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Love in future is algorithms and chemicals

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Bonding  reads like a 19-century novel of manners for the modern dating etiquette, consent and abuse. Mary sets out to change her life, one ill-advised decision at a time.First, she books a spontaneous flight to Ibiza where she meets Tom and eventually she might finally be fallen gin love.   Adrift in her early thirties, bisexual Mary embarks on a relationship with Tom, an enigmatic chemist working on a drug to treat depression, the modern epidemic. But Eurasia also dramatically diminishes sexual restraint. Mary has just accepted a job at Openr, an ethical, innovative dating app with no limits, which aims … Continue reading Love in future is algorithms and chemicals

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Death is on the prowl

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Samsara is  a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes were only a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in.  With his rakish charm, Oxford education, and perfect hair, he had it all, until he left his job under mysterious circumstances, It was super hectic, and Ro decides it’s time for some much-needed R&R. At Samsara he is free to explore the innumerable yoga classes to rebalance their privileged existence, wellness treatments and guided-meditation session on offer alongside the rest of the exclusive hotel’s guests. Until one of the guests -gorgeous, charismatic, well-connected, like … Continue reading Death is on the prowl

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Not Guilty after being railroaded by HP

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Fifty-nine Year-old, Mike Lynch, British tech tycoon and Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud after spending more than a decade fighting fraud accusations about making $516 million from selling his company, says he feared that he would die in prison. He could see his wife Angela,  daughters  who are now 21 and 18 return to his beloved  farm near Aldeburgh in Suffolk and greet his dogs Switch, Tappet, Pinion, Valve, Cam. Faucet was acquired to keep him company in San Francisco. Autonomy was the most valuable tech firm in Britain, employing 2, 000 people across 20 countries, including  AT&T, BNP Paribas and BlackRock.  Lynch pulled off … Continue reading Not Guilty after being railroaded by HP

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Ordinary life made exceptional

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In My Beloved Life, Jadunath Kunwar, a historian, involving lining up the past with the present. Having lived through the evolution of modern India, Jadu wishes to tell “ the story of our nation at a point of time”,  but spends most of his life putting off the act of writing it all down. “ I’m not a  writer” a rural doctor tells another character. An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he was loved and has been loved in turn. Born in 1935 to illiterate … Continue reading Ordinary life made exceptional

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Dictators seeking to impose their vision

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Historian and Anglo-Polish journalist Anne Applebaum uncovers the sophisticated networks of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The main enemies of domestic demagogues fanning the flames of populism. Foreign dictators who seek to impose their vision of a new international; order and hate our freedoms in George W Bush’s sonorous phrase. Applebaum’s catchy coinage “ Who are these bad guys?” is said to be a group of autocratic regimes, such as Russia, China and Iran, who together operate “not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies, bound not by ideology but rather by a ruthless, … Continue reading Dictators seeking to impose their vision

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Farnborough International Air show

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Farnborough International Air show,  nets £39.3 billion ( $51 billion) in deals as the European plane maker Airbus announced orders for 69 & VietJet ordered 20 Airbus A330neo aircraft,  and Boeing 118 including an order for 20 777X Boeing aircraft ( revolutionary twin-aisle plane with the folding wings) from Qatar Airways and Korean Air signed  for 40 wide-body jetliners. Crisis-hit Boeing ,  Airbus shows off new ultra long-haul jet. Airbus performed a public display of its soon-to-launch A321XLR for the first time since it was certified. China’s Comac seen as a potential competitor to  Airbus and Boeing in the future … Continue reading Farnborough International Air show

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Vultures are circling at the Titanic shipyard

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Harland & Wolff has lined up administrators as vulture funds prepare to pick apart the company behind the shipyard that built the Titanic. Contingency plans have been drawn up by insolvency experts from Teneo in case financial advisers fail to thrash out an interim rescue. While Deloitte is advising the Harland & Wolff board, and EY is advising the government on its options. The shipbuilder already owes US hedge fund Riverstone $115 million on a loan that bosses have been trying to refinance, A further 20 million loan is under discussion. In the meanwhile, US technology stock dived sharply yesterday … Continue reading Vultures are circling at the Titanic shipyard

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Toxic masculinity

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For decades, the Kennedy name has been synonymous with wealth, power, and above all else – integrity. But this carefully c constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the Kennedy men’s legacy of physical and psychological abuse of women, part of a tradition of toxic masculinity that spans generations and has ruined untold lives.  Through scandal after scandal, the family and their defenders have managed to keep this shameful story out of spotlight. Long before the Lewinsky affair, JFK had multiple sexual encounters with White House interns, he even slept with one Mimi Alford, in his wife’s powder-blue bedroom. It’s no … Continue reading Toxic masculinity

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Troubling reality of global supply chain

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Peter Goodman, New York Time’s Global award-winning Economics Correspondent, makes an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain – exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of complex and fragile network for their basic necessities. How does the wealthiest country on Earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula? How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making … Continue reading Troubling reality of global supply chain

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Forget Google Maps imaging mapping of Seven Seas

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Victory that was owed to the cumbersomely named Hydrographical Office, the Royal Navy Department responsible for its charts, detailed maps of seas and coasts, with tidal ranges, water depths and other essential relevant details, after the battle of Copenhagen, in 1801, confronted by a formidable fixed line of Danish ships supported from the land, Admiral Horatio Nelson had to make a bold decision . Should he risk taking his ships into the narrow, shallow channel where the enemy lay, so that Nelson’s three ships ran aground before the battle had properly begun?  Admiral Parker, the commander of the British fleet, … Continue reading Forget Google Maps imaging mapping of Seven Seas