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Amazon announces ‘Hey you!’, a digital assistant for adults that adapts to your mood
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Abacus still works after 66 years in loft
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Care Home robot recalled for ‘minor adjustments’
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Ice cream van camouflage makes tanks more difficult to identify
Life/Environment
287 alpacas join doomed Geronimo in act of defiance
Medicine
Heat-sensitive mask shows your lips moving
Science/Technology
Priti Patel admits: ‘150,000 police records were stored on a Sinclair Spectrum’
Commerce
Trump bans Chinese-owned finance app PikPok
Science/Technology
Huawei string must be stripped from 1G rural networks by 2023
Media & the Arts
Pope Francis now offering personalised video messages on Cameo
Science/Technology
First Air Corridor to Spain completed in under 2 weeks
Commerce
Zoom ‘Image Booster’ app hides the miserable home you actually live in
Health & Sport
Sooty appointed to lead coronavirus tracking app team
Family/Education
Robot pony fetches shopping for self-isolating family
Media & the Arts
Retired dentist builds house from 93,500 copies of Fifty Shades of Grey
Science/Technology
Lettuces grown in space still weightless when brought back to Earth
Commerce
Trump tweets that ‘all Huawei products must be clorinized!’
Media & the Arts
BORIS BACKS BIG BEN BREXIT BONG BOOST
Commerce
Business leaders welcome toilet that ejects idle staff after 2 minutes
Family/Education
Fortnum & Mason sells out of left-handed Christmas crackers in 2 days
Commerce
M&S suspend AI clothes-fitting technology to ‘make small tweaks’
Health & Sport
Green party promises free High Speed Broadbeans for every home
Commerce
Specsavers launches OCT tests for dogs
Commerce
New office chair takes the effort out of standing up
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Woman (87) makes first crossing of River Uck on jet shopping trolley
Science/Technology
New self-defence selfie stick for ‘active oldies’
Science/Technology
AI system predicts where leaves will fall onto tracks
Commerce
Huawei UK – we are all connected
Life/Environment
Wales to have its own time zone: DST (Daylight Shearing Time)
Politics
Trump claims North Korea’s missiles are ‘just 10 buck fireworks’
Life/Environment
Billionaire offers to deflect deadly comet heading for Earth
Science/Technology
Simple brain zapper gives older adults the cognitive skills of a 20 year old
Life/Environment
Couple find 160-year-old coal in cottage they bought
Family/Education
Businessman steps down over link to infamous Australian naked coughing cult
Commerce
New phone lasts 12 months on a single charge
Commerce
Mobile stores your DNA and all your contacts safely in Beijing
Commerce
Amazon sending products before you’ve even ordered them
Science/Technology
Government to map the gnomes in all UK gardens
Science/Technology
Hydrogen train trials halted after tanks are over-filled
Commerce
Morrisons launch ‘Fresh-2-You’ food delivery service
Science/Technology
Chinese moon landing ‘is a hoax’ claims Gobi farmer
Science/Technology
O2 admits it hasn’t yet tried switching failing system off and on again
Science/Technology
British scientists discover a new, highly unpredictable element
Science/Technology
Dog detects raised adrenaline when suspects are lying
Health & Sport
Portable 24 litre vaping system lasts for six months
Health & Sport
‘Fit-Buddie’ adds steps even while you sleep
Science/Technology
Amateur astronomer discovers unidentified object accelerating towards Earth
Science/Technology
12-year-old girl reaches 12,000 feet on home-made rocket
Science/Technology
New shoe emits deafening screech if forced on with laces tied
Science/Technology
New coating deters graffiti artists with ‘putrid stink’
Science/Technology
New Helium-filled bags will lighten shoppers’ loads
Science/Technology
‘Mummy!’ app helps university freshers cope with life
Science/Technology
Iceland launches new low cost cryonics service
Science/Technology
New health app aimed at people with nothing wrong with them
Science/Technology
iphone app corrects irritating dialects
Science/Technology
Suffolk man ‘100% self-sufficient’ with energy from old bananas
Science/Technology
Your science questions answered: ‘Why are spiders leaving a mess on my front door?’
Science/Technology
Cambridge scientists create the world’s first four-legged chicken
Science/Technology