01:13 On March 30, four global companies announced they wouldn't use materials sourced from deep-sea mining in their products and supply chains or fund research into the practice.But d
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Washington has put steady pressure on Baghdad since 2018 to reduce its dependency on Iranian power imports, but the Kadhimi government has carefully manipulated US poli
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Last week a select group of 20 employees and guests gathered at an event space on the San Francisco Bay, and, while looking out at the Bay Bridge dined on a selection of choice elk sausages, wagyu mea
Like other venture investors over the past year, Cain McClary, co-founder of the investment firm KdT Ventures, recently made the jump to Austin. But unlike the rest of them, he was coming from Black M
Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. Aronu Ugochukwu a
Kate Hiscox is having a moment. Her company, Sivo, founded eight months ago, has already raised $5 million from investors at a post-money valuation of $100 million, and she is in active talks with oth
Research papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practicall
Asian share markets eased on Friday as a spike in global bond yields soured sentiment toward richly priced tech stocks, while a stampede out of crowded positions in crude oil caused the sharpest setb
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Individual solutions to the collective crisis of climate change abound: backup diesel generators, Tesla powerwalls, “prepper” shelters. However, the infrastructure that our modern civilization relies
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 19, 2021. /CFP Editor's Note: Jimmy Zhu is chief strategist at Fullerton Research. The article reflects the
The SP 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high on Monday, as investors eyed an economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and awaited cues from the Federal Reserve this week am
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