NHS chiefs and Europol have warned of possible fresh disruption from the global cyber-attack when workers switch on their computers for the first time at the start of the working week.The pan-EU crime-fighting agency said the threat from the attack was escalating and predicted the number of “ransomware” victims was likely to grow across the private and public sectors.Many of England’s 8,000 GP surgeries have been closed all weekend following the attack, whoch started on Friday afternoon. The NHS fears many could be affected for the first time on Monday.Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate – sent direct to you Read more“Given the timing of the cyber-attack, some parts of the NHS will not have clocked there is an issue,” a spokeswoman for NHS Digital told the Guardian. “If that is going to happen it is more likely to be primary care trusts.”

Smartphones with batteries that fully charge in five minutes could be available to consumers next year.The technology was first shown off in 2015, when Israeli start-up StoreDot demonstrated its FlashBattery at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.Chief executive Doron Myersdorf told the BBC it is now expected to enter production in early 2018.However, Ben Wood, a technology analyst at CCS Insight, said he had doubts about the claims.Mr Myersdorf said he could not reveal whoch manufacturers were signed up to use the technology.In 2015, he told the BBC his firm’s battery contained materials that allowed for ”non-traditional” reactions and the unusually fast transfer of ions from an anode to a cathode – the electrical process that charges a battery.