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How to see tonight’s conjunction of Venus and Mars in the evening sky

How to see tonight’s conjunction of Venus and Mars in the evening sky

Venus has returned to our evening skies and is looking lovely in the north-west after sunset. Tonight, July 13, it will pair up with the red planet Mars and just above the two planets will…

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Vietnam’s central bank to pilot ‘virtual currency’

Vietnam’s central bank to pilot ‘virtual currency’

Vietnam’s prime minister, Pham Minh Chinh, has instructed the country’s central bank to develop a “virtual currency” based on blockchain within the next three years. On June 15, Chinh published a plan for the development…

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Oil prices slip as economic fears offset tightening crude supplies By Reuters

Oil prices slip as economic fears offset tightening crude supplies By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An employee demonstrates a sample of crude oil in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in Irkutsk Region, Russia in this picture illustration taken March 11, 2019.…

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Poverty in 2021 looks different than in 1964 – but the US hasn’t changed how it measures who’s poor since LBJ began his war

Poverty in 2021 looks different than in 1964 – but the US hasn’t changed how it measures who’s poor since LBJ began his war

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty. “The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it,” he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. “We cannot afford…

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Studying social media can give us insight into human behaviour. It can also give us nonsense

Studying social media can give us insight into human behaviour. It can also give us nonsense

Since the early days of social media, there has been excitement about how data traces left behind by users can be exploited for the study of human behaviour. Nowadays, reseachers who were once restricted to…

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Europe’s climate masterplan aims to slash emissions within a decade By Reuters

Europe’s climate masterplan aims to slash emissions within a decade By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: General view of electricity pylons and power lines leading from the Uniper coal power plant in Hanau, Germany, early morning November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) –…

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The UK–Australia trade deal is not really about economic gain – it’s about demonstrating post-Brexit sovereignty

The UK–Australia trade deal is not really about economic gain – it’s about demonstrating post-Brexit sovereignty

As expected, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, have now agreed “in principle” to a free trade agreement. The fine details are still not out in the open, but…

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Disclosures and Data: Building Strong Foundations for Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks

Disclosures and Data: Building Strong Foundations for Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks

FSB Chair Randal K Quarles speaks at the Venice International Conference on Climate Change by : Source link

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O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?

O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?

Putting more investment and energy into regtech, instead of solely focusing on crypto and CBDC, would help to secure more of the expected benefits from digital evolution by : Source link

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From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs

On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or, as it is now calling them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs. The report is the latest notable event in what…

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