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• London HIV clinic that revealed patients’ names faces legal action

  05-09-2015 23:35 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of cases likely to be brought in wake of data breach, claims lawyerThe lawyer investigating claims on behalf of a number of patients whose identities were mistakenly revealed last week by an HIV clinic has said that it could face hundreds of legal claims.The 56 Dean Street clinic in London’s Soho sent a newsletter last Tuesday to around 780 patients who were copied into the “To” section of the email, rather than anonymously via the “bcc” address bar. This m
  
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• Hands-on review: IFA 2015: Lenovo Ideacentre Y900

  05-09-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though not for the purists, buying pre-built gaming rigs has its advantages. Not only does it take far less time, you know that the components are going to work well together and you don't even need to think about thermal paste. The problem is that many cobbled together rigs come with poorly designed cases that can make slotting in new components a chore. Enter the Lenovo Ideacentre Y900: a pre-build desktop gaming rig that packs plenty of power and comes in a case that won't leave you dreading
  
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• London’s black-cab drivers use rival app to compete with upstart Uber

  05-09-2015 17:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Taxi drivers in the capital are using Uber’s own weapon, the smartphone app, in their latest attempt to fight back agains the US companyA bank of monitors in the reception area of the Victorian office block that is the headquarters for London’s black-taxi drivers shows rolling videos of cabs blocking streets in central London this year and last in protest at the rise of rival car service Uber.It seems a trifle negative for a body representing drivers who pride themselves on getting p
  
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• Suburbia review: Ballardian town planning on your dinner table

  05-09-2015 12:33 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Should that nuclear waste dump really be next to a school? Well, how else are you going to fit that Office of Bureaucracy in?Every single time I’ve played Suburbia since its release in 2012, the same moment comes up. You’re weighing up some tile or other, wondering where or how to expand, when your eyes fall on your opponent’s suburb.“What on earth have you built?!” you ask, gazing at some new variety of miserabilist hellscape.Continue reading...
  
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• Disney Infinity 3.0 review – plenty of value, but lots more to buy

  05-09-2015 11:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Third title in Disney’s ‘toys to life’ series comes with the added force of Star Wars – but fans of the original trilogy will have to be patientHaving worked through classic Disney and Pixar content in the first Infinity game, followed by Marvel adventures last year, the third title in this “toys to life” series now brings out the biggest franchise in Disney’s war chest: Star Wars.As with its predecessors, the new instalment offers a range of play-sets &
  
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• On the road: Citroën DS5 – car review

  05-09-2015 06:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘Lighten up about the terrible visibility, and there is fun to be had in the upper gears’They call it “ink blue”; I call it indigo. The DS5 has sharp, aggressive styling at the front, and it has separated itself from its Citroën branding, so that its identity is conveyed by a funny, squiggly swoosh on the rear. My father-in-law looked askance at this, as if it were a recalcitrant adult child trying to divorce its parent. But I thought it looked chic and modern:
  
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