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Is Elon’s Twitter takeover close?

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Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter appears to have moved a step closer, as he met with top execs from the social network. They met on Sunday, with the Tesla owner claiming a deal could be done as soon as this week.


A team of scientists on the ISS are carrying out experiments to see if they can grow meat in zero-gravity. The aim is to see if they can create a source of food for future humans who set up colonies on the moon or other planets.


Plus:

  • The spider which flings females away like a catapult (1.25)
  • The Large Hadron Collider comes back to life after 3-years of upgrades (1.58)
  • Why Google, Meta and other big tech will have to explain their algorithms in the EU (2.28)
  • Nine ‘Pixel Watch’ photos leak (3.16)
  • Customers of big mobile providers overpay and are underserved (3.49)
  • Google introduces ‘inclusive language’ function (4.27)


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