Maybe the Alliance will Actually Achieve Something Now If I walk out into my garden and look towards the north west, I can just see in the distance the location of the BRICS conference, where Saudi Arabia has been invited to join BRICS. It sits smack bang in the middle of the richest square kilometre […]
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AI Summit at Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is a country estate just outside Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. Such estates are liberally dotted around the country, mementoes of the old days of Empire. What separates Bletchley Park from all the other estates, however, is its contribution to military history and future tech. The Past For […]
Much of the media today are focusing on the fact that Chandrayaan-3’s successful touchdown on the moon cost about $90 million less than it cost to make the movie Interstellar. (Of course it cost less you unpatriotic flag burner, I can hear Americans shouting. Interstellar went to another galaxy!) Anyway, much of the media are […]
Planning a trip to or around the US anytime soon? Well, don’t be surprised if you hear this announcement from the flight deck. “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard our flight today. In the interests of public transparency the FAA requires us to alert you to the following. Firstly, please note that I […]
Enjoy fantastic skiing in Saudi Arabia NEOM is a Saudi Arabian giga-project in the North West of the Kingdom. And although nowhere near completion, it has a habit of taking people by surprise. A 170 kilometre long city in a building known as The Line. A floating manufacturing and logistics hub called Oxagon. A flora […]
South Africa Hosting the BRICS summit During the white privilege era of apartheid, Clifton Beach had long been the default visual subject matter for South African tourism. Nestled under the famous Twelve Apostle mountains in Cape Town, the suburb of Clifton Beach arches back steeply away from the Atlantic Ocean facing west, giving every house […]
China’s Economy in Trouble The list of woes reads like a failed state. Except it’s China, the world’s second biggest economy. So the world cannot afford to let it fail. Let’s look at the data first. The Yuan has fallen to its lowest level in a decade and a half. This is a currency now […]
On August 16th, the Cupertino-based company reversed its decision to move the call end button from bottom center to bottom right with the iOS 17 update. iPhone users expressed unprecedented relief. The collective fear was that thumbs could be irreversibly damaged. The tearing of the Tenar muscles connecting thumb to palm was the main concern. […]
It’s a significant move that complements the focus on emerging fintech in Africa. Mastercard is to acquire a minority stake in MTN’s fintech division. This partnership with MTN appears as a Memorandum of Understanding announced in the company’s 2023 group results for the first half of the year. Due diligence is currently underway, and the […]
More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci put pen to paper and recorded the future. He invented the tank, the helicopter, the automatic rifle, the diving suit and the parachute. And this was just the tip of his particular iceberg. Da Vinci’s thoughts, diagrams and art were so extraordinary they were considered heretical. They […]