Ploughman’s lunch The ploughman’s lunch – all porky pies? Alludes to rustic, outdoor, bygone times, but actually dates from 1950s promotion in pubs to boost cheese sales. Sounds hot, sophisticated & substantial, when it’s a simple, light meal – bread, cheese, pickle, maybe added pie, egg & salad – eaten cold, with a glass of…
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Newsworthy Readers will pay for newsworthy content as good journalism still has the power to change lives. Ideas & information matter in a knowledge economy. News will get shorter, quicker + more graphical, digital, automated, personalized & paid for – but is still cheap. News is an industry in transition, not in decline Guessed the Word? …
Unify A Unified Payments Interface (UPI) enables instant & easy money exchanges from person-to-person or person-to-merchant. India’s 2-yr old UPI system has 115 lenders & handled ₹542bn rupees ($7.5 bn) of transactions in Aug 2018, up from ₹31m in Aug 2017. All together now: the ramp-up power of a network Guessed the Word? …
Lithium Light, conductive & with other electrical properties, lithium is vital for electric vehicle, laptop & smartphonebatteries.1/2 the world’s deposits of this rare, valuable metal are in Chile. Large reserves also in Cornwall, UK. Price has surged from £1,900 ($2,470) a tonne in 2002 to £12,750 ($16,500) now. World produces 220,000 tonnes a year. Demand…
Quantum bit Artificial intelligence, powered by quantum computing, is all down to 0s and 1s. A classical bit can be a 0 or a 1. A qubit can be a 0, or a 1, or both at the same time. 2 qubits can explore 4 states: 00, 01, 10, 11. A 50-qubit quantum computer can explore 1.125 quadrillion…
Oligopoly Music industry is an oligopoly. 3 labels – Sony, Universal and Warner Music – control majority of market share by owning 80% of every piece of music ever recorded. Guessed the Word? Series 11 (2/4) [photo:Stocksnap]