The earthquake that has killed more than 40,000 people and brought destruction and misery to Turkey and Syria lasted approximately 75 seconds. The economic, social and political reverberations will last years. As the experiences of countries as diverse as Haiti, Japan and Turkey itself reveal, it is only once the cameras leave and the world’s […]
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German researcher and his team think they’ve found a low-cost, quickly deployable detecting network (Image: Icarus/Martin Wikelski) Pets and farm animals could soon be drafted to provide a ready-made early alert system in regions at high risk of natural disasters in a pioneering effort by an international team of animal behavioural experts. By tracking the […]
As humankind races against the clock to save planet Earth from global warming before it’s too late (spoiler: we’re already in a bad position), it’s sometimes good to revisit the best disaster movies that show us just how special our world is — revealing why we should do everything in our power to preserve it […]
There is a famous quote I often think about at 3am on a Sunday morning as I am working with a client to recover from a large-scale cybersecurity incident: “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.” It is painfully obvious which clients have done some disaster recovery pre-planning and which haven’t. In the majority of incident […]
Among the brands to have entered the Den is Pasta Evangelists. Co-founders Finn Lagun and Alessandro Savelli’s time on Dragons’ Den aired in 2018, seeking £75,000 in exchange for a 2.5 percent equity stake in the business. Pasta Evangelists makes artisanal fresh pasta, which is available for home delivery and subscriptions. During their pitch five […]
There is a high demand for medicine in the UK (Image: Getty) Industry leaders warned yesterday in a letter to Steve Barclay that the sector is “at a fork in the road” – urging the Health Secretary to “make a critical choice about the role you want pharmacies to play”. The letter from the Pharmaceutical […]
The 2022 World Cup is officially over with Lionel Messi and Argentina crowned the champions at France’s expense on Sunday. Qatar was the most politically-charged World Cup yet and saw plenty of off-the-pitch storylines, as well as plenty on it. England fall short at the quarter-final hurdle, as did favourites Brazil, while there was disaster […]
In the buildup to the long-awaited Avatar sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, it’s easy to forget that 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Titanic, James Cameron‘s account of the infamous sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic. The director famously recreated the great ship to the last rivet, an astonishing attention to detail that borders on […]
To cap off the demo, James joked: “There we have it, I don’t think this will ever be repeated on TV. “We’re only doing it because it’s Christmas as well and you’re here,” he said to Luke as he passed him the plate. James continued: “But there you have it, the world’s most expensive ham, […]
This article was written for our sponsor, RapidScale No business expects to experience a major loss of data, but because the unexpected happens, the safest thing is to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Even the most cautious and prepared organization can experience things like power or hardware failures, viral attacks, natural […]