Last week, the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) was held in Sharm-El-Sheik in Egypt. The delegates had gathered to discuss ways of mitigating environmental degradation and stopping a climate catastrophe from taking place. Delegates from 197 countries, all of whom are a part of the Paris Climate Accord, are now meeting … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Kelvin Chan Publishing date: Nov 13, 2022 • 20 minutes ago • 5 minute read • Join the conversation Article content SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Hydrogen cars and vehicles that capture their tailpipe pollutants. Computer mice made from recycled ocean waste plastic. Hundreds … Read more
International security should be a collective effort, not a “zero-sum game,” India’s defense minister has said A truly stable and just global order can only be created when nations cease attempting to ensure their own security at the expense of others, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has said. Speaking to the National Defense College on … Read more
Elon Musk laid out his long-term vision for bringing payments to Twitter — which could include offering high-yield money market accounts, debit cards and peer-to-peer transactions — as the social media company filed paperwork with US authorities to become a financial services business. The billionaire entrepreneur outlined his ideas for offering the services during a … Read more
Two years into the leadership of chief executive Andy Bird, a promise to transform a business best known for university course materials into a digital-first learning company is under way. “We no longer buy CDs, we listen to Spotify. We no longer buy DVDs, we watch Netflix,” the former Disney executive said six months into … Read more
A second WandaVision spinoff series focusing on Paul Bettany’s Vision is in the works at Marvel Studios for Disney+, sources tell Deadline. Titled Vision Quest, the potential series, which is opening a writers room next week, will be about The Vision (Bettany) trying to regain his memory and humanity, I hear. While the focus is … Read more
USD Coin (USDC) issuers Circle have announced that it will soon roll out its stablecoin across five additional networks including Polkadot, Optimism, NEAR, Arbitrum and Cosmos. The firm first dropped the news at the Converge22 event on Sept. 28, and noted that support for most of these blockchains will be rolled out by the end … Read more
On April 18 2021, news emerged of plans for a breakaway European Super League that would include six clubs from the Premier League. The proposals caused widespread uproar and were soon shelved following fan protests. The fall-out from that and the financial crisis caused by the pandemic provides the backdrop for Gary Neville’s new book, … Read more
Interoperability-focused blockchain network Cosmos has dropped a new whitepaper proposing a revamped Cosmos Hub aimed at strengthening interoperability and security, along with key changes to its native ATOM token. The new Cosmos whitepaper was released on Monday at the Cosmoverse conference in Medellin, Colombia. The upgrades outlined in the whitepaper are still technically in “proposal” … Read more
The leader of one of the UK Labour party’s biggest union backers has urged Keir Starmer to be “brave” and present a more compelling vision for how he would change the country as prime minister. Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite the Union — which has given Labour tens of millions of pounds in donations … Read more