Amazon and Google have hired lots of floor space at CES to spotlight products that tie into their virtual assistants. LG display says it has a 65in ceiling mounted screen that can be rolled up when not in use. Min-LED involves using smaller light-emitting diodes than normal to illuminate a screen’s colour pixels which allowed…
A Ukrainian Boeing -737 PS752 flight to Kyiv carrying 176 people has crashed in Iran at 06:12 local time (02:42GMT) Debris and engine parts from the Boeing 737-800Ng plane were found 10km from the Tehran Imam Khomeini airport. The majority of passengers were from Iran and Canada.
Dubai based company made a payment to the private jet operator. Former British serviceman Mike Taylor and George Zayek, two private security contractors who accompanied Mr. Ghosn on escape from Japan. Their involvement cost Mr. Ghosn’s audacious escape $20m in the escapes and forfeited bail and is believed to have involved his boarding a plane…
Sixty firefighters and eight fire engines helped to tackle a major fire at Koko in Camden High Street, just before 21:00 GMT, as smoke and flames could be seen billowing from the scaffolding in the roof of KoJo which is currently under refurbishment and was due to reopen in spring. According to fire brigade 30…
I have been on the planet two and sixty years Full of aspirations, love and hate and hopes and fears I have seen some doing lots of good, and some lots of bad Some bringing happiness and joy, some making people very sad So I am wondering who created the idea of hell and heaven?…
More than 5.9 million hectares (14.7m acres) are affected in the forest fires in Australia and the Queen has sent a message of sympathy and support to the country as at least 24 people have died and more than 1,300 houses have been destroyed. Other countries assisting in fighting the fires includes the US, Canada…
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines as advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. So how can we thrive in a world with less work? Susskind reminds us that technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, but the challenge will be…
Tesla’s share prices which nearly halved in the opening months of 2019 have since rebounded 140 per cent to value over $80bn. In the latest quarter, Tesla has delivered over 367, 500 cars in 2019 up 50 per cent from the previous year and topped all Wall Street expectations. Shares in the company surged 5.5…
Lebanon confirmed it had received an international wanted warrant notice from Interpol for the sixty-five-year-old ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who has French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship. Interpol’s red notices are used to request law enforcement agencies to arrest a fugitive. Ghosn was facing trial in April on financial misconduct charges, which he denies before he…
Google has overhauled its global tax structure and consolidated all of its intellectual property holdings back to the US, putting an end to the winding-down of a loophole estimated to have saved the US groups hundreds of billions of dollars. The company said this week that the move was designed to simplify its corporate tax…