Protagonist, Charlie Barnes is a true mid-century man, struggling for meaning in the Chicago suburbs, despite growing up in prosperous America in the years after the second world war, as his life has been bust after bust. We meet him, at the brink of the 2008 crash, living in the suburbs of Chicago, trying to…
Entrepreneur, Peter Thiel, a right wing student at the Stanford University in the 1980 as a burgeoning conservative, and a tech investor from Silicon Valley over the past two decades, became the ardent backer of Donald Trump. The Contrarian is the biography of venture capitalist Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker…
Apple’s newest iPhones with new colours, smaller notches, updated camera, and faster A15 chip. Both iPhone 13 and 13 mini feature a ceramic shield cover glass that is infused with nano-ceramic crystals for better protection from drops. IP68 water and dust resistance is included with a submersion in 6 meters of water for up to…
T Top Huawei boss freed after a deal with the US, ending the row over Meng Wanzhou’s detention in 2018 has led to a ferocious diplomatic row between China and Canada as accusations of retaliation by Beijing. It also strained China’s relations with Canada and the US. Ms Meng, who became a permanent resident of…
harlie Mullins, who left school at 15 with no qualifications, sold Pimlico Plumbers for over £145m to KKR owned Neighborly a US firm. Pimlico’s services include heating, plumbing, bathrooms, drainage, electrics and more has employed over 400 associates completing on average around 100, 000 service jobs across London every year. Neighborly, a franchise giant of…
Biden administration announces new travel policy effective from November. re-opening to passengers from UK, EU and other nations. From November all foreign travellers will be allowed to fly into the US if they are fully vaccinated and undergo testing and contact tracing. The tough US restrictions on travel was placed in 2020, by Trump…
A pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist and sci-fi writer, Chen Qiufan to imagine our…
The new virus news emerging from China in December 2018, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow Covid-19’s wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked…
Mr Issacman ( foreground) yelled “punch it SpaceX” before the launch. Four amateur astronauts have blasted off from Florida on their private mission to orbit. The Inspiration4 crew , comprising of on billionaire and three ordinary citizens rode out of the Kennedy Space Centre in a Dragon capsule provided by Space Z rocket company.…
Sir Clive Sinclair cutting-edge technology inventor and pioneer of home computing dies aged 81 ion London. His calculator Sinclair Executive won Design Council awards and was put on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His innovative quartz watch, a sleek black affair, never worked properly and customers returned them in thousands.…