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 …
Read More »Roman Abramovich Invested At Least $1.3 Billion With US Financiers, Secret Documents Reveal
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 …
Read More »The War In Ukraine Exposes The World’s Utter Reliance On Fossil Fuels
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 …
Read More »The LEGO Ideas Winnie the Pooh Set Has 1,265 Pieces & It’s Going For A Steal
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 …
Read More »The Biden Administration Has Been Planning To Tell Mexico That A Trump-Era Policy Could Soon End And Attract More Immigrants To The Border
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, …
Read More »BuzzFeed is the latest publisher to embrace AI-generated content
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 …
Read More »Other laptop makers should follow Asus’ example and make an official list of all their upcoming gaming models
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 …
Read More »Apple MacBook Pro (16-Inch, 2023) Review: Great Gets Greater
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. …
Read More »Bipartisan Bill Aims To Stamp Out Human Rights Abuses At Conservation Projects
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 …
Read More »Ukrainians Are Desperately Trying To Flee Kyiv As The Russians Advance: “It’s An Absolute Nightmare”
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 …
Read More »