Surveillance firm pitched US police on a remote phone hacking tool that would let them access a person’s text messages, emails, microphone, camera, and more Leaked emails show the San Diego police considered using a phone hacking tool The tool was developed by the US subsidiary of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO The hacking tool … Read more
Drones will be used to deliver coronavirus tests and medical supplies to remote regions under plans that allow for safe ‘air corridors’ to be set up for them to fly in Operators are currently banned from flying drones outside their sight line The Civil Aviation Authority will relax measures to ensure contactless deliveries Drones will … Read more
Residents on a remote island in Belize will use solar-powered hydropanels to harvest drinking water from the air after coronavirus shutdowns delayed shipments of bottled water from the mainland Locals on Caye Caulker Island are transforming vapor into drinking water The small island off the coast of Belize relies on bottled water from the mainland … Read more
Revealed: The world’s loneliest tree, which sits on a remote New Zealand island 137 miles away from its nearest companion It’s a 100-year-old pine on Campbell Island, 500 miles from New Zealand Why it has not managed to reproduce is something of a mystery Instead of growing in a conventional cone shape, it resembles a … Read more
Victoria Justice to host Kids’ Choice Awards from home as event will broadcast remotely for first time ever amid coronavirus pandemic By Glenn Garner For Dailymail.com Published: 23:18 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 23:30 BST, 24 April 2020 With the growing coronavirus pandemic, many of Hollywood’s big events have been cancelled or postponed. But … Read more
Suddenly my lips had gone numb and a similar sensation was progressing down my throat. I was sitting in a hut in a remote area of Fiji and sharing a murky-brown liquid with a group of village elders. The narcotic drink, called kava, is made from the roots of the kava plant – piper methysticum … Read more
‘Look left, turn right… jump!’ Faroe Islands offers ‘remote tourism’ – where web users can control a REAL-LIFE tour guide Wearing helmet cameras, local guides provide commentary to web audiences They are controlled by web users, who can tell them which direction to walk in Tourism has been growing in the Faroe Islands with 120,000 … Read more
Is THIS the real reason coronavirus testing is such a shambles? Plans to roll out remote Covid-19 screening are held up by red tape as officials insist on ‘weeks’ of training for testers Scheme to post swabs to private homes and care facilities was due for this week However, bureaucrats insist anyone who conducts tests … Read more
Alec Baldwin made a surprise appearance as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live’s at home edition to give an update on coronavirus, referring to the pandemic as ‘Covfefe-19’. ‘America is now number one in the world for coronavirus,’ Baldwin said in character to Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che. The faux president noted … Read more
Remote Amazon tribe records its first coronavirus case: Boy, 15, becomes infected amid fears COVID-19 could ‘wipe out’ native communities The boy belongs to the Yanomami community on the Brazil-Venezuela border He is in intensive care in Roraima state after suffering with sore throat and fever Seven tribesmen have now contracted the deadly virus in … Read more