Plus: Quartz's 2023 Innovators.
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More than $30 billion of cargo has been diverted from the Red Sea. The threat of attacks from Houthi militants has escalated since the Israel-Hamas war started in October, and is sending ships all the way around Africa instead of through the Suez Canal and Red Sea. |
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Toshiba will be delisted today from the Tokyo exchange after 74 years. A decade of scandal and upheaval at the conglomerate has ended with one of Japan's biggest brands going private. |
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Iceland's capital is under a pollution warning after a volcano began erupting Monday. The country has been bracing for an explosion for weeks as earthquake activity has increased in the region around Reykjavik. |
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AI-powered banks. Hyper-sensitive satellites. Video therapy to help unlock forgotten memories. |
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The minds behind those ideas are just some of those featured on Quartz's 2023 Innovators list, and all of them have used bold technologies and industry-changing ideas to imagine better ways of doing business. Below are five of their stories— find the other 20 here. |
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Its downturn could lead to bankruptcy for up to 385 American banks, most of them smaller, regional ones, according to a new report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). That's because more investors are expected to default on their commercial real estate loans, and those defaults could trigger uninsured depositors to run on the banks—like they did with Silicon Valley Bank in March. |
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Quartz's Laura Bratton dug into the details of the report and its implications for banks. Read the full story. |
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Ancient bricks from Mesopotamia may help us better understand Earth's magnetic field. It isn't static, and how it interacts with objects can help us date them, too. |
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There's a Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster. It is colorful and twinkly but it's not shaped like a tree if that's what you were hoping for. |
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Your next favorite shirt may be harvested from the seafloor. What beautiful, albeit a little slimy, resource captures carbon way better than its counterpart on land, while also providing a sustainable textile and replacement for harmful dyes? Quartz deputy editor Gabriela Riccardi and our editor in chief Heather Landy dive deep into seaweed in the next episode of the Quartz Obsession podcast. |
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