Mining confronts damning record on women

Hundreds of UK staff could be among the thousands of Twitter employees set to be sacked by Elon Musk — as the social media platform’s offices in London were locked this evening with workers told to stay at home until next week.

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The latest version of this Chromebook is the first to receive Intel’s Evo verification, which means you’ll be getting the best possible mobile experience with this model. It’s also the first with Thunderbolt 4 support letting you connect to multiple external displays as well as giving you fast data speeds and networking.

Separately, mining heavyweight Rio Tinto ran its own inquiry and uncovered a culture of bullying, harassment and racism, including 21 complaints of actual or attempted rape or sexual assault in the past five years.

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The committee is still demanding answers from more than 50 top current and former intelligence officials on why they labeled Hunter Biden’s laptop ‘Russian disinformation’ in an open letter ahead of the election. 

A member of security staff at Twitter’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Dublin told reporters that nobody was coming into the office on Friday and employees had been told to stay home.

Danielle Martin, a director at industry body ICMM, which brings together a third of the global metals and mining sector, said the rationale for greater participation of women in mining — and diversity more generally — is compelling.

Chair of Women in Mining UK Carole Cable, who started in the industry as a field assistant in Western Australia, said surging demand for metals and minerals to enable the energy transition needs a bigger workforce.

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Firms that measure and track behaviour have a better record and the industry’s International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has played an important role in providing the data tools needed for change, delegates heard.

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Tired of trying to work on documents or spreadsheets on a small widescreen display? The Acer Chromebook Spin 713 uses one of Acer’s bright VertiView displays, a 13.5-inch 2,256×1,504-pixel touchscreen with a 3:2 aspect ratio. As the name implies, it gives you more vertical room to work, but it still has the width of a typical 13.3-inch laptop with a 16:9 ratio. Between that and its battery life that lasted nearly 13 hours in our tests, you’ll be able to get more work done in a day and it’s still thin and light enough for an everyday carry.