1. Home
  2. Business

Category: Business

Oil prices climb as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand By Reuters

Oil prices climb as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: General view of Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices hit multi-year highs…

Read More
Our sense of wellbeing has been in decline for years – here’s how to turn it around

Our sense of wellbeing has been in decline for years – here’s how to turn it around

People’s sense of wellbeing took a dive in the first year of the pandemic, according to new data published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). As lockdowns took effect and people grew fearful…

Read More
People use mental shortcuts to make difficult decisions – even highly trained doctors delivering babies

People use mental shortcuts to make difficult decisions – even highly trained doctors delivering babies

Being a physician is a difficult job. They must make complex, high-stakes decisions under severe pressure, with limited information about the patient, the disease and the treatment, while juggling personal and hospital priorities under the…

Read More
G7 says retail CBDC networks should be carbon neutral

G7 says retail CBDC networks should be carbon neutral

Central bank digital currency networks should look to use “carbon neutral or sustainable energy sources”, according to a report from the Group of Seven. On October 13, G7 finance ministries and central banks published 13…

Read More
U.S. Coast Guard boards ship in connection with California oil spill By Reuters

U.S. Coast Guard boards ship in connection with California oil spill By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Workers rake up globs of crude oil after more than 3,000 barrels (126,000 gallons) of crude oil leaked from a ruptured pipeline into the Pacific Ocean in Corona Del Mar State…

Read More
Book sales have soared since the pandemic – but the industry must adapt to engage with new readers

Book sales have soared since the pandemic – but the industry must adapt to engage with new readers

One day each October, the UK publishing industry focuses its attention on a large number of high-profile new book releases. “Super Thursday”, as it is known in the trade, is the start of a seasonal…

Read More
What happens to your life stories if you delete your Facebook account?

What happens to your life stories if you delete your Facebook account?

If the latest deluge of Facebook controversies has you ready to kick the app to the digital curb, you are not alone. There are plenty of good guides out there on how to do it…

Read More
Exclusive-China looks to lock in U.S. LNG as energy crunch raises concerns -sources By Reuters

Exclusive-China looks to lock in U.S. LNG as energy crunch raises concerns -sources By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A liquified natural gas (LNG) tanker leaves the dock after discharge at PetroChina’s receiving terminal in Dalian, Liaoning province, China July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Chen Aizhu//File Photo 2/2 By Chen Aizhu,…

Read More
How Netflix affects what we watch and who we are — and it’s not just the algorithm

How Netflix affects what we watch and who we are — and it’s not just the algorithm

Netflix’s dystopian Korean drama Squid Game has become the streaming platform’s biggest-ever series launch, with 111 million viewers watching at least two minutes of an episode. Out of the thousands of programmes available on Netflix…

Read More
Bank of Canada picks MindBridge for AI fraud detection trial

Bank of Canada picks MindBridge for AI fraud detection trial

The Bank of Canada is working with MindBridge, an artificial intelligence analytics firm, in the hope of finding new ways to detect payments fraud. MindBridge was chosen to take on the “challenge” in the next…

Read More