A migrant mother has been filmed crying out for her six-month-old son after being hauled onto a rescue ship after a dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean. ‘Did you see my baby? I lose my baby! Why me? Where is my baby?’ The woman from Guinea shrieks in the harrowing footage. Her baby, Joseph, was eventually … Read more
Police carry out highest number of stop and searches in seven years, new figures show – with highest rate of black people being stopped since 2014 There were 558,973 stop and searches carried out in from March 2019-2020 BAME people were stopped 185,401 times – up 55,215 from 130,186 last year They were stopped at a … Read more
A side-by-side comparison of Google search results in the last decade shows just how much the online search engine has changed for the average person as the lucrative tech giant became an advertising machine selling ads tied to searches. Google is currently in the crosshairs of a US Justice Department lawsuit that accuses the tech … Read more
REVEALED: Google is handing ‘users’ personal information to police if they search keywords related to an investigation’ CNET reports that police are issuing Google with ‘keyboard warrants’, forcing them to provide the IP addresses of all users who searched a particular word A ‘keyboard warrant’ led to the recent arrest of a suspect who set … Read more
Could Google help predict coronavirus outbreaks? Online searches for nausea and other GI symptoms of COVID-19 spike for four weeks before an uptick in cases Researchers looked at Google searches for gastrointestinal symptoms of coronavirus in 15 states between January 20 and April 20 Search terms included loss of tase, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, … Read more
Google searches for symptoms such as diarrhoea and abdominal pain could act as an early warning for a coronavirus outbreak, a study has revealed. Academics found there was a surge in coronavirus cases roughly three to four weeks after a spike in online searches for the symptoms. In New York, one of 15 regions examined … Read more
Google searches for the phrase ‘panic attack’ and anxiety-related queries soared 17 per cent to a record high at the start of the coronavirus crisis, study shows Researchers studied Google searches dating from 2004 through to the present Start of the Covid pandemic coincided with spike in searchers for panic attacks Researchers are calling for … Read more
Google trends data has suggested that more people are searching for information about coronavirus symptoms, raising fears of a second wave. On Monday, U.S. searches for ‘coronavirus symptoms’ hit a three-week high on Google. Over the past week, Arizona, South Carolina and Texas were the top states for such searches. Nationwide searches for ‘coronavirus testing’ … Read more
President Donald Trump‘s effort to settle on a campaign slogan for his reelection campaign has been complicated by the coronavirus crisis and repeated street clashes. The president has repeatedly tried out the fresh ‘Transition to Greatness’ – a statement born of the grim reality of the start of the coronavirus outbreak. He has repeatedly said … Read more
People browsing overseas homes online while ‘dual-screening’ has resulted in a 174 per cent surge in searches for homes listed in Ibiza last month compared to the previous year, Rightmove data shows. With Netflix TV series White Lines – set on the party island – being one of the most watched programmes last month, many … Read more