Boris Johnson’s vision of Global Britain as a “soft power superpower” is in some ways taking shape. The UK is hosting next month’s G7 summit, and the crucial COP26 climate talks in November. In between, it will co-host with Kenya in July a fundraising summit for global education. That makes this a particularly unfortunate moment…
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EDPR NA’s 209-MW Reloj del Sol Wind Farm in Texas begins commercial operation | Renewable Energy World Home News EDPR NA’s 209-MW Reloj del Sol Wind Farm in Texas begins commercial… No posts to display
Engineering group Smiths’ efforts to break itself up have gone nowhere fast, just like a song title of the namesake rock band. Over the past decade, attempts by successive bosses to split off the medical division stalled. But the board remains committed to the separation, it said on Tuesday as it unexpectedly installed a new…
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eYs3D Microelectronics, a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. Participants included ARM IoT Capital, WI Harper and Marubun Corporation, who will each serve as strategic investors. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, eYs3D was spun out of Etron, a fabless IC…
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If there’s one place where people could fear the coronavirus more than a vaccination needle, it’s the Far Rockaway section of Queens: Nearly 460 residents of the seaside neighborhood have died of COVID-19. That’s one out of every 146 people who live there, making for one of New York City’s highest death rates. And yet,…
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The UK competition regulator is probing AstraZeneca’s $39bn takeover of US biotech group Alexion after raising potential antitrust concerns. The Competition and Markets Authority on Tuesday said it was investigating the deal signed in December when AstraZeneca — a key Covid-19 vaccine producer — agreed to buy US company Alexion, a biotech specialising in treatments…
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Shares in ByteDance’s main competitor in China tumbled after the company’s losses widened on growing signs that users in the country are spending less on its live-streaming services. Kuaishou’s short video app faces stiffening competition from ByteDance’s Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and online shopping groups such as Alibaba and Pinduoduo which have also…
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Economic and food insecurity, family obligations, home schooling and the ongoing pandemic sent stress, anxiety and depression to all-time highs. Calls to help centers and suicide assistance lines are up. So are alcohol and cannabis sales, and opioid deaths are accelerating. More than 40 states have reported increased deaths from opioids since the epidemic began.…
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