Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe fantasy cars that will never be made Concept cars look beautiful and futuristic, but why do manufacturers spend millions developing them if they’re never going to make it into production? Take, for example, the DS X e-tense, a “2035 dream car” produced by the French luxury …
Claim: President Trump says the US economy is the best it’s ever been. He has been repeating that message in the run-up to the mid-term elections in November, when voters choose members of both chambers of Congress, some state governors as well as state and local officials. According to one estimate by the Washington Post …
U2’s Experience and Innocence tour features a double-sided, 30 metre-long LED video screen, which the band can climb inside, adding new dimensions to their performance. Bassist Adam Clayton showed Mark Savage around (and through) the ground-breaking technology. Source by [author_name]
Image copyright Amazon Image caption Amazon is working on its Prime Air delivery service in Cambridge Amazon has revealed plans to create more than 1,000 jobs in the UK in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cambridge. At least 600 “highly skilled” roles will be added in Manchester working on software, machine learning and AWS, its cloud computing …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAdam Clayton shows us around (and through) U2’s 30-metre long “barricage”. “The two things you can’t have up here are vertigo and a need for stability.” U2 bassist Adam Clayton is giving me a tour of “the barricage”, a 29-metre long, double-sided LCD screen that the band …
Image copyright Unknown The Trump-supporting right has a new favourite meme and it’s being shared far and wide to troll their political opponents. Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts after users on pro-Trump Reddit forum r/The_Donald coordinated efforts to set up ‘non-player character’ profiles mocking liberals on the social networking site. The trolling campaign was …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Video metrics were inaccurate, Facebook admitted in 2016 Facebook was aware of inaccuracies in the way it measured how many people viewed video on its site for a year longer than it has previously admitted, court documents have claimed. Newly released papers that are part of a US legal …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Department for Work and Pensions says it will contact anyone who is due a backdated payment Questions have been raised from benefits claimants after the government revealed that 180,000 people are entitled to back-payments following years of errors. Calculation mistakes were made during the process of moving people …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPM: Extension would be ‘a matter of months’ The EU says it is ready to extend the post-Brexit transition period if the UK wants. The current length of the transition period – designed to smooth the path from Brexit to the UK and EU’s future permanent relationship …