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Private satellites spotted a new Chinese military blimp
After a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the US earlier this year provoked an international incident, open-source intelligence analysts...
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Japan's prime minister is visiting Africa in an attempt to counter China's influence
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida held talks with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on April 30, on the first leg of a weeklong tour...
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5 tech innovations that debuted at World's Fairs
From the start—London’s Great Exhibition in 1851—the World’s Fair was a global event for debuting cutting-edge technology. In the centuries...
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Why did JPMorgan Chase buy First Republic out of receivership?
You can ask why JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy the failed First Republic Bank out of regulatory receivership. But a better question might be, why...
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Waiting for training? 3 ways you can develop yourself instead
You are human capital. Your knowledge, skills, and know-how, spanning everything from your formal education to the experiences you’ve picked up...
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High school kids in the US are having a lot less sex than they did 10 years ago
American teens are remarkably less interested—or at any rate, less engaged—in sex today than they were a decade ago. That’s a pretty clear...
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Texas has the most clean energy of any state waiting to be hooked up to the grid
More clean energy projects are planned in the US than its grid can handle. Read more...
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India has blocked 14 mobile messenger apps on security fears
India has blocked 14 mobile messenger apps apparently being used by terrorist groups in Jammu and Kashmir to communicate with people in Pakistan....
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India's worsening struggle with heat waves will leave one gainer
India is bracing for an alarming increase in the number of summer heat waves in coming years, putting lives at risk and leaving the economy...
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Sunday Reads: BP shareholders revolt, Starship’s dust settles, swan facts
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The lexicon of the Biden economy
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Surprising discoveries for the week of April 24: New ocean species, old candy, destroyed beer
We’ve rounded up the most interesting discoveries from this week’s Quartz Daily Brief newsletters. Get the Daily Brief in your inbox every...
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Egg prices: Capitalizing the coop
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US federal and state governments are spending so much they've been propping up GDP
Most economics students understand that government spending boosts gross domestic product, but the latest GDP numbers in the US suggest that...
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Google lost its bid to dismiss a wide-ranging antitrust case in US federal court
A district court in Virginia denied Google’s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit on Friday (April 28), renewing a...
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Are satellite-based calls the future of mobile phones?
Using a Samsung Galaxy, an engineer outside of Midland, Texas, dialed another mobile phone in Rakuten, Japan, and said hello. It was a prosaic...
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3 communication strategies for hybrid teams
As more companies adopt hybrid work, leaders face a new challenge: managing distributed teams. Effective internal and external communications...
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The FDIC says it didn't have the staff to regulate Signature Bank
In a new report reviewing its supervision of the failed Signature Bank , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said it didn’t have...
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The Fed's report on Silicon Valley Bank is out, and it blames everyone
The Federal Reserve’s internal review of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank points the blame at nearly everyone involved in the second...
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Three UN sustainability goals have seen the most progress—but not very much
The world may have made little progress in its Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) for 2030, but the few areas that have brought in good...
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Only 12% of the UN Sustainable Development Goal targets are on track
According to a new UN report, progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not going well. Read more...
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Africa's biggest power firm is losing $55 million a month to corruption
South African power firm Eskom loses $55 million a month to theft and corruption. Read more...
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How George Soros became a punching bag for rightwing Twitter in India
US billionaire George Soros’s investments in the Indian technology and startup world are no protection against the Hindu right wing’s ire over...
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Amazon's quarterly results hold some hints of an economic slowdown
Amazon is still growing—but not as fast as it did last year. And that has everything to do with the decelerating US economy . Read more...
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Iberdrola's big bet on renewable energy is working
One of the world’s largest energy producers continues to beat profit expectations with renewable energy, even as oil and gas prices make historic...