Oracle and OpenAI hunting for future fortune

Oracle’s $300billion five-year deal with OpenAI, that helped their stock soaring last week. Part of the reason Oracle was able to strike a deal with OpenAI was due to Ellison’s courting of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which has allowed his company, despite previously trailing behind other cloud providers, to secure large stockpile of top of the line Nvidia GPUs to position itself as a significant player in the AI infrastructure space. This attempt by both Oracle and OpenAI mislead some investors and the markets at large with a contract that neither party can fulfil, and guarantees that OpenAI will run … Continue reading Oracle and OpenAI hunting for future fortune

Mushroom murderer

Three renowned writers of true crime Helen Garner (greatest contemporary writer), Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein (legal expert) tracked Erin Patterson’s preminary hearings and trial, joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, slept over in Morwell, a town east of Melbourne, and close to Leongatha, where the deadly dish was served, and spent unlimited hours in fervent discussion of the case and the themes it raises: Love, Hate, Jealousy, Revenge, Marriage, Money, Mycology and Murder. The writers explore the gap between the certainties of the law and the messiness of reality, their own ambivalence about the true … Continue reading Mushroom murderer

Meaning of Life: ride to infinity

Ferries have a spooky association with death, Charon, an ugly demon employed by Hades as the underworld’s ferryman, picking up the souls of recently perished human beings in his skiff and depositing them in the afterlife, in Greek mythology. In The Ferryman and His Wife by 64-year-old bestselling Norwegian author and winner of the prestigious Brage Prize, Frode Grytten takes readers on an epic journey: Ferry Driver Nils Vik’s last route along the fjord instead of the River Styx, which he must cross to get there “it rumbles and rustles, it whispers and rushes, even on days with no wind”, … Continue reading Meaning of Life: ride to infinity

How water instilled a dream city

Back in Nineteen Thirteen, William Mulholland completed the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 233-mile engineering masterwork transporting water from the Owens Valley, a dry lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada across the desert to a barren south-western corner of California that would become the home of filmmaking, and transformed the land’s fertility. In Aqua, award winning, Italian filmmaker and writer Chiara Barzini gives insight into the founding of Hollywood, the building of great water systems. Her hometown Rome, abound with empty aqueducts and pipes, representing someone’s dream of turning dry soil into a fertile lucrative and fertile agricultural … Continue reading How water instilled a dream city

Ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the colonies

Ruthless is a revelation of Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency and exploitation that enabled it. Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ones for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain’s colonies, where a brutalised enslaved workforce produced cotton for its factories? Historian Edmond Smith reveals how the world’s first industrial nation was founded on the ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the planet. This economic system linked the plantations of the Caribbean with the colossal cotton mills of northern England, applied … Continue reading Ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the colonies

Imaginations: Connections between real life and art

This is the amazing memoir of one of the greatest storytellers of our time, over six decades of writing, from 1961 onwards, with her towering influence, who wrote New York Times bestseller’s and modern classics like The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), or The Testaments or Alias Grace (1996) are a reproach to the Swedish Academy. In 1939, with a world war under way, born in Ottawa and raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents- Carl, an entomologist father, and Margaret Dorothy, a former nutritionist mother. She and her siblings were taken by their mother to throw tin cans at a large … Continue reading Imaginations: Connections between real life and art

Amur Tigers

In the forests of northeast Asia home to fish owls, brown bears, musk deer, moose, wolves, raccoon dogs, leopards and tigers, and by the end of Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur Rive basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell, bringing catastrophe, without the careful oversight of a central authority, poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species Amur Tiger. Slaght in his book Tigers Between Empires, dealing with the isolated population inhabiting the Amur  basin in Siberia, parts of the river separate inland China from Russia’s eastern … Continue reading Amur Tigers

Spy Thriller

New York Times Bestselling author, Daniel Silva,  in An Inside Job, his legendary veteran Mossad spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime with speed and finesse, to track down a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. In today’s Israel, a former spymaster and produ patriot like Allon should have better things to do than chase works of art. Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice,  but he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, and finds himself in a desperate race to recover the … Continue reading Spy Thriller

Critical technology safeguarding

A Dutch court suspended Nexperia’s former chief executive Zhang Xuezhen – who founded its Chinese owner Wingtech – citing mismanagement. Wingtech’s shares trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and it is partially owned by the Chinese government. According to court papers released by the Dutch authorities last month in relation to the government’s takeover of Nexperia, US authorities had raised concerns about the boss of the chip company before it was taken over. The documents contained evidence that Dutch authorities had told Nexperia, it may be able to secure an exemption from the US list if there was a change … Continue reading Critical technology safeguarding

White Label World Expo 2025

Droyts  who makes fine soaps located in a Victorian cotton mill in Chorley, Lancashire, using traditional century-old methods to produce moisturising glycerine soaps, which is vegan friendly, suitable for all skin types, honed and carved by hand at the White Label Expo, London 2025. http://www.droyt.com Iconic Bricks made in Hampshire can compete with any branded products like Lego. White Label World Expo, an international trade show specialising in bespoke private labels, offers latest innovation and gives an insight to trending online retail and e-commerce, held today at ExCel, London organised by Fortem International Ltd, attracting several hundreds and thousands  of professional, entrepreneurs … Continue reading White Label World Expo 2025