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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Taiwan will not surrender its semiconductor supremacy - The Economist    FROM the 1970s until a few years ago Taiwan’s semiconductor sector looked worthy but dull. Its chip-fabrication plants (fabs for short) kept the global electronics industry ticking, but it was the gadgets the chips went into that made headlines. No longer. The world’s geopolitical heavyweights now regard microprocessors as powering not just all manner of machines but their economies as well. America is splurging $50bn in subsidies to bring chipmaking back home. Europe has similar plans, not least to reduce its dependence on Taiwan, which next-door China claims as part of its territory. Rapidus, a joint venture of Japanese electronics firms, aims to be mass-producing cutting-edge chips by 2027, just two years after TSMC, the Taiwanese chip champion, will start manufacturing similar silicon. Samsung of South Korea, TSMC’s main rival, hopes to begin churning out such chips in 2025. China, for its part, wants to build an independent chip industry that does not have to rely on imports of technology, which America is choking off. The stakes for Taiwan are high. So long as everyone relies on the island for semiconductors, the thinking goes, not even China will up-end the geopolitical status quo. If chips are made elsewhere, this “silicon shield” turns brittle. More prosaically, the sector, with eight of the country’s ten best-paying companies, provides good jobs. Taiwanese chip firms also have reasons to keep production at home. Too much expansion abroad could weaken local research networks and make it easier for foreign firms to poach staff. Continued here Billionaire Tracker: Mike Bloomberg, Yuri Milner And The Other Ultra-Wealthy Donors To Israeli Groups Following The Attacks By Hamas - Forbes    Billionaire Yuri Milner, who was born in Russia but has long been a citizen of Israel, has promised $10 million in donations to Israeli humanitarian groups. In the wake of the attacks by the terrorist group Hamas on Israelis that began on Saturday, the natural response of many people is to give donations to support the victims and their families. More than 1,000 Israelis have been reported killed and more than 2,800 injured, according to the Israeli Defense Forces; about 150 people are being held by Hamas, the Israeli government says. The Palestinian health authority has reportedly claimed 900 deaths in Gaza since Saturday. Billionaires have begun to weigh in. On Tuesday, Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg said in an Instagram story that “The terrorist attacks by Hamas are pure evil. There is never any justification for carrying out acts of terrorism on innocent people,” and saying that his focus is on the safety of “our employees and their families in Israel and the region.” Hedge fund founder Bill Ackman went viral on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday with a post saying that CEOs had asked him if Harvard University would release the list of members of Harvard organizations that assigned “sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous attacks to Israel, so none of us inadvertently hire any of their members.” New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who started a foundation to combat antisemitism in 2019, went on CNBC Tuesday and condemned the attacks on Israel. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions - The Economist    FEW DISHES whet more palates than a juicy cut of beef. One poll in 2014 found that steak was Americans’ favourite food. Unfortunately, by cooking so many cows, humans are cooking themselves, too. The impact of food on greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions can slip under the radar. In a survey in Britain last year, the share of respondents saying that “producing plants and meat on farms” was a “significant contributor” to climate change was the lowest among ten listed activities. Yet two papers published this year in Nature Food find that food, especially beef, creates more GHGs than previously thought. Forgoing steaks may be one of the most efficient ways to reduce your carbon footprint. In 2019 the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that the global food system was responsible for 21-37% of GHG emissions. This March researchers from the European Commission and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Office released a study with a central estimate near the top of this range. It attributed 34% of GHGs produced in 2015 to food. Continued here Hiking Needs New Rules - The Atlantic    We need to restrict outdoor recreation to certain places during certain parts of the year for the well-being of wildlife. Nestled among the Rocky Mountains, in a yawning stretch of sagebrush, granite rocks, and flowing hills near Gunnison, Colorado, is the Hartman Rocks Recreation Area, one of the first spots to clear of snow in spring. Which means that it is one of the first spots to give cooped-up humans a place to stretch their legs and fill their lungs—to ride their bikes. Unfortunately for the Gunnison sage grouse, the seasonal rhythms that send cyclists outside coincide with the rhythms that make the birds start fanning and strutting like little brown peacocks, in a bid to reproduce. Back in the early 2000s, they were stuck flaunting their strange mating dance amid Hartman Rocks’ ever-more-popular trail system. The birds did not love loud noises and two-legged creatures zooming by on wheels. Stress made them mate less and abandon their leks, one more straw on a dwindling population’s back. Continued here

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