Morrison’s shares closed at 228p on Monday, just below the 230p-a-share proposed by Clayton Dubilier & Rice. Morrisons’ share price has surged 28 per cent after a US private equity firm CD&R made an offer to buy the Uk’s fourth largest supermarket group which has 500 stores and employs 118, 000 people, for £5.5 bn.…
Covid-19 killed millions already, hundred of millions of people are impoverished, and economic prospects across are being ruined, with death and recession to forefront. Rescue from Global Crisis is about how Covid19 rescue humanity. Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford, details an optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 which has…
British academic, Benjamin T Smith in The Dope exposes how an illicit industry that started with farmers, families and healers came to be dominated by cartels, kingpins and corruption. Smith traces the characters whose actions came to influence Mexico as we now know it. Enrique Fernandez, the borderlands trafficker who became Mexico’s first narco and…
Ever wondered what happens when artificial intelligence is shaping our understanding of ourselves, our societies and saturates our political life and depletes our planet? Dr Kate Crawford, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, co-founder and director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media,…
The first new treatment of Alzheimer’s disease for nearly 20 years has been approved by regulators in the United States clearing the way for its use in the UK. Aducanumab targets amyloid, a protein that forms abnormal; crumps in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s that can damage cells and trigger dementia, communication issues, memory…
In June 2010, while Ford Motors had a valuation of $38 billion compared to Tesla’s $1.3 billion. But 2020 swa fords valuation down to $28 billion while Tesla’s valuation shot up to $256 billion. Tesla ranks sixth among companies on the U.S. stock market and is now worth almost eight times GM and nearly 13…
Thomas Vijayan from Kerala, now settle in Canada won the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021, whose illusion picture of orangutan captioned The World is Going Upside Down, in Borneo.” He said: “ I selected a tree that was in water… The water formed a mirror… then I climbed the tree and waited for…
Hundred years after its publication, Kurt Godel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true – yet never provable – continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Godel’s work was to mark a decisive turning point for the history of mathematics and, possibly, the future of artificial intelligence. In 1900,…
Financial Times’, chief features writer, Henry Mance, a vegan, would very much like you to be, too. His argument why lies at the centre of How to Love Animals, is challenging and funny. For some it could prompt moral reasons that those of us who love animals, but also profit from their suffering cravenly managed…
Margarette Lincoln, former deputy director of the National Maritime Museum, brings detailed account of London life -the gardens, the coffee houses, the shopping and charts the impact of national events growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle and enterprise. When the Thames froze over and Mary Evelyn, wife of the diarist John, complained about…