Four-day week would be affordable for most UK firms, says thinktank
A carefully designed four-day week could be introduced in the UK immediately and be affordable for most firms with more than 50 workers, a thinktank…
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How to Get the Most Out of (or Into) Your Robot Vacuum
In the past few years, no other gadget—headphones, electric bicycle, literally anything at all—has improved as dramatically as the humble robot vacuum. The hardware and…
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Graphcore, the UK maker of chips designed for use in artificial intelligence, has raised $222m (£164m) from investors, valuing the company at $2.8bn. The Bristol-based…
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Green body gives verdict on Boris Johnson carbon-cutting policies
“Building on the prime minister’s ambitious ten point plan, the recently published energy White Paper provides concrete measures to fully decarbonise our electricity system by…
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When we first started looking at the sustainability of consumer electronics at the beginning of 2019, we soon discovered that reliable information was very hard…
View More How we are changing the way we rate sustainability of consumer electronicsCovid vaccine uptake high despite concerns over hesitancy
Uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine has been high among those offered it, doctors say, despite fears that vaccine hesitancy could undermine efforts to control the…
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Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk
“We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float…
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Tencent backs Chinese healthcare portal DXY in $500M round
DXY, a 20-year-old online healthcare community for Chinese consumers and healthcare organizations like Pfizer, announced this week that it has raised $500 million in a…
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Space images: The best of 2020
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