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Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes

By Peter NovakOctober 26, 20260

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth. Far fewer people know about the real-life inspiration for Holmes: a renowned surgeon at Scotland’s University of Edinburgh named Joseph Bell, who taught Doyle when…

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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing

By Peter NovakOctober 27, 20260

The iPhone Duo launched last week, offering anyone willing to spend $2,000 a chance to experience Apple’s first foldable phone. For some early buyers, the morning after isn’t going great. Despite the company’s big talk about its “precision-engineered” hinge, some devices appear to have a hardware flaw that destroys the device’s impressive internal display within…

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Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID

By Peter NovakSeptember 28, 20260

After more than a decade building a caller ID business serving over 500 million users, Truecaller is now taking the scam intelligence it gathered along the way to the open web, with no app or sign-in required.

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Taylor Swift and Madonna dominate top awards

By Peter NovakSeptember 28, 20260

Taylor Swift has broken yet another record by becoming the most-awarded artist in MTV VMA history.

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Serbia’s president resigns to run for prime minister in snap vote

By Peter NovakSeptember 28, 20260

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić resigned on Sunday to pursue a bid to become prime minister in upcoming snap parliamentary elections that will test his rule in the Balkan country, which was rattled by nearly two years of protests.

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