Ireland could enter a second national lockdown after the country’s health service recommended it moved to Level 5 of its coronavirus plan. Prime Minister Micheál Martin and the leaders of his two coalition partners will meet the chief medical officer ahead of a cabinet meeting this morning, two government sources have said. Under Level 5,
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Almost half of the nearly 16,000 people with coronavirus missed by the Test and Trace system still have not had their contacts traced, the health secretary has admitted. An “IT failure” within Public Health England – a problem with an Excel spreadsheet reaching its maximum size – has been blamed by ministers for a delay
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the Arc Vector electric motorcycle’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The Arc Vector has ridden some proverbial twisty roads over the last few years, even before ever reaching it to production. The high-tech and high-dollar electric motorcycle debuted with fanfare at the 2018 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show, but then
There could be upside in store for the market’s worst-performing sector. S&P 500 energy stocks have underperformed the index’s 10 other sectors over a range of time frames including in Tuesday’s trading session, this week, this month, this year and over the last 12 months. The group has encountered numerous headwinds in 2020, not least
Cineworld has confirmed plans to temporarily bring the curtain down on its UK and US cinemas because of continuing disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. The company said its decision affects 45,000 staff, almost 6,000 of them in the UK, leaving their future employment hanging in the balance as it was yet to explain its plans
9:20 PM ET I don’t expect Fernando Tatis Jr. to hit a triple, slide into third base, get tangled up with Justin Turner and then pop up and try to punch Turner in the face, like what happened with George Brett and Graig Nettles in the 1976 American League Championship Series. I don’t expect the
October 4th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan After digging into an old spreadsheet to create a new report on top solar power states per capita, it crossed my mind to compare the results from the first half of 2020 with the results from 2012, which is the last time I had published such a report before
Horns had been blaring all day as Donald Trump’s supporters drove up and down the road outside his hospital. Whether the president could see or hear the mini rally that had grown outside, he was all too aware of their presence. Then the horns suddenly fell silent for the first time all day. A line
8:11 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Sergio Garcia delivered two key shots on the back nine, the last one an 8-iron to 30 inches on the final hole for birdie and a one-shot victory in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Garcia closed with a 5-under 67 and won for the 10th consecutive year worldwide,
The owner of well-known nightclub G-A-Y is launching a legal challenge against the government’s 10pm hospitality curfew. Jeremy Joseph is seeking a judicial review in a bid to overturn the controversial curfew, which was imposed by the government in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Mr Joseph told Sky News the curfew
Tap the gray button with circles on it. Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple‘s new iPhone update, iOS 14, launched on Sept. 16. One of the big features in it lets you change your default email app from Apple’s Mail app to another one if it supports the feature. If you’re like me, and use Outlook
After a shaky start to the Conservative Party Conference (at least on the technological front), Monday will see Rishi Sunak speaking from the virtual podium. Right now the chancellor can do no wrong, but he knows difficult decisions are coming, not least the problem of how to come back from the largest recession on record.
A Tesla hacker has revealed what Tesla’s driver-facing camera in Model 3 and Model Y is looking for – hinting at driver monitoring feature. When Tesla launched the Model 3, it equipped the vehicle with a standard cabin-facing camera located in the rearview mirror. At the time, the automaker said that the camera wasn’t active and
The Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea, operated by Equinor, is the third-largest oil field on the Norwegian continental shelf, with 2.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Equinor is planning to cut the carbon-intensity of energy products it sells by at least 50% as part of the energy transition related to climate change.
There has been a delay in nearly 16,000 positive coronavirus results being added to the official figures, the government has announced. It comes as a further 22,961 lab-confirmed cases of the coronavirus were recorded in the UK, taking the total number to more than 500,000 since the outbreak began. The government said that, due to
London’s transport regulator has banned one of the capital’s most prominent ride-hailing services, days after Uber Technologies was awarded a new licence following a legal challenge. Sky News has learnt that Ola, an Indian group which only began operating in London in February, has been told that its licence will not be renewed because of