Prospecting goes orbital with satellite tech
A UK SATELLITE firm has won a multi-million-pound customer contract to construct a remote-sensing prospecting satellite.
Exobotics will design, manufacture, and test a CubeSat satellite...
AI at the easel: Can machines make art?
By REESE JONES
THE ART community took a jolt when an “artbot” won first place at a Colorado State Fair competition in August.
Jason Allen admitted...
Buy, sell, fire: Musk hits the ground flailing
ELON Musk has sold another 19.5 million Tesla shares.
The sell-off comes just days after his $44bn Twitter takeover. Tesla's share price has fallen by more...
Media and emissions link: new ground broken
SINCE 2019, communications company dentsu has been working with the University of Bristol, the BBC, Sky, Netflix and ITV to calculate the greenhouse gas...
Old dogs must dodge discrimination, says doco
WE EXIST in an ageist society which it is difficult to escape, warns STEVE BUTLER, author, documentary maker, and CEO at financial planning firm...
Does Nanny know what’s best for us…?
By CHARLES WHITE-THOMSON
“NANNY finance” — excessive quantitative easing and rate-cutting by central banks — has dominated the world for many years. This overly soft...
Russian banker gives up citizenship over war
BILLIONAIRE Russian banker Oleg Tinkov has renounced his Russian citizenship in protest at the war in Ukraine.
Tinkov, the founder of online Tinkoff Bank, said...
Support calls from SMEs in UK and US
UK firm Purbeck’s personal guarantee insurance has seen a sharp rise in small businesses contacting its mentoring and advice service for support.
From January to...
Boutique offices are the new trend
By JOHN DROVER
THE JLL Future of Work survey found that 75 percent of commercial real estate leaders believe that flexible working patterns are critical...
‘Greener’ wind power — but military potential clouds motivation
CEO starts a pan-European crowdfunding bid to advance airborne power generator
MOBILE wind turbines tether a sea container to a kite, which turns in a...
More greenwashing comes to light in HSBC ads
THE UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has taken its first action against a bank for greenwashing.
It has banned two HSBC ads for misleading claims...
A much-Googled question: ‘What is an NFT?’
By HAL WILLIAMS
IT’S SOMETHING BV asked as well (see Winter 2021/22 issue) — but global interest and ignorance have not been erased by our...