Amazon has filed new patents that would enable its Ring doorbell-camera hybrid to identify and categorize people by their “faces, retinas, irises, skin texture, gait, voices, and even odor” according to reporting by Insider. On the one hand, this furth…
After announcing its plans for a phase-out of nuclear power in 2000 and ramping up financial and infrastructural investments in renewable energy production since then, Germany is entering the home stretch: In the following weeks, the country will take …
After a grim one and a half years for movie theaters in the United States and across the globe, Peter Parker aka Spider-Man came to the rescue this weekend, not only shattering pandemic box office records, but some pre-Covid ones as well. According to …
Many factors determine population movements, which can be voluntary or forced, the latter being “as a result of the increased magnitude and frequency of disasters, economic challenges and extreme poverty or conflict”, according to the International Org…
Despite surging consumer prices, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously decided to keep interest rates near zero for the time being. As the U.S. economic recovery progresses and inflation is picking up, it did move up its timeline for pos…
As the world braces for the Omicron wave and booster campaigns are gaining steam, vaccine supply has once again come into focus in many countries. Germany’s new health secretary Karl Lauterbach for example rang the alarm bells this week, saying that th…
North America once again comes out on top in a global ranking, albeit on a negative note: With 20.8 tons of CO₂ emissions per capita in the year 2019, the region comprising the U.S. and Canada is the one whose inhabitants contribute the most to climate…
The Johnson government has had an uncanny ability to weather political storms since taking power back in 2019. The number of scandals and controversies the prime minister and his party have experienced which would have brought most other leaders tumbli…
Be it the rise of K-beauty or chasing runway model looks, cosmetic surgery is generally seen as an almost purely female dominion. While data from the American Society Of Plastic Surgeons backs up this notion for the United States at least – 92 percent …
Would you consider buying an electric car if it were just as expensive as an equivalent model powered by a traditional internal combustion engine? I’m betting many people would, and so does Tesla CEO Elon Musk. At the company’s 2020 shareholder meeting…