TfL trial new way to cut construction vehicle emissions
Transport for London TfL hopes this technology will help reach net zero carbon by 2030 Transport for London (TfL) is trialling zero emission construction vehicles for six weeks, involving what it calls a UK-first method of mobile recharging. In a first for TfL, an electric excavator and wheel loader replaced equipment traditionally powered by fossil […]
Hotpot chain Haidilao on fire ahead of Hong Kong listing
Sarah Porter BBC News, Singapore Getty Images It has a reputation for keeping customers waiting for more than two hours for a table, and has suffered a couple of very high profile food scandals in China and in Singapore. But the Beijing-based hotpot chain Haidilao, which has outlets from the US to Japan, has been […]
Quarantine rules for some countries set to be relaxed
Tom Burridge Transport correspondent, BBC News Getty Images The government is planning to relax its travel quarantine rules in early July for some countries. UK officials are talking to their counterparts in Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Spain. However, the UK hopes to make an announcement on 29 June that it has secured a number […]
What might really be behind failed bid for OpenAI
Lily Jamali North America Technology Correspondent Reuters OpenAI’s board of directors has officially rejected Elon Musk’s nearly $100bn offer for the maker of what is the world’s best-known artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT. But the unsolicited bid might not be a failure – at least as far as Musk is concerned, experts say. That’s because […]
Is Netflix’s Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans?
Reality Check team BBC News Lucy Tabrizi Ali Tabrizi, director of Seaspiracy, observing a shark fin A documentary about the fishing industry’s impact on sea life and the oceans has caused a lot of debate. Many viewers have been saying they will no longer eat fish after watching the film, and expressed shock at the […]
Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
Privacy campaigners have called Google’s new rules on tracking people online “a blatant disregard for user privacy.” Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called “fingerprinting”, which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses and information about their devices. Google says this data is already widely used by other […]
Welsh farm worker numbers hit at least 20-year low
Getty Images Farm worker numbers in Wales have dropped by more than 16% since 1998, suggests a Welsh Government study The number of people working on Welsh farms has reached at least a 20-year low, a new study has shown. The figures show almost 52,000 workers currently have full or part-time jobs on farms – […]
Western Isles life in the 1970s brought back on screen
Craig Williams BBC Scotland News Children singing at Uist Mòd is thought to date from 1977 It was an attempt to use cutting-edge video technology to chronicle the daily lives of people in the Western Isles. Cinema Sgire ran from 1977 to 1981 and involved training local people to use some of the first commercially […]
New Zealand proposes taxing cow burps to reduce emissions
Getty Images Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s plans has angered some farmers New Zealand has proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals produce from burping and urinating in a bid to tackle climate change. The world-first scheme will see farmers paying for agricultural emissions in some form by 2025. The country’s farming industry accounts for […]
Leeds Innovation Village to push ahead despite hospital delay
Gemma Dillon BBC Yorkshire, Political Reporter BBC Ali Abdi said having an innovation hub in Leeds allowed collaboration between the hospital and universities Work on a new “innovation village” linked to Leeds General Infirmary is set to continue, despite a plan to rebuild the hospital being delayed until 2030. The proposed hub, which is designed […]