Is the flip-phone making a comeback? February 27, 2020 Cancelled due to coronavirus fears, Mobile World Conference was scheduled to be taking place in Barcelona this week. But despite the cancellation of the conference itself, the event continues to be the industry’s leading stage for product announcements online, with manufacturers who had been primed to reveal new devices instead turning to livestreams and remote [...]
Toyota Highlander review: a hybrid SUV that seats seven March 30, 2021 Australians like to say that if you go into the Outback, you need a Land Rover – but if you want to get out again, you need a Toyota Land Cruiser. I suspect the people of Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world with challenging terrain have their own versions of the [...]
Crypto AM Friday with Jason Deane August 13, 2021 Crypto at a Glance with Jason Deane While lawmakers in the US continue to wrangle over details of the Infrastructure Bill containing the crypto legislation, China kicks out the last of the Bitcoin miners and almost all nations continue to print money at an unprecedented rate, Bitcoin just keeps quietly building and expanding in the [...]
Watch billionaire Elon Musk’s Space X land all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters April 12, 2019 Space X successfully landed its three rocket boosters for the first time yesterday, following the delivery of its first commercial payload. Read more: Splashdown: Space X capsule returns to earth The company, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket was launching [...]
Listed firms need public flogging January 31, 2020 The £18.5 trillion in assets managed by members of the Investor Forum would cover a fair few shopping trips to Poundland, and buy its parent’s shares hundreds of times over — but will public market shareholders get the chance? That’s one of the questions indirectly prompted by the forum’s latest annual review, which highlights the [...]
Cardano surges with smart contract upgrade imminent August 11, 2021 Crypto at a Glance The cryptocurrency markets continue to climb today, with the Bitcoin price up another 2 per cent over the past 24 hours to more than $46,300 at time of writing. Ethereum is also up around 4 per cent to more than $3,200. Can they keep the upward momentum today? The market’s resurgence [...]
Best of travel: Why the US Navy sank its own ship off the Cayman Islands February 4, 2021 To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. This week we revisit Adal Hay-Nicholls’ diving trip to the Cayman Islands to discover the truth behind a legendary wreck. Read more: Jaguar XF P300 review: revitalised luxury at a surprisingly low price ••• The sound of whirring [...]
Sen Richard Shelby, 87, puts screws on US Crypto yet the market is green as he just united the whole industry to fight! August 10, 2021 Greetings from Mallorca where I’m trying to holiday whilst I contemplate my advancing years – soon to be scoring my half century. Meanwhile ageism is alive and well in the US as millennials scream at the top of their lungs that the boomers and their parents are screwing Crypto. Seriously though they might have a [...]
From James Bond to Glastonbury, we rate the chances of this year’s cultural events going ahead January 7, 2021 Last year was a virtual write-off for the cultural calendar, with the year’s most hotly-anticipated events being brushed aside by the ceaseless march of Covid. This year the world seems to be drawing close to a solution to the crisis – but will it come in time to save 2021? Marina Abramovic at the Royal [...]
Carbon capture: Here’s what you need to know about the Elon Musk-backed tech February 27, 2021 Elon Musk is nothing if not divisive. But if there’s one thing about the world’s richest man that people tend to agree on, it’s that he’s good at picking winners. So when the Tesla and SpaceX founder announced – via tweet, naturally – that he would contribute $100m to the best carbon capture and storage [...]