Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch company backed by billionaire Richard Branson, has signed an initial agreement to develop small satellite launch capabilities for the…
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Wheel mounting in seconds: as soon as a non-uniform electric field is switched on, the chassis of a microvehicle pulls its own wheels into wheel…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It’s a good week here at Equity HQ…
The UK’s next prime minister must prioritize a decision on whether or not to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to be a 5G supplier, a…
Episode 180: Moonshots and a new operating manual for spaceship Earth, a redesign for circular jeans
Week in Review Tune in around 7:23 for commentary Shareable scooters may seem sustainable, but are they really? Why directors are in the crosshairs of…
The IFC and the country’s power utility are planning to build small on-grid solar parks across three to five different sites, and are seeking a…
A floating solar array will be located in the North Sea near an aquaculture and an offshore wind power facility. The €2 million pilot project…
Media playback is unsupported on your device YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos. On…
Shows like Love Island, Gavin & Stacey, Gentleman Jack and Broadchurch will be on ITV and the BBC’s streaming service BritBox when it launches this…
Passengers will be able to make calls and go online anywhere on the London Underground by the mid-2020s. Transport for London (TfL) has announced plans…
A future where drones can easily and cheaply do many useful things such as deliver packages, undertake search and rescue missions, deliver urgent medical supplies,…
VertoFX, an Africa and emerging markets focused currency trading and payment startup, has raised a $2.1 million seed round, led by Accelerated Digital Ventures. The…
UK based energy data service provider and consultancy EnAppSys released its quarterly review of the European energy market. While renewables have covered a large chunk…
The huge floating plant is expected to be located on a water surface close to the Saemangeum, an estuarine tidal flat on the coast of…
This article is adapted from the Energy Weekly newsletter, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. Since Renewable Energy Certificates, or RECs, came onto the scene in the early…
Soil is one big carbon sink, or it can be, if it’s nurtured correctly. Dirt that smells like dirt, teaming with organic material and organisms…
Part three of our series on solar’s less covered markets takes us to Belgium, where despite impressive instsllation numbers from the rooftop market, a lack…
Tesla has opened a massive next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into one sustainable energy ecosystem, fulfilling…
Adam Neumann, the co-founder and chief executive of the international real estate co-working startup, WeWork, has reportedly cashed out of more than $700 million from…
The final hours for China’s Tiangong-2 space station are at hand, as the 8-ton piece of hardware will fall to earth, or rather sea, some…