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Spy hero Alan Turing is the first LGBT person on a UK banknote


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A giant artwork of Alan Turing’s been installed at the heart of the UK’s spy base HQ as the wartime hero becomes the first LGBT person to appear on a banknote. Turing is considered the father of computer science and his work cracking the Nazi Enigma code helped bring the Second World War to an end. Amazon’s takeover of the iconic MGM movie studio may have hit a snag. New Twitter scheme could allow creators charge fans for extra content. An air purifier is in hot water with the UK’s advertising watchdog over a Covid commercial. More than a hundred baby squids are travelling through space to the ISS, but why? Tinder’s making moves with ‘Hot takes’, and, Mongoose mothers don’t know who their children are. 

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