What if our letters and packages arrived at our doors at a minimum carbon footprint? Royal Mail has announced it will deploy technology to 11,000 small vans that will enable to cut emissions and save fuel. The telemetry systems are designed to encourage more fuel-efficient and safer driving styles by monitoring …
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IBM has outlined how a blockchain-based digital health “passport” could allow society to reopen without the need to expose our private medical data. After a year of lockdowns, millions of cases worldwide, and both social and economic devastation, COVID-19 continues to make its presence known. Thanks to the efforts of …
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The Justice Department unsealed charges Wednesday for three North Korean computer programmers accused of conspiring to extort over $1.3 billion from banks and other businesses across the globe, as first reported by The Washington Post. In 2018, the Justice Department brought charges against one North Korean operative, Park Jin Hyok, …
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LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, chose Valentine’s Day to announce they were expecting their second child, confirming the happy news with a dreamy black-and-white photo of themselves posed under a tree — a barefoot Harry stroking Meghan’s hair, her baby bump only slightly smaller than her smile. …
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Ford will only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030, it said Wednesday. The automaker said it will spend $1 billion to convert its factory in Cologne, Germany, into its first EV production line on the continent. Ford says it will transition to EV-production gradually over the next decade. By …
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So I did something the other day that I try hard to never do: I entered my son’s bedroom. The doctor has ordered me to avoid stress, so in my world that means staying as far away as possible from the interior of my adult children’s rooms. They could have …
Read More »The multimillionaire hedge fund manager Crispin Odey has acknowledged propositioning a banker after inviting her to his Chelsea home following a work meeting, but has denied indecently assaulting her. Odey was accused of lunging at the woman after showering and changing into a bathrobe. During a hearing at Hendon magistrates …
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Gemany-based trailer manufacturer Goldhofer has appointed rental company Specialist Trailer Hire (STH) as its new distribution partner in the UK. Based in England and first established in the 1960s, STH provides rental, sales and maintenance services across the country. The family-run business operates from depots in Leeds and Rotherham, and …
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The world has never been more indebted after a year of battling Covid-19. And there’s even more borrowing ahead. Governments, companies and households raised $24 trillion last year to offset the pandemic’s economic toll, bringing the global debt total to an all-time high of $281 trillion by the end of …
Read More »Disney is hoping to pull in more customers to its Disney+ streaming service with the launch of a channel aimed at adults. The Star channel will debut on Disney’s streaming platform on 23 February with original shows such as Big Sky, from Big Little Lies and Ally McBeal creator David …
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