Freedom to Think is a story about trillion-dollar tech companies, their algorithms, and categorises us and jumps to troubling conclusions about who we are. Their intrusion further into our lives also shapes our everyday thoughts choices and actions – from who we date to whether we vote to our sexual orientation with facial recognition technology…
The Slow Road to Tehran by Rebecca Lowe, is a two-wheeled adventure tale, travelling 11, 000 miles, a year-long adventure plodding from Europe to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, and the UAE before finally arriving in Iran. Lowe, who was the chief reporter at the International Bar Association, is adept at human rights issues,…
The West’s strategy of engagement with China has failed. The result of more than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies has left China far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China’s rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their…
We are fascinated by the French, their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. British Journalist and historian Peter Watson, says France is the nation’s long tradition of the Renaissance salons that were breeding ground for poets, writers, philosophers, scientists, and artists in the drawing-room of…
The Academy voted on Friday to sanction Will Smith after he slapped comic Chris Rock at the 94th Oscar Awards ceremony after Jada Joke. Will Smith has since apologised for his actions and resigned from the Academy. The actor hit Rock for joking about his wife’s shaved head due to hair loss condition alopecia. Less…
Ed Sheeran won his High Court copyright case over one of his 2017 hit songs Shape of You, as judge Antony Zacaroli, ruled on Wednesday that the singer-songwriter had “ neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied. Similarities between the one-bar phrase” in Shape of You and Oh Why, but said, “such similarities are only a starting…
Actress June Muriel Brown, who played Dot Cotton on BBC’s EastEnders for more than three decades had died at the age of 95. Brown first appeared in the series in 1985, the year EastEnders was created. She stayed until 1993, returning to play the same character from 1987 until 2020. Her private life was touched…
The BMW iX’s futuristic shape, sophisticated interior with re-engineered seats, transparent intelligent center console, and innovation will enhance your modern driving experience. The all-new BMW-iX xDrive50 boosts sports-car level acceleration, effortlessly racing from 0 to 60 mph in less than 5 seconds is also armed with dual electric motors, with outputs over 500hp, 10-80% charged…
Women’s World Cup final, Christchurch Australia 356-5 off 50 ov, Healy 170 off 138, 26 fours, Haynes 68 off 93, 7 fours, Shurbsole 3-46. England 285 ao off 43.4ov, Sciver 148* off 121, 15 fours, 1 six, Jonassen 3-57, King 3-64 Australia won by 71 runs Australia who already holds the Ashes crown trounced England…
Sir Viv Richards is 70, who played cricket with his poise and courage, is reflecting on the impact of his batting which went far beyond the runs he scored 15, 261 including 35 centuries across 308 Tests and ODIs for West Indies. “As a young man growing up, I was always reading about the struggles…