Man hunting missing hard drive containing £150m of Bitcoin comes up with high-tech plan to recover it
He wants to turn Newport into a crypto-hub After years of rejected appeals, a man from Newport has dreamt up a plan to recover a lost hard drive containing a bitcoin fortune totalling £150m. Almost a decade ago, James Howells accidentally binned a memory stick containing cryptocurrency worth millions. Despite petitioning his local council to […]
3 years ago
This ‘jaw-dropping’ animation shows how many coffee cups are sold every second in the UK
After 14 seconds the pile would stretch as high as Blackpool Tower A jaw-dropping animation has been created to show exactly how many paper coffee cups are bought in the UK – every single second. The stack of coffee cups increases as the seconds tick by – overtaking the height of a giraffe in just half […]
3 years ago
Engineers develop an enzyme that can break down plastic in hours not centuries
A huge scientific breakthrough While plastic usually takes hundreds of years to decompose, Scientists have developed an enzyme that could shorten that time to mere hours. Engineers at the University of Texas in Austin have been working on solutions to the polyethylene terephthalate problem, which currently accounts for 12 per cent of the Earth’s global […]
4 years ago