The Netflix docuseries Surviving Death has no shortage of paranormal activity. Mediums call on the dead. Seances try to manifest them. People claim to be reincarnated actors, pilots or murder victims while others describe feeling a heavenly embrace during near-death experiences. Over six hour-long episodes, the series pores over signs and evidence that there is something to experience beyond our...
Hydrogen is unsuitable for use in home heating, and likely to remain so, despite the hopes of the UK government and plumbing industry, a comprehensive review of scientific papers has concluded. Hydrogen lobbyists are out in force at the Labour party conference this week, sponsoring several events in Liverpool, and will be plentiful at the Conservative party conference that begins this weekend...
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has said it has removed a pair of “influence operations” run by China and Russia, which aimed to sway views on the US elections and the war in Ukraine. The Russian network, the largest the company has disrupted since the war began, targeted audiences across Europe and the UK, and incorporated a “sprawling network” of websites impersonating news websites including...
Virgin Atlantic has urged the government to consider “reversing course” after the mini-budget, with the collapsing pound massively driving up costs for airlines. The chief executive, Shai Weiss, said the economic situation was “hurting consumers” and the airline was deeply concerned, even though it believed its own bookings would hold up. The problems from the plunging pound will be the latest to...
Apple has begun making iPhone 14s in India, as it moves some production away from China for the first time against a backdrop of Chinese Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and geopolitical tensions between the US and the country’s communist government. A production line in Chennai has begun operation, assembling the iPhone 14 for the domestic Indian market. The move, which marks the first time the...
The markets may have reacted badly to Kwasi Kwarteng’s “fiscal event”, sending the pound tumbling to its lowest level against the dollar for decade, but you can always count on some stoic British humour in the face of the government tanking the economy. Conservative MPs and bells don’t always go well together – remember when Jeremy Hunt nearly decapitated someone on HMS Belfast with his flying...
If there is any decorum left in the world, the Game of Thrones showrunners will have just sent a gift hamper to Killing Eve. Because, just three years after Game of Thrones caught heat for delivering what was widely thought to be the worst series finale of all time, Killing Eve may well have just toppled it. If you missed it, you missed one of the most abrupt endings to any series since Quantum...
In the year 2000, a shiny new millennium spread out before us, glittering with the promises of modern technology. The angsty 1990s were behind us, the dotcom bubble was swelling and yet to come was the market bust and “war on terror”. Y2K – the supposed turn-of-the-century bug that would bring our infrastructure to a terrifying halt – had failed to materialise and for a brief moment there was...
The budget Kitsound Funk 25 headphones were on sale from July 2020 to June 2021. Kondor warns the charging case has a ‘risk of overheating’ if connected to a charging device or power source that inputs more than five volts. It says this means there is a ‘burn risk’ if the charging case is then touched. All Kitsound Funk 25 models ever bought are affected in all the purchase colours available...
It’s a great time to be a huckster. The arrival of a phone with a 3D screen, the Rokit IO Pro 3D, raises suspicions of some form of trickery. Is Rokit just out to lure in a few lesser informed folk who missed the “3D is dead” memo from 2016? Kinda. The Rokit iO Pro 3D digs up the corpse of 3D video to see what blood it can wring from the poor thing’s putrefying flesh. And there’s not much left...