Cartier Beams That Diamond Ring Right to Your Finger
The luxury brand embraces augmented reality retail with an in-store gadget that renders pieces of jewelry on your hands in 4K.Continue Reading
2023-01-19
How the Fifa20 video game reproduces the racial stereotypes embedded within football
Lutsenko_Oleksandr | Shutterstock EA Sports’ Fifa football videogame series is arguably the most successful sports gaming franchise of all time. Since its debut in 1993, it has sold over 260 million copies across 29 iterations. This position was reaffirmed in 2022, with its latest instalment, Fifa23, reported as the UK’sContinue Reading
2023-01-19
Ukraine war: why Poland is piling pressure on allies to increase military support for Kyiv
Poland's president Andrzej Duda. Reuters/Alamy Polish president Andrzej Duda has been putting pressure on Nato allies to support Ukraine with more tanks at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is the latest attempt by Duda to rally other countries, and particularly Germany, to support Ukraine with heavy armaments. DudaContinue Reading
2023-01-19
Ukraine war: supply of advanced tanks will give Kyiv an edge over Russia and move it closer to Nato
When he appeared before the UK’s House of Commons Defence Committee in November 2021 to defend his government’s cuts to the armed forces, the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, declared that “the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over”. Committee chairman Tobias Elwood notedContinue Reading
2023-01-19
David Carrick: the vetting processes that missed a serial rapist in the Met police
Ian_Stewart / Shutterstock A few weeks ago, I wrote for The Conversation to try to explain why so many men get away with rape. It is now clear that one of those men was a London police officer, PC David Carrick. Carrick has admitted to more than 40 offences ofContinue Reading
2023-01-18
YouTube video showed Kinahan cartel member David Byrne lying dead, trial hears
The Regency Hotel murder trial has heard evidence about a video clip circulating on YouTube of Kinahan cartel member David Byrne lying dead “in a prone state” with a voice saying “f**k me pink, there’s no way they’re guards” after gunmen were observed dressed as members of the Emergency ResponseContinue Reading
2023-01-18
Brazil insurrection: how so many Brazilians came to attack their own government
The storming of the three main symbols of the Brazilian republic – the supreme court, the national congress and the presidential palace – is the kind of event that could shape the country’s history. While Brazil has gone through military coups and social turmoil since it became independent in 1822,Continue Reading
2023-01-10
Richard Price: how one of the 18th century’s most influential thinkers was forgotten
Richard Price reading a letter dated 1784 from his friend, Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin West, National Library of Wales & Shutterstock According to the eulogies and obituaries written at the time of his death in 1791, Richard Price’s name would be remembered alongside figures such as Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, GeorgeContinue Reading
2023-01-10
North Korea: record number of missile tests in 2022 has raised fears of nuclear confrontation with the South
North Korea began 2023 as it had ended 2022 – with some characteristic sabre-rattling in the form of missile tests. Having launched more missiles in 2022 than in any other year, on the morning of January 1 this year, North Korea tested a large new multiple launch rocket system that,Continue Reading
2023-01-10
Workers Shuffling Jobs Want a Skills-First Labor Market
Where you went to school won’t matter as much as what you can actually do now.Continue Reading
2023-01-10