Alexa to summon the Queen as Amazon Echo airs Christmas broadcast
Fans of the Queen’s Christmas Day broadcast will be able to listen without lifting a finger – and not just because the TV’s been tuned…
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A flash of green and red against the lawn’s matt white stubble: striking colours at any time of year, startling at this one. It’s December,…
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Coronavirus Life-in-Lockdown Help
In normal times, most (but not all) supermarkets offering delivery passes or ‘savers’ give a guarantee that customers who don’t make back the value of…
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Lastminute.com, Teletext Holidays and Ryanair named and shamed after hideous results in major new MSE Covid travel refunds survey – action's needed
MSE’s quick tips to get your money back The exact process to follow if your booking is cancelled and you want to get your money…
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Orbital refueling and manufacturing go from theory to reality in 2021
The idea of satellites and other spacecraft being able to refuel, repair, or even add new capabilities while in orbit has generally seemed like a…
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Climate change: 2021 will be cooler but still in top six warmest
“The global temperature for 2021 is unlikely to be a record year due to the influence of the current La Niña, but it will be…
View More Climate change: 2021 will be cooler but still in top six warmest‘The platypuses were glowing’: the secret light of Australia’s marsupials
Dr Kenny Travouillon turned off the lights and headed straight for the shelf holding the stuffed platypus, armed with an ultraviolet torch to test something…
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The Into the Impossible Podcast Honors Arthur C. Clarke
Physicist Brian Keating is the codirector of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination at UC San Diego. The center was established in…
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Google’s Antitrust Cases: A Guide for the Perplexed
Do good things come in threes? Not if you’re Google. Heading into the holidays, the company finds itself facing a trio of antitrust cases brought…
View More Google’s Antitrust Cases: A Guide for the PerplexedSuspected Russian cyber-attack growing in scale, Microsoft warns
Microsoft has said the UK and six other countries outside the US have been affected by a suspected Russian hacking attack that US authorities have…
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