The Raspberry Pi3 the New Sinclair

The Raspberry Pi sales are expected to surpass eight million units, featuring 64-bit processor and built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth connections according to founder Eben Crhistopher Upton, a Computer Science graduate from University of Cambridge, PhD, MBA and director of Studies in Computer Science at St Johns College. He is the technical director and SoC architect…

Leonardo DiCaprio wins the Oscar after 23 years

Brie Larson Best Actress ‘Room’ The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured the best films of 2015, which took place on February 28, 2106 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Steve Golin and Michael Sugar’s ‘Spotlight’ wins the Best Picture, Son of Saul Best Foreign Language…

Rebel Rover racehorse went for a 7 hour swim!

A spooked racehorse with a name to match swam seven miles when he threw his rider during a training run. Rebel Rover who had only recently  made a come back after a ban for naughty behaviour in the stalls, was pursued by Brisbane Police who heard from his trainer Brad Smith that  horses do not normally…

Another celebrity dives in police enquiry into abuse

Fun loving DJ Tony Blackburn has been sacked from the BBC after failing to fully co-operate with the BBC Savile inquiry.  BBC Boss Lord Hall said he had “fallen short” of standards the inquiry demanded. A claim that he seduced a 15 year old female after a recording of Top of the Pops has been…

Dutch Police get snappy about crocs – a strange tale

A pair of huge menacing crocodiles – adult size were chosen by a gang of drug dealers in Holland to guard their loot.  Police arrested 11 suspects in connection with the crime and seized £240,000 in cash hidden in a cage with the two crocs. “They thought it was safer” said police spokesman Frans Zulderhock…

David Astor: enigmatic Editor

David Astor,  pioneering Editor who loved an underdog and effective proprietor of the Observer from 1948 to 1975,  for nearly three decades  captures  journalistic golden age, protrayed  the liberal values in a world of prejudice, suppoorting the anti-colonial liberation movements in Africa and Asia, campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty, discrimination of homosexuality,…

Matters of how life works and Logic of living at the Serengeti

Sean Carrol, an award-winning scientist, writer and educator, found how life works at vastly different scales and one of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated, even there are rules the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant…

Volvo first with an app for keyless cars

Volvo, Swedish Auto manufacturer has started testing a smartphone app that would replace physically keys making it the first car to offer vehicles without keys. The app would feature Bluetooth enabled digital key technology and even offer drivers the ability to receive multiple digital key on the app which would allow access to different Volvo…

London City Airport sold for £2bn

London City Airport sold to Kuwait Investment Authority, a state-owned Sovereign fund, Borealis Infrastructure, Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan fund, AIMCo, an American investment management company, Wren House, an infrastructure investment vehicle owned by Sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the American private equity company who owned 75  per cent stake, and Oaktree…

The Flying Scotsman leaves King’s Cross

The Flying Scotsman, one of the world’s most famous locomotives, painted in its traditional British Rail colours, is making the journey from London King’s Cross to York where it will go on display at the National Railway Museum (NRM). It departed King’s Cross as scheduled at 07:40 GMT and is heading up the East Coast…