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What does boom in resource-hungry data centres mean for our future energy plans? | Science & Tech News
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“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!” wrote poet John Betjeman in 1937. The scruffy trading estate west of London may only have got uglier since. But it’s definitely not somewhere you’d want to obliterate. Slough is now Europe’s largest data hub and the second largest in the world. Nearly every foreign exchange transaction passes…
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Plans for deep sea mining gains momentum despite no permission from international authority | Climate News
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A company has said it intends to start mining minerals from the deep sea bed despite an international meeting failing to grant permission. Parts of the ocean floor are rich in so called “poly-metallic nodules” containing elements like nickel and copper, which are essential to green tech and renewable energy. Canadian firm The Metals Company…
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What is water cremation? What ‘Resomation’ or alkaline hydrolysis involves as Co-op announces UK plans | Science & Tech News
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Co-op Funeralcare has said it hopes to be able to offer water cremations in the UK for the first time later this year. Currently there are only two options for families when their loved ones die – just under 80% choose traditional cremation and the remainder opt for a burial. But amid concerns about the…
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Michael Schumacher’s family plans legal action over AI ‘interview’ which generated fake quotes | World News
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Michael Schumacher’s family are planning to take legal action against a German magazine which published an “interview” with the seven-time F1 champion generated by artificial intelligence. The 54-year-old has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps almost a…
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Virgin Orbit plans for insolvency amid rescue talks with investors | Business News
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Virgin Orbit has begun drawing up detailed contingency plans for its insolvency days after halting its operations and furloughing its workforce. Sky News has learnt that the commercial space satellite venture founded by Sir Richard Branson‘s Virgin Group is working with Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) and Ducera, two restructuring firms, on fallback plans in the…
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Nuclear waste: Public to have a say on plans to bury radioactive material | Science & Tech News
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Scientists hoping to bury nuclear waste deep underground have vowed that plans will not go ahead without local support. Highly radioactive material equivalent in size to 6,500 double-decker buses is currently stored above ground at 20 sites around the UK. Some silos are beginning to deteriorate with age. Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a government agency,…
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Artificial intelligence: Google poised to unveil how it plans to take on ChatGPT | Science & Tech News
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Google looks set to unveil how it plans to rival the wildly successful ChatGPT AI, possibly within days. The technology giant has scheduled a 40-minute event for Wednesday 8 February, when it will reveal how it is “reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information”. “Join us to learn how we’re opening up…
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LauncherOne: Virgin Orbit reveals why UK’s first rocket launch failed as it plans further attempts | Science & Tech News
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The first rocket launch from UK soil failed because of a premature shutdown in the rocket that prevented LauncherOne from reaching orbit, Virgin Orbit has said. The opening part of the mission went according to plan, the company said, as its plane took off from Spaceport Cornwall, Britain’s first such site, at Newquay Airport. A…
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Jeremy Hunt plans for UK to become a ‘science superpower’ – is this possible? | Science & Tech News
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The UK’s science and technology sector survived a much feared spending cut in this week’s budget – but those in the field say the government will need to do more to realise the UK’s potential as a “science superpower.” The expectation was that this was going to be a budget of cuts, with the government’s…
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Trading in Twitter shares halted as Elon Musk ‘plans to buy social media company for original offer price’ | Business News
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Trading in Twitter shares was halted as the stock spiked following reports that Elon Musk is planning to buy the company for his original offer price. The world’s richest man is proposing to go ahead with purchasing the social media giant for $54.20 per share, a total purchase value of $44bn following months of legal…