because the current giants ‘can’t get a grip on bullying’
Scientists say older people who can’t stand on one leg for more than ten seconds have double the risk of dying
Could a wrist-worn fertility tracker spot Covid days before symptoms emerge?
Why the Canterbury suburbs were home to some of Britain’s earliest humans
Star Wars fans: fancy Darth Vader breathing out of your Tv?

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Just Eat, Fitbit & Discord outage Jun 21, 2022

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Hundreds of big names like Just Eat, Fitbit and Discord experienced an outage today. Content delivery network Cloudflare has taken responsibility. A “Parade of Planets” not seen for 18 years is coming - that’s five worlds lining up in the sky at dawn. An Alzheimer’s breakthrough means the disease could be diagnosed from a single brain scan. South Korea enters the space race and scientists say we may have been trying to communicate with aliens in the wrong way. The UN’s shifted talks on protecting the environment from China to Canada over Covid concerns. How vaping, burning incense and even some cleaning products are causing pollution inside our homes -and it’s making hayfever worse.

Plus, 6,000 people sing and dance at Dawn at Stonehenge to mark the Summer Solstice, the hunt is on for a mate for London’s only female beaver and Fender’s bringing rock and roll to the Metaverse!

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