Bitcoin has broken another price record, jumping nearly 15% on the news that Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency. The carmaker is also planning to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment. The digital...
German engineering giant Siemens has posted promising first-quarter results despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The firm looks for more innovative power as the era of reformist CEO Joe Kaeser draws to an end. At a...
Virtual Davos, summit is taking place against the backdrop of a crisis that has shredded livelihoods and widened inequalities. The annual event with its roster of influential speakers hopes to help drive a robust, green...
Many users abandoned WhatsApp after the messenger service changed its privacy policy. Worries that their data could end up with Facebook are driving them to competitors pushing superior data protection. Millions of digital messenger app...
The coronavirus pandemic caused German economy to shrink dramatically according to Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, although the drop was smaller than expected. Europe’s biggest economy shrunk by 5% last year, with large parts of economic and...
When entrepreneur Juliet Namujju realized COVID masks were preventing her hearing-impaired staff from lip-reading, she resolved to find another enterprising use for Uganda’s mountains of plastic waste. When Juliet Namujju was 5 years old, her...
Laptops, phones and tablets come out in new, flashier upgrades each year, and consumers lap them up, eager to own the latest desirable models with the most cutting-edge features. But with every upgrade, older models...
Goa, a western coastal state and major tourist destination, is welcoming visitors after months under a COVID-19 lockdown. But the comeback has been slow, and often painful. The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the...
Hardly any other sector was as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as aviation. But COVID also brought unexpected opportunities for an industry seemingly in peril. There are some unexpected success stories in a year that...
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says the countries are seeking to gain unfair trade advantages. Others, such as China, Japan and Germany remain on a “monitoring list,” alongside newcomers like India, Taiwan and Thailand. US Treasury Secretary...
Five years after the 2015 Paris Agreement was negotiated into existence, climate scientist Saleemul Huq says we are living in a climate-changed world. On December 12, 2015, then-French Foreign Minister and President of the 21st...
With face masks littering the environment, the search is on for sustainable solutions. Could they be recycled into new products? Or might masks made from organic materials cut pandemic pollution? Jean-Marc Neveu and Olivier Civil...