£100 contactless card limit to be lifted

When contactless card payments were introduced in 2007, the transaction limit was set at £10. The limit was raised gradually, ...

An unsexy fix to Canada’s growing red tape problem

This country’s approach to regulation has not kept up, especially in the fast-paced age of digital technologies ...
Foreign Affairs

Are Japan and South Korea Poised for a Historic Breakthrough?

When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...
Payload Asia

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo and DHL Global Forwarding renew strategic SAF partnership to accelerate decarbonisation of air freight

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP Cargo) and DHL Global Forwarding (DHL) announced a new strategic partnership to advance the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and accelerate the ...

These kitchen items may be contaminating your food with chemicals

Researchers say bisphenols, PFAS and flame retardants can still be present in some food packaging, and highly processed foods are contaminated by plastic chemicals on their route from a factory to a ...
International Monetary Fund

World Economic Outlook, October 2020: A Long and Difficult Ascent

The months after the release of the June 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update have offered a glimpse of how difficult rekindling economic activity will be while the pandemic surges. During May and ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...
BMJ

Measuring only hop distance during single leg hop testing is insufficient to detect deficits in knee function after ACL reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To systematically review the biomechanical deficits after ACL reconstruction (ACLR) during single leg hop for distance (SLHD) testing and report these differences compared with the ...