Around 130,000 customers of Northern Rock will find out in the coming months that the mortgage they have with the Newcastle-based lender, which was nationalised in 2008, is now owned by somebody else. The borrowers will receive notification from the zombie bank, which took over the parts of Northern Rock rescued by taxpayers, that their […]
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Shell is preparing to join Russia in the Arctic, as the energy giant prepares to drill in the far northern regions. This comes as Russia is doubling down on its energy play, with plans to power Arctic drill rigs with floating nuclear reactors. This ambitious plan could see the Arctic Sea filled with reactors, a
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A new study published in Nature Climate Change has revealed that electric vehicle batteries are becoming cheaper faster than anticipated. According to Bjorn Nykvist and Mans Nilsson of the Stockholm Environment Institute, from 2007 to 2011, the average battery cost for battery-powered electric vehicles dropped by 14% annually. This is even more impressive when considering
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IBM’s Project Chrome, the largest mass layoff at a U.S. corporation in at least 20 years, is underway according to a report by Robert X. Cringely in Forbes. The company has denied the report, claiming that a planned $600 million “workforce rebalancing” will result in layoffs of only thousands of people. However, Cringely has responded
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Slate explains why we should expect more attacks on companies like Sony Pictures. The hacking of Sony Pictures’ computer files, apparently in retaliation for a movie about a fictitious plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has cast a spotlight on the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, cybercrime, and cyberwarfare. To date, cyberattacks have been
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The power of social media has been a topic of discussion for years, and the similarities between Facebook and cults have been a recent point of interest. Mark Zuckerberg, the leader of Facebook, has been compared to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, due to their both coming to power in questionable ways. The
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Since 1980, the United States has engaged in military action in 13 countries in the Greater Middle East, with every American president launching invasions, occupations, bombings, drone assassination campaigns, and cruise missile attacks. The US military has garrisoned the region, with a concentration rivaled only by the Cold War garrisoning of Western Europe, or the
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The Daily Intelligencer asks. In 2001, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod, a game-changing music player that enabled people to carry their entire album collections in their pockets. This was followed by the emergence of “podcasting” – a narrative audio genre that took the device’s name – which became a thriving mini-industry. From politics to sports,
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The Daily Beast tells the story of Walter Isaacson’s newest book on he founders of Wikipedia. In his new book, The Innovators, Walter Isaacson recounts the remarkable story of the online encyclopedia that has continually defied its detractors. When Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web in 1991, he intended it to be a tool
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The latest World Nuclear Industry Status Report, released Tuesday, paints a bleak picture for the future of nuclear power. The annual assessment of the trends in nuclear power production and the state of nuclear reactors worldwide reveals that the industry is aging, plagued with high costs and construction delays, and generally on the decline. Though
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