It’s usually around this time of year you hear people complain about their phones slowing down. Apple and Google release new versions of their operating systems (OS) and suddenly there’s a slew of people claiming…
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Agustín Carstens has driven the ‘Innovation BIS 2025’ strategy The Bank for International Settlements says it has coped well with the coronavirus pandemic, but it has chosen not to pay a dividend for the first…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bill Gates reacts during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum, in London, Britain, October 19, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An advanced nuclear…
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In 2014, Kenya started to construct a new railway to connect the Mombasa Port with the interior and on to landlocked Uganda and Rwanda. Today the Standard Gauge Railway stops abruptly at Naivasha, 120km northwest…
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The World Health Organisation and the COVID Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) initiative announced in mid-2021 that they were working with a consortium to establish the first COVID messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology transfer hub on…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is seen on a large diameter pipe at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant owned by ChelPipe Group in Chelyabinsk, Russia February 26,…
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Nigeria recently became the first African country to introduce a digital currency. It joins the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in being among the first jurisdictions in the world to roll out national…
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The Reserve Bank of Australia’s renovated head office in Sydney will be equipped with solar panels and a “rainwater harvesting system” when completed later this year. According to the RBA’s latest annual report, the renovations are just one of the RBA’s initiatives to decrease its own carbon footprint and ensure…
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© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden signs the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act”, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe…
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The American economy is underpinned by networks. Road networks carry traffic and freight; the internet and telecommunications networks carry our voices and digital information; the electricity grid is a network carrying energy; financial networks transfer…
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