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1 injured in Navy helicopter hard landing in Virginia

A Navy Seahawk helicopter was forced to make a hard landing near Smithfield, Virginia, on Wednesday, and one of the three crew members aboard sustained minor injuries,

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Elon Musk's Starlink in talks with UK to solve broadband problems

Starlink satellites could be used to provide connectivity in rural areas that can't be reached by traditional broadband.

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PM launches £5bn 'Project Gigabit' to get 'lightning-fast broadband' to all areas of UK

Ministers claim Project Gigabit will accelerate recovery from the pandemic and fire up tech and creative industries.

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Tanker incident off English coast 'not a hijacking'

The Nave Andromeda, the ship reported to be involved in the incident, south of Sandown, Isle of Wight, on Sunday October 25 (SKY News via AP) British police said on Sunday they were dealing wi

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UK launches NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app, but will people use it?

02:39 The UK government's new contact tracing app has been launched in England and Wales four months after its original release date.The app will alert users who have spent time within

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NHS contact tracing app finally launched in England and Wales

If someone falls ill, they can tell the app, which will then send off an alert to all app users who may have been in contact.

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NHS Coronavirus Contact-Tracing App To Be Launched On September 24

The long-awaited NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app will finally be launched in England and Wales on September 24.Health secretary Matt Hancock described the app’s lau

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England’s long delayed COVID-19 contacts tracing app to launch on September 24

The UK’s long delayed coronavirus contact tracing app finally has a release date: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced today that the app will launch in England and Wales on

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UK track and trace app is the government's shot at redemption

02:36 The UK is having another go at testing a track and trace app after several false starts. And it has chosen one of the hardest-hit places in Britain during the first coronavirus w

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Trials of second contact-tracing app launched

The app, which uses technology from Google and Apple, comes after government attempts to build a homegrown app ended in failure.

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Bones of close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex discovered on Isle of Wight

Palaeontologists estimate the dinosaur - which is a new species of theropod - would have been up to four metres long.

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Britain scraps virus tracing app for Google-Apple system

Britain scrapped plans to launch its own coronavirus contact tracing smartphone app because of technical problems and will now work on building one using technology supplied by Apple and Google, h

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Quarter of new COVID-19 cases missed by contact tracers

Contact tracing teams who attempt to tell people to self-isolate before they have been infected are missing a quarter of cases.

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AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty

South Korea has successfully slowed down the spread of coronavirus. Alongside widespread quarantine measures and testing, the country’s innovative use of technology is credited as a critical factor in

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Test and trace system of British to launch this week after 25,000 trackers recruited

The public will be asked to work closely with the newly-recruited contact tracers, who will run a virtual call centre operation.

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This Week in Apps: Facebook takes on Shopify, Tinder considers its future, contact-tracing tech goes live

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, wit

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Northern Ireland rejects UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app

The health minister for Northern Ireland said it was working on a separate app that could share data with the Republic of Ireland.