Angry Birds 2: After six years and 2bn downloads, Rovio finally announces Angry Birds will get a sequel July 16, 2015 Get ready for the addiction to strike anew: Angry Birds 2 is coming at last. Six years after the smartphone game that drove us into a bird-throwing frenzy, Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment has finally announced it will be getting a sequel. The original Angry Birds stormed to the top of the charts when it [...]
Can mindfulness protect against mental illness? Wellcome Trust funds £6.4m study on thousands of UK schoolchildren to find out July 16, 2015 Can mindfulness help protect against mental illness? Thousands of UK teenagers are taking part in a large experiment to find out. Some 6,000 teens at schools across the UK will be getting lessons in mindfulness as the Wellcome Trust is putting £6.4m towards a large study into how mindfulness works on adolescents. The point of [...]
Bigbelly is turning New York’s smart garbage bins into wi-fi hotspots July 16, 2015 New York’s rubbish bins were already pretty smart. Now they’re going online. The waste management company Bigbelly has applied for a grant from the city’s Mayor’s Office to convert its several hundred NYC bins into wi-fi hotspots, in the latest example of unexpected devices hooking up to the Internet of Things. This is an expansion [...]
Businesses are wasting money on energy – here are six ways to make your business energy-savvy July 15, 2015 Last week the Competitions and Markets Authority reported back on the fact consumers are “paying too much” for their energy bills, suggesting that customers need to help make the market be more competitive through switching suppliers on a regular basis. But 75 per cent of businesses already know that there are savings to be made [...]
Which countries have the most female billionaires? UK has more billionaires named David than female billionaires July 15, 2015 Just under four per cent of the UK’s billionaires are women, giving it one of the world’s widest gender gaps among the super-wealthy. A breakdown of billionaires by gender has revealed Britain has the tenth lowest percentage of female millionaires. We have twice as many billionaires called David (four) as we do female billionaires (two). [...]
World’s first solar-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 grounded; halts its record-breaking round-the-world flight until 2016 July 15, 2015 The world's completely solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, has had to halt its round-the-world journey in Hawaii after overheating its batteries in a record-breaking flight. Pilots of the experimental plane, the first of its kind, were attempting to circle the globe powered only by the sun’s rays. But today its website was updated: Breaking news: [...]
How to get funding for an Internet of Things project: UK government offers £10m fund to create connected cities July 15, 2015 Got a good idea for the future of the connected city? The government is offering a £10m fund to businesses that can demonstrate how the Internet of Things (IoT) can benefit citizens and cities. With a competition put up in a bid to “revolutionise” how IoT is put to use in cities, this collaboration between [...]
Women’s confidence in fair pay plummets as fewer women than men expect a pay rise July 15, 2015 Women are far less likely than men to expect a pay rise in the next year. Just 27 per cent of women feel “confident” that they will get a raise within the next 12 months, compared to 40 per cent of men, according to a new survey from careers website Glassdoor. Overall, expectations of a [...]
Where can you earn most? Wages grow fastest in Northern Ireland, Wales and North East – but London still has the highest salaries July 15, 2015 Yes, wages are still highest in London – but the capital isn’t where salaries are growing fastest. Wage growth is higher than it’s been for five years, showed fresh labour market statistics released by the Office for National Statistics today. This is far from evenly split, however. Those working in Northern Ireland, the North East [...]
Facebook Messenger plans digital assistant like Apple’s Siri to help us shop July 15, 2015 It looks like Facebook is working on developing a digital assistant, modeled after a certain secretary in James Bond. This new feature won’t have much in common with Apple’s Siri or Google Now, though. Instead, Facebook just wants to help us shop more. According to a report in The Information, developers are currently calling the [...]
