Coronavirus ‘is killing off big long-haul planes with airlines switching to smaller aircraft’ 

The coronavirus pandemic could kill off large long-haul planes as the airline industry continues to be crippled by the worldwide lockdown, an expert warned today. Airlines are expected to switch to flying fewer, smaller aircraft – with the infection said to have accelerated the demise of the world’s largest passenger aircraft. These are the relatively … Read more

Apple’s next iPhones will be redesigned to have flat sides, smaller bezel, and new 3D-sensing camera

Apple’s next iPhone will be redesigned to have flat sides, smaller bezel, and new 3D-sensing camera Apple is reportedly redesigning its upcoming flagship iPhones Bloomberg reports the outer chassis will be square instead of rounded Premium models will reduce the size of the camera notch A 3D-sensing LiDAR system will also improve the phones’ AR capabilities   By … Read more

Jada Pinkett Smith posts a makeup-free selfie to Instagram, revealing one eye is ‘wayyyyy smaller’

Jada Pinkett Smith reveals one of her eyes is ‘wayyyyy smaller’ than the other as she posts makeup free selfie By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 03:45 BST, 11 April 2020 | Updated: 04:52 BST, 11 April 2020 She has been holed up at home with husband Will Smith and their teen children in wake … Read more

Britain’s cornerstone: ROBERT HARDMAN says our defiant smaller stores still have all we need

Historians still quibble over whether Napoleon Bonaparte actually said it or not. Yet it has stuck. And it was certainly not meant as a compliment.  ‘England,’ scoffed the former French Emperor in his twilight years, ‘is a nation of shopkeepers.’  To which, right now, one can only respond: ‘Amen to that.’  For as we confront … Read more

Planned £4bn renovation of Parliament could be postponed in favour of smaller one-year project

Planned £4bn renovation of Parliament could be postponed in favour of a smaller project lasting just a year The Palace of Westminster was due to undergo a multi-billion-pound face-lift £4 billion restoration would have seen MPs and lords move to temporary home But that project could be reduced to less than a £200 million budget … Read more

Giant ‘super-puff’ planets may be smaller denser ringed worlds

The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars. Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th 2009, the Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system.  It … Read more

JUUL patents AI-powered device to curb addiction by releasing smaller amounts of nicotine

JUUL has been called ‘highly addictive’, but the firm may be developing a new product that helps users kick the habit once and for all. The San Francisco company filed a patent that describes an artificial intelligence powered product that delivers fewer nicotine amounts to the user by learning their smoking habits over time. The … Read more