Flood warnings are in place across the UK, and the Met Office says with some regions expected to see as much as two weeks of rain in less than an hour later. “South west Scotland, Wales and southern England could experience power cuts, road closures and travel disruptions,” it added in a yellow warning. The…
Police in China have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63 year old named Song Jiang, had originally been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in a tiny…
Recently, people online have been asking an AI tool to see what it sees when it looks at their face. The results have been surprising, sometimes flattering, and often quite racist… ImageNet Roulette uses a neural network to classify pictures of people uploaded to the site. You simply go to the site and paste the…
Bitcoin’s price has dropped rapidly from $9,800 to $8,150 in less than a day, for the first time in months. “According to data from Coin360, Bitcoin investors are experiencing a painful Tuesday, with BTC/USD hovering close to $8,100. Bitcoin’s rapid drop below $9,800 was the latest move in what was otherwise a slow grind downwards,…
A migraine drug that has been described as “life changing” by some users will not be made available on the NHS outside of Scotland. Erenumab is one of the most bespoke migraine drugs to be released in decades, and many doctors are describing it as a “huge deal”. But the governing body that approves new…
Despite having millions of users, the popular messaging app, Kik, is shutting down. No date has been given for when the Kik app will close, but the company said it was closing down the messaging service so it could concentrate on the Kin cryptocurrency it has also created. In a blog, Kik Interactive said the…