Scores of pensioners have been left with no way of contacting the outside world as BT’s digital landline switchover continues to be besieged with problems.
Customers have been left with no phone access for days, lifesaving alarms have been made redundant and numbers and area codes have been changed without permission – leaving many vulnerable people with nowhere to turn.
BT is currently switching all landline phones to digital that it serves in Britain’s 29 million homes, making them internet
Crumbling NHS hospitals are suffering chemical leaks and broken fire alarms as the cost of tackling the repair backlog passes £10billion, an investigation reveals.
Bosses reported 115 chemical incidents last year, including on children’s wards, A&Es and maternity units.
Health leaders last night described the repair bill as ‘eye-watering’ and warned buildings and facilities are ‘in a very bad way and getting worse’.
Manchester University Trust recorded 22 chemical leaks, which is more than any other trust that responded to
An animation showing circles that represent Starlink satellites moving over a map of Ukraine, a sped-up view of five minutes of satellite movement. The satellites enter and leave in different directions, and their flight paths include Ukraine’s occupied territory.
Five minutes of Starlink satellites over Ukraine on July 25.
On March 17, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the leader of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, dialed
Circles show Chinese fishing
in 2020 and 2021.
Rich and ecologically diverse, the waters around the Galápagos Islands have attracted local fishermen for centuries. Now, these waters face a much larger, more rapacious hunter: China.
Chinese fishing in ⬤ 2020 and ⬤ 2021.
The Galápagos are part of Ecuador. And yet each year growing numbers of Chinese commercial ships, thousands of miles from home, fish here, at times right on the edge of
Amazon’s $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner brand iRobot is currently the talk of the town. But despite all the ways Amazon’s ownership could make Roombas better, the overwhelming sentiment is concern about dwindling privacy and shrinking competition. If you’re already paranoid about Echo speakers listening in on your conversation, the Roomba-maker’s buyout should set off some blaring alarm bells.
Here’s a rough idea of where we currently are in our intimate relationship with the omnicorporation: Amazon knows what
