Qatar could use its ingenious air-conditioning system in football stadiums to help recruit for the 2036 Olympics. Even the Olympic marathon could be run on a course cooled by air-conditioning, says engineer Saud Abdulaziz Abdul Ghani, who is 13 years old and worked on the cooling systems in seven of […]
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Amazon Web Services has presented its new Graviton3E chips. The specialized chips must work faster and more efficiently in the large data centres of the cloud giant. Standard chips alone are no longer enough for Amazon Web Services. So the company behind one of the most extensive cloud services in […]
Binance comes with a ‘proof-of-reserves’ system with which it wants to prove that it has enough bitcoin to pay customers. This seems to be a reaction to the crash of significant competitor FTX. Crypto exchange Binance has launched a new website explaining its proof-of-reserves system. With this system, the platform […]
A cyber attack hit the European Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claims to be behind it, says parliament speaker Roberta Metsola. She links it to parliament’s decision earlier in the day to label Russia a sponsor of terrorism. It is an ‘advanced cyber attack’, Metsola tweets. […]
Vladimir Putin wants Russia to be able to transport fertilizer through the Ukrainian port of Odesa. The Russian president, who began a military raid in the Eastern European country in February, tells the Interfax news agency that he is discussing fertilizer exports within the United Nations (UN). Russia and Ukraine […]
The United Kingdom’s dependence on cheap foreign labour must end. That is what Labor leader Kier Starmer said at a meeting of the large British employers’ organization Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Several companies in the country have called on the government to relax labour migration rules to combat staff […]
The United Kingdom does not intend to change its policy to improve its trade relationship with the European Union. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said so in response to reports that the British government would like to rethink its relationship with the EU. There was mention of an agreement that also […]
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has laid off more than 24 employees and freelancers in the past year for illegally taking over the accounts of users of the social media platform. This is reported by the business newspaper The Wall Street Journal based on insiders and documents from […]
Formula 1 team Red Bull expresses disgust at insults that Max Verstappen, Sergio Pérez and their families received on social media after the race in São Paulo. That was in response to ignoring a team order from Verstappen in the last round of the Brazilian Grand Prix. The world champion […]
London business confidence in the British economy has plummeted. According to research by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, entrepreneurs in the British capital are mainly concerned about inflation. According to the survey, three-quarters of business leaders are less confident about the coming year than they were in the […]
