Stay up to date with free updates Simply register for the Climate change myFT Digest — straight to your inbox. Artificial intelligence has helped make breakthroughs in accurate long-term weather and climate predictions, according to research that promises advances in both forecasting and the broader use of machine learning. A team of scientists found that … Read more
When it comes to increasing the storage space on your laptop or desktop, one of the easiest tools you have at your disposal is an external solid-state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD). There are plenty of pros and cons to both options (you can dive into these in more depth in our SSD … Read more
Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. A growing body of research shows that this species—and at least 46 other megaherbivores—were driven to extinction by humans. (Source: Engraving by Ernest Grise, photographed by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy Getty’s Open Content Program) AARHUS, Denmark — Imagine a world where elephants roamed Europe, giant ground sloths lumbered across … Read more
Grandpa Kenny Beckers is Britain’s longest serving bus driver, having been on the road for 58 years, carrying seven million passengers.Kenny, 76, has been riding the bus since 1966, fresh out of college. He estimates he has already traveled to the moon and back twice. He became a bus conductor at 18 after just two … Read more
The figures that have now been published are not all that surprising, since the Elroq is based on the well-known VW MEB platform. However, there are a few interesting points. Skoda has announced four drive variants for the Elroq, which – just like the Enyaq – bear the codes 50, 60, 85 and 85x. For … Read more
If you want proof of Microsoft’s progress toward its environmental goals, look closer to Earth: to a construction site on an industrial estate in west London. The company’s Park Royal data center is part of its drive to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambition runs counter to its goal of being … Read more
An international team of physicists behind several revolutionary warp drive concepts, including the first that doesn’t require exotic matter, say recent unprecedented breakthroughs in physics and propulsion have pitted world powers in a 21st-century Cold War-style space race launched to become the world’s first working warp drive. “A space race is brewing,” says Gianni Martie, … Read more
Stagecoach staff were met with cries of ‘scab’ from a picket line in Liverpool as the company was accused of undermining strike action in the city. Today marks the first day of action for around 500 Liverpool bus drivers who took to the picket line outside the company’s Gillmoss depot on the East Lancashire Road. … Read more
Japanese parts manufacturer Shimano has released two new drive units for electric bicycles in the form of the EP5 and EP5100. The brand says the new drive units represent “an important step in a new era of e-bikes, allowing riders to explore further, connect more deeply and experience the natural joy of cycling.” The new … Read more
If we want to one day explore the galaxy (let alone the rest of the universe), we have a speed problem. In late 2023, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe reached the fastest speed ever achieved by a man-made object, clocking in at 635,266 kilometers (394,736 miles) per hour. While impressive, that’s only 0.059 percent of the … Read more