Google Chrome receiving significant speed boost thanks to new compression algorithm
Google Chrome is receiving a significant speed boost thanks to a new compression algorithm called Brotli which the tech giant says is up to...
95% of diesel cars in the UK break emissions limits, study finds
A recent study revealed that the majority of diesel cars in the UK emit levels of nitrogen oxide pollution which exceed legal limits.
The...
2015 hottest year ever globally by far says NASA and NOAA
2015 was the hottest year ever globally over land and ocean surfaces while December broke the record too, says a new report issued by...
UK FTSE 100 plunges into a bear market for first time since 2009
The UK FTSE 100 index plunged 3.5 percent on Wednesday closing at 5,673.58 points, after briefly touching a three-year low of 5,639.88.
The blue-chip equity...
Largest prime number ever with over 20 million digits discovered
The largest prime number ever, with 22,338,618 digits, has been discovered by a computer at the University of Central Missouri in the United States,...
Unemployment hits ten year low and employment higher than ever
Britain’s unemployment rate has hit a ten-year low, falling to 5.1% compared to 5.8% one year ago. The employment rate, at 74%, is the...
Fairy tales predate Bible and Roman and Greek mythology study shows
The fairy tales we tell our kids today predate the Bible, Roman and Greek mythology, as well as all modern European languages, say researchers from...
Five planets line up in sky first time since 2005
Five planets will line up in the sky for the first time since 2005. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury will appear together and...
Stephen Hawking warns of growing human race self destruction risk
Professor Stephen Hawking warns that there is a growing risk of self-destruction by the human race, caused by perhaps a genetically-engineered virus, climate change,...
Twitter has fixed a glitchy software update responsible for widespread outages
Twitter says that it has fixed a glitchy software update responsible for the recent widespread service outages. An outage occurs when the supply of...