People working from home spend 45 minutes fewer doing their job each day than Brits back in the office, official data suggests ONS figures show home workers only spend six-and-a-half hours a day on work People not working from home spend seven hours and 15 minutes working a day Government is considering giving workers right … Read more
LinkedIn faces investigation by Italian watchdog after data of 500 MILLION users were found for sale on hacker marketplace Approximately two-thirds of the platform’s 740million user base has been affected The dataset scraping was confirmed by a spokesperson from LinkedIn who said that ‘scraping’ members data violated terms and services Italian data protection authority is … Read more
House prices hit a record high of £254,606 on average in March, according to research from a leading High Street bank. Figures from Halifax show house prices have jumped by 1.1% month-on-month. Across the UK, the average price is around £15,000 higher since the start of the national coronavirus lockdowns in March 2020 – equating … Read more
Las Vegas is one of the brightest-lit cities in the US that attracts people from around the world, but the artificial lights also lured 46 million grasshoppers in one summer night in 2019. A new study analyzed the invasion using radar data, finding that artificial light awakened the rather idle insects and did so in … Read more
Almost 400 deaths and 31,000 infections have been linked to people catching coronavirus at work since April, official figures revealed today. Figures from Britain’s Health and Safety Executive, published by the GMB union, said 367 Covid deaths were reported as having ‘reasonable evidence’ of the person catching the virus at work. Between April 10, 2020, … Read more
Two doses of either Moderna‘s or Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine are highly effective at preventing infection, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published on Monday finds. Researchers looked at vaccination rates among nearly 4,000 healthcare employees, first responders, and other essential and frontline workers from mid-December 2020 to mid-March 2021. Results showed … Read more
British scientists today slammed US medical regulators for causing ‘serious damage to public confidence’ in AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, as they waded into the row over the jab’s efficacy. The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant was accused by US watchdogs of cherry-picking data to make it seem more effective than it actually was in the American arm of … Read more
Covid cases are ONLY going up in children: Official data shows slight uptick in infections in youngsters… but only because of mass testing drive to reopen schools EXCLUSIVE: Schools opening has not yet resulted in more adults being infected, according to experts Millions of Covid lateral flow rapid tests have been carried out since schools … Read more
Covid cases in England fell by 6% last week despite 400,000 extra tests being carried out, Test and Trace data reveals Coronavirus testing in England surged by 7% last week as millions of children were swabbed at school Covid cases continued to plummet for the tenth week in a row to the lowest seen since … Read more
AstraZeneca REVISES its COVID-19 vaccine data: Drug giant now says the shot is 76 per cent effective in preventing infection – instead of 79 per cent – after backlash from NIH over ‘outdated data’ from its US trial The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases accused AstraZeneca of using outdated trial data In a … Read more