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Business confidence in the UK has taken a sharp downturn, recording its first decline in a year, as concerns mount over Chancellor Rachel Reevesā forthcoming Autumn Budget. The latest economic data, alongside insights from the upcoming SME Barometer brought to you by Prism, highlights growing apprehension among businesses, with many fearing significant fiscal challenges ahead. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) reports that business confidence dropped to 14.4 in Q3 2024, down from 16.7 in Q2. This decline marks a significant shift in sentiment as slow business growth and a deteriorating economic outlook begin to take…
When building modern, creative websites, managing complex interactions and maintaining clean, modular code can be challenging. Thatās where piecesjs comes ināa lightweight front-end framework designed to simplify the process of working with native web components. It provides the flexibility to manage components dynamically, without the heavy constraints of traditional frameworks. At its core, a āPieceā is a modular component that can live anywhere on your webpage. Each Piece operates independently, with its own encapsulated styles and interactions, making it easy to manage and reuse across your site. Piecesjs dynamically imports only the necessary JavaScript and CSS for each page, optimizing…
Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again, though, something larger gets drawn into Earth’s gravitational field ā Ā and when this happens, it usually spells bad news for any life living on our planet’s surface.Ā Scientists know that the vast majority of meteorites that come crashing down to Earth originate from the solar system’s main asteroid belt: a region between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly shaped rocks left over from the formation of the solar system crash into and…
Former India National Cricket Team player Sunil Gavaskar lavished rich praise on the young batter Sarfaraz Khan for his heroics in the Bengaluru Test against the New Zealand National Cricket Team. He said that his performance on the field was much superior to his waistline. After toiling for a lot of years in the domestic circuit, Sarfaraz Khan finally earned his place in the Indian Test team this year. He arguably has the best performer in the red-ball cricket in Indian domestic cricket as he has been piling truckloads of runs for Mumbai at an astonishing average of around 70.…
The United Nation’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said it is “deeply concerned” by news that four refugees were returned to Turkey from Kenya.The refugees were repatriated at the request of the Turkish government, Kenya’s foreign ministry says. The statement comes after reports of several people being abducted in the capital city, Nairobi, on Friday.A British national told the BBC he and several Turkish citizens had been abducted by masked men.He said he had been released after eight hours when he showed his alleged abductors a copy of his British passport.In a statement the UNHCR said: “UNHCR urges the Government of…
Unlock the Editorās Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities is to be renamed after a designer watch as part of a multiyear tie-up with Chanel, in what is the French fashion houseās first foray into sport sponsorship.Ā From next year, the annual rowing contest will be rebranded as āThe Chanel J12 Boat Raceā, taking on the name of a high-end timepiece produced by the privately owned luxury goods company. Chanel will replace Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, as the…
Brad Miska was barely paying attention when he realized horror movie history was happening. The co-founder of the horror movie site Bloody Disgusting has lived and breathed horror films his entire life and, as such, knows they have the potential to suck. So you canāt blame him for throwing on a seemingly unassuming sequel called Terrifier 2Ā and continuing with his day. But then it happened. āI like to pay attention to the films when Iām watching them but for whatever reason that day I was distracted and it was on in the background. I got somewhere like 15-20 minutes into…
Christieās ImagesA new exhibition charts how Claude Monet’s revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would “irreversibly alter how London saw itself”.Some artists help us perceive the world more precisely. A rare few go further. They look beyond looking. Theirs is a deeper reality, more felt than seen. Claude Monet is one of those. In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken by any artist ā a project that is now the focus of a groundbreaking exhibition at…
Este artĆculo tambiĆ©n estĆ” disponible en espaƱol. ApeCoin (APE) has seen its price jump by over 100% today, driven largely by the rollout of advanced technologies and newly implemented incentive programs. These initiatives are designed to boost user participation and broaden the tokenās utility across multiple networks, fueling the recent surge in value. APE up over 100% in the last seven days. Source: CoinMarketCap Related Reading Layer Zero Integration And Interoperability The Layer Zeroās Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard has now been integrated with ApeCoin through the latest update to its smart contract. This version greatly enhances ApeCoinās capabilities, enabling…
Last year, after a three-year-long pause, we emerged from the pandemic stronger than before and reunited in BogotĆ” for the largest and some would say, ābest Devcon yet.ā Since then, we were frequently asked āwen Devcon 7?ā Well, today, we have some news! š š š„ When is Devcon 7!? š„ We couldn’t be more excited to announce that Devcon 7 will be coming to Southeast Asia in 2024! š Before you ask if we got our years right, weāll let you know why we are scheduling Devcon 7 for 2024. We thought long and hard about this. Hereās why:…