Mobile giants Vodafone and CK Hutchison, which owns Three UK, have agreed a merger to create Britain’s biggest phone operator.
The deal, reportedly worth £15 billion, would make the new company larger than BT-owned EE, which is currently the country’s largest provider.
If it’s approved by the Competition and Markets Authority, the two groups say they want to build “one of Europe’s most advanced standalone 5G networks”
In opening remarks at Britain’s Covid-19 Inquiry’s, lead counsel Hugo Keith KC says the government gave “very little thought” into the “potentially massive impact” of a pandemic lockdown.
The hearing’s now preparing to take oral evidence from its first witnesses.
There were over 220,000 deaths in the UK where Covid mentioned on the death certificate,
A study’s found employees who work with artificial intelligence software are likely to be lonelier, struggle to sleep and have a drink at the end of the working day.
University of Georgia researchers undertook experiments in the US, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia, where they found the march of the robots was making the workforce sad as they analysed feelings of loneliness, attachment anxiety and sense of belonging.
Plus, Nasa’s Mars map project, tiny island gets space broadband, glow-worm romance dimmed by street lights, original Assassin’s Creed and GTA IV still retro games hits.
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