A British-founded scam site used to scam tens of thousands of people out of money has been taken offline and dozens of people have been arrested around the world.
Metropolitan Police have shut down a site called LabHost, which was launched in 2021 and scammed up to 70,000 victims in the UK, obtaining 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs worldwide.
It was said to have been created by a criminal network that charged other fraudsters up to £300 a month for subscriptions to set up phishing sites aimed at stealing people's email addresses, passwords and banking details. It has been.
The website also provides tutorials for would-be fraudsters with limited IT knowledge, and since its launch the site has earned just under £1 million from criminal users.
A team of paleontologists has identified a new species of prehistoric ichthyosaur, believed to be the largest known marine reptile in history.
This giant marine reptile is thought to have resembled a porpoise or porpoise, and this particular species, Ichthyotitan severnensis, may have been about the size of a blue whale.
Dr Dean Lomax, from the University of Manchester, who worked on identifying this giant species, tells Tech & Science Daily the story behind the discovery and explains why it's so important.
American robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a teaser video for its latest humanoid robot called Atlas.
The video shows the human-shaped robot lying on the ground, then standing up in a reverse crab-like motion, turning its hips and head 180 degrees, and walking towards the camera.
Instead of a human face, it has a giant lens-like thing surrounded by a ring light on its head, and short antennae.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter said, “We'll be able to do a range of motions that humans can't do,” adding that he'll be releasing a video later showing Atlas performing more actual operational tasks. ” he teased. -World objects.
Researchers say the extreme heat waves that hit “highly vulnerable” people in parts of Africa would not have happened without climate change.
According to World Weather Attribution, from late March to early April 2024, regions across the Sahel and West Africa experienced extreme heat with maximum temperatures exceeding 45 degrees Celsius.
An international group of scientists said 102 deaths were recorded in Mali's hospitals between April 1 and April 4, and the hospital said the heat was likely a factor in many of the deaths.
The group said both observations and models indicate that without global warming of 1.2 degrees Celsius to date, a heat wave as large as the one observed in March and April in the region would not have been possible. It is said that this shows that.
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