Новости за 23.03.2024

Beijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
China's youth unemployment rate rose slightly in February, official data showed Wednesday, as policymakers in the world's second-largest economy work to ease mounting fears of a downturn. After youth joblessness soared to 21.3 percent in June last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stopped releasing monthly figures, then resumed in December under revamped calculation criteria.

Hong Kong (AFP) Mar 21, 2024
Gold rallied to a fresh record above $2,200 on Thursday as traders welcomed a Federal Reserve signal that it would cut interest rates three times this year. Equity markets in New York and across Asia surged and the dollar retreated in reaction to the US central bank's projection that it would begin easing monetary policy this year despite recent data showing inflation ticking up in January a

Beijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
Fourteen people were killed and 37 others injured after a bus crashed inside an expressway tunnel in northern China, state media reported Wednesday. The accident occurred shortly after 2:30 pm local time (0630 GMT) Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing local authorities in Shanxi province. The bus, which was carrying 51 people, rammed into the tunnel's interior wall, the repor

San Francisco (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
Meta, Microsoft, X and online dating giant Match Group hit at Apple on Wednesday for overcharging on app purchases. The four companies filed a rare joint amicus brief in a California court in charge of applying a ruling that Apple must allow companies to link to alternative payment options outside the app store for iPhone users. That ruling was stemmed from a 2020 lawsuit by video gaming

San Francisco (AFP) Mar 18, 2024
Apple is in advanced negotiations with Google to adopt its powerful Gemini AI models for the iPhone, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The move, if confirmed and resulting in a deal, would answer one of the big questions about the iPhone-maker's AI strategy, which has been criticized as lagging its tech giant rivals. Google's share price soared by well over six percent on the news. Apple's w

Beijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
Chinese low-price online retailer Pinduoduo, the owner of the Temu app and Alibaba's main competitor, almost doubled its net profit in 2023, the group announced on Wednesday. The Shanghai-based giant, which has made affordable products its speciality since launching in China in 2015, posted a year-on-year net profit jump of 90 percent in 2023 to 60 billion yuan ($8.3 billion), according to a

Beijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
Chinese internet giant Tencent on Wednesday posted its lowest annual profit since 2019, despite slight improvements recently in China's economy and a more lenient attitude taken by regulators towards the tech sector. Tencent's total net profit for 2023 stood at 115.2 billion yuan ($16.0 billion), according to a filing of annual results at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Decades of meteoric

New York (AFP) Mar 21, 2024
The Reddit social network was set to make its trading debut Thursday after pricing robustly in an initial public offering that suggested greater investor enthusiasm for new stock issuers. Reddit is set to debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RDDT after an IPO priced at $34 dollars a share, the company said Wednesday in a statement, which would value the platform at

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
Several top European airlines on Wednesday urged EU authorities to follow the United States in pushing for increased production of "green" fuels. Last year, as part of the fight against climate change, the European Union passed legislation requiring airlines to begin the gradual adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) for routes departing EU airports. The legislation provides for in

San Francisco (AFP) Mar 21, 2024
Neuralink on Wednesday streamed a video of its first human patient playing computer chess with his mind and talking about the brain implant making that possible. Noland Arbaugh, 29, who was left paralyzed from the shoulders down by a diving accident eight years ago, told of playing chess and the videogame "Civilization" as well as taking Japanese and French lessons by controlling a computer

Copenhagen (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
Europe must accelerate efforts to transform its economy into a circular one focussed on reusing or repurposing materials to cut waste, a necessity if it is meet climate targets, the European Environment Agency warned Thursday. "Decisive action is essential to drastically reduce waste, prioritise reduction of resource use, improve recycling rates and improve the introduction of products that

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
Researchers at ETH Zurich, led by Jonathan Home, have significantly advanced the field of quantum computing by demonstrating the feasibility of constructing ion traps using static magnetic fields, thereby overcoming the limitations of traditional oscillating electromagnetic fields. This innovative approach, utilizing Penning traps, enables more extensive quantum computers by allowing for arbitra

Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
The University of Central Florida, in collaboration with the University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion, has embarked on a cutting-edge project funded by a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Technologies Office. The initiative aims to revolutionize the metallization process of silicon solar cells, potentially enhancing their efficiency and reducing productio

Panama City (AFP) Mar 21, 2024
Traffic through the Panama Canal could return to normal by next February, its administrator said, after record-low water levels limited the number of ships able to transit through the global pipeline. Since last year, authorities have had to limit vessel traffic through the canal, which handles about six percent of global maritime trade. The waterway operates entirely from water collecte

Colombo (AFP) Mar 21, 2024
Sri Lanka must speed up debt restructuring with key bilateral lender China and other creditors to sustain a recovery from its worst economic crisis, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. Sri Lanka defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in April 2022 after the country ran out of foreign exchange to finance even essential imports such as food, fuel and medicine. Months of prot