Facebook has come a long way from its early days as a platform for those in higher education. As of 2017 the social network has over 2 billion active users, an amazing figure considering the amount of completion currently vying for your attention....
Iraq is not a country which often gets mentioned in architecture dispatches for obvious reasons. The US-led invasion in 2003 began a decade and a half of devastation in the country which only seems to be coming to some sort of conclusion now....
Online retailer, Amazon is constantly looking for innovative ways to drive up sales and entice consumers by integrating the latest technology into its services. In the last year, the firm has unveiled several new concepts which include flying drones over homes to deliver parcels to backyards and monitoring homes to see what products people need in order to tailor their marketing strategies....
Twitter has recently announced new plans to try and tackle potentially harmful online advertisements in support of the proposed Honest Ads Act. The act looks to clamp down on the way that adverts are portrayed to the masses – in particular those of a political or ‘issue-based’ nature....
Wine has experienced significant growth over the last ten years, with demand continually growing from across Asia. Yet this new crop of customers is expected to go wanting with global wine production expected to drop to levels not seen for over 50 years....
In an illuminating and somewhat disturbing thread on Twitter from Jo Maugham QC, a major study undertaken by The Treasury has been revealed and the results make for fairly grim reading....
There are more than one billion people across the world who still do not have access to electricity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The total number of people has reportedly dropped by a third since the turn of the millennium, but there are still many who are missing out on all the benefits of electrification....
Facial recognition technology is growing at a rapid pace and is being used on a larger scale than ever before, with many tech giants using it as a tool for advertising purposes. It enables marketers to improve their understanding of consumers and create content that responds to real-time factors....
Car manufacture has been a proud industry in Australia, often eliciting a kind of religious dedication similar to that of Apple. Home grown Holden and Ford built almost tribal loyalty among their customers, with the faithful flocking from all over Australia hoping to see their favourite brand taste victory in the annual head-to-head Bathurst 1000 motor race....
In 2014 a campaign was launched in India called the Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission), which lists its mission statement as seeking to make the country free of “open defecation” – the practice of defecating outside – by 2019....
As the wage squeeze continues to leave millennials struggling to make ends meet new research shows that under thirties are turning their back on graduate jobs in favour of starting their own businesses – contributing to the so named ‘startup economy’....
Almost a year ago in October 2016 hundreds of thousands of women across Iceland got up from their desks and took to the streets at 2.38pm. It’s an oddly specific time isn’t it? The reason being that according to government figures women earn 14-18 percent less than their male counterparts for doing exactly the same job....
The idea of a Hyperloop system is quite captivating: super-fast transport which is based on vacuum tubes and little capsules which can theoretically contain people or cargo. Unlike most new transport innovations, Hyperloop is a completely new idea rather than an improvement on an existing system, and perception of it being clean and out of the way has got people very excited....
There have been many announcements in the motor industry during 2017. Volvo & Jaguar, among others, were swift to announce a move away from diesel and petrol vehicles. It’s not just powertrains that continue to alter the direction of the market. More customers are opting for larger, more capable off-road vehicles with a more seating capability.....
With an abundance of new technology allowing our cities to become more efficient, safer and greener there is much discussion around the future of ‘smart cities’....
As we all know by now, the island of Puerto Rico has been devastated by Hurricane Maria and suffered extensive damage. The majority of the Puerto Ricans are without electricity, not to mention food and water. Schools are closed, highways are broken, and the ports are mostly closed....
Apparently dissatisfied with their reputation being in complete tatters following revelations about their app that meant them being banned from London, Uber have been revealed to have made a deal with Apple which means that they can record everything on your iPhone’s screen, even when the app is running in the background, according to security researchers....
Low-cost airlines have always been popular in the UK, with many people having benefitted from cheap flights over the years. However, this month thousands of travellers have been caught up in Ryanair’s flight cancellation fiasco as well as Monarch’s collapse into administration....
Worth more than $30bn Airbnb is already a company that holds a huge stake in the travel and tourism sector. But now the company are looking to branch out further and entice the business market as well as holidaymakers....
The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) provides yearly updates as to the state of our energy markets which show our progress in decarbonising our power supply. Removing fossil fuels from our lives as soon as possible is, of course, a vital goal, and a good report from the IEA can go a long way to dispel the general doom and gloom which often surrounds climate change news....
