Consumer complaints about digital wallets and mobile payment apps have been surging as more and more Americans ditch cash, according to a recent report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) receiv…
American physical infrastructure has been famously crumbling for years, but a new coordinated effort to save aging bridges, dams or levees is likely underway. U.S. President Joe Biden announced yesterday that a bipartisan group of senators had reached …
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies keeps an eye on the sky, surveying more than 26,000 asteroids and a much smaller number of comets that pass near Earth. Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, also include more than 2,000 potentially dangerous specim…
Ever wondered which websites are the most visited in the world? If you had to guess, you probably wouldn’t need to consult Google to know that the search engine is on the number one spot, but as the list moves down from the YouTube/Facebook level of ob…
The Reuters Institute For The Study Of Journalism released its 2021 Digital News Report this week which polled 92,000 consumers in 46 markets about a range of digital news topics ranging from the pandemic’s impact on consumption to the progress of paid…
Bicycles are synonymous with the Netherlands like windmills and wooden clogs. But other than the latter reminders of a time long gone, bicycles as a mode of transportation are actually ubiquitous in the European country. Almost 60 percent of the Dutch …
As the UEFA Euros are underway across Europe, showcasing the return of spectator sports on the world stage, Japan is preparing to host an even bigger event in less than a month. With COVID cases down and the state of emergency freshly lifted in most of…
Climate change, rising sea levels and flooding are expected to have an outsized impact on Asia where millions of people live on low-lying land in close proximity to the ocean. A new report by Greenpeace East Asia looks at the risks in seven regional ci…
E-commerce revenue in Europe experienced a 20 percent increase in 2020 according to Statista’s Digital Market Outlook – double the pre-pandemic rise seen from 2018 to 2019. Revenues are forecast to exceed the $500,000 million mark by 2022.In 2020, fash…
The pandemic has been good news for the super-rich with America’s richest individuals reportedly seeing their collective fortune surge by $1.2 trillion since the onset of the crisis. According to a new report from Credit Suisse, wealth creation in gene…