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seek novelty through reading, travel, entertainment, cuisine, hobbies, socializing
How to be more creative: Psychology recommends these five habits.
ability to comprehend information — whether through self-observation or learning from others — and retain it for later use. Imagination then draws from that information and molds it to envision what could be.
How to be more creative: Psychology recommends these five habits.
creativity isn’t the exception. It’s the default
How to be more creative: Psychology recommends these five habits.
Customers include fire agencies, but also utility companies that need to monitor thousands of miles of transmission lines in rural areas
The world is burning. Can Silicon Valley put out megafires?
put panoramic cameras on mountaintops, links them to a communication network, and uses machine learning to spot smoke and warn fire agencies and utilities
The world is burning. Can Silicon Valley put out megafires?
India raised 85 percent of the USD 21 billion for climate finance in 2018 domestically, and that 60 percent of the USD 291 billion of outflow in climate commitments from OECD, was re-invested in OECD countries.
The Geoeconomics of Climate Finance | ORF
solar projects received the greatest share of financial investments accounting for 41% of the total finance flows to the clean energy sector. Interestingly, when clean transportation received the maximum funding (96%) from public sources, investment in the energy efficiency sector was primarily from the private sector (91%)
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
total fund flow towards climate mitigation was almost equally split between clean energy (42%) and energy efficiency (38%) while clean transport received just 17%
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
India would require cumulative investments of $10 trillion to achieve the net zero target by 2070
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
For this, India needs around $2.5 trillion between 2015 to 2030. It translates into $170 billion every year till 2030
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
regulatory sandbox for green fintech and transition bonds along with setting up a platform for sustainable lending for small and medium enterprises
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
creation of a voluntary carbon market and global climate alliance
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
A funding gap of nearly $170 billion a year through 2030, in meeting India’s climate targets
A lack of financing could hinder India’s energy transition
China’s console market is taking off after a 15-year ban that ended in 2015. But the industry, which generated $2 billion in revenues in China last year, remains humble compared to mobile and PC games, which brought in $45.5 billion in revenues in 2021, according to industry researcher Niko Partners.
Inside Tencent’s ambition to create a Triple A console game | TechCrunch
indicates that high-intensity, short-term, and intermittent training is likely the most beneficial way to benefit from hypoxic training
The Truth About Hypoxic Training and Oxygen Reducing Masks - Breaking Muscle
Decentralization is valuable when it lets you do new things fundamentally better, not old things fundamentally worse.
Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think - haseeb qureshi
LimeWire unveiled its new website this month, rebranding itself to a music and entertainment NFT platform
LimeWire Launches NFT Marketplace - PAPER
Limewire's new positioning feels eerily similar to when Napster unsuccessfully attempted to rebrand itself to a streaming service in 2016 before being bought out by Web 3.0 companies Hivemind and Algorand earlier this year.
LimeWire Launches NFT Marketplace - PAPER
alter LimeWire’s environmental impact and move it into a more eco-friendly space
LimeWire Launches NFT Marketplace - PAPER
Technology analyst Ritesh Kotak says he suspects the cause of the outage is "an update gone wrong" in one of Rogers's internal systems. Regardless of why, he says it underscores how vulnerable Canada's economy is to outages like this
Massive Rogers outage impacting cellphones, internet and debit payments across Canada | CBC News
"Debit is currently unavailable online and at checkout. Interac e-Transfer is also widely unavailable, impacting the ability to send and receive payments."
Massive Rogers outage impacting cellphones, internet and debit payments across Canada | CBC News
New regulations effective Sept. 8 will require carriers to either refund passengers or rebook them, at the traveller's choice, if a flight is cancelled or significantly delayed, the Canadian Transportation Agency said.
Canada travel rules: New refund rights for passengers | CTV News
On April 12, tech companies including Stripe, Alphabet, Meta, and Shopify announced they would buy $925 million worth of carbon removal offsets over the next eight years
April 2022 has been a great month for carbon capture — Quartz
cost of CCUS varies widely, depending on whether a project aims to extract carbon from a pollution source such as the smokestack of a natural gas plant, or whether it aims to capture carbon from the atmosphere, where carbon dioxide exists in much lower concentrations
April 2022 has been a great month for carbon capture — Quartz
The project was supposed to make money by selling captured carbon to oil companies to help them improve their drilling operations
April 2022 has been a great month for carbon capture — Quartz
$2 billion to fund carbon capture startups or buy carbon capture credits
April 2022 has been a great month for carbon capture — Quartz
Carbon dioxide removal is essential to achieve net zero
April 2022 has been a great month for carbon capture — Quartz
The key issue facing the oil industry is underinvestment after the fracking boom collapsed. The business has been in recovery mode, focused on delivering steady dividends to shareholders as prices rise, rather than taking the risk of investing in new production.
Why aren't US oil producers drilling more as prices rise? — Quartz
Biden administration has released oil from the US strategic reserve into the market, and is allowing drilling on more federal lands
Why aren't US oil producers drilling more as prices rise? — Quartz
delaying retirement could incidentally hurt another of China’s goals: getting younger women to have more children.
China is trying to change its problematic retirement age — Quartz
China is reforming its pension management and starting to encourage private retirement savings.
China is trying to change its problematic retirement age — Quartz
What exactly are Apple’s plans for NFTs?
Will Apple build its own blockchain? | TechCrunch
Most legit NFT startups are weighing how to proceed on mobile, and Apple holding off on clear guidelines could push more developers toward investing in web-based experiences, which bypass App Store rules
Will Apple build its own blockchain? | TechCrunch
if we were doing something and someone asked “why are we doing this?” and no one had an answer, we’d table it until someone could come up with a good reason
A case study in early-stage startup execution - Wave Blog