From crushed oyster shells to agricultural waste, Celine Sandberg has experimented with some wacky ingredients to make parts for furniture. Celine Sandberg found that seaweed can be used to make foam for furniture Her aim has been to cut the use of plastic polymers, known as polyurethane, in furniture making. That meant finding a more […]

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Helen Matthews of Sheffield lives in a “proper English house”, as she puts it. “So yes, flippin’ freezing all the time.” Helen Matthews had triple glazing fitted to her home Until, she hastens to add, she had triple glazing installed earlier this year. The old wooden-framed double glazing in her semi-detached home was taken out. […]

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A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year   FILE – This combination of photos shows logos of X, formerly known as Twitter, top left; Snapchat, top right; Facebook, bottom left; and TikTok, bottom right. Social media companies collectively made over $11 […]

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I’m at the Wageningen University’s Farm of the Future, where I had been expecting to see robots and perhaps, drones flying overhead. Wijnand Sukkel’s work aims to ensure future food supply and cut carbon emissions in farming But on a bright blue day project manager Wijnand Sukkel stands in the expansive fields across from the […]

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Canada’s BlackBerry reported a surprise quarterly profit on Wednesday, backed by a resilient demand for cybersecurity services amid rising online threats. The Blackberry logo is shown on a office tower in Irvine, California, U.S., Oct. 20, 2020. Photo by Reuters While IT spending has dwindled over the past year, cybersecurity-related expenditure has remained stable as […]

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Boeing’s first direct delivery of a 787 Dreamliner to China since 2019 landed in Shanghai on Friday, a step that could hasten the end of China’s freeze on deliveries of the firm’s profitable 737 MAX after more than four years. An attendee stands by a Boeing trade pavilion at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, […]

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In the scorching morning heat Thai Sade brushes the avocado trees he will soon artificially pollinate. Israeli firm makes a plant pollinating machine that works by dislodging the pollen Based on a moshav, or collective farm, in central Israel, Mr Sade is the founder of tech firm BloomX. He says that the company has found […]

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Việt Nam’s retail market has a scale of more than US$142 billion, 16 per cent of which comes from e-commerce. This scale is forecast to increase to $350 billion, or nearly 2.5 times higher, by 2025. Supermarket revenue in 2023 is estimated to reach about VNĐ110 trillion ($4.5 billion), an increase of 8.8 per cent […]

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The consumer price index (CPI) in October increased 0.08% from last month and 3.59% from a year earlier, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on Sunday. People shop at a supermarket in Hanoi, January 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh Increased education fees and rice prices are blamed for the CPI rise. Core inflation in the […]

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Tình hình tài chính quốc tế dự kiến diễn biến phức tạp, khó lường thời gian tới, cùng với quy mô dự trữ ngoại hối tăng cao kỷ lục, các công việc liên quan đến xây dựng chính sách quản lý dự trữ ngoại hối ngày càng gia tăng cả về khối lượng và tính […]

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