VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images The Bezos Earth Fund announced new donations of $443 million to a wide range of climate and environmental groups this week, including a $5.5 million grant to BlocPower, an energy efficiency technology start-up focused on building construction and retrofits in urban areas. BlocPower, which is a CNBC Disruptor
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In this article AMZN Attendees at an Amazon.com annual cloud computing conference Salvador Rodriguez | Reuters Amazon‘s cloud-computing unit on Tuesday was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services. A notice on Amazon Web Services’ status page said it was experiencing problems with certain APIs and the AWS Management Console. The
President Joe Biden has told Russian president Vladimir Putin that the US and its allies would respond with “strong economic and other measures” if Russia invaded Ukraine. The two leaders spoke via a secure video link for two hours as western nations continue to grapple with how to counter a massive build-up of Russian troops
4:21 PM GMT Leicester Tigers have signed South Africa’s World Cup-winning fly-half Handre Pollard ahead of the 2022-23 season, the English Premiership leaders said on Tuesday, to replace departing fly-half George Ford. Pollard, who has won 60 caps for South Africa since making his debut in 2014, will join Leicester next season after leaving French
Thousands of web users across the world have experienced issues due to an Amazon server outage. Several Amazon services including Prime Video, its namesake website, and applications that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been hit by problems. Amazon said the outage was likely due to issues related to the application programming interface (API), which
American comedian and presenter Nick Cannon has announced that his five-month-old son Zen has died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. The 41-year-old broke the news on his latest episode of The Nick Cannon Show on YouTube, telling his audience: “I’ve had a tough, a very tough weekend.” Speaking about his youngest child, Cannon
Labour has accused Number 10 staff of “laughing” at the British public after footage emerged of Downing Street officials joking about a Christmas party during a time of strict COVID restrictions. In a video recording of what ITV News reported was a rehearsal for a TV media briefing, senior Number 10 aides were filmed talking
Asda has joined Tesco, its biggest rival, in facing the prospect of strike action ahead of the key Christmas trading season. The GMB union said it was launching a consultative ballot – due to close on 20 December – over the supermarket chain’s decision not to give distribution staff a “meaningful” pay offer. It added
The Foreign Office’s top civil servant has admitted to MPs he was on holiday for nearly all of the UK’s evacuation effort in Afghanistan. Sir Philip Barton, who earns around £185,000 per year, was on annual leave – during which he spent time both in the UK and abroad – between 9 to 26 August
CNN+ host Scott Galloway tells CNN’s Brianna Keilar he’d rather give his children bourbon and cannabis than Instagram accounts. Hear him explain why. #CNN #News
Elon Musk gave an update on Tesla Bot, Tesla’s upcoming humanoid robot project, and said that he believes it can solve the labor shortage issue. But the CEO is not committing to any timeline. Earlier this year, Musk announced plans for Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot equipped with artificial intelligence aimed at completing general repetitive tasks. At
The Bitcoin logo is displayed on the screen of a Bitcoin ATM on November 10, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images A man who has claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin just won a major U.S. court case, saving him from paying a former business partner tens of billions of
The head of a select committee has reacted with incredulity after an energy boss blamed the way the wind blew for exacerbating problems caused by a devastating storm that cut off supplies to parts of the UK. Paul McGimpsey, director of regulation at the Energy Networks Association (ENA), told MPs on the business energy and
In this article INTC Mobileye’s CEO Amnon Shashua poses with a Mobileye driverless vehicle at the Nasdaq Market site in New York, July 20, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Intel has announced that it plans to list Mobileye, the Israeli autonomous driving firm it acquired for $15.3 billion in 2017 as part of an effort
US president Joe Biden is anticipated to have the most difficult phone call of his presidency so far when he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin at 3pm UK time on Tuesday. Mr Biden will warn that if Russia invades Ukraine as is feared, he will bring down the might of US sanctions on Mr
Rapper and singer Drake has withdrawn his two nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards, according to US media reports. The Canadian star, a previous four-time Grammy winner, had been in the running for Best Rap Album for his sixth studio record Certified Lover Boy, and Best Rap Performance for single Way 2 Sexy featuring Future
A site in northern Italy has been churning out dinosaur discoveries for the past 25 years. Researchers have now discovered the biggest and most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in the country at the site. Fossils of 11 dinosaurs have been unearthed at Villaggio del Pescatore, a former limestone quarry close to the north-eastern port
NASA is gearing up for the launch of its most ambitious space telescope or probe ever launched later this month. In that effort, it said engineers working on the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope have successfully completed the delicate operation to load the fuel it will use to propel itself while in space.
CNN’s Brianna Keilar becomes emotional during an interview with a mother who lost her 6-year-old son in the Sandy Hook school shooting. #CNN #News
EV automaker Arrival has announced plans to build a $11.5 million High Voltage Battery Module (HVBM) assembly plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The new battery facility will add 150 jobs and join two Arrival facilities already established in the US city. Arrival is a technology company specializing in electric vehicles, particularly vans and buses. In addition