- Countries agree on an international treaty mandating the largest companies, including big tech, to pay more corporate tax abroad and a smaller share in their home countries. Link
- 65% of the global population will have its personal data protected by privacy regulations. Link
- Members of the United Nations-backed Race to Zero campaign is required to restrict the development, financing, and facilitation of new fossil fuel assets, including banning future coal projects. Link
- The European Union implements the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRSs) for large public-interest companies with more than 500 employees. Link
- The European Space Agency launches the Hera Mission, a binary asteroid system designed to detect threatening asteroids weeks before they get near Earth. Link
- The OSIRIS-REx mission, which launched in 2016 to visit the asteroid Bennu, returns a 2.1 ounce sample of the rocky body back to Earth. Link
- The combined market for PCs and tablets declines 2.6 percent before returning to growth in 2024. Link
- NASA and Axiom Space launch the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX rockets. Link
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches the world's first wooden satellite. Link
- The COVID-19 pandemic ends. Link
- General Motors sells 20 all-electric car models, combining battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. Link
- Global gas markets remain tight as Russian pipeline gas exports decrease, keeping energy prices high, in spite of gas demand falling in Europe due to aggressive energy-saving measures. Link
- Global polysilicon capacities nearly double by end of this year to 536 GW compared to 295 GW in 2022. Link
- UN finally delivers climate plan to reduce emissions caused by global shipping industry. Link
- The first government to replace its census with big-data technologies Link
- 10% of reading glasses will be connected to the internet. Link
- 80% of people on earth will have a digital presence online. Link
- 90% of the global population will have a supercomputer in their pocket. Link
- Acoustic earthquake shield developed to protect cities from earthquakes begin seeing initial use Link
- Modifying genes to renew all body issues to youthful versions becomes possible Link
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 1 US dollars Link
- World population forecasted to reach 7,991,396,000 Link
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 8,546,667 Link
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 66 exabytes Link
- Global Internet traffic grows to 302 exabytes
SOURCE: QuantumRun.com
