Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’

Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways, a major UN scientific report has said. The landmark study warns of increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and flooding, and a key temperature limit being broken in just over a...

Latin America’s Herd Of Unicorn Startups Multiplies

Startup investors have been putting a whole lot more capital into Latin America for the past couple years. Now they have something to show for it: A large and fast-growing stable of unicorns. What’s remarkable about this list is how different it would have looked just...

New Productivity

We’re in the middle of a wave of interesting new productivity software startups – there are dozens of companies that remix some combination of lists, tables, charts, tasks, notes, light-weight databases, forms, and some kind of collaboration, chat or...

China Orders Tech Giants to Boost Data Security Protections

China ordered 12 internet giants including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to step up data security protections, including the exporting of key information. The companies, including Meituan, Xiaomi Corp., ByteDance Ltd. and Ant Group Co. Link:...