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How doorbells, smart speakers, TVs and washing machines are spying on you: Research reveals how household appliances are capturing and sharing private data with firms such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and TikTok

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How doorbells, smart speakers, TVs and washing machines are spying on you: Research reveals how household appliances are capturing and sharing private data with firms such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and TikTok Home Australia How doorbells, smart speakers, TVs and washing machines are spying on … Read more

Older renters served with an eviction notice every 16 minutes, research suggests

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Eviction notices for older private renters drop through letter boxes in England every 16 minutes, according to new figures. Research for homeless charity Shelter shows 7% of over 55s have received a ‘no fault’ Section 21 notice in the last three years. Calculating how many older renters live in the private sector, it is the … Read more

Science facility which kickstarted UK’s Covid drug development gets £500m

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A ground-breaking science facility which kickstarted the UK’s Covid-19 drug development and has advanced treatments for HIV and cancer has been granted a £500 million upgrade fund. Diamond Light Source in Harwell, Oxfordshire, is the UK’s national synchrotron – essentially a giant microscope, which produces light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. This light … Read more

FTX Court Documents Expose $2.5M Yacht Deal By Former Alameda Research CEO John Trabucco

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The unraveling of FTX and its former executives continues as the latest set of court documents reveals that John Trabucco, the former CEO of Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund co-founded by the disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, owns a $2.5 million yacht. A series of financial statements filed by FTX debtors to the U.S. … Read more

UK’s Long Covid research under threat from regulator backlog, warn scientists

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Receive free Medical science updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Medical science news every morning. Scientists are warning that delays at the UK’s medicines regulator mean an important trial looking for ways of treating Long Covid risks running out of money before it finishes.  Researchers hunting for treatments … Read more

Taking vitamins may help tumours to grow, new research suggests

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Taking vitamin or mineral supplements could be feeding tumours and allowing them to grow, suggests new research. Common antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, and selenium and zinc when taken additionally can all cause blood vessels in cancer to grow. The discovery has come as a surprise as antioxidants were believed to be protective. The … Read more

‘Marked rise’ in women starting firms to boost work-life balance

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R esearch has revealed a “marked rise” in the number of women across the UK starting their own businesses, driven by people looking to improve their work-life balance. Industry group Small Business Britain reported a continued positive shift in the number of female entrepreneurs despite significant cost pressures facing people looking to start businesses. Michelle … Read more

Ex-Tory MP threatens to sue Cambridge University over slavery research

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The former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors. Malik Al Nasir, a third-year PhD history student at St Catharine’s College, has spent the past 20 years exploring his family’s history of slavery and the … Read more

80% Indians Have A Favourable View Of PM Modi: Pew Research Survey

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About 80% of Indians have a favourable view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the survey said Washington: About 80 per cent of Indians have a favourable view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and around seven in 10 Indians believe their country has recently become more influential, according to a survey by the PEW Research Center. … Read more