The world faces a “staggering” surplus of oil equating to millions of barrels a day by the end of the decade, as oil companies increase production, undermining the ability of Opec+ to manage crude prices, the International Energy Agency has warned....
Energy groups did not need to develop any new oil, gas and coal projects to meet future demand, an academic paper says, at a time when rhetoric over the role of fossil fuel companies in addressing climate change is escalating....
Good news for summer solstice as solar makes 20% of global electricity (www.euronews.com)
NASA will pay SpaceX nearly $1 billion to deorbit the International Space Station (arstechnica.com)
Cloud geoengineering could push heatwaves from US to Europe (www.newscientist.com)
China's Killer Robots Are Coming (www.newsweek.com)
Apple wants to replace 50% of iPhone final assembly line workers with automation - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Tourists Dropping Dead From Heat in Greece (futurism.com)
Scientists Invent Smartphone Chip That Peers Through Barriers With Electromagnetic Waves (futurism.com)
Tax the rich, say a majority of adults across 17 G20 countries surveyed (phys.org)
Writer Alarmed When Company Fires His 60-Person Team, Replaces Them All With AI (futurism.com)
GCL says perovskite solar module passes silicon degradation tests, halving solar costs (pv-magazine-usa.com)
Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War (www.wired.com)
Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid (fortune.com)
Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming (futurism.com)
Satellite 'megaconstellations' may jeopardize recovery of ozone hole (phys.org)
US Surgeon General calls for tobacco-style health warnings on social media - it's bad for your mental health (www.techspot.com)
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing (www.wired.com)
SoftBank’s ‘emotion canceling’ AI tones down customers’ anger (interestingengineering.com)
Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)
53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids (www.cnbc.com)
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)
Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo (petapixel.com)
Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil (www.bloomberg.com)
Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in ancient Norwegian volcano (www.techspot.com)
The last ozone-layer damaging chemicals to be phased out are finally falling in the atmosphere (uk.news.yahoo.com)
Eric Schmidt is poaching from Apple, SpaceX, and Google for his secretive AI military drone project (www.yahoo.com)
A battery charged by tears may make smart contact lenses a reality | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Universal Basic Income Could Double Global GDP While Cutting Carbon Emissions (www.zmescience.com)
World faces ‘staggering’ oil glut by end of decade, energy watchdog warns (www.ft.com)
The world faces a “staggering” surplus of oil equating to millions of barrels a day by the end of the decade, as oil companies increase production, undermining the ability of Opec+ to manage crude prices, the International Energy Agency has warned....
Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)
Less than 3% of farmland could power the Midwest (pv-magazine-usa.com)
Bowel disease breakthrough as researchers make ‘holy grail’ discovery (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (futurism.com)
First confirmed human case of bird flu H5N2 has died, says World Health Organisation (news.sky.com)
Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 6 Years (www.popularmechanics.com)
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)
World has been breaching key 1.5C threshold for the last year, scientists warn (news.sky.com)
Future energy demand does not need new fossil fuels, study says (www.ft.com)
Energy groups did not need to develop any new oil, gas and coal projects to meet future demand, an academic paper says, at a time when rhetoric over the role of fossil fuel companies in addressing climate change is escalating....
Colorado to deploy drones as first responders to 911 calls (www.techspot.com)
NHS patients in England to be offered trials for world-first cancer vaccine (www.theguardian.com)
Godfather of AI Says There's an Expert Consensus AI Will Soon Exceed Human Intelligence (futurism.com)
Microsoft being investigated over new ‘Recall’ AI feature that tracks your every PC move (mashable.com)
GPT-4 outsmarts Wall Street: AI predicts earnings better than human analysts (www.businesstoday.in)
CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue (futurism.com)
Discovery of Supercapacitors ‘Missing Link’ Moves Laptops That Charge in 1 Minute Closer to Reality - The Debrief (thedebrief.org)
Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees (www.wired.com)
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