In April 2009, the Olympic Committee visited Rio to discuss the bid to host the games in Brazil and was awarded in October 2009, Brazil had come a long way to prepare for Olympics over the last seven years. Back then Brazil had a steady and popular President Lula and was praised around the world, with…
Christy Walton is the world’s richest Business women.
Renault-Nissan has a research centre in Silicon Valley and have “autonomous” cars which are used in real traffic conditions. A Nissan Leaf which is a heavily modified all-electric car was tested with a journalist present. It has cameras, sensors and other radar systems, as well as computing power in the trunk. This car can apparently help…
Above is a picture of the widow of Alexander Litvenenko who lost her husband when he drank tea laced with polonium. Two suspects – Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun have had their assets frozen through British Home secretary Theresa May. High Court Judge Sir Robert Owen ruled the two named people were behind the murder.…
Will anyone ever get sick of seeing Sylvester Stallone in any movie where we feel sympathy for the underdog – in this case the illegitamate son of Apollo Creed – former sparring rival of Rocky Balboa of all the Rocky films films which people have flocked to see but now we see former Rocky initally…
Colchao Inteligente Postural, a Brazilian mattress company, has created a bed that has a tiny box embedded on the side of the mattress to serve as mini-bed for your pet. Filipe Macahado Guterson, CEO said: “ It is my idea to create a ‘pet bed’ back in 2013, while working with a client who lived…
Gimps (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a global quest to find a particular type of large prime numbers, has discovered a new prime number which is 22, 338, 618 digits long, five million longer than the previous largest Prime. The discovered prime is written as 274,207281-1 which denotes two, multiplied by itself 74,207, 281 times,…
London’s Transport Authority has backed down on app restrictions in London which could have severely hampered 25,000 Uber drivers and other app-based car pick-up services. The California based international private-hire company had earlier urged its users to oppose suggestions that included a ban on apps being able to show where their nearby available vehicles are.…
This complex film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro, and several other great stars including Joy’s husband played by Edgar Ramirez who has something of the old school mystique about him. There also seems to be a young De Niro somewhere in the credits – not sure exactly who. The movie is directed by…
West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle playing for Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League (BBL), knocked Adelaide strikers reaching his fastest half century in 12 balls making 56 runs off 17 balls , 7 sixes and two boundaries. Set a target of 171 runs from 16 overs, Gayle was on warpath, hitting four successive sixes…