Octopuses like HDTV as much as we do. Who knew? Apparently a group researches with too much grant money available tested a bunch of cephalopods a while back and found that while they appear intelligent, they didn’t responded to images on standard definition TVs. So they redid the test with HDTVs recently. [...]
More than 30,000 people owe at least £10,000, MPs say Benefit claimants owe an "immense" £1.85bn in overpayments but the government is recovering less than £300m a year, MPs say.The public accounts committee is urging the Department for Work and Pensions to improve [...]
Yay, taxes! It looks like more and more states are considering forcing the likes of Amazon and Overstock.com (note: I’ve never bought anything from there!) to pay taxes. This is good and bad: it helps, however little, state governments balance the books, but it also raises the cost of “doing business” in [...]
Sir Stirling Moss: ‘Do I bank online? Good lord no’ How do you invest? I endeavour to use money to my advantage by investing it in property. My father used to say there is no better hedge against inflation than bricks and mortar and [...]
If you’re thinking of putting down some bread for a new Canon lens, be sure to avail yourself of the various rebates in effect. Not that you’ll save more than $50 on a purchase of like a grand, but hey, that’s a couple filters or a lens bag right there. That 85mm [...]
Sean David Morton, who was on Thursday charged on a number of counts of securities fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), raised the funds by telling potential investors he could accurately predict stock market movements using psychic abilities. In one edition of his newsletter, Mr Morton, whose website shows him with [...]
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Stephen Hester: "The starting point for RBS was unenviable" Royal Bank of Scotland [...]
Britain’s finances suffered another blow last month as the public sector was forced to borrow money in January for the first time on record.[Read more...]
The Trust said Radio 2 must do more to attract older listeners BBC Radio 2 must do more to attract ethnic minority listeners and those over 65, the BBC Trust has said.In a major review, the trust also said the station needed to [...]
Flattr will funnel cash to sites to reward their work One of the founders of the Pirate Bay is kicking off a venture that aims to help websites generate cash.Called Flattr, the micropayments system revolves around members paying a fixed monthly fee. At [...]
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