The G20. If you compare it to, let’s say G7 or BRICS, it’s like bringing a hand grenade to a pillow fight. It is the alpha and the omega of geopolitical shindigs. And the party this group is holding right now? It’s probably the most confrontational, uncompromising blast wave-inducing get-together in years. The story so […]
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Naval superiority is measured in tonnage. Even in the days of the Royal Navy versus the Spanish Armada, the total weight of all ships would be the first piece of important strategic intelligence to the enemy. Just two years ago, it was reported that the Chinese Navy boasted 2.4 million tonnes of water-cleaving muscle. To […]
For years, the conversation about global population has been about our impending inability to feed ourselves, because there’ll be too many of us. Then the narrative changed to the reverse; a population implosion and the average age of humankind reaching into the non-productive 60’s. These have been the headline grabbers. And they’ve been legitimate, too. […]
The UK’s Electoral Commission (EC) has come clean about a cyber-security breach between 2021 and 2022 that laid bare the data of 40 million voters. This cyber-breach happened around the same time the EC’s systems failed a cyber-security test. The EC is not a government institution per se, but a government-backed independent body. It oversees […]
The guys at Spotify have learnt the hard way about podcast profitability. They’ve ploughed a billion dollars into building a podcast platform. But they’re still showing a loss. By overcapitalizing on podcasts, they’ve had to reduce their losses in other areas, the primary area being a 2% staff cut. But although posting a loss of […]
China's semiconductor fund of about $40 billion for its semiconductor sector will help the country ramps up efforts to catch up with the US.
Kainos is a British digital design company operating in the corporate space, based in Belfast. They’re about to invest £10 million to develop the use of Generative AI in the workplace. We’re used to quoting figures in the hundreds of billions of dollars when writing about tech investments. So what makes this minnow-sized, £10 investment […]
“The first casualty of war is the truth.” This was first uttered by Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, 2,500 years ago. The notion of this axiom has now entered the digital domain. And social media is the weapon of choice. The BBC has reported that X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Instagram and Telegram have failed […]
The US-Vietnam relations are expected to get elevated as President Joe Biden travels to Hanoi in a week, in a move that may irk China.
In the previous article. In a seismically changing landscape, and in order to maintain their relevance within an ever-evolving financial ecosystem, banks have been compelled to ride the wind of change. They have come to acknowledge the emergence of Fintech and other financial services vendors as pivotal players in the customer’s banking journey. Simultaneously, they have […]