Month: April 2021
With Recent Covid-19 Wave Under Control, Chinese Consumers Spend on Travel
Over the three-day traditional tomb-sweeping holiday, travel was back up to pre-coronavirus levels by some metrics.
Read MoreEU medical regulator’s chief: ‘Increasingly difficult’ to say no link between Oxford jab and rare blood clots
The head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said it is “increasingly difficult” to say there is “no cause and effect relationship” between the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab and “rare cases of unusual blood clots”.
Read MoreEmpathy emerges from stealth with $13M for a digital assistant aimed at bereaved families
Death, despite being one of the most inevitable of life’s events, can also be one of the most complicated and problematic. Fraught with emotional and religious complexities, for many families it can also come with financial and organizational ones. Today,
Read MoreJordan bans reporting on plot, labels palace feud a family affair
Jordan sought to throw a veil Tuesday over its public palace feud by ordering its media to stop reporting on an alleged plot the government says involves the half-brother of King Abdullah II. Prince Hamzah had on Saturday harshly criticised
Read MoreRivlin reluctantly taps Netanyahu to form government: ‘Not an easy moral choice’
President acknowledges no candidate seems able to make a coalition, says he wishes he could let Knesset decide in light of PM’s corruption trial
Read MoreRevolution Ventures backs Casted in B2B-focused podcast play
Historically, podcasts have been aimed at consumers. The value to be gained in the B2B world is something that has been largely untapped. For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than
Read MoreElectric Cars Can Sound Like Anything. That’s a Huge Opportunity to Craft the Soundscape of the Future
Pulling Ford’s new all-electric Mustang Mach-E out of a Brooklyn garage late this winter, I felt a little duped. It seemed more like I was driving a giant motorized iPad than the electrified successor to an iconic American muscle car.
Read MoreCovid-19 Shut Schools Across Latin America, and Children Joined Gangs
Children from a remote Colombian town who were recruited by a cocaine-trafficking rebel group lost their lives when the nation’s military bombed the jungle camp where they were hiding.
Read MoreRise of the ‘robo-plants’, as scientists fuse nature with tech
Remote-controlled Venus flytrap “robo-plants” and crops that tell farmers when they are hit by disease could become reality after scientists developed a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation. Researchers in Singapore linked up plants to electrodes capable of monitoring the
Read MoreNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survives first night alone on Mars
NASA’s Ingenuity mini-helicopter has survived its first night alone on the frigid surface of Mars, the US space agency said, hailing it as “a major milestone” for the tiny craft as it prepares for its first flight. The ultra-light aircraft
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