Tech & Science Daily: how to see some serious space drama with the Perseid meteor shower

Are you in the mood for some serious space drama? well, you could be in luck on Thursday night with a stunning Perseid meteor shower.

The comet is travelling at around 130,000 miles per hour on a very long orbit around the sun.

We spoke to astronomer Patricia Skelton from the Greenwich Royal Observatory who told us how to get the best view.

Computer hackers have stolen around $600 million, or £433 million, worth of cryptocurrency in what is believed to be one of the biggest such heists in history.

The blockchain site Poly Network says hackers exploited a vulnerability in its network to steal thousands of digital tokens, including Ether and Binance coins that were transferred to external ‘wallets’.

Investigators say DeFi hit a record high of $474 million in the first seven months of this year.

But while losses from theft, hacks, and fraud in DeFi rocketed, the overall cryptocurrency market actually dropped to $681 million at the end of July, according to security firm CipherTrace.

Authorities in China have arrested a top public relations executive at Chinese social media giant Weibo, Amazon will pay US customers who suffer injuries or property damage from defective goods others sell on its platform, there are hopes the life of Geronimo the condemned alpaca could be saved, and, a chameleon-inspired soft robot that can change colour in real time to match its background has been created by scientists.

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