Friendship is everything: Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled by using social network analysis to map syndicate members’ connections, study claims Criminal networks like the Mafia are hard for law enforcement to disrupt Researchers from the UK and Italy studied data on a real-life Mafia syndicate They report a way to pick the members whose arrest would be … Read more
Tamar Braxton, who attempted suicide on July 16, broke her silence on Instagram this week with a post denouncing the ‘systemic bondage’ of TV. And on Friday it was revealed that We TV, the network that airs her reality show Braxton Family Values, is cutting ties with Tamar, according to TMZ. The network claims it’s … Read more
An electric road system which would see a network of overhead charging cables along the UK’s major road network ‘would almost completely decarbonise UK road freight’, a report has found. The plan, which would cost an estimated £19.3billion, would see National Grid powered catenary cables charge 65 per cent of the nation’s lorries using an extendable rig … Read more
Twitter explores subscription model: CEO Jack Dorsey says he is considering asking users to pay for ‘aspects’ of the social network Mr Dorsey revealed the plans during a conference call with financial analysts It is unclear how much a subscription could cost or what exactly it would include Twitter’s second quarter earnings are down by 23% … Read more
AT&T tells customers with old phones they need to buy new devices or lose access to its network in urgently worded email that fails to mention they have until 2022 An email was sent to customers with the header, ‘UPDATE NEEDED’ It said customers they need to replace old phones to use AT&T’s network The … Read more
Tom Gleeson took a brutal swipe parting shot at Channel 10 on Wednesday while announcing his departure from ABC’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. The comedian told host Charlie that the the commercial network ‘would be nothing without him’, after he successfully (and ironically) campaigned for Channel 10 star Grant Denyer to win the Gold Logie … Read more
Government BANS Huawei in major U turn : Boris Johnson vows to strip out Chinese tech giant’s equipment from UK’s 5G network by 2027 in move which will delay roll out by two years – but its presence in 3G and 4G will not change Government today announced Huawei will be banned from the UK’s … Read more
Ministers are braced for backlash from Beijing when they confirm today that Huawei is banned from involvement in UK’s 5G network Telecoms firms to be banned on installing new equipment supplied by Huawei Huawei executives held talks with officials in the hope of watering down plans BT boss says it could take ten years to … Read more
Nature experts unveil plan for network of wildflower ‘highways’ across UK to help bees, butterflies and insects move around the country A plan for ‘B-Lines’, corridors of flowers and plants, has been laid out by Buglife Pollinating insects are declining as meadows and other habitats have gone People also being encouraged to help pollinators by … Read more
The UK’s complex and dense road network is helping common birds to thrive, but is having a disastrous impact on some of Britain’s most loved species. Rarer, small-bodied and migrant bird species, such as meadow pipits and lapwings, are impacted the hardest by exposure to Britain’s 246,000 miles of road. Birds are not only killed … Read more