Author: James Martin
Amazon has launched a new subscription service that will let customers in the US get as many eligible medications as they need for $5 a month. The new service called RxPass is part of the e-commerce giant’s Pharmacy business that originally launched in 2020 as a two-day prescription drug delivery offering for Prime users. That makes RxPass a $5 add-on for Prime, which sets users back $139 a year or $15 a month in the US. While it doesn’t look quite as affordable bundled with Prime pricing, the RxPass program does offer medications for 80 common health conditions, including high…
In the field of criminology, real-world practitioners are sometimes intrigued by the gullibility of human perceptions. Of which, later on, we see the development of alleged expertise, purporting some new invention. Gee whiz gadgets and gizmos of feel good “psycho-babble” interfere with the realistic practical applications. These dreamlike conjectures typically involve replacing fact with fiction. Pseudo-science that hasn’t met the reliability of bone fide experiential authenticity. Usually, this impulse to speculation derives from sensational news reports. Television dramas, talk show “experts” or creative movie scripts fund the urban legends of criminal behavior theory. Careers are established, books are sold and…
Twitter is being sued by the crown estate for allegedly failing to pay rent on its London headquarters.The estate, which manages property belonging to King Charles III, filed a claim against Twitter in the high court in the capital last week.The alleged rental arrears relates to the office space near Piccadilly Circus in central London, according to the BBC.Twitter did not immediately respond for a request for comment.The crown estate, which owns a property portfolio worth £15.6bn, including 241 locations in central London, said the court action related to “rental arrears” on the social media platform’s office space in the…
After shipping its first solar EV only weeks ago, Dutch automaker Lightyear has announced that it’s suspending production of that model (called the 0) to focus on the more affordable Lightyear 2. It made the move after opening a waitlist for the Lightyear 2 that generated more than 40,000 subscriptions on top of the existing 20,000 pre-orders from fleet owners. “In order to safeguard our vision, we had to decide to redirect our focus and resources completely towards Lightyear 2,” the company wrote in a press release. “This means in effect that we had to suspend the production of Lightyear…
Prince Andrew was spotted driving in his Range Rover yesterday hours before his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell spoke from behind bars.The Duke of York, 62, has kept a low profile since coming to a settlement allegedly worth £12 million with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, 39, who claimed she was trafficked via paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.In her interview with Talk TV, Ghislaine Maxwell, 61, who was convicted of procuring girls for Epstein, said she wished she’d never met the business mogul.Maxwell also referred to the infamous picture of herself, Ms Giuffre – who at the time used her maiden name Roberts – and…
Two hundred asylum-seeking children who were placed in hotels run by the Home Office have gone missing, a minister has admitted.They include one girl and at least 13 children under the age of 16, the Home Office minister Simon Murray told the House of Lords on Monday.The disclosure comes after the Observer reported that a whistleblower from a Home Office hotel in Brighton had claimed that some children had been abducted off the street outside the facility and bundled into cars.The department was warned by police that the vulnerable occupants of the hotel – asylum-seeking children who had recently arrived…
The lightning network is a layer that exists on top of bitcoin. It is the latest invention being rolled out by the bitcoin community. This layer can be used as a payment protocol. This is made possible by the ability to transport its value through people. Clearly, bitcoin will be made both a transport layer and an application layer. The lightning network has been applauded by many due to its potential to solve bitcoin scalability problem. It achieves this by enabling transactions between participating nodes. Also, concerns have been raised unto the legibility and importance of training people on the…
Elon Musk said he could’ve sold his SpaceX shares to take Tesla private when he took the witness stand again to defend his 2018 “funding secured” tweets in a lawsuit filed by the automaker’s shareholders. According to CNBC, Musk proclaimed: “SpaceX stock alone meant ‘funding secured’ by itself. It’s not that I want to sell SpaceX stock but I could have, and if you look at the Twitter transaction — that is what I did. I sold Tesla stock to complete the Twitter transaction. And I would have done the same here.” He didn’t say how many of his shares…
Fancy getting ultrafast broadband without paying a hefty premium? It might be worth checking out Virgin Media’s latest offering with the Internet Service Provider (ISP) slashing the price of its best-ever speeds to under £40 per month. Virgin’s Gig1 plan offers downloads in excess of 900Mbps – at that rate, it would take under 30 seconds to download a full 4K movie.This ultimate broadband usually costs £62 per month but thanks to the firm’s Winter Sale event, that price has been slashed to just £39.99 saving you almost £400 over the 18-month contract.That’s one of Virgin’s lowest prices and beats…
CNN — Friday marks three years since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in the United States. The virus still has not settled into a predictable pattern, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for the Covid-19 response, said this week. “We didn’t need to have this level of death and devastation, but we’re dealing with it, and we are doing our best to minimize the impact going forward,” Van Kerkhove told the Conversations on Healthcare podcast. On January 20, 2020, the first case of Covid-19 in the US was diagnosed in Snohomish County, just north of Seattle,…