53 people including 41 children have died in a fire that engulfed the shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo, 2, 200 miles east of Moscow at 17:00 (10:00GMT). A further 15 are reported to be missing. The blaze started on an upper floor of the Winter Cherry Complex, while many…
Jan Morris, an extraordinary journalist, Welsh historian, author and travel writer published a book Battleship Yamato: Of war, beauty and irony (2018) to mark her 91st birthday, in which she has shown us the world. She is known for the Pax Britannia trilogy (1968-1978), a history of the British Empire, found inspiration almost everywhere, from…
Lynne Murphy, a professor of linguistics at Sussex University, a dual British and US citizen, and has a British spouse, who grew up in New York state, which makes her ideal person for Brits to complain to about Americans ruining the language. In The Prodigal Tongue, she gives an account of two Anglophone tribes and…
There is growing anxiety about the decline of the privacy in a high-tech era have helped creepy, obsessive persistent stalkers a boost. Leo Benedictus’s innovative approaches and follows the progression of a protagonist from mild sociopathy to deadly jeopardy. Once a target is selected he uses every means available from voyeuristic peeping to electronic surveillance…
Now Elon Musk, the billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX, has deleted his companies’ Facebook pages with over 5 million followers, in protest at the data leak scandal during a Tweetstorm. Musk was answering a flurry of tweets when he responded to Brian Acton, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp that contained the hashtag#deletefacebook. Despite the anti-facebook…
The Cambridge University sought the help of external arbitration to intervene in a dispute between Aleksandr Kogan, the academic and colleagues concerned by how he was planning to use data in work with Cambridge Analytics. Over the last years members of the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, worked on tools that can analyse anonymised Facebook data for…
Marielle Franco, a Rio City Councillor and her driver were shot dead last week after an event empowering black women. Public Secretary Minister Raul Jungmann confirmed on Friday night and said “the ammunition used to kill Marielle Franco came from a lot sold to the police in 2016 and stolen from a post office storage…
Dr Browning, a cancer researcher at the Georgia Cancer Centre and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, was able to cut the number of polyps in half in an animal model genetically designed to have a high incidence of colorectal cancer also known as bowel cancer…
Facebook shares plummeted, their worst fall in more than five years yesterday, dropping 7 per cent and wiping out $50 billion, EU enforcement agencies joined UK and US counterparts sought a warrant for Cambridge Analytica, who mined the data of 50m users to create profiles to target them in the elections, as footage emerges appearing…
GE Aviation’s GE9X, world’s largest jet engine has completed its first test flight in the Victorville, California, US. The GE9X features a front fan spanning 11.2 feet diameter and 16 fourth-generation carbon fibre composite fan blades. The engine can push 100, 000 pounds of thrust and is 10 per cent more efficient than the GE90…