38 h. ago Failed Soviet satellite hurtling towards Earth may hit like a meteorite, tracker warns

Space probe was designed for Venus landing but never made it out of Earth orbit

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7 d. ago Bonnie Blue splashes out on lavish 'basic' purchase after 'most disgusting stunt yet'

Bonnie Blue has revealed the life of luxury she's been living in thanks to her wild content creation career - which includes her claims to have broken the world sex record

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9 d. ago Reddit DOWN: Thousands of users can't use website after 'server error' message

Reddit is down for tens of thousands of people around the world, as users struggle to access the popular content sharing website due to a 'server error' message

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1 week ago ‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existenceSeveral billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, salty world circled our sun. Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces.One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are critical for the existence of life. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gangnam Style to Baby Shark: YouTube’s 20 greatest viral hits

After two decades of video sensations, here’s a reminder of the streaming platform’s most unforgettable clips – year by yearFrom weird elephant videos to revolutionising TV: 20 years of YouTubeYouTube is 20 years old. Although video had existed online before, YouTube’s ease of use – for the first time sites could easily embed video into their content – made it revolutionary. As such, we now live in a world where people watch more YouTube than anything else. But how did we get here? Perhaps the best way to find out is to trace the most significant videos produced in each of its 20 years. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote

Report finds over a quarter of Canadians exposed to ‘more sophisticated and more politically polarizing’ fake contentMore than a quarter of Canadians have been exposed to fake political content on social media that is “more sophisticated and more politically polarizing” as the country prepares to vote in a federal election, researchers have found, warning that platforms must increase protections amid a “dramatic acceleration” of online disinformation in the final weeks of the campaign.In a new report released on Friday, Canada’s Media Ecosystem Observatory found a growing number of Facebook ads impersonating legitimate news sources were instead promoting fraudulent investment schemes, often involving cryptocurrency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman who tore out own eyes on meth has 'no regrets' after getting sacked from job

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Kaylee Muthart believed she was saving the world by using her own eyeballs as a "sacrifice" during a meth-induced psychosis.

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2 w. ago Woman who ripped own eyes out while high on meth has 'no regrets' after getting fired

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Kaylee Muthart thought she was saving the world by using her own eyeballs as a "sacrifice" after a crystal meth overdose - and seven years on she shares an update after being fired

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3 w. ago Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestationScientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests – from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth’s orbit later this month.For the next five years, the 1.25-tonne spacecraft will sweep over the tropical rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America and peer through their dense 40m-high ­canopies to study the vegetation that lies beneath. The data collected by Biomass will then be used to create unique 3D maps of forests normally hidden from human sight. Continue reading...

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