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  • Bradley

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    The family of football mascot Bradley Lowery have said his cancer has spread and he does not have long to live. The terminally ill Sunderland fan, who has neuroblastoma, is receiving end-of-life care at home. His family said they were… Read More ›

  • The Marc Newson Hourglass

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    The Marc Newson Hourglass for HODINKEE stands 150mm tall, and is 125mm across at the widest point. It is made of hand-blown borosilicate glass (which you might also know as Pyrex), which is optically very clear, but also stronger than… Read More ›

  • The huge opportunity for subscription TV services

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    In its bid to become the cord-cutting service of choice, Amazon UK has confirmed it’s bringing Channel add-ons to the UK. The service allows Prime subscribers to bolt subscriptions from various UK TV services onto their account, without the need… Read More ›

  • The iPhone SE is the most satisfying phone

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    Apple’s four-inch smartphone received a customer satisfaction score of 87 out of 100 to finish just ahead of Samsung’s 5.7-inch Galaxy S6 edge+ and the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus. 20 other smartphones, mostly including other iPhone and Galaxy models, received… Read More ›

  • How TV logos were made before computers

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    The photo depicts the TV channel’s shimmering logo as a physical installation–what looks like a tunnel of strings with the RTF word mark floating in the center. It shows the lengths to which the television company went to produce a… Read More ›

  • Dissolving the dead

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    For decades, most people arranging a funeral have faced a simple choice – burial or cremation? But in parts of the US and Canada a third option is now available – dissolving bodies in an alkaline solution. It will arrive in… Read More ›

  • iOS 11 Concept

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    So simple, but so obvious once you have seen it.

  • Is iPhone a Real Camera?

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    A child is already born an artist. When we get older, we get the creativity and inner artist beaten out of us. So friend, if you own an iPhone, you are already a photographer. Now the next goal is how… Read More ›

  • Coffee Served with a Lump of Burning Coal

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    The Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is perhaps the only place in the world where you can have your coffee served with a piece of red-hot coal. It’s called “Kopi Joss” and it was apparently invented back in the 1960s, by… Read More ›

  • Losers

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    “I won’t call them monsters because they would like that term. They would think that’s a great name. I will call them, from now on, losers, because that’s what they are. They are losers. And we will have more of… Read More ›