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Six reasons why everyone is hating on Call of Duty

The trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare title has been disliked more than a million times. What has happened to the world’s favourite shooter?

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Air pollution rising at an 'alarming rate' in world's cities

Outdoor pollution has risen 8% in five years with fast-growing cities in the developing world worst affected, WHO data shows

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Facebook denies censoring conservative stories from trending topics

Social network has found no evidence that allegations it ignores news from right-wing sites are true, says head of search

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Google tests black links in searches

Why would Google want to strip out its famous blue? Perhaps the money’s too good to refuse

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Airbnb: how US civil rights laws allow racial discrimination on the site

The sharing economy exists in a legal grey area beyond the reach of hard-won civil rights laws, and black users say they experience discrimination as a result

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Donald Trump given a fighting chance by ailing US economy

Millions of Americans think they have been left behind in the recovery and the billionaire has managed to tap into this discontent

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Hacker collects 272m email addresses and passwords, some from Gmail

A security firm announced that it had persuaded a fraudster to give the database of email addresses along with passwords consumers use to log in to websites

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Apple transparency report: over 1,000 government requests for user data

US authorities asked for user data from Apple accounts 1,015 times during the second half of 2015, according to figures the iPhone maker released Tuesday.

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Why couples are healthier, wealthier… and less trim

Research consistently shows that marriage and long-term relationships are good for your physical, mental and financial health

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Kindle Oasis: Amazon's next big step towards its goal of digital paper

Company’s thinnest, lightest and most expensive e-reader yet has a new design with 9-week reading battery, ergonomic grip and page-turn buttons

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FBI paid professional hackers to gain access to San Bernardino iPhone – report

Hackers reportedly supply zero-day exploit to allow US law enforcement entry to device, which may put older iPhones at risk of cyber criminals

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Facebook F8: Zuckerberg demos new VR and chat bots – and makes Trump dig

The Facebook CEO criticized Trump’s ‘fearful’ anti-immigration rhetoric at the annual F8 developer event: ‘Instead of building walls we can help build bridges’

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FBI to help US law enforcement unlock iPhones, report says

Leaked FBI advisory tells state and local law enforcement that they are ‘in this together’ and federal agency will aid unlocking of iPhones where possible

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Microsoft's racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown

Short-lived return saw Tay tweet about smoking drugs in front of the police before suffering a meltdown and being taken offline

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February was the warmest month in recorded history, climate experts say

From Alaska to Australia, an unprecedented heating of planet Earth is underway with rising temperatures across huge swathes of land mass and oceans

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Sony announces October release for PlayStation virtual reality headset

The device, which will retail at £349, will be one of the cheapest available, with experts predicting it could take VR technology to the mass-market