John Sculley has had some failures, but there’s one in particular that might always define his career. Back when Sculley was CEO of Apple in the late 1980s, he gave the go-ahead to an idea called the Apple Newton. It was an early iPad, basically, with a personal assistant that would pave the way for today’s Siri. Seeing it as the future, Sculley dropped more than $100 million into the […]
What’s the one thing that can make a winter’s night out camping more fun? Roasting some delicious and spongy marshmallows over a flaming hot bonfire. But how about taking this fun little activity to the NEXT LEVEL? Meet Simon Turner who chose to sear his marshmallows over an active volcano. Yes, we gasped too. Call it adventure or call it stupidity but Simon from New Zealand along with colleague Bradley […]
It’s fishing but not as you know it – forget about pushing the boat out, or even needing a rod and reel. The Mount Trout Ice Fesival in Korea sees locals and tourists alike trying to catch fish with their bare hands. More than 100,000 are expected to flock to the frozen river in Hwacheon, some 12 miles south of the demilitarised zone separating north and south Korea, for the […]
Are you sick and tired of expensive rents and mortgages? Do you want to have a simple and cozy retreat from the urban jungle? This British farmer accomplished just that. He single-handedly built this amazing cob house. After Michael Buck retired after many years as an art teacher he decided to build the house of his dreams. He already had the land and it costed him around £150 ($250). As […]
Bill Gates has drunk a glass of water made from human faeces, to showcase technology he said could provide clean water in the developing world. The Microsoft founder said he wanted to begin sending processing plants around the world after tests later this year. The project was welcomed by WaterAid, which said that it could particularly help in urban areas. According to the charity, some 748 million people worldwide lack […]
Las Vegas: Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer TCL has announced that it will unveil a new television model with a curved screen which uses ultra high definition 4K technology and measures 110 inches, putting it in the Guinness record books for the world’s largest television. In a statement Monday on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here, the company also revealed its plan to show another 55-inch 4K television […]
LONDON: An eighth propaganda video released by the Islamic State (IS) shows British hostage John Cantlie giving the viewers a tour of the Iraqi city of Mosul in order to prove that “life in Mosul is business as usual.” The documentary-style clip in English countered media claims that suggested that the city was “depressed” and “living in fear” and termed such reports “misleading,” reported The Guardian. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest […]
Tech entrepreneurs were busy in 2014, building startups and raising money for products that could make it big in 2015. While no one can predict the future, there are a handful of startups we are especially excited to watch in the coming year. This unscientific list, compiled by VentureBeat’s staff from their own reporting, is an eclectic list of startups that we think are especially promising. We did the same […]
Here is One of our Indian Dr. Surinder Singh Khurana, an internationally trained dentist who established himself as a successful dentist in Canada after emigrating from India, today helps others following in his steps get through their licensing process. In addition to his own dentistry practice, he is the director and main instructor at Ontario Simulation Training Centre (OSTC) for Foreign-Trained Dentists. But his initial days in Canada were fraught […]
The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s true-life tale of corrupt New York stockbrokers, was the most illegally downloaded movie of 2014. Disney cartoon Frozen was second on the list, said The Hollywood Reporter, quoting piracy-tracking firm Excipio. Both films were downloaded around 30 million times by torrent users between 1 January and 23 December 2014. The third most-pirated film was space thriller Gravity. It was just behind Frozen with […]
