Customers will soon enter a very different world of shopping featuring one-way systems and quarantined footwear when non-essential stores across Britain are allowed to reopen next month. Thousands of shops, department stores and shopping centres can open from June 15, while outdoor markets and car showrooms will be allowed to open from next Monday as … Read more
Arctic birds weaken their own immune systems to save energy for hunting and keeping warm during the coldest months, study shows Study authors examined the immune system of the Svalbard rock ptarmigan They found it can deliberately weaken its immune system to conserve energy It does this during the five coldest months of the year from October … Read more
Defence giant BAE Systems buys Collins Aerospace GPS unit from America’s United Technologies for £1.7bn BAE shares rose 2.9 per cent, up 17.8p to 642.4p in trading on Monday Move comes just six months after United Technologies and Raytheon merged The GPS business has designed military receivers for more than 40 years By Sara Scarlett … Read more
Lifetime Isa savers may still lose their own money to tap savings… as the taxman proves slow to update its system after rule change victory The Treasury is cutting the Lifetime Isa penalty from 25% to 20% until April 2021 Savers who need to access the money now won’t be charged their own money They … Read more
NASA’s Artemis mission that is set to land the first woman and next man on the moon has just turned into a space race between billionaires. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been chosen to develop human landing systems for the mission set to launch in 2024. Along with the two tech … Read more
Elderly coronavirus patients could be given anti-ageing drugs to restore their ‘young’ immune system and help them fight the coronavirus, scientists say. Over 80 per cent of COVID-19 hospitalisations are those over 65 years of age with a greater than 23-fold increased risk of death. As a person ages, their immune system becomes suppressed and … Read more
Tests of infotainment systems in the latest cars from 20 different manufacturers have revealed which of the devices are most and least distracting. Around one in seven accidents on the road are caused by motorists being distracted and a quarter of all deaths are due to drivers not being focused on the road, according to … Read more
AI speech recognition systems from five major tech companies are biased toward people of color, as they make twice as many errors transcribing speech from black people than they do from whites, study reveals Study found systems from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM are biased Fed technologies some 2,000 speech samples from blacks and … Read more
ALABAMA Alabama health officials on Tuesday ordered the closure of day cares, senior centers and on-site restaurant dining in six counties to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The order from the Alabama Department of Public Health applies to Jefferson County, which has the highest number of cases, and the surrounding counties of Tuscaloosa, Walker, Blount, St. … Read more
Many of North America’s big cities are paralyzed by gridlocked traffic – and these maps illustrate part of the reason why. They show the sprawling city transit systems of yesteryear compared to the often stunted versions of 2019. One is left wondering what life would be like in some of these metropolitan areas now if … Read more