London fintech: Insurance tech is here, but it needs to catch up with the world of data science September 28, 2015 Rob Moffat’s recent column on the necessity for the insurance industry to catch up with tech was a welcome call to arms. It throws down the gauntlet to what can be a regressive industry, and plots a course for the future. What he may not have realised, though, is that much of the work he [...]
CoolBrands 2015: Apple crowned the king of cool as Google slips September 27, 2015 Apple has retained pole position for the fourth year in a row in a ranking of companies' brand appeal, according to pollsters CoolBrands. Its tech rival Google, however, dropped out of the top 10 altogether, slipping to 12th from sixth in 2014. Despite an improving economy, luxury brands did not manage to maintain [...]
Super blood moon lunar eclipse September 2015 UK: How to watch and what time to see the supermoon total eclipse live online if the weather’s bad September 27, 2015 It might be worth dragging yourself out of bed early on Monday morning to see the “super blood moon”, an astronomical phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982 – and won’t be seen again until 2033. The moon will turn blood red as it passes through the shadow of the earth at 3.47am on Monday morning. [...]
iPhone 6S and 6S Plus UK release date and pre-order sales: Apple’s new flagship iPhone is already the UK’s second most popular phone – before hitting the stores September 24, 2015 Apple’s new iPhone is landing in UK stores tomorrow. But even before going on sale, it’s become the second most popular phone in the country, new figures show. Based on pre-orders alone, Apple’s new iPhone is outstripping Samsung’s latest flagship phone, Galaxy S6. Released earlier this year, the Korean tech giant’s phone has been pushed [...]
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus UK relase date approaches and people are already queuing at Apple Stores at Regent Street and Covent Garden September 24, 2015 People are already forming orderly queues to get their hands on Apple's new iPhone 6s. With tents, ponchos, cushions and a book to keep them occupied, several eager beavers have already pitched a spot outside London's Apple Shops at Regent Street and Covent Garden. The new iPhone 6s and 6s plus hits stores on Friday [...]
iOS 9 problems: Apple issues first update to fix bug that left iPads and iPhones paralysed September 24, 2015 A week after releasing iOS 9 to iPhone and iPad users, Apple has rolled out the first bug fix update to the operating system. The iOS 9 launch was plagued by technical glitches that kept it from being the happy occasion it should have been for Apple users, but the update promises to fix a [...]
How fast does New Horizons fly? This is what it looks like to look out of the window of the space probe September 24, 2015 The New Horizons space probe is the fastest mankind has launched. But just how fast is that? Recently making headlines as it whipped past Pluto giving us stellar images of the dwarf planet, it’s now hurtling through space at a speed nearing 36,000 miles per hour. But such eye-watering speeds are beyond most of us [...]
Breaking down vertical banking silos: Our outdated payments industry should look to Apple and BMW’s supply chains September 24, 2015 We depend on payments as the underpinning fabric of almost every aspect of cross border commerce. Yet the payments industry is still fundamentally built on a model which suited the needs of a world circa fifty years ago, rather than the dynamic, agile, hyper-connected world of 2015. The problem behind this is that individual financial [...]
London can come out on top in the era of job-killing robots September 23, 2015 Scary, scary robots. If you believe the hype, robots are coming for your job, your society and everything you hold dear. A widely publicised report argued that 35 per cent of jobs in the UK could be destroyed by automation and computerisation (which is what “robots” have come to mean in the shorthand of [...]
Wednesday is the day when we’re glummest on Twitter – and work week happiness peaks on a Friday September 23, 2015 Feeling blue today? Wednesday is when we’re feeling most negative, according to analysis of emotions expressed on social media. But don't worry, we'll soon perk right back up again. Work week happiness peaks on a Friday, you’ll be unsurprised to hear – but it can’t come close to the joy we feel when the weekend [...]