[ad_1] Europe’s plans to address the arrival of migrants and refugees risk being undermined by the economic effects of COVID-19, according to one of the nations hardest hit by migration. The European Commission on Wednesday launched plans aimed at sharing the burden of migration, and member states agreed to resettle …
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[ad_1] Microsoft’s purchase of ZeniMax comes just weeks before the company’s next big launch of its upcoming Xbox consoles. Microsoft Microsoft may be known as an enterprise software giant, powering most of the world’s PCs and creating backroom technology and tools. But it has also spent more than $ 10 …
Read More »Tesla promises cars that connect to the grid, even if Elon Musk really doesn’t want them to
[ad_1] Tesla plans its future electric vehicles to absorb energy and spit it back on the rack. Tesla did not specify when this capability would be available when CEO Elon Musk made the announcement during the long-awaited Tesla Battery Day event in Palo Alto, California. “A Powerwall and a car” …
Read More »Made in Space will send the first ceramic manufacturing plant to the ISS
[ad_1] The leader in space fabrication technologies Made In Space (MIS) will ship the first ceramic fabrication facility to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 29. As part of Northrop Grumman’s 14th Commercial Resupply Mission (NG-14), the Turbine Ceramic Fabrication Module (CMM) will be the first stereolithography printer (SLA) …
Read More »Tesla CEO Elon Musk boasts 500 miles on a single charge at Battery Day event
[ad_1] Tesla is working on new battery technology that CEO Elon Musk says will allow the company to make sleeker, more affordable cars that can travel much longer distances on a single charge. But the battery advances revealed Tuesday at a highly anticipated event appeared to disappoint Wall Street, with …
Read More »Belarus: Lukashenko took office in an unannounced ceremony
[ad_1] Related topics Belarusian Presidential Elections 2020 image copyrightReuters ScreenshotPresident Lukashenko’s caravan swept through Minsk Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whose re-election in a controversial vote last month led to weeks of mass protests, has assumed his sixth term in an unannounced ceremony. State media said several hundred people attended the …
Read More »Surprise! The ring around the monstrous black hole in the galaxy M87 wobbles over time.
[ad_1] First dungeon to be photographed directly is to reveal even more secrets. In April 2019, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project released a historical photo of M87 *, the supermassive black hole that lurks at the heart of the M87 galaxy, which lies about 53 million light …
Read More »Leveraging the COVID-19 Digital Dividend to Fund the SDGs
[ad_1] Digitization could help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The impact depends on how digital disruption reshapes finances. The UN Task Force on Digital Finance for the SDGs highlights the importance of putting citizens at the center of finance. Digital is the clear winner of the COVID crisis, as …
Read More »Lukashenko Sworn in as President of Belarus in Secret Ceremony | World News
[ad_1] The embattled Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko’s inauguration for another term as president has taken place in Minsk in a secret ceremony that was not announced in advance. Opposition leaders and European politicians immediately denounced the move as illegitimate. “The day the president takes office, the day he takes office, …
Read More »Herd immunity is an impractical COVID-19 mitigation strategy, study says
[ad_1] Researchers who designed a transmission model for COVID-19 showed that attempting to establish herd immunity against COVID-19 would be too challenging. New research suggests that achieving herd immunity to COVID-19 is an impractical public health strategy. The researchers suggest that the idea of ’mitigating’ the COVID-19 disruption by achieving …
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