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Applications open for Antarctica’s penguin post office with one applicant using tattoos to show her enthusiam | Science & Tech News
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Applications are open to work in Antarctica’s famous “penguin post office”. Successful applicants will be “self-motivated”, “empathetic” and fine with showering once every two weeks. The shop in Port Lockroy is the southernmost post office in the world and frequently smells like penguin poo. Every year, the Antarctic Heritage Trust is flooded with applications for…
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Facebook owner Meta pays £149m to surrender lease on London office | Business News
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Meta has “surrendered” the lease on one of its London offices as tech firms continue efforts to slash costs. The parent firm of Facebook and Instagram let the space at 1 Triton Square from British Land, the FTSE 250 commercial property company, in 2021 but never moved in. Meta paid £149m to break the lease,…
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Zoom asks staff to return to office | Business News
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Zoom, the online meetings platform that became synonymous with home working during the pandemic, has told staff to come into the office more often. Workers who live within a “commutable distance” of the company’s offices, including in the UK, will be expected to make the journey on designated team days. The California-based firm had been…
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London Mayor’s Office data breach: Sexual abuse survivor ‘appalled’ as her personal details may have been accessible online | UK News
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A survivor of sexual abuse has described her distress that her personal details could have been made public online. Sky News can reveal that a data breach at the London Mayor’s Office affecting “around 400 people” is currently under investigation. It involves complaints about policing in the capital being made wrongly accessible via an official…
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Royal Navy helps dig out world’s most remote post office in Antarctic after 4m deluge of snow | World News
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Royal Navy sailors came to the aid of four women who have taken up jobs at an isolated Antarctic scientific base – after heavy snowfall buried some of the buildings. Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone beat a record number of applicants to become the team responsible for managing historic site Port…
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Apple tells staff they must work in office for most of the week | Science & Tech News
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Apple has told employees that they must get back in the office for at least three days every week. Like many companies, it is attempting to figure out what role its offices have after remote working prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Apple previously attempted to get staff back in the office in June 2021, only…