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- February 5, 2019
Technically it was meant to be the 173rd running of the world’s greatest race since the aptly named Lottery won the first in 1839 – but if Potters Corner, the Welsh trained ‘winner,’ of yesterday’s Virtual Grand National is to ever feature in Aintree’s history books he will have to turn up at Aintree and wins
READ MOREThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 (commonly known as the Nobel Prize for Economics) has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. Through the award, the Nobel committee recognised both the significance of development economics in the
READ MOREZavvi, the online entertainment ecommerce site, accidentally emailed its entire customer database today to tell them that they had won tickets to the Champions League final in June. The email was intended for one lucky competition winner, but a fat-fingered member of staff accidentally sent the email to everyone on the company’s customer database –
READ MORELinux kernel king Linus Torvalds this week dismissed cross-platform efforts to support his contention that Arm-compatible processors will never dominate the server market. Responding to interest in Arm’s announcement of its data center-oriented Neoverse N1 and E1 CPU cores on Wednesday, and a jibe about his affinity for native x86 development, Torvalds almost abandoned his
READ MOREOver the years, we’ve watched many of our favourite film stars, directors, writers and musicians make their way onto the most prestigious stage in Hollywood, to accept Academy Awards. Last year’s Oscars gave us first-time wins for Guillermo Del Toro, Allison Janney, Jordan Peele and Gary Oldman, but sadly, not everyone can triumph and this means
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