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Zipcar reverses out of Britain: Zipcar, the car-sharing group owned by US rental company Avis Budget, is leaving the British market. The UK unit swung to a £4m operating loss in 2024 from a £303,000 p

One in eight people in the US have tried one of the new weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, says Emily Anthes in The New York Times. “Fluffy and Fido could be next.” San Francisco

More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

It was one of those discussions on the PC Pro Discord channel (pcpro.link/discord) that spilled into the pub with the requisite beer. Given that Microsoft has announced, to a not entirely enthusiastic

I really don’t like New Year. Despite happy memories of getting engaged on 31 December many moons ago, I find it makes me a bit insecure. I worry there’s a party everyone is going to that I’m not invi