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Discount food app Too Good To Go, which sells surplus food from restaurants and shops, has partnered with GPS navigation app Waze for 30 days to tackle food waste. The Waze for Good project, which runs throughout August 2021, flags 100 Too Good To Go partner businesses across selected US metro areas on the Waze map. (The Spoon)
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Fred Fullerton
23.08.2021
The fast roll-out of electric vehicles in the United Kingdom means the £100B ($139B) highspeed railway network HS2 won’t have any environmental benefits, a report by think thank Institute for Government has found.
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Anja Pries
16.08.2021
Fujitsu is among the firms working with Astroscale on one of the first projects to use quantum computing and AI to clear up space debris. Fujitsu deployed its digital annealer and quantum-inspired optimisation services, alongside artificial neural network algorithms devised by the University of Glasgow, to identify the optimal route to return space waste to disposal orbit.
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Fred Fullerton
02.08.2021
The failure of national governments to pursue a green economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic could push greenhouse gas emissions to their highest level ever in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This would put the world off the track of limiting global warming to 1.5C, which requires emissions to fall by 50% by the end of this decade.
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Marc Height
26.07.2021
The Football Association (FA) has condemned the abuse targeted at Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka after England lost the Euro 2020 final against Italy on penalties. The FA has called on the UK government to bring in new legislation and urged social media companies to ban abusers and to help bring about the prosecution of offenders.
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Fred Fullerton
19.07.2021
German challenger bank Tomorrow will offer a carbon emissions calculator on its banking app, in partnership with the fintech ecolytiq and Visa. The carbon footprint of Tomorrow customers’ Visa transactions will be calculated by ecolytiq, based on the Open Standard for Payment Transactions from the Organisation for Sustainable Consumption.
12.07.2021
The number of planned solar farms in the east of England has doubled in recent months as a growing number of farmers are swapping crops for clean energy. This solar boom is anticipated to provide more than double the solar energy capacity from the east of England compared to the same period in 2020.
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Mubaasil Hassan
05.07.2021
Nvidia has announced plans to invest over $100M in its Cambridge-1 supercomputer, as it seeks favour with UK regulators for its $40B takeover of chip designer Arm. The pledge marks an increase from the previous plans of $55M for the supercomputer, which will be located at Kao Data campus in Harlow and include 80 Nvidia DGX A100 systems, totalling 400 petaflops of AI computation power, or eight petaflops of standard Linpack.
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Fred Fullerton
28.06.2021
A climate law that would introduce a higher surcharge on car fuels and a levy on flight tickets has been rejected by a majority of Swiss voters. In a national referendum, 51.6% of voters opposed the plan. The government, which supports the bill, said it would be difficult for the country to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change without the legislation’s measures. The government will continue to work with the public to develop climate policies, said the environment minister, Simonetta Sommaruga.
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Nick Jardine
21.06.2021
Burger King will donate to the Human Rights Campaign for every Ch’King sandwich it sells in the US during the Pride month of June, in a move that appears linked to rival restaurant chain Chick-fil-A whose CEO Dan Cathy is alleged to have made donations to groups opposing LGBTQ+ rights. The proposed Equality Act in the US would expand the country’s civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ people but it is opposed by the National Christian Charitable Foundation, which Cathy supports.
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Sara Trett
14.06.2021
Research from the website Comparethemarket.com* has found the average cost of insuring an electric car in the UK is £45 less than insuring a petrol or diesel car. When analysing annual premiums in the first three months of the year, it was found EV drivers were charged an average of £566, whereas petrol and diesel vehicle drivers paid £611.
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Mubaasil Hassan
07.06.2021
Match Group has introduced a tool designed to stop offensive messages on the dating app Tinder. The feature uses AI to detect potentially problematic language and triggers an “Are you sure?” prompt to warn users and offer the chance to change their wording. Early testing of the feature resulted in a 10% reduction in offensive language, while those receiving the prompt were also less likely to be reported for inappropriate messaging the following month, the company said.
31.05.2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the company will no longer accept bitcoin due to environmental concerns, three months after facilitating the purchase of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency. Tesla has said it will retain the digital currency and enable its use when it becomes more sustainable.
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Fred Fullerton
24.05.2021
Smartphones have become the place where people “live”, a book published by University College London-led anthropologists suggests. With a specific focus on older adults, the team documented smartphone use in nine countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
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Nicola Watts
17.05.2021
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