Tory MP arrested on suspicion of raping a House of Commons researcher has bail lifted 

Tory MP arrested on suspicion of raping a House of Commons researcher has bail lifted The inquiries are undertaken by the Metropolitan Police’s Complex Case Team  In a statement, the Met said man in his 50s was arrested on Saturday, 1st August Conservative Party has been criticised for not suspending the MP in question By … Read more

Tory MP arrested on suspicion of raping HoC researcher can return to Parliament in two weeks’ time

Tory MP arrested on suspicion of raping House of Commons researcher can return to Parliament in two weeks’ time after Scotland Yard extended his bail The MP will be questioned again in November as the police continue their probe The case is being taken on by Met Central Specialist Crime , Complex Case Team The … Read more

MIT researcher warns that filling middle seats on planes could nearly double COVID-19 transmissions

Flying with middle seats filled during the COVID-19 pandemic poses a larger threat to passengers than plane crashes, according to new statistical research from an MIT professor. Using publicly available statistics on social distancing and COVID-19 transmission, Arnold Barnett, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, calculated that the odds of COVID-19 transmission on … Read more

AI researcher had to remove basic grammar tools to get software to understand Donald Trump

Trying to analyze Donald Trump made a speech recognition bot literally CRASH – and the only way to make it work properly was to strip out its grammar and syntax tools Researchers assigned a speech recognition bot to analyze Donald Trump The bot struggled to make sense of his rambling and fragmentary sentences The team … Read more

Researcher detects malware designed to steal credit card information on more than 1,200 online shops

Researcher detects malware designed to steal credit card information on more than 1,200 online stores The malware was detected on more than 1,200 online stores  Magecart allows scammers to skim credit card information from online forms  The infections were found in general online shops and some adult websites  By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:08 … Read more

Researcher stumbles upon mysterious 5,000-year-old paintings depicting arrows and human-like figures

A collection of 5,000-year-old cave paintings depicting various figures and symbols has been discovered in Spain. The drawings were discovered in the rocky area of ​​San Juan, near the town of Albuquerque in the province of Badajoz in western Spain. They are around 4 inches in length and include some anthropomorphic figures, as well as … Read more

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to a worrying surge in plastic waste, researcher warns 

Of 30 billion plastic bottles used by UK households each year, only 57 per cent are currently recycled. With half of these going to landfill, half of all plastic bottles that are recycled go to waste. Around 700,000 plastic bottles a day end up as litter. This is largely due to plastic wrapping around bottles … Read more

Italian researcher claims he discovered several prototypes of the original Apple Watch

Italian researcher shows off early prototypes of the original Apple Watch purchased from an e-waste facility, showing new insight into the secretive company’s design process Giulio Zompetti has acquired prototypes of the first Apple Watch  He says he acquired the devices from an e-waste company  The prototypes show Apple experimenting with the heart rate sensor … Read more