The Uber juggernaut is showing no signs of a slowdown despite numerous highly publicised wrangles with regulators in many markets around the world. Investor interest remains strong in what is now the…
Category: World
MAREA will be highest capacity data link across Atlantic
Tech giants Microsoft and Facebook have taken a significant step towards building highest capacity data link between US and Europe. The companies will help design subsea cable which will connect one point…
Russian embassy tweets: Or how not to run an effective propaganda on twitter
“In Putin’s Russia, it is not game developers who use official Government images, but the Russian Government who uses old game images.” That may sound like the lamest “In Mother Russia” joke…
Rio Olympics 2016, or how not to deal with a deadly zika pandemic
For the uninitiated, Plague Inc. is a funereally unsettling yet addictive disease simulator game where the player tries to wipe out humanity by creating and evolving plagues of bacteria, viruses or even…
Greenland that’s getting hotter created UK flooding
Global warming is closer home in the last two decades than it ever happened before. In fact, parts of Greenland experienced a temperature rise of a good 10 degree Celsius in the…
CO2 Could be the Boon and Not the Bane of Agriculture
Scientists have been issuing dire warnings on the catastrophic implications of greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon Dioxide including surface level ozone, methane, Nitrous oxides and fluorinated gases are among the most notorious greenhouse…
How Syrian Refugees are Redefining the Use of Smartphones
In the Jude Law war movie “Enemy at the Gates”, there is a poignant scene where a tearful Russian mother fleeing the doomed city of Stalingrad leaves a small note for her…
A Spelling Mistake Stopped a Billion Dollar Bank Heist
The Bangladesh central bank was saved from a nearly £694 million bank heist thanks to a spelling mistake made in an online bank transfer. The unknown hackers were still able to get away…
Boston Dynamics Creates First Anti-Bullying Robot
People can’t have nice things. There are literally thousands of examples of this that took place in the time it took you to read this sentence. Humans, despite all of our creations and…
China Just Became the World Leader in Nuclear Fusion Research
China has just become the world leader in nuclear fusion research. What are the implications for the future of nuclear fusion with this new breakthrough?
Faraday Future Electric Car is Taking Tesla Head On at CES in Las Vegas
Faraday Future’s electric car took Tesla Motors head on by unveiling its car at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 4, 2016. The FFZERO1 Concept vehicle is a test bed and…
IS militants destroy 2,000-year-old Arch of Triumph in latest act of cultural vandalism
Various reports from Syria have revealed that Islamic State militants have blown up 2,000-year-old Arch of Triumph in their latest act of cultural vandalism. Officials in the Syrian government have confirmed the…
UNESCO: Islamic state systematically destroying cultural heritage of Syria
Condemning the recent destruction of Mar Elian monastery located in the Syrian town of al-Qaryatayn, the Director-General of UNESCO has claimed that Islamic state is systematically wiping out cultural heritage of Syria….