1.5°C Paris target too high for polar ice sheets, says new study

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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Aerial view of the Gertz ice shelf in November 2016 (image credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre’s Photostream, CC BY-NC 2.0 license). Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world’s ice sheets, according to a new study. Research led by […]

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A new remediation technology, ReBind, is claimed to offer a cost-effective, on-site solution for handling contaminated soil on brownfield redevelopment sites, according to the group behind it. Developed by SMR UK, the patented binder is said to enable developers to stabilise and reuse up to 100% of contaminated ground, avoiding escalating landfill costs and reducing […]

The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down. Prices spiked after Russia cut off gas exports to Europe, precipitating a global energy crisis alongside its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK has been particularly exposed, as gas […]

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The developers of noise cameras insist there’s a case for them, and the public seem to agree. So far, a number of localities worldwide are either trialling the technology or moving to the implementation phase of issuing fines to the public. Why isn’t it taking off in the UK? Seemingly more than two-thirds of UK […]

This is the time of the year when I notice a significant increase in the number of people bicycling to work and school. I consciously stop myself from smugly thinking, ‘where were you in January?’ and focus on sending ‘welcome to the bike path’ energy. The big jump in e-bikes is a double edged sword. […]

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It’s no secret that software is a part of our daily lives. We use it to keep our schedules, connect with friends and family, manage our finances, and execute everyday tasks for work. The convenience and speed it offers us, it also offers to cybercriminals. Especially in the last several years, it’s been impossible to […]

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Cloud computing has come a long way, and it’s going to be used very differently for the next generation than it was when it first took root 20 years ago. As the race to automate software development heats up between OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI frontrunners, a quieter pressure point is brewing: cloud infrastructure. Recently […]

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Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan has never forgotten the pleasure he felt the first time he tasted a delicious crisp, yet gooey Levain cookie. He compares the experience to when he encounters new ideas. “That hedonic pleasure is pretty much the same pleasure I get hearing a new idea, discovering a new way of looking at […]

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About a decade ago, artificial intelligence was split between image recognition and language understanding. Vision models could spot objects but couldn’t describe them, and language models generate text but couldn’t “see.” Today, that divide is rapidly disappearing. Vision Language Models (VLMs) now combine visual and language skills, allowing them to interpret images and explaining them […]

I have developed and updated 15 resources in my four years at Climate Generation. However, the 2025 update of Next Generation Climate for grades 6-8 (NGC) felt significantly more challenging. For the first time, I faced an atmosphere of federal pushback against the validity of climate change science and education. I struggled to find alternative […]

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As companies grapple with moving Generative AI projects from experimentation to productionising – many businesses remain stuck in pilot mode. As our recent research highlights, 92% of organisations are concerned that GenAI pilots are accelerating without first tackling fundamental data issues. Even more telling: 67% have been unable to scale even half of their pilots […]

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Kuljesh Puri is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Media & Technology at Persistent Systems. He brings over 26 years of experience across the software, telecom, and semiconductor industries, along with extensive international exposure and a passion for transformation. Before joining Persistent, Kuljesh headed the Telecom Product Engineering portfolio at Tech Mahindra. […]

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A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of […]
On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, […]
In the Arctic Ocean, around 400 miles from the north pole, lies the island of Svalbard. Named after the Viking word for “cold edge”, the island lay largely undisturbed before it was used as a base for whaling in the 17th and 18th centuries and transformed into a coal-mining hub in the 20th century. Today, […]

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Have you ever found yourself with a song and a vision but have no clue how to bring them together visually without burning through your savings or learning complex editing software? You have music you’re proud of, but no idea how to turn that into something people can see and feel. That’s what led me […]

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In April 2025, OpenAI introduced its most advanced models to date, o3 and o4-mini. These models represent a major step forward in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering new capabilities in visual analysis and coding support. With their strong reasoning skills and ability to work with both text and images, o3 and o4-mini can […]
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