We were after more than the story, gripping though it is. I wanted to understand what lessons we all might learn from what became arguably Nasa’s finest achievement: the recovery from catastrophe in deep space and the rescue of a… Read More ›
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Watch brands could learn from Apple
Do you remember the original iPhone keynote? It shook the world and deservedly so, and not just because it was such a groundbreaking product. With so many watch events (all of them?) being cancelled it makes sense for the big… Read More ›
Barclay v Barclay
But the moment of the Brexit triumph has coincided with a remarkable unfolding crisis for the Telegraph’s owners, the Barclay brothers. Family feuds, financial strain and an expensive folly on a rocky island in the English Channel is the untold… Read More ›
Nature always finds a way…
The maps on this page show concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, a noxious gas emitted by motor vehicles, power plants, and industrial facilities. The maps above show NO2 values across China from January 1-20, 2020 (before the quarantine) and February 10-25… Read More ›
How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
Earlier that day, Twitter’s management accused the unassuming 32-year-old of accessing thousands of user profiles without authorization to pass their identifying information — including phone numbers and IP addresses — reportedly to Bader al-Asaker, the head of Saudi Crown Prince… Read More ›
The case for keeping things
A common refrain on The Repair Shop is that we live in a “throwaway society”—a society that produces cheap, low-quality goods we would rather discard and replace than repair. The show aims to change this by example, demonstrating the joy… Read More ›
Resisting the obvious
I spotted the Omega Speedmaster 326.30.40.50.02.001 in a store window yesterday for the princely sum of £2,800. That is actually priced about right for what it is, with box and papers, and I continued to stare for some time. It… Read More ›
inner-me vs inner-child vs inner-dog
As a child I developed a heightened sense of rationality – I would someday have to justify myself, via words and logic, to a righteous God who might choose to send my soul to burn forever in hell. So what… Read More ›
Why Amazon knows so much about you
Clicking on another file reveals 2,670 product searches I had carried out within its store since 2017. There are more than 60 supplementary columns for each one, containing information such as what device I’d been using, how many items I… Read More ›
The Longines HydroConquest Ceramic
So why an earth did Longines use ceramic to make a diver watch that has to withstand the rigors of being bashed on reefs? I had the opportunity to play around with one so let’s find out… More here. Looks… Read More ›
