One third of UK businesses plan to install electric vehicle charging points at employees homes

One third of UK businesses would consider installing electric vehicle charging points at employees’ homes One third of firms would think about putting charging points in employees’ homes to support the use of electric vehicles, according to new research  One in five claim the increase of home working has influenced their plans Upfront costs and … Read more

Queen Drummer Roger Taylor ‘plans to install 20ft Freddie Mercury statue in his GARDEN’

Queen drummer Roger Taylor is reportedly planning to have a 20ft statue of Freddie Mercury installed in his garden. According to The Sun, the rocker, 71, is having a huge garden makeover, with a bronzed sculpture of the musical icon taking centre stage. The sizable figure was used to promote the band’s musical We Will … Read more

Google Play Store to crowdsource “app install optimization”

Google will reportedly launch a new crowdsourced initiative that can help them make apps smaller and easier to install on smartphones. They will be releasing a new feature called “app install optimization” which will let them observe which parts of an app you use for the first time after you install it. If they get … Read more

Two astronauts will install a British-built broadband terminal on the ISS

Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station to install a new British-built terminal that will allow them to connect to the internet at broadband speeds.  NASA’s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will venture outside at 12:05 GMT to undertake a six hour mission to mount the suitcase-sized device to the European Space Agency (ESA) … Read more

Councils plan to install just 9,300 on-street electric car chargers by 2025

Local councils are planning to install just 9,317 public charge points for electric cars between now and 2025, which threatens to cause a huge ‘bottleneck in adoption’ to plug-in vehicles in the coming years. An average of 35 chargers per local authority are due to be provided in the next four years with 126 councils … Read more

AA to install 5,000 free road signs for temporary vaccination centres

The AA has announced this morning that it will provide around 5,000 free directional road signs to temporary vaccination centres in Britain to help guide local communities through the Covid-19 vaccination period. It said the signs, which are made from 100 per cent recycled plastic, will help people navigate to vaccination locations that are not local … Read more

Googlefier helps install Google Mobile Services on Huawei phones easily

Huawei creates the best smartphones as far as hardware is concerned but the recent US ban prevents the Chinese giant from using Google Mobile Services (GMS), which is unfortunate. For an average user, the only option out is the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core with the accompanying suite of Google app clones which are not … Read more

Man dons hi-viz gear to install fake £95 speed camera outside house

A father-of-two graphics designer launched a one-man war to stop speeders by setting up a fake speed camera outside his house. Alexander Booth, 48, was sick of the frequent accidents on the busy stretch of B2149 outside his home in Bedhampton, Havant. He decided to pull a ‘prank with a serious message’ by putting up a fake … Read more