Image copyright MOD Image caption The squadron of drones would have an expected cost of £7m “Swarm squadrons” of drones are to be deployed by British armed forces to overwhelm enemy air defences, the defence secretary has said. Gavin Williamson said the specially-adapted drones could be in operation by the end of 2019. He also …
Image copyright Getty Images A regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested. The Cairncross Review into the future of the UK news industry said such sites should help users identify fake news and “nudge people towards reading news of high quality”. …
Image copyright Getty Images Debenhams is understood to have secured a cash injection of around £40m to buy it extra time as it battles to secure a longer term deal with lenders. The department store chain is expected to announce the fresh funds imminently. The struggling chain – which issued three profit warnings last year …
A school in north-east London is selling “brick phones” to students to stop them from being distracted by the internet. Michaela Community School, in Wembley, sell the mobiles, which can send and receive texts and calls but cannot access social media, at a discounted rate. Students using the devices have reported better quality of sleep …
Image copyright Ethan Lindenberger Ethan Lindenberger from Ohio asked social media site Reddit if he could have vaccines without parental consent. His mother would not give her permission, he wrote in the post, which had thousands of reactions. He learned he had to wait until he was 18 – which he did, and has now …
Image copyright Getty Images Energy supplier E.On has become the first major company to announce price rises in response to a new cap set by the regulator for the start of April. On Thursday, Ofgem said it would allow suppliers to charge more to those on default tariffs owing to a rise in wholesale costs. …
Image copyright Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Image caption Steel produced at Port Talbot is used for construction projects and the car industry A £35m research network has been announced aimed at making the UK iron and steel industry carbon-neutral by 2040. Swansea, Sheffield and Warwick universities will work with steelmakers on the seven-year Sustain programme. It …
Image copyright Getty Images The UK food industry has threatened to stop co-operating with government policy consultations, saying it is busy trying to stave off the “catastrophic impact” of a no-deal Brexit. The warning came in a letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove from more than 30 business leaders. They said it looked “ever more …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption International Trade Secretary Liam Fox talks to Swiss Economy Minister Guy Parmelin The UK and Switzerland have signed a deal to continue trading after Brexit as they did before it. The “continuity agreement” – based on the EU’s existing free trade deal with Switzerland – was agreed in December but …
So you think the dating scene is like a meat market? Well, wait till you hear about the latest matchmaking app. Following the example of Tinder, UK farming start-up Hectare has launched its own equivalent for livestock and called it Tudder. The app features data profiles of animals from 42,000 UK farms in an effort …