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Thursday 7 March 2019

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Tim Cook just changed his name to Tim Apple on Twitter

After President Donald Trump referred to Tim Cook as "Tim Apple" on Wednesday, the Apple CEO replaced his last name with the Apple logo on his Twitter profile.
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The Australian dollar is under pressure

Increased risk aversion and a plunge in the euro helped lift the US dollar Index to the highest level since December.
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Mark Zuckerberg is rumoured to have a secret escape passageway beneath his conference room for emergencies

Facebook budgets $US10 million a year to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg. When Zuckerberg first got executive protection, he had a habit of wandering off without telling them where he was going.
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Elon Musk's security clearance is reportedly under review by the Pentagon after he smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan's podcast in September

The Pentagon is reviewing Elon Musk's federal security clearance after he smoked marijuana during a September interview with Joe Rogan, Bloomberg reports, citing a US official.
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Millennial tech workers are paying $5,000 for a 1-week luxury retreat to feel younger, and it shows just how bad ageism in Silicon Valley really is

Luxury retreat Modern Elder Academy caters to tech workers who feel they are lagging behind technology because of their age, reported Nellie Bowles of The New York Times.
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Russia is installing toilets in the wildly expensive NATO killer T-14 supertanks it can't afford

Russia is equipping its state-of-the-art T-14 Armata main battle tanks with toilets to make it easier for troops to take care of business in the field, Russian state media reported Thursday.
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Iron ore gets a boost from higher steel prices

China's Hebei Province announced further shuttering of excess steel production capacity in the coming years, helping to support steel prices.
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The most important things to know about Mark Zuckerberg's 3,200-word plan to refocus Facebook on privacy

Zuckerberg said he believes that the future of internet and communication services will increasingly move to encrypted and private tools, where messages only last for a limited amount of time.
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Humans once hunted and butchered giant ground sloths in South America, 12,600-year-old bones reveal

For the first time ever, scientists have found a site where humans killed and butchered a giant sloth. Humans hunted the giant ground sloth 12,600 years ago in what is now the Pampas region of Argentina.

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