Elon Musk’s recent highly public back and forth with Twitter has given the market whiplash. Twitter, while initially resisting the tycoon, went on to sign an agreement with him worth US$44 billion (£36.6 billion) in April 2022. The deal placed a 38% premium
One way to eliminate the competition in business is simply to buy them out and shut them down. And that means less choice for consumers and sometimes the loss of innovative and, in the case of the pharmaceutical industry, even life-saving products. But such so
Would you like a warning before the world ends? Well, it’s now possible. Extraluminal is an Internet of Things (IoT) device that will notify you an hour before the Earth is about to be destroyed by a supernova. What is a supernova? Supernova N49 was photogr
If you think dead spider robots are something straight out of a horror movie (or your worst nightmares), I have some news for you. Mechanical engineers from Rice University have actually turned spider cadavers into what they call “necrobots,” able to functio
When was the last time you really thought about your personal brand? Last month? Last year? Never? Contrary to popular opinion, branding isn’t just for large companies or promising startups. As a professional in 2022, personal branding should be right at the
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and damage to property. But given that we are launching an increasin
Netflix is having a miserable year. The streaming giant shed 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 — its first loss in more than a decade — and dropped around 1 million more in quarter two. The company’s woes have sparked concerns that video stream
Earlier this month, Ukraine launched a campaign to assemble the world’s first “Army of Drones.” It called on the international community to donate funds towards new drones or to “dronate” their own recreational and commercial drones. That’s because Ukraine’s m
We are currently at the peak of the holiday season, but instead of drinking cocktails on the beach, hiking the mountains ,and enjoying what life has to offer, a surprising number of people are reluctant to take time out from work. Recent research shows one in five peopl
Between 2000 and 2018, the number of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) manufactured was multiplied by 80. In 2018, 66% of them were used in electric vehicles (EVs). The planned development of electric mobility will increase demand for batteries, with the Internat