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FC Balochistan Announces Jobs

Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan North has announced recruitment for soldier and clerk posts under Recruit Course 71. The vacancies cover … Read More The post FC Balochistan Announces Jobs appeared…

Business

Puma Energy partners 5 distributors to boost LPG access

Puma Energy Ghana has partnered five local Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) distributors as part of efforts to support the government’s target of achieving 50 per cent LPG penetration by 2030 through the Cylinder Recirculation Model (CRM). The five distributors are Earth Energy, Sandhill Oil and Gas, Riet Company Ltd, Hamcom and StepGas.

Finance & Markets

CBK licenses 29 more digital lenders, taking total to 281

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 1 – The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has licensed 29 additional digital credit providers (DCPs), bringing the number of regulated lenders in the sector to 281…

  • CBK authorizes 29 more digital credit providers, raising total to 281
  • Licensing expansion follows July approval of 25 DCPs
  • Since March 2022, CBK received over 900 digital credit license applications

Finance & Markets

AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns

Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned. Andrew Bailey said the central bank is watching the huge amounts of money being invested in AI “very carefully” and cautioned that “not everybody always wins”.

Tech

London’s Foundational exits stealth with €9.6 million to track satellites and debris with “millimetre-level” precision

Foundational, a London-based SpaceTech startup developing infrastructure for a more precise understanding of Earth and orbit, has emerged from stealth with €9.6 million (£8.2 million) in pre-Seed funding. Participants in the round include early-stage VC Inflection, London-based early-stage VC BACKED, Nordic VC firm Final Frontier, New…

  • Foundational startup exits stealth with €9.6 million funding
  • Investors include Inflection, BACKED, Final Frontier, Adjacent, and Type One Ventures
  • Company automates Satellite Laser Ranging for millimetre-level precision

Science

Quantum fields carry energy. Does that prove that they’re real?

One of the biggest questions that appears right at the intersection of physics and philosophy is as simple as it is puzzling: what is real? Is reality simply described by the particles that exist — that make us up, that we interact with, and that we can observe and measure — atop the background of spacetime that’s described by General…

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