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Humanity may not exactly be winning its battle to avert climate change, but the electrification of cars has begun to look like a success story. Ten percent of new passenger vehicles sold around the world last year were electric, powered by batteries instead of gasoline—the extraction of which costs the world …

Between 2001 and 2016, a secretive network of 10 offshore companies plunged a whopping $1.3 billion into American investment firms and hedge funds. The money, sent through the high-secrecy jurisdictions of the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus, was difficult to trace. But with the help of confidential banking records, investigators …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rocked global energy markets, sending oil and gas prices surging — and exposing the pitfalls of the world’s utter reliance on fossil fuels. Scientists have spent decades warning about how continued fossil fuel use is driving the worsening climate crisis, most recently in a sweeping …

Evidently, LEGO are swiftly becoming the perfect investments as stocks, bonds, and crypto struggle in a volatile economy. But not for LEGO. If you pick the right product, hold it for three to five years, there’s a good chance you can sell it for double its purchased price. Read Also …

Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security have been planning to tell Mexico that a controversial Trump-era border policy enacted during the pandemic may come to an end as soon as April, which could lead to an increase of immigrants coming to the border and a strain on resources, …

CNet’s AI SNFAU turned out to be merely the first pebble kicked down the slippery slope. In a Thursday morning internal memo acquired by the Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed Chief Executive Jonah Peretti announced plans to embrace AI in both editorial and business operations and utilize text generation systems similar …

It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming laptops coming out this February with GeForce 40 graphics and Intel 13th gen CPUs. At least one manufacturer has made a handy table detailing all of their upcoming models and even their TGP and MUX options. After a drab CES 2022 …

When you need power from your laptop, it’s smart to plug in the charger to eke out as much performance as possible. However, Apple’s first M1-powered MacBook Pro models marked a sea change in this ideology, offering comparable performance whether you were hooked up to a wall outlet or not. …

Key Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives have signed onto a bill that would bar the US government from funding international conservation groups that finance or support human rights violations. The proposed law would require federal agencies to monitor international projects they support for abuses and, if any …

They threw themselves, and whatever possessions they were able to take with them, onto the departing train Monday at Kyiv’s central railway station as Russian forces continued to inch closer to the capital city. In the chaos, a young mother was separated from her daughter when a police officer hoisted …