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The former CEO of Facebook has accused the social media giant of trying to ‘bully and intimidate’ Australia by banning its news sources. Facebook blocked Aussies from reading and sharing local news in response to a world-first law to make tech companies pay media outlets for the content they use. From Thursday, when Australians went … Read more
A number of space companies are developing rockets to be the first to send tourists into orbit, but the latest new comer to race plans to do so with a massive balloon. Spanish startup Zero 2 Infinity plans to float civilians some 130,000 feet above the surface using a helium balloon measuring 420 feet in … Read more
Insurance and investment giant Aviva has launched its own cash savings platform, This is Money can reveal, but savers will earn more by going to the banks directly. Britain’s largest insurance firm’s answer to the likes of Hargreaves Lansdown Active Savings and Flagstone has opened with 15 fixed-rate bonds offered by Aldermore, Oaknorth and Paragon … Read more
Renewable energy giant SSE launches plan to become Britain’s first global windfarm business as it invests up to £15bn over next decade By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 13 February 2021 Renewable energy giant SSE has launched a plan to become Britain’s first global … Read more
Burberry hands back millions in tax relief: Fashion giant is first non-essential retailer to repay business rates – piling pressure on other big firms The move will make London-based Burberry the first ‘non-essential’ retailer to hand over tax on business premises forced to close under lockdown rules Until now, only a few firms that have … Read more
Woman is killed after getting dragged into a giant meat grinder at a factory in Russia The woman was pulled into the mincer after her hand was trapped in machinery She had been moving chicken carcasses from one conveyor to another Her fellow factory employees heard her screams but were unable to rescue her By … Read more
Cambridge University ‘received “generous gift” from Chinese software giant with links to country’s spy agency’ to fund engineering fellowship Cambridge University has followed Oxford in being linked with China’s Tencent Software firm with links to China’s communist regime gave ‘gift’ to the university The ‘generous gift’ helped Cambridge to fund research into quantum computers By … Read more
A tiny shrimp snaps its claw in less than 0.01 seconds, around 10,000 times quicker than the blink of a human eye. The movement is so rapid it creates an audible pop above the water and produces bubbles. Males of the species Dulichiella cf. appendiculata are only tiny, roughly the size of a sunflower seed, … Read more
The past year has been one of the toughest in living memory for businesses and many have suffered. But Britain’s entrepreneurial spirit has also come into its own, as companies have adapted to coronavirus-induced restrictions and made the best of it. Many are now starting to surprise investors, with better than expected figures for the … Read more
Bad moo-ve: Farmer’s hack to get a giant bag of cattle feed off a truck brings garage ceiling crashing down Brothers James and Johnny Bouge try to move animal feed in Longford, Ireland They throw a rope over wooden roof beams inside the garage to lift it off truck Ceiling boards come down along with … Read more