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  • Deepfake and cloned AI voices now sound almost identical to human speech, study finds

    AI-generated voices are now virtually indistinguishable from real human voices, according to researchers from Queen Mary University of London.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • China’s first ever emissions cut pledge falls short of UN guidance

    China, the world’s largest contributor to climate change, has pledged to reduce its economy’s greenhouse gas emissions by 7-10% by 2035 from peak levels.

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    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • Urgent action needed to move critical services off ‘unreliable’ analogue networks, BT warns

    Moving the UK’s critical services off ageing analogue networks could deliver a £3bn net benefit to the economy by 2040, according to research from BT.

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    E+T Magazine in Computing
  • Quantum computing start-up shows its chips can be made with regular chipmaking methods

    A start-up specialising in quantum computer hardware has proved that its chips are capable of maintaining the 99% accuracy needed to make the next frontier of computers viable.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • Virgin Galactic suborbital flight to become ‘space classroom’ for university team

    University researchers will carry out ‘hands-on STEM education’ on board a Virgin Galactic spaceflight.

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    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Five new AI data centre sites planned as part of $500bn Stargate project

    OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank have announced plans to expand the $500bn Stargate AI infrastructure project with five new data cent

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    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • 5G performance often matches 4G despite widespread roll-out, researchers say

    Scientists have proved that, in many cases, 5G offers users very few speed or latency benefits over longstanding 4G networks.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • Europe’s first pilot line for recycling rare earth magnets opens in France

    France has launched Europe’s first rare earth magnet recycling and manufacturing pilot line, aiming to reduce reliance on Chinese imports.

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    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Rising temperatures will worsen aircraft noise pollution across Europe, study warns

    Noise pollution is expected to increase in the coming years because of increasingly warm air.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Government approves 25 major infrastructure projects on its path to reach 150

    Since coming to parliament, the UK government has green‑lit 25 major infrastructure projects, marking a key milestone in its plan to “get Britain building again”.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • Britain strengthens energy grid to avoid blackouts like Spain’s April outage

    Britain’s energy grid is being “future-proofed” against the kind of events that saw a full-scale blackout across the Iberian Pen

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Power Equipment
  • Industry insight: How early transformer monitoring can stop the next Heathrow-like power blackout

    Transformers are critical to a stable power grid, but aging infrastructure is driving a surge in blackouts as demand outpaces su

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Power Equipment
  • Fully autonomous heavy-duty truck operates on Belgian public road in world first

    Swedish transport tech start-up Einride has driven a fully autonomous heavy-duty truck on a public road in Belgium for the fir

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Electric Vehicles
  • Inside Europe’s uneasy push to rebuild its military muscle

    In an increasingly dangerous world, big questions are being asked of Europe’s ability to fight off attacks. So how is the contin

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • Global fossil fuel output more than double what is needed to meet 1.5°C climate target

    Governments are planning to extract more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, a report has found.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Climate Change
  • Nissan and Wayve test AI self-driving cars in Tokyo ahead of 2027 launch

    UK AI start-up Wayve and Nissan have begun testing self-driving tech on production vehicles ahead of a planned 2027 launch.

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    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • Gatwick plans to add 100,000 flights a year after winning second runway approval

    Gatwick Airport has been given permission to build a £2.2bn second runway that will increase its flight capacity by around 100,000 a year.

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    E+T Magazine in Built Environment Technologies
  • England faces recycling crisis as flexible plastic collections become mandatory by 2027

    Kerbside collection of flexible plastics – such as crisp packets, bubble wrap and bread bags – will become mandatory in England by March 2027, but the UK currently lacks the recycling infrastructure to cope with the materials, North London Waste Authority has warned.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Tea plants thrive in lunar soil after space farming breakthrough

    Tea plants can grow in lunar soil, researchers have found – a discovery that could make a manned base on the Moon a more realistic proposition.

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    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Microsoft to build world’s most powerful AI data centre in Wisconsin

    Microsoft has announced it is investing $4bn to build a new data centre in Wisconsin that will have “10X the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today”.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • Melting sea ice opens China-Europe shipping shortcut

    A Chinese firm is preparing to launch a cargo vessel along a route spanning Russia’s northern coast that has only been made viable due to a retreating ice shelf brought about by climate change.

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    E+T Magazine in Climate Change
  • Two major European science organisations collaborate to advance fusion energy

    Fusion for Energy (F4E) and CERN – Europe’s largest physics laboratory – have joined forces to accelerate the development of fusion energy.

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    E+T Magazine in Nuclear Power
  • New data platform to track industry’s electricity and gas use to support decarbonisation targets

    UK Power Networks has launched a shared data platform to track how energy is used across the UK’s industrial sector and help accelerate decarbonisation.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Computing
  • Baltic flights disrupted as Russia escalates GPS spoofing attacks

    Russia has been using GPS jamming and spoofing to disrupt orbiting satellite navigation systems which presents major risks to ci

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Satellites
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