POCKETPAL-NEWS

2026-10-22

Prepare for supply chain disruption from cyber or climate emergencies, Streeting warns public

Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found

Musk has restored access to Ukraine's Starlink network, Trump says

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Amber warning in place as Storm Austen hits parts of UK

Celebrity Traitors - paranoia deepens as traitor behaviour splits opinion

Trump ordered to answer questions under oath in BBC lawsuit

Grid operator says lights will stay on this winter after concerns

Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan's RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds

Give more people weight-loss jabs on the NHS, say MPs

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QA: what is the capital of France ||| Paris.
QA: what is the capital of Japan ||| Tokyo.
QA: how many planets are in the solar system ||| Eight: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
QA: what is the largest planet ||| Jupiter. It's wider than eleven Earths side by side.
QA: how tall is the eiffel tower ||| About 330 meters including its antennas.
QA: what is the speed of light ||| 299,792 kilometers per second. Nothing with mass goes faster.
QA: who wrote hamlet ||| William Shakespeare, around 1600.
QA: what is the deepest ocean trench ||| The Mariana Trench, nearly 11 kilometers down.
QA: how many bones are in the human body ||| 206 in an adult.
QA: what year did the jornada 720 come out ||| 2000. Yours is still going strong.
QA: what does cpu stand for ||| Central Processing Unit. Yours is a StrongARM running at 206 MHz.
QA: what is the biggest cf card ||| CompactFlash cards went up to 137 GB, though 8 GB was huge in its day.
JOKE: Why did the developer go broke? He used up all his cache.
JOKE: I told my computer I needed a break. Now it won't stop sending me KitKat ads.
JOKE: Why do Java developers wear glasses? Because they don't C#.
JOKE: There are only 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
JOKE: Why did the PowerPoint presentation cross the road? To get to the other slide.
JOKE: My Wi-Fi went down for five minutes today. So I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.
JOKE: Why did the smartphone need glasses? It lost its contacts.
JOKE: I changed my password to "incorrect". So when I forget, it tells me "your password is incorrect".
FACT: A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
FACT: The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.
FACT: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.
FACT: There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than atoms on Earth.
FACT: The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
FACT: Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
FACT: The StrongARM chip in your Jornada was designed by Digital Equipment Corporation.
FACT: Nintendo was founded in 1889, making playing cards.
TIP: Hold the 720's power button to toggle the backlight without opening settings.
TIP: The 720 types best with the keyboard on a table and thumbs on the spacebar.
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