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The Explainer
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Apple has a hidden ‘gray list’ of words it won’t autocompleteThe Explainer Terms like ‘Dictator Trump’ and ‘Sleepy Joe’ won’t fill themselves out
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The growing debate over surrogacy laws in the UKThe Explainer Proposed reform would recognise intended parents as legal parents from birth, but critics warn of weakened safeguards
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AI is fomenting an open-source retaliationThe explainer Once exclusive tools like those in the Adobe Creative Cloud collection could become widely available
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What is ferritin face?The Explainer Social media trend claims facial clues could detect iron deficiencies, but professionals are sceptical
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Talking Points
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Russell Brand’s enablers: the powerful people who egged him onTalking Point From TV execs to politicians and celebrities, a network of powerful people ‘egged on’ the comedian
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Just not cricket: will sandpapergate take down Aussie cricket again?Talking Point Eight years on, the cheating scandal has been reanimated by an ex-player’s memoir
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Elon Musk: is he a threat to democracy?Talking Point Tesla and SpaceX CEO has brought money into politics on a previously unthinkable scale – but his actual influence is debatable
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Under the Radar
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A changing tide in Trinidad and TobagoUnder the Radar Activist wins 10-year battle to finally overturn colonial-era laws on same-sex intimacy
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Decline of the lab-grown meat industryUnder the Radar High costs, slow regulation, consumer scepticism and difficulty scaling has seen investment dry up in recent years
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A bird flu outbreak at a Utah mink farm could be a public health crisisUnder the radar The animals have lungs similar to humans
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Speed Reads
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Macklemore launching ‘Free Palestine’ concert tourSpeed Read It comes less than two weeks after the rapper was dropped by Ed Sheeran’s tour
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Trump administration runs taxpayer-funded ‘love me’ adSpeed Read Democratic lawmakers have demanded more details about the ad
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Trump hosts Xi for lavish visit with few public gainsSpeed Read The two leaders have “never gotten along better,” Trump claimed
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China reportedly holds F-35 parts diverted to Hong KongSpeed Read The parts were “inexplicably diverted” to the city, Bloomberg reported
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