Facebook, Lovefilm and a crowdfunded HIV vaccine

 

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B U S I N E S S Facebook acquires WhatsApp for $19 billion Facebook has acquired mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. Yep. You heard that right. It's a Dr Evil-scale price » S C I E N C E Crowdfunded free HIV vaccine: as unlikely as it sounds When a crowdfunding video launched in January promising a free HIV vaccine "in a few short years", alarm bells went off for professionals in the field, some of whom turned out to be inaccurately connected to the project » B U S I N E S S Lovefilm primed to become Amazon Instant Video From 26 February, Amazon-owned Lovefilm will have its service rebranded as Amazon Instant Video » C U L T U R E Starving and frostbitten, adventurer conquers South Pole Wired.co.uk talks to British explorer Ben Saunders about his world record 2,800km trek to the South Pole and back, a landmark retracing of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1912 Terra Nova expedition » T E C H N O L O G Y Meet LG's not-so-diddy G2 mini LG has unveiled its first compact high-end smartphone, the G2 mini, ahead of its official launch at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week » P O L I T I C S You lose, journalism. Carrying GCHQ docs is terrorism Three high court judges have ruled that it was legal to detain David Miranda, partner of ex-Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, under the Terrorism Act for carrying encrypted GCHQ files supplied by Edward Snowden » S C I E N C E Turn your body into a cartilage factory A team from Duke University is working on getting bio-scaffolds to become fuel-generating systems that continually encourage stem cells to grow directly inside the body » Promotion CISCO Find out what happens when the Smart Home meets the Internet of Everything Click here B U S I N E S S WhatsApp: The inside story In early December, Wired's editor David Rowan spent three days with the WhatsApp founders and was given unprecedented access to them and their business Listen » T E C H N O L O G Y Sony Xperia Z1 Compact review Wired.co.uk reviews the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, one of the best Android phones on the UK market today Listen » P O D C A S T Behind the scenes of WhatsApp: Wired.co.uk Podcast 162 Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days Listen »

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