Working Lunch review: Vita Mojo brings total food customisation and cashless eating to the City April 5, 2016 Vita Mojo 22 Carter Lane, EC4V WHAT? The City’s first entirely cashless restaurant that allows you to order and completely customise your food online or via one of the restaurant’s iPads. Its ultra-healthy menu is cooked on the premises using specially-sourced, organic ingredients and served up hot to suit pretty much any diet you can [...]
Google Ventures’ new silver bullet for team work – and how you can use it in your firm April 29, 2016 How do the best teams in the world achieve so much? What’s it like being part of a lead team at Google or Uber? Google Ventures Design partner Jake Knapp has spent years working out what makes a team the most effective and productive it can be. The result is his new book Sprint, co-authored with [...]
I let myself be hacked by an ethical hacker and this is what I learned about cybersecurity November 4, 2015 Let me tell you this: it’s quite a disconcerting feeling to sign a form agreeing to let a hacker break into all your personal data. Even when it’s an ethical one. I’d agreed to let cybersecurity expert Ollie Whitehouse do his worst, and access as much of my information online as possible. But waiting to [...]
London Marathon 2015: Betfair wants to keep things interesting (and charitable) by getting you to bet on your finish time April 21, 2015 Running the London Marathon on Sunday and worried the 26.2 mile race could have its moments of tedium? Perhaps placing a bet on yourself could keep things interesting for the three-to-four hour duration? Betfair is allowing runners who love the thrill of a bet to “back themselves”. The bookie is offering a £20 bet on [...]
What millions of people migrating to cities looks like April 9, 2015 A wave of urbanisation has swept across East Asia, as 200m people moved towards cities between 2001 and 2010, fundamentally transforming cityscapes. The population move was so enormous that, if everyone who recently migrated were put into a country of their own, it'd be the sixth largest in the world. That's just behind the likes of China, [...]
Here’s what a year in the life of earth’s CO2 looks like April 21, 2015 It's obvious to suggest the world's carbon dioxide emissions change with the seasons – but what does that look like? The Cartography and Geovisualisation Group at Oregon State University and NASA has crunched one year's worth of data to show us how carbon dioxide swirls around the atmosphere over the course of four seasons. The interactive [...]
General Election 2015: Do other countries actually care about the UK election? May 5, 2015 It’s become impossible to avoid coverage of this week’s general election here in the UK. Switch on the TV, and you're greeted with ceaseless rolling news coverage. Buy a paper, and there's an open letter from 100 people (no more, no less) telling you who to vote for. Try to escape it all by relocating [...]
Is storytelling an overlooked business skill? May 20, 2015 The most successful leaders use narration to inspire their teams Companies are no strangers to the value of storytelling. Marketers have long known the value of a simple story in persuading people to buy their products or services. A recent study by Johns Hopkins University, for example, analysed the content of more than a [...]
Scientists say Regin is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever found November 24, 2014 Cyber security firm Symantec says it's just discovered the most sophisticated piece of malware – that's malicious software – it's ever seen. The company, which has dubbed it "Regin", said that once it infects a computer, it can take screenshots, steal passwords and even recover deleted files. That makes it even more sophisticated than Stuxnet, [...]
Twitter’s Noto has a #DMfail moment November 25, 2014 IT’S WHAT every senior company official dreads doing – pressing the send button on a tweet that should have been a direct message. Twitter finance chief Anthony Noto had his awkward oops moment when he accidentally tweeted a message that he intended to send privately. The presumed subject of the tweet? A potential acquisition by [...]