Apple have been forced to recall thousands of units of the iPhone 4S after complaints from users that the Siri app had become unhelpful, rude, and in extreme cases, had called in anonymous tips about the phone’s owner to the anti-terrorist hotline.
Posted: Nov 22nd, 2011
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Plucky 20 year-old Belinda Baron had to abandon her attempt to be recognised as the youngest person to reach the South Pole on skis, after becoming cut off from all social networks for nearly 72 hours.
Posted: Nov 20th, 2011
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A historic wrong has finally been belatedly righted, with the award of the 1971 ‘Science in Schools’ Essay Prize to Raymond Simmonds, a 52-year-old petrol station manager from Worksop. Simmonds has been hailed as a visionary for foreseeing that people in 2011 would be using technology to do much the same stupid crap as they did then in a slightly more advanced way. Way back then, he was just ridiculed.
Posted: Feb 18th, 2011
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Train services from Liverpool Street were severely disrupted last night by the unprecedented absence of anarchic gangs engaging in unexpected organised dance. The “flashmob” phenomenon has become an integral part of daily commuter life in the capital, a tradition which dates back hundreds of years if a scene in the Bayeux Tapestry has been accurately [...]
Posted: Dec 15th, 2010
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‘These rules aren’t meant for the Knights of the Road,’ said a British Hauliers Association spokeman. ‘We’re professionals, you know?’
Posted: Dec 7th, 2010
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