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The Ganges River is one of the biggest rivers in the world, providing water for a whopping half a billion people. But a worrying new study has warned that the river, with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, could be responsible for up to three billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal … Read more
Donald Trump has told friends he wants to raise $2 billion for his presidential library and museum in Florida – and has put one of his closest aides in charge of the effort. He told a former Trump fundraiser of the astonishing demand, four times that of the $500 million Barack Obama has been raising … Read more
$200 BILLION wiped off cryptocurrency market in 24 hours as bitcoin value plunges by 22% – but experts say it’s a much-needed reset to avoid ‘the mother of all bubbles’ Cryptocurrency bitcoin surged to all-time high of nearly $42,000 on Friday, only to drop to $31,000 on Monday, wiping $200billion off cryptocurrency market But experts … Read more
Apple’s App Store generated a record $64 billion in revenue last year as coronavirus lockdowns saw sales shoot up more than 25 percent from 2019 Analysts estimate gross sales from the amount Apple paid to developers Paid apps earning rose 28 percent compared to a mere 3.1 percent in 2019 Google Play only grossed $38.6 billion, … Read more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had pledged to increase funding to states and territories to expand COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts. On Wednesday evening, the agency announced it was committing $22 billion to jurisdictions by January 19. This includes funds for $19 billion testing, contact tracing and surveillance systems but just $3 … Read more
Shoppers are set to spend over a BILLION in online sales TODAY – but the forecast is 12 per cent lower than last year thanks to pandemic cash problems Shoppers are set to spend £1 billion on Christmas and £1,7 billions on Boxing Day In 2019 shoppers spent £1,2 billions on online shopping on Christmas … Read more
Dance Monkey singer Tones and I celebrates the song hitting TWO BILLION streams – after busking in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall to support Covid-hit businesses By Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:58 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 12:25 GMT, 22 December 2020 Tones and I, real name Toni Watson, has celebrated her … Read more
Congress has agreed to a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, Senate leaders announced Sunday. The deal finally delivers long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and provides money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them. It establishes a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits and $600 direct stimulus payments to most Americans – half … Read more
If left to run for some 14 billion years — roughly the current age of the universe — a new type of atomic clock could keep accurate time to within a tenth of a second. The design by US experts makes use of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglements, in which particles become inextricably linked. … Read more
MacKenzie Scott has announced that she has given away $4.1billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year. The philanthropist, author and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced her pandemic-era philanthropy in a Medium post on Tuesday. She described the coronavirus pandemic as … Read more