Coronavirus: Apple and Google launch contact-tracing software

Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software.  The API — a software blueprint — will be used by a nation’s health authority to build their own apps and has so far been given to 22 countries who requested access to the technology.    Apple and Google did not reveal … Read more

Apple and Google launch their coronavirus contact-tracing software

Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software.  The API — a software blueprint — will be used by a nation’s health authority to build their own apps and has so far been given to 22 countries who requested access to the technology.    Apple and Google did not reveal … Read more

Skeleton of a 300,000-year-old elephant with 8ft tusks is unearthed in Germany

An almost complete 300,000-year-old elephant skeleton with eight-foot tusks has been recovered from a former mine in Germany. The Eurasian straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, died by the shores of an ancient lake before its corpse was scavenged by carnivores. Human ancestors are thought to have eaten from the carcass, as 30 small flint flakes and … Read more

Britain has the second highest number of deaths in Europe per capita from Covid-19 over last week

Britain has the second highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe per capita over the last seven days after lockdown-free Sweden, data has revealed. Between May 12 and May 19, in a rolling seven day average, Britain saw 5.75 deaths per million inhabitants. In Sweden the figure was 6.25 deaths per million.  The United Kingdom’s … Read more

Adopting a dominant pose can improve self-confidence in children and help them feel better at school

Success is sitting straight: Adopting a dominant pose can improve self-confidence in children and help them feel better at school Researchers from Germany had 108 fourth graders assume different poses One group struck power poses, while the other adopted more shrinking ones In psychological tests, the kids who had power posed had more self-esteem The findings … Read more

Iain Duncan Smith urges Boris Johnson to relax social distancing rule to ‘get economy moving’

Should UK abandon two metre social distancing? Iain Duncan Smith urges Boris Johnson to relax rule to ‘get economy moving’ as Britain is ‘only country in Europe’ using measure Iain Duncan Smith said UK is ‘only country in Europe’ using two-metre measure  The UK is using the two-metre measure while Germany is using 1.5 metres … Read more

Hackers disrupt COVID-19 research by remotely hijacking supercomputers for cryptocurrency mining

Hackers disrupt COVID-19 research by remotely hijacking supercomputers across Europe to steal computing power for cryptocurrency mining Hackers infiltrated supercomputers across Europe to mine cryptocurrency The breaches were discovered over the course of the last week Many of those computers were being used to research COVID-19 vaccines  By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 20:09 BST, 18 … Read more

BT Sport app BUCKLES under the demand of sport-deprived armchair supporters tuning into Bundesliga

Football fans desperate for their first fix of live games in more than two months have been left frustrated after the app showing the matches buckled under soaring demand. The return of the German Bundesliga today has seen many supporters take out subscriptions with BT Sport, which owns the rights to broadcast the fixtures in … Read more

BT Sport app BUCKLES under the demand of sport-deprived armchair supporters tuning into Bundesliga

Football fans desperate for their first fix of live games in more than two months have been left frustrated after the app showing the matches buckled under soaring demand. The return of the German Bundesliga today has seen many supporters take out subscriptions with BT Sport, which owns the rights to broadcast the fixtures in … Read more

Fury in Germany with thousands expected to protest across country over lockdown measures

Thousands of people across Germany are protesting coronavirus lockdown measures over the weekend.  From anger over lockdown measures to a purported vaccine plan by Bill Gates, the growing wave of demonstrations in Germany by conspiracy theorists, extremists and anti-vaxxers against coronavirus measures has alarmed even Chancellor Angela Merkel. Initially starting as a handful of protesters decrying … Read more