Author: TheSpuzz Desk

The United Nations launched a new panel to craft mining guidelines for critical minerals in high demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies. The newly established Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals includes representatives from close to 100 countries as well as nonprofit organizations and industry groups. It’s tasked with developing “a set of global common and voluntary principles to safeguard environmental and social standards and embed justice [in] the energy transition.”Powering an economy with renewable energy is a mineral-intensive endeavor. And it’ll take a concerted effort to curb human rights violations and environmental harms tied to the extraction of those…

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Pepe (PEPE) has been one of the best-performing crypto assets since the beginning of the year, with a year-to-date (YTD) gain of over 400%. This crypto analyst predicts that PEPE can continue this impressive run and become the largest meme coin by market cap, ahead of Dogecoin and Shiba Inu. PEPE To Flip Dogecoin (DOGE) And Shiba Inu (SHIB) Crypto analyst and trader Murad mentioned in an X (formerly Twitter) post that it is “possible that PEPE flips SHIB and possibly even DOGE.” PEPE flipping these two meme coins will make it the largest meme coin by market cap, as they…

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In a disclosure on Sunday, BSE said it was evaluating the validity of the claim as per Sebi communication.3 min read Last Updated : Apr 29 2024 | 7:15 PM IST Leading stock exchange BSE is expected to shell out more regulatory fee after the markets watchdog Sebi asked the bourse to pay the fee based on the “notional value” of its options contracts rather than on the premium value. Also, the exchange has been asked to remit the differential payment for past years with interest. Initial data provided by BSE suggest an outgo of Rs 165 crore plus…

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US said that it does not support world court’s investigation into Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Washington: The United States said Monday it opposed the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, amid reports that Israeli officials fear the Hague-based tribunal could soon issue arrest warrants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly raised the issue with US President Joe Biden in a call at the weekend. “We’ve been really clear about the ICC investigation, that we don’t support it, we don’t believe that they have the jurisdiction,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a briefing. The New…

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The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers’ location information to ‘aggregators,’ who then resold access to such information to third-party location-based service providers.” The agency says the carriers effectively “attempted to offload” their responsibility to get customers’ consent to share their location data with “downstream recipients.” Even after being made aware of the issue, the FCC claims, the carriers still failed to limit access to the information.The fines vary across carriers. T-Mobile faces the largest at $80 million. Sprint, which merged with T-Mobile since the investigation began, faces a $12 million fine. AT&T faces the…

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Representative Image: iPad Pro with M23 min read Last Updated : Apr 29 2024 | 11:46 AM IST The 2024 iPad Pro model, which is expected to debut at Apple’s “Let Loose” event on May 7, would likely be powered by its M4 chip, instead of the M3 chip that is currently the latest Apple silicon. It essentially means that Apple would debut the M4 chip with the iPad Pro on May 7. Reportedly, the M4 chip would feature a new neural processing unit (NPU) for running AI models on-device. On that note, Bloomberg has reported that there is a…

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