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How Chinese takeaway worker led police to Bitcoin worth £3bn in Britain’s biggest ever cryptocurrency seizure | UK News
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Within weeks of Yadi Zhang’s arrival in London in September 2017, Jian Wen had left her job and room in a Chinese takeaway and moved into a £5m six-bedroom house near Hampstead Heath. The women, who claimed to run an international jewellery business trading in diamonds and antiques in countries including Japan, Thailand and China,…
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Down the drain: What went wrong with Britain’s water system? | Science & Tech News
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If you want to understand how Britain got mired in a sewage crisis from which it may never truly escape, the best place to begin is not this year or last year, or for that matter the year England’s water industry was privatised (1989), but more than a century-and-a-half ago. It might seem odd to…
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Britain’s first garbage truck for space could clear up junk with bear hug | World News
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Britain’s first garbage truck for space could clear up junk with a bear hug – or even the robotic equivalent of a litter-picker. The two techniques are being proposed by companies competing for a UK contract to launch a clean-up mission as soon as 2026. The winning prototype will track down and capture two defunct…
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What are noise-detecting cameras and how will they crack down on Britain’s loudest drivers? | Science & Tech News
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There is no shortage of speed cameras on Britain’s roads, and plenty of us have likely fallen foul of them at some point. But soon, more of the transport network will be under the gaze of another piece of technology monitoring how we drive. Noise-detecting cameras are on their way to more parts of the…