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Motorola tells Razr owners that bumps and lumps on the phone’s foldable screen are ‘normal’

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What does Motorola’s upcoming retro handset have in common with shaving? The answer, apparently, is ‘Razr bumps’ — with the US-based phone manufacturer telling customers that lumps and bumps on the device’s foldable screen are ‘normal’. It is unclear, however, how sizeable these screen distortions are likely to be.  The disconcerting advice came in the … Read more

A robot arm that can pick up and carry objects without touching is being developed

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A sound grasp! Scientists develop a robot arm that can pick up and carry objects without touching them using ultrasonic levitation Two arrays of loudspeakers pointing at each other create a sonic ‘pressure field’ Objects placed within this pressure field are held in place and look to be floating Researchers say the ultrasonic robots could … Read more

Tropical regions face a ‘perfect storm’ of droughts, hurricanes and floods created by climate change

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‘Perfect storm’ of heatwaves, hurricanes and floods caused by climate change is causing a collapse in biodiversity across the tropics, study warns Climate change and carbon dioxide emissions are linked to extreme weather  Extreme events are decimating ecosystems and biodiversity of tropical regions  El Nino is amplifying the damage caused by human-induced climate change  Experts say cutting CO2 emissions is … Read more

Turtle rescued from a fishing net in Argentina has 26 straws worth of plastic in its FAECES

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TWENTY-SIX straws worth of plastic found in the faeces of a green turtle that was saved in Argentina after becoming entangled in a fishing net Green turtle became trapped in a fisherman’s net off the Argentine coast   Fisherman saved the creature before taking it to a nearby specialist aquarium   X-ray images revealed the animal’s digestive tract was clogged … Read more

Apple imagines a future desktop Mac made of a single sheet of curved GLASS

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Apple imagines a future Mac desktop computer made with a single sheet of curved GLASS, patent reveals Apple filed a patent for an iMac redesign made of a single pane of curved glass  Display and an input section will be connected together by a ‘transition portion Display and input portions would feature a screen and a keyboard, … Read more

Trees delivered as part of Mail’s campaign to boost UK’s greenery will be lifeline for red squirrels

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Thousands of trees delivered to a forest as part of Mail’s campaign to boost UK’s greenery will be a lifeline for red squirrels, experts say Red squirrels and pine martens are set to benefit from the 20,000 new trees Norway spruce seedlings to be planted where larch trees killed by fungal disease Just 13 per … Read more

Rare fossil found by dog walker extracted in FOUR-hour window in race against the tide

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Experts had a race against time as they fought to extract a rare fossil of a 197 million-year-old sea creature from a British beach in a four-hour window allowed by the tide.  Amateur fossil collector Jon Gospill made the discovery of a lifetime when he came across the so-called ‘ichthyosaur’ in Bridgewater Bay before Christmas last … Read more

Apple Watch users can earn gift cards and cheaper memberships simply by working out while wearing it

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Apple Watch users can earn gift cards and cheaper gym memberships simply by working out while wearing it thanks to new partnership deals with fitness clubs like Orange Theory and Crunch Apple rolled out its Apple Watch connected program to certain gyms in the US Gyms are offering incentives for tracking  their workouts via an … Read more

Google backtracks on new Search design that made ads look like organic results after user backlash

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Google will change course on a new design choice that made ads look eerily similar to search results after widespread backlash.  ‘Last week we updated the look of Search on desktop to mirror what’s been on mobile for months,’ said Google in a tweet on Friday.  ‘We’ve heard your feedback about the update. We always … Read more