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The lower house of Australia’s parliament has passed a bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 relative to 2005 levels. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the shift put the country “on the right side of history”. The country had been a laggard in climate policy for years under former […]

Alibaba reported its second-quarter earnings this year , with revenue falling for the first time since going public in 2014. Revenue for the April-June period was equivalent to $30.7 billion, down 0.1 percent from a year earlier, Alibaba said. It blamed the fall in revenue on repeated coronavirus outbreaks, saying its main domestic e-commerce business

Shares of meme stock AMTD Digital have skyrocketed over the past few days just like Bitcoin once did. Headquartered in Hong Kong, AMTD Digital engages in digital financial services and has been listed in New York in less than three weeks. Its stock price was less than $400 on Monday, and it opened at nearly

The pig in the lab had been dead for an hour, with no blood circulation, no heart beating, and no brain waves. The Yale researchers then used a heart-lung machine-like device to pump a specific solution into the dead pigs, “resurrecting” the dead cells . The research report was published in the journal Nature. When

Tech giants have unexpectedly become Ukraine ‘s weapon against Russia . Ukraine signed contracts with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle and Google after Ukraine passed a law in February allowing private cloud service providers to host government data outside Ukraine. Ukraine’s digital transformation minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, said that days after Russia invaded Ukraine, a missile

Up to now, the national average number of high temperature days is 8.7, which is 3.6 days more than the same period of normal years, the most in the same period in history since 1961. Xiao Chan, deputy director of the National Climate Center, said at a press conference on Wednesday that due to the

According to a study published in the journal Nature, children from low-income families who can make friends from high-income families are more likely to achieve high-tech in adulthood than those with few similar friends. An individual’s social capital, social networks and the community in which they live are thought to have a considerable impact on

The New Zealand government has released its first climate adaptation plan , which includes the possible relocation of some communities to highlands. New Zealand’s climate change minister said about 70,000 coastal homes in New Zealand were at risk from sea level rise, and many more inland were at risk of river flooding. The climate adaptation

Blizzard and NetEase canceled the three-year-old World of Warcraft mobile game. NetEase also disbanded its development team of more than 100 people, and only a few people were transferred internally. The cancellation of the project was due to disagreements between the two companies over terms. The Warcraft mobile game project, code-named Neptune, is an MMORPG

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently announced the inaugural winners of a competition for post-quantum encryption and signature algorithms, including three lattice-based algorithms and one hash-based algorithm. The fact that an Isogeny-based quantum-resistant encryption candidate entering the fourth round of the competition is cracked by a single-core computer in an hour still

According to a study published in the journal Cell, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel used mouse stem cells to create a mouse embryo model with an early-stage brain and beating heart, a process that does not require sperm-egg union. The embryonic model survived for 8.5 days, nearly halfway through the mouse’s

Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group always enters when the market is hot and then loses heavily when the tide ebbs . While many of Son’s investments have failed, the SoftBank founder has had some big successes over the years, so he has cash to spend and reason to expect another big success not far away. Two

Spending on games has soared as people spend a lot of time online during the lockdown. Most regions are now close to normal, which means less time spent online and gaming, and less gaming spending. According to market research firm NPD, total game spending in the U.S. in the second quarter of this year was