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Given that agricultural land is expanding at the expense of forests, marine stocks are being decimated by overfishing and coral reefs are getting clogged by plastic, it comes as no real surprise that plant and animal species are getting decimated. …

China is by far the biggest e-commerce market in the world as seen in figures from the Statista Digital Market Outlook. Last year, e-commerce sales in the country stood at $1.3 trillion and that number is projected to increase to almost $2 trillion …

Big tech is notorious when it comes to the usage of customer data for advertising and tracking users across the web. The regulatory framework of the GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, in the EU aims to give users more …

The latest global university ranking has been released by Times Higher Education, putting the UK’s Oxford University at the top of the pile. Institutions are ranked based on five indicators: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income. On this basis, the UK …

According to the Statista Global Consumer Survey, 62 percent of respondents from the U.S. say they eat pasta regularly. But that’s nothing compared to the European home of pasta, Italy, 83 percent of which regularly have pasta on their daily menu. …

Even though Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) managed to increase its revenue to over one billion US dollars for the first time, it’s still in a tough spot compared to the collaboration software segments of other big tech players. As our chart shows, Microsoft still …

The US Department of Justice has decided to temporarily close the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York due to a slew of shortcomings concerning staffing and general security. The 233 people currently held at the facility will be transferred. Even …

Faced with antitrust allegations and the wrath of (some) app makers, Apple extended an olive branch to its developer community in November 2020 by introducing the App Store Small Business Program, which reduces the company’s contentious app store commission from 30 …

Even though video games have become one of the most lucrative industries worldwide, eSports are still considered far removed from “real” sports, even though events like world championships in popular games like League of Legends, DotA 2 or StarCraft II regularly sell out huge …

The Economist Intelligence Unit has published its 2021 Safe Cities Index, ranking 60 major global cities across 76 indicators based on digital, health, infrastructure, environmental and personal security. Copenhagen tops the rankings this year with a score of 82.4 out of …

With the Summer Olympics having drawn to a close on 8 August, the next major multi-discipline international sporting event is due to get started this week – the Paralympics. Meaning the ‘parallel olympics’, the Games are a meeting of the world’s top …

According to a study by research website Comparitech, the majority of the world’s most surveilled cities are located in China. The country has been making headlines for its generous use of surveillance technology and is featured heavily throughout the whole …