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Broadmoor Hospital: High security £250m site opens in Crowthorne

It replaces the 150-year-old Victorian building which previously housed patients with mental illness.
2019-12-16

Ben Stokes: Sports Personality winner reflects on his 'amazing' 12 months

Ben Stokes says his cricket heroics in 2019 moved his life forward after a troubled previous year.
2019-12-15

Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener

The man sprayed "excessive" amounts of the scent before lighting a cigarette, firefighters say.
2019-12-16

Pro-Indian 'fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe'

Fake sites and groups lobbying for India influenced decision makers in Europe, researchers say.
2019-12-16

Police swoop on suspected darknet fake banknote buyers

Homes are raided across seven countries as police target buyers of notes sold via the darknet.
2019-12-16

Las Tesis feminist protest song of Chile goes global

The song "The rapist is you" was created by the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis.
2019-12-13

Instagram finally launches 13+ age checkups

Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After nine years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids from the problems with social media. It will now ask new users to input their birth date and bar users younger than 13 from joining. However, it won’t be asking existing users their age, […]
2019-12-04

Yubo raises $12.3 million for its social app for teens

French startup Yubo has raised a $12.3 million funding round led by Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners. Existing investors Alven, Sweet Capital and Village Global are also participating. The startup has managed to attract 25 million users over the years — there are currently tens of thousands of people signing up to the platform every […]
2019-12-12

This browser extension unhides Instagram Likes

Instagram is hiding Like counts to make people feel better. But what if you’re curious, competitive or just petty? Now you can re-embrace the popularity contest by installing the Socialinsider Chrome extension that reveals Instagram Like and comment counts. “The Return of the Likes” extension overlays the numbers of Likes and comments on the top-right […]
2019-12-03

Reddit links UK-US trade talk leak to Russian influence campaign

Reddit has linked account activity involving the leak and amplification of sensitive UK-US trade talks on its platform during the ongoing UK election campaign to a suspected Russian political influence operation. Or, to put it more plainly, the social network suspects that Russian operatives are behind the leak of sensitive trade data — likely with […]
2019-12-07

Rob Baxter: Exeter boss content to rule out England after signing new deal

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says he is not a "career coach" after ruling himself out of an England role until at least 2023 by signing a new contract.
2019-12-16

Littlebrook Power Station: Towering chimney demolished

The landmark in Dartford, Kent, collapsed after a "powerful boom" from a controlled explosion.
2019-12-15

General election 2019: Did students seal Labour's victory in Canterbury?

Rosie Duffield won the "ultra-marginal" seat of Canterbury for Labour with an increased majority.
2019-12-14

Durham North West: The 'no-hope' seat the Tories won

Why did the Conservatives win a seat they did not target and one they had never won before?
2019-12-14

Trump impeachment: Schumer calls for White House witnesses at trial

The call from the minority leader in the US Senate comes days before a vote to impeach Donald Trump.
2019-12-16

Chilled jogger calmly dodges avalanche in Canada

Watch how Bryon Howard reacts as a huge wall of snow heads towards him on a run in Lake Louise, Alberta.
2019-12-10

George Laurer, co-inventor of the barcode, dies at 94

The US engineer helped to perfect the technology to read barcodes, which revolutionised retail.
2019-12-10

Barack Obama: Women are better leaders than men

The ex-president said most of the world's problems came from old people, mostly men, holding onto power.
2019-12-16

Generation Y, Generation Z, Generation Luxus

Der Luxusmarkt boomt: Solvente Kunden kaufen immer mehr hochwertige Kleidung, Schmuck und Privatyachten. Besonders junge Kunden drängen in den Markt und stellen die Hersteller vor ganz neue Herausforderungen.
2019-12-16

Berlins heimlicher 600-Millionen-Deal

Siemens stellt der Hauptstadt eine der größten Direktinvestitionen in Aussicht, doch dafür verlangt der Konzern einiges von der Politik. Interne Unterlagen zeigen, wie breitbeinig Siemens verhandelt – und wie Berlin nachgibt. Ein Geschäft mit vollem Risiko.
2019-12-14

Tote Tiere, Gift-Schrott, Sondermüll – die Schattenseiten der Energiewende

2019-12-16

So wird der Strom bis zu 200 Euro günstiger

2019-12-14

Berlins heimlicher 600-Millionen-Deal

2019-12-14

My Anna Delvey story: Strange encounters with a fake heiress

DJ Elle Dee shares her story of meeting con woman Anna Delvey on the New York party scene.
2019-12-16

Joe Biden's campaign trail across Iowa

The Democrat candidate and former vice-president has been travelling across Iowa to rally support.
2019-12-09

Ab jetzt gilt der neue Fahrplan der Deutschen Bahn

Die Deutsche Bahn gelobt Verbesserungen in den Punkten: Komfort, Pünktlichkeit und Taktung. Ausgerechnet zur Veröffentlichung des neuen Fahrplans liefert sich der Konzern einen Twitter-Austausch mit Klimaaktivistin Greta Thunberg.
2019-12-15

Was der Kompromiss beim Klimapaket für Ihren Geldbeutel bedeutet

Der geplante CO2-Preis im Verkehr und bei Gebäuden soll nach einem Bund-Länder-Papier bis 2025 deutlich stärker steigen, als bisher geplant. Die EEG-Umlage hingegen soll sinken.
2019-12-16

So lösen Eltern den Streit zwischen Lehrer und Kind

Eine schlechte Note oder eine Ermahnung: Fühlen sich Kinder von ihren Lehrern unfair behandelt, kommt es schnell zum Streit. Mittendrin: die Eltern. Sollen sie sich raushalten oder einmischen? Mit diesen fünf Tipps klären sie die Fronten mit Bedacht.
2019-12-14

Das macht eine gute Thermodrohne aus

Von Grundstücks- und Gebäudeinspektionen bis zum Einsatz im Katastrophenfall: Eine Drohne mit Wärmebildkamera hat mehrere spezielle Einsatzbereiche. Wir zeigen Ihnen einige der besten Modelle.
2019-12-16

A 10-year-old and a 93-year-old have struck up a close friendship

Betsy and Sheila are firm friends despite an 83 year age gap.
2019-12-16

Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener

The man sprayed "excessive" amounts of the scent before lighting a cigarette, firefighters say.
2019-12-16

Election results 2019: Peterborough public reacts to fourth MP since 2017

The people of Peterborough give their views after the city woke to its fourth MP in recent times.
2019-12-13

Littlebrook Power Station: Towering chimney demolished

The landmark in Dartford, Kent, collapsed after a "powerful boom" from a controlled explosion.
2019-12-15

Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019

In a year-end retrospective released this morning, Reddit says its user base grew 30% this year to reach 430 million monthly active users, as of the end of October. Its users also contributed 199 million posts, 1.7 billion comments and 32 billion upvotes, the company says. Last year, Reddit reported 330 million monthly active users […]
2019-12-04

Twitter will now preserve JPEG quality for photo uploads on the web

Twitter is changing the way it processes uploaded images, and the new way of doing things will be much-appreciated by any photographers sharing their work on the platform. Twitter engineer Nolan O’Brien shared that the platform will now preserve JPEG encoding when they’re uploaded via Twitter on the web, instead of transcoding them, which results […]
2019-12-11

How the founder of Pocket.watch sees the future of children’s entertainment

When Chris Williams founded entertainment platform Pocket.watch in 2017, he was certain that no one had yet found the right way to work with the generation of children’s talent finding its audience on platforms like YouTube. Convinced that packaging creators under one umbrella and leveraging the expanding reach of even more media platforms could reshape […]
2019-12-09

Crypto Lending and Borrowing Platform Celsius Network Acquires BSave

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, has acquired BSave for an undisclosed amount, the company said earlier this week. BSave is a platform that provides earning interest income on cryptocurrency. With the acquisition, Celsius Network gains access to its yield generating algorithms originally developed by the company. Celsius Network said it will retain […]

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Augmented Reality App Aircoins Now Lets You Hunt And Collect Dash Cryptocurrency A La Pokemon Go

Dash Core Group, the US-incorporated company leading the development of the peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platform and cryptocurrency Dash, has partnered with virtual reality (VR) app Aircoins to allow users to hunt, collect and send Dash cryptocurrency in an augmented reality (AR) environment, similarly to the Pokemon Go mobile game, the organization said on Thursday. Commenting […]

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Japan’s First Blockchain Game Crypt-Oink Expands To English-Speaking Markets; Partners With CryptoKitties

Crypt-Oink, Japan’s first blockchain game, is expanding its breedable, collectible and tradable racing pigs to English-language markets with an exclusive collaboration with CryptoKitties, the company said on Thursday. Created by Japan-based developer Good Luck 3, Crypt-Oink is a decentralized application (DApp) running on the Ethereum network. The game lets users breed, collect and trade digital […]

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Réforme des retraites : "Le gouvernement a perdu la confiance des enseignants"

2019-12-09

La folle histoire des grands magasins français

2019-12-13

Démission du haut-commissaire aux retraites Jean-Paul Delevoye

2019-12-16

Retraites : 9e jour de grève, Édouard Philippe tend la main aux syndicats

2019-12-13

General election 2019: Animated tour in 10 stops

Fly through 15 hours of election results in 10 simple stops.
2019-12-13

Hampshire schoolboy records Christmas climate change single

Frankie Morland is aiming for Christmas number one with his song about climate change.
2019-12-14

Mesut Ozil: Arsenal midfielder 'deceived by fake news', says China

China invites Arsenal's Mesut Ozil to visit the country, saying his criticism of the treatment of Uighur Muslims there was "influenced by untruthful remarks".
2019-12-16