In August 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Signed by President Joe Biden, the legislation attempted to curb inflation, lower the deficit, and invest heavily into domestic clean energy. One aspect of the bill was setting a market value-based target for battery-critical mineral content in electric vehicles (EVs). By 2027, for an EV
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If there is one thing to take away from the security breaches of the last year – from humanitarian organisation the Red Cross or video game manufacturer Bandai Namco – it's that the attackers are winning. It's clear we need new ways of dealing with an increasingly complex threat landscape. Security
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As the world moves towards a sustainable energy landscape, data centre operators have been quick to realise the important role that BESS will play in the future on both a micro and national level. Collectively, data centres consume around 1% of the world’s electricity every year, and with demand growing, this
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The UK could see annual damage caused by flooding increase by more than one-fifth over the next century unless international pledges to reduce carbon emissions are met, a study has found. Researchers from the University of Bristol and water risk modelling firm Fathom used assessed future flood hazards, based on the
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After more than three decades of limited change to office workspaces, sweeping new working models since the pandemic have necessitated renewed thinking from landlords and building managers. These include how spaces are designed and kitted out, and how modern necessities like Wi-Fi, dedicated bandwidth, private VLANs and other digital services
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Engineers at the University of California have designed solar roofs that can harvest energy for greenhouses to power their lamps and water controls while still allowing sunlight to reach the plants. The emerging field of agrivoltaics tries to make use of the same tracts of land for both solar power generation
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Since the pandemic, the global semiconductor industry has experienced a political-economic trend known as ‘chip nationalism.’ Governments worldwide are increasingly attempting to completely onshore semiconductor supply chains or build a semiconductor supply chain of politically allied countries. However, the quest for self-sufficiency comes with risks of its own. According to the 2023 KPMG Global
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Nigeria’s electricity sector dates back to the colonial era when the electricity supply was mainly from diesel generators owned by industrial establishments including factories and mines as well as other institutions such as hospitals and schools. Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed many times in the past years resulting in
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Kai Greshake, one of the researchers on the paper, told Motherboard that Bing AI can see what users have open in their tabs, meaning that the prompt only needs to appear in one of those tabs in order to affect the AI. Via Motherboard: “The new Bing has an opt-in feature that
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African fintech unicorn Flutterwave has denied losing the sum of ₦2,949,557,867 to hackers. It was earlier reported on Sunday that hackers stole the sum of ₦2,949,557,867, from the accounts of the company and over 300 customers were affected by the fraudulent act. Meanwhile, the company disclosed nothing of such happened, on Sunday. The
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