Spike Lee and Jean-Luc Godard were also among the prizewinners at the 71st annual film festival In a surprise verdict, the Japanese film Shoplifters, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, has been awarded the Palme d’Or for main feature at the close of the Cannes film festival. “The ending blew us out of the cinema,” said jury president […]

Many restaurants are embracing digital signage, whether due to upcoming FDA regulations or a desire to boost customer experience. At the  Restaurant Franchising and Innovation Summit, multiple panels addressed digital signage and how best to utilize it. Be patient While technology moves rapidly, panelists urged restaurants to slow down. This might seem counterintuitive, but individual […]

SINGAPORE – Birkin bags are in the news again. On Thursday night (May 17), Malaysian police raided three apartments in a luxury Kuala Lumpur condominium owned by former prime minister Najib Razak’s family. A total of 284 boxes containing luxury handbags – including dozens and dozens of orange boxes holding Hermes Birkin bags – were loaded into trucks and […]

As Ebola is confirmed in a city with 1.5 million inhabitants, officials warn it could cause “an exponential increase” in cases. There is a “very high” public health risk from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organisation has said. The health agency has raised its earlier assessment after one patient […]

There’s no need to leave the continent to eat Hawaiian. The state’s cuisine is spreading across the country, driven by the popularity of poke (rhymes with OK). The raw fish bowl served with rice, vegetables, sauce and other toppings, gets its name from the Hawaiian word meaning to slice or cut. “It’s fresh and healthy, […]

Limiting global warming this century to just 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures would be a boon to the planet’s biodiversity. This lower warming threshold, compared with warming of 2 degrees C, will preserve much larger swaths of the geographic ranges of tens of thousands of land-based species of plants, vertebrates and insects living on the planet, […]

Can you tell whether your website users are engaged? Frustrated? Bored? Your customers’ emotions and mindsets are valuable information for personalising service. In brick-and-mortar stores, this information is readily available through body language. The digitalisation of retail removes body language from the equation, and makes online service personalisation that bit harder. Ecommerce brands can’t rely […]

“Satoshi is female!” That’s how New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney rallied the crowd on May 13 at the “Women on the Block” event in Brooklyn, New York, where more than 300 people came together to talk about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The event comes at time of tension within the crypto community, as blockchain stars […]

Jack Ma has joined the bitcoin bashing brigade, although he remains keen on blockchain. Ma, chairman of Alibaba and considered China’s richest man, said during the second World Smart Conference in Tianjin that bitcoin is a bubble, according to a local industry report. In the past, he has said he does not understand bitcoin but had not previously gone […]

More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed and exploded near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media say. Three people have survived but are in a critical condition in hospital, Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma reported. The plane came down shortly after take-off, crashing in a field. It […]