Thanks to generous government checks and the pandemic’s stimulating effect on consumer demand for technology, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is predicting 2021 to be another record year for the U.S. tech industry. In its latest bi-annual ind…
Chaotic scenes accompanied day two of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan as foreign governments continued to evacuate their citizens. A look at terrorism and violence indices shows that a deterioration of the situation took place already during the U….
Venture capital in Asia has come a long way from an also-ran to a market that is second only to the biggest name in venture capital, the United States. According to analyst CB Insights, $20 billion corporate venture capital deals and equity funding was…
Hot off the heels of the IPCC’s latest report on the current state of climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Friday that July 2021 was officially the hottest month on record, with records dating back to …
Figures from Eurostat have revealed the average age at which young people leave their parent’s house in Europe. At the top of the list is Montenegro where the nest is generally flown at the ripe age of 33.3. This is also indicative of the trend that yo…
Coming off the worst year on record for international travel, many had hoped that things could only get better in 2021 for the battered tourism industry. As it turns out, the situation went from bad to worse, however, at least when looking at internati…
The number of white people in the U.S. has shrunk for the first time since the first census in 1790. According to yesterday’s release of 2020 Census data, there were around 191.7 million white people in the U.S. last year, down from 196.8 million when …
More Afghan provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban as the insurgent group is advancing quickly in the country after the United States started to withdraw its troops.The exodus of the U.S. military is not expected to finish before the end of the…
Chelsea’s signing of Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku from Inter Milan this week for €115m has made the 28-year-old the most expensive footballer of all time. Not to be mistaken with the highest single transfer fee, Lukaku’s five career transfers now tota…
Having started out as a multi-platform market, the smartphone landscape has effectively turned into a duopoly in recent years, after Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android crowded out any other platform including Microsoft’s Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS and …