Taiwan looks forward to producing “democracy chips” with the United States, President Tsai Ing-wen told the visiting governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, Doug Ducey, on Thursday, the latest in a string of senior officials from the county to visit. Taiwan has been keen to show the United States, Read more…
Some train journeys in Spain will be free of charge from 1 September to 31 December. The scheme, announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on 12 July, applies to short and medium distance trains run by the national rail operator Renfe. It is open to all nationalities, including international tourists. Read more…
Someone hacked the largest taxi service in Russia, Yandex Taxi, and ordered all the available taxis to an address on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The tweet includes a video showing the traffic jam that this caused in the middle of Moscow. It’s not known who was behind the attack. In a statement Read more…
Germany’s three-month experiment with 9-euro tickets for a month’s unlimited travel on regional train networks, trams and buses saved about 1.8 million tons of CO2 emissions, it has been claimed. Since its introduction on June 1 to cut fuel consumption and relieve a cost of living crisis, about 52 million Read more…
NVIDIA, one of the tech sector’s power players, is pushing the Universal Scene Description protocol as the foundation of interoperable content and experiences in the metaverse. In a recent post the company explains why it believes the protocol, originally invented by Pixar, fits the needs of the coming metaverse. Though Read more…
Provinces in China are being forced to reduce power consumption as forest fires, droughts, and heatwaves ravage the country. There were still some streetlights on the Bund, one of the main roads in central Shanghai. But the decorative lights which light up the city skyline — blue, pink, and red Read more…
After a spring of deadly heat waves, summer floods have killed more than 1,100 people in Pakistan. Since June, rains have washed away buildings, submerged homes and destroyed roads. One-third of the country is underwater. Scientists can’t yet say exactly how climate change has shaped the disaster, but they know Read more…