After years trying for a child without success, I sought solace in online message boards. Before long, I was spending hours a day poring over intimate posts, sharing everything with total strangers. Would it help? Leanne was having her fringe cut when she was offered fertility drugs. It was leftover stock from her hairdresser’s treatment …
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Billionaire vice-chair was serving 30-month sentence for bribing country’s former president The billionaire boss of South Korea’s Samsung empire hs been released from prison after serving 18 months of a 30-month sentence for bribing the former president of South Korea Park Geun-hye. Lee Jae-yong, Samsung’s vice-chair and de facto leader, apologised to the country for …
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Exclusive: civil service chief points to work to improve cybersecurity in response to Labour concerns Ministers and civil servants conducting “government by WhatsApp” have been exposed to hackers, leading to new advice from security chiefs about how to improve their privacy. The cabinet secretary, Simon Case, revealed that the Government Security Group had issued new …
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The decade that began with the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and ended with the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, saw huge technical advances and remarkable innovations in storytelling and gameplay – these are the standout games of the noughties (Valve, 2008) Continue reading… The decade that began with the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and …
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Technology executive Ron Black says nine companies are willing to join consortium in purchase of Newport Wafer Fab Three more British companies have said they are willing to join a group to buy the Welsh semiconductor manufacturer Newport Wafer Fab if the UK government blocks a takeover by a Chinese-owned company on national security grounds. …
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New Android phone offers most of what makes the best phones great, but is half the price at £399 The Nord 2 is the latest mid-range smartphone from OnePlus that offers near top-level performance but at half the price of its flagship devices. Priced from £399, it sits below the £629 OnePlus 9 and £829 …
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Paolo Macchiarini is the subject of the latest series of the hit medical malpractice series. Plus: Fonejacker is back, and LOUD celebrates chart-topping music genre reggaeton Dr Death (available from 16 Aug)Just when you thought it was safe to step back into the surgery, here comes season three of Wondery’s unnerving blockbuster of a podcast, …
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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of taking pictures of the moon When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the moon is really challenging to get a great photo of. Two reasons: it is very …
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About $33m in frozen coins yet to be returned as still-unidentified hacker claims attack was carried out ‘for fun’ to ‘expose the vulnerability’ of platform Hackers behind one of the biggest-ever digital coin heists have now returned nearly all of the $610m-plus they stole, the cryptocurrency platform targeted this week by the attack says. The …
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Social networking firm introduces range of child safety measures including increased privacy controls TikTok will prevent teenagers from receiving notifications past their bedtime, the company said, announcing a range of child safety improvements that will arrive just before the UK introduces its age appropriate design code next month. The company will no longer send push …
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