CV Labs partnership launches British crypto firm Evai onto Bittrex Global exchange – CityAM : CityAM August 19, 2021 The global partnership between CV Labs and British AI crypto company Evai has led to a debut centralised exchange listing for the EVAI token on Bittrex Global from today. This latest development follows the CV Labs partnership announcement in May this year, which welcomed Evai into the worldwide CV Labs ecosystem as the cutting-edge FinTech [...]
Campaigners call on Apple to abandon surveillance plans August 19, 2021 An international coalition of more than 90 civil rights and policy groups is calling on Apple to scrap plans to surveil its US customers’ photos. Earlier this month, Apple announced plans to search people’s devices for child sex abuse material (CASM) using new “NeuralHash” technology to perform on device checks. The automated system will alert [...]
Legal groups urge UK to help female judges and legal professionals in Afghanistan August 19, 2021 At least 250 female judges in Afghanistan face a “perilous” future, legal groups have said while urging the UK government to offer asylum to female judges and other legal professionals in the country which has been control of by the Taliban. According to the Lawyer Monthly, the Bar Council, Bar Human Rights Committee and Law [...]
US stocks resist following FTSE lower as markets digest Fed minutes and oil rout August 19, 2021 Wall Street resisted the European market rout that sent the FTSE falling today and opened broadly flat today as investors digested news that the US Federal Reserve may tighten monetary policy this year. The S&P 500 edged down to 4,399.90 points, while the Dow Jones slipped to 34,944.70 points. Concerns about a possible earlier than [...]
Semiconductor chip shortage puts on the brakes for Volkswagen and Toyota August 19, 2021 A semiconductor supply crunch is forcing world leading car manufacturers Volkswagen and Toyota to slash vehicle production. Toyota, the world’s largest car maker, announced it will cut production by 40 per cent in September. Instead of making 900,000 as planned the manufacturing giant will now produce just 500,000 cars. Likewise, Volkswagen’s parent plant in Wolfsburg [...]
China’s cover up of Covid exposes a rotten regime built on deceit August 19, 2021 Too often, conspiracy theories rest on the erroneous assumption that our enemies are both highly evil and highly competent. Most of the time, the opposite is true. The description of Watergate in the peerless thriller All the President’s Men, offers us a more accurate picture: “Forget the myths you’ve read about the White House, these [...]
First of its kind: Energy giant Wood secures £430m green transition loan August 19, 2021 London-listed energy and engineering giant Wood has secured a £430m government-backed green transition loan – the first of its kind in the fight against climate change. Firms operating in the UK’s “industrial heartlands”, like Aberdeen-headquartered Wood, will be backed by the government in its bid for net zero emissions by 2050, the government said in [...]
London Amazon sellers generate £263m monthly revenue in e-commerce boom August 19, 2021 UK Amazon sellers now account for 5.5 per cent of the country’s retail sector’s monthly turnover. Some 13,483 Amazon sellers generate almost £2.5bn in monthly sales, according to analysis from online consumer goods company Trasio. This represented 5.5 per cent of the entire UK retail sector’s turnover in June. London Amazon sellers generate £263m revenue [...]
Inside the crazy, expensive world of whisky miniature collecting August 19, 2021 The founder of The Whisky Exchange is selling his collection of rare and old whisky miniature bottles. The collection will be sold as part of the quarterly miniatures and memorabilia auction at, live until Tuesday 24 August. Sukhinder Singh, who founded the global whisky retailer with his brother Rajbir in 1999, is putting four hundred [...]
British man to be deported from Singapore over face mask rule break August 19, 2021 A British man faces deportation from Singapore after being jailed for refusing to wear a face mask. Benjamin Glynn, a 40-year-old man for Yorkshire, was convicted on Wednesday and sentenced to six weeks jail time. He has been released a day later due to time served while he was in detention which included two weeks [...]
