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Some 65,000 fire-prone tumble dryers have been found during a recall campaign by Whirlpool, but hundreds of thousands still remain in UK homes.

The manufacturer extended its safety programme to offer free replacements in July after the regulator stepped

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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Scientists have been studying glaciers in the Svalbard area for two decades

Glaciers in the Arctic are shrinking by as much as 300m a year, a Scottish-based research team has found.

The researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science near Oban used robot

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Image copyrightNational Missing and Unidentified Persons SystemImage caption William Moldt went missing in Florida at the age of 40 in 1997

The remains of a man who went missing two decades ago in Florida have been found in a submerged car visible on Google Maps.

William Moldt, was reported missing from Lantana,

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Cyber threat: 'Children are capable of hacking heart pacemakers to kill'
Children as young as 11 could be capable of killing people by hacking into their pacemakers, a cyber security conference has been told.
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Cyber threat: 'Children are capable of hacking heart pacemakers to kill'
Children as young as 11 could be capable of killing people by hacking into their pacemakers, a cyber security conference has been told.
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Tech giants face fines and other 'measures' - data commissioner
Facebook and other big tech companies in Ireland could face a series of fines and "corrective measures" if found negligent in their handling of customers' personal data, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner has warned.
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