Science and Technology

Finally, you can ignore calls and still continue watching your movie The company’s annual developer conference, streaming online this year, has been rich with announcements. Here’s the latest news from the WWDC stage. SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS LOOK forward all year to the crush of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The big gala, held every…

What is not clear is just how well trained most of the people undertaking this vital task in the UK will be. A contact tracer does the detective work of calling up people known to be infected with a disease and working out where they have been in recent days…

Bill and Melinda My dad’s mom, Lillian Gates, was lucky to have survived the 1918 influenza pandemic. Unlike COVID-19, which is hitting older people the hardest, the influenza pandemic caused the highest mortality among people in their twenties. The most vulnerable of all were pregnant women. In 1918, my grandmother…

OFCOM: News and sermon about Covid-19 on Loveworld breaks broadcasting rules *OYAKHILOME MADE UNSUBTANTIATED CLAIMS United Kingdom, UK, telecommunication, television, radio watchdog, Ofcom has imposed a sanction on Loveworld Limited, owned by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, over his false broadcast linking the 5-G network with the novel coronavirus. Test results showing…

At a research unit based in Flanders, scientists have announced the discovery of a unique antibody that is capable of neutralising the virus that causes COVID-19. The antibody comes from a perhaps unexpected source – a llama. Researchers Professor Xavier Saelens is a virologist from the Vlaams Institute of Biotechnology.…