TEAtime Ross and Craig

Join us in a tea-infused conversation about the latest sustainability and tech news.  This week we discuss the subject of meditation, Craig has been doing it for a year now and he shares his lessons learnt.



NEWS:

Scientists have created new living robots that have memory and are able to assemble themselves

Fletchers Waste unveils ‘inflatable skip’

Four-day working week UK poll: Should Britain adopt a 4-day work week?

UK is spending £3B to completely overhaul its bus system

Google Maps will soon suggest ‘eco-friendly routes’ by default

A wireless brain-computer interface has been successfully tested on humans for the first time

Facebook’s massive 533M record leak

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Robot guide dog could help people who are blind navigate

Scientists produce biodegradable plastic made from fish waste

Britain’s electricity system recorded its greenest ever day over the Easter bank holiday

The UK is not following the EU's hydrogen path

SpaceX's SN15 due to fly on Monday 12th April

Cleevely EV offering upgrades to the humble Nissan Leaf



LINKS:

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/tips-and-support/mindfulness/

https://www.helpguide.org/harvard/benefits-of-mindfulness.htm

https://wakingup.com/

Join us in a tea-infused conversation about the latest sustainability and tech news.  This week we discuss the subject of micro-generation and whether it has the potential to enable Ross' dream of living on a fully electric narrowboat.



NEWS:

Tesla Model 3 excluded as electric car grant to be cut to £2,500

Elon Musk's Starlink in talks with UK to solve broadband problems

If SpaceX SN11 blows up in the fog, did it really happen?

Tokamak Energy, a fast growing UK company has unveiled pictures of its newly upgraded spherical tokamak

Virgin Galactic unveils the new SpaceShip III, the “Imagine”.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter

China's New Digital Currency Is Easy to Use but You'll Be Watched

UK Tax changes of note

Scientists will test the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor this summer

Should we all wear sensors to avoid being run over by driverless cars?

You can now buy a Tesla with a single Bitcoin (tweet)

Scottish-based space companies secure £8.5 million to bring pioneering launch technologies to market

VW and oilmonger BP pledge to bring 18,000 ultra fast EV chargers to Europe

The European Space Agency is developing an autonomous robot to explore the Moon’s caves

World's first "green Bitcoin" to be created as UK cryptocurrency firm strikes deal

UK government scraps green homes grant after six months

PayPal to bring cryptocurrency checkout service to millions of merchants worldwide

Wooden floors rotted by fungi generate electricity when walked on

Join us in a tea-infused conversation about the latest sustainability and tech news.  This week we discuss the secret lives of trees.

LINKS:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Life-Trees-International-Communicate/dp/0008218439/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-massive-ancient-forest-is-actually-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-by-mass/2016/08/01/dc4056d2-54f5-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230971-500-trees-life-in-the-slow-lane/

https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/trees-know-when-somethings-eating-them.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190725150952.htm

NEWS:

The British engineers creating robots that ‘breed’

Old Nissan Leaf batteries are now powering the robots that used to make them

Spain to launch trial of four-day working week

India to ban ownership of cryptocurrencies

UK Government To Spend £20 Million Funding 'Electric Vehicle Innovations'

First Minister announces creation of woodlands to commemorate those who died from Covid-19

3 new species found growing aboard the International Space Station

A bladeless wind turbine, that looks like a tall vibrating pole

Elon Musk's EV adoption proposal to the UK government

New Covid-craze of growing homemade- mushrooms

Join us in a tea-infused conversation about the latest sustainability and tech news.  This week we discuss the recent stock market crash.



NEWS:

SpaceX’s Starship SN10 landed.... and then exploded

Quantum trick gives machine learning a speed boost.

Tesco begins roll out of 'soft plastic' recycling points for customers to return old packaging

West Midlands is going to reward people for not using their cars

Amazon to open UK grocery store that won't have any tills

Rishi Sunak poised to agree 'Amazon tax' after talks with US

New rules for household appliances to help cut 1.5m tonnes of UK electrical waste each year

Málaga launches Europe’s first driverless electric bus

Uber for Rubbish: Recyclesmart Will Collect Your E-Waste, Batteries, Soft Plastics and Other Hard-to-Recycle Waste For Just $2 a Bag

Join us in a tea-infused conversation about the latest sustainability and tech news.  This week we discuss what our world would be like if machines take over all of our jobs.

LINKS:

https://www.medgadget.com/2019/03/naotrac-the-first-autopilot-surgical-robot-for-brain-surgery.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-ai-da-the-robot-artist-who-is-making-an-exhibition-of-herself-hxhcdsm0j

https://www.history.com/news/who-were-the-luddites

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2017/07/31/facebook-ai-creates-its-own-language-in-creepy-preview-of-our-potential-future/?sh=d3062b2292c0

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-02-08/social-robots-toys-help-kids-battle-disease-and-anxiety

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/company-aims-to-produce-thousands-of-humanoid-robots-in-2021/5752308.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3641468/Pepper-robot-finds-job-healthcare-friendly-droid-trialled-two-hospitals-Belgium.html



NEWS:

Aldi has announced it will scrap plastic packaging from its entire egg range

British company makes biodegradable and recyclable plastic in world first

Scientists built a robot that can hear through a dead locust’s ear

Volvo pledges to go ‘all-electric by 2030,’ following other manufacturers

Rishi’s spring budget

Arrival has unveiled its new electric van

Elon Musk has also proposed a new name for Boca Chica

Rumours about Somerset Gigafactory return

Blue Houses

Join us in a tea-infused conversation about the latest sustainability and tech news.  

This week we discuss space travel, the progress of SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic and NASA's recent landing of Perseverance and what all of this means for society.



SPACE TRAVEL:

Falcon 9 Landing in 2015

Double Falcon Booster landing

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo



NEWS:

Big push towards hydrogen produced by off-shore wind

Boris Johnson plans to build a tunnel between Northern Ireland and Scotland

Honda patents electric bike with a drone in the back

Jaguar goes all electric as Britain’s answer to Tesla

Ford invests $1B to go all-electric by 2030 in Europe

Amazon is developing its own 'digital currency' project

Russia could become first country to make entire currency DIGITAL as cryptocurrency booms

Stretchy bands generate electricity from body heat to power gadgets

Scotland’s free EV chargers make the rest of the UK look stingy

EVs will get hit by new taxes, and I’m not sure what we can do about it

What the UK’s ruling against Uber means for the gig economy

Elon Musk is on his way to Mars, one explosion at a time