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iPhone 15: Apple’s latest is a great device – but headline feature proves innovation now harder to come by | Science & Tech News
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Another year, another iPhone – and with it the usual Apple spiel about huge improvements that make it the best one yet. You would certainly always hope that’s the case, with the iPhone 4’s botched antenna perhaps the only occasion when the company’s flagship device really did go backwards. With the release of the iPhone…
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides revelations into how early galaxies formed | Science & Tech News
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A study into the formation of early galaxies has upended long-held theories about the evolution of the universe. Using NASA‘s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of international researchers looked back at some which formed 10 billion years ago or more. It was a time when astronomers had believed our own Milky Way…
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Long COVID can cause long-term damage to multiple organs, study finds | UK News
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A third of long COVID patients sustained damage to multiple organs five months after infection, a study has found. Scans of patients who were treated in hospital for COVID-19 showed higher rates of damage to the lungs, brain and kidneys compared with the non-COVID control group. Lung injuries were almost 14 times higher among long…
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Samiran Gupta: Top X (Twitter) boss in India ‘resigns’ – amid court battle over content removal | Science & Tech News
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Social media platform X’s most senior employee in India has resigned ahead of the country’s elections, as the company fights the government in court over content removal, according to the Reuters news agency. In his role as head of policy for India and South Asia for the site, formerly known as Twitter, Samiran Gupta “enabled…
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Scotland’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX is taking shape – and it’s only a few months away from launching | Science & Tech News
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A Scottish company hoping to take on SpaceX is just months away from launching a rocket in the Shetland Islands. Mission success would deploy the first satellite in orbit from UK soil – and put the country firmly in the space race. The company, called Skyrora, has already successfully fired one of the engines in…
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FIFA’s interactive World Cup in ‘disarray’ as EA Sports launches rebranded game of its own | Science & Tech News
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The future of FIFA’s interactive World Cup appears in disarray, after failing to deliver its promised new video game amid a bitter end to its three-decade partnership with EA Sports. EA has not only this week launched a rebranded game – FC 24 rather than FIFA 24 in the previous naming system – but also…
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Amazon’s Prime Video to include ads from 2024 unless you pay more | Business News
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Amazon Prime Video customers will face a choice between watching adverts or paying more to remove them when updates to the firm’s streaming service kick in at the start of next year. The company also warned that live events, such as sports, will continue to include commercials even if people have upgraded to the new…
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Microsoft’s £55bn takeover of Call of Duty maker now set for UK approval | Business News
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Microsoft’s revised effort to get the £55bn takeover of Activision Blizzard past UK regulators appears to be on track for clearance. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had been a sole thorn in the side of the acquisition, rejecting the original terms on the grounds it had a duty to protect innovation and choice in…
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Girl, 8, becomes first UK transplant patient not to need life-long drugs | UK News
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An eight-year-old girl has become the first person in the UK to have a transplant – and not need to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. Aditi Shankar, who has a rare genetic condition, has received both a new kidney and bone marrow from her mother, Divya. Because she had a stem…
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Devious parasitic plant convinces host to grow into its own flesh | Science & Tech News
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Scientists have observed how a merciless parasitic plant convinces its host to grow into its own flesh. The mushroom-like balanophoraceae may look like fungi, but are actually a cluster of flowers called inflorescences. And unlike other parasites that attach themselves to a host to steal nutrients directly, these devious plants convince their hosts to work…