179 people were arrested across Europe and the US, and 500 kg (1, 102 lb) of drugs including fentanyl, Oxycodone, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, MDMA and 64 guns were confiscated with over £5m ($6.5m) in cash seized in a co-ordinated raid on dark web marketplaces signalling the end of “golden age” of these underground marketplaces…
Microsoft who owns Xbox has acquired Bethesda, the games company behind super hits game titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim, and Wolfenstein, for £5.85bn ( $7.5bn) by paying the parent company ZeniMax Media. Xbox has said that the publisher’s franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs which would help…
New Precision medicine for treating advanced prostate cancer has been called a “breakthrough” by a leading cancer charity. Olaparib and Ipatasertib have the potential to become the first precision medicines for advanced prostate cancer, according to research presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology’s Virtual Congress 2020. These medicines allow doctors to select the…
According to HMRC figures, more than £215, 756, 121 to the government in Furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error covering 80, 433 employer’s worker’s salaries have returned cash they were given to help cover workers’ salaries. The money returned is a tiny part of the $35.4bn claimed under the scheme…
Britain’s biggest bank HSBC allowed fraudsters to transfer millions of dollars around the world despite learning their scam, leaked secret files reveal. HSBC moved the money through its US business to HSBC accounts in Hong Kong in 2013 and 2014. Its role in the $80m ( £62m) fraud is detailed in a leak…
Pint-sized Mario and his brother Luigi make their debut in September 1985, 35 years ago, in the first-ever “Super Mario Bros”. The mustached plumbers would have sold a staggering 373 million games across the world. Mario, wearing red overalls with an unfortunate habit of losing his love interest to a spiky over-sized turtle, has become…
While other leaders were marshalling resources to combat the greatest pandemic in modern times, President Donald Trump was watching Fox News over six hours a day which his staff refers to as “executive time”. In January 2020, when Fox News began to downplay COVID-19, the president was quick to agree. In March, as the deadly…
In 1960 America’s new leader John F Kennedy ‘s winning presidential election was widely reported that the presidency has been clinched with the help of a “secret weapon” : a super computer that crunched troves of data to profile voters , allowing Kennedy to better target his political messaging before the polls opened. Borrowing from…
The US Department of Commerce said it would bar people in the US from downloading the messaging and video sharing apps through any app store on any platform from Sunday. The Trump administration says the companies threaten national security and could pass US data to China, although China and both companies deny this. WeChat will…
Late March 2020, after lockdown, interest in taking a puppy home soared due to high demand prompting several breeders to raise their price and cash-in. Pets4Homes, based on 150, 000 adverts, showed average price being asked from March to September was £1, 883 compared to the same period last year the average price was £888.…