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What public-private-partnership scandals can tell us about wrongdoing in the water industry

What public-private-partnership scandals can tell us about wrongdoing in the water industry

Water bills are going up in England and Wales, even after the series of scandals around water companies. Last year water firms paid £158 million in fines following a record-breaking number of sewage dumps in…

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New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin

New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know…

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Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting

Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting

Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting by : Reuters Source link

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Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech

Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech

Bosses of tech giants Meta, Google and X had front row seats at Donald Trump’s recent presidential inauguration. This special treatment highlighted the increasingly cosy relationship between leaders of technology companies and the White House.…

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Why is there so much gold in west Africa?

Why is there so much gold in west Africa?

Militaries that have taken power in Africa’s Sahel region – notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – have put pressure on western mining firms for a fairer distribution of revenue from the lucrative mining sector.…

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Former Curaçao central bank execs told to repay misappropriated funds

Former Curaçao central bank execs told to repay misappropriated funds

A court in Curaçao has ordered former executives from the territory’s central bank to repay misallocated funds, as the institution continues to seek redress for corruption. The case, brought by the Central Bank of Curaçao…

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OPEC+ mulls over delaying supply increase amid market fragility- report

OPEC+ mulls over delaying supply increase amid market fragility- report by : Investing.com Source link

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how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a “game changing”“ large language model that promises to reshape…

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Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it

Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off at lightning speed in the past couple of years, creating disruption in many industries. Newsrooms are no exception. A new report published today finds that news audiences and…

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US energy department says less than 50 purged from nuclear security office

US energy department says less than 50 purged from nuclear security office

US energy department says less than 50 purged from nuclear security office by : Reuters Source link

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