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Egypt signs $200 million deal with Qatar to produce aviation fuel from used cooking oil

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/egypt-signs-dollar200-million-deal-with-qatar-to-produce-aviation-fuel-from-used/dsgstyf

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Water for the future: The quiet revolution linking technology and humanity | Business Insider Africa – evodrop

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/water-for-the-future-the-quiet-revolution-linking-technology-and-humanity/nnzq8tl https://evodrop.com/en/water-for-the-home

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Ranked: The World’s Most Profitable Companies in 2025

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-most-profitable-companies-in-2025

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Europe’s first sodium-ion cell made with fully domestic components – pv magazine International

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/18/europes-first-sodium-ion-cell-made-with-fully-domestic-components/

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Can the UK be great again?

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AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2025/10/01/ai-godfather-yoshua-bengio-ai-extinction-risks-openai-google-xai-anthropic/?queryly=related_article

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Klarna CEO says he feels ‘gloomy’ because AI is developing so quickly it’ll be able to do his job | Fortune

https://fortune.com/article/klarna-ceo-feels-gloomy-ai-could-do-his-job/?queryly=related_article

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As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/ai-wipes-jobs-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-everyday-people-to-adapt-accordingly-we-have-to-work-through-societal-disruption/?queryly=related_article Job postings across the U.S. have fallen by about 32% since ChatGPT hit the market, according to data from the Federal Reserve, as businesses deploy AI tools to boost efficiency. The percentage of Gen Z staffers at large public tech companies has been cut in half within the past two years; once-lucrative career paths, like computer programming, have hit […]

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Solid-state EV battery maker is going public after a 745+ mile test

https://electrek.co/2025/12/23/solid-state-ev-battery-maker-going-public-after-745-mile-test/ Top comment by Leonard Bates Liked by 16 people Everyday we read positive and negative news reports relative to renewable energy and electrification. It is really a pitched battle, but if you pull back a bit, the age of fossil fuels is over. It is just a matter of timing at this point. Fossil fuels […]

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I replaced my entire Microsoft 365 subscription with free open-source apps

https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-entire-microsoft-365-subscription-with-free-open-source-apps

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This self-hosted personal cloud is perfect for my home lab – Olares – open source personal cloud OS

https://www.xda-developers.com/this-self-hosted-personal-cloud-is-perfect-for-my-home-lab

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This self-hosted tool makes remote tech support for family painless – RustDesk

https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosted-tool-makes-remote-tech-support-family-painless

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says humility is an underrated leadership trait: ‘You cannot show me a task that is beneath me’

https://fortune.com/2025/12/23/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-humility-underrated-leadership-trait-dennys-dishwasher-elon-musk

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The scientist who helped create AI says it’s only ‘a matter of time’ before every single job is wiped out—even safer trade jobs like plumbing

https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/yoshua-bengio-ai-only-a-matter-of-time-before-every-single-job-is-wiped-out-even-gen-z-trade-plumbing

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From Trash to Power: How Ghana can fuel its waste, save lives and forest

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Nigeria leads as Africa’s instant payment transactions hit $2tn — SIIPS

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/nigeria-leads-as-africas-instant-payment-transactions-hit-2tn-siips

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Nigeria and the ‘Narrow Corridor’: What Africa’s largest refinery says about power, accountability and development

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/nigeria-and-the-narrow-corridor-what-africas-largest-refinery-says-about-power-accountability-and-development

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This is the Costco of energy, man: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/23/bill-mckibben-promise-of-renewable-energy-interview

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The plummeting cost of renewables in one chart

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How did solar get cheap?

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