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Strictly Come Dancing isn’t far off now and already excitement is in the air. So much so, that judge Craig Revel Horwood, couldn’t wait to keep his sassy comments about the contestants to himself. And it seems he has his eyes on actor Bill Bailey. In a recent chat he noted that Bill will be […]
A new guidebook for tech companies helps them imagine future scenarios where their tech might end up causing societal harm. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b68db664177c301e3b9b067/master/pass/Ethical%20OS-01.jpg
Movie studios often want computer-generated hair to have a specific effect, whether it’s a seductive toss or a careless flick that knocks something over. But there’s a problem: most rough-cut simulations don’t realistically simulate hair, leading to a lot of guesswork and time-consuming edits. Disney (no stranger to hair-centric movies) has a solution, though. It […]
A new report by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) showed that 318 natural disasters which occurred last year and affected 122 countries have resulted in lower mortality than in previous years. Floods and hurricanes, as well as landslides and a number of other natural disasters, claimed 9,503 lives compared to […]
Getty Images 69% of Republicans said the threat of climate change is “exaggerated” compared to 4% of Democrats, according to a new Gallup poll. Opinions around climate change have suffered from widening partisanship as President Donald Trump’s administration has scrubbed mentions from federal websites and pulled out of the Paris Agreement. The problem isn’t going […]
Small pots of liquidity BOTH, in different ways, worry about liquidity. And global warming may, indeed, be bringing meteorologists and financiers together. On January 18th, VisionFund, a microlending charity, and Global Parametrics, a venture that crunches climate and seismic data, launched what they billed as the “world’s largest non-governmental climate-insurance programme”. The scheme will offer […]
THAT 2017 suffered from more than its fair share of natural catastrophes was known at the time. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the streets of Houston, Texas, were submerged under brown floodwater; Hurricane Irma razed buildings to the ground on some Caribbean islands. That the destruction was great enough for insurance losses to reach […]
Published time: 30 Dec, 2017 10:50 Economic losses from natural and man-made disasters have soared by 63 percent in 2017 to an estimated $ 306 billion, according to a report from reinsurance firm Swiss Re. Read more The company estimates, insured losses from natural and man-made disasters around the world was approximately $ 136 billion, […]
Published time: 12 Dec, 2017 02:05 A video of Russian Post packages, piled on a snowy airfield and being scattered by a plane’s jet stream, has emerged online, adding to the Post’s notoriety for outrageously mishandling packages. A large heap of mail, apparently just unloaded from a plane, can be seen at a snow-covered local […]
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