A country bakery has announced a milestone move, claiming it is the first bakery in Australia to go completely cashless. But the Heritage Bakery at Milton, on the NSW South Coast, has been slammed by the nation’s online pro-cash community. “Australia’s first cashless bakery. Cashless is quick. Cashless is clean. Cashless is accurate. Thank you … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading on January 3, 2024, in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need … Read more
BYD’s new luxury brand Yangwang is selling its first model, the U8, for more than 1 million yuan (US$160,000). CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — BYD has overtaken Tesla again by the sheer number of new energy vehicles produced in 2023, thanks in part to the Chinese automaker’s hybrids and wide range of offerings in … Read more
In 2022, only 2.1% of venture capital investments in the U.S. went to businesses that are founded solely by women. But some say the gap may be closing. Maskot | Digitalvision | Getty Images Starting a business is always challenging and while women have historically faced additional challenges, some female founders say the landscape is … Read more
RECCS students setting up to take measurements on Bald Mountain in July, 2015. Credit: Marianne Davenport, CIRES/CU Boulder Each summer, community college students from Colorado and surrounding states converge on the CU Boulder campus to participate in an immersive nine-week research program. A recent CIRES-led study reveals that when the students head home, they don’t … Read more
Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing (2023). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0086 In a study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing on 28 September 2023, a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the University of Maryland has developed a sophisticated Multifactor Weighting (MFW) method for creating clear, seamless, and radiometrically consistent image composites using … Read more
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Way back in February 2020, before most of us really knew anything about COVID, we wrote an article for The Conversation about “leaveism” and its impact on flexible working. Barely a month later, the world was bracing for a pandemic that would inadvertently create the largest (forced) working experiment of … Read more
C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against SpaceX, alleging that Elon Musk’s defense contractor illegally … Read more
The reborn Fisker produced just over 10,000 cars in 2023, delivering around 4,700 units of the Ocean crossover to customers across 12 markets worldwide (including some right-hand-drive countries) following the first deliveries in June. Fisker says it is already a revenue-generating company, despite supply chain issues and other challenges, and now it has launched a … Read more
The rebound emerging in the personal computer market is getting a major boost thanks to artificial intelligence and Microsoft ‘s biggest keyboard change in decades. Microsoft announced Thursday that upcoming Windows PCs will soon have a designated key for its AI virtual assistant Copilot . This is one of the most prominent updates to the … Read more
