In Pictures: The evolution of Google’s driverless car May 28, 2014 It’s here, it’s finally here. Well, not actually here, Google’s hallowed driverless car is still in Silicon Valley – still, we imagine, driving around the Mountain View-based, Googleplex car park. But we’ve seen photos, so we know a fully-fledged prototype exists. Google's Sergey Brin calls it “chauffeur.” The car has had mixed reviews, with [...]
Don’t worry – despite the name shame, Salesforce Tower’s in pretty good company May 27, 2014 Hardly a day goes by when one of London’s newest skyscrapers isn’t making headlines and this week it’s the artist formerly known as Heron Tower. Last week it emerged that the building, on the City’s Bishopsgate, had signed a deal welcoming a new (and largest) tenant, American CRM giant, Salesforce. As part of the [...]
Rogoff distances himself from not-so-pernickety Piketty May 27, 2014 Thomas Piketty is isn’t having a great week. At the end of last week, the FT launched a damning attack on his best-selling tome Capital in the Twenty-First Century, as data fisking hack Chris Giles accused Piketty of having made a number of errors with his figures. Not great news for the new darling of [...]
Bankside Power Station (AKA Tate Modern) suffers power failure May 19, 2014 Oh the irony. The Tate Modern, based in the former oil powered station on the banks of the Thames, suffered a power failure this morning causing it to shut. The gallery, one of London's most visited attractions, had to turn art fans away while they tried to return power to the huge building. [...]
Video: Watch Lloyd’s of London’s finest insurance talent tackle the building May 14, 2014 Anyone strolling past the famous Lloyd’s of London building today will have another reason to stop and stare other than Richard Rogers' shiny, inside-outy architecture. There are people coming down the side of the building. Lots of them. Why? Well it’s all in aid of RedR UK, a charity which provides training for disaster [...]
In Pictures: Stars hit the orange carpet at Veuve Clicquot Award May 13, 2014 Claridge's scrapped the red carpet for an orange one last night, as stars piled in for the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman Award. There was certainly no shortage of the bubbly stuff as both Thomas Cook's Harriet Green and Jenny Dawson of Rubies in the Rubble picked up gongs and while past winners and runners-up mingled. There [...]
Check out these previous winners of the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year award May 12, 2014 A distinct orange hue will be enveloping Claridge's this evening for the annual Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year awards; gongs will be handed out, Veuve will be drunk. Thomas Cook’s Harriet Green is up against Mediacom’s Karen Blackett and retail doyenne Jane Shepherdson of Whistles for the top gong. The additional [...]
Mario Draghi knows about the tie guesses May 8, 2014 Earlier today, Mario Draghi’s numero uno press man Michael Steen caused a storm on Twitter by posting a photograph of Mr Draghi ahead of his European Central Bank policy decision meeting, because it revealed the colour of his tie ahead of time. To the uninitiated it might sound a bit loopy but each month [...]
Britain plagued with seriousness claims Walls May 7, 2014 Apparently us Brits are far too serious. Over a third of us admit to spending more than 80 per cent of our time being serious and over half of us claim we do not have enough time for fun because of “serious tasks” like work (eurgh) and worrying about money (bleugh). Overall we spend on [...]
In Pictures: Camden overrun by giant toys April 30, 2014 Anyone walking through Camden on any given day should expect to see weird and wonderful things but anyone strolling along its canal this morning would have got an eye-full – of toys. Giant ones. Staging a princess rescue. Natch. The spectacle was all part of Playmobil’s 40th anniversary celebrations and as many a 40-year-old [...]