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Hewlett-Packard's Mark Hurd gets job offers after being ousted
Former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard headhunted less than two weeks after
being pushed out of technology giant.
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Apple iPad: Strikingly realistic portraits of celebrities created with £5 app

'Painted' on the iPad, these striking pictures of celebrities are the creation of young artist Kyle Lambert.
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Medal of Honour: Video gamers put in role of Taliban

Creators Electronic Arts have designed the game's multiplayer mode so players can either do battle as insurgents or as part of the coalition forces.
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Police crack criminal conspiracy to make millions from stolen iPhones
Police have shut down a global criminal conspiracy suspected of milking
millions of pounds from stolen iPhones through premium phone lines.
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Lullingstone Roman Villa treasures reveal it was once home to future Emperor

Experts have re-examined treasures found at Lullingstone Roman Villa and say it was almost certainly the home of Publius Helvius Pertinax.
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Google says Facebook users 'will have to change names to escape cyber past'

The chief executive of Google said the enormous quantity of detail left online by young users could come back to haunt them when they apply for jobs in future.
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Nine held over global iPhone scam
Nine people are arrested over a global scam which made millions of pounds by using fraudulently bought mobiles to call premium phone lines.
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Sony revamps PlayStation 3 lineup
The electronics giant unveils two new models of its PlayStation 3 console at the Gamescom video games conference in Cologne.
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Foursquare updates privacy settings ahead of Facebook event
Facebook expected to launch its own location-based service on the same day
that Foursquare has offered users more personalised privacy controls
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Google shows off in-browser gaming
Google has showcased Chrome's in-browser gaming capabilities at a technology
event in Cologne
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Google boss warns on social media
Eric Schmidt says people will change their names to distance themselves from embarrassing content on the net.
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Architect creates tiny clones for photo montages

An architect from Indonesia has created a series of photographs, that take up to a week each to make, of himself with mini-me-like characters.
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Perseids meteor shower thrills star-gazers

Streaking down towards Stonehenge across the path of all the other stars in the sky, this shooting star is hurtling to Earth at 135,000 miles per hour.
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DNA fingerprinting 'can sometimes give the wrong results'

The incredibly small amounts of DNA in samples and pressure to gain a conviction can lead to bias, according to an investigation by New Scientist.
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Apple iPhone 4 engineering chief quits in wake of 'Antennagate'

Mark Papermaster, Apple's senior vice president of iPhone and iPod hardware engineering, is leaving the company, according to an Apple spokesman.
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Submarine that looks like a great white, soars 12ft into the air then dives under waves

The Seabreacher X is the ultimate millionaire's boy-toy: a James Bond-style craft that can dive under water, roll from side to side and jump 12ft into the air.
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Scientists discover new species of monkey in Amazon rain forest

The new variety of titi monkey, which has the scientific name Callicebus caquetensis, is the size of a cat and has greyish-brown hair.
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India considers BlackBerry email ban
The Indian government is undecided as to whether it will allow Research in
Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, to continue operating its corporate email
service in the country next month
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Did global warming kill off the woolly mammoth?

Some 21,000 years ago warmer temperatures led to a loss of grassland over much of the Earth’s surface.
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Ancient sea sponge fossils could push back existence of animal life by 90million years

The tiny fossils measuring up to one centimetre across lived in ocean reefs off south Australia and were discovered in rocks dated at between 640 and 650million years old.
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