The Global Tech Race The Global Tech Race

In 2025, I travelled from Germany to #Taiwan interviewing tech execs on #AI, #humanoid #robots, chipmaking politics, data centers and #cybersecurity to distil our explosive present moment in tech, and how it will impact daily lives in the next 5 yrs 🤖 @newsweek.com

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Here's my first Starter Pack.

This Starter Pack contains writers who completed Granta writing courses in memoir, nature writing, short fiction, and longform journalism. There's some amazing writers in here for you to follow and get to know.

Great work holding big finance to account from the @tbij.bsky.social and a good scene-setter ahead of JPMorgan's 2025 Leveraged Finance Conference in Miami next month 💰

What Trump’s Second Term Means for Solar Energy Trump’s second term brings uncertainty for renewable energy. Will the solar industry thrive or face setbacks under changing policies and new challenges?

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👇🏼 A very good crash course

Germany's #Climate Action Law

National targets:
-Reduce GHG emissions by at least 65% by 2030 (over 1990)
-88% by 2040
-Net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045
-Negative #emissions after 2050

factsheet update:
www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/g...

Greenland's leader steps up push for independence from Denmark Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasised his desire to pursue independence from Denmark, its former colonial ruler, during his New Year speech, marking a significant change in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island's future.

A majority of inhabitants in #Greenland support independence, but are divided over impact on living standards.

Despite rich mineral, oil and gas resources, Greenland's economy is fragile, heavily dependent on fishing and Danish grants.

👇🏼 Good update from Reuters

www.reuters.com/world/greenl...

Images from my series 'The Supply Chain is Human', which documents luxury textiles production in Northern Portugal.

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Casting light on the experience of factory employees, the series reminds that every supply chain, no matter how deeply automated, is human.

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Punk energy in Copenhagen ⚡ a mini assignment for the International Centre of Photography

#icphoto #documentary #punk

Arab Group Rejects Any COP29 Text Targeting Fossil Fuels A Saudi official said Thursday that the 22-nation Arab Group would reject any UN climate deal that goes after fossil fuels at the COP29 talks in Azerbaijan.

Albara Tawfiq, a Saudi official speaking on behalf of the 22-nation Arab Group, said it would reject any UN climate deal that goes after fossil fuels at COP29:

"The Arab Group will not accept any text that targets any specific sectors, including fossil fuel."

www.barrons.com/news/arab-gr...

How do we live with plants, and how do plants live with us? 🌴 A mini assignment for ICP

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1. A man takes a call at the tropical butterfly house
2. Nataly, an evolutionary biologist, sequences fever tree DNA in the lab
3. Brynn picks parsley on an urban rooftop farm