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Relativity is a lithograph print by

the

Dutch artist M. C. Escher

Three gravity sources are depicted

in the same space

The structure has seven

stairways, and each stairway can

be used by people who belong to

two different gravity sources

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In the Miller Time Commercial they slip from the couch to the camp site

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOURS IS?

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QB SoR FRINGE EPILOGUE Part 1 of 2 - Comments & Mandela Effects as GOLDEN Animals Flood the Timeline

• Transformation is about to occur regarding the financial systems.

• Downfall of MEDIA THEY begin to WAKE UP April – June

• Social media will be transforming as the world understands all the manipulation by the government.

Things are truly beginning to heat up in the world. There is an explosive event that will awaken the world to the truth and transform our destinyWar- Possibility President Harris – April 31?Aliens announced June 2021

Predictions April 2021

• Venus rules relationships, wealth and money. As Venus is weakened being too close to the Sun, the stock market and economy will be very volatile.

• Relationships are stressed and many are feeling victimized. Politically there are problems surmounting in blame with no light at the end of the tunnel for resolution.

• Watch how Donald Trump will be in the news. His social media platform will begin to expose many hidden secrets and corruption in the world.

• The economy will change with a downward cycle as taxes are increased globally. The repercussions of the massive lockdowns affect the financial world and the bear stock market.

• Expect extreme weather during this time.• An event that wakes up humanity will occur.

• Emotions and even weather will be out of control. People will feel like they are drowning with a sense of hopelessness. Flooding, extreme storms, and tornadoes will be seen around the world. This is the time for introspection and self-reflection.

• Mars with Rahu in the 7th house represents a year clouded by war and violence. Particularity with hidden enemies for the United States.

• There is manipulation going on within the U.S. government and the stock market. This represents a transformation is about to occur regarding the financial systems.

April 1st – April 13th

April 11

Things are truly beginning to heat up in the world. There is an explosive event that will awaken the world to the truth and transform our destiny

Predictions April 2021

• Venus rules relationships, wealth and money. As Venus is weakened being too close to the Sun, the stock market and economy will be very volatile.

• There could be major attacks on the nation. Leadership will falter around the world.

• Difficulties in leadership cause major concerns around the world. There appears to be a new awareness that we are out of control. This is the time the people are aware of the fact that they must begin to take back their power.

• Social media will be transforming as the world understands all the manipulation by the government.

• This is a time for inventions and innovative thinking. Many new ideas and technological advances are evolving. This can involve the aviation industry and space.

• Spending and taxing is out of control and the government has made major decisions. It is very unclear as to who is in control because the direction is shifting in a different direction, creating even more confusion.

• Both Trump and Biden have a major aspect occurring & could indicate something happening between them? Jupiter is aspecting Trump’s Mars indicating something favorable pertaining to his quest to reveal the truth through his social media platform. For Biden there is a problem in his supporters. It’s unclear if this is Vice President Harris or possibly even his wife. This could indicate there is more pressure from Trump or even world leaders, such as China.

April 13th

April 16 – April 27

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A sampling of the big and compelling trends that forecasters seem convinced will come

to pass, if not in 2021 then over the next

five to 10 years:

1. Universal work from home policies2. End of the open-plan office3. Digital commutes and forced mindfulness

Microsoft’s virtual commute sets out to reinstate this division between work time, and home time. Once the update arrives in 2021, employees will be able to schedule a virtual commute at the start and end of their working day. Instead of rushing to the bus stop or train station, Microsoft Teams will prompt them

to set goals for the next morning or reflect on their day.

Teams' users will be encouraged to use their virtual commute as mindfulness and meditation time, including completing guided meditation sessions led by Headspace. As

part of the Headspace integration, Microsoft 365 users will also be able to schedule a virtual meditation session at any point throughout the working day.

4. Carbon labelling for consumer goods5. Cashless biometric payments6. Live shopping outside China

Live shopping, already extremely popular in China, is like Instagram Live meets the Home Shopping Network – influencers show-and-tell products live on social media, which have particular discounts and promotions only while the feed is rolling.

7. Climate migrationClimate crises will increasingly force huge populations to relocate, causing strain over resource allocation, border issues, culture and the overall safety of millions.

8. RewildingCities and suburbs are looking for places to downshift development and add urban greenery to compensate for rising C02 emissions. Especially if carbon sequestration is eventually monetized, this could have an impact on land use overall, since owning undeveloped forest land would be profitable. This may point to a shift away from increasingly elusive home ownership toward permaculture land ownership.

9. Breakdown of traditional education pathsAs the pandemic has interrupted schooling for millions, new relationships to online learning will continue to flourish, in addition to trends like unschooling, which will penetrate new demographics (beyond the fringe). The weight of student debt and continued class conflict will also draw people away from the traditional path of college education.

10. Mass psychedeliaShrooms are the new weed, commercially speaking, as new firms and funds scramble to monetize psilocybin in advance of its extended clinical applications. Psychedelics as a class of drugs continue to be destigmatized, relative to other drugs. Forecasts see this reaching a new level of mainstream saturation in coming years

11. Escape into fantasy worlds12. Full-filter reality

Immersive, photo realistic imagery in the form of Instagram-style filter layers will become widespread beyond just phones when applied via increasingly mature augmented reality systems, forcing people to question the relationship between the visual and the real, and potentially fragmenting consensus reality even further.

13. Tech platform exitConsumer backlash against big tech has been heralded for years, but its widespread implementation finally seems likely. Mainstream awareness of the data power imbalance with big companies will make consumers happy to pay for things like search, email and VPN instead of having companies use their data. Increasing attention to the power imbalances of this model will lead to the adoption of more niche services and platforms.

14. BlockchainMore widespread adoption of blockchain technologies will affect the way people portray identities online. Protest movements will demand transparency from power, which will drive adoption of blockchain technologies with their public accounting systems. Historically speculative products like NFTs (non-fungible tokens) which create unique digital identities for items like digital artworks or gaming items, will go mainstream.

15. China power shiftChina’s status as an economic, political and cultural center will continue its meteoric rise. The US will continue its downward spiral. Chinese consumption patterns will set the tone for the world

16. Amazon NationsThe relationship between enormous corporations whose resources increasingly dwarf actual countries and small countries in need of debt relief will lead to unusually baroque tax-evasion schemes and complex international monopoly issues.

17. Zoom fashionFashion designers and retailers will create markedly different strategies for fashion that appears on the upper body, ie above “the Zoom line” compared with the bottom half of the body, which isn’t usually visible on screen.

18. Return of the faceliftMore invasive procedures such as surgical facelifts will regain popularity – people are tired of paying over and over for fillers, which is more like a subscription model. Superusers say a surgical facelift is cheaper in the long run, and forecasts seem to be aligned with them, as the plastic surgery sector will continue to boom overall.

19. No-melody musicStripped-down rap with no melody is perfect for soundtracking viral TikTok videos; the trend of stripping out elements may expand widely into various categories of music and media

20. Death of music genresSpotify’s move toward mood-driven instead of genre-driven playlists has been successful to the point of suggesting that musical genres themselves will be increasingly outmoded in the coming years – or at least completely illegible.

What are NFTs?

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens are essentially digital deeds attached to the blockchain. When an NFT is created, a unique identifier, typically a string of numbers and letters records the creation date and is added to a blockchain’s historical record.It’s this information that makes each NFT unique, and as such, they cannot be directly replaced by another token. They cannot be swapped like for like, as no two NFTs are alike. Banknotes, in contrast, can be simply exchanged one for another; if they hold the same value, there is no difference to the holder between, say, one dollar bill and another. Hence the moniker ‘non-fungible'.Bitcoin, by contrast, is a fungible token. You can send someone one Bitcoin and they can send one back, and you still have one Bitcoin. (Of course, the value of Bitcoin might change during the time of exchange.) You can also send or receive smaller amounts of one Bitcoin, measured in satoshis (think of satoshis as cents of a Bitcoin), since fungible tokens are divisible.Non-fungible tokens are not divisible, in the same way that you cannot send someone part of a concert ticket. Part of a concert ticket wouldn’t be worth anything on its own and would not be redeemable.

Ticketing and Music While NFTs have found an affinity in art circles, thanks to their ability to prove

scarcity, they are also being used in other places. Concert tickets and other

accouterments of the music industry rely on non-fungibility to help prevent fraud,

making it a prime candidate for NFT adoption.

Page 9 and Kev Baker Freaky Friday

Patients in England have an option to avoid having a camera inserted into their bowel (colonoscopy), by

instead swallowing a capsule the size of a cod liver oil tablet. Inside the capsule, called PillCam, a tiny camera will record images with a data rate of up to 8.1 Mbps.

The images are then transmitted to an external recorder, fitted to a belt worn around the waist. No hospital visit is required for this procedure, and the user can continue most daily activities while the capsule is in their body. Likewise, regular medications can continue to be taken alongside the PillCam

– which is made of biocompatible plastic – unless otherwise instructed by a doctor.

"As we come out of 'peak Covid' and the disruption of the pandemic, the NHS is now pushing ahead with genuine innovation to

expand services for many other conditions. That's why we're now trialling these ingenious capsule

cameras to allow more people to undergo cancer investigations quickly and safely," said Sir Simon

Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England. "What sounds like sci-fi is now becoming a reality, and as these minute cameras pass through your body, they check for signs of cancer and other

conditions like Crohn's disease.“

The process takes between five and eight hours. Photographs of the bowel are sent wirelessly

from the capsule to the recorder, then passed on to a cancer specialist for evaluation. Patients

excrete the capsule when they go to the toilet. An initial group of 11,000 NHS patients in England

will receive the capsule cameras in about 40 areas of the country.

Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and has the second highest death rate.

New technologies and devices like the PillCam could help in getting more people diagnosed and treated early and more and more tests that can be done at home."

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive

technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on

computer screens or manipulate robotic prostheses just by thinking about moving

their own bodies.

Now, for the first time, clinical trial participants with

quadriplegia have demonstrated the use of a wireless, high

bandwidth, intracortical BCI with an external wireless transmitter.

The new system is capable of transmitting brain signals at single-neuron resolution and in full broadband

fidelity without physically tethering a user to a decoding system.

Traditional cables are replaced by a small transmitter about 5 cm (2") in its largest dimension and weighing a

little over 42 grams (1.5 oz). The unit sits on top of a user's head and connects to an electrode array within the brain's motor cortex, using the same port used by

wired systems.

"They have demonstrated that this wireless system is

functionally equivalent to the wired systems that have been

the gold standard in BCI performance for years. "The

signals are recorded and transmitted with appropriately similar fidelity, which means we

can use the same decoding algorithms we used with wired equipment. The only difference is that people no longer need to

be physically tethered to our equipment, which opens up new possibilities in terms of how the

system can be used."The trial participants – a 35-year-old

man and a 63-year-old man, both paralyzed by spinal cord injuries – were

able to use the BrainGate system in their homes, as opposed to a lab

setting where most BCI research takes place.

Google is announcing new features planned for Google Maps. One of the biggest is that the big company Google is bringing its Live View augmented reality directions to airports, transit

stations and malls. For now they’re only available in some malls in Chicago, Long Island, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco,

San Jose, and Seattle.

But more cities are “on the way,” the company says. Including Tokyo and Zurich in the coming months. Google Maps will also

have a new interface set to roll out globally in the coming months. It will offer more details about transportations options

like eco-friendly driving routes. It will be optimized for lower fuel consumption and will show the fuel-efficient route.

Google also plans to introduce alerts that will tell users when they will be navigating through low-emissions zones, which don’t allow some vehicles with certain levels of emissions to enter. These alerts will launch in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK on Android and iOS this June. More countries will get the alerts soon. Google is also making new map layers for weather and air quality that are set to roll out in the coming months on Android and Ios, first in Australia, India, and the US.

In fact, Google Maps is getting over 100 upgrades in a huge update. Google Maps will employ machine learning to remember how a person prefer to get around, prioritizing the options more likely to use.

• The USD Coin (USDC) is a stablecoin cryptocurrency whose value is pegged directly to the U.S. dollar.• Visa's move comes as finance firms including BNY Mellon, BlackRock Inc and Mastercard Inc take steps to make more use of

cryptocurrencies for investment and payment purposes.• Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk, a major proponent of cryptocurrencies, said last week that customers can buy its electric vehicles with

bitcoin, hoping to encourage more day-to- day use of the digital currency.• "We see increasing demand from consumers across the world to be able to access, hold and use digital currencies and we're

seeing demand from our clients to be able to build products that provide that access for consumers," Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, said.

Traditionally, if a customer chooses to use a Crypto.com Visa card to pay for a coffee, the digital currency held in a cryptocurrency wallet needs to be converted into traditional money. The cryptocurrency wallet will deposit traditional fiat currency in a bank account, to be wired to Visa at the end of the day to settle any transactions, adding cost and complexity for businesses.

Visa's latest step, which will use the Ethereum blockchain, strips out the need to convert digital coin into traditional money in order for the transaction to be settled. Visa said it has partnered with digital asset bank Anchorage and completed the first transaction this month — with Crypto.com sending USDC to Visa's Ethereum address at Anchorage.

(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

Microsoft shares climbed on the news that the company had won a contract to build more than

120,000 custom HoloLens augmented-reality headsets for the US Army. The contract could be

worth up to $21.88BN over a 10-year stretch.Investors celebrated the news likely because the deal

shows Microsoft can generate meaningful revenue from a "futuristic product" like the HoloLens, which involved years of research, and also lies beyond the company's core competency area - software and its

Windows operating system

Though it was widely panned when first release, the HoloLens (which costs $3,500) overlays a holographic

interface over real-world environments and allows users to interact using hand and voice gestures. For example, the headset can use thermal imaging to reveal enemy

combatants hiding in the night.It will also enable soldiers to fight and train using the

same system.

"The IVAS headset, based on HoloLens and augmented by Microsoft Azure cloud services, delivers a platform

that will keep soldiers safer and make them more effective," Alex Kipman, a technical fellow at Microsoft and the person who introduced the HoloLens in 2015, wrote in a blog post. "The program delivers enhanced

situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios."

Aircraft-carriers are juicy targets. They are also increasingly vulnerable ones. Like medieval castles in the age of the cannon, technological advance threatens to make them redundant. Satellites and over-the-horizon radars mean pinpointing their locations is easier. And a single well-aimed, well-armed missile may be enough to render a carrier useless, even if one shot does not sink it outright.

The plan would involve converting conventional aircraft into airborne carriers that deploy cheap, unmanned drones

called Gremlins by dropping them out of the sky.

The missile-shaped gadgets would swarm enemies, carry out surveillance and possibly even engage in combat.

The project, also called Gremlins, might sound bonkers, but it offers a way to keep the Navy's carrier fleet relevant as

missile technology advances at breakneck

pace.

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) released a statement saying that the Stratospheric Controlled

Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), which also had secured Harvard funding, will not go ahead as planned in June.

An effort to dim the sun to stop global warming has been scrapped by the Swedish Space Agency, who announced that the program, funded by Bill Gates, has ‘divided the

scientific community’ and will therefore not be carried out.

“SSC has had dialogues this spring with both leading experts on geoengineering and with other stakeholders, as

well as with the SCoPEx Advisory Board,” the statement reads, adding “As a result of these dialogues and in

agreement with Harvard, SSC has decided not to conduct the technical test flight planned for this summer.”

The Gates funded idea would have seen the release of calcium carbonate, essentially chalk dust, into the atmosphere from a high-altitude balloon to observe the effect it has on sunlight

reaching the planet surface.

The goal of the study was to reduce the temperature on the planet in an effort to stave off

global warming

While the project was given a red light by Sweden, it doesn’t mean it is going away.

David Keith told Reuters that it is only “a setback,” and suggested the project could move to the US, where the

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently published a report calling for $100-200 million to be pumped into solar geoengineering over the next five years.

A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology along with partners at the First

Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, both in China, has developed a tiny robot that can ferry cancer drugs through the blood-brain

barrier (BBB) without setting off an immune reaction.

For many years, medical scientists have sought ways to deliver drugs to the brain to treat health

conditions such as brain cancers.

Because the brain is protected by the skull, it is extremely difficult to inject them directly.

Researchers have also been stymied in their efforts by the BBB—a filtering mechanism in the capillaries that supply blood to the brain and spinal cord that

blocks foreign substances from entering.

Thus, simply injecting drugs into the bloodstream is not an option. In this new effort, the researchers

used a defense cell type that naturally passes through the BBB to carry drugs to the brain.

To build their tiny robots, the researchers exposed groups of white blood cells called neutrophils to tiny bits of

magnetic nanogel particles coated with fragments of E. coli material.

Upon exposure, the neutrophils naturally encased the tiny robots, believing them to be nothing but E. coli bacteria.

The microrobots were then injected into the bloodstream of a test mouse with a cancerous tumor. The team then

applied a magnetic field to the robots to direct them through the BBB, where they were not attacked, as the

immune system identified them as normal neutrophils, and into the brain and the tumor. Once there, the robots

released their cancer-fighting drugs.