Science & technology

Facebook to relaunch as quarterly magazine

Social media giant Facebook will stay ahead of the curve by ditching its digital offering to relaunch as a printed magazine. The plan is to convert the majority of the service’s estimated 700m…

Apple announces Steve Jobs S

The death of Steve Jobs at 56 has forced Apple to bring forward the announcement of its Steve Jobs S model. The electronics giant had hoped to unveil the much-anticipated Steve Jobs 2,…

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Silent Hill gamer wanders around same room pressing X button for seven years

Prolific gamer Adam Kelly has spent most nights in the last seven years attempting to locate a clue, hidden item or concealed door in an installment of the Silent Hill video game franchise,…

ITV unearths ‘shocking footage’ of angry birds being fired from giant catapults

ITV current affairs show Exposure will air footage they say shows poultry being fired from giant catapults into blocks of wood. In a documentary entitled Poultry Evidence a team of investigative journalists claim…

CERN scientists accused of time travel cover up by a furious Winston Churchill

Physicists, who last night discovered particles travelling faster than the speed of light, were heavily criticised during World War Two, according to one of a number of surprise archive stories uncovered today. Just…

CEO sees enormous growth opportunities, yawning abyss of despair

Tech start-up Astonish! Microsystems’ David Legand bullishly predicted ‘enormous growth opportunities’ for his California SME today, writes Hard Jackson. Legand sees revenues at A!M increasing year-on-year and brand equity expanding exponentially – but…

Laboratoires Garnier moisturiser team scoops Nobel Prize for Medicine

Scientists who developed a revolutionary, skin-revitalising moisturiser have won a Nobel Prize. The Laboratoires Garnier researchers beat teams from Cambridge University and Harvard Medical School to discover the secret to a long-lasting, wrinkle-free…

‘Facebook fatigue’ mainly affects men’s wrists

Despite denials from the social media giant, Facebook fatigue is real – and it’s caused by over-enthusiastically viewing pictures of your partner’s sexy friends. Rigorous examination of images of MILFs – and in…

£5bn mobile phone waste bill ‘mostly down to Blackberry mums’

Mothers who spend more time using their Blackberry phones than they do speaking to their children are wasting billions of pounds, according to a new report. The overspend equates to hundreds of pounds…

Professor Brian Cox clocks up enough air miles for trip to Uranus

Down-to-earth stargazer Professor Brian Cox flew so many miles for his Wonders Of The Universe mini series he can now claim a free 3.2billion-mile round trip to Uranus. The Liam Gallacher of physics…

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