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A Giant Raft Of Volcanic Rock From An Underwater Eruption Could Help Revive The Great Barrier Reef
A mass of floating pumice so large it’s being tracked via satellite is making its way to Australia, and with it a range of marine organisms including corals that could help restore the threatened Great Barrier Reef. The giant sheet of rock ...
Scientists Fertilized 7 Northern White Rhino Eggs With Sperm From The Now-Dead Last Male
(CREMONA, Italy) — Eggs removed from the last two female northern white rhinos have been fertilized with sperm from the now-dead last male, but it will be about 10 days before it’s known whether the eggs have become embryos, an Italian ...
Brickbat: It's A Gas, Gas, Gas
An audit has found nearly 60 former Sacramento, California, city employees, including 18 former police officers, continued to use their city IDs to get free gasoline after leaving city employment. All told, they took some 10,000 gallons of fuel . ...
India’S BharatPe Raises $50m To Help Merchants Accept Digital Payments And Secure Working Capital
BharatPe, a New Delhi-based firm that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to start accepting digital payments for the first time each month and also giving them access to working capital, has raised $50 million as it looks to scale its ...
Megvii, The Chinese Startup Unicorn Known For Facial Recognition Tech, Files To Go Public In Hong Kong
Megvii Technology , the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup known in particular for its facial recognition brand Face++, has filed for a public listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Its prospectus did not disclose share pricing or when ...
China Let Its Currency Sink To An 11-Year Low After Trump’S Trade Threats
(BEIJING) — China allowed its yuan to sink to an 11-year low Monday after President Donald Trump sent jittery financial markets tumbling by announcing new tariff hikes and threatening to block American companies from doing business with this ...
Indonesia Plans To Move Its Capital To The Island Of Borneo
Indonesia will build a new capital city on the island of Borneo, home to some of the world’s biggest coal reserves and and orangutan habitats, as President Joko Widodo seeks to ease pressure on congested and sinking Jakarta. The new ...
Banksy’S Brexit Mural Has Disappeared From The Side Of A U.K. Building
Banksy’s mural depicting a worker chipping away at a star on the flag of the European Union has disappeared from the side of a building in a coastal English town, CNN reports. The artwork, symbolizing the U.K.’s impending exit from the ...
Saudi Arabia And United Arab Emirates Vow To Back Yemen War Effort
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged Monday to keep their floundering coalition war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels together after an Emirati troop pullout and the rise of the southern separatists ...
Chinese State Media Warns Of Intervention As Hong Kong Protests Turn Violent
In the wake of violent clashes in Hong Kong on Sunday, during which a live gunshot was fired for the first time since protests began in early June, Chinese state media used its harshest rhetoric yet to condemn the unrest and warned that Beijing could ...
Trump ‘Ordered’ U.S. Businesses To Cut Ties With China. Here’S The Obscure Federal Law That Might Grant Him The Authority
(BIARRITZ, France) — President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted “order” to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a spiraling ...
Iranian Official Surprises World Leaders With Unannounced Visit To G-7 Summit
(BIARRITZ, France) — A top Iranian official paid an unannounced visit Sunday to the G-7 summit and headed straight to the buildings where leaders of the world’s major democracies have been debating how to handle the country’s ...
Amid Climate Change, Arctic Region Evolves Into Strategic, Economic Hotspot
(TASIILAQ, Greenland) — From a helicopter, Greenland’s brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn’t fill a football stadium ...
Web Host Hostinger Says Data Breach May Affect 14 Million Customers
Hostinger said it has reset user passwords as a “precautionary measure” after it detected unauthorized access to a database containing information on millions of its customers. The breach is said to have happened on Thursday. The company ...
Original Content Podcast: Netflix’S ‘Red Sea Diving Resort’ Awkwardly Mixes Fiction And Reality
“The Red Sea Diving Resort,” a new film on Netflix, is based on the true story of Mossad agents who took over an abandoned holiday resort in Sudan to smuggle Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of the country. As we explain in the latest ...
The Risks Of Amoral A.I.
Kyle Dent Contributor Kyle Dent is a Research Area Manager for PARC, a Xerox Company , focused on the interplay between people and technology. He also leads the ethics review committee at PARC. Artificial intelligence is ...
Crypto Means Cryptotheology
Cryptocurrencies are a religion as much as they are a technology. They almost have to be, given their adherents’ gargantuan ambition of fundamentally changing how the world works. This means they attract charlatans, lunatics, frauds, and false ...
Week In Review: Google Rips Out Its Sweet Tooth
Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. ...
Hong Kong Police Draw Weapons, Deploy Water Cannons In Latest Night Of Violent Protests
(HONG KONG) — Police in Hong Kong drew their guns Sunday night after a small group of protesters attacked officers with sticks and rods, and used tear gas to clear pro-democracy demonstrators who had taken over a street The confrontations ...
Brazil Begins Deploying Troops To Fight Amazon Rainforest Fires
(RIO DE JANEIRO) — Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. President Jair ...
