Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life

Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps on iOS and but it has long been cited as a cause of fast-draining iPhone batteries
last year it was accused of using background tricks to stay active even when it wasn't being used.
Facebook admitted bugs existed, and fixed them, but questions of the app’s impact on battery life remained.
Similar concerns about Facebook’s Android app led to the discovery that deleting the app saves up to 20% of a phone’s battery

Newsnight gets a repeat as BBC news channel cuts breaking stories

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/04/newsnight-gets-a-repeat-as-bbc-news-channel-cuts-breaking-stories

BBC2’s current affairs show will air again at 11.15pm to woo younger audiences to news channel, which also gets a new local news programme
The BBC’s 24-hour news channel is to introduce a nightly replay of Newsnightand launch a new local news programme in a revamp that will mean less breaking news.
From the end of February, Newsnight, BBC2’s current affairs programme which airs at 10.30pm, will be broadcast again on the news channel at 11.15pm with a focus on boosting viewing among a younger audience.
“We will work closely with Newsnight to promote this showing including teasing that night’s programme highlights in the news channel’s 11pm headlines, and promoting the slot to younger viewers via social media,” said Sam Taylor, the head of the BBC News Channel in an email to staff. “The Newsnight playout … means we should be able to dedicate more effort to the earlier part of the evening.”
Newsnight will run in a slot that currently features breaking news, with The Papers being moved to 00.30.
The channel is also dropping an hour of breaking news between 7pm and 8pm, replacing it with an as yet unnamed programme which will “showcase the best of the BBC’s reporting from the UK’s nations and regions”.

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