Online labor platforms – an alternative to offshoring
Online labor platforms connect clients with freelance workers internationally. They are emerging as an alternative to offshoring, say researchers from…
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Smart homes and the ‘Internet of Ears’
For the past couple of decades, homes have been getting steadily smarter. The next generation of smart homes may offer…
Moderate coffee consumption linked to 25% lower risk of type 2 diabetes
Moderate coffee consumption is associated with an approximately 25% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The report, from ISIC,…
Carbon emissions will begin hammering stock prices, new study
Carbon emissions will begin dictating stock prices, say researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Businesses that fail to…
New ultra-thin silver films may improve solar cell efficiency
Ultra-thin transparent silver films may boost solar cell efficiency as well as light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and…
Feeding 9 billion people in future will be harder than previously thought
Feeding 9 billion people in the future will be more difficult than we had previously thought. In the future, people…
Fuel types for new cars in the European Union
In Q3 2018, nearly 58% of all new passenger cars that consumers bought in the EU ran on gasoline (UK:…
Q3 GDP growth rate won’t continue, says British Chambers of Commerce economist
Head of Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, Suren Thiru, says that the UK's third quarter GDP growth rate…
Superconductivity with graphene is possible, say scientists
Graphene is on the way to superconductivity, says a team of scientists. Carbon atoms have several possibilities to form bonds.…