Snapchat one of the largest technology initial public offering company based on a quiet street leading to the Venice boardwalk in Los Angeles. eclipsing the Henna tattoo and hemp clothing stalls. Snapchat’s IPO is expected to be valued at $25bn and founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is enjoying the success after luring software developers to…
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince, Biteback £20, 416 pages. Theresa May, Britain’s second female prime minister has collected several nick names during her short tenure in Downing Street, including safe hands. May has been a Conservative MP for two decades and people and politicians, applaud her resolve. She has a strict…
February 11th 2017 full moon coincides with a partial penumbral lunar eclipse, which happens when the moon passes through a peripheral region of the Earth’s shadow, because the Earth is between the sun and the moon.
A 42-yer-old woman had a painful crawling sensation behind her eyes when she woke up in Chennai, South India, and was rushed to a local clinic where her nose was flushed and she was sent home and had to come back for emergency specialist surgery. Dr Shankar, a specialist at the Stanley Medical College Hospital…
L’Oréal is considering selling The Body Shop for €1bn, as it has struggled in recent years. The ethical cosmetics chain, founded in Brighton in 1976, by Dame Anita Roddick, bought a decade ago for £652m, now has over 3000 stores in 66 countries. It prides itself in using ethically sourced ingredients to create natural beauty…
To mark, Queen Elizabeth’s 65 years, to the throne, a photograph of her wearing a suite of sapphire jewellery given to her by her father King George VI as a wedding gift in 1947 has been issued. The newly released portrait taken by David Bailey in 2014, for the Government’s “Great” campaign, which aims to…
This month we have two eclipses- a full moon ( lunar eclipse) this Saturday 11th February 2017 and a new moon (solar eclipse) on Sunday, February 26.There are only four eclipses in total in 2017 and the other two aren’t until August. Eclipses are supercharged new and full moons. Lunar eclipses occur during full moons…
Researchers from Iowa State University discovered that biomimetic tree that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree can generate electricity when its artificial leaves sway in the wind and allow off-grid energy harvesting. According a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, the researchers explained that small strips of specialised plastic inside the…
Uber and Airbnb have been unleashing a new wave of productivity helped by technology to further human connection. Their critics see them as ruthless and callously sowing disruption and treading on the backs of drivers in the case of Uber or local communities in Airbnb’s case. The Upstarts, the most detailed investigation into the early…
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