The icy continent has historically been a place for men. First “discovered” in 1820, Antarctica would not be visited by a woman for well over a century. In 1935, Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen, a whaler’s wife,…
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© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Like a river of green, U.S. dollars are flooding commodity markets, lifting prices of almost everything from oil to , and even . Since the start of February,…
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The Bank of England has given banks and building societies in the UK six months to prepare for the possible introduction of negative interest rates for the first time in its 327-year history. Savers may…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviours and use them to…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A makeshift doll is seen at the gate separating Rosebud camp and Sacred Stone, one of the few remaining camps protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S.…
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Under normal circumstances, US tech giant Nvidia’s takeover of British chip designer Arm for US$40 billion (£29 billion) would have sailed through without registering beyond the computing industry. Instead, it has made international headlines, with…
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Fast radio bursts are one of the great mysteries of the universe. Since their discovery, we have learned a great deal about these intense millisecond-duration pulses. But we still have much to learn, such as…
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Investing.com – Gold clinched a weekly gain on Friday after two weeks in the red. But two straight negative sessions before the end of the week also clouded the near-term outlook for the yellow metal.…
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After Tesla announced it has invested US$1.5 billion in bitcoin and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment for its electric vehicles in the near future, the bitcoin price went soaring. It went…
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© Reuters. Investing.com – Crude prices clinched a second straight week of gains on Friday as money continued to slosh into commodity markets, lifting prices of almost everything, from oil to and — even .…
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