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Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
Farmers in Qingtian have kept carp in their flooded rice paddies for more than 1,200 years, where the fish eat the insects and weeds and fertilise the crop as they go. The system needs almost no pesticide and produces two harvests off one field. – ScienceBlog.com
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below
Can fish and chip shops survive? ‘We made more money by closing than staying open’ | Food & drink industry | The Guardian
16-year-old South African girl invents drought-fighting super material from orange peels
Chinese tech makes desalinated seawater cheaper than bottled water
Researchers turned discarded banana peels into a carbon filter and passed greywater through it; the fruit-waste material removed 96% of turbidity, 85% of nitrogen and 99% of phosphorus in batch tests | – The Times of India
Scientists Turn Common Plastic Waste Into Fuel Using Heated Salts
In 2023, a US engineer put a miniature water-treatment plant beneath the sink; the under-$500 unit converted 20% of household greywater into drinking water | World News – The Times of India
Stop Using Dumb Search Bars: Build Smart, AI-Powered Search with Azure + .NET – DEV Community
Sep 13
Stop Using Dumb Search Bars: Build Smart, AI-Powered Search with Azure + .NET – DEV Community
I Turned My Proxmox Server Into a NAS Without Installing TrueNAS – Virtualization Howto
I self-hosted this VS Code fork so that I can access it in my browser
Solar enthusiast mounts 1,000 watts on backyard fence, says setup took 20 minutes
UK solar owner asks why power-generating awnings are still so rare
Aberdeen Paid £556k Per Hydrogen Bus. Five Years Later, First Bus Is Paying £30k – CleanTechnica
Sep 12
Aberdeen Paid £556k Per Hydrogen Bus. Five Years Later, First Bus Is Paying £30k – CleanTechnica
Researchers turned discarded banana peels into a carbon filter and passed greywater through it
Sep 10
Researchers turned discarded banana peels into a carbon filter and passed greywater through it; the fruit-waste material removed 96% of turbidity, 85% of nitrogen and 99% of phosphorus in batch tests | – The Times of India
In 2017, engineer Nzambi Matee heated unwanted Nairobi plastic into paving bricks; 20 tonnes later, Gjenge made 1,500 bricks daily, 5–7 times stronger than concrete | – The Times of India
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Throw Away Your Old iPhone
Scientists in Switzerland made a sponge from cheesemaking waste that captures gold from discarded electronics — after dissolving metal parts from 20 old computer motherboards, they recovered enough to melt into a 22-carat gold nugget – ScienceBlog.com