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A remote radio tower near Mount Burr in South Australia has attracted millions of ladybugs for reasons no one seems to understand. The unusual sight was recently reported by wildlife photographer Steve Chapple, who posted several photos and a video of it on his Facebook page. Contacted by ABC News Australia, Mr Chapple said that he was told by a ...

Samsung announced on April 30 that it’s releasing both 128GB and 256GB versions of its Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus in the US. Preorders open May 1st on Samsung.com with the devices actually coming out on May 18th. (They’ll only be for sale through the company’s website.) The new storage options will be available in all three of the phones’ ...

A journalist in Zimbabwe has tweeted that Zimbabwe’s government will charge as much as $50,000 (£36,000) for licences to grow cannabis. The government announced this weekend that individuals and businesses would be able to apply for licences to cultivate cannabis for medicinal or scientific use. Zimbabwe the second African country to legalise growing cannabis after Lesotho did so last year. ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to hold his upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, a source tells CNN. Moon and Kim met at the same location in Panmunjom last Friday, a historically significant event that was televised worldwide and led to an agreement ...

One thing the latest holiday sales season made crystal clear is that mobile commerce is on the rise. On Cyber Monday — which set an all-time-high overall sales record of US$6.6 billion — mobile shopping totaled 47.4 percent of visits to retailers’ websites, according to Adobe, which analyzed 1 trillion visits to more than 4,500 retail sites. Revenue from purchases ...

I’m not making a prediction here — I’m pondering a possibility. I spent a day with BlackBerry last week and it brought back memories of how Apple displaced the company around a decade ago. I, like a lot of folks at the time, thought what Apple was attempting was impossible. However, after the fact, it didn’t even look difficult. BlackBerry ...

The Time’s Up Movement has pledged support for the #MuteRKelly campaign after sexual misconduct accusations, some decades-old, against the RnB star. The decision, led by the Women of Colour (WOC) group, includes director Ava Duvernay and singer Janelle Monae. Labels, businesses and music venues promoting Kelly are to be targeted. He denies all the allegations. A statement urged women to ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed what he says are “secret nuclear files” proving Iran once covertly pursued nuclear weapons. He said thousands of pages of material obtained by Israel showed Iran had deceived the world by denying it had ever sought nuclear weapons. Iran agreed in 2015 to curb its nuclear energy programme in return for the lifting ...

Logan Paul – one of YouTube’s most popular and controversial video-makers – has announced he will no longer release material on a “daily” basis. The 23-year-old began his Daily Vlogs series in September 2016, and has since built up an audience of 17 million subscribers. He said that his channel would survive, but that he wanted “to exercise [my] creativity ...

Facebook is now testing its “downvote” button in New Zealand, following a similar trial which took place in the US in February. The tool, which appears on some public posts, will let people hide comments and provide feedback about them. The BBC understands that there are no immediate plans to roll it out across the social network. Discussion site Reddit ...