Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is to publish her second novel – 20 years after her bestseller The God of Small Things came out. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness will be published in June 2017. “I am glad to report that the mad souls (even the wicked ones) in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness have found a way into the world,” Roy said. She has written a wide range of […]

Never judge a phone by its cover. This chunky, black box was in fact the world’s first ‘smartphone’. The IBM Simon went on sale to the public on 16 August 1994 and combined mobile phone technology with a wide range of computing features. To mark the 20th anniversary, London’s Science Museum is putting it on display in its new Information Age gallery. “The Simon wasn’t called a smartphone back then,” […]