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QR codes, those square-ish barcode thingies you can scan with your phone for quick and easy access to a website, are sort of the evolution of the AOL keyword. They’re incredibly useful, saving precious seconds in a hundred different…

A firefighter holding a combination smoke/carbon monoxide alarm Get some piece of mind and check your smoke alarms today. Smoke alarms provide critical notice when they detect smoke from a fire. The alert from a smoke alarm is…

Hospital toxicologist Ryan Marino has seen up close the violent reactions of children poisoned by liquid nicotine from electronic cigarettes. One young boy who came to his emergency room experienced intense nausea, diarrhea, and…

Under Xi, the role of state-owned enterprises has been elevated and that of the private sector diminished, China’s once-vibrant tech sector has shrunk and, with the introduction of the “three red lines” restrictions on leverage, the…

Receive free Climate change updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate changenews every morning.The Earth reached its highest daily temperature since records began in 1979 for four consecutive days this…

There’s little research into how common the experience of waking up a minute or two before your alarm is and why it happens. But it seems to be “a genuine phenomenon” that many people report, according to Russell Foster, head of the Sleep…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeIn April last year, Australia’s second-largest bank National Australia Bank received regulatory manna from heaven.After a five-year-long investigation into suspected systemic breaches of…

If you try setting an alarm on your iPhone right now, rig it to go off in the next minute, and hit Snooze when it does, you'll notice that it'll automatically switch your alarm into snooze mode, with an additional nine…

New health warnings by Ireland set to be the world’s strictest on beer, wine and spirits have sparked alarm from alcohol-producing countries that argue the labels would impose an obstacle to trade. The US and Mexico have raised concerns…

A deadly combination of sewage pollution in streets and rivers, and dirty drinking water – or no water – in the taps is common to all four areas where people have died of cholera in the last two months. In Hammanskraal the cholera epidemic…