Sand-dredging may have greater impact on Lough Neagh, say researchers

Faisal IslamEconomics editor Inside the secretive lab which stores the world’s most powerful computer It looks like a golden chandelier and contains the coldest place in the universe. What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but technology pivotal to financial security, Bitcoin, government secrets, the world economy…

If learning a new skill is one of your New Year’s resolutions, then you might want to know that MasterClass subscriptions are currently 40 percent off. This brings the top-tier subscription with offline mode and use on up to six devices down from $240 annually to $144. The entry-level plan, which supports just one device…

Malcolm Priorrural affairs producer PA Media Farmers drove their tractors into Oxford city centre to protest over proposed inheritance tax changes There will be no more changes to already watered down plans to raise farm inheritance tax, the government has said. Protestors attempted to disrupt a speech on Thursday by the environment secretary Emma Reynolds…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That’s how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that today’s outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him. The places hit by the outage vary significantly. It…

Scientists have captured rare footage of killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins hunting together near the coast of British Columbia, Canada The findings, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, is the first recorded evidence of the two species working together, according to researchers. They studied the whales using drones and camera tags to understand…