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Bitcoin falls after Elon Musk tweets breakup meme

Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Musk answered...

Science

Cow Cheese Without the Cow: This US Startup Is Producing Animal-Free Mozzarella

A team of scientists at New Culture, a San Francisco-based startup, is set to modernise the art of cheesemaking. The scientists are aiming to...

Celebrity lawyer who defended OJ Simpson dies aged 87

F Lee Bailey, one of the most famous defence lawyers of his generation, has died at the age of 87, his former colleague has...

Environment

5 Wins for Clean Energy Innovation in Biden’s Budget

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Arjun Krishnaswami & Sasha Stashwick The Biden administration’s 2022 budget released on Friday includes major funding increases for important...

Politics

Michael Gove receives COVID app alert following Portugal visit

Michael Gove has received an alert from the COVID app less than a week after attending the Champions League final in Portugal with his...

British man, 45, dies while trying to save daughters off Portugal beach

A British man has died while trying to save his two daughters after they were dragged to sea off a beach in Portugal. The...

Environment

Bill Gates & Warren Buffett To Build A New Kind Of Nuclear Reactor — Is That Good News?

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett want to build a new kind of nuclear reactor to generate electricity. Why? Because the wind doesn’t always blow...

World

Dissident Belarusian journalist appears to praise President Lukashenko in new video

Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has been filmed appearing to praise Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in a new video. In the clip, recorded for Belarusian...

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Tesla (TSLA) crashes after insider report that new orders in China are free-falling

Tesla’s stock (TSLA) crashed in mid-afternoon after a report came out claiming that an inside source confirmed new orders are free-falling in China, an...

Environment

Russia to consider ditching dollar-denominated oil contracts if faced with more U.S. sanctions

Alexander Novak, Russia’s energy minister, pauses during a panel session on day two of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in St. Petersburg,...

Technology

Tesla shares drop on report of steep May sales decline in China

In this article TSLA A Model Y vehicle displayed at a Tesla flagship store on Jan. 4, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Gao Yuwen |...

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Noel Clarke controversy threatens to overshadow BAFTA awards – with stars expected to call out abuse

The film and TV sector needs to take more responsibility for abuse in the industry, the chair of Time’s Up has told Sky News....

Politics

Boris Johnson receives second dose of AstraZeneca COVID vaccine

Boris Johnson has had his second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. The prime minister received his jab at the Francis Crick Institute in...

Business

Passengers and travel industry furious after changes to travel green list

People hoping for an overseas trip this summer – and those hoping to sell them that break – are furious after the UK government...

Cases of Indian COVID variant in UK rise by 5,472 since last week to more than 12,000

The number of UK cases of the Indian COVID variant, also known as Delta, has risen by more than 5,000 since last week. Cases...

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Backstage with… star of Lisey’s Story Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore is starring in a new adaptation of Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story – about a widow whose stalker is obsessed with her husband’s...

Science

Suffering From Hair Loss or Baldness? New Study May Have Solution for You

A team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan, may have just found an answer to hair loss...

Business

G7 finance ministers could give global corporation tax reform real momentum

It may not have the setting or the showbiz appeal of the coming leaders’ summit in Cornwall. It may not have quite the same...

Runaway children, aged 12 and 14, use AK-47 in shootout with sheriff’s deputies

Two runaway children broke into a Florida house and used an AK-47 in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. The boy, 12, and girl, 14,...

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Quick Charge Podcast: June 2, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and...