Running with the pros Hello all, it’s another lovely week and yet again I’ve been off training with celebrities. This week it was the delightful Dame Kelly Holmes who offered me some great tips on breaking that dratted 10K time and how Runner G can start battling the demons all new runners get. I also spent some time trying out Moov – sensors that strap to your body to help
At Samsung’s next Unpacked event on 13 August we’re hoping to see the super-sized versions of the company’s flagship phones: the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus. To help pass the time between now and then, cast your eyes over these official renderings of the new handsets, pushed out onto the web by the ever-reliable @evleaks. They don’t tell us anything we didn’t already know but if
Video games tend to get themselves stuck in ruts every now and again. In the 90s, it was cutesy anthropomorphic animals with names, the 2000s brought us wave after wave of generic war-based brown shooters, and now, when games are more advanced and more capable than ever, we have… sad dads. The Sad Dad Is Sad Sad dads is one of my pet peeves. At first, the video game ‘sad
Brain training, reaction improvements and positive thinking apps all claim to help us by giving our little grey cells a workout in some way. But is it really worth poking around in there? Whilst something like the DreamScience Brainwave-Oriented Sleep Companion claims to work using sounds that gently lull our brainwaves into the right “mode”, the question is, what is the advantage in training our brains to be other than
Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was arrested on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency, Japanese media reports said. The French-born Karpeles, 30, is suspected of falsifying data on the outstanding balance of the exchange, at one point the world’s largest hub for trading the digital currency, they added. When it filed for bankruptcy
The Japanese affiliate of Ernst & Young LLC has launched an in-house investigation into its audit of Toshiba Corp in the wake of the electronics maker’s $1.2 billion accounting scandal, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC has established a team of about 20 executives to investigate whether there were any problems with how it conducted its audits of Toshiba, the person said. Last
Unless next week’s payrolls report is an outlier, investors should expect a continuation of the directionless market that has kept the S&P 500 trading in place for most of the year. Should July post strong job gains, it would point to an economy strong enough for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the first time in almost a decade.
Pacific Rim trade ministers failed to clinch a deal on Friday to free up trade between a dozen nations after a dispute flared up over auto trade between Japan and North America, New Zealand dug in over dairy trade and no agreement was reached on monopoly periods for next-generation drugs. Trade ministers from the 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would stretch from Japan to Chile and cover 40
U.S. labor costs in the second quarter recorded their smallest increase in 33 years as workers earned less in commissions and bonuses, in what appeared to be a temporary wage growth setback against the backdrop of diminishing labor market slack. The surprisingly smaller rise reported by the Labor Department on Friday did little to temper expectations that the Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates later this year. The
Pension funds led by NECA-IBEW Health & Welfare Fund of Illinois accused the bank of misleading investors about the risks associated with mortgage securities offerings. NECA-IBEW, an electrical workers’ pension fund, owned some mortgage-backed certificates underwritten by Goldman. Goldman and its rivals have faced many lawsuits by investors seeking to recoup losses on mortgage securities.
