All kinds of businesses and brands are starting to use the word ‘sustainable’ in their marketing. Whether it’s a t-shirt made of ethical cotton, or an ‘eco’ car - companies are increasingly keen to showcase their green credentials.

The Very Good Food Company—parent company of The Very Good Butchers—saw an 800 percent increase in stock value within the first few days of trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange earlier this month. It began trading on the open market on June 18 after completing its initial public offering (IPO) on June 16. The Very Good Butchers is a Canadian plant-based butcher brand and shop. It is the second vegan meat brand to IPO after California-based Beyond Meat in May 2019.

As expected, Apple's first MacBook Pro with a Retina display is now officially classed as "obsolete" worldwide, just over eight years after its release. In a support document, Apple notes that obsolete products are no longer eligible for hardware service, with "no exceptions." This means that any mid-2012 Retina ‌MacBook Pro‌ 15-inch models still out there that require a battery or other repairs will no longer be accepted by Apple.

The paid parental leave scheme in New Zealand is extending from 22 weeks to 26 weeks, taking New Zealand up to a full six months of leave for new parents. The maximum weekly payment is also increasing by $20 per week.

Oxitec has received state and federal approval to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in a pilot project planned for the Florida Keys now through 2022. The research is intended to show that GM mosquitoes are a viable alternative to spraying insecticides in a bid to control the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads Zika, dengue, yellow fever and other diseases.

Nintendo has said that Switch hardware production is recovering following months of disruption caused by the coronavirus, while first-party software scheduled for release in 2020 currently remains on track.

Universal Studios Japan has reportedly postponed plans to open its Nintendo theme park due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While official confirmation of the delay has yet to be made, according to Business Times and sources "familiar with the matter", the developers of the theme park - which is own by Comcast's NBCUniversal - is expected to formalise its plans publicly soon, possibly as early as this week.

In spite of their dark reputations, two black holes may have set off a cosmic light show. Subtle gravitational rumbles from a collision of two black holes may have been accompanied by a flare of light about a month later, physicists report June 25 in Physical Review Letters. It’s a surprising conclusion given black holes’ propensity to swallow up light and matter. “The normal expectation has been they just merge and all you would detect is gravitational waves,” says astrophysicist Matthe...

Samsung is diving deeper into cryptocurrencies, the South Korean technology giant and creator of the Galaxy smartphone range, could soon become one of the biggest drivers of bitcoin, crypto and blockchain adoption.While bitcoin traders and investors are focused on the upcoming bitcoin halving, a looming U.S. bitcoin crackdown, and rocky crypto trading volume, Samsung is putting the power of bitcoin, crypto and blockchain in people's hands.

Lenin Gutierrez, filling in as a Starbucks barista in San Diego, accumulated applause and an astounding USD 32,000 in tips when the lady, Amber Lynn Gilles posted about him on Facebook with a mean to censure him for not serving espresso since she was not wearing a cover.

Verkhoyansk’s high temperature, which has yet to be confirmed, follows a six-month period of record heat in the region.

U.S. stock-market indexes climbed, but imply a lackluster open, on Monday as investors weighed optimism over a quick recovery for the domestic economy, or V-shaped rebound, and evidence of an acceleration of COVID-19 infections in states and elsewhere in the world.

Lockdowns haven’t just curbed coronavirus transmission — they’ve also helped people get more sleep. Two studies, both published June 10 in Current Biology, report that people began sleeping more and more regularly every night after countries imposed stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that sleep may not have been of the best quality, one of those studies finds.

Millennials became the biggest U.S. generation this year, numbering some 73 million people. In terms of wealth, by contrast, they're still living in the shadow of previous generations. Despite making up nearly a quarter of the population, millennials — defined as those born between 1981 and 1996 — own a scant 3% of the country's wealth, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. In comparison, when baby boomers were the age millennials are today (around 19...

JBS — the world’s biggest meat manufacturer — has launched a new selection of plant-based meat alternatives. The new vegan food range is called OZO and will be released by Planterra Foods, a subsidiary of JBS. The selection will include plant-based ground beef, burgers and meatballs.

Algoriddim has launched a major update of its djay Pro live music mixing app incorporating new artificial intelligence processing that leverages the Neural Engine on Apple's "Bionic" branded mobile chips. The new djay Pro AI enables live music separation of audio tracks into vocals, beats, and instruments, enabling real-time mixing of selected components of streamed or local tracks. The new feature is branded as Neural Mix, highlighting its use of Apple's Core ML frameworks t...

Select Square Enix titles are returning to Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now, Nvidia announced on Thursday. The new library of Square Enix games consists of 14 PC titles, including the most recent entries in the Deus Ex and Tomb Raider reboot series. Square Enix was one of the earliest game publishers to pull its library of games from GeForce Now when Nvidia launched its paid version back in February, and some previously supported games will still be missing, like the Batman: Arkham se...

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A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

Six former eBay employees were "charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign" against a newsletter editor and publisher, which "included sending the couple anonymous, threatening messages, disturbing deliveries—including a box of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, and a bloody pig mask—and conducting covert surveillance of the victims," the US Department of Justice and US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts announced today.

A new study provides evidence that women’s reliance on intuition and “gut” feelings helps to explain why they tend to report more magical beliefs than men do. The research has been published in the Journal of Research in Personality.

The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich says that Season 2 will do away with the multiple timelines that confused some viewers in Season 1.