Meta and Twitter’s NFT Landgrab Could Backfire
A new plan to lure social media users to the metaverse could legitimize NFTs, but it could also ruin themContinue Reading
2022-01-21
COVID misinformation is a health risk – tech companies need to remove harmful content not tweak their algorithms
file404/Shutterstock Many worldwide have now caught COVID. But during the pandemic many more are likely to have encountered something else that’s been spreading virally: misinformation. False information has plagued the COVID response, erroneously convincing people that the virus isn’t harmful, of the merits of various ineffective treatments, or of falseContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Daily UK Covid cases fall 10% in 24 hours as 95,787 Brits test positive
DAILY coronavirus infections have fallen by 10 per cent in just 24 hours with a further 95,787 cases confirmed. It comes as the crucial coronavirus R rate has today dropped to 0.8-1.1 across England, in a sign that the country has passed the peak of Omicron infections. w8media Brits headedContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Five life-affirming words we should bring back into use
The Oxford English Dictionary tries to include all words in English (particularly British and American English) from 1200 onwards. dollar gill | unsplash, FAL Lexicographer and TV personality Susie Dent recently embarked on a curious, self-appointed mission. She is determined to bring the word “respair”, last used around 1525, backContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Novak Djokovic court hearing ends, exemption ‘was VALID’, Kyrgios blasts Nadal
RAFAEL NADAL is back in action today as he looks to capitalise on Novak Djokovic’s absence to win a first Australian Open since 2009. Djokovic was deported from the country and has also had his participation at Roland Garros thrown into doubt. Spaniard Nadal takes on Olympic silver medallist KarenContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Heavy drinkers increased their alcohol consumption the most during lockdown – new research
Deman/Shutterstock When the UK was placed into its first COVID lockdown in March 2020, many of us may have been tempted to reach for a drink. The country was about to enter an extraordinary period, with no idea of what would happen next, how bad things might get or whenContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Follow the ‘Aroma’ before getting ready for a big ‘Bang!’
Sweet Aroma has excellent prospects of making it third time lucky in the eleven-runner ‘aged’ Fillies’ Novice Stakes over six furlongs of Newcastle tapeta today having performed adequately on a similar surface at Wolverhampton eleven days when this Richard Fahey-trained Kodiac three-year-old was beaten only two and a half lengthsContinue Reading
2022-01-21
The US Refuses to Fall in Love With Electric Cars
As China and Europe lead the race to make electric vehicles mainstream, America lags behind. This is a problem.Continue Reading
2022-01-21
Sending in the Royal Navy is not the answer to small boat migration in the Channel
The Home Office has announced a plan to bring in the Royal Navy to take charge of policing the English Channel after the number of migrants attempting the crossing in small boats tripled in 2021. Full details of the plan have not been revealed, but appear to involve the navyContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Yard Act – The Overload review: Wry, words-first wit
“I’m irrelevant!” James Smith repeats at the climax of The Incident, midway through his band Yard Act’s debut album. In fact the Leeds frontman finds himself in the thick of a new wave of words-first post-punk bands that extends from the impassioned sloganeering of IDLES and brooding poetry of FontainesContinue Reading
2022-01-21