These are Bill Gates’ favourite tunes: Desert Island Discs reveals Bowie, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and Ed Sheeran on playlist January 31, 2016 Bill Gates, the world's richest man and founder of Microsoft, has found some time to talk about his favourite tunes and his extraordinary life. Appearing on the BBC's Desert Island Discs, he said David Bowie and Queen's Under Pressure reminded him of his disco days, while Jimi Hendrix's Are you Experienced was played by Microsoft co-founder Paul [...]
UK weather: Storm Henry on the way, following on from Storm Gertrude, with Scotland facing the brunt of the bad weather with Met Office warnings in place for wind and rain January 31, 2016 If there's one thing you can bank on in the UK in January and February, it's bleak and dismal weather. However, with Storm Henry now hot on the heels of Gertrude, this year the country may have got more than it bargained for. According to an announcement made by the Met Office today, Storm Henry is [...]
Is Twitter dead? Why I was right about it failing January 31, 2016 Almost exactly a year ago, I declared that Twitter would be dead in three years. As the head of a digital agency, I could see both how Twitter was trying to monetise itself, and how people were trying to monetise Twitter as a service for their clients. I didn’t see lasting value in either. In the last year, [...]
Law firm Slater and Gordon in talks over debt restructuring, calling in FTI Consulting to help boost the firm’s financial health January 31, 2016 One of the most prominent personal injury law firms has brought in management consultants in a bid to fix its financial health. Slater and Gordon, which is listed on the stock exchange in Australia, is in discussions with consultants from FTI Consulting over debt restructuring. The move comes less than a week after the law firm revealed [...]
Saudi market rallies despite threat of austerity as oil price ticks up January 31, 2016 A rise in oil prices has seen Saudi Arabia’s stock market rally impressively despite warnings that the country faces growing fiscal difficulties. The Tadawul All Shares Index – Saudi Arabia’s highly secretive stock market – rose for the fourth day in a row on Sunday, its longest winning streak since November 2015. For the week ending 28 January [...]
Hyperloop just came another step closer: MIT students win design competition for Elon Musk’s transport pods January 31, 2016 The designers of a new transport system that could carry people hundreds of miles within minutes have been revealed. The competition to build pods for Elon Musk's Hyperloop was won by a team of students from top US technology university MIT. Teams from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Tech and University of [...]
The UK economy is having a slow start to the year, says the CBI January 31, 2016 The economy has had a sluggish start to the year, a business lobby group has said. The percentage of firms reporting higher growth over the last three months outweighed the percentage reporting more sluggish growth by six percentage points, according to the figures from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) published today. It was the [...]
Here’s what London looks like from space: Tim Peake shares stunning images of the UK from International Space Station January 31, 2016 Ever wondered what London looks like from Space? Quite stunning is the answer, thanks to British astronaut Tim Peake. The spaceman who's currently on board the International Space Station (ISS) shared the spectacular images taken on Saturday evening of the capital and the UK. "Looking to the east along the Channel with UK on the left [...]
Why does Stephen Hawking hate the future? January 31, 2016 When it comes to modern day scientists none have managed to punch through into the collective psyche of our society more than Stephen Hawking. From his incredible ambition to explain the theory of everything through to his brilliant performances (in all senses of the word) on comedy and primetime TV shows, he has become the [...]