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'Chaos' at Gatwick as staff forced to write flight info on whiteboard

Gatwick Airport descended into "chaos" on Monday morning after a IT malfunction forced staff to manually display flight information on whiteboards.

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Why supersized solar farms are sprouting around the world

A vast photovoltaic facility now being built in Egypt is part of a global trend.

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Robert Zubrin wants to establish a 'new branch of human civilization' on Mars

Mars Society co-founder says robotic landers and rovers aren't enough.

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Trump claims social media censors conservatives

Trump's tweets come after Facebook, Google and Apple have each taken steps to remove conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platforms.

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Wifi could detect weapons and bombs in public places, study says

Wireless signals can penetrate bags to get the dimensions of dangerous metal objects, including weapons and batteries for bombs, as well as estimate the volume of liquids such as chemicals for explosives.

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How gravity will make this new probe the fastest human-made object

NASA's new spacecraft will hit 430,000 miles an hour as it nears the sun.

France

Hyperloop pioneers choose rural France to test high-speed rail travel

A Canadian firm looking to develop the high-speed rail travel of the future plans to build its test site deep in the French countryside.

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Robots influence kids, even when wrong, study finds

"It's a bit sinister, isn't it? Children succumb to peer pressure from robots," one researcher says.

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UK cinemas to roll out 270-degree screens in theatres

They’ve tried 3D glasses, IMAX and 4DX, and now the UK cinema industry wants to introduce world-first “multi-projection cinema technology" to shake-up the movie theatre experience.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Alex Jones, election security and regrets

"We can't build a service that is subjective just to the whims of what we personally believe," Dorsey told NBC News' Lester Holt in an exclusive interview.

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Twitter temporarily restricts conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' account

The move comes after other high profile tech companies like Apple, Facebook and YouTube have moved to remove Jones' content from their platforms.

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How many humans would it take to keep our species alive?

Given the threats posed by asteroid strikes, pandemics and the like, it's not an idle question.

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Google tracks your every move

Google’s smartphone services store users’ locations even when privacy settings are adjusted to shut these features off, according to a report by the Associated Press.

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Elon Musk says Saudis want to fund Tesla buyout

"I left the July 31st meeting with no question that a deal with the Saudi sovereign fund could be closed," wrote Musk.

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Historic NASA mission will be first to 'touch the sun'

"We'll be going where no spacecraft has dared go before."

Japan

Tokyo Olympics to boost security with facial recognition technology

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are set to make history by being the first to use facial recognition technology, in a move organisers say will boost security and cut down waiting time for athletes.

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Facebook removes four pages belonging to Infowars' Alex Jones

Facebook has unpublished the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the InfoWars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page.

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NASA names 9 astronauts for first Boeing, SpaceX flights

The two companies will conduct test flights to the International Space Station next year.

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Apple beats Amazon and Microsoft to trillion dollar crown

Better than expected sales results have pushed up Apple shares to record highs and the company's valuation to a trillion dollars

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How does Apple's record-breaking valuation compare?

Apple Inc this week became the first $1 trillion publicly listed US company - but how does that compare with other companies and the richest countries and people on the planet?