Ministers are said to be furious at ‘megalomaniac’ NHS bosses and Public Health England’s failure to get to grips with testing and protective equipment shortages – as a new survey shows their staff have no faith in their leaders. There have been increasing concerns about the level of diagnostic testing for the deadly pandemic, with … Read more
SpaceX’s third Starship prototype IMPLODES after catastrophic failure resulting from a pressure test The test caused SpaceX’s Starship prototype to implode A pressure test flooded the craft with a super-cooling propellant This is the third Starship prototype to experience a catastrophic failure The specific cause of the implosion is still being investigated By James Pero … Read more
Boeing’s 787 airliners will soon have to be turned off and on again at least every 51 days to prevent ‘several potentially catastrophic failure scenarios’. A directive from the US government will force the planes to be shut down regularly to avoid glitches in the on-board computer systems. If left for too long without being … Read more
A man developed kidney failure after taking 12 times the recommended amount of vitamin D every day. The unnamed 54-year-old, from Canada, had been taking the bumper dose drops for two-and-a-half-years after being advised it by a naturopath. But his health took a turn for the worse when he took a two week holiday and … Read more
Up to 400,000 fraudsters could have been let off the hook due to an IT failure, consumer group warns Fraud gangs may have got away with crimes because of system failure Over 400,000 recorded cases were not passed on to police for 15 months Which? has called on authorities to account for long breakdown in … Read more
Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric Jack Welch has died at 84. Welch died from renal failure, his wife Suzy told The New York Times Monday. He led GE for 20 years from 1981 to 2001, growing it from a $14billion company that made light bulbs and appliances to a financial services and consulting … Read more
New Bluetooth sensor ‘can detect heart failure 10 days before it happens even when patients show no symptoms’ Device worn on chest tracks heart rate and rhythm, sleep quality and step count It pings this data to app which using artificial intelligence to get normal baseline Can then detect when heart’s function starts to deteriorate … Read more