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What you need to know about recent changes in fuel, gas and oil prices | Belfast LiveNeed to knowSir Keir Starmer said he is determined to “clamp down” on people “getting ripped off” on their energy billsStock imageWhat you need to know about recent changes in fuel, gas and oil pricesChancellor Rachel Reeves gave an update this week around a crippling 81% increase in a week of home heating oil – used by more than 60 per cent of Northern Ireland homes. At Treasury questions the Chancellor was challenged over her response to the situation which has left thousands struggling…

Uber has added another company’s autonomous vehicles to its growing robotaxi network. Hyundai-owned Motional’s self-driving version of the Ioniq 5 is now available to be hailed for rides to and from five areas around the city — with a safety monitor in the car, for now. Starting Friday, the vehicles will do pickup and drop-offs in the rideshare zones at Resorts World and Encore hotel casinos on the Strip, along with the Westgate, which is next to the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Motional AVs will also handle rides to and from the Town Square shopping center near the city’s…

Location : The A120 eastbound at the junction with the M11 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 06:00 and 06:15 on 14 March 2026. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

The FBI is investigating a hacker suspected of publishing several video games laced with malware on the popular PC games store Steam, the agency said Friday.  In its announcement looking for victims who may have been infected, the FBI listed the following games suspected of being developed by the same cybercriminal over the last two years, hosted on the Steam store but embedded with malware: BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse/DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova. This is not the first time hackers have been able to host malware on the Valve-owned games marketplace. Last year, hackers published several games on Steam that…

Bitcoin miners are caught in the tightest squeeze of the network’s history, and a new Wintermute report argues that simply waiting for the next bull run is no longer a strategy.  Instead, the firm says miners will have to reinvent themselves as infrastructure and treasury managers if they want to make it to the next halving. Wintermute analyst Jasper De Maere says the current mining cycle is structurally different from prior ones in 2018 and 2022. Bitcoin’s design cuts block rewards in half every four years, but this time the price has not doubled over the same window, which means…

The work, starting on March 26, will take place on Shinewater Bridge, which carries the A22 Golden Jubilee Way over a railway line in Eastbourne. East Sussex Highways will replace the bridge bearings and joints as part of a planned maintenance scheme to address components that have reached the end of their service life. The Shinewater Bridge on the Golden Jubilee Way. (Image: East Sussex County Council) An East Sussex Highways spokesman said: “Replacing the bearings and joints will help protect the structure, reduce the risk of future disruption and ensure the bridge remains safe for all users. “The work…

In the lead up to International Women’s Day 2026, we decided to do something different. Rather than the usual articles with floods of stats on women in tech and the like, we chose to speak to the women themselves. Who knows best what it’s like to be a female in the tech and startup landscape than the women navigating this environment every single day? Our IWD 2026 interview series, “The Women Who Move Us” took off immediately, and although we knew it would be an awesome read, it was incredible to see so many of our readers share the sentiment.…

Apple is dropping its commission rate in the App Store in China to 25% from 30% following discussions with the Chinese regulator, the company said Thursday. The new 25% commission will apply to paid apps and in-app purchases, while a lower 12% commission (down from 15%) will be charged for auto-renewals of in-app purchases after their first year. The changes go into effect on March 15, 2026, and will not require developers to accept new terms, Apple said. The decision to adjust commissions without a long, public battle indicates both how important China is to Apple’s market, as well as…

This article was supported by Global Health Strategies [NAIROBI, SciDev.Net] Mainstreaming locally-led adaptation interventions is vital to building resilience against escalating climate risks, which are threatening livelihoods, ecosystems and development in Africa, according to new analysis. However, adaptation efforts on the continent remain fragmented, unevenly financed, and dominated by external  priorities, finds the study, published by Global Health Strategies in partnership with the African Union (AU) Commission’s  Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy Directorate. “Adaptation must move from being treated as a project-based kind of environmental issue to being mainstreamed into economic planning and public finance systems and sectoral policy.” Emmanuel…

Uber founder Travis Kalanick has a new company called Atoms focused on robotics that, according to its website, will operate in the food, mining, and transportation industries. Kalanick is rolling his existing ghost kitchen company, CloudKitchens, into Atoms. It’s not immediately clear how he plans to tackle mining and transportation. Atoms’ website says it will build a “wheelbase for robots,” and Kalanick said in a live interview with TBPN on Friday that his company will apply this wheelbase to “specialized robots” — not humanoids. “Humanoids have their place, but there’s a lot of room for specialized robots that do things…