Month: July 2021
Grateful Women at Home
Gratitude is a universal human experience; the feeling of being thankful and appreciative of something or someone. It has multiple benefits, both for the person experiencing it and the person receiving it. Gratitude therefore acts as a signal that another person cares and is making an effort to understand us. It’s not enough to feel
Pandemic Scammers
The pandemic, it seems, has created a unique crucible for online fraud to flourish, as scam artists capitalise on our fears and anxieties during a time of great uncertainty and isolation. To avoid being duped ourselves, we need a much greater awareness of specific ways they bypass our critical thinking. Online fraud has, of course,
Rathlin Island to be carbon neutral
The island relies on its ferry service, home heating oil, diesel and petrol for transport on island and gas for cooking and All of those things produce carbon dioxide and other gases that pollute the atmosphere. Now islanders want to use the wind and waves that surround them to create their own green energy, now,
Heart Inflammations after Second Dose
The benefits of Covid-19 vaccines continue to far outweigh any risks but patients have been advised to be aware of the symptoms of heart inflammation an they include include chest pain, a feeling of breathlessness and a pounding or fluttering heartbeat. It has been reported that A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in
assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
Unidentified gunmen, with military grade weapons, carried out the attack and were reported to be speaking Spanish and English, not the French-based Haitian Creole of the island. On July 7th 2021 Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated during an attack on his residence that also left his wife critically injured. It has since been confirmed
heatwave in US-Canada
Climate researchers have grown used to heatwaves breaking records all over the world in recent years. However, beating the previous national high temperature mark by more than 4C in one go, as happened in Canada last week, is virtually unprecedented. If humans hadn’t influenced the climate to the extent that they have, the event would
£1,080 Microsoft bonus pay to its workers
The big tech firms have done well during the pandemic and Microsoft is not the only firm to have made bonus payments to staff. Microsoft is to give its non-executive staff a $1,500 (£1,080) bonus for their work during the pandemic. Google made a similar $1,000 payment in May 2020. In March 2020, Facebook gave
Pro-Back Profile Misread as a Threat on TikTok
TikTok’s Creator Marketplace is currently in invite-only beta testing, but aims to connect creators with brands for sponsorship deals. TikTok blocked users of its Creator Marketplace from using the word “black” and phrases like “Black Lives Matter” in their bios, as the algorithm flagged them as “inappropriate content”. TikTok said that the app mistakenly flagged
Low Quality Pics on WhatsApp Fix
WhatsApp does not send them at fully quality – instead, it compresses them significantly. While the compression ensures that the images do not take up too much data to send or space on people’s phones, it does also mean that they can look as if they were taken on a far worse camera because of
Windows Patch Accidently Broke Printer Connections
Users that installed the ‘PrintNightmare’ patch, which stops hackers using a critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler software that could result in malicious individuals running code as administrators on machines, discovered that they could not connect to their printers. An emergency update issued to Windows 10 by Microsoft to stop a printer exploit bug