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T wo thirds of London boroughs still have at least one tower block with the same combustible cladding blamed for fuelling the spread of the Grenfell fire, it can be revealed.Hundreds of buildings across the UK were identified as having Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) installed after the devastating fire and the Government ordered its removal from all high rises.

Promotion: architects and designers are increasingly finding new ways to use cork outside of cork stoppers as a way to reduce the carbon footprint of their projects, according to Portuguese company Amorim Cork Composites.As the innovation arm of the world's largest cork producer Corticeira Amorim, Amorim Cork Composites, has seen a marked uptick in interest over the last few years, whether producing furniture for designer Tom Dixon and the Campana Brothers, creating door handles for architect Eduardo Souto Moura or supplying wall panels for Counterspace's 2021 Serpentine Pavilion.

When Rachel Karlic and her sister, Rebecca Hinsdale, were students at Western Michigan University, they sometimes played pinball with their friend Kate Porter in a 24-hour video rental store near campus.The store was called Video Hits Plus, with the Plus maybe referring to the basement attractions, which, in addition to the pinball machines, included an air hockey table and a pornographic video section.

For the first time since 2017, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France will feature a handful of cars from the major automakers this weekend, competing for the top prize.Toyota, which has won the last five years as the only big automaker, now faces a crowded field.Fighting for overall victory will also be factory-backed cars from Cadillac, Peugeot and Porsche, along with independent entries from Glickenhaus, Vanwall, Jota and Action Express Racing.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was first held in May 1923 to help spur innovation in the growing automotive industry by emphasizing not just speed, but also efficiency, reliability and endurance.It is a very demanding race, and the greatest race, said Tom Kristensen, who has won Le Mans a record nine times.

Flames burn on a natural gas-burning stove on January 12, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.New research from Stanford University show gas stoves emit benzene, which is linked to cancer.Scott Olson/Getty Images When the blue flame fires up on a gas stove, there's more than heat coming off the burner.Researchers at Stanford University found that among the pollutants emitted from stoves is benzene, which is linked to cancer.

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The Los Angeles and Long Beach port docks were humming Thursday after the longshore workers union and employers reached a possible labor deal after months of increasingly contentious talks.The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Assn., which represents shipping lines and terminal operators, said late Wednesday that they had tentatively agreed to a new six-year contract covering 22,000 workers at 29 West Coast ports.

H undreds gathered for a silent walk to mark the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell blaze which claimed 72 lives.The west London tower block became a scene of devastation as a blaze ripped through the building with many advised to remain in their homes to wait for help from the emergency services which in some cases never came.

S eventy-two people died at Grenfell.Today, 72 months after the inferno, survivors, the bereaved and campaigners say there is still no justice.But they are also crystal clear that time, delays, prevarication and even wilful obstruction will not break their inexorable quest for justice over the appalling failures at Grenfell, which brought so much horror, grief and shame to Britain on that night six years ago.

The company claims that the plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices violates the First and Fifth Amendments.A Merck flag flies in front of the company's building on October 2, 2013, in Summit, New Jersey.Kena Betancur / Getty Images Merck announced on Tuesday that it is suing the government over a recently approved plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, aiming to stop one of the nation's first efforts to take a small step toward lowering sky-high drug prices in the U.S.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday, claims that the plan is unconstitutional and calls it a "sham" and "tantamount to extortion."

Gary can start to subpoena gun sales records, a judge ruled Monday.The city's lawsuit - filed in 1999 - wants those records from Westforth Sports and other gun shops to see how weapons sold locally to suspicious buyers end up in violent street crimes.Gun manufacturers and retailers are fighting this, calling the city's efforts a "fishing expedition" last week in court.

France's top food companies are to cut prices on hundreds of products from next month with the country's government threatening financial sanctions if they break that promise.As soon as July, prices of certain products will go down, the finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, told BFM TV on Friday after meeting representatives of the food industry the previous day.

May's trio of bank holidays failed to get shoppers spending as sales growth slowed to its lowest level in six months, latest figures show.Total UK retail sales increased by 3.9% last month, against a decline of 1.1% in May 2022 and below the three-month average growth of 4.7%, according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.

Here's one of the improvements Google might want to look into for the Pixel Watch 2: better glue.Android Police spotted a few reports of the back panels of some Pixel Watches just falling off.A few posts on the PixelWatch subreddit have photos of this phenomenon; several commenters say it happened to them, too.

This car would still get a five-star crash rating even if it's unsafe for pedestrians.It's a three-star failure for a five-star program.The National Highway Traffic and Safety Association says it may add pedestrian safety tests to its New Car Assessment Program for the first time in agency history, but it won't use those tests as part of a "five-star" car rating system that only cares about the safety of people inside the vehicle.

The group is suing to stop Medicare from being able to access lower drug prices.The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America building facade is pictured in Washington, D.C., on October 20, 2017.Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call The U.S.'s largest lobbying group, the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has become the second prominent group to file a lawsuit to stop a plan for Medicare to be able to negotiate the prices for a handful of drugs, joining pharma giant Merck in alleging that the plan is unconstitutional.

In Colombia, a new illicit product is on the rise.Desperate consumers are sneaking it in suitcases from abroad, hoarding it in their homes, paying outrageous prices online and lining up at clandestine locations to buy it.The contraband? Dijon mustard.A new health law intended to improve Colombians' diets which are heavy on meat and fried food has led to the disappearance of a host of fare from market shelves, including the French delicacy of the condiment world.

Last October, construction plans for a hulking semiconductor factory owned by a major state-backed company in central China fell into disarray.The Biden administration had escalated the trade war over technology, severing China's access to the Western tools and skilled workers it needed to build the most advanced semiconductors.

For our latest competition, we've teamed up with Italian brand Bolzan to offer readers the chance to win its Spinapesce blanket.Spinapesce is Bolzan's wool blanket made of 97 per cent wool and three per cent cashmere designed by Italian design brand Studio Salaris in collaboration with fabric producer Lanificio Bottoli.

The linear TV industry's measurement debacle spilled over into the streaming-focused NewFronts last week.Smart TV manufacturers Samsung, Vizio, LG Ads and Roku all held NewFronts presentations where they bragged about their automatic content recognition (ACR) data, which the industry has been putting on a pedestal because it can add a level of consistency to TV measurement.

The NVIDIA DGX supercomputer using GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips could be the top of its class.Learn what this and the company's other announcements mean for enterprise AI and high-performance computing.On May 28 at the COMPUTEX conference in Taipei, NVIDIA announced a host of new hardware and networking tools, many focused around enabling artificial intelligence.

Despite the growing demand for sustainable food, many companies hesitate to set ambitious environmental goals, as transparently measuring and reporting environmental performance is time consuming and costly.Environmental traceability, namely the ability to track the environmental impact of a product along the supply chain, can help streamline and improve the process, and we have identified several strategies that can enhance its effectiveness.

Investors can't seem to stop talking about artificial intelligence lately, and for good reason.Leading tech companies spend billions creating this technology, which will have a massive impact on future earnings, although the hype will probably wane soon.Microsoft appears to be in the catbird seat with its multi-billion dollar investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

The Spanish pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale spotlights the country's agro-architectural infrastructure, with imagery by photographer Pedro Pegenaute.Pegenaute visited over 50 sites across the country to create a photography series that reveals the buildings and landscapes involved in producing everyday food products.

Naviva, A Four Seasons Resort, is a luxury tented resort located in Punta Mita, Mexico, designed by Luxury Frontiers.Set amidst a verdant jungle, the adults-only property consists of 15 high-end tents spread over 48 acres of private peninsula.The resort's architectural aesthetic is grounded in the principles of biophilic design, an approach that seamlessly blends human constructs with the natural environment.

The European Parliament drafted new legislation with the goal of offering better product labeling in the EU and limiting misleading product characteristics, environmental claims and repairability restrictions.The directive will target the use of unsubstantiated environmental claims on packing and ads such as "climate neutral" and "environmentally friendly" by manufacturers if these are not backed by detailed evidence.

Britain needs to relaunch an industrial strategy and stop flip flopping on initiatives if it is to avoid falling behind on the global stage, manufacturing bosses have warned.Make UK, which represents 20,000 manufacturers across the country, warned British businesses risked losing out to companies elsewhere around the world because of the government's lack of a long-term plan for industry, while Joe Biden's $369bn (292bn) Inflation Reduction Act sucks up investment.

The hardware that has enabled and driven the recent explosion of generative AI products has primarily been manufactured by Nvidia.That's thanks in part to its dominant position in the consumer and workstation graphics markets, plus the well-established CUDA libraries and its AI-accelerating Tensor cores.

Today AMD announced additional details about its new Ryzen 7040U series of laptop chips, which bring the company's newest Zen 4 CPU architecture and RDNA 3 integrated graphics into thin-and-light laptops.Though just part of AMD's ( often-confusing) Ryzen 7000 laptop lineup, the 7040U processors will be the ones to hold out for if you want to maximize performance without stepping up to a larger laptop with a dedicated GPU.

Activity for UK manufacturing firms fell last month in the face of subdued demand and customers cutting costs, according to an influential survey.The S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI fell to a three-month low of 47.8 in April, down slightly from the 47.9 scored in March.Any score below 50 is considered a decline for the sector.

In 2021, we announced a conceptual collection - SEYUN - designed and manufactured by Zaha Hadid Design and Karimoku Furniture.Today, we're happy to share that it's left the proverbial nest behind and exists as a chair, an armchair, and a table in different dimensions.Introduced at Milan Design Week 2023, the SEYUN collection echoes Hadid's design language and is crafted in oak using a combination of machine-made and hand-finished processes.

Sony is unveiling the Xperia 1 Mk V in ten days.The device was teased over two months ago with a similar design to its predecessors, but now we have a confirmation of the looks.The new flagship appeared on a billboard in Hong Kong, revealing the three-camera vertical design with a more significant oval island and more prominent lenses.