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Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

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Boeing has launched its Starliner capsule towards the International Space Station (ISS) with two NASA astronauts abroad, as the it’s for the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people. Strainer is scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday. The capsule went up from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket. The 12-minute powered ascent was indeed flawless. Commander Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be testing the capsule on a mission that is expected to last over a week. Starliner now has to raise itself to the orbit … Continue reading Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

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Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time

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Happiness is called married for fifth time. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch (93) has married for a fifth time in a ceremony at his Californian vineyard. Australian-born Murdoch who began his acareer in Australia in the 1950s, tied the knot on Saturday with his new wife Elena Zhukova (67), a retired biologist. Mr Murdoch who has sic children, is chairman emeritus of News Corporation, which owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Sun, and the Times. He purchased the News of the World  and the Sun Newspapers in the UK in 1969, and later purchased the  New York Post and … Continue reading Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time

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Discreet alliances, Virtual money-laundering by new cyber super cartels & Silicon Valley wizardry

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The battle between cops and criminals on the new frontier of financial crime. As long as people are stealing money, there has been an industry ready to launder it. This is exactly what happened when our economy went digital.  Rinsed reveals how organised crimes have joined forces with the world’s most sophisticated cybercriminals, resulting in virtual money-laundering machine too intelligent for most regulators to crack.  Geoff reveals how thieves are uniting to successfully get away with the most atrocious crimes on an unprecedented scale. Rinsed follows the money from the outrageous luxury of Dubai hotels to sleepy backwaters of coastal … Continue reading Discreet alliances, Virtual money-laundering by new cyber super cartels & Silicon Valley wizardry

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Sony Music wants to buy Radio Ga Ga for $1bn

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Sony Music is in talks since last year, to buy the entire music catalogue of the rock band Queen, including hits like Radio Ga Ga, Bohemian Rhapsody , and another One Bites The Dust fir £790 million ( $1bn). If the deal goes ahead it would cover Queen’s songs and all related intellectual property including the rights to logos, music videos, merchandise, publishing and other business opportunities. Universal Music is also said to have been involved, owing to the company’s long standing relationship with the band who signed with the British label EMI in 1972 and remained with the company … Continue reading Sony Music wants to buy Radio Ga Ga for $1bn

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Czech billionaire buys Royal Mail for £3.6billion

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Royal Mail’s owner has agreed to a £3.6billion  takeover bid by Czech tycoon Daniel Křetínský, another British organisation under foreign ownership. Parent firm international Distribution Services (IDS) said its board of directors had approved  the billionaire’s offer which was received earlier this month.  The deal values the business at £5.3billion including debt and Daniel Křetínský, EP Group must guarantee a series of contractual commitments and intentions to protect Royal Mail’s public service duties such as its one-price-goes-anywhere  first-class post six days week. The 48-year-old Czech Sphinx already owns  27 per cent share in IDS and also owns parts of West Ham United FC and Sainsbury’s. … Continue reading Czech billionaire buys Royal Mail for £3.6billion

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AI tech unicorn at the cutting edge

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Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded technology start-ups and a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn, invited hundreds of employees from his company to a five-star hotel in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, and were treated to performances by local dancers and DJs. Duggal, at time took to a stage to interview figures like former Apple executive Tony Fadel and Serena Williams’s former tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglon. Builder.ai has been valued at just over $1bn following a new $250mn investment round led by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund QIA had joined investors including Microsoft, SoftBank and Insight … Continue reading AI tech unicorn at the cutting edge

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Past pains follow present pleasures: Tangled-colonial roots

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Do you cherish British countryside, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Historian and professor of colonialism and heritage at the University of Leicester, Corrine Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results, through ten country walks, roaming the island with varied companions. She connects the Cotswolds to Calcutta. Dolgellau to Virginia and Grasmere to Canton. Empire transformed rural lives for better and for worse, whether in Welsh sheep farms or Cornish copper mines, it offer both opportunity and exploitation. Flower shows how the booming profits of overseas colonial activities, and the select … Continue reading Past pains follow present pleasures: Tangled-colonial roots

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TikTok lawsuit to block a US Law rising free speech concerns

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As tensions rise between the world’s two biggest economies, the Department of Commerce confirmed it had revoked permissions that had allowed US companies to export certain goods to Chinese technology giant Huawei. The US exports computer chips to Huawei starting in 2019, citing ties to the Chinese military. TikTok has filed a lawsuit to block a US law that would ban the video app in the US unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, calling the act an “ extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights” of the company and its 170 million American users and followers. They asked … Continue reading TikTok lawsuit to block a US Law rising free speech concerns

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Facing the ghosts of his childhood

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Michael Donor’s Grow Where They Fall,  where the protagonist considers buying a Robert Mapplethrope print, the photograph of a nude Black man, but the sitter’s pose- pulling his knees up in front of his face – is troubling, “ Was a weeping or was this a moment of gentle repose? Wonders Kwame. “Was this clutching and supporting of himself the model demonstrating he needed no one else?   In 2017, Kwame is teaching English at a South London secondary school. His pupils consider him one of the “safe’ ones, and he lives with his university friend Edwin, a generous, willowy, Period Drama … Continue reading Facing the ghosts of his childhood

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Decline of ethical standards

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Boris Johnson’s premiership was brought down by three Ps” – Paterson, Partygate, and Pincher  whammy scandals involving lobbying by a former minister, Downing Street carousing during Covid lockdowns and a government whip living up or down to his name.  Veteran Kings Counsel, John Bowers, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford reveals in Downward Spiral, even the most unwilling Brit back to those febrile weeks towards  the end of Johnson’s administration, when he seemed to be puling apart, the conventions of good behaviour that keep the air in Downing Street smelling healthy.  The scandals eroded trust in the British government, from questionable … Continue reading Decline of ethical standards