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Paul Simon's name changed to Simon Paul after government database confuses forename and surname

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Paul Simon is currently having to fight government officials for the right to use his real name. A recent passport application...

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Experts Swipe at Smart-phones

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An international team of experts now warns that excessive use of Smart-phones are forever changing our physiology. There’s nothing new in this though. It is a well-established fact that cultural advancements and trends, if significant enough, can force the human body into a sp...

Worlds most resilient plant discovered in unlikely place.

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Many would probably be inclined to answer cactus, if they were asked to crown the toughest plant on earth. Others might suggest some deep-dwelling seaweed or a beaten down sprout, struggling to make it on a snow-covered mountaintop....

Sound Guy Discovers Turning Everything Up On Equaliser Makes Music Sound Perfect

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Tom Falconer, a sound guy for the St David's Church band in Maidenhead, has claimed to have discovered the perfect universal equalisation formula for mixing music according to independent audiophile magazine 'Acoustink'. The technique however is simply to just "turn all the knob...

Medical breakthrough! Surgeons claim world first by transplanting common sense into Donald Trump!

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Surgeons at the George W Bush Memory Memorial Hospital have claimed a medical breakthrough by transplanting common sense into US President Donald Trump....

Microsoft to launch new Scorpio 4K Xbox; no plans for any games to be able to use capability during lifecycle

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Microsoft have this week released plans to produce and release a 4k capable Xbox in 2017, code-named Scorpio. Though the machine is said to be an upgrade of the current generation Xbox One, and thus with an expected lifecycle of approximately 3 to 4 further years, Microsoft offi...

Facebook to merge Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. "It will be more useful for everyone," said Facebook. "Especially us."

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Facebook is pushing ahead with plans to merge Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. The apps will remain separate but the integration will allow personal data to be shared between them...

Twitter to replace email by 2018

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Technologists have today make the bold claim that all current online communication will be replaced by Twitter by the year 2018. All existing electronic communication, including website articles, online forums, e-cards, and especially emails, will allegedly go the way of the...

86% of #monday #motivation tweets cause Twitter users to feel bad about themselves

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Scientists and statisticians at Laughingstate University, Colorado, have today revealed findings of a three month study concerning the trending topic of #mondaymotivation stories appearing on Twitter. The 140 character long missives usually contain material promoting the user's...

Science and technology news is probably the headline section that we most enjoy writing for here at Laughsend. There's such an amazing array of funny things to write about, from hi-tech gadgets to Yahweh being found in a taco - two of our best parody writers have an IT background, and fight (scissors/paper/stone) for the right to write our technology articles, because they love their computers and gadgets so much. The other writer just likes to laugh at them while duelling, and in the background just write funny news stories about cool things like dinosaur's fridges, DNA that can make an inside-out you, and magnets - because they're so neat!

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