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A BBC Research and Development experiment into new editorial formats

The site compresses all articles published on national newspaper websites, on BBC news, and Sky news online, into a series of numbers based on 15 character strings (using a hash function) and then stores them in a fast access database. When someone pastes in some text and clicks 'compare', the churn engine compresses the text entered and then searches for similar compressions (or 'common hashes'). If the engine finds any articles where the similarity is greater than 20%, then it suggests the article may be churn. Churnalism.com is powered off the back of the database of over three million compressed articles in journalisted.com.

If you're a Netflix user then you can watch the Leslee Udwin's documentary, 'India's Daughter' on your Netflix platform (in selected countries). The documentary

Facebook has added a Finnish firm that makes a fitness tracking app to its ever-increasing portfolio of purchases.

Twitter is trialling a feature in its mobile apps that allows users to mute accounts that are becoming irritating.

BBC : February 26, 2016, Friday Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments. The Chinese research took a stem cell, converted it into primitive sperm and fertilised an egg to produce healthy pups.