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Belgian cyclist who kneed five-year-old girl to the floor ordered to pay just €1
A cyclist who appeared to deliberately knee a five-year-old girl as she walked though a park in Baraque Michel, Belgium, has received a suspended sentence and been ordered to pay €1.
Categories: UK News
Mark Wright reveals his uncle Edward has died after an eight-week battle with Covid
The presenter admitted he was 'broken to pieces' in a moving tribute after his cousin Elliott announced his father's passing on Thursday.
Categories: UK News
New interior images for the 1,100mph supersonic Spike Aerospace private jet
The Spike S-512 business jet by Boston-based Spike Aerospace, is slated to begin test flights in 2022 and begin flying passengers 'in the late 2020s', according to CEO Vik Kachoria.
Categories: UK News
ANOTHER Covid variant is found in the UK
The new variant, temporarily named B1.1.318, was first detected on February 15 through genomic sequencing and UK officials began monitoring its spread on February 24.
Categories: UK News
Viewers in 64 countries will see Meghan and Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey
Meghan and Harry's two-hour pre-recorded sit-down interview will first be shown by CBS in the US at 1am UK time early Monday morning. Deals have been struck across the globe for the rights to broadcast it.
Categories: UK News
Mia Farrow accuses Woody Allen of telling 'horrible lies' in teaser of HBO docu series
Mia Farrow made the allegation in the third episode of the explosive HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow, which airs this Sunday night at 9pm Eastern Time on the cable powerhouse.
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Scientists discover new rocky Super-Earth planet called Gliese 486b that could host ALIEN life
Astronomers from the Max-Planck Institute used different methods of observation to discover the alien world orbiting a nearby red dwarf dwarf star 26 light years away.
Categories: UK News
Former Vice President Mike Pence embraces Donald Trump's 'fraud' claims in op-ed
Former Vice President Mike Pence penned an op-ed where he said there were 'significant voting irregularities' and 'instances of officials setting aside state election law' in the elections.
Categories: UK News
Chrome Switches Its Release Cycle for First Time in a Decade
Google Chrome releases will soon arrive more frequently than ever. From a report:In an announcement today, Google said it is updating the Chrome release schedule for the first time in over a decade. For a cool 10+ years now, Chrome stable releases have shipped every 6 weeks with new features, security fixes, etc. With improvements to testing and release processes, Google has realized that it can shorten the release cycle and will do so in Q3 of this year. Starting with Chrome 94, Google will move to a 4-week milestone release cycle. Freaked out at the possibility that Google might break features, remove things you like, or cause other issues with so many releases? Don't worry, Google is also introducing an Extended Stable release that will see milestone updates every 8 weeks. Now, it will still get updates every 2 weeks to address "important issues," but none of the new features or all security fixes that the 4-week milestones see will be included.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Categories: Technology
Prime suspect: Amazon India apologises for offensive scenes in political thriller
Charges filed against head of content as cast and crew apply for 'anticipatory bail'
Amazon Prime India has issued a rare-for-Big-Tech apology for material deemed offensive in Bezos's streaming arm's political thriller, Tandav and legal writs fly.…
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Dozens of mammals including horses, dolphins and goats could catch Covid-19, study reveals
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, has the potential 'to infect a broad range of mammalian hosts' including rhinos, horses, goats and hamsters, Chinese scientists say.
Categories: UK News
Banksy posts video confirming he painted mural on Reading Jail where Oscar Wilde served time
Banksy took to his Instagram today to claim responsibility for a mural which appeared overnight on the walls of HMP Reading where Oscar Wilde was famously held.
Categories: UK News
The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid
Flexibility is a kind of strength. It is just more subtle than brute force. …
The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Categories: Technology
Hilaria Baldwin finally opens up about welcoming baby Lucía just six months after birth of son Edu
In a new Instagram post, Hilaria, 37, called 'rainbow baby' Edu 'such a blessing' and said they're 'grateful for all of the very special angels who helped bring Lucía into the world.'
Categories: UK News
Most Life on Earth Will Be Killed by Lack of Oxygen in a Billion Years
One billion years from now, Earth's atmosphere will contain very little oxygen, making it uninhabitable for complex aerobic life. From a report: Today, oxygen makes up around 21 per cent of Earth's atmosphere. Its oxygen-rich nature is ideal for large and complex organisms, like humans, that require the gas to survive. But early in Earth's history, oxygen levels were much lower -- and they are likely to be low again in the distant future. Kazumi Ozaki at Toho University in Funabashi, Japan, and Chris Reinhard at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta modelled Earth's climatic, biological and geological systems to predict how atmospheric conditions on Earth will change. The researchers say that Earth's atmosphere will maintain high levels of oxygen for the next billion years before dramatically returning to low levels reminiscent of those that existed prior to what is known as the Great Oxidation Event of about 2.4 billion years ago. "We find that the Earth's oxygenated atmosphere will not be a permanent feature," says Ozaki. One central reason for the shift is that, as our sun ages, it will become hotter and release more energy.
The researchers calculate that this will lead to a decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as CO2 absorbs heat and then breaks down. Ozaki and Reinhard estimate that in a billion years, carbon dioxide levels will become so low that photosynthesising organisms -- including plants -- will be unable to survive and produce oxygen. The mass extinction of these photosynthetic organisms will be the primary cause of the huge reduction in oxygen. "The drop in oxygen is very, very extreme -- we're talking around a million times less oxygen than there is today," says Reinhard.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Hotel worker raped and sexually assaulted five women over 18 month period, court hears
Tom Wade-Allison, 25, from Martock, Somerset, made drinks for some of the victims which left them 'blank' and exhausted, a jury was told at Exeter Crown Court today.
Categories: UK News
SpaceX engineers staged a mutiny after being left without food while working on island in 2005
The strike, which was staged in 2005, took place as SpaceX's rocket engineers were racing to construct a launch site on Omelek, in the Marshall Islands, for the company's Falcon 1 rocket.
Categories: UK News
Nurses fury as ministers offer them 'pitiful' pay rise of just ONE PER CENT as Covid reward
It came a day after health and social care were both notably absent from any increased funding in Rishi Sunak's coronavirus Budget.
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Hot DRAM: Shortage of memory chips will continue this year, says Micron
Good news for memory makers, not such great news for wider tech world
US memory maker Micron Technology expects the chronic shortage of DRAM in the market to continue throughout this year, according to senior veep and CFO David Zinsner.…
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Covid: New variant under investigation after 16 cases found in UK
Another new Covid variant has been identified, with 16 cases being found in Britain.
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