Responding to mounting internal pressure, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will create a fund “to support initiatives, exhibitions, and acquisitions in the area of diverse art histories” as part of a -point anti-racism and diversity plan. The full plan can be read in a blog post penned by the museum’s
Since the first occurrence of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), a number of online tools have become available to assist with tracking Covid-19 prevalence. Yet we are unaware of resources that provide country-specific Covid-19 incidence data.Methods: We undertook a descriptive analysis of the global impact of Covid-19 using data reported on March 17, 2020.
Reliance on biomass such as fuelwood for energy in rural areas has a strong bearing on Zimbabwe’s environment. Rural communities in Zimbabwe meet 94% of their cooking energy requirements by using traditional fuels, mainly fuelwood, and 20% of urban households use wood as the main cooking fuel. For this reason, unsustainable fuelwood use
World Environment Day comes this year to a planet that is preoccupied with the effects of COVID-19, a pandemic that has played with the lives of millions and affected some two-thirds of the people that share this planet. And as nations emerge from the darkest days of the coronavirus crisis, there is a
Making a down payment on its housing pledge, Apple announced Monday it has committed to affordable housing projects this year across California, including immediate assistance for struggling Bay Area tenants and four, new low-income projects across the region. The short-term aid and construction projects mark the first installment of the tech giant’s $2.5 billion
Orange has confirmed to BleepingComputer that they suffered a ransomware attack exposing the data of twenty of their enterprise customers. Orange is a French telecommunications company that offers consumer communication services and business services to the enterprise. With million customers and , employees, Orange is the fourth-largest mobile operator in Europe. As part of its services
A crucial mechanism for transferring EU citizen data between the United States and Europe has been ruled as invalid in what could be a major blow to thousands of companies. Known as the EU-US Data Privacy Shield, the pact was designed for the exchange of data across country borders with high and legally-enforced
Cadbury is shrinking the size of Double Decker and Wispa Gold bars sold in multipacks so they contain less than calories in an attempt to help tackle obesity, but the smaller bars will cost the same. Cadbury, owned by the US confectionery group Mondelēz International, said multipacks accounted for the biggest slice of
On Thursday, researchers at online security firm Check Point detailed their latest discovery: an exploit in Zoom which would have allowed any bad actor to use a company’s vanity URL for their own video meeting. Here’s what this means. Basically, companies and organizations paying Zoom for video conferencing services can set up a
Police and trading standards officials have told BBC News that social media influencers are unwittingly helping to fuel the trade in counterfeit goods. With their millions of followers, many of them get paid to promote clothing in their posts, but the authorities fear some may be advertising fakes. The trade is moving increasingly