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Chico the spider monkey becomes YouTube star after videos show him enjoying trips to the shops

The unusual pet lives with its owner in Truro, Cornwall, and is treated as a surrogate child. His popular vlog currently has more than 2,000 subscribers and features him doing human tasks.




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Microsoft's xCloud becomes first cloud gaming service to launch on iOS in nearly a decade

The introduction of xCloud to iOS is the first time a cloud gaming service has appeared on the operating system since OnLive, an app-base cloud gaming service, nearly 10 years ago.




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Konnie Huq jokes her son has become a disturbing 'Black Mirror Blue Peter crossover'

London-born Konnie Huq, 44, who is best known for presenting Blue Peter from 1997 to 2008 and is married to Charlie Brooker, the creator of Black Mirror, shared snap of her son Hukley on Twitter.




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iOS 14 code confirms Apple's 'iPhone 9 Plus' - a larger version of an upcoming budget phone

The iPhone XR (pictured above) is among Apple's newest 'budget' offerings, despite retailing at a rather hefty $599. A rumored iPhone SE 2 (or iPhone 9) is anticipated to cost $399, analysts say.




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Apple's upcoming iOS 14 may let users sample apps by scanning QR codes before they buy them

Acording to 9to5Mac, code examined in early builds of iOS 14 show that the operating system would allow users to sample parts of third-party apps without actually installing them.




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Philip Weickhardt banned from teaching after making sexual comments at Mandurah school

Philip Weickhardt, 53, a teacher at Foundation Christian College in Mandurah around 70km south of Perth was found to have made inappropriate comments between 2017 and 2019.




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FRANKLIN UK EQUITY INCOME FUND: Be bold - and keep buying, says fund chief 

Having run investment fund Franklin UK Equity Income for the past 25 years, manager Colin Morton has experienced every possible twist and turn that a stock market can make.




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NORTH AMERICAN INCOME: The fund that Trump needs to succeed 

Not even the somewhat conservative portfolio underpinning investment trust North American Income has protected shareholders from the sharp market correction.




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LIZ JONES COMMONS SKETCH: Theresa May smashed it.

LIZ JONES: Theresa May had been looking jittery all morning. She put her glasses on, she took her glasses off, she clutched her notes. She ignored her friend Ken Clarke, mouthing, 'Not now'.




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Has eBay been hacked? Online auctioneer's email logo becomes NAKED woman

Baffled buyers and sellers took to social media to ask eBay why their email updates were appearing next to a picture of a woman posing topless in a pair of stockings.




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Mother-of-seven shares her back to school station complete with bags, shoes and a bookcase

An Australian mother-of-seven has shared an image of her family's school bag station on social media, which helps her children stay organised during the term.




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Klarna: The company that lets you pay for your shopping a month later - is it a trap?

The Swedish start-up claims to offer flexibility and a solution to sizing issues for those shopping online. But does the ability to 'buy now pay later' encourage users to spend what they can't afford?




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Mastercard will force companies to tell subscribers when their free trials end

Companies using free trials to rope customers into paying subscription fees face a crackdown under new rules announced by one of the world’s biggest payment providers.




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Wonga mis-selling victims to find out compensation figures in days

Almost 390,000 people who successfully complained about unaffordable loans from collapsed payday lender Wonga will soon find out their compensation.




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Hastee Pay and Creditspring: two companies trying to solve Britain’s high-cost credit crisis 

Households are increasingly saving less and getting into more debt and a payday loan crackdown hasn't solved the problem. This is Money rounds up some of the start-ups trying to help




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Banks hit by 20,000 PPI complaints every day before deadline

The Financial Conduct Authority said many were encouraged by the publicity blitz it launched in the summer of 2019 to warn consumers that they had limited time left to make a complaint.




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Are economics and comedy a match made in heaven?

Economics and comedy. Not a conventional pairing.But after spending a weekend at the world’s first economics and comedy festival, I can tell you they’re a match made in heaven.




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Dividend Heroes 2020: Investment trusts boosting income since Light My Fire

If ever there was a time when investors needed a hero, it's now. And among the stock market capitulation, a ray of light has arrived with the latest list of Dividend Heroes.




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Hannah Gadsby announces the release of her second Netflix comedy special Douglas 

Hannah Gadsby became a global sensation after the release of her 2018 Netflix comedy special Nanette.




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Robes and slippers for every occasion in quarantine that don't sacrifice style for comfort

From working from home to lounging on the couch and binge-watching another Netflix show, the right robe and slippers can make life in quarantine a lot better.




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Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski's sexually 'fluid' dating life has inspired new Netflix rom-com

Porowski has developed the story, called Girls And Boys, alongside Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, according to The Hollywood Reporter.




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Ricky Gervais 'boosts his companies' earnings by £2 million after huge Netflix deal for After Life'

The comedian, 58, gave himself a '£1.5 million cash windfall' after he secured a huge deal for a second series of the dark comedy, which is set for release on April 24.




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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings received $38 MILLION in 2019 as company reports spike in subscriptions

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings saw his pay package increase by 16 per cent to a total of $38 million in 2019, including $37.4 million in options awards, according to a a new SEC filing.




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Film studios where TV giants will record hit shows is coming to the UK creating 2,000 jobs

The Ashford International Studio plan, which was approved at a council planning meeting last night, will include 240,000 square foot of studio production space and create 2,000 jobs.




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Jerry Seinfeld takes a joy ride after giving a first look of his first comedy special in 22 years

Jerry Seinfeld appeared to be enjoying some alone time, as he took a solo cruise in the Hamptons after sharing the first look of his upcoming comedy special on Netflix




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Idris Elba's DJ sitcom Turn Up Charlie is 'axed' by Netflix after just one series

The sitcom, created by the actor, 47, depicted a has-been DJ trying to turn his fortunes around.




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Ricky Gervais praised for 'not complaining' about work being cancelled

Ricky Gervais, 58, was praised by This Morning viewers for saying he 'won't complain' about his world tour being cancelled while NHS nurses endure 14-hour shifts fighting the coronavirus.




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Netflix will drop Michelle Obama documentary 'Becoming' on May 6

The film is described as 'an intimate look into the life of the former First Lady'. It chronicles her 34-city book tour for her best-selling memoir 'Becoming'.




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Chris Hemsworth says 'massive thank you' to fans as Extraction becomes the #1 film on Netflix

Chris Hemsworth stars as black-market mercenary Tyler Rake in the Netflix action flick Extraction.




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Jerry Seinfeld wins court case over who created his Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Christian Charles initially filed suit against Seinfeld in 2018, claiming he'd had a working relationship with the famed comic for two decades.




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Premier League striker special - big six attacks compared

Manchester City are heading into Christmas all guns blazing as they rack up the goals at an astonishing rate. Sportsmail assesses the front four of each side of the top six.




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Premier League clubs 'hope to start training on May 9 as teams bid to complete the season '

Managers across the top flight are said to have held talks with players about plans to get back to the training pitch ahead of a proposed restart to the season following over a month of suspension.




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How the Premier League table would look if matches were shortened following Gordon Taylor comments

Manchester United's top-four hopes would be bolstered, while Newcastle's fight against relegation would be worse if Premier League matches were shortened from the start this season.




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Arjen Robben offered chance to come out of retirement by Brazilian side Botafogo

Dutch legend hung up his boots last summer after an illustrious 19-year career. But Robben hinted at performing a U-turn recently, revealing the idea of playing again 'tickled' him..




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Former NASA astronaut thinks space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane

Former NASA astronaut Steven Lee Smith, 61, from Phoenix, Arizona claimed today on Lorraine that in decades to come, space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane.




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Leiden University's computer algorithm spots ELEVEN asteroids that could hit Earth

Each of the asteroids flagged by a computer algorithm at Leiden University are more than 328 feet wide and will pass close between the Earth and the moon between the years 2131 and 2923.




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Unexpected technical complications to keep NASA's Lunar Gateway from being fully operational by 2024

NASA's plans for a base on the surface of the moon will likely be delayed. The delay is attributed to technical complications with the lunar gateway used to stage construction materials.




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Nasa is running a knock-out photography competition featuring pictures of Earth taken from space

Nasa's Earth Observatory has opened up an archive of pictures of Earth taken from space and is asking the public to vote for the winner in a knock-out-style competition.




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Interstellar comet Borisov is surrounded by a poisonous cloud of carbon monoxide

Researchers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center found that it must have formed in the outer edges of its original star system - known as Kruger 60.




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Reddit kills chat feature after complaints from moderators that it made forums prone to abuse

Reddit's moderators who oversee the site's many subreddits say the 'Start Chatting' feature made the process of monitoring content and behavior more opaque and prone to abuse.




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Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI considered for coronavirus contact tracing

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is in negotiations with several unnamed federal agencies and three US states to provide contact tracing services during.




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Chinese company Xiaomi collecting private browsing data of millions of people via its web browser

Researchers studying a web browser loaded into the company's phones found that it was tracking nearly all of a users' web behavior including visited websites and search queries in Google.




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Pepper the robot comforts coronavirus patients being quarantined at Tokyo hotels

Hotels in Tokyo have been converted into quarantine facilities to free up space at hospitals and are staffed with robots. Pepper, the world's first humanoid, is greeting people as they arrive.




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International group of fact-checkers launch a WhatsApp chatbot to combat coronavirus misinformation

The International Fact-Checkers Network (IFCN) said it will launch a bot on the popular messaging service WhatsApp that allows users to query terms like 'masks' or 'coronavirus symptoms.'




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Researchers shrink complex brain-reading tech that can take up an entire room to the size of helmet

Kernel, has unveiled two new devices according to a report by Bloomberg , both of which are about the size of a helmet. Those devices can both see and record brain activity.




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Creator of one of world's first global computer viruses has regrets after infecting 45 million

The creator of one of the world's first global computer viruses says he regrets his creation. Called the Love Bug, or ILOVEYOU, the virus initially spread through email in May 2000.




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Where will the world's next Zika, West Nile or dengue come from?

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have studied thousands of species of animals and birds to work out where reservoirs of contagious, mosquito-borne viruses could be.




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Army uses online computer game War Thunder to teach tank tactics to troops on coronavirus lockdown

Army solders at Fort Hood, Texas are conducting training exercises in the online computer game War Thunder while observing social distancing habits during the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Mosquitoes that can carry diseases could be common in Europe by 2030

The insect, known by the scientific name Aedes aegypti as well as the common name 'yellow fever mosquito', currently only thrives in the world's hottest regions.




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Europe's invasive warty comb jellyfish eats its own offspring

The cannibalistic animal in question is a species called Mnemiopsis leidyi, which is also known as the warty comb jelly. It regularly washes up on Baltic shores.