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Nearly complete dinosaur fossil sells for record £34m | Science & Tech News
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A nearly complete fossil of a stegosaurus has sold for a record $44.6m (£34.2m), becoming the most valuable fossil ever sold at auction. An anonymous US buyer outbid six others for the set of bones, dubbed Apex, at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday. They paid an apex price, beating the previous auction record of…
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Musk cheers ‘wide margin’ of support for record $56bn Tesla pay package | Business News
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Elon Musk has claimed a “wide margin” of support among Tesla shareholders for a $56bn pay package due to him but which was blocked by a court. A new shareholder vote was ordered after a judge in Delaware ruled in January that the 2018 awards had effectively been controlled by the billionaire, as the board…
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Taylor Swift music ‘back on TikTok’ despite app’s public spat with singer’s record label | Ents & Arts News
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Taylor Swift’s music is reportedly back on TikTok just weeks after the social media app and her record label Universal Music publicly exchanged furious messages. Universal accused TikTok of bullying ahead of their agreement to license content on the video platform expiring on 31 January – while the social media firm dismissed the “false narrative…
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Why Bitcoin has suffered a sharp pullback from record highs – and what might happen next | Business News
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Bitcoin has suffered a sharp pullback from record highs. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency fell to $66,885 in the early hours of Friday – down 9%. Only yesterday, the digital asset had been touching an unprecedented price of $74,000. Image: Bitcoin’s price over the past week. Pic: CoinGecko It is difficult to pinpoint a single reason…
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Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko breaks record for most time spent in space | World News
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a new world record for the most time spent in space. The 59-year-old clocked up a cumulative total of more than 878 days and 12 hours outside the Earth’s atmosphere – the equivalent of nearly two-and-a-half years – on Sunday morning. Mr Kononenko celebrated the milestone on board the…
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As UK braces for new internet traffic record, here are some tips to help your broadband at Xmas | Science & Tech News
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The UK’s largest broadband provider is expecting demand to hit a new high on Boxing Day. BT is primed for peak internet traffic to exceed that seen on 6 December, when six Premier League games and an update for the new Call Of Duty saw customers guzzle 31 terabits of data a second. There are…
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Previous decade ‘hottest on record’ with polar ice melting faster than in the last century | Climate News
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The previous decade was the hottest on record, with polar and mountain ice melting faster than in the 20th century, according to the UN’s weather agency. Between 2011 and 2020, the average global temperature was 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Scientists have warned that permanent global…
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Apple iPhone sale revenue reaches new record | Business News
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Revenue from iPhone sales reached a new record due to high demand in China and emerging markets, the company announced on Thursday. However, the high Q3 revenue was not enough to reverse the downward trend in Apple’s overall performance. A total of $43.8bn (£35.9bn) was raised from iPhone sale alone after price rises and the…
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Record number of Asian hornet sightings in UK – as report highlights huge worldwide cost of invasive species | UK News
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A record number of Asian hornet sightings have been reported in the UK so far this year, figures show. There have been 22 confirmed sightings of the non-native species so far in 2023, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). That is more than the previous six years combined – and…
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Online child grooming crimes hit record high – as figures reveal social apps where it’s happening | Science & Tech News
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The number of online grooming crimes against children hit a record high in the last year, police figures show. A total of 6,350 crimes related to sexual communication with a child were recorded in the year to March 2023, a rise of 82% since the offence was first defined in 2017. In all, around 34,000…