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Ten women in Yemen’s Abs district have built and now run a solar microgrid. The project was set up in 2019 with the help of the UN Development Programme. The women now run the station as their own business, providing affordable, renewable energy to a community living near a war zone. As a result of

Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr is leading an investment fund that will try to spot fast-growing green technology businesses to help tackle climate change. The Footprint Coalition fund has already invested in businesses such as Cloud Paper, which makes toilet paper out of bamboo and has a mission to save a billion trees. In an

How Amazon’s Move into Automated Vehicles Could Fuel Even More Growth – techspade.com Suppose: You are going to work and think you did not remember to order laundry detergent from Amazon. You state, “Alexa, order detergent,” then the virtual assistant verifies your selection of price, size, and brand. When you go to work, you get

A curved concrete box weighing more than the Eiffel Tower has been pushed under a railway line to form a new tunnel, in a “UK first” for engineering. The 11,000-tonne, 155m (510ft) structure was moved into place under the East Coast Main Line at Werrington, Peterborough, at 150cm (60in) per hour over nine days. The

7 Reasons Why To Switch From WhatsApp To Signal techspade.com 7 Reasons Why To Switch From WhatsApp To Signal Table of Contents There were times when we texted our friends on our Nokia phones. Text messages were a huge thing back then with that famous alpha-numeric keypad. Gradually, more services started to introduce like MMS,

Joe, from Glasgow, has been an avid gamer all his life, but it wasn’t until he experienced a traumatic incident in his 20s that he learnt video games can be used for more than just having fun. Watch the full documentary: ‘Gaming and Me: Connections, Identity and Support’ on BBC iPlayer. If you’ve been affected

The killing of George Floyd was a catalyst moment for social justice movements across the world. But after the coronavirus pandemic worsened some of those movements were pushed aside. One which hasn’t is an online reckoning orchestrated by students, known as ‘Truth Pages’. In the summer following George Floyd’s death, racism exposé pages began springing

Johan “N0tail” Sundstein is the highest-earning e-sports player in the world, having taken more than $7.4m (£5.4m) in prize money to date. The BBC was invited to visit Johan at his new 17 bedroom mansion in Lisbon to see how he and his team have adapted to training for, and competing in, high stakes tournaments

3 Ways Your Phone Can Give Your Life Structure Instead of Chaos TechSpade.com 3 Ways Your Phone Can Give Your Life Structure Instead of Chaos Table of Contents Different ways of living and disruption have become a standard, and it can be demanding to find the routine and structure we took for granted. However, as

A pair of glasses with “tuneable” lenses has been unveiled at this year’s virtual CES tech show. The Voy glasses work as both reading glasses and distance glasses in one, as the lenses can be adjusted from +2.0 to -5.0 prescriptions. BBC Click’s Chris Fox tried on the “jam jar” specs. See more at Click’s

Table of Contents The Withings ScanWatch Smartwatch is all about health. According to Withings, it is the world’s first clinically validated hybrid smartwatch that detects the risk of both atrial fibrillation and nocturnal breathing disorders. The ScanWatch was co-developed by cardiologists and sleep experts. Behind the brand “Withings” is the former Nokia health team. I

Adobe Flash Player, the browser plug-in that brought rich animations and interactivity to the early web, has officially reached the end of its life. Released in 1996, Flash was once one of the most popular ways for people to stream videos and play games online. But it was plagued with security problems and failed to

Moscow has launched a train carriage on the city metro system that’s dedicated to finding new owners for stray cats and dogs. Known as the ‘Tails and Paws’ train, it has posters on board featuring dozens of animals from 13 Moscow shelters asking passengers to give them a new home. Filmed/edited by Elizaveta Vereykina

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay has been lighting up the skies online with a drone display of Scottish icons and messages of hope. Fare Well, which is a three-part series, uses a drone swarm to create the spectacular replacement to the traditional end-of-year festivities. The series was filmed in the Scottish Highlands and over Edinburgh and can be

Lewis Hamilton isn’t just the world’s most successful Formula One driver ever, he’s also a key backer of a new off-road electric vehicle racing series called Extreme E. The plan is that super-powered electric cars will race in some of the most remote locations on earth in an effort to – the organisers say –

The price of premium smartphones is ever-increasing with the latest folding Samsung device costing about £1,800. To find out what was available at the lower end of the market, BBC Click’s Chris Fox went hands-on with eight new smartphones priced from about £70 to £379. The performance, cameras and features were all put to the