Posthumous tributes to Steve Jobs have included a Grammy and a bronze statute , but at least one idea intended to honor the late Apple founder won’t ever see the light of day. The Chinese company In Icons decided to pull its plans for producing a life-like action figure of Jobs, The San Jose Mercury News reported , apparently after coming under “immense pressure” from Apple and Jobs’s family. Read full article > >

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No Steve Jobs action figure after all

At a ceremony last night Singer songwriter P J Harvey became the first artist to win the prestigious Mercury Prize for a second time.

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VIDEO: PJ Harvey wins Mercury prize

PJ Harvey takes Mercury Prize a second time – 10 years after 9/11

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Mercury memories

PJ Harvey has been named the winner of this year’s Mercury Music Prize with her album Let England Shake, 10 years after she first won the award.

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Harvey wins Mercury Music Prize

Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft successfully enters into orbit around Mercury – the first probe to do so.

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Messenger achieves Mercury orbit

Messenger mission systems engineer Eric Finnegan explains some of the features on the craft designed to help it cope with Mercury’s extreme conditions.

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VIDEO: Mercury Messenger’s special design

The chair of the Mercury Prize claims that black British female artists are being ignored by the British public.

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UK ‘blind’ to black female acts

Its name lives on in the form of a prestigious music prize but whatever happened to Mercury Communications?

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What became of Mercury Communications?

The xx express surprise at their Mercury Prize win and singer-songwiter Conor J O’Brien gives the stand-out performance of the ceremony.

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The xx step into the spotlight

The xx express surprise at their Mercury Prize win and singer-songwiter Conor J O’Brien gives the stand-out performance of the ceremony.

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The xx step into the spotlight

Nominated artists Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal and The XX are arriving in London for this year’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize.

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Stars turn out for Mercury Prize

What the Mercury Prize tells us about British music

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Music for dinner parties?

The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize are slashed after a bookmaker takes an “unprecedented” rush of bets backing him.

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Bookie cuts Weller Mercury odds

I Am Kloot singer John Bramwell talks to Elbow’s Guy Garvey about Kloot’s Mercury Music Prize-nominated album, which Garvey and bandmate Craig Potter produced.

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Elbow and Kloot talk Mercury Prize