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Those who do can look forward to dramatic scenery: iceberg flows and snowy tundra, with wildlife that includes polar bears, seals, and the Arctic fox. Depending on the season, conditions in the Arctic can get extreme and dangerous, with temperatures dropping below minus-30-degrees Celcius.

Hey, readers! You’re all looking really great today. Especially, you know, since you were all dead yesterday. At least according to your Facebook pages.

Sony has traditionally released “slim” versions of its consoles, but it’s going a step further this time. In addition to releasing a slim version of the PlayStation 4, there’s now a PlayStation 4 Pro. The PS4 Pro is anything but slim, but it’s much, much more powerful than the other variants. Want to find out what’s inside? iFixit is here to do what it does best — destroy gadgets in a highly methodical fashion.

BT has officially launched much faster FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) connections, juicing things up from the current 330Mbps maximum to a full 1Gbps broadband, with prices also being revealed – and the latter weighs in at £80 per month wholesale. There will be two new FTTP options which will become available to ISPs on December 6: an up to 500Mbps product with upload speeds of up to 165Mbps, and the 1Gbps offering which has uploads of 220Mbps. The wholesale prices to service providers will be £55 per month for 500Mbps broadband and as mentioned £80 per month for 1Gbps, with a £500 connection fee.

In very worrying news for customers of Tesco Bank, the organisation has apparently been the victim of a hacker over the weekend, and the attack is serious enough that a freeze has been put on all online transactions. Apparently some 40,000 customers have had their accounts compromised, and half of those lost money, with the result that as of right now, Tesco has halted all online transactions from current accounts as a “precautionary measure”.