Colleague is writing about business travel this week. Is your company asking you to fly Economy rather than Business these days? Apparently it’s a trend…. 💺we’d love to hear your stories and will keep them confidential ✈️

Found by a mate in his (very Yorkshire) granddad’s things

On The Story, The Times and The Sunday Times podcast, we look back at the saga of Autonomy, tracking the history which led to Mike Lynch's criminal prosecution, deportation to the US and eventual victory. Just hours before the tragic sinking of his yacht, his friends had been celebrating his

Throwback to the Hundred final this weekend with friends and my cricket-mad 9 year-old

Mike Lynch obituary: Tech entrepreneur and adviser to David Cameron "He started his first company, Cambridge Neurodynamics, in 1991 and quickly won a contract with South Yorkshire police to design a machine that would match fingerprints. Soon, murders from many years earlier

For the Lunch with The Times and The Sunday Times 📰 series, Katie Prescott had a chat with Victor Riparbelli about Synthesia 🎥's "desert walk" in the 2010s, what AI will do for content creation, and how we can tackle the threat of deepfakes: thetimes.com/business-money… 🤖🧠

A fascinating lunch with ⁦Victor Riparbelli⁩ of Synthesia - The man who creates fake people – like David Beckham speaking nine languages thetimes.com/article/d363b7…

“What are the odds?” - a question that has been asked a lot this week as Mike Lynch and Steve Chamberlain tragically lost their lives within days of one another, just months after their acquittal in the US.  Something their mathematical minds might have found intriguing.

How extraordinary twist of fate robbed Autonomy pair of their second chance thetimes.com/article/ab5829…

Exclusive: Featurespace, a Cambridge-based fraud detection company backed by Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur who died in the sinking of his superyacht this week, is in advanced talks about a sale to Visa that could value it at more than £700m. news.sky.com/story/lynch-ba…

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Joyous

I have seen false information regarding France following the arrest of Pavel Durov. France is deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication, to innovation, and to the spirit of entrepreneurship. It will remain so. In a state governed by the rule of law,

The BBC is running a live page on the Oasis reunion...."it's great", "it's really good", "everyone's really excited" "OMG"

Why Nvidia’s results are likely to move markets - from ⁦Louisa Clarence-Smith⁩ ⁦Times Business⁩ thetimes.com/article/2e4d7d…

This diagonal staircase at London Bridge is the worst staircase in London. Feel free to chime in if you feel differently but I’m pretty confident.

Good luck to everyone juggling the return to work, school or both this week

Back in 2019 Alex Kendall gave me a turn around Cambridge in Wayve’s prototype self-driving Renault Twizzy. Today I had a 30 minute trip in their latest model around the streets of Camden. No interventions required. I’m impressed.