This is the shocking moment a driver was seemingly caught on camera watching YouTube videos at the wheel. Mike Mclellan, 33, had pulled up behind the silver Vauxhall on a residential street in Blackpool as he made his way back from doing a food shop. The dashcam footage shows Mike beeping his horn at the driver, who appears to be distracted by videos playing on her mobile phone, after she fails to pull away from the junction. In the clip, recorded in the afternoon of February 4, the Vauxhall can be seen sitting at the junction waiting for the traffic lights to change. But the female driver does not seem to notice that they have turned green as Mike shouts: 'Are you watching YouTube on your phone?' RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Newlywed teenage traveller couple are caught on camera... 'I'm not a cat': Hilarious moment Texan lawyer appears via... Share this article Mike starts to roll his car forward and is …
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Royal Mint plans to extract gold from mobile phones
Britain’s official coin-maker will embrace new technology to recover gold from phones as part of a green push. The Royal Mint has signed an agreement with a Canadian startup to extract the precious metal from discarded devices including phone, television and laptop circuit boards as part of an effort to cut down on waste. The United Nations estimates about $57bn worth of raw materials is thrown away annually as part of electronic waste , with iron, copper and gold the biggest parts. Only about a fifth ends up being recycled. The Mint, which is owned by the Treasury and has sole responsibility to supply the UK’s coins, will employ technology made by Calgary-based Excir at its South Wales site near Llantrisant. It said initial use of the technology had produced gold with a purity of 999.9 , and that further metals including palladium, silver and copper could be recovered once the process is scaled up. Anne Jessopp, the Mint’s chief executive, said the technology could …
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Myanmar forces spyware on to all phones in ‘death sentence for activists’
The Myanmar junta is leaning on telecoms companies to activate spyware on citizens’ phones, prompting a major European firm to pull out of the country amid fears it would put activists’ lives at risk if it complied. Since seizing power in February from the democratically elected government, the junta has jailed political leaders and launched a violent crackdown on mass protests . Now the regime is taking its fight to the technological sphere, and a Norwegian telecoms firm is set to pull out of the country over demands it run software that would allow the army to eavesdrop on private communications. Norwegian Telenor said it had come under “continued pressure” from the military leadership and was “deeply concerned by the deteriorating situation in Myanmar”. It said in a statement: “It has become clear to us that our continued presence would require Telenor Myanmar to activate intercept equipment which is subject to Norwegian and EU sanctions.” It added: “For Telenor, …
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Parents think kids should get first phone at age 11 – but restricted internet until 13
Parents believe their kids should be allowed to have a phone at the age of 11 - but should not access the internet without guidance or blockers until 13. A study of 1,000 mums and dads revealed they want full control of all aspects of the device until their child reaches 14 - after which they can have complete privacy. However, Facebook and YouTube are considered fine to be used at 12 years of age, despite the two platforms not allowing children to sign up before 13. But parents accept their kids shouldn’t use other social media platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok until they enter their teenage years. And they admit they would think nothing of checking their child’s device for use and activity until they reach 13. However, despite the ideals, 49 percent of those polled who have a child between the ages of eight and ten years old, say they already own a smartphone. The research was carried out by EE, which has created the PhoneSmart Licence …
I found Amazon folder with THOUSANDS of audio recordings from my home gadgets
A WOMAN has been shocked to discover just how much data Amazon has collected about her. She posted a viral TikTok video explaining how she requested to see the data but wasn't expecting to receive so much. TikToker my.data.not.yours explained: "I requested all the data Amazon has on me and here's what I found." She revealed that she has three Amazon smart speakers. Two are Amazon Dot speakers and one is an Echo device. Her home also contains smart bulbs. She said: "When I downloaded the ZIP file these are all the folders it came with." Most read in Phones & Gadgets TAKE TWO Insiders think they've found Facebook's new name just 'days before rebrand' STAY DRY Your iPhone can reveal EXACTLY where and when it will rain on hidden map OUCH! Terrifying 'electric penis cage' lets remote lovers 'ZAP their partner's privates' HACKING IN Secret Google codes for …
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Average adult spends equivalent of 11 days a year ‘window shopping’ – via their phones
The average adult spends the equivalent of 11 days a year "window shopping" - via their phones, researchers have found. We typically spend five hours a week scrolling through websites and social media pages looking for stuff to buy. For many it’s a hobby, with three-quarters "enjoying" their digital window shopping, the poll of 2,000 people found. A fifth admitted they simply like to fantasise about owning the different things they see. But 69 percent of shoppers go one step further and put items in their baskets, with each having an average of £225 of longed-for items waiting to be checked out. This amounts to a total of £8 BILLION sat in virtual baskets across the UK - although only 41 percent of that will be purchased. Amber Venz Box, co-founder and president of shopping app LTK ( LikeToKnow.it ), which commissioned the study to launch its influencer-led concept store on Oxford Street, London, said: "The research reinforces that shopping through …
Scammers targeted eight in 10 people over past three months
Scammers targeted nearly 45 million people with fraudulent texts and calls over the summer, the telecoms watchdog has found. More than eight in 10 people received a suspicious text, recorded message or phone call to a landline or mobile over the past three months, a survey by Ofcom found. Text scams were the most common, with 71 per cent saying they had received a suspicious message. Nearly half of those sent a suspicious text reported receiving such a message at least once a week. Ofcom also found that landline users were being plagued with fraudulent calls, with older people particularly susceptible. Some 61 per cent of people aged 75 and over reported receiving a potential scam call to their landline. More than half of people who received a suspicious text either deleted the message (53 per cent) or blocked the number (52 per cent), and around half of those who received a suspicious live voice call or recorded message did the same. But in the past three months alone, …
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Dementia: Has your loved one developed these new interests recently? Major warning sign
Dementia: Expert discusses the signs and symptoms Sign up for FREE health tips to live a long and happy life SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Dementia is a cluster of symptoms associated with brain damage. There are more than 400 types of dementia and the type of dementia a person has will depend on the part of the brain that is affected. Dementia that affects the frontal lobes is called frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Trending READ MORE How to live longer: Drink this juice to lower risk of early death The frontal lobes of the brain, found behind the forehead, deal with behaviour, problem-solving, planning and the control of emotions. FTD therefore produces symptoms related to these vital …
A real-time revolution will up-end the practice of macroeconomics
D OES ANYONE really understand what is going on in the world economy? The pandemic has made plenty of observers look clueless. Few predicted $80 oil, let alone fleets of container ships waiting outside Californian and Chinese ports. As covid-19 let rip in 2020, forecasters overestimated how high unemployment would be by the end of the year. Today prices are rising faster than expected and nobody is sure if inflation and wages will spiral upward. For all their equations and theories, economists are often fumbling in the dark, with too little information to pick the policies that would maximise jobs and growth. Yet, as we report this week , the age of bewilderment is starting to give way to greater enlightenment. The world is on the brink of a real-time revolution in economics, as the quality and timeliness of information are transformed. Big firms from Amazon to Netflix already use instant data to monitor grocery deliveries and how many people are glued to “Squid Game”. The …
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Enter third-wave economics
A S PART OF his plan for socialism in the early 1970s, Salvador Allende created Project Cybersyn. The Chilean president’s idea was to offer bureaucrats unprecedented insight into the country’s economy. Managers would feed information from factories and fields into a central database. In an operations room bureaucrats could see if production was rising in the metals sector but falling on farms, or what was happening to wages in mining. They would quickly be able to analyse the impact of a tweak to regulations or production quotas. Cybersyn never got off the ground. But something curiously similar has emerged in Salina, a small city in Kansas. Salina311 , a local paper, has started publishing a “community dashboard” for the area, with rapid-fire data on local retail prices, the number of job vacancies and more—in effect, an electrocardiogram of the economy. What is true in Salina is true for a growing number of national governments. When the pandemic started last year …