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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Elon calls for public bot count on Twitter

Elon Musk (AP)

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Elon Musk has challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal as the saga over him pulling out of the deal to buy the platform continues.

He tweeted Parag challenging him to a public debate about the percentage of Bots on Twitter.

It’s after his lawyers put together a 165-page argument about why he no longer wants to go through with the $44 billion deal to buy the social network.

Staying with Twitter, hackers may have figured out which fake accounts you’re using.

The platform’s privacy team confirmed a vulnerability that allowed hackers to see the accounts linked with phone numbers and email addresses.

In the US - a significant bill to tackle climate change and save people money has been approved by the Senate.

The authors of the $368billion Inflation Reduction Act reckon it will cut US carbon emissions by 40% by 2030.

Scientists at the University of Berkeley in the US say they have found a new cheap and easy way of capturing carbon from things like car exhausts.

The material is a polymer called melamine which is a lot cheaper than the metal-organic frameworks currently used for carbon capture.

Plus, a pair of beavers are doing their bit to help tackle the UK’s water drought by rewilding old farmland. Beano and EE create a Dennis the Menace comic to help teach children about online dangers. A consumer expert has called for British EU roaming rules to be made clearer. Feelin’ feline? Pokémon Go releases huge 3D cats in Japan, and could PlayStation be about to release NFT’s?

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