When it comes to mitigating climate change, one set of techniques aims to tackle the problem by making large-scale alterations to our weather. Sometimes called "climate engineering" or "geoengineering," these techniques seek to address rising temperatures by altering the earth's climate system. Geoengineering techniques can be divided into two major classes: those that modify solar radiation and those that remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
When it comes to semiconductor production, there’s just one superpower: Taiwan. The self-governing island produces more than two-thirds of the world’s chips, and almost all of the advanced ones.
Withhold your sympathy for the Iranian national soccer team, says Iranian activist and journalist Masih Alinejad. They represented the Islamic regime, she tells Ian Bremmer in an upcoming GZERO World interview, not the people.
The jobs report for November came in hot Friday, revealing that wage and job growth in the world’s largest economy remain robust. Sounds like a good thing, right? Well, not when the US economy is reeling from decade-high inflation.
Semiconductors bind the electrical circuits in the tech we use every day. In mid-2021, a global semiconductor shortage caused by COVID supply/demand issues and a drought in Taiwan made many devices hard to come by. But the self-ruled island in China's crosshairs is only part of the global chipmaking supply chain, which travels back and forth between Europe, Asia, and the US. We follow its steps for a smartphone.
Global semiconductor supply chains have some big resistance points that threaten to make microchips a macro-geopolitical flashpoint. On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden will visit Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s facility in Arizona, where he'll spotlight the White House’s efforts to ramp up US chip manufacturing amid the US-China chip race.
No Democrat wants to be the first to try to push Joe Biden offstage. But if the president decides not to seek reelection, there are plenty of would-be successors waiting in the wings.
So much for Qatar's claim that this would be the most carbon-neutral World Cup ever.