ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok website is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart and Microsoft might seem like an unlikely partnership to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets, but until very recently the retailer had other plans. Before teaming up with Microsoft in recent days, Walmart was part of a
Bicycles are perhaps one of the best all-around alternatives to car transport, especially in urban environments. And now a new study has shown that cyclists who switch to an e-bike can end up quadrupling their daily riding distance. The new study, which was published in the latest edition of the journal Transportation Research, studied two
This illustration depicts how the station would look once built. Arup The planning application for a U.K. rail station that will integrate a number of sustainable design features has been granted approval by authorities, as efforts to “green” public transport infrastructure continue. The building will be located in Solihull, near the city of Birmingham, and
The marking system which threatened to downgrade the exam results was not a “mutant algorithm” as claimed by the prime minister, but contained errors that were “predictable” and “could have been foreseen”, according to a leading statistician. Boris Johnson told a group of schoolchildren on Wednesday that “I’m afraid your grades were almost derailed by
4:20 PM ET If you think what happened in the NBA on Wednesday can’t happen in the NFL, you don’t know what year this is. Old rules are out the window in 2020. Long-held expectations are outdated. The Detroit Lions canceled practice Tuesday so they could stand outside of their team facility and talk about
August 27th, 2020 by Guest Contributor California’s grid operator has called for building more clean power, not less. Originally published by Nexus Media.By Jeremy Deaton Record heat across California last weekend spurred Golden Staters to blast their air conditioners. The strain on the power grid was so great that California’s grid operator started rationing electricity.
At least four people are dead after Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast, with strong winds and heavy rain triggering a wall of sea water. The category 4 storm – one of the strongest hurricanes to ever strike the US – tore across Louisiana on Thursday, threatening the city of Lake Charles, an industrial and
Donald Trump has branded the NBA a “political organisation”, as protests intensified over the shooting of a black man by police in Wisconsin. The US president weighed in after players and teams from the top tiers of basketball, baseball, soccer, and tennis refused to participate in games scheduled on Wednesday night. Their actions follow the
The Home Office has admitted an advert attacking “activist lawyers” who represent people fighting deportation should not have been published – but has so far failed to remove it. The department’s top civil servant, permanent secretary Matthew Rycroft, upheld complaints against the video tweeted out on Wednesday. It sparked widespread condemnation from legal figures and
Halo app and band Source: Amazon Amazon is entering the wearables market in a big way. The company on Thursday introduced a wristband for health and fitness tracking called Halo, alongside a subscription service and smartphone app. The space is currently dominated by the Apple Watch and devices from Fitbit, which is awaiting regulatory approval for
Britney Spears is fighting for details about her conservatorship to be made public, despite her father’s efforts to keep the case sealed. Jamie Spears has had strict control over his daughter’s life since 2008, when the pop star’s very public breakdown led him to take charge of her personal and financial decisions. Britney, 38, is
Britney Spears’ sister has filed a court order seeking more control over the 38-year-old singer’s fortune. Former Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears has been a trustee of the pop superstar‘s multimillion-dollar estate for the last two years. But the 29-year-old is requesting that assets currently stored in a trust fund set up for Britney’s children
Pret A Manger is cutting 2,800 jobs due to the economic downturn caused by coronavirus. The popular cafe chain said its sales are down to levels around what they were 10 years ago. It follows the announcement that 30 Pret shops across the UK will close permanently. CEO Pano Christou said: “I’m gutted that we’ve
Tesla and the FBI worked together to prevent a group of ransomware hackers from attacking Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada, according to a complaint from the FBI. The FBI released information this week on the arrest of Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old citizen of Russia, who they claim was part of a group who attempted to extort
The number of weekly COVID-19 cases in England has declined for the first time since July, new figures show. A total of 6,115 people tested positive for coronavirus in the week from 13 to 19 August, figures from the government’s test and trace operation have revealed. That is 8% lower than the week before and
Sir Ed Davey has been elected the new Liberal Democrat leader following a month-long ballot of party members. The Lib Dems had been without a permanent leader since December’s general election, in which previous leader Jo Swinson lost her seat in the House of Commons. The election was a huge disappointment for the Lib Dems,