Apple is likely to have been working on its own search engine for years, after key hiring in 2018 of John Giannandrea, former Google head of search to improve AI tech and Siri and software hints to improve search. The Applebot web crawler has seen increased activity for years, potentially laying the groundwork for a…
Resolution Foundation’s latest survey of 6, 000 adults found 19 per cent of 18-24-year-olds who were furloughed during lockdown were unemployed in September. For Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic workers the figure was 22 per cent compared to 9 per cent for the general population. The Treasury said its wage support schemes had helped…
NASA confirmed it found traces of water on a sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. The discovery made using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Centre. Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator tweeted “ We confirmed water on the sunlit surface of the Moon…
A Tweet announcing the relaunch of Woolworths although proved to be a hoax but gone viral. The Twitter account@UKWoolworths, linked to a website that was not active, which has now over 4, 000 followers misspelled the shop’s name. Very, the company that owns the local rights to the Woolworths brand, confirmed it was a hoax.…
The celebrated Raindance Film Festival Begins 28 October 2020 (their 28th British Festival) – mostly online and mostly on voluntary payment – so its free if you want it to be! Read on for the most exciting new films to watch! ENJOY! The online films and other content are all available via the Raindance Player: cinema.raindance.org –…
HSBC has reported a 35 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September and wants to start charging for current accounts. Europe’s largest bank by assets is finding it difficult to charge more for loans than it pays out to depositors as the interest rates are the…
South Korea’s Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee died on Sunday aged 78. He helped to grow his father Lee Byung-chull’s noodle trading business into South Korea’s biggest conglomerate. Mr. Lee who was Samsung’s big thinker, the provider of grand strategic direction was convicted and pardoned twice for white collar crimes. Lee Kun-hee, who had been…
Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age granting immense power to the government and corporations. Data harvesting and digital Surveillance are a major concern, as we are dreading about what is being done with our data. Frimin DeBrabander a professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art asks how we can ensure…
Rolls-Royce shares were on a roll as investors bet on the takeover and the engineering giant’s continued recovery from the coronavirus pandemic induce share slump. Roll’s share price has risen more than 100 per cent in just two weeks after it revealed plans to shore up its balance sheet by £6 billion at the end…
Former president Jospeh R Biden Jr has been called the luckiest man and the unluckiest – a fifty-year political career that reached the White House also marked by deep personal losses that he suffered. AS Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to…