NEW YORK: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday (Apr 22) offered inventors US$100 million in prize money to develop ways to fight global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean. “Right now we’ve only got one planet,” said Musk, CEO of electric carmaker Tesla. “Even a 0.1 […]
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TOKYO: Tokyo will not host its motor show this year because of the global pandemic, organizers said on Thursday (Apr 22), underscoring Japan’s struggle to contain both a resurgent outbreak and the widening economic fall-out. The cancellation comes as the government is expected to issue a third state of emergency […]
WASHINGTON: US federal health agencies today recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine after six recipients developed a rare disorder involving blood clots, in a fresh setback to global efforts to tackle the pandemic. The move comes a week after European regulators said they had found a […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Friday (Apr 9) lodged a claim for US$17.38 million with the Greek owners of an oil tanker that caught fire and left a spill stretching 40km off the South Asian island. The New Diamond vessel was travelling from Kuwait to India with 270,000 tonnes of crude […]
LONDON: The UK medical regulator said Saturday (Apr 3) that out of 30 people who suffered blood clots after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, seven have died. The British acknowledgement of deaths comes as several European countries have paused the use of the AstraZeneca jab over a potential link to blood […]
LOS ANGELES: Google’s Maps app will start directing drivers along routes estimated to generate the lowest carbon emissions based on traffic, slopes and other factors, the company announced on Tuesday (Mar 30). Google, an Alphabet Inc unit, said the feature would launch later this year in the US and eventually […]
SUEZ, Egypt: The massive Ever Given container ship that has blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week has been turned in the “right direction”, Egyptian authorities said on Monday (Mar 29), raising hopes the busy waterway will soon be reopened. “The position of the ship has been re-orientated 80 […]
NEW YORK: Pfizer will develop new vaccines targeting other viruses and pathogens using the messenger RNA technology behind its COVID-19 shot, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday (Mar 23), citing the drugmaker’s chief executive officer, Albert Bourla. The drugmaker declined to say which viruses it is pursuing, the Journal […]
NEW YORK: In January, just weeks after Twitter permanently banned former President Donald Trump following the storming of the US Capitol, the social media company started asking US users to help identify and fact-check misleading tweets in a new pilot program. But Birdwatch, which has about 2,000 participants and is […]
WASHINGTON: Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday (Mar 18) it plans to invest over US$7 billion in offices and data centres across the United States as it takes on a surge in internet traffic after pandemic restrictions drove more users and advertisers online. The company’s investment related to US offices […]