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COP26 latest: Johnson’s extra £1bn climate finance pledge comes with a catch

© AP The G20 leaders pledged to quit financing coal power plants abroad ahead of the shift of the global agenda to Glasgow — and also highlighted the divisions that will be on display in the next two weeks. Was the G20 summit outcome a win for the climate? It depends who is asked. Late…
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Tinder founders go to court over bitter break-up with Barry Diller

A legal fight in a New York state court this week over the multibillion-dollar fortune created by the hit dating app Tinder threatens to expose the inner-workings of Barry Diller’s sprawling media empire. Tinder founders, including Sean Rad, three years ago sued IAC Corp and its online dating unit Match Group, alleging that the two…
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£1.7 billion Blue Eden project to feature 320-MW tidal lagoon

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A “Meta” World Built on Blockchain

If you weren’t familiar with the term “metaverse”, I am sure you are now after Facebook announced that it’s changing its name to “Meta”. On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s parent company was changing its name to Meta to emphasize its focus on metaverse. Metaverse is defined slightly differently by futurists, but at its…
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Dell spins off $64bn VMware as it battles debt hangover

PC pioneer Michael Dell is set to cap his climb back to the top of the computing world on Monday with one of the largest corporate spin-offs. Dell Technologies will shed its 81 per cent stake in publicly traded VMware, creating an independent software company with a stock market value of nearly $64bn. Dell’s remaining…
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Apple has too much power over its rivals

It is not often that I feel sorry for a tech billionaire. But Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel sounded genuinely beleaguered as he explained that Apple’s new privacy policy was wreaking havoc on his business. The rules had “upended” the digital advertising industry, he said this month, causing a “frustrating setback” that would push revenue…
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Climate change could bring near-unliveable conditions for 3bn people, say scientists

Up to 3bn out of the projected world population of about 9bn could be exposed to temperatures on a par with the hottest parts of the Sahara by 2070, according to research by scientists from China, US and Europe. However, rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions could halve the number of people exposed to such…
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