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Reopening U.S. economy heats up inflation, labor market recovery gains traction

U.S. consumer prices rose solidly in May, leading to the biggest annual increase in nearly 13 years as a reopening economy boosted demand for travel-related services, w

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Widespread electrification requires us to rethink battery technology

The global economy’s transition to widespread electrification has increased the demand for longer-lasting and faster-charging batteries across industries including transportation, consumer electronics

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Tech drives Wall Street higher as jobs report calms inflation fears

New York Stock Exchange building. /CFP U.S. stocks climbed on Friday, led by technology shares, after a tepid U.S. monthly jobs report relieved investor concerns the Federal Reserve might rein

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Europe has passed turning point but still needs ECB support: Schnabel

The euro zone economy has reached a turning point and the recent rise in borrowing costs reflects improved fundamentals, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schna

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The Station: London scooter winners and Ford’s most important EV

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.Hello and welcome back to The Station, a we

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Yuan Longping, the man who fed the Chinese people

Yuan Longping, a Chinese agronomist known for pioneering the development of the world's first hybrid rice varieties which significantly improved China's rice output and

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Boom times for organic cacao in Côte d'Ivoire

Cacao farmers across Côte d'Ivoire, the world's biggest producer of the key ingredient for chocolate, are down in the dumps after prices for their commodity have fallen for the second year runnin

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Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla orders a halt to bitcoin car payments 

Tesla CEO and self-dubbed technoking is back peddling on the company’s stance about bitcoin and has suspended purchases of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency.The change of stance, whi

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Is the U.S. economy recovering or overheating?

Getty Editor's note: J. Bradford DeLong, former deputy assistant U.S. Treasury secretary, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research associate at the

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Perseverance rover captures sound of Ingenuity flying on Mars

The Mars Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars, April 29, 2021. /CFP NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter's blad

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China to stabilize grain production, ensure food security

Harvesting rice in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, September 16, 2020. /VCGChina will further promote stable grain production and enhance its ability t

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Will the fourth industrial revolution serve sustainability?

VCG Editor's note: Victor Galaz is deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, program director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swe

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Jim Belushi is chasing the magic in cannabis

I don’t think Jim Belushi was high while we talked on Zoom this week. Instead of a joint, he was puffing on a cigar, but he was still happy and smiling.“I have my brother’s face on i

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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator launches 12 new startups at demo day

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day today.ERA has thus far had more than 226 companies go through the program

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Asian markets mostly rise ahead of Fed meeting, earnings reports

An electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2021. /VCG Most Asian markets rose Monday following a strong end to last week on Wall Street as traders turned

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Tesla sees bitcoin as important financial tool to access cash quickly

Tesla’s relationship with bitcoin is not a dalliance, according to the comments made by the company’s CFO and dubbed “master of coin” Zach Kirkhorn during an earnings call Mond

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OneSoil raises $5 million for its farm monitoring tech

OneSoil, a company selling technology to help farmers monitor fields and increase yields, has raised $5 million from international investors Almaz Capital and PortfoLion.The company’s tech integ