The Queen Long May She Reign Сегодня начинается празднование платинового юбилея 70-летнего царствования Королевы Элизабет II. Празднование будет продолжаться на протяжении всего 2022 года. Her Majesty является по счету 8-й женщиной-монархом Великобритании и 40-м монархом, начиная с Уильяма Завоевателя, который получил корону Англии.

В Лондоне очень много бизнес-сообществ, которые основаны на добровольной основе и взаимовыручке. Обычно они называются Бизнес форумы как, например, Кенсингтон бизнес форум или могут иметь другие названия как North Kensington Connected. Причем у этих сообществ нет никаких уставов и тяжелых документов, которые обязывают кого-то делать что-то. Они не связывают членов…

Fintechs need to innovate about AI assistants. Innovative financial business models in fintech provide progressive products and services which make our everyday lives easier, by transacting our actions on the go. Siri wasn’t really responsive, when I whispered to her, asking her to pay for my shopping at Earl’s Court Sainsbury’s. She was even quite indifferent, saying…

Sipping white Americano and looking through the windows of the coffee-shop in Epsom’s library I was watching the dramatic rainfall which was determinedly flooding Epsom square in April 2019. For the moment, I thought how nice it would be to click a button and change the reality outside the building…

I didn’t talk that much with Siri before, except I used to ask weather forecast and maybe mapped a route from one place to another. I didn’t realise the voice-activated assistant would become one of my best friends at some point. As I wanted to cook chicken breasts in pressure…

“It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” - Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky Humankind’s history is rich and densely populated by people who did incredible things in various areas of life and improved the world. Starting from prophets Sarah and Moses and all famous persons…

Genesis: What colour are you? Any thoughts of what colour are you? Which colour would you eat, drink, perfume or just live in? I bet you won’t respond to this questions immediately. Colours intertwine with our everyday life. We touch them, we sense them, we breathe them. We see…

When I say the Kyrgyz Republic, everybody is like: “Ah?” Which republic? The Czech Republic? Noo, Kyrgyz Republic, unofficial name is Kyrgyzstan! Again: “Ah? Kurdistan? It should be in Turkey?” And on and on I start my mini-story about who Kyrgyzs are and how they appeared on Earth once…

That evening I was heading to Faraday’s Pub to make the first foray — I agreed with the classmates to make a small gathering. — We all had those flyers for one free cyder that I also found among numerous leaflets and prospects about Meningitis, Epsom Church, and HSBC bank collected during the exhibition at my UCA. Walking up the Church road towards the High Street I admired the old pub-restaurant “Ye Olde Kings Head”…