Image copyright Getty Images The last 12 months have seen a string of High Street names go out of business. But what made 2018 such a bad year for retailers? “I absolutely loved my job at Poundworld. It was like a family – we all got on, and we all stepped in if somebody couldn’t …
Siberia may be the last place you’d expect to find cutting-edge cryptocurrency mining, but conditions in the remote Russian region are said to be ideal. The BBC’s Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford travelled to Irkutsk to find out more and discovered some surprising characters involved in mining for Bitcoins: Russian babushkas. Source by [author_name]
Image copyright AFP The UK will spend more than £100m chartering extra ferries to ease “severe congestion” at Dover, in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Over the last few months, additional ferry contracts were awarded to French, Dutch and British companies. The contingency plans allow for almost 4,000 more lorries a week to come …
Image copyright Getty Images The final weeks of 2018 have been dramatic, to say the least. Global stock markets are roiling, disturbed in part by the anti-free market trade sentiment that continues to roll-out of Washington. Looking ahead to the new year, however, pro-free trade movements in Europe and in Asia are progressing. Two major …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption WhatsApp does not allow users to search for groups in its own app, which led to the creation of other services that did Evidence that adverts for major brands were placed in “child abuse discovery apps” via Google and Facebook’s ad networks has led to fresh calls for the …
Image copyright Marisha Chaplin Image caption Baby Isla was born thanks to mothers the couple have never met raising £2,000 for IVF A couple who underwent IVF treatment paid for by friends from a Facebook group have had a baby girl. Marisha Chaplin, 26, and Jon Hibbs, 29, who met while undergoing cancer treatment, had …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison Tesla has appointed Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Walgreens Boots Alliance executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board. The move further strengthens the board as pledged by founder Elon Musk to the Securities and Exchanges Commission. The SEC fined Mr Musk over misleading tweets …
Image copyright Netflix Image caption Dunkirk star Fionn Whitehead plays lead character Stefan An interactive, choose your own adventure-style episode of Black Mirror has dropped on Netflix. Set in 1984, Bandersnatch tells of a computer programmer trying to adapt a fantasy novel into a video game. As the episode progresses, viewers are invited to make …
Image copyright Insinia Image caption BBC documentary-maker Louis Theroux was among those targeted Several high-profile Twitter accounts have been briefly hijacked to expose alleged flaws in the service. The accounts of Eamonn Holmes, Louis Theroux and several others briefly showed messages saying they had been taken over by Insinia Security. In a blog, the firm …
Image copyright Getty Images China has accused the UK of “deep-rooted pride and prejudice” over security fears raised about Huawei. The Chinese company’s chairman has also complained of his firm’s “incredibly unfair treatment” abroad. In recent weeks, the UK’s Defence Secretary and chief of MI6 have been among those to warn that use of Huawei’s …