Month: June 2021

Yorkshire-based plant-burger and vegan sausage maker launches £5m crowdfunding drive Plant-based burger and sausage maker Meatless Farm is giving its customers the chance to put their money where their mouth is and invest in the fast-growing company, which hopes to follow in the footsteps of runaway “alt-food” successes such as Oatly. The £5m crowdfunding programme …

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Musk announced in May that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency for car purchases, citing environmental concerns Elon Musk has said that Tesla will resume allowing bitcoin transactions when miners use more renewable energy. “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing bitcoin …

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GCHQ cybersecurity boss sounds alarm over extortion by hackers who are mostly based in former Soviet states Ransomware represents the biggest threat to online security for most people and businesses in the UK, the head of GCHQ’s cybersecurity arm is to warn. Lindy Cameron, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, will say in …

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From Halo Infinite to the long anticipated role-playing adventure Starfield, Microsoft is promising a big show for this year’s digital only E3 conference 6.35pm BST It’s Greek underworld action-game Hades now, one of last year’s standouts, winner of 5 BAFTAs, etc etc. That’ll be out on Xbox on August 13, if you haven’t already sampled …

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The social media giant’s offer of free internet access ensures that mobile users stay where it can keep an eye on them The security guru Bruce Schneier once famously observed that “surveillance is the business model of the internet”. Like all striking generalisations it was slightly too general: it was strictly true only if by …

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The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of consciousnesss, and why the next generation will be much smarter than us David Eagleman, 50, is an American neuroscientist, bestselling author and presenter of the BBC series The Brain, as well as co-founder and chief executive officer of Neosensory, which develops …

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Companies are springing up all over the UK promising to deliver whatever you want in as little as 10 minutes. But what could we lose by never popping out for milk again? One Friday afternoon in May, Glenn Cobane, 40, who lives with his wife and two cats in Salford, did some grocery shopping: a …

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CMA’s move thought to be first time regulator involved at an early stage in new technology creation The UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it will take an active role in developing Google’s plans to prevent websites tracking Chrome users. Under the proposals, the CMA would accept legally binding commitments from Google not to …

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Experts say three billionaires have upended the traditional model for human spaceflight and are shaping a thriving new era It was a week in which two space-faring billionaires tussled again in their futuristic game of cosmic oneupmanship. And this time, for once, Elon Musk was not at the party. The declaration that Jeff Bezos, the …

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Tom Davies has 925,000 subscribers who watch his attempts to cross countries without making a turn When Tom Davies and his stepbrother, Greg, were growing up on the edge of Aldridge, a town in the West Midlands, they would pick a point in the distance, a TV mast for instance, and make their way straight …

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