After huge populist win in Hungarian election, Viktor Orbán immediately targets Soros-backed NGOs 9 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Governments meet in Geneva to consider global ban on killer robots, with an arms race underway 9 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
“A Global Arms Race for Killer Robots Is Transforming Warfare”: Time article summarises the danger 9 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Facebook suspends data firm hired by Vote Leave over alleged Cambridge Analytica ties 7 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
US Homeland Security to compile database for monitoring of journalists and ‘media influencers’ 7 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Carney warns once again of climate change threat to financial system, and imperative of risk disclosure 6 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
“Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook”: Wired headline flags a pattern 6 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Twitter executive on Trump election: “We all had this ‘holy shit’ moment …Did we create this monster?” 6 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
MIT researchers develop a device that can ‘hear’ words spoken in thought, via neuromuscular signals 6 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Elon Musk warns of prospect for “an immortal dictator from which we can never escape” 6 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Solar leads charge as global renewables build tops 2 terawatts (2,179 gigawatts) 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
“IEA accused of undermining global shift from fossil fuels” by emphasising scenarios that do not hit Paris targets 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Shell knew about the dire implications of climate change before the first IPCC report came out in 1990 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
“China Vows to Fight Trump Tariffs ‘to the End’ as Tension Rises”: Bloomberg headline 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
AI experts call for boycott over killer robots project teaming a South Korea university with Hanwha 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Renewables, mostly solar and wind, are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas by 2032: ANU scientists 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Solar leads charge as global renewables build tops 2 terawatts (2,179 gigawatts) 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Global investment in renewables grew only 2% to $279.8 bn in 2017: it has been essentially flat since 2011 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
12.1% of world electricity is now generated by electricity – up from 11% in 2016 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Solar was the biggest single sector for new global power capacity additions for the 2nd year in 2017 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
For the first time, global solar capacity grew faster in 2017 than all fossil fuels and nuclear combined 5 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
Google owner Alphabet, biggest corporate renewables buyer, reaches 100% renewable power 4 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war”: so say more than 3,000 Google employees 4 Apr 2018 jeremyl News
