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Climate-vulnerable islands storm out of COP29 negotiation room in row over funding | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Representatives of dozens of climate vulnerable islands and African nations have stormed out of high-stakes negotiations over a climate funding goal. Patience is wearing thin and negotiations have boiled over at the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan, which were due to finish yesterday but are now well into overtime. After two weeks of talks, the…
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COP29: The almighty row over climate cash that’s about to boil over | Science, Climate & Tech News
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China says it’s a developing country, so it doesn’t have to pay into a major new fund to help poor countries cope with climate change. The United States disagrees. This is at the heart of an almighty row about to boil over at the UN COP29 climate talks next week in Azerbaijan. Or is it…
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X ‘closes operations’ in Brazil after row with supreme court justice | World News
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Social media company X says it will close its operations in Brazil, after claiming a judge on the country’s supreme court threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if the company did not comply with his orders. X, formerly Twitter, said it was removing its remaining staff in Brazil “effective immediately” though the service…
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Fortnite back on mobile phones after Epic Games’ row with Google and Apple | Science & Tech News
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Fortnite is back on mobile phones for the first time in four years, after bitter legal rows got the game taken off both Android and Apple app stores. Now, developer Epic Games has launched its own app store, making it one of the first third-party stores available on iOS – although UK iPhone users will…
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Could Snapchat have a solution to the Elgin Marbles row? | Science & Tech News
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Rishi Sunak is known to love tech, so could it offer a way out of his awkward diplomatic row with Greece over the Elgin Marbles? The augmented reality (AR) boffins at Snap think it could. The creators of the app most people associate with wearing silly filters have branched out into culture and the arts,…
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Cash App founder Bob Lee was killed in a secluded spot after row over suspect’s sister, prosecutors claim | US News
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The tech consultant charged with the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee planned the attack, prosecutors have claimed. Nima Momeni allegedly drove the 43-year-old victim to a secluded spot in San Francisco and stabbed him over a dispute apparently related to the suspect’s sister. The motion to detain the 38-year-old without bail is the…
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Elon Musk attacks San Francisco mayor in row over Twitter bedrooms for ‘tired employees’ | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has questioned the mayor of San Francisco’s “priorities” as he alleged the city is more concerned about Twitter staff sleeping in the office than about children suffering accidental overdoses. The Twitter owner’s outburst followed controversy about bedrooms appearing at the social media site’s office in the northwest California city. “Sad little conference-room sleeping…