• How to build a thermal battery

    This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The votes have been tallied, and the results are in. The winner of the 11th Breakthrough Technology, 2024 edition, is drumroll please thermal batteries!  While the editors of MIT Technology…

  • The Download: introducing the Build issue

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Build issue Building is a popular tech industry motif—especially in Silicon Valley, where “Time to build” has become something of a call to arms. Yet the future is built brick by…

  • We must build on the momentum of Cop28

    The Cop28 UN climate summit last year in Dubai presented the international community with a clear mandate: Place nature at the very heart of climate action. Today being Earth Day and International Mother Earth Day is a timely moment for us to reflect on the nature-specific outcomes of Cop28. These days are a global call to action for environmental stewardship and a reminder of the interconnectedness of life on Earth. International Mother Earth Day, established by the UN in 2009, invites us to...

  • MPD investigating building burglary

    MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - The Midland Police Department and Crime Stoppers are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect involved in a burglary earlier this month. According to a post by Crime Stoppers, on Monday, April 8, an unidentified black male wearing a black beanie, white jacket, black pants, and grey shoes burglarized a []

  • Fire breaks out on building in the Southside of Elmira

    ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – A fire broke out on a building this afternoon on the Southside of Elmira leaving it with heavy damage. The fire was reported around noon on Wednesday, April 24, and occurred at a building located on the corner of Franklin Street and Herrick Street. According to an 18 News reporter on []

  • Young people build connections to employment

    The Yorkshire Asian Business Community Action group is hosting the Building Connections workshops to build young people’s employability skills and boost their chances of landing a job. The first session, at Unity Enterprise’s Leeds Media Centre in Chapeltown, Leeds, saw Satvir Meen, project leader with YABCA, lead discussions about the importance of first impressions, confidence and having the right mindset. A YABCA spokesman said: “Throughout the session, Satvir imparted expert knowledge and...

  • Fire damages commercial building in Suffolk

    SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Suffolk firefighters were still battling a two-alarm fire on a North Main Street commercial building early Tuesday morning. (WAVY Photo – Wyatt Young) Suffolk Fire &

  • Building a new, secure climate future

    Residents sit in the shade of solar panels in Somalia. UNDP is working with

  • How to escape the surveillance state: Building your own server

    Another day, another successful de-platforming campaign, but when the Internet Archive purges its eponymous cache of the offending texts, a different kind of slight on one's natural rights is taking place.In the first instance, those who own or otherwise control the machines that serve up the apparition unmistakably have the moral and legal right to kick out a guest, though naturally subject to rights under an orderly eviction. In the second case, ostensibly professional archivist organizations...

  • Biden Receives Endorsement Of Building Trades Unions

    A huge labor endorsement went to President Joe Biden today. The Associated Press reports: “President Joe Biden picked up the endorsement of North America’s Building Trades Unions at a Wednesday event where the president and his allies set out to dismantle Republican Donald Trump’s reputation as a successful real estate developer. “Donald Trump is incapable… Source

  • Inmates build bicycles for students in Santa Rosa

    NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Inmates at a Guadalupe County prison lent a hand to a nearby community. The inmates put together more than 100 bicycles for students in Santa Rosa. It took only a few hours to get them all assembled. Funding for the bikes came from the Outdoor Equity Fund. The state corrections secretary says []