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Dale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk – and his vegan football team It is fair to say that Britain’s alternative energy sector is not dripping with glamour, but within the world of turbines and micro-inverters, Dale Vince, the multimillionaire …

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Sam Bankman-Fried said his billions would save the world – but his philanthropic ideas ranged from the worthy to the severely outlandish Most of us don’t think of power-hungry killer robots as an imminent threat to humanity, especially when poverty and the climate crisis are already ravaging the Earth. This wasn’t the case for Sam …

Power-hungry robots, space colonization, cyborgs: inside the bizarre world of ‘longtermism’ Read More »

Brooklyn residents are using air quality and traffic sensors to see how new warehouses affect their community For the past year, a pair of plain-looking buildings has been at the center of a simmering conflict in a close-knit waterfront community in New York City. They look like warehouses, with tall concrete walls, loading bays and …

Tracking Amazon: the New Yorkers monitoring pollution from delivery hubs Read More »

Silicon Valley ‘saviours’ are the heroes of the hour. Too often they have feet of clay Trussonomics trashed within eight weeks. Donald Trump’s anointed candidates cut down in the US midterms. Sam Bankman-Fried, the poster boy of the crypto world, collapsing into bankruptcy. Elon Musk throwing Twitter into turmoil. The bursting of myths and the …

Beware self-made ‘genius’ entrepreneurs promising the earth. Just look at Elon Musk | Kenan Malik Read More »

Reported posts aimed at 43 players remain live, according to anti-hate speech campaigners, fuelling concerns over possible abuse during World Cup Tweets hurling racist abuse at footballers, including the N-word, monkey emojis and calls for them to be deported, are not being removed by Twitter. New research shows the platform failed to act on 99 …

Twitter fails to delete 99% of racist tweets aimed at footballers in run-up to World Cup Read More »

Furor over platform’s verified profiles may have done some good, but challenges still plague the site after a mass worker exodus Against warnings that Twitter is on the verge of collapse, the social media platform hadn’t died Saturday – at least not yet. But things aren’t necessarily going well for new owner Elon Musk’s goal …

‘More work to do’: Eli Lilly admits insulin pricing could be lower amid Twitter chaos Read More »

Beneath the billionaire’s blurry vision for Twitter lies the notion that it’s good to have a ‘marketplace of ideas’ At the end of last month, just after Elon Musk had bought Twitter, I wrote that having him responsible for an important part of the world’s public sphere could turn out to be “like entrusting a …

Elon Musk needs to learn that more debate does not mean more truth | John Naughton Read More »

Social media giant ill-equipped to deal with traffic spikes after cuts imposed by Elon Musk, according to former employee Twitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with knowledge of how the company responds to large-scale events. The …

Twitter has ‘50% chance’ of major crash during World Cup, says insider Read More »

After the crypto firm collapsed, the executive who handled the Enron debacle was brought in – and said he’d never seen anything like it • ‘I don’t have this kind of money to lose’ – investors’ stories Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is another typical tale …

Polyamory, penthouses and plenty of loans: inside the crazy world of FTX Read More »

Smaller investors tell how they found themselves unable to withdraw money as rumours of the exchange’s troubles spread The UK parliament this week heard during testimony on the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX that most of the money it held came from institutions. Yet with about $8bn still owed to depositors, its collapse has still left …

‘The money is gone’: people who lost out in FTX’s collapse Read More »