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Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app NASA scientists have been puzzling over a group of planets that seem to be shrinking. The culprit might be radiation.All kinds of worlds exist beyond our solar system. Faraway alien planets, called exoplanets, can be gas behemoths like Jupiter, rocky globes about the size of our planet, or even “super-puffs” with the density of cotton candy.But there’s a mysterious gap where there should be planets about 1.5 to two times the width of Earth.A mysterious gap…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Octopus Energy is launching a new fund to invest £3bn in offshore wind by the end of the decade, in a boost for the technology following a string of setbacks.The UK energy company’s new Octopus Energy Offshore Wind fund is opening with a £190mn cornerstone investment from Tokyo Gas, the Japanese utility that owns almost 10 per cent of Octopus, while Octopus is in the process of raising the rest from outside investors. Executives said it was part of plans Octopus announced…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk past an electronic board displaying Nikkei share average, outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares took a breather on Friday as a batch of softer U.S. economic data took some of the steam out of Wall Street, but also boosted bonds in a big way while slugging oil prices in a boon for the inflation outlook. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan eased 0.4% from a two-month high, but still up 3.1% so far for the week in its…
© Pavlo Gonchar / SOPA Images/Sipa via Reuters Connect NEW YORK – In the midst of a mixed trading session on Thursday, shares of Juniper Networks Inc (NYSE:). experienced a notable decline, breaking their two-day upward trend. The S&P 500 edged up by a modest 0.12%, while the ticked down by 0.13%. Juniper Networks saw its stock price fall by 3.07% to close at $26.82. The technology company’s shares now stand significantly lower than their yearly peak of $34.53, reached on April 3rd, with the current price $7.71 shy of this high mark. This downturn in Juniper’s stock occurred on…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, U.S., November 22, 2019. Picture taken November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Angus Mordant/File Photo By Sudarshan Varadhan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices were on track for the fourth straight week of decline as they remained little changed in early Asian trade after slipping about 5% to a four month-low on Thursday on worries over global demand. futures were up 10 cents, or 0.1%, at $77.52 a barrel at 0232 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) was nearly flat at…
PG&E wins regulator OK to raise rates, bury 1,200 miles of power lines
A New York judge has lifted the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial stemming from state Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization.Citing concerns over free speech, appeals court Judge David Friedman issued a stay on the order Thursday, which was put in place by Judge Arthur Engoran in October.Engoron, who is overseeing Trump’s trial, imposed the partial gag order to block all parties from making derogatory statements about his court staff. He fined Trump $5,000 for violating the order on social media on Oct. 20, and did so…
Apple will support RCS, Rich Communication Services later in 2024, according to 9To5Mac. This will make texting between iPhones and Androids a lot less clunky. This comes after growing pressure from Google and Android on Apple to support RCS Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app The war between green and blue text bubbles may not be over, but texting between iPhones and Androids is about to get a lot less clunky. Apple is going to bring on Rich Communication Services — RCS —…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the US financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Republican board directors at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have called on the agency’s chair to recuse himself from an investigation into allegations of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at the US banking regulator.FDIC chair Martin Gruenberg said this week the regulator had hired law firm BakerHostetler to lead an independent “top to bottom” assessment of its workplace following allegations that employees there had suffered harassment and misogyny over the course of several years. Travis Hill, the FDIC vice-chair, and director…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a news conference after their policy meeting at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 28, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank will “patiently” maintain ultra-loose monetary policy as sustained achievement of its 2% inflation target is not yet in sight. Ueda said Japan’s economy was recovering moderately with consumption and capital expenditure continuing to increase. However, the BOJ does not have enough conviction yet that inflation will sustainably and stably achieve its 2%…