Record iPhone sales have helped Apple deliver revenues of more than $100bn over the Christmas quarter. Apple’s results beat Wall Street estimates as demand from stay-at-home consumers also boosted its Mac computers and iPad tablets over the three months to 26 December. Overall revenues climbed 21% compared with a year earlier to $111.4bn while iPhone
Month: January 2021
For the last four years the most important voice in America was largely absent from the discussion of how to tackle climate change. The new president of the United States has signalled he will not be silent on the “existential threat” facing the world. He has issued executive orders to cut oil, gas and coal
Kristen Stewart has been pictured as Diana, Princess of Wales, for the first time ahead of a new film. Twilight star Stewart, 30, plays the late royal in Spencer – which will focus on a weekend at the start of the 1990s when Diana decided her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales was over. This
Six Britons have been arrested after Thai police raided a party at a bar – in an operation targeting suspected COVID rule-breakers. The incident happened on Tuesday night local time, with 89 foreigners detained along with 22 Thais. Police raided the Three Sixty Bar on Koh Phangan island in the south of Thailand, according to
National landmarks have been bathed in purple light and people lit candles in their windows to remember the millions of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Seventy-six years to the day since Auschwitz was liberated, Wembley Stadium, Cardiff Castle and the Tyne Bridge were among the structures lit at 8pm following an hour-long online remembrance
Emotet, one of the world’s most dangerous cyber crime services, has been taken down following one of the largest ever internationally-coordinated actions against cyber criminals. Although it began as banking malware designed to steal financial credentials, Emotet had become an infrastructure tool leased out to cyber criminals to break into victim computer networks and install
The COVID-19 pandemic will cause “exponential” growth in heart disease over the next few years, researchers have claimed. It is known that COVID-19 can cause heart damage, but the pandemic also means that patients are delaying care for heart attacks and strokes, according to a report published by the American Heart Association. These issues are
A minister has defended the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, telling Sky News that in the future “I suspect there will be things that people will say we did extremely well”. Speaking the day after the UK exceeded 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said “there is no textbook as to how to
An events industry body has told Sky News that 400,000 jobs have been lost in a “perfect storm” for the sector during the coronavirus crisis. Peter Heath, managing director of the Performance Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA), said Brexit red tape had exacerbated the challenges facing the industry as it looks to get back on
Researchers have discovered the mechanism that contributes to the hallucinogenic drug LSD increasing social interactions, potentially unlocking new therapeutic applications. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) became a popular psychedelic drug during the 1960s and is again gaining in popularity, with some young professionals claiming to take micro-doses to enhance their creativity. Despite rigorous analysis and experimentation,
AstraZeneca’s chief executive has hit back at the EU by saying that “glitches” in the supply of coronavirus vaccines to the bloc are due to it signing its contract three months after the UK. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Pascal Soriot admitted there had been “teething problems” in various regions, including Europe
COVID vaccines are the “ticket to safeguarding health”, according to NBA Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The 73 year old filmed himself taking the vaccine to urge those feeling hesitant – especially in the Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities – to join him. “The virus is much worse than the
A surge in demand for new Xbox consoles as well as further growth in cloud computing has helped Microsoft deliver better than expected results over the Christmas quarter. Shares climbed 4% in after-hours trading adding to big gains over the last year for the US tech giant seen as one of the winners from the
Joe Biden has spoken to Vladimir Putin for the first time since taking office, with the US president raising concerns over the treatment of Alexei Navalny. The high-profile opposition figure, a vocal critic of the Russian president, was jailed after returning to Moscow from Germany, where he was recovering after being exposed to novichok. Mr
Elliot Page is divorcing his wife Emma Portner after three years of marriage. The 33-year-old actor filed for a contested divorce at Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday, legal records show. It comes three months after Portner, 26, expressed her support of Page coming out as transgender. She wrote on social media in December: “I am
Stars including Romesh Ranganathan, Meera Syal and Adil Ray have joined forces to counter coronavirus vaccination myths among ethnic minority communities. Organised by Ray, the video also features Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, cricketer Moeen Ali, and TV presenter and author Konnie Huq. Live coronavirus updates from the UK
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