This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Tight chip supplies this year have also meant the severe restriction of mergers and acquisitions involving US semiconductor companies. Dealogic says that after a record 2020, when deals worth $88.5bn were announced,…
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The European Medicines Agency could approve the Novavax two-dose coronavirus vaccine as early as next week, paving the way for emergency use listing from the World Health Organization, according to people familiar with the matter. The approvals would provide the US drugmaker with a significant boost after months of delays and share price volatility amid…
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The US has put China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 affiliated biotechnology research institutes on an export blacklist for allegedly helping the Chinese military to develop “brain-control” weapons. The US commerce department on Thursday put the research institutes on the “entity list”, which bars US companies from exporting technology that originated in America…
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When Elon Musk revealed this year that he had invested $1.5bn of Tesla’s corporate cash in bitcoin, many grown-up financiers winced. No wonder. The world of corporate treasury management is supposed to be a deadly dull place, where safety rules. No one expects treasurers to dance with the crypto kids. But these days something striking…
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The world runs on open-source software. What began as a crazy-sounding experiment — letting voluntary, self-organising communities write and maintain widely used pieces of software — has turned into a central part of the tech landscape. The average application these days includes more than 500 open-source components. So it’s more than a little alarming to…
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Henry Ford Health System’s hospitals have had to delay or relocate non-urgent surgeries to manage the increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, which its executives describe as a crisis. All of the Detroit-based system’s hospitals are near or at capacity and the situation is dire, executives reported in a news conference Wednesday morning. The news follows a…
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Great Divide Energy submits application for 399-MW pumped storage preliminary permit – Renewable Energy World No posts to display We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok
The writer is founder of Sifted, a media site for European start-ups A few weeks ago, Chile became the first country to enshrine neuro-rights in its constitution and is now finalising legislation to regulate technologies that record or alter brain activity. It is unlikely to be the last. An increasingly wide-ranging debate is developing among…
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The US is placing China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 institutes involved in biotechnology on an export blacklist for allegedly helping Beijing engage in the repression and surveillance of Uyghurs. A senior US official said the commerce department would on Thursday put the Chinese academy and its affiliate institutes on the “entity list”,…
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Two things to start: Au revoir, long-term European gas contracts. The European Commission has proposed banning deals between EU members and energy suppliers outside the bloc, such as Russia, that would last beyond 2049. That’s a long time away, but is the last year before the EU economy is supposed to have hit a net…
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