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CLIMATEWIRE | Less than six months before world leaders gather in Egypt for the next round of global climate talks, officials have made little progress in addressing one of the most contentious points of negotiations — support for countries that have contributed the least to global warming but stand to suffer significantly. The inaction has been particularly frustrating for a coalition of small island nations. For years, countries such as Antigua and Barbuda have raised the issue with little success as rising sea levels…

A protester waves a sign near the Country Club Plaza Starbucks store where dozens of Starbucks employees and union supporters protested alleged anti-union tactics by the company Thursday, March 3, 2022.Jill Toyoshiba | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesStarbucks is telling its baristas that unionizing could jeopardize the gender-affirming health care coverage for transgender employees that the company offers, according to a complaint filed with the federal labor board.The complaint comes after more than 100 of the coffee…

Starling CEO Anne Boden.Harry Murphy | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty ImagesAMSTERDAM — The boss of Goldman Sachs-backed digital bank Starling has doubled down on criticisms of crypto, calling digital currencies a threat to the safety of payment infrastructure."It is very dangerous," Anne Boden, who founded Starling in 2014, warned Tuesday at the Money 20/20 fintech conference in Amsterdam. Based in Britain, Starling offers fee-free checking accounts and loans through an app. The firm was last privately valued at…

SEOUL—The two-year global semiconductor shortage is threatening to spread to some of the most advanced chips needed for next-generation smartphones and the data centers that power apps.Chips with the tiniest transistors and highest performance had largely escaped the drought that has hit the auto industry and other electronics. Now, problems ranging from production hitches to a shortage of manufacturing equipment have raised concerns over the ability of the world’s two highest-end chip manufacturers to meet delivery…

A view of the eROSITA X-ray telescope prior to final packing in its carbon fiber structure. Photo: MPERussia’s space agency has announced its intention to unilaterally seize control of a German telescope mounted to a Russian-built spacecraft. It’s a terrible, irresponsible idea, as even Russian scientists will admit. The German developer of the eROSITA telescope, the Max Planck Institute, put the instrument into sleep mode this past February in protest of Russia’s unwarranted and ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The X-ray…

A fog of menace descends on this hauntingly photographed, oppressive and driftingly directionless movie from Lucile Hadzihalilovic. It has the intensively curated atmosphere of body-horror noir – if not the conventional plot structure – and some way into the running time you might find yourself awakened from its reverie of formless anxiety by a sudden, horrifying stab of violence. It’s a flourish of brutality whose meaning and motivation are never entirely revealed (there is no question of calling the cops in this…

Elon Musk warned Twitter Inc. that he might walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company if it fails to provide the data on spam and fake accounts that he seeks. This was not the first time Musk had suggested publicly that his acquisition of Twitter might not happen. But the warning, delivered in a letter from Musk's lawyers to Twitter's chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, marked an escalation. It accused Twitter of being in "material breach" of its deal obligations. Musk's threats to tear up the…

Tesla billionaire warns he might walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company if it fails to provide the data on spam and fake accounts that he seeks. Elon Musk says the real number of bots may be four times higher than Twitter estimates.…

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has hit another speed bump – the deal is on hold while Musk and his team are trying to estimate the proportion of fake accounts (bots), but to do so they need access to additional data from the company. Data that Twitter has apparently refused to provide. Now Musk is threatening to walk away from the deal. In a letter to the SEC, his attorney, Mike Ringler, writes “This is a clear material breach of Twitter’s obligations under the merger agreement and Mr. Musk reserves all rights…

Elon Musk had already put his acquisition of Twitter on hold in May so he could review the bird app’s fake and spam account data. But now the Tesla CEO has made his threat to pull out of the deal entirely official. On Monday, via a letter addressed to Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and made publicly available on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website, Musk accused Twitter of not complying with the terms of their merger agreement and then reminded everyone that he still has the right to drop…