For Ukraine’s tech startups, the last two years have been anything but business as usual.
Despite drone strikes and a battered war-time economy, cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa remain home to a thriving tech ecosystem.
As the war grinds on, a number of Ukraine’s entrepreneurs have been fighting their own battle with Russia.
Yet their fight has not just been to preserve their country’s territory – but also its identity.
MailOnline spoke with the CEOs and founders of some
Halfway into my training to become an intensive care unit physician, I gave birth to my son, Finnegan. My medical training also coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic. I was in the third and final year of my internal medicine residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York when the initial Covid surge of spring 2020 overwhelmed the city and its hospitals. A few months later, I moved to another hospital in the city to begin a three-year fellowship in pulmonary and … Read more
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During my 10 years as a Moscow-based journalist, I struggled to imagine how and when I would eventually leave Russia.
Half Russian myself, I had moved there in 2013, keen to learn more and report on a country that I felt was often misunderstood by many in the West.
In the end, the decision was made for me last month when a representative of Russia’s foreign ministry called to
Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has taken a brutal dig at Daniel Ricciardo over his return to the sport, suggesting the Aussie was not deserving of replacing Nyck de Vries.
He said: “He did some political background work with [Helmut Marko] that [Nyck de Vries] didn’t see coming, well done.
“On the other hand, it’s impressive, for a return to Formula 1, a big smile and Instagram are enough to drive these magnificent cars, it’s incredible.
“No [other] driver after
Earlier this year, Google introduced a chat application powered by artificial intelligence—an experimental competitor to ChatGPT and a tool that it hoped, per its marketing copy, would “be a home for your creativity, productivity and curiosity.” Understanding that some potential users might be less sanguine about a technology that blurs the line between the augmentation of human intelligence and the obsolescence of it, Google gave its new bot a canny name: Bard.
As a general term, “Bard” suggests the lyric
Mess can make me feel claustrophobic and overwhelmed. But arriving at yet another client’s house that’s bursting at the seams doesn’t faze me.
Whenever I step into these disorganised, cluttered rooms, I immediately think: ‘This is exactly how I grew up.’ Any momentary panic is replaced with the comforting knowledge that I’m going to be able to fix this.
Sometimes people are addicted to the acquisition of particular things. I once helped a client who had more than 5,000 items
Noah likes to feed the squirrels naked. I don’t know if he does it this way when I am not here. But like clockwork on the weekend mornings we spend together, the squirrels will start to tap on the window. And Noah will rise from the bed as if responding to a baby monitor. He will stumble to the kitchen, grab a handful of unsalted almonds from a jar in the cabinet, return to the bedroom, and crack the
Like many parents, the lockdowns of the last two years afforded Clare Page an unexpected insight into her daughter’s school lessons.
Her then 13-year-old — who we will call Isla — attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College, a 1,400-pupil state secondary school in South London. And with teaching taking place online, some of the material she saw unfolding on her daughter’s laptop at home was little short of horrifying.
Isla’s ‘lessons’ — 46-year-old designer Clare uses the term loosely — included
Less than a year after I read my first book in English, The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl, I joined my elementary school’s debate team. I was a fifth grader and a recent immigrant to Australia, and the two milestones were closely related. As the language and culture of my new home became legible to me, I began to desire more than comprehension. I wanted to talk back and, in turn, be heard.
I soon learned that reading served an
In late 2001, I was a consultant working on a project in Los Angeles. I was headed to North Dakota for the holidays and rushing through the airport to catch my flight. I ran into Pamela Anderson on the way to my gate, and then plopped down on the plane next to Louie Anderson. My first thought was: Wow, that’s two opposite ends of the Anderson spectrum! My second thought was: Louie is one of my comedy heroes and I’ve
