The largest and most destructive wildfire recorded in the US state of New Mexico has raged for more than 40 days, during a period marked by increasingly extreme weather events worldwide. The Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak fire — the result of two fires that started in April and merged — has destroyed more than 300,000 acres…
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One Saturday in 2016, I rushed into a hospital where my father, who had collapsed at home, was lying barely conscious. “What medications are you on?” an orderly was asking him, pointlessly. I handed him a scribbled list. Having sat on the board of the hospital and GP regulator, I knew my father’s medical records…
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A group of EU countries are planning to turn the North Sea into the “green power plant of Europe” as they look to wind power as a way of weaning themselves off Russian gas. Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands this week stepped up their pledge to build up to four artificial islands in the…
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“I’ve got this,” coos Gal Gadot in Cue Health’s Super Bowl TV commercial. Cue hired the “Wonder Woman” actress to be the voice of the company’s new high-tech COVD-19 testing device. The ad pushes the notion that the at-home COVID test produces results equal in accuracy to a lab-based PCR test and surpasses it in convenience. What…
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The global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management has drawn fire after accusing central bankers and policymakers of overstating the financial risks of climate change in an attempt to “out-hyperbole the next guy”. Speaking at a Financial Times Moral Money event on Thursday, Stuart Kirk said that throughout his 25-year career in the…
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US tech companies prefer flexible, intermittent buybacks to dividends. Dividends set an expectation for regular handouts. Buybacks can be ratcheted up and down to suit company plans. The slump in tech sector share prices this year has triggered a buyback bonanza. Payouts are likely to continue. So far in 2022, Amazon has announced its first…
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Japanese film production companies have launched a civil lawsuit claiming copyright infringement against people who have condensed their feature films into 10-minute “fast movies” that are popular with younger viewers. Thirteen leading companies including Toho, Toei Company and Shochiku filed a civil lawsuit with a Tokyo court on Thursday alleging that three people had created…
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. This will be the last This Week in Fintech post. I am doing this so that I can devote more of my time to growing Daily Fintech as a business – watch this space for a number of new…
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Early on in the pandemic, Clair Battaglino, a former primary school teacher in Hackney, east London, returned home from abroad to an “almighty traffic jam” snaking through her neighbourhood. She took a bus to the Barbican in the City of London, but even getting through the first set of traffic lights took ages. The cause…
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Most people diagnosed with long COVID were never hospitalized for COVID-19, a study found. From a sample of 78,000 patients with long COVID, 75.8% were not admitted to the hospital, according to a study by FAIR Health that analyzed private healthcare claim records. Of those with long COVID, 81.6% of women and 67.5% of men…
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