Countries with highest oil production With rapidly growing energy demands, China has become a major player in oil production, focusing on both domestic extraction and international partnerships. Despite challenges like political ... 04/20/2024 - 4:45 am | View Link
Middle East countries voice concern over military escalation after alleged Israeli attack on Iran DUBAI: Countries in the Middle East have voiced their concern over military escalation in the region after Israel on Friday allegedly struck sites near the city of Isfahan, central Iran, in what appea ... 04/20/2024 - 4:43 am | View Link
They were from different countries and barely spoke each other’s languages. More than 20 years later, they’re still happily in love By Christl Dabu, CTV National News Correspondent. Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — He decided to spend Christmas somewhere that wouldn’t involve snowstorm ... 04/20/2024 - 3:44 am | View Link
NATO Parade of Nations returns to Norfolk with new countries, celebrates alliance's 75th year Thousands lined the streets of Downtown Norfolk on Saturday for the annual NATO Parade of Nations, which is celebrating the alliance's 75th year in 2024. 04/20/2024 - 3:33 am | View Link
Zelenskyy announces bilateral security agreements with US and Nordic countries – video Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukraine will sign bilateral security agreements with the US, countries of Northern Europe, and one of the Baltic states in the coming months. 04/20/2024 - 1:55 am | View Link
Countries and Regions in the World Below is a list of countries and areas of the world in alphabetical order, with official names and alternative designations. The list contains English and French country names as well as the local names of the countries. Links will lead to the respective One World - Nations Online country profiles. Each country profile contains links to and ... 04/19/2024 - 1:35 pm | View Website
List of Countries of the world in alphabetical order (A to Z ... Countries and dependencies of the world in alphabetical order from A to Z and by letter, showing current population estimates for 2016, density, and land area 04/19/2024 - 2:15 am | View Website
List of Countries in the World in Alphabetical Order | Britannica This is an alphabetically ordered list of the countries of the world. ( See also geography and government .) 04/19/2024 - 2:08 am | View Website
World Europe contains 49 countries and Asia 48, but these two continents share five countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey. North America consists of 23 sovereign states, Oceania has 16, and South America 12. In total, there are 197 countries recognized by the United States. 04/18/2024 - 7:13 pm | View Website
Countries of the World Portal | Britannica Countries of the World. Although there isn’t universal agreement on the question of what qualifies as a “country,” it is generally accepted that in order to be a country, a state must be a sovereign unit that has a permanent population, defined territorial boundaries, a government, and the ability to enter into agreements with other states. 04/18/2024 - 2:34 pm | View Website
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TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has signed into law a bill that will ban TikTok in the US if its Chinese owner doesn't sell the company within 270 days. While it's impossible to predict the outcome with certainty, law professors speaking to Ars believe that ByteDance will have a strong First Amendment case in its lawsuit against the US.
One reason for this belief is that just a few months ago, a US District Court judge blocked a Montana state law that attempted to ban TikTok.
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Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, bugginess, and convoluted development history than its utility as a computer operating system.
The MS-DOS 4.00 code is available on Microsoft's MS-DOS GitHub page along with versions 1.25 and 2.0, which Microsoft open-sourced in cooperation with the Computer History Museum back in 2014.
Enlarge / A 2014 Tesla Model S driving on Autopilot rear-ended a Culver City fire truck that was parked in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 405. (credit: Culver City Firefighters Local 1927 / Facebook)
Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability.
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The iconic slide-in "click" of the Switch Joy-Cons may be replaced with a magnetic attachment mechanism in the Switch 2, according to a report from Spanish-language gaming news site Vandal.
The site notes that this new design could make direct Switch 2 backward compatibility with existing Switch Joy-Cons "difficult." Even so, we can envision some sort of optional magnetic shim that could make older Joy-Cons attachable with the new system's magnetic connection points.
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The Food and Drug Administration reported late Thursday that about 20 percent of retail milk samples from around the country tested positive for genetic fragments of the bird flu, aka highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1. While retail milk is still considered to be safe, the finding suggests that the spread of the virus in cows is more extensive than is currently known.
The FDA used a test called quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which can only detect the presence of genetic fragments.
Enlarge / A newly revealed research proposal from 1971 shows that Richard Nixon’s science advisors embarked on an extensive analysis of the potential risks of climate change. (credit: Oliver Atkins/National Archives)
In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s survival,” according to a White House document newly obtained by the nonprofit National Security Archive and shared exclusively with Inside Climate News.
The plan would have established six global and 10 regional monitoring stations in remote locations to collect data on carbon dioxide, solar radiation, aerosols and other factors that exert influence on the atmosphere.