TV doctors Chris and Xand consider the drastic differences in their weight – and health. Plus: Slate’s One Year takes us back to 1977, and more mind-changing action in You’re Wrong About A Thorough Examination With Drs Chris and XandThe Van Tulleken brothers’ new podcast investigates why Xand is obese and Chris isn’t, despite the …
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Organisations in Scotland say they have tried to contact Google about the dangers but received no reply Scottish mountaineering charities have criticised Google for suggesting routes up Ben Nevis and other mountains they say are “potentially fatal” and direct people over a cliff. The John Muir Trust, which looks after the upper reaches of the …
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Anonymous person will be replaced by 18-year-old recent high school graduate on New Shepard spacecraft The anonymous winner of a ticket to join billionaire Jeff Bezos in space next week will no longer board the New Shepard spacecraft due to “scheduling conflicts”, Bezos’s Blue Origin company announced Thursday. The winner, who paid $29.7m in a …
• Social media company takes down 200 accounts • ‘Hallmarks of a well-resourced and persistent operation’ Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. …
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Documents appear to show how Russian intelligence worked to install their preferred candidate as president Papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House In January 2016, America was coming to terms with what had previously seemed incredible. Barring an unforeseen event, Donald J Trump was on course to become the Republican …
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Researchers say web domains masquerading as activist, health and media groups are used by governments to hack targets An Israeli company that sells spyware to governments is linked to fake Black Lives Matter and Amnesty International websites that are used to hack targets, according to a new report. Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the …
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My father, Aladdin Bahrani, who has died aged 91, spent many years working as a senior engineer in his birthplace, Iraq, before becoming professor of manufacturing engineering at Queen’s University in Belfast, where he had trained just after the second world war. The eldest of 10 children, he was born in Baghdad, to Mohammed Saleem …
Nintendo Switch; NintendoThis remastered game from the Wii-era remains a wildly imaginative and magical experience created by Nintendo’s brainiest puzzle architects In 2011, when Nintendo reforged The Legend of Zelda around the waggling of a Wii remote in Skyward Sword, there was a sense that the developer had lost sight of the wood for the …
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China’s video game market is the world’s biggest. International developers want in on it – but its rules on what is acceptable are growing increasingly harsh. Is it worth the compromise? In the years after it was founded in 1999, the Swedish video game company Paradox Interactive quietly built a reputation for developing some of …
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Comfortable and long lasting with good case and brilliant audio but ultimately disposable Sony’s latest top-of-the-range noise-cancelling earbuds are a cut above the previous generation and the competition. Costing £250 ($279.99/A$449.99), the WF-1000XM4 are premium true wireless earbuds that go toe to toe with the likes of the Apple AirPods Pro, Jabra Elite 85t and …
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