AI startup by Musk

Tech Billionaire Elon Musk, Tesla and Twitter owner, wants to launch and AI start-up to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. He is lining up investors  about put money into his new venture. Musk had secured several thousand high powered  GPU processors from Nvidia and aims to build a large language model – AI systems capable of ingesting enormous amounts of content and producing humanlike writing or realistic imagery, similar to ChatGPT. Musk is recruiting engineers  from top AI labs including DeepMind and brought on board Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind employee, and other engineers. Musk could you Twitter content as data … Continue reading AI startup by Musk

Driverless Fords get green light on UK Roads: One foot on the future

UK became the first country in Europe to approve the Hands-free cars driving on the 2, 300-mile motorway network on British roads for the first time.UK Transport minister Jesse Norman have granted permission for Ford to turn on its Blue Cruise system allowing hands-off eyes-on driving in England, Wales and Scotland. He was delighted that Britain was paving the way for driverless technology, and would help make roads more safer by reducing scope for driver error, The car is equipped with sensors that monitors the driver’s eye toensure they are always on the road. If they become distracted an alarm … Continue reading Driverless Fords get green light on UK Roads: One foot on the future

Queen of Swinging Sixties dies aged 93

Dame Mary Quant, daughter of Welsh teachers, Jack and Mildred, British fashion designer and  inventor of hotpants and miniskirts in 60s dies aged 93. Quant initially sold clothing from wholesalers in her new boutique in the Kings Road named Bazaar, initially working solo, and by 1966 she was working with a total of 18 manufacturers. Quant’s design revolutionised fashion from the utilitarian wartime standard of the late 1940s to the energy of the 1950s and 1960s’ cultural shifts. Quant was offering high-end designers for young people in swinging London and defined Britain’s “Swinging Sixties” and influenced youth culture around the … Continue reading Queen of Swinging Sixties dies aged 93

Cost of Living Crisis

April is the financial literacy month as tens of millions of people in one of the wealthiest countries in the world are extremely financially vulnerable. Millions more are barely making ends meet with the cost of living crisis, rising prices including food, spiralling energy bills and price of consumer goods and services rose at the fastest rate in four decades in the year to October 2022.  And when it comes to even basic knowledge around money principles and personal finance, we have a long way to go to achieve financial competency. What does this really look like in relation to accessing … Continue reading Cost of Living Crisis

Old school bankers

In 1985, Philip Cazenove, a descendant of exiled Huguenot financiers, set up a stockbroking firm with the sole aim of profiting from industrialisation. Cazenove & Co, founded in 1823, London’s most uppercrust and brokerage. Headquartered at Tokenhouse Yard, a late nineteenth-century, built for Huth’s bank, in the grand Victorian townhouse, a narrow cul-depsac nestled behind the Bank of England – with exquisite marble fireplaces, mahogany desks, and costly oil paintings, lease acquired by partners of Cazenove in 1935. Fiercely independent, the firm had always maintained a low profile, shunning the press and refusing to disclose details of its own affairs … Continue reading Old school bankers

Mystic Meg, astrologer dies aged 80

Margaret Lake known as Mystic Meg, died aged 80, on Thursday morning 3:45am, after being admitted to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London last month suffering from flu. Mystic Meg was synonymous with The Sun Newspaper where had written daily horoscopes for almost 23 years. Mystic Meg born on 27 July 1942 in Accrington, Lancashire and received a teacher’s diploma from the University of Leeds. She started her career as a sub editor on a women’s magazine and got famous through her erotic stories and even worked for News Of The World magazine. She became more famous when she started … Continue reading Mystic Meg, astrologer dies aged 80

Carnival in New Orleans

Mardi Gras Parade at New Orleans pic by Maya Salgado. 2023 Mardi Gras Parade  ( Fat Tuesday Parade on 21st February 2023) , based on a religious event and falls on the Tuesday before Lent begins in the Christian Calendar, at  the French Quarter in New Orleans where the whole city goes wild. The Tuesday also known as Shrove Tuesday and the Wednesday known as Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of fasting in the run up to Easter, 46 days later. Continue reading Carnival in New Orleans