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Tap for caffeine: Costa Coffee launches coffee cup with in-built payment chip
Reusable cup can be loaded with up to £30 credit to pay for anything from hot drinks to Tube travel
Digital planet: Will the rise of the machines help or hinder climate action?
New Economic Foundation's Duncan McCann considers how to climate-proof digital technology
Centrica joins Verv peer-to-peer energy blockchain trial
Energy giant backs trial designed to make it easier for residents to sell the solar power they generate
Apple overhauls Air to create 'greenest ever' MacBook
BREAKING: New Macbook Air made from recycled tin, aluminium and plastic, cutting its carbon footprint by 50 per cent
E.ON plugs in to satellites to spot draughty homes
Energy giant is working with European Space Agency to identify the homes most in need of energy efficiency upgrades
Walmart sets blockchain mandate for salad suppliers
Lettuce growers and producers have less than a year to comply with the retail giant's new traceability mandate
'Plastics Cloud': SAP harnesses machine learning to track plastic use and recycling trends
Company says technology will enable better use of data to tackle plastic waste
What Facebook and Apple can teach other tech titans
Both are using their clout to bring renewables to companies and communities that today have limited access to these resources
Drones for sustainability
The UK drone economy could exceed £42bn by 2030, according to PwC. TechUk's Susanne Baker examines the environmental and sustainability case for drone technology
Facebook gets specific about its 100 per cent renewables target
It promises to keep prioritizing deals, adding clean power near its operations
How can digital technology improve supply chain sustainability?
Three important shifts are underway to improve supply chain management, says Rainforest Alliance's Daan de Vries
Soluna plans to clean up Bitcoin's energy issues with renewables
Huge wind farm in the Sahara will power data centres dedicated to crypto-mining
We must ensure that AI delivers a greener, fairer world
Artificial intelligence is happening, and it demands an intelligent, climate smart, response, argues Green Party's Molly Scott Cato
'World's most advanced' vertical farm opens in Scotland
Scottish agritech company Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) claims its first vertical farming facility has patented technologies to cut production costs
Microsoft's energy master plan
Ultimately, its innovations could become a big selling advantage for its cloud services
E.ON teams up with Berkeley Homes to trial smart home concept
Future Energy Home pilot will study how well smart home technologies sync with everyday life
Centrica revs up business EV charging service with Driivz deal
Energy giant joins $12m funding round in deal that will see Driivz software functionality provided to Centrica customers
Why IBM obsesses over energy efficiency
Plus, perspective on why the cloud software giant doesn't use unbundled renewable energy certificates
Tech to #endwildlifecrime: A new strand of the #techforgood story
Saving endangered species is just one of the ways technology can help improve the world, says techUK's Susanne Baker
How can a wireless network help both rhino resilience and water quality?
They're called low-power wide-area networks — LPWANs — and they're changing how we can collect data
All at sea: Microsoft trials renewables-powered underwater Orkney data centre
IT giant believes under water data centres powered by wave and tidal energy may help provide energy efficient, superfast internet browsing in future
Ben and Jerry's scoop blockchain pilot to serve up carbon-offset ice-cream
Ice cream giant partners with Poseidon to allow customers to offset carbon impact of ice cream purchase with blockchain technology
Bitcoin now uses as much energy as Ireland
Electricity consumption doubled in the last six months with the trajectory likely to continue, says PwC economist
Why data is an essential nutrient for AeroFarms crops
Urban agriculture pioneer reveals how it is working with Dell to help optimise production
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