A medieval chess piece bought for £5 and left in a drawer for years has been sold at auction for £785, 000. The ivory figure is one of the five missing pieces from the historic Lewis Chessmen discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The collection said to have inspired…
Online retailer Amazon, have introduced Artificial Intelligence cameras to watch the tracking process and automatically track which products go into which bins in the warehouse. Brad Porter, Amazon’s vice-president of robotics said that the camera would not replace human workers , but would change how they do their jobs. “ We wanted to get to…
Warren Buffet world’s fourth richest person is donating $3.6 million worth of his company Berkshire Hathaway’s stock to five charities which includes Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity run by his friend and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and hsi wife. This brings the total amount of stock he’s given the foundations to about $34billion…
Beijing’ second international airport shaped like a starfish has been completed after five years of construction. The new airport will be able to handle 72 million passengers a year by 2025, and 100 million by 2040. The building was designed by Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, who died in 2016. Vijay Mallya get permission to appeal…
Vijay Mallya had been granted permission by a London court to appeal the UK’s decision to extradite him to India. There’s a “real risk” that political pressures “ will undermine the fairness of any trial”. Mallya said He also claimed that Barrack 12 of Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail is “unbearably hot in the summer” and…
Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel has completed its €740m acquisition of Arcelor Mittal’s European assets, which has a rolling capacity of over 10m tonnes a year. The deal turns Liberty, the industrial and metal s UK company into one of the largest steelmakers globally after an aggressive buying spree. Now Liberty owns seven steelworks employing 14,…
ICC World Cup Men’s Cricket at Edgbaston, Birmingham Bangladesh Vs India India 314-9 ( 50 ov) Rahul 77 off 92, 6 fours, 1 six, Rohit Sharma 104 off i2, 7 fours, 5 sixes, Pant 48 iff 41 6 fours, 1 six, Dhoni 35 off 33, 4 fours, Mustafizur 5-59, Shabib 1-41, Rubel 1-48, Soumya 1-33.…
ICC Men’s World Cup Cricket 2019 at Emirates Riverside, Chester-le-Street Sri Lanka Vs West Indies Sri Lanka 338-6 (50 ov) D Karumnaratne 32 off 48, 4 fours, K Perera 64 off 51, 8 fours, Avishka Fernando 104 off Kusal Mendis 39 off 41, Thirimanne 45 off 33, 4 four, Cottrell 1-69, Thomas 1-58, Holder 2-59,…
Ahren, an innovative fund backed by eight of Cambridge’s best known scientists and engineers, has raised £196m ( $250m) to invest in companies aiming to create new technologies with large market potential. The scientists hope the fund will help to ease the shortage of capital for innovation start-up companies in the UK. the range of…
The National Health Service opened the UK’s first ever cannabis treatment clinic in response to alarming levels of “skunk” induced psychosis, as tens and thousands of people are affected. Users of skunk, in the potent form of cannabis, are displaying symptoms of psychosis according to the psychiatrist leading the pilot clinic based in King’s College…