When Apple reported its latest full-year results in October, there were no major surprises: iPhone sales were slightly down year-over-year, services revenue reached yet another all-time high and the segment formerly known as “Other products”, now calle…
One major positive effectsof Covid-19 vaccinations have been made plainly apparent in new Office for National Statistics data for England. As this infographic shows, of all Covid-related deaths in the country from 2 January to 2 July 2021, 37.4 percent…
The Chinese housing market has continued a slowdown that it started by the middle of 2019 during the coronavirus crisis. In July 2021, the year-over-year increase in the country’s 70 major housing markets was only 4.6 percent for new residential buildi…
The 9/11 attacks are the most costly man-made disaster recorded in modern history, at least if you look at them from the perspective of the insurance industry. The attacks against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and other buildings in the US cost …
The number of Americans who is required by their employers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 took a jump up in August to 19 percent, according to a Gallup poll. The number had been as low as 9 percent in July and 6 percent in June.Over the past couple…
An emerging economic crisis in the UK has led to builders being forced to down tools amid what is being described as a “perfect storm for construction”. As the latest figures from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy show, material…
Given that agricultural land is expanding at the expense of forests, marine stocks are being decimated by overfishing and coral reefs are getting clogged by plastic, it comes as no real surprise that plant and animal species are getting decimated. The …
Social safety nets obviously vary as widely across the world as development status, but apart from that, different regions also show different preferences for whom they think most deserves to receive support from the government.A new report by the Inte…
According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 28,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States in the past 28 days. As of September 3, 2021, Florida suffered the most losses at 4,900 or 17 percent of deaths.Texas recorded 4,166 deaths over…
Big tech is notorious when it comes to the usage of customer data for advertising and tracking users across the web. The regulatory framework of the GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, in the EU aims to give users more control over their own d…