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AI chip startup Groq expands with first European data center
Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Groq announced Monday it has established its first data center in Europe as it steps up its international expansion. Groq, which is […]
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The world’s most powerful passport has a clear winner this year — in 2024 it was a six-way tie
Singapore has the world’s most powerful passport, according to the 2025 Henley Passport Index. The nation-state was one of six countries which tied for the top spot in 2024 in the list produced by the migration consultancy Henley & Partners, which ranks passports by the number of destinations that holders can access without needing a […]
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I’m a travel writer who has visited 68 countries—the 4 ‘magical places’ I think about moving to most
I wonder what it would be like to live in most of the places I visit, but I know I can’t make everywhere home. As much as I would love to wake up in Sydney every morning, Australia is just a little too far away from everywhere else. As vibrant as Istanbul is, it’s a […]
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‘She doesn’t stop talking’: How extroverts unknowingly irritate fellow travelers
My husband — a brooding New Yorker, polite and tolerant of much — broke on the seventh day of our family vacation. “She doesn’t stop talking,” he said. The “she“ is my mother — a bubbly Midwesterner — who can hold court in a room of strangers with the deftness of a small-town politician at […]
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‘Coolcations’ had another big summer. Here are the places travelers went
Extreme temperatures are driving travelers to seek cooler destinations. And there’s a term for the trend: “coolcations.” Heat waves — which are increasing in frequency, duration and intensity, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — are affecting where people are choosing to vacation, especially during the hot summer months. “Often, when we think of vacation, […]
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Finland will soon bury nuclear waste in a geological tomb that’s built to last for 100,000 years
Workers inspect the Repository in ONKALO, a deep geological disposal underground facility, designed to safely store nuclear waste, on May 2, 2023, on the island of Eurajoki, western Finland. Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images Finland is on the cusp of burying spent nuclear fuel in the world’s first geological tomb, where it will […]
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EU countries divided on Chinese EV tariffs in vote, Reuters reports
Pictured here is a Zeekr electric vehicle charging station in Dongguan, Guangdong province of China, on Nov. 14, 2022. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images European Union governments exposed divided views on the merits of EU tariffs on imports of China-built electric vehicles in a non-binding but still influential vote, sources with knowledge of the vote said on Tuesday. The European Commission, which oversees […]
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‘Too cheap to ignore’: Buy this under-the-radar global bank with a 9% yield, analyst says
Shares of Nordea Bank , the Finnish lender, have been labeled “too cheap to ignore” by investment bank Berenberg. Nordea , founded in 1820 and headquartered in Helsinki, has millions of customers throughout Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The stock is also traded in the U.S., U.K. , Germany , Italy and Switzerland . Earlier […]
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‘Drone wall’ against Russia: Six NATO countries announce border defense plan
Pilots of the “Sharp Kartuza” division of FPV kamikaze drones prepare drones for a combat flight on May 16, 2024 in the Kharkiv region, 8 km from the border with Russia. Libkos | Getty Images News | Getty Images Six NATO countries neighboring Russia are joining forces to build a “drone wall” to protect their […]
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The world’s happiest nations are targeting net-detrimental emissions — despite a expanding ‘greenlash’
People today sit on an unusually significant bench at the sunset in Copenhagen, on May well 9, 2023. The height of a dozen general public benches throughout Denmark was greater by 85 cm to attract notice to climate alter. In accordance to the Entire world Weather Exploration Programme, the large-stop global indicate sea-amount increase is […]
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