March2022
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Zoe Covid-tracking app lost government funding
Mar 11, 2022An app that was widely used to track the symptoms of Covid will not have its government funding renewed as the UK adapts to living with the disease, reports BBC. Co-founder of the Zoe Covid study... -
Coinbase blocked 25,000 wallet addresses related to Russia
Mar 11, 2022Crypto-currency trading platform Coinbase has blocked 25,000 wallet addresses related to Russia. The platform said the addresses were related to Russian individuals or entities it believed to have engaged in illicit activity. The addresses were blocked... -
Price increases in the US continued to surge last month, pushing the annual inflation rate up 7.9%
Mar 11, 2022Price increases in the US continued to surge last month, pushing the annual inflation rate up 7.9%. That is the biggest year-on-year leap since 1982 and up from the 7.5% rate reported in January. Rising costs... -
Two non-executive directors of Huawei UK resigned
Mar 11, 2022Two non-executive directors of Huawei UK have resigned over the company’s stance on the conflict in Ukraine. The BBC understands Sir Andrew Cahn and Sir Ken Olisa felt the firm’s failure to quickly condemn the Russian... -
Additional UNICEF supplies on their way to Ukraine as number of child refugees exceeds 1 million mark
Mar 11, 2022More than 1 million children have now fled Ukraine as war continues to ravage the country, UNICEF said today. Most have fled with their families to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania. “The number of children... -
Two thirds of households with children lost income during pandemic
Mar 11, 2022At least two thirds of households with children have lost income since the COVID-19 pandemic hit two years ago, according to a new report published by UNICEF and the World Bank. Impact of COVID-19 on the... -
NASA started opening one of the last samples from the moon, collected 50 years ago
Mar 11, 2022The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. For all that time, some... -
US consumer prices hit a new 40-year high last month
Mar 11, 2022US consumer prices hit a new 40-year high last month as the world’s largest economy continued to be battered by a surge of inflation, which the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is expected to worsen.... -
The Yen fell to its lowest level against the dollar in five years
Mar 11, 2022The yen fell to its lowest level against the dollar in five years on Friday as analysts said the Japanese currency’s value was further weakened by rising US treasury yields. One dollar bought 116.29 yen at... -
Asian markets sank on Friday as traders resumed their Ukraine-fuelled selling
Mar 11, 2022Asian markets sank Friday as traders resumed their Ukraine-fuelled selling after the previous day’s bounce, with data showing US inflation at a 40-year high adding pressure on the Federal Reserve to ramp up interest rates. Bets...
