Apple Maps hides Tim Cook’s house behind giant digital wall

The Streisand Effect means Apple CEO’s home is actually easier to find | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

BA.2: More than 400 cases of new Omicron sub-variant found in England

So far, 426 infections have been confirmed – but Omicron BA.2 has not been designated a ‘variant of concern’ | Continue reading


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Amazon postpones plan to stop customers using Visa cards at last minute

Amazon has postponed its plan to stop customers using Visa credit cards at the last minute. | Continue reading


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Airlines refuse to fly influencers home after breaking Covid rules to fly Cancun

About 30 of the passengers have since tested positive for Covid-19 | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Alien lifeforms could be hiding in the clouds of Venus

The ammonia on Venus may be explained by ‘something’ biological making the clouds habitable, scientists suggest | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

US Army close to developing vaccine against all Covid variants and coronaviruses

Army-developed SpFN vaccine completed phase 1 of human trials earlier this year | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Germany: 8 Convicted over illegal data center in bunker

A German court has convicted eight people over their role in a data processing center installed at a former military bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Chinese rover spots strange ‘Mystery House’ on the dark side of the moon

The ‘house’ is likely to be a large boulder, but astronomers will not know the truth until the month-long trip along the satellite | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom call

‘Oh my god, I can’t believe this. This is not real. Oh no, this can’t be happening,’ an employee can be heard saying in a clip of the call | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Do we live in a simulation? One little known theory proves Elon Musk wrong

Physicists believe the universe is unlikely to be simulated because they have tried to simulate it themselves for decades - and failed | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

West Virginia offers free guns as incentive to get Covid vaccines

The new initiative seeks to increase vaccines among residents | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Biden says lockdown not part of US’s winter Covid plan

Mr Biden says lockdowns are off the table because they are unnecessary due to the availability of vaccines and masks as a Covid countermeasure | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Jack Dorsey: Why might he be resigning?

Reports say the billionaire is set to step away from his CEO role, which he took up in 2006 and again in 2015 | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Several ships trapped in ice after Arctic sea freezes early near Russia

Moscow has dispatched two icebreakers to free the ships, which include two oil tankers and cargo boats | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Only 18 per cent of Britons think Brexit is going well, poll finds

Dissatisaction over EU exit has risen in recent months | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Satoshi Nakamoto: Florida court could reveal true identity of Bitcoin creator

David Kleiman’s family claims he and programmer Craig Wright used the Nakamoto pseudonym | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Snapchat, Spotify, Discord and more down asa major inet svcs hit by vast outage

Spotify, Snapchat, Discord and other significant parts of the internet appear to have briefly stopped working. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Bitcoin price prediction model that sees crypto double before 2022 still in play

Crypto analyst PlanB believes BTC will hit $135,000 before end of 2021 | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes

An Associated Press investigation has found that more than 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019 | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

The people turning to psychedelics on their deathbeds

Research from Johns Hopkins and NYU suggests that psychedelic drugs can significantly reduce pain and distress for those with terminal illnesses. As the British government faces calls to reschedule these substances, Kevin E G Perry talks to some of those who’ve already chosen to … | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Engineers say they have found a new way to create fuel ‘out of thin air’

Scientists say they have created a new system that can create fuel out of sunlight and air. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Los Angeles airport jet pack sightings: ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ balloons

Helicpopter for LAPD caught the flying Jack Skellington figure on camera last year | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

EU satellite programme to provide real-time greenhouse gas emissions monitoring

A ‘constellation’ of satellites will be able to pinpoint emissions to individual premises around the globe | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Chinese produce quantum computer 10M faster than fastest competitor

Chinese machine performs computations nearly 100 trillion times faster than the world’s most powerful supercomputer | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Tesco Groceries and Payments site and app down in suspected hack

‘An attempt was made to interfere with our systems,’ supermarket chain says as shoppers unable to make purchases | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Pfizer Enlists Entire Town

Toledo town, where the study will be conducted, has little to account for in terms of vaccine hesitancy | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Tech founder considering legal action against Trump social network for IP theft

Eugen Rochko, founder of Mastodon, has asked his lawyers to assess whether former president’s initiative has broken his copyright | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

The Holmfield Hum: Yorkshire village plagued by mystery throbbing

Residents reckon life is being ruined by a constant whirring sound – but it places them on front line of puzzling modern phenomenon | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Donald Trump’s social app ‘Truth Social’ hijackd by fake account beforelaunch

Former president says new media network is effort to ‘stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens

Software trialled in Scottish schools to speed up lunchtime transactions. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Plans to hand over NHS data to police sparks warning from government adviser

‘It’s very important the government proceeds with extreme caution with any broader sharing of data’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

UK Home Secretary considering removing right to anonymity on social media

‘We can’t carry on like this’: Home secretary speaks out on ‘cruel’ comments directed at elected representatives | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

It’s an insult to authors not to finish each and every book you start

The novelist Mark Billingham has suggested that readers should throw a book ‘across the room angrily’ if it doesn’t grip them immediately. But entertainment, surely, isn’t the only reason why people read – or why authors write | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Supply crisis: Buy Christmas presents early to beat shortages

HGV driver shortage affecting the UK much more than other European countries, industry warns | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Southwest flights cancelled after pilots union sues over vaccine

Company blamed problems on ‘disruptive weather’ and air traffic control issues | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Havana Syndrome: Berlin police probe new cases at US embassy in Germany

Police are treating the incident as an “alleged sonic weapon attack on employees of the US Embassy” | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Water shortage threatens critical hydroelectric power supplies in N Europe

Amid the international energy crisis, lack of rain means Nordic countries face soaring bills | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Scientists discover gene that can help shape immune response to Covid virus

Gene called OAS1 is thought to play key role in shaping individual’s response to Sars-CoV-2 | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Government asks German residents to drive lorries even if they never have before

Exclusive: German driving licences issued before 1999 include entitlement to drive a small to medium-sized truck of up to 7.5 tonnes | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Government asks German residents to drive lorries even if they never have before

Exclusive: German driving licences issued before 1999 include entitlement to drive a small to medium-sized truck of up to 7.5 tonnes | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Two dead from taking ivermectin in New Mexico

Doctor says misuse of ivermectin can lead to drowsiness, dizziness, tremors, or a coma | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Bitcoin wallet from the Satoshi Nakamoto era suddenly activates

The stash has risen in value by more than 800,000 per cent since it was last accessed | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Bitcoin price tumbles as China makes crypto transactions illegal

The price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has tumbled in the wake of the latest crackdown from China. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

We're not prepared for the next solar superstorm

Impact of such a space weather event on modern technology is still not completely understood | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Ministers plan post-Brexit return of imperial pounds and ounces

Government to legislate to end compulsory metric measures ‘in due course’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit

Privateer will apparently monitor and clean up objects in space, but little else is known about the company yet | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

The Matrix Resurrections unveils thousands of video teasers

Clips include first look at Keanu Reeves’s return as Neo | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago

The public information films that scared Seventies children for life

From stranger danger to a mysterious Death-like spirit luring children into a lake, the public information films David Barnett grew up watching were brutal, terrifying and, sometimes, utterly perfect slices of filmmaking | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 2 years ago