Top 10 unexpected company origins From dried fish to electronics; from pistols to motorbikes; from shopping baskets to advertising: the unlikely origins of some familiar brand names

From the archive, 8 years ago: from dried fish to electronics. #Top 10 Unexpected Company Origins www.independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

A vertical bar chart titled “London has one of the lowest rate of road traffic deaths in the world.” The chart compares average road‑traffic deaths per 100,000 daytime population for multiple international cities from 2018–2020. Bars run horizontally from 0 to 8 on the x‑axis. At the top of the chart, Oslo has the lowest value, followed by Inner London highlighted in yellow at 0.8, then Zurich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Greater London highlighted in yellow at 1.1. Below these are Brussels, Bristol, Barcelona, Dublin, Montreal, Paris, Edmonton, Calgary, Warsaw, Milan, Vancouver, Greater Manchester, Lisbon, Melbourne, New York City, Auckland, Buenos Aires, Accra, Rome, Bogotá, Belgrade, Guadalajara, São Paulo, and Fortaleza. Cities at the bottom of the chart show the highest values, approaching 8. Footnote: “Daytime population is the sum of the resident population and the net influx of commuters.” Source: ITF Safer Streets Database.

London is proving that sustained action on road safety delivers real change.

By investing in better junctions, safer speeds and HGV safety standards, we’re building a city you can move around with confidence.

Low rates are a start, but our goal is zero. Because every journey should end safely.

I agree. I fell for the ads on Fix Radio, splashed out on a visit to Leyland SDM and was not disappointed.

Well done @c20society.bsky.social

Good news. I'm glad to see you call it the IBM Building. That name is never going to go away.

I loved that croc. I used to visit it if I was in the area.

I've found a pragmatic solution! Hang your jumper over the seat in front, being careful not to disturb the person in the seat.

A new form of annoyance to whinge about. I've just boarded a @virginatlantic.bsky.social flight from London to Mumbai and I can't turn the screen off.

HBM4 Sticks With Microbumps, Postponing Hybrid Bonding Process cost and yield issues delay the adoption of hybrid bonding.

HBM4 Sticks With Microbumps, Postponing Hybrid Bonding
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#HBM4

Never mind AI hype, there's going to be a huge fall here, no matter how well Tesla performs in the long run.
www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/manner...

AI can be analog. I think people are confusing terms. Maybe 'natural intelligence' would be better?

“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Vancouver is a great city, and it's nice to see London in the top ten. Well done @london.gov.uk

Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor

Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan

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Interesting article. I learnt a lot. (I think you meant hectomillionaire (hundreds of millions), not centimillionaire (hundredths of millions = tens of thousands). Your article did appear in the science section).

Happy holidays. Over here in Europe, we'd have something to say about health and safety, sitting that close to a fire.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

The new Lily Allen album: decoded.

Private Eye tried to get to the bottom of the biggest mystery in popular music.... Who is Lily Allen making references to?

Screen shot showing 350km journey time has been reduced to 6.5 hours by new "high speed" train.

@simoncalder.bsky.social From today's @the-independent.com: "New high-speed rail to link Vienna and Trieste". I got quite excited, by then saw that the "high speed" journey takes 6.5 hours. It's 350 km as the crow flies. Even the @gwr.com train from London to Bristol gets up to 200 km/hr.

Trip.com is one of those sites that does a lot of things really well, but manages to counter that by being really irritating, like sending you alerts and emails about nothing all this time. Also, what's this? They say I'm saving CO2, but I'm going somewhere, so by definition I'm creating CO2?

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

'London is world's best city - people claiming it's lawless hate its success' 'The fact that London has again been crowned greatest city in the world disproves everything our critics claim, and they can’t stand it', the London Mayor Sadiq Khan writes

Here’s what you won’t hear from some commentators on social media: in the year to October, London recorded 10,000 fewer violent crimes leading to injury than it did in the twelve months before I was elected.

More on the progress we’re making ⬇️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share? A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi.…

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

EVs actually convert electricity to the chemical energy that is stored in the battery, then back into electricity, which is then converted into mechanical energy. I'd like to believe the data, but how can I with a sloppy post and no source cited?

"Many American cars have their steering on the left side, the opposite of the standard right-side steering in Japan, where expressway tolls are on the right side, for instance". Nothing to do with the side of the road you drive on then?

Farage: epic grifter