Are you affected by the delay? Email arthur.parashar@mailonline.co.uk Furious parents say they are unable to put food on the table after a glitch at HMRC meant some child benefit payments did not arrive as scheduled on Monday. HMRC has apologized after around 30 per cent of child benefit payments scheduled for June 3 have not … Read more
Unlock Editor’s Roundup for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here’s one for the corporate governance experts out there. Kelso is a UK-listed activist investor whose largest holding is THG, the protein bar maker and online cosmetics retailer. It says it owns about 0.5 percent of … Read more
This week, we’re highlighting the best demos you can play during Steam Next Fest, which starts on June 10. We’re calling this the Wish List, in partnership with Eurogamer and VG247. We’ll never know exactly what kind of fiction Tom Clancy would have written if he were less interested in the caliber of particular bullets … Read more
The controversy surrounding the recently announced Windows 11 recall continues. The UK Data Protection Supervisor already has confirmed that it is “investigating” with Microsoftwhile the billionaire CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk has warned millions of followers on X to ditch the feature— All this despite the fact that Recall is not yet available on any … Read more
When Charity Ekezie first joined TikTok and started posting videos from her home in Abuja, Nigeria in 2020, she had just quit a job at a radio station and thought it might be a good way to keep busy and to not allow her journalistic skills to decline. . Within a few months, she began … Read more
Image title, China’s space agency said the rover had flown a Chinese flag after completing its sample collection. Item information the author, Frances Mao role, BBC news 1 hour ago China says its lunar probe has successfully lifted off from the far side of the moon to begin its journey back to Earth carrying the … Read more
Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, called Core Ultra, represented the company’s biggest architectural change in 40 years. But Intel didn’t rest on its laurels: today it’s revealing how Lunar Lake, its next laptop chip coming this fall, will overhaul the formula again. Faced with the existential threat of Armi and the … Read more
Image title, Standard Chartered Bank has its headquarters in the city of London Item information the author, Andy Verity role, Economy Correspondent 3 hours ago A British bank that escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars in transactions for terrorist financiers, US court documents allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s biggest … Read more
Researchers at KAIST, in collaboration with multiple institutions, have experimentally confirmed the three-dimensional distribution of vortex-like polarization inside ferroelectric nanoparticles. Using electron atomic tomography, they mapped the atomic positions in the barium titanate nanoparticles and calculated the internal polarization distribution. This discovery confirms theoretical predictions made 20 years ago and has potential for the development … Read more
Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of other scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They were looking for a fern called Tmesipteris oblanceolata. Standing only a few inches tall, it wasn’t easy to find on the forest floor. “It’s not noticeable,” said Dr. Pellicer, who works at the … Read more