We watched in silence as the two orangutans, a mother and her child, prepared themselves for an encroaching rainstorm. While the air grew thicker, the mother — whom the local guides had nicknamed Minah — led her child toward the canopy and into a nest she had built earlier that day. Then, collecting vines and […]
By Anjali Malhotra Customer experience is probably the most coveted metric in today’s tumultuous times when everything we have known as life, has been disrupted- both as customers and as corporates. Finding means to get by in an intensely divergent world, customers clamor to experiment with &receive new online products and experiences with brands. Enterprises […]
Bring a Trailer is auctioning this 2007 BMW Z4 M coupe, which the seller modified for off-road duty after purchasing it last year. The seller resprayed the Z4 in satin black and added a custom suspension, bumpers, tires, roof rack, and hatch as well as two sets of auxiliary lights. Bidding is currently at $15,000 […]
In his paper, Mr. Bressler incorporated recent public health research that estimates the number of excess deaths attributable to rising temperatures into the latest version of the DICE model. The resulting extended model produced a startlingly high figure for the social cost of carbon: $258 per metric ton. He coined a term for the relationship […]
By Rasika Deshpande Born and raised in Delhi, Chander Khanduja, CIO at Luminous Power Technologies completed his schooling at Bal Bharti Public school in Delhi and went on to do Graduation from Delhi University. He did his MBA from YMCA and later did SMP from IIM Ahmedabad along with multiple certifications and other degrees. He […]
Justin SullivanGetty Images The pandemic and the resulting chip shortage have changed how Americans buy cars, and Ford thinks that a build-to-order process is the right way to go moving forward. To help sell cars online, Ford recently introduced Ford Express Buy for the Mustang Mach-E and Ford Blue Advantage for used cars and other […]
In California, Pacific Gas & Electric is upgrading its transmission network to avoid a repeat of 2018, when a broken power line sparked the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and forced the utility into bankruptcy. But PG&E has warned that completing the work could take a decade. In July, the utility told regulators that […]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has backed the Productivity Commission’s proposed idea of introducing a labelling scheme that could assist consumers in making more informed decisions about electronics they purchase in the future. “Rather than broad, indicative, and non-binding durability guidance issued by a regulator, consumers, suppliers, and manufacturers would find far greater […]
Marc UrbanoCar and Driver From the June 2021 issue of Car and Driver. The Toyota Land Cruiser didn’t earn its go-anywhere reputation in the United States. “One nice thing about a Land Cruiser is that it has 4-wheel drive and nine-inch clearance and is meant for cross-country bush-busting,” New York Times correspondent Charles Mohr wrote […]
WASHINGTON — Juliette Hart quit her job last summer as an oceanographer for the United States Geological Survey, where she used climate models to help coastal communities plan for rising seas. She was demoralized after four years of the Trump administration, she said, in which political appointees pressured her to delete or downplay mentions of […]