How are Apps Using Bitcoin? November 14, 2017 Found on both IOS and Android, Bitcoin is used in apps ranging from wallets to apps that can help convert bitcoin to physical currency. There are also an increasing number of games that use Bitcoin as a reward to users completing engagements within their apps. Bitcoin can be used as a proxy to Bitcoin [...]
Local communities can decide how to spend cash from fracking through the Shale Wealth Fund – including paying themselves November 11, 2017 Communities near fracking sites will be given the power to decide how to spend the money they will gain through a new Shale Wealth Fund, even if they choose to hand the cash directly to local residents, the government confirmed today. The fund will provide up to £10m for each community close to an approved [...]
The march of time: How war led to some of horology’s finest innovations, from diving watches to the chronograph November 2, 2017 Halfway through Pulp Fiction, with typically unnerving intensity – not to mention outrageous casual racism – Christopher Walken’s Captain Koons coaxes a young Butch Coolidge from his TV cartoons and presents him with ‘The Gold Watch’. This time-piece, he explains, was so important to his father that, while detained in a Vietnamese prisoner of war [...]
Following in the tyre tracks of legendary rock stars through Morocco in a Bentley Bentayga November 1, 2017 As I steer off the ferry from Spain and burble through the customs gate, I catch sight of the Grand Mosque’s rectangular minaret that greeted Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg in 1967. I’m in Tangier, exactly 50 years later, on a mission to Marrakech and, like Keith and Anita, my girlfriend and I have arrived [...]
Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL review: Simply the best Android phones ever made October 18, 2017 Google’s new phones are rather good. The Pixel 2 and its bigger brother the Pixel 2 XL (identical in every way but shape, size, price and battery) are straightforwardly excellent. They are simply the best Android phones ever made. Life-changing, envelope-pushing, they can shift a paradigm from fifty paces. They do your laundry, improve your [...]
Sports Direct’s (SPD) shareholders gear up for revolt over Mike Ashley’s share buyback plans September 3, 2017 Sports Direct could face a shareholder revolt over its share buyback plan this week, as investors prepare to oppose the resolution at the retailer’s annual general meeting (AGM). Aberdeen Standard Investments will oppose more share buybacks on the basis that they hand too much power to Mike Ashley, chief executive and majority shareholder at Sports [...]
Scouting Silicon Valley: Premier League clubs are on the hunt for digital experts to bolster the boardroom August 11, 2017 Every transfer window brings with it an arms race between Premier League clubs for the world’s top talent, yet this summer teams have been scouting the geniuses of Silicon Valley alongside the goalscorers of La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga. Top European football clubs are increasingly searching for boardroom additions who are equipped to [...]
McLaren 570S Spider review: Tim Pitt may have found his new favourite supercar July 31, 2017 When a car doesn’t feel right within the first 50 metres, it’s not right. That was the mantra of Richard Parry-Jones, the chassis guru who helped transform Ford in the 1990s. It’s also a test McLaren applied to its new 570S Spider. Forget topping 200mph, this £164,750 roadster had to feel sorted at city speeds. [...]
Olympic Stadium Formula One plan revealed: Audacious proposal shows Grand Prix circuit snaking through East London July 14, 2017 An audacious plan to hold a Formula One Grand Prix in and around Stratford’s Olympic Park has been pitched to the mayor of London, rivalling a separate bid to host a race in the Docklands. Reports of the Docklands plan surfaced earlier this week after the owners of Silverstone triggered a break clause in their [...]
Tour de France 2017: Team Sky has full support of the media giant despite a tumultuous year June 30, 2017 Team Sky has the full backing of the executives at the media behemoth despite enduring a year plagued by doping allegations, according to a key director at Britain’s most successful cycling team. Sky has dominated professional cycling in recent years, winning four of the last five editions of the Tour de France, which starts on [...]