Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock You can add Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA to the growing list of tech giants that have decided to give the US Defense Department access to their AI tools. According to Bloomberg, the three companies — alongside a forth, Reflection AI — have signed…
Wirestock Creators / Shutterstock.com ENGINEERING firm Johnson Matthey has partnered with Chinese green energy developer Guangdong Liquid Sunshine to build a biomethanol plant in Tiandong County, Guangxi. Johnson Matthey will provide its methanol synthesis technology to convert gasified biomass waste into biomethanol. The plant is expected to have a production capacity of 75,000 t/y. China…
The new UK Town of Culture prize will see one town with a population size of fewer than 20,000 people given the title and a funding boost of £3million. Pitlochry has launched a bid to become the UK’s first-ever Town of Culture(Image: Clare McMicking / CraicN Communications.) Pitlochry has announced its bid to become the…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called upon the nation to step up its efforts in research and innovation. Xi, while addressing a symposium in Shanghai on Thursday, underscored the importance of basic research as the cornerstone of the entire scientific system, reported the South China Morning Post. He pointed out that global tech rivalries are increasingly centered on basic…
Even as the S&P 500 continues to set new all-time highs, there are some warning signs emerging. The labor market is showing signs of stagnating, inflation shot much higher in March, and the Iran war is hanging a cloud of uncertainty over everything. Corporate earnings are still likely to show solid growth in the coming quarters,…
A military entourage for King Charles and Queen Camilla’s visit April 30 to Arlington National Cemetery carried the United Kingdom’s national flag upside down, setting off pithy remarks in the British press. Photographs show that during the royal couple’s stop at the Virginia cemetery, the Union Jack’s red and white stripes were wrong side up….
The war for securing young talent is not limited to club football, but is quite widespread even on the international scene. Such battles are seen best in cases where young players are eligible to represent more than one national team owing to their family’s grassroots, leading to a battle between the country of their origin…
ZENICA, Bosnia, May 1 (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers marched through Bosnia’s central city of Zenica on Friday, protesting against the closure of the country’s last steel mill which they said marked the end of an era of heavy industry. Last week’s shutdown of the 130-year-old Zenica Steel Factory put thousands of jobs at risk…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly trafficking in more than HK$800,000 (US$102,110) of suspected heroin. The force said on Friday that officers from the Tuen Mun district anti-triad unit were conducting an operation at around 9.50am the day before, when they found a man acting suspiciously outside a flat on Yan…
A crunch council by-election took place in the heart of Worcestershire this week after a former councillor resigned. Residents cast their ballot for a new councillor for the Tenbury ward on Malvern Hills District Council on Thursday after Conservative Andrew Willmott stepped down. Last time locals headed to the polls was in 2023 when the…