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Swift coal transition from country that started Industrial Revolution will be watched closely | Science & Tech News
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Turbines at the UK’s last coal-fired power station have turned for the last time – a milestone in Britain’s transition to zero-carbon power and the end of Britain’s 142-year history of burning coal for electricity. The closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant outside Nottingham makes the UK the first major economy, and first G7 member, to…
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Tony Blair: Impact of AI on par with Industrial Revolution | Politics News
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When it comes to the topic of artificial intelligence, Sir Tony Blair is clear on the technology’s potential to change the way we live. “I think it is on a par with the 19th-century Industrial Revolution,” he says. “I think it [technology] already was, but generative AI has given it a further push forward.” The…
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AI’s rapid revolution – can we keep up to regulate it? | Science & Tech News
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When John Barber developed the first gas turbine in 1791 he could have had no conception of the transformation his invention would trigger. By 1886, after almost a century of innovations, Karl Benz began the first commercial production of a car powered by an internal combustion engine. Ten years later one of his products ran…
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The Queen: How Her Majesty saw the tech revolution through her reign | UK News
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The year the Queen was born, 1926, saw the first demonstration of the mechanical television, with the first electric telly to follow the year after. It was an era when fewer than half of Britain’s homes had an electricity supply and that was delivered using an incompatible range of voltages and frequencies by a motley…