There may be a faulty engine part on your next flight Alarming news from the civil aviation sector yesterday is the discovery of jet engine components, in service right now, which have false safety certification. All the details, such as the broker company who supplied the engine parts, the particular engine in which they’re now […]
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Advertisers Will Find this One Hard to Swallow So unbeknownst to you, Google has apparently been re-arranging the letters of your search enquiry when shopping online to include a brand name supposedly relevant to the search. It gets fed back to you, and you click on it. However, this is also unbeknownst to the company […]
It’s OPEC vs IEA Yesterday, the Secretary General of OPEC was given air time on CNN. He told the world that a lack of investment in the oil industry could spike prices for crude oil to over $100 a barrel and jeopardise global energy security. Energy security is defined as an uninterrupted availability of energy […]
You’re looking at one of the most feared creatures on the planet. It’s the Brazilian Banana Spider. Its home is the Amazon basin and should you ever find yourself in that region, you need to be wary of it. Extremely wary. Because it’ll kill you, but not before painfully hardening your muscles, sending you into […]
It was 22 years ago that scientists found naturally occurring bacteria that eats plastic. That’s a short cut explanation for a discovery every bit as significant as Darwin’s theory of evolution. This is according to scientific brains who live in a factual, not a theoretical, world. For this plastic-eating bacteria actually breaks down the synthetic […]
AI-Generated Y3000 Proves Coke is No Longer the Real Thing I once sat in a boardroom presenting two Coke TV commercials and online films I’d just produced to the company’s marketing director and her acolytes. This woman was a tough cookie who would entertain absolutely no deviation from the Coke brand’s three marketing platforms. 1. […]
Nike Out-thinks its Competitors Again Iconic sportswear brand Nike has just unveiled a ventilation system to keep athletes cool. It’s called Aerogami and it works according to each wearer’s level of workout at the time. I’m sorry but my thesaurus hasn’t given me a better alternative to describe this tech. So I’m going to have […]
UK EV Industry in Trouble Despite a sense of overwhelming fear that China will dominate the European EV market, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton insists there will be no relaxation of tariffs on EV exports between the UK and EU. “That’s a hard non” He said, with an expression suggesting the question was accompanied by some […]
A Bit of Space Junk, Probably Sorry to ruin either a romantic evening or a school lesson in astronomy, but whenever you gaze in wonder up at the stars, you’re also looking at thousands of tonnes of trash, just sort of hanging there about a thousand kilometres high. There are over 10,000 tonnes of rubbish […]
India has been stealing the headlines in the last month. The success of Chandrayaan-3 in showing the world how to colonize the moon has shown the country in a light the world many have suspected, but never seen before. The fact that China’s Xi Jinping wouldn’t meet with Narendas Modi at the recent BRICS summit […]