Printer ink pricier than champagne finds Which?

According to a Which survey a pint of printer ink could cost up to £1,300.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hZhThN

How the U.S. Is Spearheading Efforts to Thwart Chinese Cybercrime

On July 19, the White House accused the Chinese government of supporting a hacking operation, revealed in March, targeting Microsoft Exchange Server software. The view from the U.S. intelligence community is that Chinese state security played a role in illegally accessing email services on a server used by governments and some of the world’s biggest companies, including military contractors. The Biden Administration also accuses China of hiring “criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime.”

Though the Administration’s response doesn’t appear to include the sorts of sanctions that have been imposed on Russia, a far less important commercial rival than China, its statement featured considerably stronger language about China’s pattern of “irresponsible and destabilizing” behavior in cyberspace, behavior unworthy of a country with pretensions to global leadership. The White House knows that comment will draw a prickly response from Chinese officials.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

Unlike Donald Trump, President Biden showed up for this fight with China backed by lots of friends. In fact, Washington has the backing of every member of the G-7 and NATO, a group that includes nations traditionally reluctant to criticize the Chinese government too aggressively. These allies are mostly unwilling to contemplate sanctions against China, at least at this point, and the E.U. says only that the latest attacks came from Chinese territory rather than explicitly calling them state-backed. But the White House statement made the point that the Biden Administration is working actively toward a common cyberapproach. There’s no question that the joint statements from the E.U., U.K., Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will confirm Chinese suspicions that Biden means to divide Europe and allies from China where possible and to build broad technology alliances with an eye to confronting China’s bid to set new rules in cyberspace.

Cyberespionage is a fast-growing threat. Among the world’s most powerful countries, each government knows that an attack on the critical infrastructure of another invites retaliation. China can attack the U.S., but its leaders know the U.S. can hit back. That’s why most of the action in cyberspace among cybersophisticated nations is focused on stealing secrets and intellectual property. The bad news is that there are no enforceable rules that limit a government’s ability to share its cybertools with outside actors like hackers.

The ransomware charge that the Biden Administration has leveled at China is serious. In 2020 alone, the total known cost of cybercrime was over $1 trillion in global losses, more than double the costs in 2018. Hospitals have also faced a surge in ransomware attacks.

For now, no warning from Washington, coordinated with allies or not, will halt Chinese hacking operations. The scale of cyberthreats is growing, and Biden hasn’t found the right combination of carrots and sticks to make much difference. The Administration promises “further actions to hold [China] accountable.” That leaves future sanctions on the table.

For now, the Chinese have lost significant face. They’ll respond with statements that remind Washington and the world that the U.S. doesn’t always behave “responsibly” in cyberspace either. Beijing will also threaten some of the other countries that joined the U.S. condemnation, including by warning of less access to the Chinese marketplace for their companies.

The clear message from all this is that the U.S.-China rivalry is escalating, and no one has yet figured out a way to slow the momentum.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3ByoS9e

Report: 'QAnon Shaman' in plea negotiations after mental illness diagnosis

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2TwEbht

Youth violence likely to explode over summer, UK experts fear - The Guardian

Youth violence likely to explode over summer, UK experts fear  The Guardian

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3zt6KM1

Jadon Sancho: England winger completes £73m move to Manchester United from Borussia Dortmund - BBC Sport

1. Jadon Sancho: England winger completes £73m move to Manchester United from Borussia Dortmund  BBC Sport
2. Jadon Sancho signs for Manchester United | New Signings 2021/22  Manchester United
3. Jadon Sancho: Manchester United sign England winger from Borussia Dortmund for £73m  Sky Sports
4. Manchester United announce Jadon Sancho signing as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer gets star in £73m deal  Daily Mail
5. United complete the transfer of Sancho  Manchester United
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2TB067e

UK business activity at four-month low due to staff shortages amid ‘pingdemic’ – live - The Guardian

UK business activity at four-month low due to staff shortages amid ‘pingdemic’ – live  The Guardian

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/36WsmEk

Elliott Wright announces wife Sadie has miscarried at five months pregnant - Daily Mail

Elliott Wright announces wife Sadie has miscarried at five months pregnant  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hWrFRA

Don’t fall for Republicans’ partisan bluster, Miami. Biden takes wise action on Cuba | Opinion

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2V51GyC

Drug kingpin's empire brought to its knees by mobile phone video - Liverpool Echo

1. Drug kingpin's empire brought to its knees by mobile phone video  Liverpool Echo
2. Heroin and crack cocaine gang leader jailed for eight years  Runcorn and Widnes World
3. Leader of Cheshire county lines drug gang is jailed  The Chester Standard
4. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3iLtwbo

Zuckerberg wants Facebook to become online 'metaverse'

CEO wants users to work, game and communicate in a virtual world, often using VR headsets.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3iCqia1

Trump's sway tested in race for open mid-Ohio US House seat

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3xZQAJz

World Heritage Committee agrees not to place Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’ list - The Guardian

1. World Heritage Committee agrees not to place Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’ list  The Guardian
2. Why is the Great Barrier Reef in trouble? A simple guide  BBC News
3. Unesco risking own ‘credibility’ over effort to reclassify Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’, Australia says  The Independent
4. Australia holds its breath on whether the Great Barrier Reef will be labelled 'endangered'  Daily Mail
5. Whether or not the Great Barrier Reef is listed as ‘in danger’ won’t alter the fact it is at risk from climate change  The Guardian
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3eKijXa

Top international official in Bosnia bans denial of genocide

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hYWiG7

As many as 100 CIA officers have now suffered from ‘Havana Syndrome’

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hZbQKb

Thunderstorms set to hit Wales today in new Met Office yellow weather warning - Wales Online

1. Thunderstorms set to hit Wales today in new Met Office yellow weather warning  Wales Online
2. Met Office issues yellow alert for damaging hailstorms today - see list of areas  The Mirror
3. Met Office issues official thunderstorm weather warning - with lightning strikes expected today  Bristol Live
4. August heatwave: Will UK temperatures soar again next month?  The Independent
5. Thunder and wind warnings for Devon and Cornwall as Met Office forecast stormy weekend  Cornwall Live
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3wZDLxC

1 in 5 new COVID-19 infections in LA are in fully-vaccinated people. Most of them have mild symptoms, or none at all.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kSeC5B

Bankers and advisers would net £275m from Morrisons takeover - The Guardian

1. Bankers and advisers would net £275m from Morrisons takeover  The Guardian
2. Bankers and advisers to collect £300m from planned Morrisons takeover  Financial Times
3. Morrisons takeover triggers £300m fees bonanza  Telegraph.co.uk
4. US private equity firm given deadline to place rival Morrisons takeover bid  Evening Standard
5. Morrisons shareholders to vote on Fortress-led takeover bid on 16 August  City A.M.
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3wXCN54

The Pandemic Forced Thousands of Businesses to Close—But New Ones Are Launching at Breakneck Speed

Stephen Natoli needed to act fast when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. He was desperate to keep his business, Natoli’s Italian Deli in Secaucus, N.J., open, and retain his workers. But with all his customers suddenly homebound, event catering—which accounted for half his revenue—completely seized up. Individual orders like pizza slices and sandwiches also took a hit. There were no obvious options to bolster the company’s prepared food sales.

So Natoli took a leap, and dramatically pivoted the business. He moved all the seating outside and turned the indoor space into a small grocery market, stocking kitchen staples and fresh produce. The demand was so great that he opened a grocery store in another area of town, which he later sold. Now, his food services are bouncing back, but he has no intention of returning to the way things were: the groceries are there to stay.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

“We picked up about 20-to-25% of the business we lost in catering,” Natoli says. “I decided to keep that 20-to-25% and when catering comes back, I want to bang that on top.”

Last year, lockdowns and other COVID-19 containment measures hit businesses so fast that many couldn’t withstand the shock. Now, as the economy rebounds, the extent of the damage is becoming more clear. But despite the glut of business closures, there are a few comforting signs. For one thing, the pandemic has spurred business creation, both in terms of entrepreneurial startups and also new products and services at existing firms. What’s more, firms that outlive the pandemic may end up more resilient and prosperous in the future because they will better cater to home-based lifestyles, new digital habits and other societal shifts that took place over the past year.

“The best thing we can do for the economy to recover is to allow what’s going to happen to happen,” says José María Barrero, assistant professor of finance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México who studies how U.S. workers and employers are reacting to the pandemic-era norms. “Trying to cryogenically freeze the economy where it was in February of 2020 is potentially going to hurt more than help due to the extent that things have changed permanently or persistently.”

In the spring of 2020, as shutdowns swept the country, more than 3 million businesses stopped operating. A widely cited study from The Hamilton Project, a branch of the Brookings Institution, found last year that 400,000 businesses had permanently closed by June 2020. A more recent estimate from the U.S. Federal Reserve estimates that 200,000 businesses with employees boarded up between March 2020 and February 2021—about 25% to 33% above the norm—with smallest enterprises faring the worst. The final tally of business deaths may end up higher, as the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) initiative ended in May and owners continue to grapple with overdue credit bills, deferred rent and other expenses.

Closures of such proportions have been devastating to business owners, their employees and their communities. But COVID-19 also acted like a forest fire that cleared brush for more resilient growth and fresh green shoots. Applications for new businesses jumped in the latter half of 2020 to the highest rates in the 17 years that the government has tallied such figures, according to a University of Maryland analysis. The pace has stayed high through 2021. Following the economic upheaval of the 2008 Great Recession, by contrast, business applications declined.

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/KUVjo/2/

It may appear that this trend is simply a byproduct of laid off or unhappy workers trying to find independent ways of earning a living. But John Haltiwanger, a University of Maryland economics professor who authored the study, says that the influx in businesses that are likely to hire employees—which generally need more resources to get off the ground than one-person firms—is probably “driven by new market opportunities” brought about by the pandemic. For instance, a third of the increase in new business applications came from non-store retailers—a direct result of the shift to remote interactions between businesses and customers. In other words, for all its damage, the pandemic is also spurring innovation.

“Startups play critical roles in restructuring,” says Haltiwanger, before adding a crucial caveat. “What we don’t know is how much of this will stick. There’s enormous uncertainty, but startups are oftentimes the experimenters out there. There’s lots of evidence that they are often more capable of doing major innovations—not just technological innovations, but changing the way they’re doing business.”

In normal times, there’s a constant churn of new business systems and technologies replacing outdated ones—a process known as “creative destruction,” a term popularized by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in the 1940s. Major events can expedite that process because less efficient firms die off en masse, leaving a void that savvier or nimbler firms can fill.

During the pandemic, even firms as large as Disney had to adapt. Around the time that the company released the live-action Mulan via its Disney+ streaming service for an extra fee of $30, CEO Bob Chapek explained on an earnings call that the pandemic had made the company consider “alternative ways” of reaching audiences beyond movie theaters.

Since then, the company has released a number of films in the same fashion. And although theaters have at this point largely reopened, the company is giving audiences the choice to see its July releases Black Widow and Jungle Cruise on the big screen or at home. It may have been possible for the entertainment juggernaut to bypass theaters before the pandemic. But given the risk of jeopardizing its relationships with the theater chains, there was no urgency for it to try. After theaters closed, the company had little to lose in giving direct-to-streaming a whirl—and plenty to gain, considering Disney+, which launched in 2019, is in a knife fight for subscribers against rivals like Netflix and HBO.

One of the biggest business shifts was adopting technologies that allowed companies to reach their employees and customers remotely. In a July 2020 survey of nearly 900 executives from all industries around the world, McKinsey & Company found that companies transitioned to digital solutions far quicker than they had thought possible before the pandemic. In some cases, what was assumed to take close to two years ended up taking less than a month. The survey also found that most of the technological changes were likely to last beyond the pandemic. When asked why such changes weren’t implemented prior to the pandemic, more than half of the executives said that they hadn’t been a top business priority.

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/IDuOB/3/

That was precisely the case at Coucou French Classes, a language school and cultural center with locations in New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. In March 2020, the school asked all current students to finish out their classes over the video conferencing tool Zoom. But with enough cash on hand to cover expenses through September, cousins Léa and Marianne Perret, who co-founded the business, initially thought that life would return to normal after a few weeks, and that the best move would be to shut down operations for that time.

They scrapped that idea pretty quickly, as it became apparent that the situation was getting worse and that they were sitting on a potential opportunity: people stuck at home indefinitely were looking for ways to occupy their time. They began enrolling new students for online classes—students not just from the three cities where Coucou operates, but from all over the United States, Canada and even Europe.

“We had been trying to develop an online class product for a while before that,” says Marianne. “We never had time to give it thought or get it going. It was something that we had on the back burner for a while, and then it was like, ok, bam, let’s do it.”

The digital transition spurred other business ideas. The company developed new courses and class schedules, built out new workbook materials and optimized every aspect for the digital experience. “We feel like we’ve done three years of work,” says Léa.

Coucou is enrolling for in-person instruction again, and the classes are at capacity. Given that demand, the cousins plan to expand their physical presence in regions where they see the most interest, based on online enrollment. The online classes will continue going forward, and will also serve as a backup option if students need to make up a class, or if the city shuts down for stormy weather or another wave of COVID-19 cases.

Such pivots are happening across the business landscape. A May study from the International Journal of Disaster Reduction ​​found that 63% of U.S. small businesses surveyed last summer had changed how they served customers, while 56% had changed how they procure supplies. On the digital front, 49% of the firms had increased their social media presence and 41% had shifted to online sales.

Not all those businesses initially thrived. Firms that changed the way they served customers, for example, experienced higher probability of income loss and a longer anticipated time to recovery, in part because of the increased upfront investment that may be required. The study notes, however, that if a business can withstand the short-term pain of such a pivot, it may ultimately end up stronger.

“In the long run, these changes can result in being more resilient,” says Maria I. Marshall, an economics professor at Purdue University who has studied business survival in the wake of climate disasters and who co-authored the study. “Resilience is not just, ‘did I come out of this the same as when I came in.’ Resilience means that you have adjusted something that would make you better off. Even if your profits stay the same, your business has changed in a way that makes you more resilient to the next nonnormative shock.”

Indeed, experience alone gives businesses a type of resilience. Those that reacted to the pandemic, whether by pivoting to new business lines or navigating bureaucracies to get a PPP loan, can fall back on their knowledge the next time disaster strikes.

Natoli, the New Jersey deli owner, feels like he’s been through it all. He applied for a PPP loan (which he credits with getting the business through the toughest months). He figured out how to get personal protective equipment like masks and gloves for his employees. He transitioned his catering options from family-style trays to COVID-friendly, individually packaged items. And, of course, he built out a grocery business. With each challenge, Natoli has learned about what it takes to adapt.

“I feel that we could turn this negative into a positive, but not overnight,” he says. “But over a few years, we might actually come out of this thing stronger. Like anything, if you’ve experienced something once or twice, and you survive, then you have a different confidence level and you know you can do it.”

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3BFxkn8

The Last Letter From Your Lover Falters Often, But Its Illicit Romance and Gorgeous Costumes Go Straight to the Pleasure Zone

Even if we’re all doomed to decree, at some point about something or other, “They just don’t make ’em like they used to,” the comforting reality is that there’s always someone trying. How many times have we tolled the death knell for the romantic melodrama, only to have someone strive, even with only moderate success, to resurrect it? Ben Wheatley’s 2020 version of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca is one recent example. Now here comes another, Augustine Frizzell’s adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ romance novel The Last Letter From Your Lover, starring Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones as, respectively, a love-starved London society wife circa 1965 and a modern-day journalist who has lost her appetite for romance.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

If you think of The Last Letter—which begins streaming on Netflix on July 23—as a descendant of movies like David Lean’s Brief Encounter and Irving Rapper’s Now, Voyager, it’s bound to suffer by comparison. Yet even if The Last Letter hovers around the Close, But No Cigar reading on the melodrameter, there’s something subliminally enjoyable about it. A beautiful amnesiac, a selection of fascinating uptight-chic mid-’60s ensembles, a luxurious locale or two, even a Persian cat who wanders very briefly through the movie, bestowing a casual blessing with its plume tail: In adapting Moyes, Frizzell has paid attention to certain details that go right to the pleasure zone. Even when the story falters, or becomes astonishingly silly, there’s still plenty to keep you gazing at the surface.

Read More: How to Write a Romance Novel in 2021

Woodley plays Jennifer, a young American married to Joe Alwyn’s Laurence, a rich and very stiff English industrialist whom she barely seems to know. In fact, she doesn’t really know him, at least as the movie opens: she has suffered a terrible accident—the scar on her cheek, barely noticeable with a bit of coverup or hidden behind the curve of her hair, clues us in to that shard of the story. As a result, she has lost her memory, and so she swans around unhappily in a large London house that means nothing to her. Then she removes a book from a shelf, and a letter falls out.

Meanwhile, in the present day, Jones’ Ellie rises from the rumpled bed of her last conquest—she can’t even remember his name—and rushes off to her newspaper job. The paper’s longest-running “women’s page” editor has died, and as Ellie digs through the publication’s archives—with the help of one of the most charming newspaper librarians ever, Nabhaan Rizwan’s Rory—she discovers first one love letter, and then several more. These are letters that were exchanged by Jennifer and her roguish—but sweet—journalist lover, Anthony (Callum Turner). Somehow, this affair precipitated Jennifer’s accident. Ellie keeps digging through the archives, looking for more clues to the mystery of this woman’s life.

Parisa Taghizadeh/NETFLIX—© 2020 NETFLIX, INC.Felicity Jones and Nabhaan Rizwan in ‘The Last Letter From Your Lover’

The Last Letter toggles between two stories and two eras: Ellie is the modern woman who has freedom but who’s too cynical to open herself to love; Jennifer is the woman who made a comfortable marriage, only to learn she’d struck the wrong bargain. Jennifer’s story is the more compelling of the two, not least because she gets so many lavish period details to swim around in: Some of the action unfolds on the French Riviera (the movie uses Majorca as a stand-in), which means we get to see Laurence and Jennifer driving—in a convertible, natch—along spiraling, treacherously gorgeous seaside roads, the chiffon scarf Jennifer has tied around her coif rippling just so in the breeze. Jennifer’s poor little rich woman wardrobe includes many, many pillbox hats and a tasteful cranberry Balenciaga-style trapeze coat with a slightly zany bow at the back—a signal that although Jennifer needs to be serious, befitting her marital status, she’s really longing for fun. (The costumes are by Anna Robbins, whose credits include Downton Abbey.)

The 1965 scenes also feature the best music, including not just go-to favorites like Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,” but less frequently heard nuggets like Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s swervy, swoony “Summer Wine,” as well as Doris Troy’s sinuous 1963 ballad “Whatcha Gonna Do About It”—the latter used in a steamily romantic London nightclub scene so potent that could be a movie by itself.

Read more reviews by Stephanie Zacharek

Frizzell is both an actor and director (her first film was the 2018 dropout comedy Never Goin’ Back), and if she can’t always keep the plot running on a track that makes sense—well, who needs sense? She’s alive to small things, like music and sunlight and Jennifer’s perfect Cleopatra cat-eye, lifted directly from the mad early Dick-and-Liz era and dropped handily into ours. The actors seem to know what page Frizzell’s on: Jones’ Ellie has the eagerness of a forest chipmunk, which is not so interesting, but there’s a streak of cruelty in her, too, which is. She’s best in the scenes where Ellie’s doubts cloud her judgment. And although Woodley seems, at first, to be not quite comfortable in Jennifer’s elegantly dressed skin, in the end, there’s something touching about her reticence. Woodley looks great in the clothes. But as Jennifer, she also seems to be sending a Morse code through them, as if she knows they’re failing to tell her what kind of woman she wants to be.

The Last Letter From Your Lover is a far from perfect romantic melodrama. But what matters is how it strives to keep that genre breathing. Maybe streaming audiences will be the saviors of melodrama, now that big-screen audiences seem to care mostly about a noisier breed of spectacle. That’s ironic, considering there’s no greater crash-up than falling deeply in love at the wrong time, with the wrong person. Sometimes it helps to have a movie experience into which you can pour all those feelings, whether they’re immediately combustible or they flamed out long ago.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3iDV820

UK tech giant founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kLbEA2

UK tech giant founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

Lawyers for Autonomy's founder, Mike Lynch, say he will fight the US authorities' bid to try him for fraud.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3xYypEe

UK tech giant founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

Lawyers for Autonomy's founder, Mike Lynch, say he will fight the US authorities' bid to try him for fraud.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3xYypEe

Hands on: OnePlus Nord 2 review - TechRadar

Hands on: OnePlus Nord 2 review  TechRadarView Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3eKAvQi

California sues Activision Blizzard over alleged harassment

One of the world's largest gaming companies is accused of endemic discrimination and harassment.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3iAX4ID

Inflation spike temporary, says BoE deputy governor

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3By1VCM

Inflation spike temporary, says BoE deputy governor

The recent pick up in price rises is not expected to last, says Bank of England deputy Ben Broadbent.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2W9yEyh

Katie Price flaunts the results of her lip and eye lifts in new clip after plastic surgery - Daily Mail

Katie Price flaunts the results of her lip and eye lifts in new clip after plastic surgery  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hX5db1

US border agents seize 15 giant snails

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3iB75p8

Haiti leader's slaying exposes role of ex-Colombian soldiers

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3znO9Rj

Danish military spots Iranian vessels in the Baltic Sea

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3zpfqDc

Taxi passengers jump out and batter man in Audi Q2 at traffic lights - Liverpool Echo

Taxi passengers jump out and batter man in Audi Q2 at traffic lights  Liverpool Echo

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3eNeMHM

‘He’s basically just sitting there doing nothing’: Ron DeSantis hits out at Biden over Cuba

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kLs4sa

European stocks rise for third day as ECB keeps monetary policy loose - Financial Times

1. European stocks rise for third day as ECB keeps monetary policy loose  Financial Times
2. ECB leaves rates at record lows in 2% inflation goal; US jobless claims rise – business live  The Guardian
3. When is the European Central Bank (ECB) rate decision and how could it affect EUR/USD?  FXStreet
4. Beyond the strategy review: the ECB must act on climate  EURACTIV
5. All eyes on the ECB as markets gear up for a guidance change  CMC Markets
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kOuTbJ

Met Office hour-by-hour guide on when thunderstorms are going to hit Wales - Wales Online

1. Met Office hour-by-hour guide on when thunderstorms are going to hit Wales  Wales Online
2. Stay out of the sun! Met Office issues two EXTREME heat warnings  Daily Mail
3. UK weather: Heatwave to come to dramatic end as Met Office warns thunderstorms and rain on the way  Chronicle Live
4. Restaurant in seaside town closes down for three days because heatwave means 'it's too hot for staff to work'  Daily Record
5. Sun and heat set to continue to bake parts of the UK  Evening Standard
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3eN6VtL

Five arrested in Hong Kong for sedition over children’s book about sheep - The Guardian

1. Five arrested in Hong Kong for sedition over children’s book about sheep  The Guardian
2. Hong Kong police arrest speech therapists over 'seditious' children's books  The Times
3. Five arrested in Hong Kong over children’s book describing pro-democracy movement as sheep  The Independent
4. Hong Kong: five arrested for sedition over children's book about sheep  Guardian News
5. Hong Kong police arrest Apple Daily's executive editor-in-chief  The Times
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3zlMjR6

Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, judge rules - The Telegraph

1. Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, judge rules  The Telegraph
2. UK tech giant founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US  BBC News
3. Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, rules UK court  Financial Times
4. UK court rules Autonomy's Lynch can be extradited to face US charges  Reuters UK
5. Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage of US extradition bid from London  The Register
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3znu91k

NHS staff have lost thousands in real pay since 2011, studies find - The Guardian

1. NHS staff have lost thousands in real pay since 2011, studies find  The Guardian
2. Making Headlines:Unions lash out at NHS pay rise, thunderstorms set to hit UK; Prince George turns 8  Evening Standard
3. Government giving no new money to fund NHS 3% pay rise, No10 confirms  The Mirror
4. NHS staff in England to receive 3% pay rise  The Independent
5. For an NHS burnt out from Covid, praise without a raise means little  The Guardian
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hWyp27

Iowa Democrat Finkenauer seeking GOP Sen. Grassley's seat

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kM1YVM

Biden says kids under 12 could be eligible for COVID vaccines in weeks. That's not likely.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3znAQ3s

The scary thing about Giannis’ first NBA title? At 26 he is only getting better - The Guardian

1. The scary thing about Giannis’ first NBA title? At 26 he is only getting better  The Guardian
2. Man City transfer warning fired after Aston Villa owner wins NBA title  Birmingham Live
3. Shots are fired and two cops are injured during Milwaukee Bucks' celebration  Daily Mail
4. Freak out! Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 50 power Milwaukee Bucks to first NBA title since 1971  The Guardian
5. Giannis Antetokounmpo's impossible rise from the streets of Athens to Finals MVP, NBA champion  Sky Sports
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kFjr2b

Aliens: Fireteam Elite - The Final Preview - IGN

1. Aliens: Fireteam Elite - The Final Preview  IGN
2. Aliens: Fireteam Elite is actually very fun  Eurogamer.net
3. 10 Minutes of Aliens Fireteam Elite Co-op Gameplay  GameSpot
4. Aliens: Fireteam Elite - The Final Preview - IGN  IGN
5. Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Hands-on Preview | The Escapist Show  The Escapist
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2V0sjVp

Around 100 migrants including five children arrive in the UK - Daily Mail

Around 100 migrants including five children arrive in the UK  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3eJbdlH

Leader of Nxivm sex cult ordered to pay $3.4 million to victims

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3xXZ43Q

A fitness influencer who died during a procedure she was promoting was accused of steroid use by the clinic. Now trolls are 'invading' her social media, her boyfriend says.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2WbfJTT

Inside Pre-Season: Liverpool's double header in Austria | Wacker Innsbruck & VfB Stuttgart - Liverpool FC

1. Inside Pre-Season: Liverpool's double header in Austria | Wacker Innsbruck & VfB Stuttgart  Liverpool FC
2. Liverpool open pre-season with draws against FC Wacker Innsbruck and VfB Stuttgart  Sky Sports
3. Michael Edwards completes fourth transfer masterstroke while Ibrahima Konate shines for Liverpool  Liverpool Echo
4. Highlights: Liverpool 1-1 VfB Stuttgart | Mane nets on Konate's Reds debut  Liverpool FC
5. Liverpool fans defend Ibrahima Konate as Man Utd supporters savage new signing's debut  Daily Star
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2W5E11s

'I'm sorry but it's too late' - unvaccinated patients beg for shot; J&J vaccine may be less effective against delta variant: live COVID news

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3BjUvTE

Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut's Iki Island Expansion Story Details and Trailer Revealed - IGN

1. Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut's Iki Island Expansion Story Details and Trailer Revealed  IGN
2. Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Iki Island Expansion Gets Great Looking Story Trailer  Push Square
3. A new Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut trailer shows off the Iki Island expansion  Video Games Chronicle
4. Ghost of Tsushima Iki Island Trailer Shows Jin Captured By A Mongol Cult  Times News Express
5. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3rs7eiQ

Fury as health minister fails to announce ANY pay rise for NHS despite briefing about 3% increase - Daily Mail

1. Fury as health minister fails to announce ANY pay rise for NHS despite briefing about 3% increase  Daily Mail
2. Tories scrap NHS pay rise announcement in last-minute shambles as deal not agreed  The Mirror
3. NHS pay rise shambles as announcement is scrapped at last minute  Metro.co.uk
4. Anger as minister fails to announce expected pay rise for NHS staff  The Guardian
5. Unions warn expected 3 per cent pay rise for the NHS is 'not enough'  Daily Mail
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hWvTIQ

Glastonbury decides against scaled-down September show - Sky News

1. Glastonbury decides against scaled-down September show  Sky News
2. Glastonbury festival: September one-day event not going ahead  The Guardian
3. Glastonbury decides against one-off concert in September  BBC News
4. News | Plans For One-Day Glastonbury Event Scrapped  The Quietus
5. Glastonbury Festival announces September Worthy Farm gig is cancelled  Somerset Live
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3kIs1NI

Haze on East Coast caused by wildfires raging in the West

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/36Qqz3z

Nigeria secures release of 100 kidnapped mothers and children

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3rlnwtG

Zoom offers app store with team-building games

A range of both productivity and fun apps will be available for users within the Zoom platform.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3xXkyxN

Former North Texas banker linked to missing teen pleads guilty to sexually abusing him

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3isvFZc

Nauka science module's launch to ISS arrives - NASASpaceFlight.com - NASASpaceflight.com

1. Nauka science module's launch to ISS arrives - NASASpaceFlight.com  NASASpaceflight.com
2. LIVE: The Proton-M carrier rocket blasts off with ISS module 'Nauka'  Reuters
3. Nauka module to be launched to ISS on Wednesday  TASS
4. Watch Live as Russia Launches Its New ISS Module and Europe’s Robotic Arm  Gizmodo
5. Russia will launch a new science lab to the International Space Station Wednesday. Here's how to watch.  Space.com
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3zge3qa

Gunmen release 100 kidnapped victims in northwest Nigeria

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3eGrxne

How British special operators defied their bosses to rescue 2 comrades captured on a secretive mission in Iraq

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3rqjf8i

Two police officers injured in shopping centre attack - expressandstar.com

1. Two police officers injured in shopping centre attack  expressandstar.com
2. Two police officers are 'slashed' in front of terrified children  Daily Mail
3. West Bromwich stabbing: Two police officers 'slashed' in attack at shopping centre  The Mirror
4. Attemped murder arrests as cops 'slashed' at New Square Shopping Centre - live updates  Birmingham Live
5. Police officers slashed in West Bromwich: Three people arrested after town centre incident  Sky News
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2TtinDm

Hungary calls for ballot to defend LGBT law opposed by EU

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3wUEJeC

Junior Shay Alexander: Teenager killed in Bromley e-scooter hit-and-run named as parents pay tribute to 'beautiful son' - Sky News

1. Junior Shay Alexander: Teenager killed in Bromley e-scooter hit-and-run named as parents pay tribute to 'beautiful son'  Sky News
2. First picture of ‘beautiful’ boy, 16, killed after being hit by a car while riding an e-scooter in Bromley  MyLondon
3. Tributes to boy who died in fatal collision involving car and e-scooter in Bromley  The Independent
4. Victim, 16, named after e scooter hit-and-run  Kent Online
5. PICTURED: E-scooter rider, 16, killed in 'hit and run' crash with car  Daily Mail
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2ToMEmC

The Biden White House confronted Fox News about its hosts' bid to erode trust in the COVID-19 vaccine

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2V5yIyg

Steam Deck UI will replace Big Picture mode on Steam - Eurogamer.net

1. Steam Deck UI will replace Big Picture mode on Steam  Eurogamer.net
2. Steam Deck: is it the Nintendo Switch for nerds?  The Guardian
3. Steam's Big Picture mode will be replaced by Steam Deck's UI  PC Gamer
4. Steam’s Big Picture Mode is being replaced by Steam Deck OS  Rock Paper Shotgun
5. Random: 'Switch Vs Steam Deck' Memes Are A Thing Now, Apparently  Nintendo Life
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3BqtnCp

COVID-19: COVID pass now needed for Eiffel Tower and other tourist hotspots in France - Sky News

1. COVID-19: COVID pass now needed for Eiffel Tower and other tourist hotspots in France  Sky News
2. British holidaymakers to France will need a Covid pass to visit Eiffel Tower and other attractions  ITV News
3. France requires COVID pass for Eiffel Tower, tourist venues  The Independent
4. France in horror Covid warning: 'Fourth wave is HERE!'  Daily Express
5. France rolls out new COVID-19 health pass as infections surge  Al Jazeera English
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3zqaCxn

Tom Brady jokes with Biden that half the country doesn't believe the Buccaneers won either

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hS5jkn

Vue cinema chain fined £750,000 over seat crush death - BBC News

1. Vue cinema chain fined £750,000 over seat crush death  BBC News
2. Vue Cinema fined £750k after Star City customer Ateeq Rafiq died when seat crushed him  Birmingham Live
3. Vue cinema chain fined £750,000 after cinema chair crushed Ateeq Rafiq in 2018  Daily Mail
4. Vue cinema fined £750,000 after man dies getting trapped in chair  Manchester Evening News
5. Vue Cinema Chain Fined $1M After Moviegoer Was Killed By Reclining Chair  Deadline
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3wUVcPM

UK records 96 more Covid-19 deaths - nearly double last Tuesday’s figure and the biggest since March 24 - Evening Standard

UK records 96 more Covid-19 deaths - nearly double last Tuesday’s figure and the biggest since March 24  Evening StandardView Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2V1LI8o

Climate envoy says US, China must end world's 'suicide pact'

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3isVrwy

FIFA 22 Next Gen Gameplay Powered by Hypermotion Technology - GameSpot

1. FIFA 22 Next Gen Gameplay Powered by Hypermotion Technology  GameSpot
2. EA doesn't want to exclude some of FIFA 22's PC players, so it's excluding all of them  PC Gamer
3. FIFA 22 Gameplay Reveal Livestream - EA Play Spotlight  IGN
4. FIFA 22: 10 Most Exciting Gameplay Changes In EA Sports' New Game  SPORTbible
5. Best center-backs to buy in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team  Dexerto
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3iue7ff

Harvey Weinstein has been extradited to LA to face more sexual-assault charges

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/3hSEE72

Jeff Bezos Blasts Himself Off-Planet, Helping to Usher In a New Era of Space Tourism

Give Jeff Bezos this: When he builds a rocket, he rides the rocket, strapping his own mortal hide into a seat and test-flying what he’s developed before inviting paying passengers aboard to make the same journey. “If it’s not safe for me, it’s not safe for anyone,” Bezos said in a video segment released by Blue Origin, his private rocket company, before Tuesday morning’s first crewed launch of its New Shepard rocket on a suborbital lob shot that soared to an altitude of 106 km (66 mi.).

Today, the rocket—which had previously flown 15 uncrewed missions to suborbital space—indeed proved safe not just for Bezos, but for the three other passengers aboard with him: Wally Funk, 82, an aviator and flight instructor and now the oldest person to fly in space; Mark Bezos, marketing executive and volunteer firefighter and Jeff Bezos’s brother; and Oliver Daemen, 18, a paying passenger who became the youngest person to fly in space, after his father, the founder of the Dutch hedge fund Somerset Capital Partners, purchased him the seat for an undisclosed multimillion dollar price tag.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

The flight, which lifted off from the Texas desert shortly after 8:00 a.m. CT, was, by modern-day standards, a modest affair. It essentially replicated the suborbital flight of the first American in space, Alan Shepard (after whom the rocket is named), which took place just over 60 years ago. In fact, Shepard actually bested Bezos and his crew—at least in terms of altitude, flying to a loftier 187 km [116 miles], easily exceeding the 100 km (62 mi.) Von Karman line, which is the internationally recognized boundary of space. Bezos’ flight just barely cleared that bar.

Still, the machinery on display today was impressive and flew its flight profile faultlessly. The compact 18 m (60-ft.) tall rocket is powered by a single engine, fueled by clean-burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen—the same fuel NASA used for the second and third stages of its legendary Saturn V moon rocket. The engine burned for just over two minutes, accelerating the ship to a maximum speed of 3,540 k/h (2,200 mph), and an altitude of roughly 80 km (50 mi.). Twenty seconds later, the crew capsule—which can accommodate up to six people in a roomy 15 cubic m (530 cubic ft) interior—separated from the booster, and continued coasting upward, breaking the Von Karman barrier and affording the crew about four minutes of weightlessness and sightseeing.

The ride down was a free fall for the passengers—subjecting them to a maximum gravitational force of 5.5 g’s—before three small drogue parachutes opened, followed by three main parachutes, slowly lowering the capsule toward the dusty Texas scrubland. About 2 m (six ft.) above ground, a blast of air was released from the bottom of the capsule, providing a cushioning that set the passengers down at a speed of less than 3.2 k/h (2 mph). The rocket itself landed up right on a pad 3.2 km (2 mi.) north of the launch site.

“Best day ever,” Bezos said after the capsule touched down.

For Blue Origin it was indeed a good day—though how soon the company will begin flying commercial passengers able to pay in the low six figures for a 10-minute vacation is unclear. There are only two more crewed flights planned before the end of the year, both of which will be flown by wealthier customers who will compete in an auction for the right to ride—at prices that are expected to reach into the millions. Sir Richard Branson, who beat Bezos to space by nine days aboard his Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space plane, is similarly unclear on how soon his company will at last begin long-delayed commercial flights. Both men insist they are not in competition with each other—never mind the barbs that came out of Blue Origin after Branson’s flight, pointing out that he reached a maximum altitude of only 80 km (50 mi.), a boundary that the U.S. military recognizes as the edge of space, even if the rest of the world doesn’t.

“I know nobody will believe me, but honestly there isn’t [any competition with Bezos],” Branson told NBC’s Today on July 6.

Maybe, but that’s for later. For now, both billionaires have notched big wins—earning their astronaut wings for themselves, and in the process legitimizing their companies’ claims that they have the wherewithal to open a new market for space tourism. Whether enough customers will eventually come is unclear, but the hardware, at least, is ready to fly them.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2V2fj1d

Mexico's president says he won't accept vigilantes

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/36QUwjU

In pictures: Germany grapples with flood havoc - BBC News

1. In pictures: Germany grapples with flood havoc  BBC News
2. Germany’s Merkel defends warning systems in wake of deadly floods  Al Jazeera English
3. Germany floods: Government rejects criticism over flood warnings  BBC News
4. The Guardian view on Germany’s floods: another wake-up call  The Guardian
5. Watch: Streets piled high with flood debris as Germany pleads for EU help  Telegraph.co.uk
6. View Full coverage on Google News

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2TpHyGX

These Countries Have the Most Summer Olympic Medals

We’re less than a week out from the Tokyo Olympics—and it’s time to think about how the international competition in Japan will set into motion age-old rivalries between countries around the world, which will formally start as the Opening Ceremony kicks off on July 23.

The Summer Olympics this year will involve 339 events across 33 sports. The Summer Olympics are showcases for different countries than the Winter Olympics: without snow sports, places that don’t have access to cold climates have a better shot at featuring their homegrown talent. The Summer Olympics are where runners, swimmers and team sports players shine.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

For this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, the country to beat is indisputably the U.S., with a historic tally of 2,542 medals collected over 100-plus years of Summer Olympics dating back to 1896. (In second place is the Soviet Union, which picked up over 1,000 summer medals in its stint as a state from 1955 to 1985. Meanwhile the modern state of Russia, known as the Russian Federation, has over 400, collected on either end of the Soviet experience.)

Michael Phelps remains the world’s most decorated individual Olympian, with a decisive 28 medals all of his own, thanks to his dominance in swimming over the past decade-plus. (The runner-up in that ranking, the Soviet Union’s Larysa Latinina, only has 18.)

These are the 10 countries with the most Summer Olympics medals:

1. United States — 2,542

2. Soviet Union — 1,010

3. Great Britain — 867

4. Germany — 760

5. France — 739

6. Italy — 592

7. China — 546

8. Sweden — 498

9. Hungary — 495

9. Australia — 495

10. Japan — 441

Read more about the Tokyo Olympics:

• Naomi Osaka: ‘It’s O.K. to Not Be O.K.’
• Motherhood Could Have Cost Olympian Allyson Felix. She Wouldn’t Let It
• ‘Unapologetic and Unafraid.’ Sue Bird Stares Down Olympic Glory in Tokyo and Equity Off the Court
• Meet 6 Heroes Who Helped Battle COVID-19 Before Competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
• 48 Athletes to Watch at the Tokyo Olympics
• The Olympic Refugee Team Was Created to Offer Hope. Some Athletes Are Running Away From It

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 13001087 https://ift.tt/2V124hz