At 3pm BST, every phone in Britain is due to receive a loud alarm as a test for future emergencies How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone If you want to know more than is strictly necessary about the technical journey behind today’s test, civil servant Frazer Rhodes, who led the emergency alerts …
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The three-stage life – learn, earn, retire – seems outdated, but what model should we replace it with? When my mother died and my own “mortality alarm” went off, I found myself thinking deeply about ageing and the best approach to engage with it. My mum was nearly 100 when she died and my dad …
Fake perfumes and restricted items are being touted on social media platform despite bans TikTok is profiting from the sale of illegal and potentially dangerous beauty products, including counterfeit cosmetics and prescription-only skin creams, despite claiming to take a “zero tolerance” approach to rogue sellers. Counterfeit versions of Dior perfumes, Vaseline lip balms and Maybelline …
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On Sunday 23 April at 3pm Britons will receive an alert on their mobile phone Guardian readers share their views and concerns about the planned first UK nationwide test of the government’s public warning system that will send alerts to UK mobile phones in the event of a disaster. The test will take place at …
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For many, sexting is the new normal – but how do you know if you’re any good at it? And what happens when it goes wrong? Six writers on the most memorable sexts they’ve sent or received For good or bad, given how intertwined we are with our digital devices, sexting has become relatively common …
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AI is already employed in various administrations in the US and its use is only set to grow – but what dangers does it bring? The recent blizzard of warnings about artificial intelligence and how it is transforming learning, upending legal, financial and organizational functions, and reshaping social and cultural interaction, have mostly left out …
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People are waking up to the benefits of using salary sacrifice schemes to buy greener vehicles If you have been thinking about switching to an electric car but are worried about the cost, talk to Bill Hopkinson. Until four months ago, the sales and marketing director was driving more than 30,000 miles a year in …
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Elon Musk’s attempt to make the social media site profitable seemed to flop as the verification check lost all meaning Friday marked the first full day Twitter’s new policies for verified accounts were applied – and the results were not pretty. Twenty-four hours after blue checkmarks began to disappear from formerly verified Twitter accounts, chaos …
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Employees were informed via email that a ‘significant’ number would lose their jobs to cut costs and bring fares in line with Uber Ride-hailing service Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David Risher began steering the company with an eye toward driving down costs to help bring …
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When the government’s new phone alert system is tested this weekend it will mark the culmination of much learning from the technological successes and mistakes of other nations There have been accusations of nanny statism, warnings from domestic abuse charities over inadvertently alerting abusers of hidden phones, and even pet shops cordoning off smaller animals …
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