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On Wednesday the popular community-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk) will take its English-language site offline for 24 hours. The aim is to protest against two US anti-piracy legislation – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) – which are being debated by Congress.

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Residents of one of the poorest areas of Medellin, in Colombia, will no have access to a giant outdoor escalator divided in six sections and ascends nearly 384m. (photo, from 20min.ch) Until now, in order to get home from the city centre, people living in the Comuna 13 district – one of the city’s poorest and [...]

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Apple’s co-founder and former chief executive has died on Wednesday at the age of 56.

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Steve Jobs (photo, from lefigaro.fr) announced his resignation as chief executive of Apple Inc on Wednesday. He will be replaced by Tim Cook, chief operating officer.

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On Thursday US-based news website the Daily Beast, discovered that Facebook embarked on a smear campaign against Google.

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A week ago security researchers claimed they had found a hidden file on Apple’s iPhones and 3G iPads (photo, from nexus404.com) containing a record of everywhere the users had been. Some users were able to extract the data and plot it on maps. Through an online question and answer document, Apple denied that the devices owners’ [...]

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To try to identify the woman portrayed by Leonardo da Vinci in Mona Lisa (photo), researchers will digg up the remains of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a rich silk merchant.

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Three more Southwest Airlines planes presented small, sub-surface cracks similar to those thought to have caused a hole in the cabin roof of a plane on Friday, officials said. (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk)

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Chinese workers have written to Apple asking for help, after being injured while making touchscreens for mobile devices, such as iPhones. (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk)

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In a leaked memo sent to his staff, Nokia’s new head Stephen Elop (photo, from aljazeera.net) suggests the phone giant is in crisis, describing the company as standing on a “burning platform” surrounded by innovative competitors who are grabbing its market share.

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