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Earth's magnetic poles show signs they are about to flip

Killer whale that can say 'hello' amuses BBC hosts

MIT uses Lego to prototype low-cost micro pumps

Nuro’s self-driving vehicle is a grocery-getter and errand-runner

Fujifilm will take over Xerox, cut 10,000 jobs

Google Flights will now predict airline delays – before the airlines do

Beijing treated to super lunar eclipse not seen since Qing dynasty

Trifacta nabs $48M from Google and others for its AI-based approach to ordering data

Nintendo’s Switch took just 10 months to outsell the Wii U

Uber is piloting a bike-sharing service with JUMP

Google tweaks search snippets to try to stop serving wrong, stupid and biased answers

Inside Joymode: a subscription service saving you from buying all of the things

Asana raises $75M Series D led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management

Samsung confirms it is making ASIC chips for cryptocurrency mining

Bench bookkeeping service raises $18 million in funding

Two key Jack the Ripper letters were written by one person

Rare 'super blue blood moon' is about to arrive

California is overdue a major earthquake

SoftBank buys into Line’s mobile service in Japan

Speedinvest x is a new micro VC fund that will invest in European early-stage marketplace startups

Hundreds in Beijing gear up for lunar event not seen since Qing dynasty

Skywatchers in western North America will see moon turn red in rare eclipse

Lake District dominates list of Britain's best walks

Bernie Ecclestone brands James Stunt 'an idiot'

Navy forced to deploy minehunter to intercept Putin's subs

Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union Address

Put folic acid in bread to protect babies, says study

Engineer spent three months in jail on false rape claim

Mother charges children £6 to come to her twins' birthday

UK Weather: Freezing winds sees temperatures fall to -5C

Sydney seaplane 'hit water away from flight path'

BBC hands pay rises to more men than women

Is the Night Watcher ALSO the Wimbledon Prowler?

Two Brits are among five men arrested after cocaine haul

'I'm not a quitter', says Theresa

Lord Patten brands Brexit vote 'appalling'

Girl, 4, 'bleeding from nails after using Hasbro polish'

Liverpool murder probe after body of 17-year-old boy found

Clarifications and corrections 

Ministers under pressure to disclose number of jihadis

QUENTIN LETTS: Welcome to the House of has-beens

Bottled water ad claiming to extend life is banned

Woman branded a 'fantasist' gets role in sex abuse inquiry

London train passengers unsatisfied with ticket prices

Police chief demands end of soft treatment for speeding

Some 1.7million people could lose their homes

Stores of illegal rubbish grow as China rejects UK waste

Brussels hands UK an ultimatum on air pollution

The VERY middle class mob that stormed Churchill cafe 

Doctors' revolt over colleague struck off after boys death

Samsung topples Intel to become the world’s largest chipmaker

Spotify is testing a new playlist-based music app that’s a lot like Pandora

Crunch Report | Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway are building a healthcare company

At the State of the Union, Trump touts tax cuts and immigration deal

Chat app Line announces plan for cryptocurrency services, loans and insurance

DroneGun Tactical is a portable (but still illegal) drone scrambler

Appeals court rules that Tinder’s pricing violates age discrimination laws

Fools and their crypto

Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250 million in Kubernetes expansion

TimeFlip is a time-tracking gadget simple enough that I might actually use it

Amazon is experimenting with its own QR code style ‘SmileCodes’

Imverse’s groundbreaking mixed reality renders you inside VR

Getting to the root of the revenue multiple

CVS, other health stocks down upon Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire healthcare co news

You can now use Alexa to send SMS messages

Google is launching a new digital store to sell cloud-based software

Amazon’s new healthcare company could give smaller healthtech players a boost

Apple reportedly under investigation by SEC and DOJ for phone slowdown

Contraception app still being probed by medical agency over unwanted pregnancies

Details and solutions emerge for missile threat false alarm in Hawaii

Historic Las Vegas neon signs brought back to life with AR

Can you catch the flu from your dog?

Researchers teach orca to TALK through her blowhole

Apple could launch three new Macs in 2018, report claims

Sony patents new design for VR motion controllers

Lab-bred mosquitoes set to be released in South Miami

DOJ, SEC probe Apple over software that slows older phones

Snowstorms may reveal how to make our city streets safer

Astronauts' food may float around INSIDE their stomachs

World's oceans in 2017 were the hottest on record 'by far'

Wozniak says he doesn't trust Tesla or Elon Musk anymore

Lemon craze may have given rise to the Sicilian mafia

Mystery as 2,400-year-old human remains found in Mexico

Nuro self-driving car unveiled by ex-Google engineers

Your brain signals really DO sync up with your friends

Gordon Gallup says 'humanzee' born in US lab and killed

Global warming is shrinking insects

Child experts urge Facebook to pull its Messenger Kids app

Qantas uses 150 acres of mustard seeds for biofuel flight

Pocket-sized scanner gives 'complete look' of human genome

People know when they are dying and prefer to be alone

TomTom scraps 'lifetime'support' for map updates

HMS Elizabeth's sprinkler system misfires

Snapchat unveils new Bitmoji avatars

Alphabet's Waymo buys thousands more self-driving minivans

Instagram could unveil a Snapchat-style video call feature

Ireland rugby stars 'boasted about raping a woman'

Volkswagen suspends executive who knew about monkey tests

Met Police apologise for withholding messages in rape case

Woman, 28, arrested on suspicion of murdering man, 80

CCTV shows train hit platform before derailing near Milan

Rees-Mogg compares Brexit transition to Norman Conquest

Walsall school children are accidentally shown porn

Lib Dem councillor 'used Audi A5 to mow down wife's lover'

Sushi pulled from Waitrose and Sainsbury's over glass fear

David Tennant accepts damages over phone hacking

Apprentice engineer, 20, threw himself in front of a rain

Afghanistan Army Veteran to be deported to Mexico

Liam Fox says Brexiteers must 'live with disappointment'

Man U pair's £200m redevelopment plan in jeopardy

Spy chief says inevitable cyber attacks kill someone in UK

Dog owner who filmed terriers mauling badger is jailed

Heroes who tackled gunman on Paris train watch their film

Exorcist quizzed over Zainab rape and murder kills himself

Tory MP Owen Paterson breaks back in fall from horse

Uber sells its Xchange Leasing portfolio to car leasing startup Fair

France’s Digital Minister Mounir Mahjoubi on upcoming digital policies

Britons charged in Cambodia over 'sex position game'

'Clairvoyant' tried to sell non-existent items

Caribbean honeymoon ruined after valet service wrecked car

UK 'will be worse off after leaving EU in any scenario'

German ambassador claims Brexit was fuelled by WWII

Man blocks car park to stop travellers setting up camp

Engineers Design Artificial Synapse for "Brain-on-a-Chip" Hardware

Spendesk raises $9.9 million to build your next corporate card

Waymo orders thousands of Pacificas for 2018 self-driving fleet rollout

Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC’s smartphone division

Strava says it will simplify privacy settings and review app features after exposing military bases

Crunch Report | Elon Musk’s flamethrowers bring in $5 million so far

Uber’s India rival Ola is expanding to Australia in first overseas move

Instagram won’t comment on rumored video calling feature

There’s no way the government is building its own 5G network

Inside Amazon’s Spheres

Facebook nabs Google’s AR product director

GV leads $25M investment in Hover, a computer vision startup that digitizes your home

The Grammys gave CBS All Access its second-biggest day for signups yet

DJI Mavic Air review

Facebook will start prioritizing local news in user feeds

Microsoft buys gaming services startup PlayFab to bolster its Azure platform

SuperPhone is building a Salesforce for texting

US military reviewing tech use after Strava privacy snafu

Microsoft’s Slack competitor, Teams, gets its biggest update with new app integrations and app store

Why the Dell rumors might have substance

Boeing HorizonX invests in Berkeley aerospace battery tech startup

Orange cave crocodiles may be mutating into a new species