Paris (AFP) May 5, 2023
Chinese cut-price fast-fashion giant Shein defended its business model in an interview with AFP, saying demand-based production accounted for its low prices and not forced or cheap labour.
Founded in China in 2008, Shein has swiftly claimed a top place in the global fast-fashion marketplace, offering young social-media-savvy customers low-priced collections that turn over at a steady clip.
Madrid (AFP) May 5, 2023
Spain's government on Friday came to the defence of the AEMET weather agency, which has suffered threats and abuse from climate conspiracy theorists over its forecasts during a record drought.
"Murderers", "Criminals", "You'll pay for this" and "We're watching you" are just some of the anonymous messages sent to AEMET in recent weeks on social media, by email and even by phone.
The thr
London (AFP) May 5, 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged more than $100 million Friday for Brazil's fund to protect the Amazon rainforest, at a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of King Charles III's coronation.
"Beyond football, there are so many interests we have in common... (including) combatting climate change," Sunak told Lula as they met at 10 Downing Street in London.
"I'm
Toulouse, France (AFP) May 5, 2023
The French government said Friday it would ban the sale of above-ground swimming pools in a southern region because of persistent drought.
Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Bechu said the Pyrenees-Orientales could not afford to allow people to fill their pools while the region was suffering from a water shortage.
The rule is part of new crisis measures coming into force on May 10
Vienna VA (SPX) May 03, 2023
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has announced the launch of its new Deep Navigation Analytics (DNA) Platform, a centralized, space-powered hub that delivers essential insights to maritime stakeholders through three layers: maritime weather data APIs, actionable intelligence APIs, decision support solutions and visualizations.
The platform utilizes radio occultation (RO) data acquired by th
Calgary, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2023
North American Helium Inc. has reported on a number of updates to the continuing growth of its business. These updates highlight NAH's ongoing operational execution and financial performance as it builds out and develops its significant land position.
During April 2023 NAH completed construction of, and successfully brought onstream, its sixth helium purification facility near Mankota, Sas
Washington (AFP) May 3, 2023
US senators announced a major cross-party effort Wednesday to combat China's growing global influence by limiting the flow of investment and state-of-the-art technology to the Asian giant while deterring any potential threat to Taiwan.
The push comes after President Joe Biden signed a package last year aimed at boosting competition with Washington's main economic rival, with $52 billion in n
San Francisco (AFP) May 4, 2023
A US regulator put artificial intelligence in the crosshairs ahead of a White House meeting Thursday with tech firms to strategize about its dangers.
"While the technology is moving swiftly, we already can see several risks," Federal Trade Commission chief Lina Khan wrote in a guest essay in the New York Times.
"Enforcers and regulators must be vigilant."
The tough talk comes as US l
Oldenburg, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2023
Lithium-air batteries, also known as lithium-oxygen batteries, are candidates for the next generation of high-energy electricity storage devices. Their theoretical energy storage capacity is ten times that of conventional lithium-ion batteries of the same weight, but they are not yet chemically stable enough to provide a reliable solution.
Now a newly launched collaborative research projec
Washington (AFP) May 4, 2023
The White House on Thursday summoned the CEOs of US tech giants to strategize about the dangers of artificial intelligence, afraid that companies are running blindly into a technology that could pose serious harms to society.
Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials will discuss ways to ensure consumers benefit from AI while being protected from its dangers.
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The star-studded event will feature performances by Take That, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.
Hannover, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2023
Alexandrite laser crystals are well suited for use in earth observation satellites. They are robust and enable laser systems with a tunable output wavelength. In the European Horizon 2020 project GALACTIC, the partners Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), Optomaterials S.r.l. (Italy) and Altechna (Lithuania) have now succeeded in establishing a solely European supply chain for alexandrite laser cr
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2023
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River. With customized tools that use NASA observations and data, the people who manage that water supply have been improving their decision-making. It is a prime example of the work NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been doing to
Beijing, China (SPX) May 07, 2023
The China Manned Space Agency announced on Friday that the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft successfully separated from China's space station at 3:26 p.m. Beijing Time. The spacecraft, which had been supporting the Shenzhou-15 crewed mission, is now in independent flight mode.
Tianzhou-5 was launched on November 12, 2022, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan, a southern province o
Denver CO (SPX) May 07, 2023
The Space business area within Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has announced upcoming changes in order to promote greater effectiveness in delivering on customer missions, support growth and innovation, and create stronger collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners. The realignment follows the recent establishment of Lockheed Martin Space's Ignite organization, an innovation hub for rapid
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 07, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space and Defense-as-a-Service satellite company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations; and in-orbit support has announced the successful completion of a groundbreaking external flight test platform mission.
In November of 2019, twelve
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2023
"When pentacene is excited by light, the electrons in the material rapidly react," explains Prof. Ralph Ernstorfer, a senior author of the study. "It was an open and very disputed question whether a photon excites two electrons directly or initially one electron, which subsequently shares its energy with another electron."
To unravel this mystery the researchers used time- and angle-resolv
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 05, 2023
Earth planning day - Friday, May 5th, 2023. We continue our triage of the "Ubajara" potential drill site in this plan. In the last plan, we brushed the surface and did some further investigation of Ubajara's chemistry and structure (APXS, ChemCam and MAHLI). Information that came down this morning indicated that the target appears to be representative of what we have been seeing recently, as we
Washington DC (UPI) May 4, 2023
The European Space Agency and Eumetsat on Thursday released a detailed image of the Earth and its weather patterns from the Meteostat Third Generation Imager-1 satellite.
The image, which was taken on March 18, shows cloud formations over large parts of Europe with details that were previously too small to capture in similar composite images.
"This image is a great example of wha
Paris (ESA) May 07, 2023
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over El Oued, in northeast Algeria, about 80 km west of the border with Tunisia.
Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more.
Shown as a dark elongated area in the centre of the image, the town of El Oued lies around an oasis in the northern Sahara, in a region that is otherwise an endless
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2023
The assistant secretary of defense for space policy told senators yesterday that his office is "laser focused" on three priorities: space control, space cooperation and space classification.
"On space control, the department will protect and defend our national security interests from the growing scope and scale of space and counterspace threats, and we will protect and defend our service
Washington DC (UPI) May 5, 2023
NASA scientists concluded that four of Uranus' largest moons likely contain an ocean layer of water between its core and icy crust.
The NASA study announced Thursday is the first to detail the evolution of the interior makeup and structure of all five large moons - Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon and Miranda.
It suggests four of the moons hold oceans that could be miles deep aft
Beijing, China (SPX) May 07, 2023
Glass is typically associated with floor-to-ceiling windows, colorful crafts, and electronic screens. However, it is not only a crucial man-made material but also a naturally occurring substance found in nature. The moon's surface, despite being desolate and barren, contains abundant glassy substances formed by volcanic eruptions, geological movements, and meteorite impacts. Lunar glass can rema
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