With only about two weeks to go before a court case over his attempts to withdraw his US$44 billion (£39 billion) offer to buy Twitter, Elon Musk’s second U-turn over the deal shows the world’s…
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Israel, Norway and Sweden will test linking their domestic central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in a project co-ordinated with the Bank for International Settlements. The Bank of Israel, Central Bank of Norway and Sveriges Riksbank…
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As data storage has become more accessible than ever, the amount of digital “stuff” we all have stashed away is on the rise, too – for many of us, it’s becoming more unwieldy by the…
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© Reuters. German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht speaks, as she visits the NATO enhanced Forward Presence German-led battle group, on the day of an inauguration ceremony, in Rukla, Lithuania October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins RUKLA,…
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People really dislike inflation. Today, with US annual inflation still above 8%, one in five Americans consider it the country’s biggest problem – spelling trouble for the Democrats at the November mid-terms. Inflation is also…
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The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Read more: Nobel prize: physicists share prize for insights…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: PDVSA’s U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum refinery is pictured in Sulphur, Louisiana, U.S., June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/File Photo By Marianna Parraga and Gary McWilliams HOUSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge could…
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Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution medical imaging all have something in common. These technologies – some under development and some already on the market all rely on the non-intuitive quantum phenomenon of entanglement.…
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The US and South Korea agreed on October 1 to implement liquidity facilities to quell financial instability if needed, South Korea’s finance ministry said after a teleconference between the finance chiefs of the two countries.…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A North Korea’s guard post is seen at North Korea’s propaganda village Kaepoong, in this picture taken from the Unification Observation Platform, near the demilitarized zone which separates the two…
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