NexPro Media Staff

NexPro Media Staff

NexPro Media Staff

An art gallery in Switzerland is showing off a collection of model cars. No, the art world isn’t suddenly cottoning on to the excellence of Matchbox’s finest, but rather, these scale-model works of art come via French sculptor Antoine Dufilho.

Dufilho has apparently merged his “passion for cars with principles from his studies in medicine and architecture”, to create eight 75cm long cars based on some of the most iconic motors to have ever graced the planet. They’re being displayed at the M.A.D.Gallery under the title Sequential.

 

Read more at Top Gear.

Flash floods in the Turkish capital, Ankara, have caused havoc.

Cars were swept away and businesses hit, in the Mamak district of the city.

 

Read more at BBC News.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned that the US will face "historic regret" if Donald Trump scraps the nuclear agreement with Tehran.

Mr Rouhani's comments come as the US president decides whether to pull out of the deal by a 12 May deadline.

Mr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, calling it "insane".

The 2015 deal - between Iran, the US, China, Russia, Germany, France and the UK - lifted sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.

 

Read more at BBC News.

The family of a South Carolina woman who died as the result of an in-flight medical emergency is suing American Airlines with a wrongful death lawsuit.

The 25-year-old woman, Brittany Oswell, had an embolism while on a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (HNL) to Dallas (DFW) in 2016. According to the lawsuit, Oswell’s family is alleging that the flight’s crew never attempted an emergency landing and that the aircraft’s medical equipment was faulty.

 

Read more at The Points Guy.

Elon Musk shared an incredible video on Thursday of a rare glimpse at a natural wonder. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta satellite, which completed its historic 12-year mission in 2016 by landing on a comet, captured the beauty of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during its orbit. The SpaceX CEO shared an animation of the images created from the space agency’s archives.

 

Read more at Inverse.

On February 22, 2016 in Jupiter, Florida, Jack Nicklaus teed off at his famous fundraiser, The Jake, to benefit children's health. While he wowed the crowd, as the Golden Bear has been doing for five decades, none of the fans knew that just four days earlier Nicklaus had undergone an experimental stem cell therapy in Munich, Germany.

For much of his professional golf career Nicklaus has had aggravating back pain that he describes as an eight or nine out of 10 on the pain scale. While most golfers live with some degree of back pain Nicklaus said his was particularly debilitating. Despite trying therapies ranging from cortisone shots to a back operation the pain persisted. At the time he flew to Munich, Nicklaus was willing to try anything, even an, as of yet, unproven treatment.
 
Read more at CNN.

Microsoft must be feeling pretty good about itself.

 

I don't say that because it's just done something clever or impressive or noteworthy, but because it's done something relatively boring. The company is announcing the availability of the latest update to Windows, called the Windows 10 April 2018 Update.

 

Read more at Mashable.

It’s been more than four months since Amazon narrowed down its list of HQ2 candidates to 20 finalists.

And while Wells Fargo’s AI program has predicted that Boston is most likely to emerge the winner, other clues are pointing to sites a little further south.

In the last two years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ private jet has made repeated trips to one particular destination. That destination — the only one that has been visited more frequently even than Amazon’s home base in Seattle — is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., reports the Puget Sound Business Journal.

 

Read more at Time.

Some small businesses that use Facebook ads to promote themselves and attract new customers are wrestling with whether they need to change strategy after the company's data-misuse scandal.

The revelations that Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from 87 million Facebook users made some people and small businesses jittery. Small business owners don't want customers to draw any connection between their ads and Cambridge Analytica, or to be unnerved by how their data is used.

But even wary owners, especially those trying to reach a wide audience on a small advertising budget, say they need to go where their customers are -- and for many, that's Facebook.

 

Read more at Inc.

Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund isn’t immune from the market volatility that has roiled investors around the world this year. The fund reported today that it lost 1.5% in the first three months of the year, its worst quarterly decline since the third quarter of 2015. It also broke a seven-quarter streak of positive returns.

This sent the value of the fund down by 171 billion kroner ($21 billion), or more once currency fluctuations and withdrawals by the government are factored in. This is quite the turnaround from 2017, when the fund’s value increased by the most in its 20-year history.

 

Read more at Quartz Media.

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