A day after Brazil announced 11,000 square kilometers of annual deforestation, France, the EU’s biggest buyer of Brazilian soy flour, announced plans to become more self-sufficient on the commodity.

Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED.…

This immense reef (temporarily) spells out "hope" and shows that hope can lead to actions that save the world's oceans.

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

With COVID-19 vaccine demand declining in the United States, some Canadians facing third-wave lockdowns are flying south to get inoculated, perhaps months earlier than they would be able to at home.

You know how I linked to that New York Times editorial pleading for regulation of dark patterns? Turns out I missed something in the Times’ convoluted cancellation policies. They give you the choice of speaking with someone over the telephone or speaking…

The future of work at Google: more flexibility for your work week, more choice around where you work, and more flexibility for your life.

Google is giving its employees more flexibility to work from different locations or entirely from home, taking a more lenient policy as the Alphabet Inc. company prepares for a return to office life after the pandemic.

Inflation is picking up in a major way, C-suites across the country warn.

An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.

Early in 2020 Western governments, alarmed by reports from China, asked the international public health community whether they should close borders to limit the spread of coronavirus into their country. The UK government consulted its pandemic flu plans

LiveLeak, a popular British video sharing website known for footage of war, politics, and many other world events usually censored on other video websites, like YouTube, abruptly shuts down today after 15 years online. LiveLeak joins thousands of other failed…

Their prevalence has more than tripled during the pandemic, but the trends were already troubling long before it arrived

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This morning, I was locked out of my Google account I chatted with Google support to see if they could help me. This is a genuine live chat with Google support: