The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund announced Thursday that it will invest $1 billion in Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company of British billionaire Richard Branson. "This investment will enable us to develop the next generation of satellite launches and accelerate our navigation program (...)
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On the occasion of the "Future Investment Initiative" economic forum, Saudi Arabia announced that the anthropomorphic humanoid robot Sophia has received Saudi citizenship. A first! This Wednesday, October 25, Saudi Arabia was the first country in the world to offer this anthropomorphic humanoid robot citizenship.
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China, the world's number one patent applicant, has embarked on very ambitious innovation programs in all sectors of the economy: health, education, urban planning, high-speed train transport, urban planning, digital transition, infrastructure, sustainable development, industry 4.0, aerospace sector, etc. Innovation, especially ecological innovation, has become a priority for companies today.
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A city covering 26,500 km2, established in the northwest of Saudi Arabia, on the shores of the Red Sea, with some border areas with Jordan and Egypt, where energy will be entirely renewable: this is Neom (1), the future new city of Saudi Arabia that Crown Prince Mohammed ben Salmane
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The population of the African continent is growing rapidly. Estimated at 140 million in 1900, it reached one billion in 2010. It will reach 2.5 billion in 2050 and more than 4 billion in 2100, according to the medium scenario of UN projections (see figure below). Today, one human being out of six lives in
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After several contradictory statements on US environmental policy, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday that Washington was looking for "ways to work with partners in the Paris climate agreement". "We want to be productive, we want to be useful," he assured on the American channel CBS. These
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"How do we save the planet? Through everyone's initiatives!" You've probably heard this answer before, but today we want to prove it to you through the testimonies of those who are working on it. Students at Audencia Business School, Marion and Maylis left, as part of the
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Already at the beginning of the year, UP' Magazine was interested in a series of big maneuvers that were shaking up the Facebook empire and more particularly its young but nonetheless multi-billionaire president, Mark Zuckerberg. There were several signs of his ambition to become the next president of the United States. Signs that have multiplied in recent months.
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Do you know that there is a "clean" nuclear energy, without danger, almost without waste, without risk, without pollution? This "green nuclear" would be thorium. This is not a new thing because this fuel has been known since the end of the 19th century. And yet, this magical energy has never succeeded.
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On 1 June 2017, the President of the United States announced his country's withdrawal from the climate agreement sealed in Paris in December 2015 to contain global warming. This decision obviously came as a great surprise. The point of view of Dominique Auverlot, Special Advisor to France Stratégies, helps us understand this bad decision.
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Ice melting is accelerating in Greenland. The massive introduction of freshwater into the Atlantic could cause very severe droughts in the Sahel and a major migration crisis. Two areas that are at odds with each other but are nevertheless linked by global warming: Greenland, an uninhabited icy land, and the Sahel, a tropical zone.
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