Now Microsoft wants TikTok

Microsoft confirms discussions to acquire China’s ByteDance, TikTok after President Donald Trump threatened it with a sweeping ban. Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if an American firm buys it. ByteDance is under pressure to sell its US business after Mr.Trump  Threatened a crackdown on…

£10 off scheme starts today if you eat out

Diners  get 50 % discount as “eat out help out” kicks in today The offer of Diners getting 50 per cent off as “eat out to help out” scheme begins today morning and is valid at more than 72, 000 eateries on Mondays to Wednesdays throughout August 2020. The discount capped at £10 per person…

Super rich  VIP have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes

Associate sociology professor and former model, Ashley Mears’s entertaining study of the elite nightclub scene revealing the truth behind nightclubs from New York to Miami and the Riviera. Mears reveals how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera. She conducted an ethnographic study…

Space butterfly captured by Astronomers

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s  (ESO) gigantic telescopein Northern Chile  shot the picture of NGC 28990 a bubble of  gas resembling a butterfly. The “space butterfly” is localted between 3, 000 to 6, 500 light-years away in the.Southern constellation of Vela. NGC 2899’s vast swathes of gas can reach temperatures of over 10, 000 °C.…

Hierarchy

Pulitzer winning The New York Times reporter Isabel Wilkerson reveals the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. She displays how stories of real people and its insidioys undertow emerges everyday and records its surprising health…

When Friends are tested

“When Friends are Tested.” A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price It was yet another busy day in the office.  Carla had been much happier at work since Mandy arrived.  They could do lunch on a Friday at the cafe around the corner, though they had to adhere to a strictly one- hour…

Takeaway food from Brixtron prison

Brixton prison in South London is cooking, selling, and delivering takeaway meals during the pandemic, as the prison has a professional-standard restaurant, the Clink, which teaches culinary skills to prisoners – in order to help them get jobs when they are released. But the Covid-19 pandemic has stopped guests coming inside the prison to eat…