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💡 Warp News #229
🦾 Chatbot convinced conspiracy theorists to reconsider their beliefs. 🚀 SpaceX plans even bigger Starships. 🔋 New fast-charging electric vehicle battery with a lifetime of 400,000 miles.
💡 Warp News #228
❌ Slovakia closes its last coal-fired power plant – six years ahead of schedule. 🏢 Thousands of deaths avoided in Taiwan earthquake. 🛫 Successful demo flight with the first private supersonic aircraft since the Concorde.
💡 Warp News #227
☣️ Toxic chemicals have decreased by 21% over ten years. 🌬️ Significantly improved air quality in Europe. 👩⚕️ Sharp decline in tuberculosis in Cambodia. 🌎 The vast majority believe in climate change.
💡 Warp News #226
🌦️ Weather forecasts much more accurate. 🥛 Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin. 📉 New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries. 🐖 Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time.
💡 Warp News #225
🧒🏿 UN: Milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. 🚀 Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity. 🧬 Reviving the mammoth is getting closer. 🦐 Discovery of 100 new marine species.
💡 Warp News #224
📉 India has eliminated extreme poverty. 🥔 Genetically modified potatoes eliminate the need for pesticides. 🌱 Scientists have developed a method to transform salty soil into fertile farmland.
💡 Warp News #223
📉 Emissions from new cars have halved. 🔋 Battery price wars: Prices reach record lows. 🤖 Klarna's new AI assistant does the same job as 700 people. 🦑 One hundred new species discovered.
💡 Warp News #222
🔫 Sharp decline in U.S. murders during 2023. 🌚 A private company successfully lands on the moon for the first time. ⚡ Record decrease in emissions from the EU's energy sector. 🦟 Cape Verde reaches milestone – free from malaria.
💡 Warp News #221
📈 People with Down syndrome live more than twice as long today. 📉 Rapid poverty reduction in Bangladesh. 🍚 Meat-rice: Grain with added muscle strengthens protein content. 💉 "Possible to eradicate Malaria within ten years".