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There’s a huge debt I owe to a municipal refuse van. It was while working as a binman for a London borough as a teenager in the 1980s that I was forced to re-evaluate my life. I’ll never forget trudging home, often cold and soaking wet having worked in all kinds of weather, exhausted from … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Add Zoo Digital to your portfolio, it’s the firm that can dub Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse in any language By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 23 January 2021 For decades, watching scheduled programmes on TV was a national pastime. Now, … Read more
The Biden administration has put a secret ‘help wanted’ sign for crack computer coders on the revamped White House website. Shortly after Wednesday’s inauguration, a hidden section of HTML code was added to Whitehouse.gov, inviting applicants to apply to work for the United States Digital Service (USDS), an elite non-partisan technology unit in the Executive … Read more
A coalition of health organizations and technology companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, are working on a project that verifies who has received the coronavirus vaccination and prevent others from making false claims they have. Called Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), the venture aims to help people get encrypted digital copies of their immunization records stored in … Read more
January is a difficult time for relationships as unfortunately this is the most common month in which unhappy couples decide to divorce. Before the pandemic, tricky divorces were typically fought out in court and meetings with legal representatives conducted face-to-face. But lockdown restrictions have resulted in thousands of divorces being conducted through virtual meetings with … Read more
War Gaming: British Army unveils new pixelated Minecraft-style ‘digital camouflage’ that makes tanks 80% harder to spot on battlefield Soldiers find it harder to see tanks when they are coated with the MCDC 5 design Pattern is made up of squares that look like scrambled pixels on a digital screen It has slashed the detection … Read more
The iconic Haynes Workshop Manuals will no longer be physically printed and published for new cars, its publisher has confirmed following the death of its founder. More than 200 million manuals on 300 models of cars and 130 motorbike models were sold to DIY enthusiasts who wanted to maintain and repair vehicles themselves for more … Read more
Facebook’s much talked about cryptocurrency launch of libra has been ditched and instead the social media giant is part of a new digital currency named diem. It will be supported by the Diem Association, which consists of 27 members, of which Facebook is one. It is set to launch in January 2021 and there have … Read more
Digital currency Dogecoin gains 20% in value after Elon Musk tweets about it while dismissing Bitcoin as ‘BS’ The Tesla CEO mentioned Dogecoin in a series of tweets on Sunday The cryptocurrency, which began as a parody, now has a market value of nearly $570million While Musk’s posts and jibes at Bitcoin may have been … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Taking on the digital giants will be like David versus Goliath without an effective slingshot By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 27 November 2020 There is absolutely no question that amid the commercial carnage unleashed by coronavirus, the biggest winners have been … Read more