PEG Africa, a company offering pay-as-you-go solar to consumers and businesses in West Africa has received a $5 million investment from European Union initiative ElectriFi.…
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With the 200 hydrogen bikes offered to journalists and world leaders at the G7 summit in Biarritz proving popular, manufacturer Pragma Industries has received an…
For a market that’s increasingly described as mature, the global wind industry still knows how to put up startlingly big numbers. Wind developers placed orders…
Sunrun won another big deal to deliver residential solar-battery systems at grid scale, this one fine-tuned to serve utility Hawaiian Electric’s unique island grids. Leading…
YouTube has been fined a record $170m (£139m) by a US regulator for violating children’s privacy laws. Google, which owns YouTube, agreed to pay the…
HONOLULU—On the site of the most infamous sneak attack in American history, U.S. Pacific Air Forces is collating tens of millions of radar contacts and other data…
The Federal Trade Commission has set a price on children’s privacy online and the going rate is $170 million. That’s how much Google will have…
Spotify’s newest paid subscription, the Premium Duo plan designed for two people, first launched this spring as a pilot test in Ireland, Colombia, Chile, Denmark,…
Challenger bank Chime has reached 5 million customers in the U.S. The San Francisco-based startup is creating an FDIC-insured mobile bank without any physical branch.…
Research by a privacy rights advocacy group has found popular mental health websites in the EU are sharing users’ sensitive personal data with advertisers. Europeans…
For a seemingly tough pitch, Light has had little trouble getting noticed. The company has run two successful crowdfunding campaigns for a pair of minimalist…
A consortium of European research institutes has received €10.6 million in EU funding to establish pilot production of a high efficiency module concept developed by…
From pv magazine Australia. A megawatt-scale solar farm planned on top of a wastewater treatment pond has become the first floating PV project – and…
The government intends to build a 25 MW solar park in Sveti Nikole and a 10 MW facility in Makedonski Brod. The feed-in premium granted…
As growing numbers of people are using cannabis to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new UCL study reports that prescriptions are not backed up…
An artificial-intelligence app that allows users to insert their faces in place of those film and TV characters has caused controversy in China. Zao has…
Media playback is unsupported on your device “Sit up, man!” came the cries from opposition benches as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP and Leader of the…
Judges have ruled against a shopper who brought a legal challenge against police use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology. The court refused the judicial…
What do you get when you mix 500 highly skilled code poets, 36 hours of sleep-deprived coding and an unlimited supply caffeine? If you guessed…
Amazon India and Walmart’s Flipkart, two of the largest e-commerce businesses in India, have pledged to curb the usage of single-use plastic in their packaging…