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Live facial recognition cameras to be used on UK’s busiest shopping street
Sadiq Khan has indicated the technology will be deployed on London’s Oxford Street despite human rights concernsThe Metropolitan police are understood to be planning to use live f…
British driver sets new land speed record for hydrogen-powered car – video
The British engineering company JCB and the driver Andy Green have set a new world land speed record for a hydrogen-powered vehicle of 406.320mph with their JCB Hydromax. The atte…
Heat, algae and AI: proposed datacenter could damage Everglades, experts warn
Plans for hyperscale datacenter in Palm Beach county prompt concerns over water and electricity demandsAbout 16 miles (26km) west of the Mar-a-Lago estate on President Donald J Tr…
Number of children injured in e-scooter crashes in England surges
Calls for speed limiters or mandated helmet use after research into injuries at three paediatric trauma centres The number of children involved in crashes on e-scooters has soared…
Current price of oil as of August 12, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
The Gulf’s AI boom is driving the race to control the data highways
The Gulf’s AI ambitions are spurring governments and telecom giants to invest in building out the cables, fiber networks and data centers that will determine who controls the regi…
AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?
The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out j…
If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profi…
The Gulf wants to break free from the world’s data chokepoints
In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.
Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwavesUK heatwave live – latest updatesJust 20 staff are working on climate adap…
Great Britain faces electricity supply shortfall during solar eclipse
Event expected to hit solar power just as fifth heatwave of summer increases use of air conditioning and fansGreat Britain faces a shortfall of electricity supplies on Wednesday e…
Millions of US tax dollars sent to rightwing European thinktanks. Did any Trump supporters vote for that? | Arwa Mahdawi
It’s a great betrayal: poor communities neglected while multimillionaires peddle a global Maga agenda. How is that America first?“THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE,” …
Forget the gala, these Silicon Valley schools run their own venture capital funds
A handful of elite Bay Area schools have enlisted parent-donors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery to steer small pools of donated capital into early-stage startups. With massi…
Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain
The George Washington University recently sold its Virginia campus to Amazon, and The University of Michigan proposed a new $1.2 billion data center development.
Kalshi’s CEO is racing to build a futures market for AI’s most precious resource, which could be worth $100 trillion by 2030
Compute is the new oil—but building its futures market may be just as messy.
Meet ChatTJB, the ‘AI’ chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It’s just one guy and the 10,000 people who volunteered to type back
There's no AI behind ChatTJB, just a former Google employee and soon, more than 10,000 volunteers answering strangers' questions in his place.
‘It’s been a revelation’: how heat pumps can cool your home in a heatwave
It might seem an unlikely way to stop overheating, but many owners have found the tech a lifeline in hot weather“If it is 35C outdoors, I can get the temperature down to 21C,” say…
Eerie silence and ‘still surviving’: what happened next after steel town’s last blast furnace shut down
Exhibition in Port Talbot is part of project exploring how communities experience endings and transitionsMargaret Heggett, 95, does not remember a time when Port Talbot was ever q…
All-British chocolate bar made by scientists using Reading-grown cocoa
Master’s student made first bar with 100% UK ingredients since 1932 to highlight effect of climate crisis on cocoa plantsThe late queen was the only person in history to have ever…
Households near new pylons to get £250 taken off annual energy bills
Discounts confirmed near more than 40 locations across Great Britain amid biggest upgrade to electricity grid since 1960sHouseholds living near new power pylons will have £250 a y…
The Guardian view on AI money in US politics: not the way to hold an urgent democratic debate | Editorial
Amid public concern over the impact of new technology, Silicon Valley’s use of its wealth to influence specific election races is an unwelcome developmentAs the huge societal rami…
Will Andy Burnham’s everyday fixes be enough to get the public on his side?
The prime minister’s money-saving policies are popular but they are yet to convince voters he can take on the big thingsIt was last year that Martin Lewis, the money-saving guru, …
To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you | Dawn Butler
Too many shops are blighting too many communities. With the rule change I fought for now on the horizon, ordinary people can fight back How much gambling do you want in your high …
Droughts were predicted decades ago – yet water companies did nothing | Letter
Water boards in the south of England should have paid attention to scientific models and built reservoirs, writes Steve Lindsay, while Martin Gray suggests turning salt water into…