More than 6 MILLION kids sent home because of the coronavirus pandemic: 17 states close schools

Eleven states have ordered their schools to shut down while Washington State is closing schools in three counties near Seattle as more than six million American children will be staying home this month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district behind New York City, also announced it … Read more

Microsoft stopped a botnet that affected more than 9 MILLION computers with secret tracking software

Microsoft has disrupted a Russian botnet that infected more than 9 MILLION computers with malicious software that was used for a wide range of internet fraud Microsoft has disrupted one of the world’s largest and longest running botnets The Necurs botnet was based in Russia and affected 9 million computers It had been used to … Read more

More than 6 MILLION kids sent home because of the coronavirus pandemic: 10 states close schools

Ten states have ordered their schools to shut down while Washington State is closing schools in three counties near Seattle as more than six million American children will be staying home this month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district behind New York City, also announced it … Read more

Prehistoric humans share migration patterns with HYENAS that left Africa two million years ago

Prehistoric humans share migration patterns with HYENAS that left Africa two million years ago due to climate change Researchers from Denmark found that hyenas underwent complex migrations The team said that humans and hyenas likely coexisted peacefully at first Yet as humans became more evolved the relationship became bad for hyenas  African and Eurasian hyenas … Read more

The coronavirus pandemic is putting up to 50 MILLION travel and tourism jobs at risk says WTTC

The coronavirus pandemic is putting up to 50 MILLION travel and tourism jobs at risk Global travel could be adversely impacted by up to 25 per cent in 2020 This could lead to a corresponding reduction in jobs of between 12 and 14% The figures come from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC)  Coronavirus symptoms: … Read more

The coronavirus pandemic is putting up to 50 MILLION travel and tourism jobs at risk 

The coronavirus pandemic is putting up to 50 MILLION travel and tourism jobs at risk Global travel could be adversely impacted by up to 25 per cent in 2020 This could lead to a corresponding reduction in jobs of between 12 and 14% The figures come from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC)  Coronavirus symptoms: … Read more

Nearly one million faulty smart meters were installed in British homes last year

Nearly one million faulty smart meters were installed in British homes last year Energy firms fitted 900,000 old smart meters last year which proved faulty Providers had been been told to switch to new models after customers experienced problems   Number of meters installed last year fell from 4.7 million in 2018 to 4.5 million By … Read more

Harvard scientist analyzes 6.8 million tweets, finds Bernie Sanders supporters are NOT more abusive

Does the Bernie Bro actually exist? Harvard scientist analyzes 6.8 million tweets and finds Sanders supporters are NOT more hostile to rivals than people who support other candidates A researcher from Harvard investigated 280,000 randomly selected Twitter followers from the top nine Democratic primary candidates He analyzed more than 6.8 million posts, which dated as … Read more

Days were half an hour SHORTER 70 million years ago, ancient shell shows

Days were half an hour shorter during the Late Cretaceous period 70 million years ago, an analysis of growth rings in an ancient shell has shown.  Earth at this time would thus have rotated around 372 times every year — rather than the current 366.25 rotations that gives us our 365-day year with leap years. … Read more

Traffic-related air pollution causes FOUR MILLION cases of asthma each year

Four million children around the world develop asthma each year because of road traffic pollution, a major study has estimated. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide, largely from road transport, is thought to be behind 38,000 new cases in the UK and 240,000 in the US each year. The global research ranked the UK the 29th worst … Read more