Month: November 2022
Rolls-Royce hydrogen engine test
The tests are being carried out by Rolls-Royce, after development work in Derby and in partnership with the airline easyJet. A small aircraft jet engine is undergoing tests that could one day lead to huge changes within the aviation industry. Rolls-Royce AE-2100A gas turbine engine, a conventional design used widely on regional aeroplanes around the
Unrest breaks out across China
Demands for an end to the harsh lockdowns and arbitrary controls of the country’s “zero-covid” campaign. Taken together, they represent a broad-based and diverse bellow of frustration of a sort very rarely heard in China.Many people are increasingly fed up with that war. The latest trigger came on November 24th, when a fire at an
Metaverse
Tech titans are heavily investing in this technology, which could transform many aspects of people’s daily lives in the long term on a range of industries, including film production, health care and manufacturing are hoping to use the technology to help them prosper. Metaverse was not just build for games, gigs and virtual meetings, think
Vladimir Putin to Conquer Ukraine
Since 1975 no country has wholly gobbled up and held onto another. There had been signs after Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 that its president had ambitions beyond the Black Sea peninsula. But data show that Mr Putin’s war of conquest defies an international trend. Vladimir Putin wants to be a conqueror, Do you
Russia Weapon against Europe
Before the war Russia supplied 40-50% of the European union’s natural-gas imports. In August Mr Putin turned off the taps on a big pipeline to Europe. Fuel prices surged, squeezing the economies of Ukraine’s allies. In the past, changes in energy prices have had a small effect on deaths. But this year’s cost increases are
Musk’s Twitter Myth
Musk has been using Twitter to mock or lash out at politicians, the electric car company is more valuable than its rivals because of investors’ confidence in Elon Musk’s vision, but his ownership of Twitter and increasingly erratic behavior are eroding it. Massive job cuts, employee departures and fleeing advertisers have marked the first month
Introduction of Mercedes-Benz acceleration subscription fee
For an annual cost of $1,200 excluding tax, the company will enable some of its vehicles to accelerate from 0-60mph a second faster. It comes after rival manufacturer BMW offered a subscription feature earlier this year – for heated seats. Mercedes-Benz is to offer an online subscription service in the United States to make its
The ‘Fake Charity Girl’ Behind The FTX Collapse
FTX, once the second largest crypto exchange in the world, collapsed into a $32 billion pile of risky bets and worthless tokens that the former Enron attorney who has taken over FTX said is the biggest “failure of corporate controls” he’s seen in his career. In 2021, Caroline Ellison, the CEO of Alameda Research who
Twitter Poll About Donald Trump
Twitter reinstated Donald Trump on to its platform after the company’s self-designated, this was based on results from a Twitter poll that Musk had posted asking whether he should “Reinstate former President Trump,” to which 51.8% of respondents had apparently answered “Yes.” this how Musk is going to decide whether to reactivate Twitter accounts that
Do not delete your Twitter account
Nobody expected the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter to be business as usual after the world’s richest person was essentially forced to complete his over-valued purchase of the social network. With thousands of staff sacked or let go, complete departments gutted and questions raised about Twitter’s ability to moderate content or even maintain uptime, ordinary