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Forget the Tooth Fairy, gimme Pikachu!

Pokémon now lures children to sleep better The game that has kept millions awake well into the early hours, is now an app that incentivizes a good night’s sleep. Pokémon, delivering sleepless nights since 1996, is now available in the form of Pokémon Sleep. This is how it works: The app is available for your […]

Arizona Semiconductor Factory Delay Caused by Worker Shortage

The Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) has delayed the operational start of its first microprocessor factory in Arizona by a year. This is due to a shortage of skilled workers. The skill required to oversee the manufacturing process is highly specialised and the company foresees the need to train American workers to supplement the skilled Taiwanese […]

Submersible tragedy: Why did Nobody Think of a Black Box?

Now that the narrative has changed from search & rescue to recover & evaluate, we have a question.If the defence of OceanGate is the ‘experimental’ nature of the entire undertaking, why was there no black box on the craft? The black box records the last thirty seconds of operation before an accident. It has been […]

Storm Brewing over North Atlantic Submersible Accident

The probable deadline for the depletion of oxygen has come and gone. We, meaning the whole world, have been advised that conditions will have been absolutely dire. So dire, that the adventurers on this Titanic tourist expedition might not have survived even before the oxygen ran out. It seems this story of humans trapped in […]

US cannot compete with China’s EVs

Bill Ford has told the media that the US can’t compete with China’s EVs. Neither on progress to date, nor technology, nor volumes, the mighty American motor industry is on the ropes – this was his summation. The current Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit went on to explain that the speed […]

NHS to test advance warning cancer detection to a million people

It’s called the Galleri Test and it can detect 50 different types of cancer. This is already significant because, to date, only 5 types of cancer have a recommended screening test. These are breast, colorectal, cervical, prostate and lung. Yet over 70% of new cancer cases and cancer-related deaths are due to lacking of screening. […]

UBS Takeover of Credit Suisse a Done Deal

It’s been tagged as the biggest deal banking in the world since the dark days of 2008. The UBS takeover of Credit Suisse. But the imminent collapse of Credit Suisse which preceded it also tarnished the reputation of Switzerland’s banking credibility. The deal creates a wealth management group with a $1.6 trillion balance sheet, effectively […]