Monday, April 19, 2021

How People Get Rich Now

Poppy Gustafsson runs a cutting-edge and gender-diverse cybersecurity firm on the brink of a £3bn stock market debut, but she is happy to reference pop culture classic the Terminator to help describe what Darktrace actually does.

Launched in Cambridge eight years ago by an unlikely alliance of mathematicians, former spies from GCHQ and the US and artificial intelligence (AI) experts, Darktrace provides protection, enabling businesses to stay one step ahead of increasingly smarter and dangerous hackers and viruses.

Darktracing



Little Women and the mummy’s curse

At the same time she was writing the novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott also wrote one of the first stories to feature an Egyptian mummy’s curse.


Spite houses

Some people will go to absurd lengths to get revenge on their neighbours – including building houses purely out of spite.


How People Get Rich Now





The curse of Colonel Sanders

The ghost of KFC’s Colonel Sanders has haunted a Japanese baseball team since 1985.



The Dissent Channel

Since 1971, US diplomats and State Department workers who disagree with government policy can communicate their opposition through the Dissent Channel.