Apple, Broadcom To Pay $1.1bn For Patent Infringement
A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday ordered Apple and Broadcom to pay $1.1 billion to a university in California for infringing on four Wi-Fi technology patents. Apple was ordered to pay $837 million and Broadcom must pay $270 million to the California Institute of Technology, in what is thought to be one of the largest […]
Time To Scrap Super Rugby?
Super Rugby marks its 25th anniversary this year still struggling to establish a stable identity and with calls for the unwieldy competition across 16 time zones to be scrapped. Staging a multi-national tournament from South Africa to New Zealand every weekend was always going to be fraught with problems even before Argentina joined, and the […]
Russia Funds IVF Baby Boom To Battle Population Slump
For three years, Valeriya Pashko has been trying to get pregnant. Now her last hope is IVF, provided free by Russia’s health service as authorities try to avert a new drop in the birthrate. “My husband and I are really relieved to be getting reimbursed. This costs a lot of money,” said the 23-year-old social […]
Two Defunct Satellites Narrowly Miss Collision: Officials
Two decommissioned satellites sped past each other Wednesday after experts had warned they may collide at a combined speed of 33,000 miles (53,000 kilometers) an hour, sending thousands of pieces of debris hurtling through space. The satellites — a pioneering international space telescope and an experimental US craft traveling in opposing orbits — “crossed paths […]
China Sees Deadliest Day Yet As Global Virus Fears Mount
China reported its biggest single-day jump in novel coronavirus deaths on Thursday, as confirmation that three Japanese evacuated from the outbreak’s epicentre were infected deepened fears about a global contagion. The World Health Organization, which initially downplayed the severity of a disease that has now killed 170 nationwide, warned all governments to be “on alert” […]
G20 Funds Fossil Fuels $30bn A Year Under The Radar
Rich nations are funnelling cash through government-backed financial institutions to provide $30 billion to fossil fuel projects each year that “run counter to the Paris Agreement”, a new analysis showed Thursday. The export credit agencies (ECAs) of G20 countries currently provide more than 10 times more state-backed finance to oil, gas and coal projects abroad […]
White House Seeks To Quash Bolton Testimony At Trial
President Donald Trump’s defense team, seeking a speedy acquittal at his Senate impeachment trial, resisted Democratic efforts on Wednesday to have former national security advisor John Bolton testify, arguing that it could prolong the divisive proceedings for months. Trump lashed out at Bolton on Twitter, saying his former aide was coming out with potentially damaging […]
Grieving Lakers Return To Training After Bryant’s Death
The Los Angeles Lakers, reeling from the death of team icon Kobe Bryant, “want to represent what Kobe was about” as they press ahead with the NBA season, coach Frank Vogel said Wednesday. “We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” Vogel said. “We’ve always wanted to make him proud, and that’s […]
Project Fear: Misinformation Spreads China Virus Panic
Misleading bat soup videos, vastly inflated death tolls, quack remedies and vaccine conspiracies — a global deluge of misinformation is compounding public fears about China’s new coronavirus and stoking racial stereotypes. Phoebe, a 40-year-old Hong Kong doctor, has been dismayed by some of the messages cropping up in her family Whatsapp group in recent days. […]
How Uber And Lyft Doomed The New York’s Taxi Business
Uber and Lyft’s growth in New York City has mowed down the value of yellow taxi medallions — destroying an investment that cabbies and cab operators once saw as solid as a bar of gold. The precipitous decline of the yellow cab business led to a record 510 foreclosures of taxi medallion-backed loans in 2019, […]
Past ‘Evils’ Are Resurfacing, Germany And Israel Warn
The “evil spirits” of racism and anti-Semitism are re-emerging, the presidents of Germany and Israel warned in Berlin on Wednesday as they marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Speaking at a special parliamentary session in the Bundestag, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Germans had a responsibility to never forget their Nazi past […]
WHO Warns World To ‘Take Action’ Over China Virus
The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned all governments to “take action” over the SARS-like virus spreading from China that has killed 132 people and infected around 6,000 others. The WHO called an urgent meeting for Thursday over whether the viral epidemic should be declared a global health emergency — a designation that can increase […]