“Is it time to rein in the web?” (New Review, 2 July, page 19) transposed photographs of Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty, and Helen Margetts, from the Oxford Internet Institute, while also misspelling Ms Margetts’s name. Apologies. The same article also identified Biz Stone as CEO of Twitter. That role is held by Jack Dorsey.
An editing error led to us to claim incorrectly that Mercury is the only planet in our solar system, apart from Earth, which has a magnetic field. The original piece said that Mercury was the only rocky planet, other than Earth, with a magnetic field. (The gaseous planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, all have magnetic fields much stronger than that of the Earth.) (“Flight into the furnace of Mercury could bring us closer in hunt for alien life”, In Focus, last week, page 28).
Condé Nast’s Style.com venture collapsed with reported losses of £78m, not, as we claimed, Net-a-Porter’s magazine Porter. Apologies. (“Does fashion industry still need Vogue in the age of social media?”, In Focus, last week, page 29).
Usage corner: “a child painting protege” (Picks of the Day, New Review, page 40, last week). We meant prodigy.
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