Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism that enables certain cancer genes to be permanently silenced, potentially allowing shorter and more effective treatments with fewer side effects. www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/02... #cancer #cancerresearch #science #epigenetics

Nasa targets early March to send humans back around the Moon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A disappointing move from KFC, Nando's, Burger King and others. These companies put profit above honoring their commitments, and the animals pay the price. www.ft.com/content/1d03... @financialtimes.com

Here’s what the Square Mile skyline will look like in six years www.cityam.com/what-the-squ...

Google have just released their new Gemini 3.1 Pro model, and it represents a huge leap over their previous best. As well as improving at coding, maths and reasoning, it hallucinates far less. The AI acceleration continues unabated.

New benchmark data indicate that NVIDIA's latest AI platform delivers up to 50 times greater inference efficiency than the previous generation. Large-scale deployment is expected through 2026 and 2027. www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/02... #NVIDIA #AI #technews

David Twohy's Pitch Black was released 26 years ago today. Not only is Riddick's first adventure a nice sci-fi horror movie, but the spaceship crash that opens the film is one of the most spectacular in cinema.

Good morning with good news: UK Plug-In EV sales skyrocketed 40% in 12/2025, compared to 12/2024, reaching 43.8% of auto sales! Full-Electric's hit 32.2%! As UK nears 50% EV sales, UK's electricity was 52.1% RE & 12.4% nuke in 2025! Decarbonization! cleantechnica.com/2026/02/16/u... #energysky

If that current trend of 0.9% per decade is maintained, it will take until the mid-29th century to reach zero percent. That's assuming a linear decline, of course – it may happen sooner, given the experience of Western societies.

NVIDIA just announced that their upcoming generation of AI chips, coming in the next couple of years, will be 50x faster than their current ones. Another way of looking at the same thing: all the progress in AI from the 1960s through to today is 2% of what's coming by 2028-2030.

There's ALWAYS a Black Mirror episode www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Righ...

We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Microsoft AI boss issues 18-month warning to all white-collar workers Mustafa Suleyman says most office tasks could be 'fully automated' by artificial intelligence in less than two years www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

"Moves to close the gender pay gap won't be successful until 2056 if progress remains at its current rate, according to the Trades Union Congress (TUC)." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Protein restores aging brain stem cells 🧠 "Using human-derived neural stem cells, they demonstrated that DMTF1 revived the cells' ability to proliferate and regenerate. In other words, the aged stem cells regained characteristics seen in younger cells." www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/02... #aging

"Germany's renewable energy sector is poised to overtake automotive as the nation's largest employer in 2025, marking a fundamental economic transformation." www.reddit.com/r/uninsurabl... @sustainable2050.bsky.social #renewables #cleanenergy #energy #solar #wind #Germany

This Black Mirror episode ended badly

"By far the most significant rollback on climate change yet attempted..." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Moya", The World's First Biomimetic Humanoid Robot Debuts With 92% Human-Like Walking Accuracy www.reddit.com/r/OpenSource... #robot #robots #robotics #AI #Moya

This New Yorker piece about Claude is in turns scary and hilarious: www.newyorker.com/ma...

Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn www.politico.eu/article/obse...

Solar does more to solve global electricity poverty than any other technology. Fossil fuel promoters often profess concern about global energy poverty, while the cost of oil imports alone crush many poor nations. Solar and batteries now are low-cost solutions to energy poverty. #energysky

Swarms of AI-generated personas could quietly manipulate public opinion, creating the illusion of widespread agreement. "The danger isn't only false content – it's synthetic consensus: the illusion that everyone agrees, engineered at scale." www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/02... #AI #AgenticAI

Spent some time with Opus 4.6. First time I felt scared when using AI. Not _of_ it, but for the future. It’s incredibly impressive. We’re going to need universal basic income

2026-2027 – The world's first trillionaire During this period, Elon Musk's net worth accelerates toward the $1 trillion mark. "The same forces propelling his fortune create a pathway for additional trillionaires in the 2030s..." www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/... #trillionaire #billionaires

Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) calls for a nationwide general strike if Trump and the GOP try to impede voting in anyway in November. www.reddit.com/r/law/commen... #GeneralStrike

"2035: No complaints." www.reddit.com/r/comics/com...

Living in dread that one of the dystopian speculative futures we grew up watching or reading about is indeed our future. Maybe more than just one.

'The market's in seek and destroy mode': The new Anthropic AI model scaring lawyers and legal firms news.sky.com/story/the-ma...

UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 3% in 2024, latest figures show www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... #climate #climatechange #carbonemissions #carbon #GHG #emissions #environment #UK

Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jon Stewart, AI, and the End of Human Labor www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypHY...

"One major factor is public support for families. European countries have steadily increased spending on family benefits. In contrast, spending in the United States has remained mostly unchanged. The US lacks many common family policy programs found in Europe." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I'd like to say I did nazi this coming, but I did.

Saudi Arabia to build $2 billion solar farms in Turkey, Turkish energy minister says www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #solar #solarpower #solarenergy #renewables

Three quarters will survive cancer by 2035, government promises www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"...these traits – near-identical size and a familiar year length – make it one of the most Earth-like exoplanet candidates identified to date." www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/02... #exoplanet #exoplanets #astronomy #spacenews #NASA #science #HD137010b

Battery costs plunge 60% in 24 months! “Make no mistake, batteries are the fastest growing part of our platform today, and we expect that to continue,” the CEO of Brookfield Renewable Partners. Batteries can be deployed faster than any other technology. reneweconomy.com.au/battery-pric...

Next-generation #wireless networks need a new kind of antenna. Engineers just built one that reaches 75% of the space around it, handles multiple devices at once, and does it all without moving parts. It's a step toward #6G networks that move data closer toward #terahertz speeds.

AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK’s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend www.theguardian.com/business/202... #battery #batteries #energy #cleantech

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said

Can I live to 100? I went to a longevity conference to find out www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/h... #aging #ageing #longevity

"Keep banging those rocks together and maybe we'll get fusion" - Labour What is it about science that seems to be anathema to the current governments on both sides of the Atlantic?

A key measure of economic inequality called the Gini coefficient sits at 60-year highs after a reversal from multidecade lows seen amid the rollout of pandemic stimulus payments + expansions. We should have implemented universal basic income and healthcare during COVID. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/w...