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Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The YouTube channel Not Just Bikes recently dropped a 48-minute video titled “Every Reason to Hate Cars.” Honestly, the host brings up some valid points. He talks about traffic fatalities, the sheer amount of space parking lots waste, and how even EVs chew through tires and kick up microplastics. There’s really no room to argue on the facts there, even though I’m a “carbrain.” If we lived in a vacuum, I’d probably nod along with some or even all of it. But we live in the real world, where strategy…

Reliable internet access may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about humanitarian responses. But, for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and its partners responding to urgent needs at Musenyi refugee camp, connectivity is a critical enabler of their work. Musenyi is located in Burundi, a small, landlocked country in East Africa. In 2025, thousands of children and families arrived at Musenyi seeking safety and assistance, placing pressure on a site that wasn’t built for that scale. Shelter, food, and medical care were among the most urgent priorities, but none of it could be coordinated…

Gardens, poetry and kinship await you this spring CNETAs a self-defined plant nerd, I read and write about plants whenever I can. I’m embarking (see what I did there?) on a new plant book project and recently picked up three books for “research.” Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous woman, writer, scientist and naturalist, wowed me with her book Braiding Sweetgrass, so I dove into her previous works, including this one. As luck would have it, it’s also on sale: down to $12 from the usual $19 retail price. I’m also sinking…

Lymph node metastasis (LNM) significantly impacts disease staging, clinical management, and prognostic outcome [1], highlighting the importance of systematic lymph node resection as a standardized surgical procedure for cancer [2]. Moreover, residual tumor tissue and metastatic LNs are the leading causes of cancer relapse and metastasis after surgery[3], [4]. However, postoperative pathology confirms LNM in fewer than 20% of cancer patients, suggesting that nearly 80% undergo unnecessary lymphadenectomy [5]. Furthermore, LNs have been recognized as the key organ in immune response to cancer, particularly in the context of immunotherapy[6], [7], further supporting the potential benefits of non-surgical treatment strategies for…

Findem’s acquisition of Glider AI signals an inevitable shift in talent acquisition from operational efficiency to outcome-driven hiring. Enterprises are moving beyond speed-based metrics and placing greater emphasis on quality, trust and how quickly new hires contribute to business outcomes. Category reimaginators such as Findem and Glider AI coming together should act as a catalyst for this shift.  The deal brings together two complementary layers of the hiring stack. Findem offers talent intelligence, sourcing, and data-driven insights through its Talent Data Cloud, while Glider AI adds skills validation, AI-led interviews, and identity verification. Together, they connect candidate discovery with proof of capability.  This combination addresses a critical gap in recruiting: over-reliance on inferred skills. Most enterprises still depend on proxy signals during early…

26 As AI transforms hardware and network infrastructures, one small thing at a time, an equally profound change is taking place in test and measurement With the advent of AI, test and measurement is moving on from its pass-fail era where it could merely detect deviations of predefined thresholds to a more mature one – powered by AI itself – where it can score how well a system is performing.  Vendors are embracing AI to modernize legacy test processes, gain operational efficiency, and save time and resource. Based on our observation, here are three ways vendors in the space are…

The rise of AI-powered coding tools has sparked one of the most debated questions in the tech world today: Are programmers still needed? Over the past two years, tools like GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and Codex have entered the daily workflow of software developers across the globe. They write code, fix bugs, suggest logic, and generate entire functions from a single line of instruction. For many, this looks like the beginning of the end for traditional programming roles. But is it really? The answer is more complex than it seems. These tools are not replacing programmers; they are reshaping…

If you have ever looked at a professional spreadsheet, you must have noticed titles spanning across multiple columns. That is the most essential and widely used example of a popular Excel function called Merge. Continuing our Excel 101 series, we shall explore the Cell Merge function today. We shall understand what it allows us to do, how to use it, and what the absolute essentials are that we should keep in mind while using it. Because anyone who has used cell merge will tell you that more often than not, its use gives you a solid pushback from Excel. Starting…

One of the purported advantages of self-driving car tech is that every car can learn from one vehicle’s mistakes. Here’s how Waymo puts it on its website: “The Waymo Driver learns from the collective experiences gathered across our fleet, including previous hardware generations.”But in Austin, Waymo’s vehicles struggled for months to learn how to stop for school buses as drivers picked up and dropped off children. An official with the Austin Independent School District (AISD) alleged that the vehicles had, in at least 19 instances, “illegally and dangerously” passed the district’s school buses while their red lights were flashing and…

Transitions of any scale are often met with a mix of excitement and trepidation. One year ago, when we embarked on the journey to migrate the Black Belt Academy to our new Learning Management System (LMS), MindTickle, the stakes were high. We weren’t just moving files; we were migrating the learning legacy of over 90,000 partner individuals and protecting 300,000 learning records. Today, as we celebrate our one-year anniversary on the platform, those initial “migration jitters” have been replaced by a narrative of strategic collaboration, AI-driven innovation, and a transformed learning experience. A Strategic Alliance for Global Reach Our success…