The weird materials behind sustainable furniture
Seaweed, coffee bean shells and fungus are all being employed to cut the use of plastic in furniture.
Seaweed, coffee bean shells and fungus are all being employed to cut the use of plastic in furniture.
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just approved the first-ever batch of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds to come out of the U.S. The agency gave the green light on Wednesday to sponsors of 10 ETFs, including BlackRock, Invesco, Fidelity, Grayscale, and Ark Invest ā paving the way for…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Millions of households will lose discounts on their internet bills in the coming months if Congress does not act to extend an affordable-internet program. The Federal Communications Commission says it will begin winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program this week if it cannot secure more…
The Biden administration needs to take stronger action to stem Chinaās growing dominance in making older-generation microchips that are essential across several U.S. industries, according to the bipartisan leaders of a House of Representatives panel. The lawmakersā call for new efforts, including potential tariffs, is intended to counteract an overreliance on China for less-advanced chips,…
Story highlights Africa will launch its first private satellite into space It’s been built by schoolgirls CNN Ā āĀ They may be teenagers, but 17-year-old Brittany Bull and 16-year-old Sesam Mngqengqiswa have grand ambitions ā to launch Africaās first private satellite into space in 2019. They are part of a team of high school girls from…
Large technology firms have faced increased scrutiny of their practices in the US and beyond.
Itās not every day that the most talked-about company in the world sets itself on fire. Yet that seems to be what happened Friday, when OpenAIās board announced that it had terminated its chief executive, Sam Altman, because he had not been āconsistently candid in his communications with the board.ā In corporate-speak, those are fighting…