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WeatherVancouver Has Had Eight Per Cent of Its October Rain, and the Storms Have Been Sent to AlaskaPoliticsDrivers Get Five Minutes to Decide Whether to Park and Ten Minutes to Leave, Which Is Fifteen Minutes of Not ParkingMarketsIndia's Rate-Setters Adopt a Stance That Permits a Rise or a Pause, Narrowing the Future to Two of Its Three OptionsSciencePerseverance Passes Twenty-Eight Miles on Mars, Having Been Commissioned to Drive No More Than 12.4ScienceLaser Built From a Material That Dissolves in Air Runs for 400 Million Pulses, Which Is Where the Counting StoppedTechnologyOneDrive Will Keep a Million Items in Sync on a Mac, Up From 300,000, Adding 700,000 More Things That Can Be WrongTechnologyKey-Generation Ceremony Produced a Strong Set of Keys and a Weak Set, and Nothing Could Tell Them Apart for Seventeen MonthsSportSwimmer Covers California's 900-Mile Coast in Four Months and Is First Until the Records Have Been ReviewedWorldEleven Kilograms of Spice Cover 175.82 Square Metres and Take a World Record, Which Measures Only the Square MetresPiracyPiracy Falls to Its Lowest Level Since 1992, and Boarders Got Aboard in 86 Per Cent of the Incidents That Were CountedWorldCyberattack Pushes French Supermarket Freezers to 50C, Which Is What the Defrost Function Is ForPoliticsIndia Sets the Maximum General GST Penalty at Exactly the Amount It Has Agreed Not to Write Letters AboutMarketsQueensland Awards 3,631 Square Kilometres of Cheaper Energy, the First Instalment of Which Is a Sound WaveScienceEurope's Northernmost Macaque Record Is Held by a One-Year-Old and Has Stood for 300,000 YearsScienceChemists Find the Neutral Solution Was pH 11 at One End and pH 2.5 at the Other, and Neutral NowhereTechnologyUCLA Walks Away From Its Oracle Project and Is Compensated in Oracle Credits That Expire in 2028TechnologyHalf of American Adults Have Never Used a Chatbot, Making Abstention the Category's Best-Retained ProductSportJordan's Game 2 Jersey Takes the Record at $14m, a Month After His Game 3 Jersey Took It at $12.26mWeatherAlice Springs Has the Worst Storm in 40 Years and the Ninth-Windiest October Day in 75PiracyGames Industry Values Six Months of Piracy at $1,083,735,308.55, Which Is $69.99 Each With Nothing Left OverScienceSewage Was Discharged in Wales for 800,000 Hours Last Year, in a Year That Contained 8,760 of ThemWorldGippsland Has Had Nine Earthquakes in Nine Days, Eight of Which Are Consequences of the FirstPoliticsJapan Cuts the Food Consumption Tax From Eight Per Cent to One, Retaining the One Per Cent That Makes It a TaxMarketsFirmus Pulls the Biggest ASX Float Since 1997, Making It the Largest Australian Listing of the Century Not to HappenTechnologyTen Years of Work Produce 1,500 Puzzles, Most of Which Their Maker Expects Nobody to ReachSportThe Australian Open Will Again Award $1 Million for a Single Point, Last Year Decided on the Third StrokeWeatherRecord Pacific Warming Is Forecast Without Adding Any Heat to the Planet, Which the WMO Confirms It Does Not DoPiracyCopyright Office Asks How to Spot a Fake Stream, Under Rules That Count Plays Without Respect to the Number of ListenersScienceHomo Erectus Is Dated 200,000 Years Earlier in South Africa, Where Its Only Previous Fossil Was a ToddlerTechnologyAmazon Has Built 1,000 Satellites and Launched 396, Making a Factory in Kirkland the Densest Point in Its ConstellationWorldDriest Desert on Earth Covered by 17,000 Square Kilometres of Flowers, and Keeps the TitlePoliticsGovernment Accepts All 44 Medical AI Recommendations, the First of Which Is to Work Out What a Medical AI IsMarketsFrozen Yoghurt Returns at £12 a Tub, Which the Trade Says Is Not a Food Price Because It Is Not FoodMarketsSpaceX Seeks $40bn of Debt for Nvidia Chips, Led by a Firm Nvidia Recruited to Finance Nvidia’s CustomersScienceNobel Prize in Physics Awarded for an Instrument That Is Mostly a Cubic Kilometre of Ice Nobody TouchedScienceHuman Brain Gene Found Living Inside a Virus, Raising the Question of Whose Gene It Now IsTechnologyOutlook Will Block Two More File Types, Taking the Count of Things Email May Not Carry to 135SportWorld Cup Ballot Draws 1.1m Ticket Applications From 320,000 People, Which Is 3.4 Wishes EachWeatherTokyo’s Record 37 Days of Rain Ends, and the City Begins a Streak of Days Without a Record StreakPiracyCourt Asked to Decide Whether Seven Prompts in Fifteen Minutes Is Enough to Own a CharacterWorldAustralia's Six Remaining Ice Age Gums Have Been Copied Into an Insurance Population of FourPoliticsQueensland Declines to Replace Its Stop Signs With Give Way Signs, on the Grounds That Stopping Is DifferentMarketsSlovenia's Domain Passes 200,000 Names Because American Policy Now Shares Its Two LettersMarketsGolf Club Spends $30,000 Narrowing Its Water Pipe, and the Charge It Was Escaping Is Then Cut to Under $1,000ScienceOklahoma Crater Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Thought, and Has Resigned From the Meteor Shower It Helped ProveTechnologyThe BBC's Digital Domesday Book Turns 40, Which Is 900 Years Behind the Parchment EditionSportDaryz Is the First Colt in 48 Years to Retain the Arc, a Drought Produced Entirely by the Word ColtWeatherSwiss Glaciers Shed 5.5 Per Cent of Their Ice in a Year and Delivered 2,200 Billion Litres of Water on TimePiracyLaLiga Asks Brussels to Put Four VPNs on the Piracy Watch List, While Stating That It Does Not Object to VPNsWorldFeathers McGraw Outsells Both Wallace and Gromit at Auction, Settling a Rivalry the Films Left OpenPoliticsVocational GCSEs to Launch in 2029, Joining V-Levels, T-Levels and VCSEs on a Ladder Made of InitialsMarketsNSE Lists on Its Rival Because an Exchange Cannot Price Itself, Leaving India's Two Exchanges to Value Each OtherScienceKenya's Elephants Use 35 Plant Species as Medicine, in a Forest Dispensary That Has Never ClosedScienceTime Crystals Forty Micrometres Apart Agree on the Time, and Beyond That Distance Stop AgreeingTechnologyGoogle's First Orbital Data Centre Carries Four Chips and Can Run Them Fifteen Minutes at a TimeTechnologyPencil-Sized Quantum Magnetometer Built for Submarine Detection Tracks a Subway Train Into a StationSportIndia Take Asian Games Relay Silver by 0.08 Seconds, or About Two Thirds of a Metre in 1,600WeatherHeat Dome Returns Over Europe With 40C in Iberia and Mid-Teens in Scotland, Dividing the Continent Into Inside and OutsidePiracySpanish-Registered Pirate Site With German Servers Must Answer in Florida, Its Fourth-Best American State