Tag: 2024
Weekly Politics Summary: 1/3/24
US Republican Leader of the Senate to step down in November Mitch McConnell is the longest-serving US Senate leader in history. He announced on the 28th of February that he would be stepping down as Senate leader of the GOP (Republican Party). “To serve Kentucky and the Senate has been the honor of my life,…
UK Chancellor To Sell Large NatWest Stake: Throwback to 2008 Financial Crisis
According to the Guardian on Wednesday 28th February, UK Chancellor of Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced that he would look to sell the remaining 39% of the government’s stake in NatWest. During the 2008 financial crisis, the government gave a bailout to many banks by buying a substantial proportion of their stock. This was necessary to…
Weekly Technology Summary: 1/3/24
The last week in technology was busy, here are the big things that happened last week. Apple Cancels The Apple Car On the 28th of March apple has killed the apple car according to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. Although apple had never publicly confirmed the existence of the project, dubbed ‘Project Titan’ is was known…
Rishi Sunak and Islamic Extremism
UK Prime minister Rishi Sunak gave a speech on the 1st of March about Islamic extremism, Here are the key points. Overall Rishi has set some ambitious plans, will he follow through with what he said? Read more politics articles here: Images belong to Copyright Holders. Cover – Google
The FinTech Industry: Uncovered
What is a FinTech? FinTech, or Financial Technology refers to up-and-coming technology that looks to improve, or radically change the delivery of financial services. In the past 5-10 years, the number of FinTech startups almost doubled to 26,000, and in 2022 the global market revenue for this industry was USD 257.26 billion, and by 2030…
Apple Car Crash(ed)
The Cupertino Based company has scrapped the Apple car project after 10 years in development according to Mark Gurman. Employees from the project have moved toward generative AI teams. This comes after WWDC 2022 where Apple unveiled the next generation of Carplay, with cars supporting such a feature coming in 2023. So far only Porsche…