Plymouth shooting: Suspect’s hate-filled Youtube account taken offline August 13, 2021 A hate-filled Youtube account belonging to the suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people in Plymouth yesterday has been taken offline. The account, named Professor Waffle, included a number of videos by 23-year-old Jake Davison, who has been named locally as the gunman. It has now been removed and the page shows a [...]
Apple child protection features spark concern among its own staff August 13, 2021 Apple employees have spoken out internally about privacy concerns over the firm’s move to scan US customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images as protests over the new feature intensify, it is reported. More than 800 messages were shared between Apple staff across several days on an internal Slack channel, sources told Reuters, [...]
UK’s OneWeb secures $300m from South Korean business giant Hanwha August 13, 2021 UK satellite firm OneWeb has bagged a $300m investment from one of South Korea’s largest business groups. Hanwha, a conglomerate which deals in businesses ranging from retail to explosives, has also secured an 8.8 per cent stake in the satellite company. The investment suggests that OneWeb could be teetering on a $3.4bn valuation, according to [...]
Fed to provide clues on bond buying tapering next month August 13, 2021 Experts expect the Federal Reserve to announce its plan to wind down its ultra-loose monetary policy measures launched in response to the Covid crisis next month. Nearly two thirds of economists polled by Reuters think the US central bank will outline how it will taper its asset purchases at the next meeting of the Federal [...]
Crypto AM Friday with Jason Deane August 13, 2021 Crypto at a Glance with Jason Deane While lawmakers in the US continue to wrangle over details of the Infrastructure Bill containing the crypto legislation, China kicks out the last of the Bitcoin miners and almost all nations continue to print money at an unprecedented rate, Bitcoin just keeps quietly building and expanding in the [...]
DoorDash swings to loss in second quarter since IPO August 13, 2021 Aggressive expansion into a crowded global grocery delivery market plunged SoftBank-backed DoorDash into a wider than expected loss in the second quarter since its December 2020 IPO. The NYSE-listed food delivery firm reported a net loss of $102m in the second quarter, wider than the $74.6m loss Wall Street had been expecting. This translated to [...]
EP: 79 Newbury & Ripon August 13, 2021 Newbury stages a couple of high-class races on Saturday, with the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes and the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes taking centre stage. Trainer Owen Burrows runs both Hukum and Danyah at Newbury and he joins us as our special guest today. We also speak to James Richardson from ThoroughBid – a new [...]
Jamie Spears will step down as Britney’s conservator August 13, 2021 The end of Britney Spears’ long-fought conservatorship is in sight after her father agreed to step down as conservator “when the time is right.” In a court filing, Jamie Spears’ legal team wrote: “Mr. Spears is willing to step down when the time is right, but the transition needs to be orderly and include a [...]
The influencer economy: online ranking systems are a purveyor of inequality August 13, 2021 To the victor the spoils. This well-known phrase might be thought to relate to the recent Olympics. Except that it is not a really accurate description of the Games themselves. True, the gold medallist gains more kudos than the silver or bronze. But at future athletics meets, for example, all three can expect an increase [...]
British tower giant Arqiva looks to shed broadcast and smart meter businesses August 13, 2021 British tower owning firm Arqiva is looking to sell off its broadcasting and smart meter operations, according to reports, which could result in a £2.5bn payday. It follows the sales of its UK telecom masts in another £2bn deal with Cellnex Telecom SA in 2019. The firm’s remaining businesses could be worth around £2.5bn, Bloomberg [...]
