Liftoff is scheduled for 9:30 am CT on December 9 from Blue Origin’s launch facilities in Texas. Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of first American astronaut Alan Shepard, will be joined by investors Evan Dick, Dylan Taylor, Lane Bess, and Bess’ son Cameron Bess. Blue Origin has called Strahan and Shepard Churchley its “honorary […]
Rolls-Royce’s all-electric aircraft, the “Spirit of Innovation”, has recently hit a record-breaking top speed of 387.4 mph on a series of runs at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down testing site in Wiltshire, UK. Rolls-Royce claims that this makes the Spirit of Innovation the fastest EV in the world, with the figures since submitted […]
Gary Connors, Partner at Oliver Wight EAME, explains what business should be doing in the wake of the COP26 summit. The dialogue and agreements witnessed at COP26 this year have brought on important advances. Despite the last-minute disappointments on the reduction of the usage of coal by China and India the conference reflected a strong […]
According to an announcement on Tuesday, which came just days after the end of the COP26 summit, a new Natrium nuclear power plant will be built in Kemmerer, Wyoming. It will replace a coal-fired plant that is set to shut its doors in 2025. “People across Wyoming welcomed us into their communities over the past […]
On Monday, investment firm Paradigm announced it was launching a $2.5 billion venture-capital fund. Paradigm was founded in 2018 by billionaire Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang who previously worked as a partner at Sequoia Capital. Paradigm’s new fund will be aimed at the “next generation of crypto companies and protocols” and will be […]
Ford has teamed up with Purdue University to create a prototype of a cable that could fully charge an electric vehicle’s battery in just five minutes. While there is still work to be done, the cable could nonetheless help overcome the final major obstacles preventing the adoption of EVs from becoming mainstream. Currently, slow charging […]
Chris West, CEO of Verbal Identity, explores the similarities between billionaires Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs. An obvious thing is the huge personal fortunes made from the companies they built. The less obvious thing is how they skillfully used language to build those companies (and those fortunes). Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett had […]
In this strange, topsy-turvey pandemic-blighted country, it is the right of the political spectrum, rather than the left, who are criticising businesses for exploiting cheap labour and fueling the supply chains crisis. In his speech to the Conservative Party conference, Boris Johnson claimed firms have used “immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in […]
Over the past decade, Office 365 has been bringing together many of Microsoft’s best productivity tools into one powerful package. Many business users, however, have failed to understand the difference between Microsoft’s old suite of Office products and its newer 365 offering. In this article, we’ll give a quick overview of Microsoft 365’s features and […]
Vaibhav Jain, CEO and Founder of Hubilo, discusses the future of virtual events now that in-person events are returning. It was close to 19 months ago when the global events industry turned upside down, with all in-person events banned as a result of lockdown and strict social distancing rules. With live events unable to happen […]
Andrew Watson, Chief Technology Officer at MHR International, explains how businesses can ensure a stronger cyber strategy. Reports into cyber security this year continue to highlight how businesses everywhere face significant external and internal threats, even if the scale and tactics fluctuate. The UK government’s Cyber Breaches Survey, for example, found fewer businesses reporting attacks […]
While ZeroAvia has built H2 aircraft before, this latest project is easily its biggest to date. The hydrogen-fueled airliner will have capacity for 76 passengers, making it almost double the size of similar projects from Universal Hydrogen and H2Fly, each of which boast 40 seats. The airliner will be based on a De Havilland Q400 […]
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