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Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'

NSA whistleblower rubbishes claims that only Apple can unlock killer’s iPhone 5C, indicating FBI has the means itself

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Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau to join forces on climate change

US and Canadian leaders expected to announce a series of common measures including methane emissions cuts and protections for rapidly warming Arctic

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Maria Sharapova announces she failed a drugs test at Australian Open

Russian will be provisionally suspended for using banned substance, She has taken meldonium for years but it was banned in January

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Me! Me! Me! Are we living through a narcissism epidemic?

From attention-seeking celebrities to digital oversharing and the boom in cosmetic surgery, narcissistic behaviour is all around us. How worried should we be about our growing self-obsession?

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Silicon Valley firms rally behind Apple in FBI encryption battle

Colleagues and rivals including Airbnb, eBay, Reddit and Twitter file brief saying that FBI is executing strategy against Apple ‘unbound by any legal limits’

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The Friends reunion was a total car crash

No one told us life was going to be this way – or that a much-hyped special about TV’s best sitcom would be so awful

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Tim Cook says Apple's refusal to unlock iPhone for FBI is a 'civil liberties' issue

Apple boss Tim Cook told his employees on Monday that the company’s refusal to cooperate with a US government to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the two shooters in the San Bernardino attack, was a defense of civil liberties.

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Apple isn't protecting a shooter's iPhone data – they're defending digital privacy

As CEO Tim Cook’s open letter to customers stating that Apple would oppose the order points out, the request ‘has implications far beyond the legal case at hand’

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First Zika virus case contracted in US sexually transmitted

First case of Zika virus contracted in US mainland, confirmed in Texas, is only second documented example of virus being passed through sexual contact

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Can Google's AlphaGo really feel it in its algorithms?

When the game-playing system AlphaGo defeated a master of the Chinese game go five games to nil, its creators could not explain why. Is this a sign of intuitive AI?

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US military aims to create cyborgs by connecting humans to computers

Researchers hope to develop a high-bandwidth, implantable neural interface to open the channel between the human brain and modern electronics

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Evidence suggests huge ninth planet exists past Pluto at solar system's edge

Astronomers investigating the odd alignment of rocks beyond Pluto have concluded that an undetected icy planet four times the size of Earth must exist.

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Man behind Leonardo DiCaprio's Revenant bear attack revealed

‘I rolled around with Leo, but it was all consensual’: stuntman watched videos of bear attacks to ensure authenticity for Oscar-nominated thriller.

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Valentine's Day 'kissing booths' come to New York's Times Square

A ‘romantic’ art project, featuring golden, mirrored hearts, is to be unveiled in Times Square for Valentine’s Day, allowing tourists and locals to pucker up.

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Where to go on holiday in 2016

Every new year brings a host of reasons to choose a destination. We pick new flights, new openings, anniversaries and special events for 2016’s hotlist

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Apple boss Tim Cook clashes with US government over encryption

White House tech summit reportedly saw Apple’s CEO call for a ‘no backdoors’ policy when it comes to communications encryption.

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With love from my robot: virtual assistants may secretly be emailing you

Digital assistants have grown in both their abilities and adoption in the last few months, learning to pass as people and show empathy – and even love.