My brief life on Earth had been a mess. The metallic aliens had rescued me when I was trying to kill myself. But after a 400,000-year, deep-frozen move across space, and two years of relaxed student life on the moonless planet Vweialer, I was doing well. I wasn’t expecting any more surprises. Haha. Then the aliens returned, bearing a young man who was unusually interested in getting to know me. This was the beginning of an astonishing, epic journey into love and danger in lands where I might ...

Artificial Intelligence isn't a side project. It's the new playbook.Most AI initiatives stall in pilot purgatory, chasing cosmetic wins that don't move the needle. This book shows private equity leaders how to do it differently by building intelligent systems that scale, adapt, and create real enterprise value.Written by Mark Rogerson, a seasoned private equity Operating Partner and Portfolio Chair, and Gary Pearson, former CEO of a publicly listed tech company, startup fou...

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings...On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings.This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgott...