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Man dies driving off collapsed bridge following Google Maps – family sues | US News
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Google is being sued by the family of a man who drove off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps. The family of Philip Paxson are accusing the tech giant of negligence, claiming they had been informed the bridge had been collapsed for five years but failed to update their navigation system. The medical device…
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Sir Ian Wilmut: Scientist who led team which cloned Dolly the sheep dies | UK News
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Sir Ian Wilmut, the man who led the team behind the famous cloned sheep Dolly, has died. Described as a “titan of the scientific world”, he was 79. Announcing Sir Ian’s death, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, the vice chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: “We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of…
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Is this how Earth dies? Astronomers witness sun-like star devouring planet in possible preview of our home’s ultimate fate | Science & Tech News
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Astronomers have seen the first evidence of a dying sun-like star engulfing an exoplanet in what could be a preview of Earth’s ultimate fate. The cataclysmic event, some 13,000 light years away, was observed using the Gemini South telescope in Chile. Such spectacles occur when stars similar to our sun near the end of their…
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Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder and microchip pioneer dies aged 94 | Science & Tech News
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Microchip pioneer and Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94. Co-creator of the American tech company Intel in 1968, Moore was one of the engineers to put “Intel Inside” processors in more than 80% of the world’s personal computers. The company announced on Friday that he had died surrounded by…
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Cambodia girl, 11, dies from bird flu, health officials say | World News
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An 11-year-old girl from Cambodia has died from bird flu, health officials have said, the first person in the country to die from the infection since 2014. The girl was from the rural province of Prey Veng, in south-eastern Cambodia, and became ill on 16 February. She went to hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh,…
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Walter Cunningham: Last surviving astronaut from Apollo 7 mission dies | US News
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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has died aged 90. Cunningham joined crewmates Walter Schirra and Donn Eisele for the 11-day Apollo 7 mission in 1968, which was conducted in low-Earth orbit. Their mission was the first human test flight of the new Apollo…
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TikTok ‘bones, no bones’ star, Noodle the dog, dies – and millions of fans flock to pay tribute | US News
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More than two million fans of a TikTok-famous pug have marked the death of the social media star and flooded the owner’s page with messages of condolence. Noodle the pug rose to fame on the platform with “no bones”, a game his owner Jonathan Graziano played nearly every morning which recorded whether Noodle would stand…
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Valery Polyakov: Russian cosmonaut who set record for longest space mission dies aged 80 | Science & Tech News
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Valery Polyakov, the Russian cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died aged 80. Polyakov spent 437 days between January 1994 and March 1995 on the Mir space station. He orbited the Earth more than 7,000 times before returning. Polyakov had trained as a physician and wanted to demonstrate…
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TikTok influencer Tanya Pardazi dies in skydiving incident in Toronto | World News
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A TikTok influencer has died while skydiving in Toronto after her reserve parachute did not have enough time to inflate, according to reports. Tanya Pardazi, 21, who had more than 100,000 followers on TikTok, died on 27 August during her first solo dive after completing a course with Skydive Toronto. She had also taken part…