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Why has Apple started removing Iran-based apps from its App Store? Iranian iOS Apps which facilitate transactions for businesses and entities based in Iran have started disappearing from the App Store. The US tech giant opened up its App Store to the Iranians in September 2016. Reports over the weekend suggest that one of the largest e-commerce start-ups in the Middle East, Iran’s Digikala service had its app removed by Apple. “Unfortunately, there is no App Store available for the territory of Iran,” according to Apple.

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Scientists are warning that the Earth’s magnetic poles are about to flip unexpectedly, which could lead to mass extinctions across the planet.  According to observers working within a global network of ground-based observatories, when the pole flip happens – scientists will be aware of it only a few hours in advance. Theconversation.com reports: The alteration in the magnetic field during a reversal will weaken its shielding effect, allowing heightened levels of radiation on and above Earth’s surface.

The universe is almost certainly a giant complex hologram, according to a startling new report by scientists in the U.K, Canada and Italy. According to scientists at the University of Southampton, everything we see, touch, hear and smell is merely a “vast and complex hologram”. “Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field,” said study co-author Kostas Skenderis.

In an amusing twist on the "fiat vs digital" money debate, a former Federal Reserve employee who tried to fuse the two, was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and fined $5,000 for installing unauthorized software on a Fed server to connect with a bitcoin network, the Office of the Fed's Inspector General said.