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The Beijing office of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been fined USD 30.8 million for failing to adequately audit a Chinese state-owned asset management company whose former head was sentenced to death on corruption charges. The office also was ordered to suspend operations for three months for mishandling audit and other work at China Huarong Asset Management Co. in 2014-19, the Ministry of Finance announced Friday. Deloitte was fined 211.9 million yuan (USD 30.8 million), the ministry said. It said... Читать дальше...

Ford is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles in the US in two actions to fix leaky brake hoses and windshield wiper arms that can break. The largest of two recalls covers nearly 1.3 million 2013 through 2018 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKX midsize cars. The company says in documents posted on Friday by safety regulators that the front brake hoses can rupture and leak brake fluid. That would increase brake pedal travel and make stopping distances longer. Dealers will replace the hoses. Ford will mail owner notification letters starting April 17.

The Himachal Pradesh government in the budget for 2023-24 has proposed to impose a Rs 10 milk cess on liquor bottles sold in the state, which is expected to fetch Rs 100 crore every year to the state exchequer. Recently, the state government has decided to purchase cow and buffalo milk to increase the income of milk producers. Announcing the imposition of Rs 10 per cess on liquor bottles in the budget for 2023-24, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said the income generated would... Читать дальше...

José Mourinho’s Roma now know their path to this season’s Europa League final, where they will seek to follow up their UEFA Conference League triumph from last year.

St. Patrick’s Day is weeks away and already conjuring visions of corned beef, potatoes and soda bread in foodies’ heads all over the globe. But did …

Republican actor and commentator, Ben Stein, recently went on a rant suggesting if he were a "colored" person, he would realize he has "every opportunity" to achieve a "good life."

Napoli going to win it.

Outpatient units of most hospitals did not function after doctors boycotted duty

Paris (AFP) March 14, 2023
More than a million artworks were put up for auction for the first time in 2022 despite a gloomy global economy, according to a report released on Tuesday. The report by France-based analysts Artprice also confirmed a near-total collapse in the previous year's craze for NFTs - the blockchain tokens that prove ownership of digital artworks - whose sales fell 94 percent to $13.9 million.

Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2023
Chinese search engine company Baidu's shares fell as much as 10 percent on Thursday after the company unveiled its ChatGPT-like AI software, with investors unimpressed by the bot's display of linguistic and maths skills. The artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT, created by San Francisco company OpenAI, has caused a sensation for its ability to write essays, poems or programming code on de

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
The Beyond Gravity Lynx computer for satellites is 250 times more powerful than regular onboard computers. The Lynx computer provides capability to process data already in orbit instead of processing it on earth - saving time, energy, and cost. Satellites produce more and more data. The ability to send large satellite photos down to earth is becoming a critical bottleneck. Beyond Gravity's

Swansea, China (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
Swansea University has established a low-cost and scalable carbon ink formulation capable of unlocking, for the first time, the potential for perovskite solar cells to be manufactured at scale. Using slot die coating in a roll-to-roll (R2R) process, academics from the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre at Swansea University have established a way to create "fully printable" perovskite phot

Wilmington NC (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) reports that its BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) has achieved a significant pre-licensing milestone in Canada with the completion of phases one and two of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) Vendor Design Review (VDR) process. "The BWRX-300 is the first SMR technology to have completed two phases of the CNSC's VDR process," Sean Sexstone, Ex

Pari Island, Indonesia (AFP) March 14, 2023
Sitting near a wall of stacked rocks, fisherman Mustagfirin looks out to sea from the tiny Indonesian island of Pari, wondering whether his home will exist for much longer. His battered wooden boat is anchored just offshore, where trees and statues that were once on the beach now sit partially submerged about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the capital Jakarta. "I am very saddened and

Berlin (AFP) March 15, 2023
Germany kept greenhouse gas emissions under its target level in 2022 despite a coal-driven increase in pollution in the energy sector, figures published Wednesday showed. Europe's largest economy reduced its emissions by 1.9 percent in 2022 compared with the previous year, the federal environment agency said in a statement. In total, Germany pumped out 746 million tonnes of greenhouse g

San Mateo CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
QuSecure, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity, has announced that the company has accomplished the first known live, end-to-end quantum-resilient cryptographic communications satellite link through space, marking the first time U.S. satellite data transmissions have been protected from classical and quantum decryption attacks using post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The quantum-secu

San Francisco (AFP) March 15, 2023
Drone maker Zipline on Wednesday introduced a new model that works with a small robot to deliver packages with precision in dense cities, even on windy days. The tech firm based in the city of South San Francisco said its product provides quiet, fast delivery to homes in cities as well as suburbs. "It's an opportunity for us to really precisely make deliveries, even in high winds," Zipli

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalogue or an e-commerce website. A hash function generates codes that directly determine the location where data would be stored. So, using these codes, it is easier to find and retrieve the data. However, because traditional hash functions generate codes randomly, sometimes two pieces of data can be hashed with the sa

Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2023
China urged the United States to stop "unreasonably suppressing" TikTok on Thursday, after Washington gave the popular video-sharing app an ultimatum to part ways with its Chinese owners or face a nationwide ban. The United States and the European Union have been taking an increasingly firm approach to the app, owned by the Chinese firm Bytedance, citing fears that user data could be used or

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
Some researchers are driven by the quest to improve a specific product, like a battery or a semiconductor. Others are motivated by tackling questions faced by a given industry. Rob Macfarlane, MIT's Paul M. Cook Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, is driven by a more fundamental desire. "I like to make things," Macfarlane says. "I want to make materials that can be fu

Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
Physicists are learning more about the bizarre behavior of "strange metals," which operate outside the normal rules of electricity. Theoretical physicist Yashar Komijani, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, contributed to an international experiment using a strange metal made from an alloy of ytterbium, a rare earth metal. Physicists in a lab in Hyogo, Japan, fired radi

Livermore CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2023
Topcon Positioning Systems has announced the availability of a new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) option for its MC-Mobile compact machine control solution. Rounding out the company's compact solutions portfolio, this GNSS option allows contractors to easily integrate their compact machines into fleets already powered by GNSS technology. This expansion gives owners of skid steers, com

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
NASA has appointed two scientists to coordinate the lunar science teams supporting the first and second crewed lunar landing missions in more than 50 years. NASA's Artemis missions will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore the lunar South Pole region and establish a long-term presence at the Moon. Noah Petro, of NASA's Goddard

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
Space Systems Command (SSC) successfully demonstrated its ground-based antijamming satellite communications (SATCOM) capability using an on-orbit operational satellite. The event demonstrated over-the-air Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) connectivity between a Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES) Joint Hub and a test terminal, and over-the-wire connectivity to a PTW-capable modem develo