Fujifilm to take over Xerox as photocopier demand drops
Reuters Japanese technology firm Fujifilm is to cut 10,000 jobs by 2020 at its Fuji Xerox subsidiary saying it faces an “increasingly severe” market. Fuji Xerox, which makes printers and copiers mainly in Asia and Australia, has been hit by falling demand. Formed in 1962 it was the longest running joint venture between US and […]
Will the rapper be ‘cancelled for the rest of time’?
BBC Slowthai got his nickname during his youth in Northampton, where he was known to talk slowly and often stutter “Even if he is acquitted, it will not leave him. He’ll be cancelled for the rest of time,” Patrick Gibbs KC, defending Slowthai, told the jury. As the not guilty verdicts were read out by […]
Is ‘dopamine fasting’ Silicon Valley’s new productivity fad?
Alamy ‘Dopamine fasts’ reboot your brain and make you appreciate everyday pleasures more, proponents say. But is there any science to back it up? When James Sinka starts his dopamine fast, he cuts himself off from as many external stimuli as possible. He’ll stop eating, instead only drinking water to stay hydrated. He’ll ignore his […]
Lifting the lid on Japan’s amazing bento boxes
Miki Okamura Miki Okamura describes the duty of making lunch boxes as “the most important job as a mother” (Credit: Miki Okamura) Working mums have it tough in Japan – creating Instagram-worthy, healthy lunches is one of many pressures they say they face Each year, five billion lunch boxes are made at home in Japan. […]
The low-cost mini satellites bringing mobile to the world
Sky and Space Global Arrays of tiny satellites will bring mobile services to billions who currently have no access Large chunks of the planet are still of out of reach of mobile phone signals – billions are still without access to digital communications. But this could change thanks to shrinking satellite sizes and costs. Lower-cost, […]
How your workplace is killing you
Getty Images The modern workplace can inflict dangerous levels of stress on employees. Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, argues that these practices don’t help companies – and warns governments are ignoring an emerging public health crisis. In 2015, an analysis of almost 300 studies found that harmful workplace practices were as bad […]
Satellite links to optimise European airspace
Getty Images The European Space Agency and London’s Inmarsat company are moving to the next phase of their project to improve the efficiency of European airspace. The pair’s Iris programme would see air traffic controllers route planes via robust and secure satellite data links. At the moment, this management involves VHF radio voice messages – […]
Women regret casual sex less if they take the initiative
Getty Images Young women regret casual sex less if they take the initiative and the sex was good, according to a new study. Previous research has found that in general women regret one-night stands more than men. But researchers interviewed 547 Norwegian and 216 American university students, all of them heterosexual. The answers suggested that […]
The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets
Alamy The Aralkum Desert is covered in a layer of toxic, salty dust (Credit: Alamy) During the Cold War, Vozrozhdeniya Island was a top-secret testing ground for deadly Soviet super-pathogens. Despite over two decades of abandonment, their legacy lives on. On the Kazakh-Uzbek border, surrounded by miles of toxic desert, lies an island. Or at […]
Digital lessons for elderly by school kids ‘fabulous’
Primary school children have been giving lessons in selfie-taking, using apps and searching the internet to residents at a care home. Pupils aged between nine and 11 from Ysgol Coed y Gof visited Plas Bryn Care Home in Cardiff. Maggie, nine, said: “It’s really fun to teach people to use technology instead of people helping […]