Mannerisms

2025 was a good  year for billionaires- their collective wealth rose by 25%, according to the Forbes World’s Billionaires List. The number of billionaires  passed 3,000 for the first time in 2025 and has climbed to more than 3,400 this year. The $100 billion club had a record 20 members while five had more than $200 billion  – Elon Musk, ...

The USA has 989 billionaires –  ahead of the second-ranked country, China with 610  and third-placed India with 229, according to the Forbes World’s Billionaires List of 2026 390 new billionaires were minted in the last year, translating into more than one a day and pushing up the number of billionaires worldwide to more than 3,400. This included the first ...

Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five PC vendors in 2025: Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Traditional PC Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, 2025 vs. 2024 (Preliminary results, shipments are in millions of units) Company 2025 Shipments 2025 Market Share 2024 Shipments 2024 Market Share 2025/2024 Growth 1. Lenovo  70.8 24.9%  61.8 23.5% 14.5% 2. HP Inc. ...

Pain, such as back pain, headaches and joint pain, are the most common medical symptoms in Germany, the UK, US, Mexico, India and China according to a survey conducted by Statista Consumerl Insights. The reported 12-month prevalence is particularly high in Germany (59 percent) and the United Kingdom (56 percent), while about half of adults report such health problems in ...

In the last five years, the production of digital computers in Britain has risen from 15 to more than 100 machines annually. So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961 The story continues: At the same time, the number of major companies in the market has risen from three to 14; only eight ...

In 1990, there were 9.8 landline subscriptions per 100 people worldwide, a figure that nearly doubled to 19.2 by 2006, according to the International Telecommunication Union. While landline subscriptions peaked in the early 2000s, mobile subscriptions began to rise rapidly. From fewer than 10 subscriptions per 100 people before 2000, mobile penetration reached 50 per 100 people by 2007 and ...

I am putting  it about that the NBT in computing is not quantum but biocomputing -.computers made using human brain cells or rather artificial brain cells grown in laboratories, Ed confides to his diary. The largest cluster of artificial human neurons ever built is 800k whereas human brains are thought to contain about 90 billion.  My pitch is that the ...

24 years ago, the need for Arm and the chipless community to move further into systems engineering was flagged up by analysts Future Horizons A story in EW in 2002 started: ‘The chipless business model – companies which develop and sell semiconductor IP – may have run out of steam, according to a report from analysts Future Horizons. “Supplying a ...

Democrats currently lead voting intentions for the midterms by 7 percentage points, with 47% of those surveyed saying they would vote for a Democratic candidate if the election took place today Saysca recent Economist/YouGov poll, Voting followed the partisan divide, but 97% of Democrats say they would vote for Democratic candidates, more than the 89% of Republicans who say they ...

141 years ago this man  founded an electronics company which lasted for over 100 years: It led the world in many fields including AC transmission equipment, computing, radar and semiconductors. When its creativity ran out under later leadership, it faltered and was eventually ruined by foolishness. Moral:  Glory days come to an end

Far from bridging the digital divide, 5G has widened the connectivity gap between high-income and low-income regions, according to thevInternational Telecommunication Union. 5G networks covered 55% of the world’s population at the end of 2025, but access is highly uneven. In high-income countries, over 80% of the population has 5G coverage, while in low-income countries, less than 5% do. The ...

The share of global web traffic generated by humans is shrinking, while bot activity is on the rise, according  to Imperva Bad Bot Reports. In 2018, humans still accounted for 62% of web traffic, with malicious bots at 20% and benign bots at 18%. But over the past seven years, the balance of web traffic has shifted. Humans now represent ...

Thanks to qz.com for this one – the ten most expensive electric cars: Automobili Pininfarina B95 — $4.7 million Aspark Owl — $3.1 million Rimac Nevera — $2.4 million Lotus Evija — $2.3 million Deus Vayanne — $2 million Hispano Suiza Carmen — $1.9 million Drako GTE — $1.25 million Ferrari’s first, unnamed, EV — $535,000+ Rolls-Royce Spectre — $422,000 ...

Oil prices have soared – although Iran only supplied 5% of global oil production in 2024 delivering mostly to China, its vicinity to the Strait of Hormuz roils markets. Although safehaven assets like precious metals typically soar in the face of global instability, over the past 10 days, gold, silver and palladium prices dropped by up to 10%. With inflation ...

This was a headline, 65 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of  January 25, 1961 The story ran: THE growth of the electronic data processing industry will become explosive in nature during the next few years, according to Mr. Walter W. Finke, president of Honeywell’s Electronic Data Processing Division. The most substantial growth, he predicted, will be ...

Apple currently has the largest user base in the US, UK, and Japan, while Samsung leads in Germany according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey. In the US, 47% of respondents primarily use an iPhone, compared with 29% who use a Samsung. At the same time, more than a third of Apple users (35%) say they are likely to change smartphone ...

Market volatility is the upside of war and as a cabinet minister in a country involved in a war, I am well placed to benefit from inside info to take advantage of it, Ed confides to his diary. I wisely resisted a Polymarket bet at the beginning of hostilities that there was a 38% chance of regime change by March ...

23 years ago, fostering good relations with China looked like a good idea, ‘A new initiative intended to foster Anglo-Chinese business joint ventures was recently launched in the UK,’ reported EW in 2003, ‘the first ever innovation park specifically intended to encourage Chinese companies to set up operations in Europe was opened in Cambridge in September.” ‘ ‘The China-UK Innovation ...

27% of respondents from 30 countries named financial and political corruption as one of the three most pressing issues in their country at the end of the year 2025,  according to Ipsos’ What Worries the World survey, with corruption trailing  only crime/violence, inflation, poverty/inequality and unemployment as one of the top five concerns on people’s minds. Indonesia and Hungary topped ...

There was once a child who was sent out to work after only a single year of elementary school for his education. He was apprenticed to a metal working business at the age of nine. When 19 he patented the invention of a belt buckle which used metal teeth to grip the leather instead of holes. On the success of ...