Oppressive Code

Digital tool, you presume as a transparent and democratising “disrupters”, but as currently deployed algorithms pose a major threat to the human rights of marginalised groups. Safiya Umoja Noble, an assistant professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, pens her experience in her latest book Algorithms of Oppression. Noble used Google…

Kim Kardashian takes her baby to a family baseball game

Kim Kardashian (37), takes her baby to a family baseball game coached by J Lo’s boyfriend Alex Rodriguez in Chicago. #she was kitted out in full Calabasas kit  in futuristic shades with her hair tied back for her time on the ball field and appeared to be handy with the bat, slugging a ball through…

New Look shuts 60 stores risking 1000 jobs in UK

New Look is axing  980 jobs as it plans to shut 60 stores and slash rent on over 400 shops as part of restructuring rescue deal according to the company. The clothing giant, which has 906 shops worldwide is working with insolvency experts at Deloitte and plans to shut 10 per cent of its stores…

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day was first organised by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of a Theresa Malkiel who came to New York aged 17 in 1891, as a refugee fleeing anti-Semitic violence in Russia and 18 years later she founder Women’s Day.  She was forced to provide for herself, finding work as a…

P&G brings ads control in-house

The World’s biggest advertiser, Proctor & Gamble, is to bring the control of its marketing and advertising in-house, saving  £.144bn ($2bn) in spending with ad agencies. The consumer goods group has already cut its agency spend by $750m in the past three years and surprised industry’s largest companies such as Publicis and WPP, as they…

Polymer-based super capacitors are emerging technology for electric cars

Dr Donald Highgate working with Bristol and Surrey universities and Director of Research at Superdielectrics Ltd is to develop supercapacitors using the new polymer which was originally used in soft contact lenses which can surprisingly good at holding an electrostatic field. Dr Highgate is of the opinion that the new polymer could eventually rival or…

The Shape of Water wins four Oscars

James Ivory wins Oscar   At the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony which took place on Sunday 4th March 2018, evening, The Shape of Water emerged victorious winning a total of four Academy Awards, including, Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo del Toro, original score and product design.  Gary Oldman wins best actor Oscar…