Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age granting immense power to the government and corporations. Data harvesting and digital Surveillance are a major concern, as we are dreading about what is being done with our data. Frimin DeBrabander a professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art asks how we can ensure…
Rolls-Royce shares were on a roll as investors bet on the takeover and the engineering giant’s continued recovery from the coronavirus pandemic induce share slump. Roll’s share price has risen more than 100 per cent in just two weeks after it revealed plans to shore up its balance sheet by £6 billion at the end…
Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging platform has rolled out a new feature to allow its users from today to mute both individual and group chats forever. Previously WhatsApp offered three options under the Mute tab – 8 hours, 1 week, or 1 year. The app has now replaced the 1-year option with “Always”.
Picures by Laurence Nair British Airways 747G0CIVW , BA1978R, today at 2:!56pm retired after it landed at Dunsfold Aerodrome arriving from Cardiff airport, to start its new life as a TV and Film set prop.. The Boeing 747-236B with a full Boeing 747 cockpit, first class Business Class and economy seating all in great condition,…
Residents of the town named Asbestos in the Canadian province of Quebec have voted to rename their community in amove to distance it from the extremely poisonous mineral linked to lung cancer. The town was home to one of the world’s largest asbestos mines, voted 51.5 per cent in favour of changing its name to…
The sale of Durex and other “sexual wellbeing products” rose 12.6 per cent in the last three months, when social-distancing rules were relaxed in the summer, according to its maker Reckitt Benckiser. Sales of Dettol, Cillit Bang, and air fresheners also jumped, helped by workers improving their new home-office environment, as the total group sales…
The US government has formally filed a landmark lawsuit, the biggest challenge brought by US regulators against Google, accusing the company of abusing its dominance to preserve a monopoly over internet searches and online advertising. The Lawsuit follows several years of investigation amid the intense scrutiny of Google’s practices at home and abroad. Google called the…
Juniper Networks acquires BostonTT AI Software Defined Wide Area Networking startup 128 technology for $450m, so that networks can cover a wide geographical area such as satellite offices, rather than a network in a defined space. AI-fuelled networking company Juniper has already acquired last year Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405m. Today, instead of…
Race, stunt drive, and bestselling author Ben Collins writes a story of spies, speed, and hard-driving genius – a driver’s love letter to one of the world’s best-loved machines. Aston Marin’s first, wickedly fast models were forged at a time when Ferrari’s premises at Maranello was nothing but a ploughed field. The book celebrates…
35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman is the pivotal leader of the Arab World, Crown prince who became king in 2015 and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, ended the House of Saud’s consensual model of an absolute monarchy with no absolute monarch, seizing all the reins of power and urged forward social and economic reform. The…