London Black cabs are going green. Family owned technology group Frazer Nash will this year begin selling its electric Metrocab through Ecotive, a company owned by the same family after a lawsuit from Chinese competitor London Electric Vehicle Company delayed its plan by three years. LEVC began making its electric vehicles, but early production setbacks…
Now Elon Musk, the billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX, has deleted his companies’ Facebook pages with over 5 million followers, in protest at the data leak scandal during a Tweetstorm. Musk was answering a flurry of tweets when he responded to Brian Acton, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp that contained the hashtag#deletefacebook. Despite the anti-facebook…
GE Aviation’s GE9X, world’s largest jet engine has completed its first test flight in the Victorville, California, US. The GE9X features a front fan spanning 11.2 feet diameter and 16 fourth-generation carbon fibre composite fan blades. The engine can push 100, 000 pounds of thrust and is 10 per cent more efficient than the GE90…
Uber’s autonomous car struck a woman last night, in Tempe, Arizona, who succumbed to her injuries in the hospital. The deadly collision took place around 10 pm local time at the intersection Mill Avenue and Curry Road. According to Tempe police department spokesman, the car was in autonomous mode at the time of the incident,…
Sanjeev Gupta, an Indian-origin British billionaire has revealed plans to build the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery in South Australia. Gupta’s GFG Alliance-owned Simec Zen Energy has agreed to build a 140-megawatt-hour battery, overtaking US billionaire Elon Musk’s 129-megawatt-hours Tesla battery in the same state. Gupta also secured an $8m loan from the Australian government for…
Larry Page, Google co-founder, has been secretly testing an electric autonomous aircraft in New Zealand, as part of a new flying car start-up. Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk of Silicon Valley has visions of their Cora aircraft forming the basis of airborne taxi service in the coming years, as the electric aircraft is intended for use…
Rihanna was the subject of an advert on the Snapchat which asked users if they would “rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown”, which appeared for a game to reference Chris Brown’s conviction for assaulting Rihanna in 2009 while they were dating. Snap Inc says the ad “ never should have appeared on our service.…
Unilever picks Rotterdam ahead of London for the corporate base, but Unilever shares were unaffected in early trade and 7,300 UK workers would be unaffected by the changes and its personal care and home care divisions will continue to be based in London. Marijn Dekkers, the Chairman, said the changes would strengthen Unilever’s corporate governance…
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th around the world. Pi the Greek letter π is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant – the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter which approximately 3.141592625359. Mathematicians have calculated Pi to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. Since 3, 1…
The World’s leading hotels and biggest hotel companies are enjoying rapid expansion, fuelled by record demand, as they are at the crest of an industry boom which has lasted far longer than many had predicted. Several groups including Hilton, Accor, InterContinental and Wyndham are launching new brands and making acquisitions to grow their portfolios. At…