Owala Water Bottle: The Secret behind the Hype
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The Owala Water Bottle has become super popular for its looks and innovation. With its dual functionality and convenience it’s the top choice for many looking for a practical hydration solution. Whether you’re an athlete, busy professional or just someone who loves stylish water bottles, Owala has you covered. At its heart Owala is aesthetics […]
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A data designer driven to collaborate with communities
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It is fairly common in public discourse for someone to announce, “I brought data to this discussion,” thus casting their own conclusions as empirical and rational. It is less common to ask: Where did the data come from? How was it collected? Why is there data about some things but not others? MIT Associate Professor […]
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Patrick Leung, CTO of Faro Health – Interview Series
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Patrick Leung, CTO of Faro Health, drives the company’s AI-enabled platform, which simplifies and speeds up clinical trial protocol design. Faro Health’s tools enhance efficiency, standardization, and accuracy in trial planning, integrating data-driven insights and streamlined processes to reduce trial risks, costs, and patient burden. Faro Health empowers clinical research teams to develop optimized, standardized […]
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Prescriptive AI: The Smart Decision-Maker for Healthcare, Logistics, and Beyond
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant progress in recent years, transforming how organizations manage complex data and make decisions. With the vast amount of data available, many industries face the critical challenge of acting on real-time insights. This is where prescriptive AI steps in. Unlike traditional predictive models, which simply forecast outcomes based on past […]
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DeBriefed 29 November 2024: COP29 disappoints developing countries; Plastics treaty talks; Brazil’s rocky road to COP30
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week COP29 fall-out FINANCE DEAL: Developed nations agreed to help channel “at least” $300bn a year into developing countries by 2035 to support their efforts to deal with climate change, at the end of fractured talks at COP29 […]
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Avoiding fires with composite bund systems
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This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Sui Generis. Chemical, oil and fuel spills can have devastating consequences across various sectors, from manufacturing to farming and construction. The financial ramifications can escalate rapidly, involving fines, legal costs, and emergency response fees. As of December 2023, the EA can impose unlimited fines for […]
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China Briefing 28 November 2024: How China approached COP29; Xi cuts energy deals in South America; Solar’s ‘disorderly’ expansion
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Key developments China’s role at COP29 and beyond ‘COOPERATIVE’ COP: China’s “role” at the COP29 climate talks, which concluded over the weekend in Baku, Azerbaijan, was “markedly different […]
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SAP’s Vision for AI-Powered Business: The Role of Joule and Open-Source Models
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how businesses manage data, make decisions, and streamline daily tasks. SAP, a global leader in enterprise software, is leading this change. SAP has a bold vision for the future, aiming to embed AI into every part of business operations. This approach drives innovation, boosts efficiency, and achieves significant growth. By […]
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Has AI Taken Over the World? It Already Has
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In 2019, a vision struck me—a future where artificial intelligence (AI), accelerating at an unimaginable pace, would weave itself into every facet of our lives. After reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near, I was captivated by the inescapable trajectory of exponential growth. The future wasn’t just on the horizon; it was hurtling toward us. […]
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Breeze bonanza: AI helps sculpt first geographically-tailored urban wind turbine
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The team behind the “Birmingham Blade”: (left to right) Dr Kit Windows Yule, University of Birmingham, and Chief Scientific Officer, EvoPhase; Leonard Nicusan, Chief Technology Officer, EvoPhase; Dominik Werner, CEO, EvoPhase; David Coleman, CEO, University of Birmingham Enterprise; Jack Sykes, Chief Operating Officer, EvoPhase; John Cook, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, University of Birmingham Enterprise; Laura Bond, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, University […]
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City-scale heat networks needed to decarbonise heat in Scottish cities, says report by industry body
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Aberdeen. Scotland needs to urgently change the way it heats its cities and towns if it is to meet the Scottish Government’s target of decarbonising heat by 2045, says a report published today (28 November) by Scottish Renewables, the industry body for renewable energy in Scotland. More than half of Scotland’s energy consumption is used […]
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Transformed leakage technology can tackle resource challenge
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There has been a transformation in leakage technology over the past five years, with new systems now available that improve performance, keeping more water in supply, writes Roland Leslie, Ovarro’s UK & Ireland sales lead, ahead of the Annual Leakage Conference taking place in Birmingham, UK, 2-3 December 2024. The impact of emerging technologies, particularly […]
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Recyclability by Design publication keeps packaging developers on top of EPR and other issues
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The new guidance. RECOUP has updated its Recyclability by Design (RBD) publication, bringing things up to date with emerging requirements, and at a critical time for packaging recyclability with the impending increase of compliance costs associated with Extended Producer Responsibility. Originally released in 2006, the RBD document from the group – a leading UK independent […]
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Group plans to advance furniture recycling mission in Scotland
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Design-and-build firm Space Solutions has completed a project employing 100 refurbished desks (image credit: Recycle Scotland). Over 3 million tonnes of office furniture is sent to landfill annually across the world, explains Recycle Scotland as it announces a fresh new look to reflect its ambitions of widening its ‘reuse first’ service. Established in 2010, the […]
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The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Lyu Wenbin and Prof Bai Quan
The Academy of Macroeconomic Research (AMR) is a research institution under the direct supervision of China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the ministry in charge of economic development and planning. As a “national high-end thinktank”, the AMR’s Energy Research Institute is a well-respected body conducting energy transition research and providing vital suggestions on the […]
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Notta AI Review: Transcribe Multiple Languages At Once!
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Ever struggled to keep up with fast meetings, long interviews, or complex lectures? We’ve all been there, jotting down notes while trying to catch every important word. But what if you could eliminate the stress of manual note-taking and never miss a key detail again? I recently discovered Notta AI, an AI transcription tool that’s […]
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Using sunlight to recycle black plastics
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Inside this reaction vial, spotlit by concentrated sunlight, a piece of black polystyrene from a foam tray breaks down into a recyclable material (image credit: Hanning Jiang). Black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in landfills because colour additives lead to ineffective sorting. Now, a US group […]
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Graphene goes mainstream, says Levidian, with launch of second generation technology
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The second-generation LOOP chamber. British climate technology firm Levidian has launched its second-generation LOOP technology, which the group says will unlock industrial levels of production of high-quality graphene for the first time. As the firm explains, the LOOP system provides heavy emitters and hard-to-abate industries such as landfill and aluminium producers with a route to […]