The East India Company tried to use marble portrait statues commissioned by the company in 1760, depicting men dressed as Romans, to lionize Robert Clive. However, their attempt failed, as less than a decade later, Robert Clive’s reputation as a hero had collapsed. During Robert Clive’s lifetime, the East India
According to Bloomberg, the Russian firm Yandex is taking on Uber in Dubai with its new company, Yango. Yango – a ride-hailing, delivery and e-grocery company with Russian origins – is gaining popularity and challenging industry majors Uber and Careem in Dubai, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources. Its share
President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, told Sputnik that the Ukraine conflict is part of the US’ 30-year-long war on Russia. The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is in reality a war declared by NATO and waged by Washington against Moscow over the past 30 years, President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki told Sputnik. Eritrea,
According to a report by Nikkei, Hong Kong is set to become a crypto trading hub with the commencement of applications for licenses to operate trading platforms and exchanges. After years of brutal crackdowns, crypto trading is coming back to China… or at least Hong Kong for now. On Thursday,
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) plans to use AI to monitor global bank transactions for potential instances of money laundering. The project, known as “Project Icebreaker,” focuses on developing a SWIFT-like bottleneck system that would enable global banks to regulate and potentially standardize all currencies. While the IMF is
10,000 Hunter Biden laptop photos have been leaked and are available on BidenLaptopMedia.com, a website created by former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler. Nearly 10,000 photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were uploaded to a new website – BidenLaptopMedia.com, which has been intermittently unavailable since launch due to overwhelming traffic.
If a bill, sponsored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, passes, Meta threatens to pull news content in California unless it pays publishers. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, threatened to remove news from its social media sites in California if the state passes a bill requiring big tech
Google will start using AI to “distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats” and potentially disrupt clickbait publishers. Early this year, Google teased a fundamental change to its core product, the search engine through which much of the world accesses the web. Soon, the company said, Google would start using
A “groundbreaking lawsuit” has been filed over a vaccine death based on the report of a death investigation from the Bradford County Coroner’s Office. The report states that the “primary cause” of death was “COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis. The family of George Watts, Jr. “who died unexpectedly,” is suing the DOD, claiming “willful
