Every year, the team who caretake the Cambridge Dictionary choose an English language word which they feel most represents the zeitgeist of the times. Often, the word is chosen because of how many times it was searched. For example, last year, Homer was the chosen word. No correlation to the long- running Simpsons series, but […]
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The US has chosen to supply Israel with the Hellfire R9X missile, a weapon not only of destruction, but of precision.
Flight deck promotions happening five times faster than accepted norms. Commanders of multi-engined, twin-aisle jets now younger by 15 years. Pilots scaling up to larger aircraft with questionable haste. Both pilots on the flight deck with the same level of inexperience; aviators that look like the kids of the passengers. These are issues that hardly […]
This morning, it was announced that Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly blah blah blah) and founder of etc. etc. etc., will be attending the AI Summit at Bletchley Park. Or rather, may attend the AI Safety Summit. So actually, the world’s most talked-about human being doesn’t have to attend. We can just pretend he’s […]
On November 1st, the first global AI safety summit will commence at Bletchley Park (pictured below) in the UK. The venue is the iconic country estate which housed the codebreakers who shortened World War 2 by years. The summit will focus on the dominant AI narrative amongst business leaders and governments in 2023. Simply, the […]
They happen to be the biggest automobile manufacturer in the world. Yet Toyota has been strangely absent from the rather robust industry conversation about EVs in the last few years. For a company that spends $13bn annually on research & development and has been at the forefront of advancing tech for eighty years, why haven’t […]
World Business Outlook is a highly influential online magazine based in the South East Asian business hub of Singapore, with a global audience. It’s a comprehensive, data-driven publication that provides sought-after analysis for the international business community. As highly regarded as World Business Outlook’s editorial is, so too is the awards list they publish every […]
As recently as 2021, it was reported that Israel’s tech industry was booming, with one third of the world’s cybersecurity unicorns emerging from the country. Eric Schmidt, Google founder, also claimed that Israel is the best incubator in the world for tech entrepreneurs after the United States. Although the industry accounts for only around 15% […]
Moody’s is the world’s pre-eminent advisory on debt markets. Along with Standard & Poor and Fitch, it monitors global investment risk. And now, it’s just sounded the alarm bell for Israel, warning that the severity and probable longevity of the current Israel/Palestine conflict will make it more expensive for Netanyahu’s Government to borrow money. The […]
They had a party last week in Beijing. Even Putin was invited. In fact, over 100 leaders went to the same party. It was billed as a forum to celebrate a decade since the Belt and Road Initiative was launched. But actually, this little soirée was really about China sending out a message about global […]