A message, claiming to be from Royal Mail, tells the recipient they owe a fee for a parcel delivery. It says: “Royal Mail: your package has a £2.99 shipping fee.” The text or email then includes a link to a fake Royal Mail website. The message adds: “Actions will be …
Read More »You can replace everything but the kitchen sink on this modular laptop
Source: Framework What you need to know Framework announced a new modular laptop today. The Framework Laptop is upgradeable and lets you swap out its ports, memory, batteries, screen, and more. The Framework Laptop should be available for preorder this spring. Unlike their desktop siblings, laptops aren’t very upgradeable. On …
Read More »Oxford University teams up with Google on Covid database
OXFORD University and Google have unveiled a brand new platform to track Covid-19 data. Global.health website, which was launched on Wednesday, builds on an idea first initiated by university in January last year. The first of its kind, open-access database pulls together anonymised data on as many individual cases as …
Read More »Uber Eats announces launch in two Oxfordshire locations
UBER Eats is rolling out to another two locations in Oxfordshire. The food delivery company has now expanded its services to Wolvercote, next to Oxford, and Didcot. Hungry residents can now order takeaways over the app from a range of local favourite eateries that sign up to its service. ALSO …
Read More »This Ship Is Carrying an Entire Electric Rally Racing Series, and It’ll Be Sailing the Globe for a Year
Extreme E is a fun series that’s also deadly serious. On the one hand, you’ve got Chip Ganassi dressing the series car as a reimagined alien GMC Hummer, and on the other, it’s a Lewis Hamilton-endorsed climate change documentary mission that also happens to involve race cars. Some teams have …
Read More »More than 1,000 Covid deaths in Oxfordshire
MORE than 1,000 people have died in the county after testing positive for Covid-19, figures from Oxfordshire County Council revealed. Data from the county authority confirmed there have been 1,002 deaths recorded in Oxfordshire since the start of the pandemic. The rate of infection in Oxfordshire now stands at 4,618 …
Read More »Royal Mail responds to news of Covid cases at Nottingham postal delivery site
Royal Mail has confirmed coronavirus cases at a Nottingham delivery site this year. Four colleagues have tested positive for Covid this year at the Glaisdale Delivery Office, the company confirmed. Royal Mail says it has carried out an intensive clean of the building in Glaisdale Parkway and the office is …
Read More »Oxford MP stands up for ‘left behind’ constituents in Parliament
MAJOR concerns over flooding in the county were raised in Parliament by an Oxford MP. Layla Moran, Lib Dem MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, told the Government on Wednesday that ‘we do not have time to waste’ as she urged the floods minister to fund an alleviation scheme for …
Read More »Royal Mail vans drive through Maidstone in tribute to ‘Postie Paul’ from Sutton Valence who died from Covid-19
A convoy of Royal Mail vans drove through Maidstone as a final farewell to a postman who devoted his life to the service for more than 40 years. Paul Dunmill, 57, from Sutton Valence, passed away on January 30 after a short battle with coronavirus. Some 40 post vans joined …
Read More »Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s
Mike Winkelmann never used to call himself an artist. But that was before he made $3.5 million in a single weekend from selling his artworks. In December, he auctioned off multiple editions of three digital artworks, each priced at $969, and 21 unique works, most of which sold for about …
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