The deal has yet to be approved by the relevant regulators, but Google has got most of the way to buying Fitbit – the maker of wearable devices that track people's sleep, heart rates, activity levels and more. And all for a trifling $2.1bn (£1.6bn).The upshot is yet another step forward in Google's quest to break into big tech's next frontier: healthcare. Last month, in a Financial Times feature about all this, came a remarkable quote from a partner at Health Advances, a Massachusetts-based tech consulting company. Wearables, he reckoned, would be only one small part of the ensuing story: just as important were – and no guffawing at the back, please – "bedside devices, under-mattress sensors, [and] sensors integrated into toilet seats". Such inventions, it was explained, can "get even closer to you than your smartphone, and detect conditions such as depression or heart-rate variability".

President Donald Trump cancelled his visit to the United Kingdom -- his first since taking office -- which was scheduled to happen in February this year, multiple reports revealed Thursday. The reason he gave for cancelling his visit was heavily criticized by British politicians. During his visit, he was supposed to inaugurate the new U.S. embassy in London as well as hold talks with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Feb. 26 -27. Trump put the blame of having to cancel his U.K. visit on former President Barack Obama. After Trump's tweet, a number of British politicians celebrated the fact he will not be visiting their country, adding that the reason he gave for cancelling was untrue.