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Why the UK’s decarbonization plan is good, but not great Roads to nowhere But there is also plenty to criticize in the government’s approach. Perhaps most of all, the absence of international flights and shipping from carbon budgets in the new consultation effectively gives these sectors a free pass. The government also recently committed £27 billion over five years tobuilding new roads and upgrading old onesin England, including a tunnel under Stonehenge and an even bigger one beneath the River Thames....

The European Commission recently published aproposal for a regulation on artificial intelligence (AI). This is the first document of its kind to attempt to tame the multi-tentacled beast that is artificial intelligence. “The sun is starting to set on the Wild West days of artificial intelligence,” writes Jeremy Kahn. He may have a point. When this regulation comes into effect, it will change the way that we conduct AI research and development....

The mobile apps installed on our smartphones are one of the biggest threats to ourdigital privacy. They are capable of collecting vast amounts of personal data, often highly sensitive. The consent model on which privacy laws are based doesn’t work. App users remain concerned about privacy, as a recentsurveyshows, but they still aren’t very good at protecting it. They may lack the technical know-how or the time to review privacy terms, or they may lack the willpower to resist the lure of trending apps and personalized in-app offers....

“Why are there so many engineers in India?” is one of the first questions someone tech savvy and vaguely familiar with India, would ask an Indian. In a lighter vein, but not very far from the truth, the answer is: “Because there are so many people in India.” To truly understand modern engineering culture and mentality in India, which has been in the making for a few decades, we must go back to when India was liberated from the British rule in 1947....

When I joined TNW, a bit over a year ago, I was tasked with finding the best local startups and putting a post together about them. It’s not uncommon. We’ve done the same thing withNew York,Los Angeles,Londonandmany other locationswhere TNW writers hang their proverbial hats. Not only would it give us some credibility that we’ve actually been in the trenches (at least somewhat) to find out what’s going on in our cities, it would enable us to shed some light on interesting things that are being done....