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Evening Standard
Technology
Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Minecraft streamer ‘Dream’ reveals identity

One of Minecraft’s biggest streamers, ‘Dream’, has revealed his true identity. He’s a 23-year-old American called Clay.

Before now, he had only been known by a simple iconic smiley face.

Your Christmas turkey could be at risk this year if the worst avian flu in UK history continues to spread.

The National Farmers’ Union has issued a warning after bird flu was detected at 155 sites across the UK.

More than three million birds have had to be culled so far, with Avian Influenza Prevention Zones introduced in Norfolk, Suffolk, parts of Essex and the whole of the South West of England.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to human evolution research.

Sweden's Svante Paabo worked out the genetic code of Neanderthals, one of our extinct relatives.

Prime Minister Liz Truss’s personal mobile number is being sold on a US website by hackers, language-learning app Duolingo is in talks with the government about providing cheap visa tests, and a study suggests Covid has left a third of young people feeling like 'life is out of control'. Plus, companies 'aggressively’ pestering people with cold calls have been fined and Hollywood actor Bruce Willis denies selling his likeness to a deepfake company.

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