How can social impact startups influence global change?
Around the world, people are grappling with the impact of climate change at an unprecedented level, with natural disasters and air pollution making the need for action more apparent every…
UK lost €2.3B in tax from big tech because rules are ‘no longer fit for purpose’
Up to €2.3bn of annual tax from big tech may be missing from the UK’s coffers because of archaic rules. That’s according to TaxWatch, a think tank formed to expose…
I swapped my car for an electric cargo bike
Tired of endless traffic jams, hefty bills, and the weight of climate guilt, city dwellers across Europe are ditching their cars for cargo bikes — and never looking back. Here’s…
Google and Qualcomm are building a RISC-V-based platform for wearables
RISC-V, the upstart chip architecture, has stepped further into the market for processors. Semiconductor giant Qualcomm today announced that it’s building a RISC-V-based wearables platform for Wear OS, Google’s operating…
London Marathon turns to carbon removals in race to net zero
While promoting fitness, community and often charitable causes, large running events can have a significant environmental impact. Adding to the waste generation from water stations and temporary race infrastructure are…
German anti-racism agency quits X amid Israel-Palestine disinformation wave
Germany’s federal anti-discrimination agency (FADA) said Wednesday it was quitting X, formerly known as Twitter, due to an “enormous rise” in hate speech. “Due to the enormous rise in anti-trans…
Google’s AI could soon consume as much electricity as Ireland, study finds
Amid the debate over the dangers of widespread AI development, an important concern may have been overlooked: the huge amount of energy required to train these large language models. A…
Croatia wants to turn this superhot underground lake into a 16MW geothermal power plant
A Croatian energy company has discovered an underwater lake of superheated water that could supply the country’s far north with clean geothermal electricity. The find was the result of a…
3D-printed stem cells could help treat brain injuries
In a scientific first, researchers at theUniversity of Oxford have 3D printed stem cells that can mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex, the human brain’s outer layer. The technique…
German-French consortium to build EU’s first exascale supercomputer
Today, France’s Eviden (part of cybersecurity, cloud, and high-performance computing group Atos) and German modular supercomputing company ParTec, announced they had won a contract to provide the very first exascale…
Meta proposes ad-free service for EU users — but you’ll have to pay for it
Meta is considering charging EU users €13 a month to access an ad-free version of Instagram or Facebook on their phones, the Wall Street Journal reports. The tech giant is…
Swiss startup opens plant that permanently stores CO2 in waste concrete
Neustark, a spin-off from Switzerland’s ETH Zurich university, has inaugurated its first commercial-scale carbon capture plant in the EU, located at a construction waste recycling facility on the outskirts of…
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