A step toward harnessing clean energy from falling rainwater
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When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. This is how rubbing a balloon on the skin creates static electricity. Likewise, water flowing over some surfaces can gain or lose charge. Now, researchers reporting in the American Chemical Society’s publication Central Science have harnessed the phenomenon to generate […]
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Smarter ways to find more leaks faster
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Ben Crabtree is water conservation product line director with Ovarro. It is smarter working, not more boots on the ground, that will help companies deliver AMP8 leakage commitments and improve strategic management of water, writes Ben Crabtree The scale of leakage reduction required by 2030 – a 17% reduction to pre-privatisation levels – will see […]
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CNTXT AI Launches Munsit: The Most Accurate Arabic Speech Recognition System Ever Built
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In a defining moment for Arabic-language artificial intelligence, CNTXT AI has unveiled Munsit, a next-generation Arabic speech recognition model that is not only the most accurate ever created for Arabic, but one that decisively outperforms global giants like OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and ElevenLabs on standard benchmarks. Developed in the UAE and tailored for Arabic from […]
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Balancing productivity and privacy: Safeguarding data in the age of AI-driven tools
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Taking on repetitive tasks, providing insights at speeds far beyond human capabilities, and significantly boosting our productivity—artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we work, so much so that its use can improve the performance of highly skilled professionals by as much as 40%. AI has already provided an abundance of useful tools, from Clara, the […]
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Keytake Review: How I Created a Quality Video in Minutes
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What if you could create a full video before your coffee even cools down? Sounds impossible, right? But with today’s technology, it’s not just possible. It’s happening. After all, video content is expected to account for a significant portion of all internet traffic (around 82% by 2025). Content creators, educators, and businesses are scrambling to […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: The US Weakens Regulations Addressing the Financial Cost of Climate Change
Under new leadership appointed by the Trump administration, federal agencies have weakened key regulations meant to protect the economy from the financial harms of climate change. Some of the targeted regulations seek to manage climate risk; others constrain corporate actions or investment strategies on a range of environmental, social, or governance (ESG) topics. A summary […]
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Leveraging Generative AI for Document Automation: Beyond Legal and Finance
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Document automation has traditionally been the domain of legal and finance teams, but there’s plenty more that can benefit from generative-AI-automated document creation. Customer support, academic research, and more can have enjoy the benefits of large scale document generation, all with the correct industry-specific jargon and conforming to complex layouts need for a huge range […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Silencing Science [Again]
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This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0, in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first hundred days of President Trump’s second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over the course of the next […]
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Leading Teams Through the Transition to Agentic AI
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For years, organizations have embraced artificial intelligence in various forms—automation tools, data analytics engines, chatbots, and more. But now, with the emergence of Agentic AI, the game has truly changed. Unlike past AI models that passively analyze or respond to inputs, Agentic AI actively makes decisions, initiates tasks, and drives outcomes with minimal human intervention. […]
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Samer Saab, Founder and CEO of Explorance – Interview Series
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Samer Saab is the founder and CEO of Explorance with over 22 years of experience in the technology industry. Prior to founding Explorance, Samer developed a wide perspective on business through a variety of roles in diverse organizations including Bombardier, Nortel, Sycamore Networks, and Nakisa. He also participates in a wide range of philanthropic activities […]
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Q&A: What we do – and do not – know about the blackout in Spain and Portugal
At 12.33pm on Monday 28 April, most of Spain and Portugal were plunged into chaos by a blackout. While the initial trigger remains uncertain, the nationwide blackouts took place after around 15 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generating capacity – equivalent to 60% of Spain’s power demand at the time – dropped off the system within the space of […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners
The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have proved volatile for local governments working to advance ambitious climate action. We have seen the freezing or termination of federal grants and other financial assistance, executive orders seeking to usurp state and local authority, the initiation of extensive deregulatory efforts, threats to green banks and […]
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64% of Scotland’s supply chain are investing in renewable energy, trade body finds
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Montrose Port Authority is one of the organizations featured in publication, which showcases groups working in Scotland’s renewable energy industry. The findings have been published by Scottish Renewables, which surveyed its 370+ members as part of this year’s Supply Chain Impact Statement, published on 30 April. But it also finds that 60% of suppliers think Scotland […]
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Gemini Robotics: AI Reasoning Meets the Physical World
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In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced significantly across various fields, such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. However, one major challenge for AI has been its integration into the physical world. While AI has excelled at reasoning and solving complex problems, these achievements have largely been limited to digital environments. To […]
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Government attempts to reduce environmental protections in planning bill could breach international law, says KC
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The government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill could be in breach of international law, according to new legal advice from a leading KC. Planning and environmental law barrister, David Elvin KC of Landmark Chambers, found Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to be “regressive” and potentially in breach of international law. Mr Elvin’s […]
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Grangemouth closure and Blair’s net zero intervention, must be wake up call for government warns Unite
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Aerial image of Grangemouth site from 2018. Unite, one of the UK’s largest trade unions, representing workers in construction, energy and engineering, has today (30 April) called on the UK government to fundamentally rethink its approach to net zero policies and industrial strategy. Unite’s intervention comes a day after it was announced that the Grangemouth […]
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AI Doesn’t Necessarily Give Better Answers If You’re Polite
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Public opinion on whether it pays to be polite to AI shifts almost as often as the latest verdict on coffee or red wine – celebrated one month, challenged the next. Even so, a growing number of users now add ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ to their prompts, not just out of habit, or concern that […]
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Worms, Springs, and Soft Robots: Tiny Creatures Inspire Giant Leaps
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Researchers at Georgia Tech recently unveiled an impressive achievement: a 5-inch-long soft robot that can catapult itself 10 feet into the air – the height of a basketball hoop – without any legs. The design was inspired by the humble nematode, a tiny roundworm thinner than a human hair that can jump many times its […]