Microsoft founder Bill Gates has set his eyes on an Australian climate technology start-up that plans to curb planet-heating methane emissions that comes from cow burps. The tech billionaire has infused $12m investment through his fracturethrough Energy Venture on a firm called Rumin8. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma are the other […]
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Drones could play a significant role in the event of a full-scale invasion of Taiwan, a Chinese military magazine has reported. The article further illustrates that drones can “assassinate enemy leaders” and can be utilised to minimise conflict, adding that their targets can be Taiwan’s mobile missile launchers and heavy weaponry. The report, which gives […]
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Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday (January 24) as Ukraine marked 11 months of war that Russian athletes should have “no place” at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “I particularly emphasised that athletes from Russia should have no place at the Olympic Games in Paris,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram […]
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The app-based food delivery startup Glovo has been hit with a fresh fine from Spain’s labour ministry of 57 million euros ($62 million) for breaking labour laws, the agency announced on Tuesday (January 24). Glovo, which is owned by the German company Delivery Hero, received a penalty for not providing its riders with proper employment agreements […]
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The ‘Doomsday Clock’ came closest to the literal moment of doom on Tuesday. Atomic scientists set the ‘Doomsday Clock’ just 90 seconds short of midnight, citing the threats of nuclear war, disease and climate change as determinant factors amid geopolitical volatility led by ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. What is the Doomsday Clock? The ‘Doomsday Clock’ is […]
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A report by CNN, citing multiple sources claims, a lawyer for former United States Vice President Mike Pence discovered at least a dozen documents marked classified at his residence in Indiana, last week and have since been handed over to the FBI. Subsequently, his lawyer Greg Jacob also wrote a letter to the National Archives, […]
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Amid trial about Elon Musk’s August 2018 tweet on making Tesla a privately-owned entity, the wealth of Tesla founder and new Twitter owner has increased by the most in last two months. As per Bloomberg Billionaire Index, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by about $10.6 billion to $145.2 billion since Friday, when he officially took the […]
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A human rights group and 16 individuals from Myanmar have filed a criminal complaint against Myanmar’s military in Germany, accusing them of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The lawsuit against Myanmar military generals and others was filed last week, said the advocacy group, Fortify Rights, in a statement, on Tuesday (January 24). The […]
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Poland has officially sought permission from Germany to transfer its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, said Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak on Tuesday (January 24). After clinching the Golden Globe earlier this month, ‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’ has scored an Oscar nomination. While the film failed to make inroads in any other category, the nomination should […]
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