The facility will be developed under the World Bank’s Scaling Solar initiative on a public-private partnership basis in Herat province. Afghanistan wants to install 500…
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Instagram has pledged to remove images, drawings and even cartoons showing methods of self-harm or suicide. The move…
Rob Threlkeld, global manager of sustainable energy, supply and reliability for General Motors, began his career at the automaker as manager of the powerhouse and…
Koyo, a fintech startup using open banking to offer loans to people with “thin” credit files and currently poorly served by the market, has closed…
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more. Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures…
Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which…
To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine…
A new study published today in the journal Clinical Oral Investigations, has found that sugar-sweetened acidic drinks, such as soft drinks, is the common factor…
French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $22.3 million funding round (€20 million). The startup is both a media company and a…
This composite image was made from more than 400 photos taken as the International Space Station traveled from Namibia toward the Red Sea. Credit: ISS…
An international collaboration led by scientists from the University of Hong Kong, RIKEN (Japan), and CEA (France) have used the RI Beam Factory (RIBF) at…
Scientists believe the moon formed after a large object crashed into the Earth, but details have been murky about what happened next. Credit: Illustration by…
In a bid to tackle fake profiles and fraudsters, a popular gay dating app plans to offer a sort of “verified” badge to identify authentic…
Ionic channels in novel carbon greatly improve the ionic conductivity and ion kinetics for better electrochemical energy storage. Credit: ©Science China Press The rapid development…
Fossils preserved in Dominican amber reveal a new family, genus and species of microinvertebrate from the mid-Tertiary period, a discovery that shows unique lineages of…
This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by a hypothetical exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers with participation from the…
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of the latest events that happened at major Chinese tech companies and what they mean to tech…
Most security applications, for instance, access to buildings or digital signatures, use cryptographic keys that must at all costs be kept secret. That also is…
Weave, a developer of patient communications software focused on the dental and optometry market, was the first Utah-headquartered company to graduate from Y Combinator in…
Researchers develop process for carbon dioxide conversion. University of Sydney researchers are drawing inspiration from leaves to reduce carbon emissions, using nanotechnology to develop a…