The average Malian consumes less electricity each year than the average Londoner uses to power their tea kettle. Yet when delegates from Mali, and other poor countries like it, arrive in Glasgow for COP26 next month, the expectation will be for them to do everything they can to stop their emissions from rising. The well-trodden…
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Sky has revived the television set as a key tool in the battle for viewers’ eyeballs as the broadcaster tries to position itself as a go-to entertainment provider in the streaming era. The Comcast-owned company has said it will make a “small margin” for every Sky Glass smart TV it sells but that the real…
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Medicare Advantage beneficiaries were less likely to be hospitalized and die from COVID-19 during the first nine months of the pandemic compared with their fee-for-service counterparts, a new report finds. From January to November 2020, individuals enrolled in the privatized Medicare plans made up 36% of hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries, despite representing 40% of eligible…
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Life in 2021 feels a bit like riding an ageing roller coaster whose brakes are gone. Accelerating climate change, a deadly pandemic, and unraveling global supply chains are the most immediate triggers of our collective sense of vertigo. But what if the peculiar unsteadiness of our times is no temporary bump in the road, but…
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Analysis: Lacking energy efficiency efforts undercut state climate goals No posts to display
“It’s been quite a week,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive. This is an understatement. On Monday, there was an outage of the company’s three main apps, freezing 3.5bn users out of their accounts for over six hours. On Tuesday, a former employee-turned-whistleblower alleged to Congress that Facebook knowingly prioritises profits from online engagement over…
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U.S. launches cybersecurity innovation program to support clean energy transition – Renewable Energy World Home O&M Monitoring U.S. launches cybersecurity innovation program to support clean energy transition No posts to display
Robert Pattinson’s Batman is a badass, says The Batman star Jeffery Wright. The upcoming DC Extended Universe film from director Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) is the first to feature Pattinson’s version of the iconic superhero. After suffering from pandemic-related delays that caused principal photography to take a year, The Batman…
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Wood Mackenzie: Global energy storage to reach 12 GW/28 GWh in 2021 No posts to display