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Evening Standard
Technology
Rochelle Travers and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Aeolus satellite to deliberately crash into Atlantic Ocean: Tech and Science Daily podcast

The British-built satellite, Aeolus, is to be deliberately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean by the European Space Agency.

This will be the first time a space agency has attempted such a re-entry for one of its dead satellites. The weather-monitoring satellite has completed a transformative mission to map the planet's winds.

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and TomTom have teamed up in what looks like an attempt to take down Google Maps. Overture Maps has just released its first set of map data, which includes information on more than 59 million places across the world.

Vegetable oil is being used to power trains in what’s believed to be a UK first. Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is made almost entirely from used cooking oils, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90%

And the rest

More fallout from the Ministry of Defence accidental email mishap, Twitter in its transition to ‘everything app’ X will ‘only have dark mode’, and a study finds cars connected to the internet can identify dangerous roads before crashes happen.

Netflix faces backlash over a $900,000-a-year AI job advert, research uncovers what nap times reveal about young children’s brain development, and an ancient Roman emperor’s theatre is unearthed under a Four Seasons hotel.

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