May 29, 2023 05:40 am UTC| Technology
The race to net zero is accelerating. Just last week, United States President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled a climate pact to boost cooperation. The move signifies Australia is becoming...
How electric vehicle batteries could save the UK auto industry
May 29, 2023 05:31 am UTC| Technology
The UK may have lost Eurovision this year, but it recently beat European rivals for an arguably more valuable prize. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is expected to build a multi-billion-pound electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in...
How AI and other technologies are already disrupting the workplace
May 29, 2023 05:08 am UTC| Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often cast as wreaking havoc and destroying jobs in reports about its growing use by companies. The recent coverage of telecom group BTs plans to reduce its number of employees is a case in...
US Commerce Secretary Raimondo Challenges China's Ban on Micron Technology Memory Chips
May 28, 2023 23:02 pm UTC| Technology Economy Business
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo emphasized the U.S. will not accept Chinas ban on purchases of Micron Technology memory chips, characterizing it as unacceptable economic coercion. She assured that the U.S., in conjunction...
US Solicitor General Backs Google in Supreme Court Song Lyrics Case
May 28, 2023 03:39 am UTC| Law Technology Business Economy
US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said that the US Supreme Court should not review a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of Alphabets Google LLC against song-lyric website Genius over alleged copying...
US Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court To Reject Appeal of Apple-Caltech Patent Case
May 28, 2023 03:30 am UTC| Law Technology Economy Business
US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the US Supreme Court to reject Apple Inc and Broadcom Incs appeal of their $1.1 billion trial loss to the California Institute of Technology in a patent infringement...
AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature
May 26, 2023 14:58 pm UTC| Technology
[… who s]aw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all […] [… who] saw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects