Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Libya From payments to armaments: the double life of Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek | Free to read Financial Times - Sam Jones, Paul Murphy, Helen WarrellThis story is outside the FT’s paywall (you do not need a subscription to access it) so it can be shared freely. It was early 2018 when Jan Marsalek, the young chief operating officer of German fintech
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++ How the People’s Vote fell apart Financial Times - Henry MancePeter Mandelson was angry, and the object of his anger was his old friend Roland Rudd. Both men had made their names as suave spin-doctors — Mandelson for Tony Blair, Rudd for some of Britain’s biggest
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Genes Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates The Verge - James VincentThere are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of us unique. Each gene is given name
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++TikTok Rivals take advantage of TikTok’s troubles to poach talent Financial Times - Hannah MurphyJosh Richards may only be 18 years old, but already 20m people follow his short videos on TikTok, and he earns hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting music and products on the app. Last week, however,
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Doping The 'real' threat to Russia’s former doping mastermind BBC NewsThe former mastermind of Russian sports doping, Grigory Rodchenkov, gave an interview to the BBC this week with his veiled face in the dark shadow of a wide-brimmed straw hat. Now in hiding in the US,
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Hong Kong A Newsroom at the Edge of Autocracy The Atlantic - Timothy McLaughlinThe South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper—for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows. On the night of August 31, 2019, police officers rushed a
