Let’s use local shops and save our vital national champions, says boss of software giant Sage By Steve Hare For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:28 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 10:20 BST, 10 May 2020 Steve Hare is the chief executive of Sage The Covid-19 pandemic is, first and foremost, a human crisis. … Read more
SpaceX have created a Crew Dragon simulator that lets you play at being an astronaut and practise manually docking with the International Space Station. The free-to-play browser based tool presents users with a digital copy of the real-life controls astronauts would use if they needed to manually dock with the ISS. The real Crew Dragon … Read more
Spotify introduces Group Session feature that lets multiple users create and control playlists in real-time The feature lets users pause, play, skip and add songs on a playlist It is being positioned as a way to entertain people who are quarantined Group Sessions can have up to 100 people at a time The feature is … Read more
A flaw affecting Thunderbolt connections on millions of PCs lets hackers access a computer’s hard drive in ‘five minutes,’ researchers say The flaw affects Thunderbolt connections on PCs and Macs made before 2019 A flaw is able to bypass password protection and hard drive encryption Researchers say it can be executed in just five minutes … Read more
Prince William has granted permission for air ambulances to land and refuel at Kensington Palace during the pandemic. The Duke of Cambridge, 37, who was made patron of the London Air Ambulance Charity in March, has offered up a patch of grassland normally used for Royal Family helicopters. It is hoped the move will help save … Read more
Shrinking snow caps in the Himalayas are causing the spread of toxic green algae so big it can be seen from space, a new study has found. US research based on NASA images found blooms of the marine species Noctiluca scintillans, known as ‘sea sparkle’, lining coastlines around the Arabian Sea. Noctiluca scintillans, a millimetre-size … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Solutions for our lives do not lie with an elite in Davos but within ourselves, and on our doorsteps By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 26 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 26 April 2020 By pulling out of Davos, investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen has lit the blue … Read more
When challenged on the decisions that they have taken in the past few months, ministers invariably answer: ‘All our decisions are based on the science’. That makes it sound as though the decisions are based on black and white facts, but they are not. For our scientists are working in a fast-changing environment, where at … Read more
When challenged on the decisions that they have taken in the past few months, ministers invariably answer: ‘All our decisions are based on the science’. That makes it sound as though the decisions are based on black and white facts, but they are not. For our scientists are working in a fast-changing environment, where at … Read more
‘Pope Simulator’ video game lets you live out your papal dreams by putting the player in the Pontiff’s robes with the goal of bringing about world peace The game has no launch date and developers say work has only just started Pope Simulator will be sold on Steam and will only be available for Windows … Read more