Posts by Amelia Frost
Pakistan Says 51 Killed In India Clashes Last Week
Pakistan’s army announced on Tuesday a new death toll of 40 civilians and 11 military service members killed last week in the worst confrontation with India in decades. The nuclear-armed neighbours engaged in four days of tit-for-tat strikes that threatened to escalate into all-out war before US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire Saturday he…
Read MoreA Toxic Pit Could Be a Gold Mine for Rare-Earth Elements
There’s a tale told about a miner who found copper cans in his garbage dump in the early days of mining. Wastewater from copper mining had flowed through his land, he said, and turned steel cans into copper. The story might be apocryphal, but the process is real, and it’s called cementation. Montana Resources, the…
Read MoreCan NYC Become The ‘Crypto Capital Of The Globe’? Adams Flaunts Bitcoin Paycheck Gains
KEY POINTS He said New York City is at the frontline of ‘the age of tokenization’ He said NYC will attract global talents and provide opportunities for underbanked communities $BTC was trading at around $41,000 when Adams first converted his paycheck into Bitcoin and Ethereum Bitcoin is now trading above $100,000 – ‘Who’s laughing now?’…
Read MoreThere Are Two Chinas, and America Must Understand Both
Two Chinas inhabit the American imagination: One is a technology and manufacturing superpower poised to lead the world. The other is an economy that’s on the verge of collapse. Each reflects a real aspect of China. One China — let’s call it hopeful China — is defined by companies like the A.I. start-up DeepSeek, the…
Read MoreJaded Young Chinese Reset Lives With Rural ‘Retirement’
Wang Dong hasn’t worked for months and doesn’t plan to, whiling away his days at a lakeside town as one of a growing number of young Chinese “retiring” in the countryside. Extended breaks from work were long unheard of in China, with its fiercely competitive office culture and where officials vaunt the blood and sweat…
Read MoreMost Asian Markets Extend Rally In Glow Of China-US Truce
Most Asian stocks extended gains Tuesday as investors continued to bask in the glow of the China-US tariff suspension that has fuelled hopes the world’s two economic superpowers will step back from a punishing trade war. Equity markets across the world rallied with oil and the dollar Monday after the two sides said they would…
Read MoreWith Guarantees Galore, Christie’s Has a Rocky Start to Auction Week
Chandelier bidding. Quiet phone banks. Executives wiping their brows. One of the most anticipated auctions of the season proved to be anticlimactic on Monday evening at Christie’s in New York, where many objects were presold to guaranteed bids and there was little evidence of the enthusiastic buyers who defined the market’s peak in 2022. Experts…
Read MoreInner Workings Of AI An Enigma – Even To Its Creators
Even the greatest human minds building generative artificial intelligence that is poised to change the world admit they do not comprehend how digital minds think. “People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work,” Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei wrote in an essay…
Read MoreNewark Airport Air Traffic Staffing Shortage Forces Delays
As few as three air traffic controllers were scheduled to work on Monday evening at the facility guiding planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said, far fewer than the target of 14 controllers for most of those hours. The staffing crisis added strain to an already troubled aviation system,…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project
The Federal Railroad Administration, the nation’s railroad agency, has brought in the Boring Company, the tunneling firm founded by Elon Musk, to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Federal Railroad Administration officials have talked with employees at the Boring Company about assessing the…
Read MoreTrump Adviser Called Kamala’s Plan to End Price Gouging ‘Communist’. Now Trump Plans to End Price Gouging
Former social media posts from White House adviser Stephen Miller resurfaced on Monday following President Donald Trump’s latest executive order aimed at slashing prescription drug prices. Miller, who currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Adviser, attacked Democratic proposals to lower drug costs through government intervention in a series of…
Read MoreHollywood Stars Condemn Gaza ‘Genocide’ On Eve Of Cannes Festival
More than 350 figures from the cinema world including Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon condemned “genocide” in Gaza in an open letter published Monday on the eve of the Cannes Festival. “We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza,” read the letter initiated by several pro-Palestinian activist groups and published…
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