Airlines must be penalised for refusing Covid refunds, says consumer group
Airlines like Virgin Atlantic and British Airways should face “strong action” from regulators for refusing to issue refunds to customers complying with England’s new tier…
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Some UK Stores Are Using Facial Recognition to Track Shoppers
“The data is then held stored and shared proportionally with other retailers creating a bigger watchlist where all benefit,” a spokesperson for Facewatch says. Its…
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Want to Start a Podcast or Livestream? Here’s What You Need
While it is increasingly possible to record podcasts or stream live audio on smartphones, it’s often quicker, easier, and generally more professional to create and…
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Space travel In 2020 the race to space changed gear. The May launch of the SpaceX vehicle Crew Dragon was the first time a private…
View More The most exciting scientific breakthroughs of 2020, chosen by scientistsCrab-22: how Norway’s fisheries got rich – but on an invasive species
The Norwegian fishing village of Bugøynes, 310 miles north of the Arctic Circle and a frigid, dark place for much of the year, was on…
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Boudicca revolt: Essex dig reveals ‘evidence of Roman reprisals’
“The local Trinovantes tribe joined the AD61 rebellion and after .css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link{color:#3F3F42;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{font-weight:bolder;border-bottom:1px solid #BABABA;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:focus,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:focus{border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-width:2px;color:#B80000;}@supports (text-underline-offset:0.25em){.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{border-bottom:none;-webkit-text-decoration:underline #BABABA;text-decoration:underline #BABABA;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:1px;text-decoration-thickness:1px;-webkit-text-decoration-skip-ink:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;text-underline-offset:0.25em;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:focus,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:focus{-webkit-text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:2px;text-decoration-thickness:2px;color:#B80000;}}Boudicca’s defeat we know the Romans punished everyone involved,” said…
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Coronavirus Travel Rights
Unlike some firms which have been reluctant to pay out refunds at all instead of vouchers, Virgin insists it WILL give cash back if you…
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Can you IPO sneakers? Also, this is the last Exchange roundup of the year
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your…
View More Can you IPO sneakers? Also, this is the last Exchange roundup of the yearWhat we know – and still don’t – about the worst-ever US government cyber-attack
Nearly a week after the US government announced that multiple federal agencies had been targeted by a sweeping cyber-attack, the full scope and consequences of…
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Watch the skies as Jupiter and Saturn align at night for the first time in 800 years
On Monday night, a truly rare astronomical event will occur: Jupiter and Saturn will align in what NASA’s calling the “great conjunction.” Jupiter and Saturn…
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