Новости за 20.01.2023

Davos, Switzerland Jan 19, 2023
Ride-hailing giant Uber is not planning any company-wide layoffs, the US firm's boss said Thursday, bucking the downsizing trend in the tech sector. Uber employed some 32,600 drivers worldwide at the end of September, according to the company's last quarterly earnings report. "We're not at this point planning on any company-wide layoffs," Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said at a

Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 19, 2023
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, saying it was "absurd" to listen to them while they fuelled "the destruction of the planet". Two days after police briefly detained her at a protest against a coal mine in Germany, Thunberg and other young campaigners took part in a debate on the sidelines o

Paris (AFP) Jan 19, 2023
Electric car batteries could be used to boost power storage in the future, injecting electricity into the grid during times of scarcity or storing electricity during periods of excess, a new study found Tuesday. Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and the intermittency of wi

Washington (AFP) Jan 19, 2023
Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday. The researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Science, said the increase in light pollution - skyglow - that they found was much larger than that measured by sat

Paris (AFP) Jan 17, 2023
The world's population may have shot up beyond eight billion for the first time recently, but some countries including the most populous, China, are seeing their populations shrink. And the decline is set to continue as factors including rising living costs, more women entering the workforce and having children later mean people in some countries are having fewer babies. China's populati

Paris (AFP) Jan 18, 2023
A system that allows big corporations to buy carbon offsets in rain forests to cancel out their harmful emissions is essentially "worthless," an analysis by several media organisations showed Wednesday. Buying carbon credits by financing projects to protect rainforests has become a popular way for companies to claim they are carbon neutral, even though their activities generate gases that ca

Hangzhou, China (SPX) Jan 18, 2023
Human society on the verge of transforming from an information society to an intelligent society, where optimized computing can autonomously solve practical, real-world problems. Critically, this transition is dependent on the continued development of advanced computing theories and algorithms that impart varying degrees of intelligence to computing systems through autonomous perception, informa

Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
A leading laboratory in photonics and renewable energy at the University of Ottawa has developed a new method for measuring the solar energy produced by bifacial solar panels, the double-sided solar technology which is expected to meet increased global energy demands moving forward. Published in the journal Joule, this study from the SUNLAB team in the Faculties of Engineering and Science

Herzliya, Israel (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
A new study, led by Dr. Asaf Tzachor at Reichman University's School of Sustainability, in partnership with environmental and nutritional scientists from Iceland, Denmark and the UK, shows that by allocating renewable energy from hydroelectric and geothermal sources to advanced, biological reactors cultivating cyanobacteria, Iceland can play a critical role in Europe's protein self-sufficiency a

Paris (AFP) Jan 19, 2023
The head of France's TotalEnergies has dismissed a speech by UN chief Antonio Guterres's attack some oil giants' complicity in hushing up the science supporting climate change as a "false debate". Patrick Pouyanne was responding to Guterres's speech Wednesday at the World Economic Forum attacking "certain oil giants" that had, he said, "peddled the big lie" about their own role in global war

Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2023
Government measures to boost electric vehicle sales, the share of green ammonia in fertiliser, and public purchasing of plant proteins could help shift the decarbonisation of the global economy into high gear, researchers said Friday. Strategic support through regulation and subsidies in these three areas would have knock-on effects, accelerating the transition away from planet-warming fossi

Pokhara airport has not had a landing system since it started operations. The system helps pilots get to the runway safely when visibility is poor.

​The new Jio plan worth ₹349 offers 2.5GB of daily data, as well as an unlimited voice calling facility which will be valid for 30 days.

Vaish Kumar died in June and her parents say they are releasing the note she wrote to help others.

Real Madrid bounced back from two goals down to beat Villarreal 2-3 at the Estadio de la Ceramica on Thursday, courtesy of goals from Vinicius Junior, Eder Militao and Dani Ceballos. Etienne Capoue’s early opener for the hosts was, however, a beauty. The second goal for Villarreal was the work of Samuel Chukwueze. pic.twitter.com/Ntu7MMpvAC — […]

The Fighting Irish will be looking to replace Brey, the school's all-time winningest coach

In the past three months, the stock has risen 24 percent.

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Liverpool hero Jamie Carragher has appeared to end his feud with Tottenham striker Richarlison.

No information was provided on physical volumes of pipeline gas imported by China last year compared with previous years

T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the bad actors had been taking data from the company since November 25th. In a post announcing the breach, T-Mobile revealed that the hackers used an API to steal customer information. 

Citizens Advice runs the Household Support Fund and says demand for its services has almost doubled.

Harmanpreet Kaur hails opportunities provided by WIPL to young cricketers

The firm is the latest domino to fall amid an ongoing crypto rout, saying it has as much as $10 billion in liabilities.

(Telecompaper) Indian operator Bharti Airtel has launched its 5G services in the city of Agartala...