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Red Dead Redemption 2 review: so big it feels like a chore
After eight years in the making, Rockstar has delivered the vast and highly-polished game everyone hoped for. But just because it has a perfect finish doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be great.
Massive Attack are releasing an album in a new format: DNA
For Mezzanine's 20th anniversary, the band have encoded the album in strands of synthetic DNA. One spray can contains around one million copies.
Why it's still impossible to get long-range weather forecasts right
Tabloids love publishing sensational and extreme long-term weather forecasts. It's understandable – but the wild predictions hide a bigger problem.
How a suspicious Facebook page is pushing pro-Brexit ads to millions
The UK's fake news inquiry says the website Mainstream has spent around £257,000 on pushing a pro-Brexit advertising campaign on Facebook in the last 10 months. The problem? Nobody knows who runs the page or where the money comes from.
Review: Google's Pixel 3 XL is great but AI and Android are the stars
The Google Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL is one of the best phones you can buy. But Google's still mostly interested in your data to improve its AI and the future of Android.
The science behind how Heathrow lands one plane every 45 seconds
Heathrow handles 475,000 planes every year, but the pressure is on to squeeze in even more landings. Getting that right – and doing so safely – is a precise science.
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