Cryptocurrency mining must be less energy-intensive to limit the impact on the climate, according to a new report from Imperial College Business School. Despite the financial benefits of cryptocurrencies, such as their potential to offer a financial system that is ...
TAIPEI — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s special envoy met Pope Francis on Sunday and asked him to “pray for Taiwan,” on a trip the Taipei government has cast as a demonstration of their close relations even as the Holy See ...
RHODODENDRITES/ WIKIMEDIA COMMONS BED BATH & BEYOND, Inc.’s chief financial officer (CFO) fell to his death from New York’s Tribeca skyscraper known as the “Jenga” tower on Friday afternoon, police said on Sunday, days after the struggling retailer announced it ...
KUALA LUMPUR — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has applied for a royal pardon, the speaker of parliament said on Monday, less than two weeks after he was sent to jail for 12 years for corruption. Malaysia’s top court ...
HOTEL ROOMS in Singapore are now the most expensive in almost a decade as the city-state seeks to position itself as the tourism and business destination in Asia with a slew of high-profile events lined up for the coming months. ...
They were some of the staples of the pandemic years. But now velour tracksuits, jigsaw puzzles and wall-mounted desks have fallen out of favour with British shoppers, as they put the lockdown lifestyle behind them. The annual John Lewis sales ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused civil servants of using flexible working to skive off as he demands an audit of the practice across Whitehall. In one of his last acts as government efficiencies minister before a new prime minister takes office, ...
The resilience of Britain’s technology infrastructure is under scrutiny because of fears of winter blackouts and the impact of the soaring cost of energy. Data centre operators have asked for short-term priority for energy use should electricity be restricted, to ...
Oxford University’s start-up incubator, opened by the Apple chief executive Tim Cook, has closed its doors to students after only five years and even though it received £3.2 million in launch funding. High-profile donors to the centre, called the Oxford ...
Half of UK SME’s have had an application for a loan rejected in the past year with one in ten owners remortgaging their homes to keep trading, new research suggests. A survey of UK business owners and managers found a ...