A new luxury hotel with rooms made from buses opens in Singapore

A new luxury hotel with rooms made from buses opens in Singapore

The resort hotel has 20 rooms which will be open for stays from Dec. 1, 2023. Source: The Bus Collective It only costs a dollar to ride a Singapore bus — but 398 Singapore dollars to sleep in one. The Bus Collective is Southeast Asia’s first resort hotel to repurpose decommissioned public buses into luxury … Read more

Chinas Export Restrictions Stoke Fears About Battery Supply Chains

Chinas Export Restrictions Stoke Fears About Battery Supply Chains

China has slapped export controls on graphite, a key mineral used to make steel and electric car batteries, ratcheting up a trade fight with the United States over the technologies needed to wean the world’s economy off planet-heating fossil fuels. The measures, announced Friday in a joint declaration from Beijing’s Ministry of Commerce and the … Read more

Elon Musk’s New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation

Elon Musk’s New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation

In October 2018, a UC Davis veterinarian approved Animal 13 for use in a Neuralink experiment. She was six years old when she received her Neuralink implants. According to her pre-project physical exam and echocardiogram, Davis staff did not observe any medical abnormalities prior to her surgery, only noting that she had superficial scratches on … Read more

Our Top 25 Picks for 2023

Our Top 25 Picks for 2023

As Austin continues to grow and expand, so does the city’s standout culinary scene. There are plenty of chefs and teams carving out names for themselves, and as a result, there’s no shortage of Austinite foodies who have received local and national accolades—Best New Restaurant, Emerging Chefs, Austin Tastemakers, and Top 20 lists all included. … Read more

Warner Bros., Paramount merger talks may draw out NBCUniversal

Warner Bros., Paramount merger talks may draw out NBCUniversal

Let’s say you have a crush on two people and you find out one of them may like you back. Do you just start dating that person, or do you find out what the other person thinks, too? That’s where Warner Bros. Discovery finds itself today. The company has held preliminary merger talks with Paramount … Read more

Seize the holiday: four tips on taking a spontaneous UK break | Styled for the spontaneous

Seize the holiday: four tips on taking a spontaneous UK break | Styled for the spontaneous

It’s time to unshackle yourself from the tyranny of advanced holiday preparation. Get rid of that calendar, stop trying to anticipate the future, and start going with the flow. You won’t be alone: recent research from Hilton* has found that only 22% of UK travellers consider themselves meticulous planners. Eschewing the itinerary could even help … Read more

2% of US land owned by foreigners: USDA

2% of US land owned by foreigners: USDA

(NewsNation) — Foreigners own nearly 2% of all land in the U.S., including more than three million acres of farmland purchased just in the past year, according to a new statistic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The trend has raised concerns in rural communities across the country as some states have tried to prevent … Read more

RBA Melbourne Cup Day interest rates decision: Reserve Bank of Australia makes big call in face of high inflation

RBA Melbourne Cup Day interest rates decision: Reserve Bank of Australia makes big call in face of high inflation

The Reserve Bank of Australia has resumed hiking interest rates after holding steady for the past four months, piling on financial pressure for mortgage holders. The RBA met on Tuesday and chose to hike the cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.35 per cent. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Economists share RBA cash rate predictions … Read more

How Nashville hot chicken became so big

How Nashville hot chicken became so big

Prince’s Hot Chicken Courtesy: Prince’s Hot Chicken This story is part of CNBC’s new quarterly Cities of Success series, which explores cities that have been transformed into business hubs with an entrepreneurial spirit that has attracted capital, companies and workers. Nashville hot chicken had its humble beginnings nearly a century ago. Now, the specialty chicken style … Read more

Sebi: SAT overturns Sebi order in Karvy case

Sebi: SAT overturns Sebi order in Karvy case

Mumbai: The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) quashed market regulator Sebi’s orders against lenders, including Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank and Bajaj Finance, prohibiting them from revoking the shares pledged by Karvy Stock Broking. The tribunal has allowed Axis Bank to invoke the shares pledged in its favour and asked the Securities and … Read more