Image copyright Highview Image caption An artist’s impression of Highview’s planned energy storage facility It sounds like magic but it is real – a plan to store cheap night-time wind energy in the form of liquid air. Here is how: you use the off-peak electricity to compress and cool air in a tank, so it […]
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WeWork, the troubled shared office space company, has agreed to be taken over by its largest outside investor, SoftBank, the Japanese technology giant, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The deal ends weeks of uncertainty at WeWork, a once fast-growing business that scrapped an initial public offering last month after Wall Street investors
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What a relief for Houston Astros pitcher Joe Smith that manager AJ Hinch was only joking about his team’s makeup for the World Series. “I would bring (him) in my office and pretend like he’s not going to make the roster, just to get a reaction from him, and he wouldn’t buy it,” Hinch said.
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Surging demand for delivery is pushing comparable-store sales higher at McDonald’s, but it’s coming at a cost. Quarterly earnings at the Chicago company were flat at $2.11 per share. Wall Street was looking for per-share earnings of $2.21, according to FactSet. The company’s shares were down 4% in premarket trading Tuesday. The burger giant said
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It was supposed to be a fun, carefree weekend. Sarah was hosting friends from out of town at her home in Nashville, and one of them had surprised the group with gummy edibles purchased in California. The visit took a turn, however, when Sarah’s 3-pound Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix, Beans, got into the gummies and ingested about
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Some of the many positives of a wedding dress having its very own hotel room are that it won’t raid the minibar or steal towels. Jennifer Lawrence made such an arrangement for her wedding dress before marrying Cooke Maroney in Newport, Rhode Island, on Saturday, according to reports. Sequestering the dress was actually for security,
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Image copyright Getty Images Public sector borrowing has risen by a fifth during the first half of the financial year, official figures show. Borrowing for the six months to September has now hit £40.3bn, up £7.4bn from the same period in 2018. In the month of September, borrowing was £9.4bn – slightly lower than expected
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The NBA season starts Tuesday night, and here are 10 storylines to follow for the 2019-20 campaign: ——— NO. 2 IN 3’S Golden State’s Stephen Curry is about to become No. 2 on the league’s all-time 3-pointers made list. Curry enters this season with 2,483 made 3-pointers, leaving him 78 away from passing Reggie Miller
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In December 2018, before the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed, Mr. Trump issued his first of several orders to pull all American troops from the country. In turn, the Pentagon tried to shore up a plan to withdraw roughly 1,000 troops while keeping the rest spread out across the country’s northeastern corner. In recent weeks,
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The joy in planning a vacation in European comes from booking Mediterranean boat trips or researching restaurants in Paris, not the boring details of how you pay for those experiences. But there I was, stuck in a parking lot in Lerici, Italy, because I had forgotten to set up a personal identification number on my
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