A roundup of this week's top stories:
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#EUIndustryDays rundown: day four
The fourth and final day of the EU Industry Days event was a little more relaxed than the previous days, focus primarily on the future of the EU coming out of the coronavirus pandemic and geopolitical implications, including raw material value...
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Sensyne Health gets approval for AI Covid test algorithm
British biotech company Sensyne Health has received regulatory approval in the UK for the first of a string of machine learning algorithms for Covid-19 risk prediction...
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African onshore wind is at less than 1% of its potential
Africa has enough onshore wind potential to provide power to the entire continent many times over, but its current capacity remains at less than 1% of these projections, according to a report released by the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
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Hyperconnectivity presents billion-dollar opportunities in connected living ecosystem
The number of connected devices across the globe 30.4 billion in 2020 to 200 billion by 2030, presenting a burgeoning new market in a connected living ecosystem, according to the latest data from Frost & Sullivan...
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Lufthansa prepares for strong growth following record annual loss
German airliner Lufthansa is preparing to bounce-back after suffering its largest-ever annual loss, suffering a slump of €6.7 billion for 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the aerospace and travel sectors...
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UN says global climate action not enough to reach Paris Agreement goals
The UN has called for more ambitious climate goals in order to reach the goals of limiting the global rise in temperature by 2 °C—ideally 1.5°C— by 2050...
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Rio Tinto's chairman steps downs following Juukan Gorge controversy
Rio Tinto's chairman and a director are due to step down as the mining giant looks to take responsibility for the blasting of the 46,000-year-old cave system at Juukan Gorge last May...
