At 15 and three months, Arran Fernandez is set to become the youngest Cambridge undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger was offered a place. Photograph: PA At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE. Not Arran Fernandez. Next month, he will become the youngest student [...]
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Margaret Way
Margaret Way kept in touch with a large number of her former pupils My great-aunt Margaret Way, who has died aged 92, taught speech and drama in Taunton, Somerset, for more than 60 years and was an integral figure in the performing arts community there. Born in Taunton, she took a three-year course when she [...]
Apple’s Ping: a capsule review
Ping! Apple’s Steve Jobs introduces the company’s social network for music. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters Apple has ditched the CD in the iTunes logo, upgraded its iPod range and revamped Apple TV, as we learned last night. Chief executive Steve Jobs also upped Apple’s social media game with Ping – a music recommendation and sharing feature [...]
Ping! Apple enters social media market via music
Ping – Apple’s new social media network – will allow users to follow friends’ music interests working in a stream of updates similar way to Facebook or Twitter Having cornered the MP3 player, mobile phone and computer tablet markets with the iPod, iPhone and iPad devices respectively, last night Apple announced its latest expansion – [...]
