The new top-end Apple Watch Series 6 is slightly faster, brighter and cheaper with a new sensor – and does just enough to stay the king of smartwatches. Available in two sizes, 40 or 44mm, and in a variety of case materials and colours, it starts at GBP379 in aluminium. Our test watch is in […]
There’s a woman in my social media feed who has spent the past week flying around the world in an Airbus A320. Remember travel? The degree of enviousness with which I look at her photos of skylines and mountains is well past being impolite. She’s not really travelling, of course. She’s playing Microsoft Flight Simulator, […]
At the beginning of last month, a Facebook software engineer, Ashok Chandwaney, resigned and published a blistering public letter, excoriating the company for its failure to tackle hate. “Facebook is choosing to be on the wrong side of history,” warned Chandwaney in the letter, which was posted on the company’s internal message board. “I can […]
Paradise Killer‘s high-fructose world of garish GeoCities colours, arcane jargon and weird concepts is, at first, forcefully bewildering. This surreal private island, inhabited by a bickering community of peculiar elites, where you assume the role of local detective, has the wispy feel of a half-remembered fever dream. The mission that lurks at the game’s core, […]
Britain needs new state aid rules in order to be able to protect itself against hostile states intent on stealing technological secrets and jobs, Rishi Sunak has said. The chancellor said the UK had benefited from foreign investment but the government had to keep its eyes wide open to possible threats. In a discussion on […]
With Brexit, Covid-19 and travel restrictions, this winter is sure to be a challenging one for Europeans. However, there is a solution on the horizon to one problem that has persisted for many years; how to drive in inclement icy and snowy weather. Of course, the answer to this question up to this point has […]
Cliches often have a grain of truth to them, and yet the idea that traffic gets worse every year is, in fact, false. According to a study by ATS Euromaster, congestion has been easing since 2008 despite an uptick in the number of cars registered in the UK database. The tyre specialists published the study […]
Currency exchange rates are, along with interest and inflation rates, a key indicator of a country’s economic health. They are important in establishing trade between countries, setting the price for the import and export of goods. In addition, currency rates play a huge role in tourism as the exchange rate can influence whether tourists are […]
Amazon has revealed that almost 20,000 of its workers in the US have contracted Covid-19 after months of demands for public disclosure from activists. The US tech company has been one of the biggest corporate winners during the pandemic, with people across the world switching to online shopping during lockdowns. However, Amazon has faced criticism […]
Residents watch as a coronavirus-themed robot sprays disinfectant in Chennai, India Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images The England cricket captain, Joe Root, talks to the Sky Sports robot after the toss at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images for ECB An AI robot runs a health check on a visitor at the China […]