Welcome to today’s news digest via Facebook. Ten thousand protesters converged on the centre of London yesterday to protest against the British government’s coronavirus lockdown and its drive to find a vaccine for the pandemic, with many turning out … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 30.08.2020: Pubs and protests
Mountain View, United States VIJAY SHAH As everyone knows, the main purpose of the internet these days is for endless offerings of cat videos, cat memes and people talking about cat stuff, and now the popular Chrome browser, … Continue reading CHROME’S LASER CAT: It’s the (laser) eye of the kitteh
London, United Kingdom VIJAY SHAH The United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), a governmental ministry that promotes and protects the country’s interests across the globe, has launched a special virtual tour to help the public get a … Continue reading FCO VIRTUAL TOUR: See inside a foreign affairs hub
Shanghai – VIJAY SHAH via sources If you are an amateur photographer and your only method of capturing the world around you is with the potato camera lumped in with your smartphone, the subject of this article might make you feel even more ‘crappy’ than before, or it might just inspire you. Bigpixel, a Chinese company specialising in in-depth photography, hooked up with a handful of tourism promotion agencies in the city of Shanghai to produce a 360-degree photograph with the mind-shattering and eye-burning resolution of 24.9 billion pixels, or 195 gigapixels (195,000 megapixels), the second highest resolution panorama ever … Continue reading SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION: From China, the 24.9 billion pixel photo that’s blown minds
London – VIJAY SHAH If you like family days out and happen to be south of the river in London this Saturday, there is a cool dance festival just waiting to be visited, completely free of charge. The Bermondsey Carnival, being held at the Southwark Park this Saturday, 30th June 2018, is the perfect family fun in the sun session, with a summery mix of dance, music, events for adults and children and its own funfair. South London is home to many vibrant Latin American communities, with Londoners from Brazil and Colombia forming the majority of them. This year, the … Continue reading BERMONDSEY CARNIVAL: With a Latin American twist
Tokyo – VIJAY SHAH via RENE RITCHIE and iMore While the hype around the celebrated Nintendo augmented reality game Pokémon Go has long since died down, perhaps because everyone decided to twaddle with fidget spinners instead, the game still draws a loyal support base. For the uninitiated, Pokémon Go is an interactive game, downloadable to your mobile phone, where you catch animals from the Pokémon kids’ cartoon series in real-life locations, raise them and use them to fight opponents. In 2016, the game’s popularity reached endemic proportions, with people crowding in parks to catch rare and elusive Pokemon, and state authorities such … Continue reading POKEMON GO: International Community Day next month
London – VIJAY SHAH via sources To celebrate the 100th anniversary of British women winning the right to vote in elections, the Museum of London is hosting the Votes for Women Weekend from today in honour of women’s suffrage, featuring various participatory activities for people of all ages, the magazine Skint London writes. The event, which is being held over two days from 3-4 February, 2018 and is free entry, promises to be an immersive and fun experience celebrating this key milestone in universal suffrage, when women over the age of thirty finally won the right to help choose who … Continue reading VOTES FOR WOMEN WEEKEND: London museum marks key democratic milestone
Right now, I am off work for three weeks because of annual leave and the Christmas and New Year break, so I spend some time on the Internet. Every once in a while, the dark brooding spectre of boredom casts its long shadow upon me, and I found myself in front of the laptop, fingers twitching. I literally cannot think of anything to do. When boredom strikes, and I do not want to leave the laptop’s side, I fill up the dead time by Googling something, binge-watching YouTube videos, browsing the Facebook newsfeed or checking out some graphic design. Until … Continue reading ONLINE AND BORED?: Some fun sites to pass the time
If you are a regular Facebook user, then you are probably really big on leaving comments on pictures, posts and videos you like (or make you want to kick in your computer screen). You have seen all sorts of comments, ranging from the downright weird and the abusive, to declarations of love (finished off with a tonne of hearts and heart-eyes emojis, no doubt), mini essays on intellectual topics and politics, and gushing comments. You probably know your way around Zuckerberg’s pet project very well. Right? Well maybe not! Let me explain. As you may know, Facebook has recently introduced … Continue reading FACEBOOK COMMENTS: Three new comment tricks (tested out by HEM News Agency)
London, UNITED KINGDOM VIJAY SHAH For Londoners, a trip to the seaside usually means a forty-plus minute drive through heavy traffic and with screaming friends/kids/radios to the Essex coast or Brighton, but from this May, you can be beside the seaside on a rooftop in south London, courtesy of Brixton’s Rooftop Beach. This event brings together sand, sun, buckets, spades, street food and seasonal cocktails for a fun day out without having to book the coach. The Rooftop Beach, organised by fresh pop-up bar maestros Brixton Rooftop, takes place from May 26 to 29, 2017 over the Bank Holiday weekend. … Continue reading A BEACH IN LONDON?: Rooftop Beach to return to Brixton this May
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