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South Korean Leader to Meet With White House

WASHINGTON — The United States is calling on South Korea to set more ambitious climate targets, an issue that will be a part of discussions when President Moon Jae-in meets with President Biden on Friday at the White House. Last month John Kerry, Mr. Biden’s international climate envoy, traveled to South Korea and, according to […]

McDonald’s Akshay Jatia, IT News, ET CIO

By Vanshika Sharma Jatia’s interest in technology began at a young age with a keen interest to explore into various technology-driven apps. After graduating from Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York, he decided to incorporate his passion for emerging technologies into his family business. In the last seven years, he has pivoted a […]

Even Amid a Pandemic, More Than 40 Million People Fled Their Homes

Storms, floods, wildfires — and to a lesser degree, conflict — uprooted 40.5 million people around the world in 2020. It was the largest number in more than a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a nonprofit group based in Geneva that tracks displacement data annually. It was all […]

F-150 Lightning, a V-12 Maybach

While Ford was distracting us all with the launch of the F-150 Lightning, GMC quietly confirmed one shocking detail about its own electric truck, the Hummer EV. The pickup version of that truck (it will also be available as an SUV) will weigh 9046 pounds, 2000 pounds more than a Silverado HD, at launch. GMC […]

Sabre Systems IT outage cripples airline operations globally

Virgin Australia was among the handful of airlines worldwide whose flights were impacted by a global IT systems outage on Friday afternoon. The source of the outage was Sabre, a third-party IT system used by the carriers for check-in, boarding, and flight bookings. American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and JetBlue were also impacted. Virgin Australia was forced to […]