"Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is a Techno-Pope and you’ll need to kiss his ring before a repaired iPhone 16 regains full functionality". Is the iPhone 16 Apple’s most repairable phone? New, by me for TechFinitive.com With fabulous contributions from Hugh Jeffreys & John Bumstead.

Is the iPhone 16 Apple’s most repairable phone? | TechFinitive

Our resident technology fixer explains why the iPhone 16 is more repairable than its predecessors - but why want more

Was it the slightly-slurring cockney Bowie? I think Adam Buxton is about the best these days: youtu.be/9Gcabr_09e4?...

ADAM BUXTON BOWIE AUDITION

YouTube video by Adam Buxton

Gulp. This excellent review of microplastics should make us all stop and think. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned?

Twenty years after the first publication using the term microplastics, we review current understanding, refine definitions and consider future prospects. Microplastics arise from multiple sources incl...

In the last few years, EU commissioners and their cabinets held nearly 900 meetings with representatives of the fossil fuel industry – that's one nearly every working day Would they meet with the tobacco industry to discuss health policy? euobserver.com/eu-political...

Meet the new fossil-fuel EU Commission — same as the old one

We must first acknowledge the scale of the fossil-fuel industry’s influence on EU decision making. In the previous mandate, the commissioners and their cabinets held nearly 900 meetings with represent...

These people put on great book events in the Yorkshire area of England (Leeds, Sheffield, Huddersfield): to-be-read.co.uk/magical-even... They're an independent book store with extras...apposite for D'Ancy, perhaps.

Magical Events - Read Bookshop - Holmfirth

Come to one of our events in our gorgeous dedicated event space!

Quite correct- the AI is deliberate - perhaps representing a gas pioneer from the past. You’ll need to ask the editor. Mark appears in the article, in all his magnificence.

Always a delight to talk with @markmiodownik.bsky.socialTechFinitive.com#itsagasbook

Interview with Professor Mark Miodownik | TechFinitive

We interview Professor Mark Miodownik to talk about his latest book, "It's a Gas", and why air is such an underrated resource

My Bowienet feature has been republished by TechRadar Pro so for those #Bowie#DavidBowie#TechRadarPro#PCPro

Cyberspace oddity: The story of BowieNet

In the 1990s it wasn’t only AOL and CompuServe offering internet access, but rock stars, too

"If you’ve never thought of David Bowie as an internet pioneer, we’re about to change your mind" The new issue of PC Pro magazine (361) features the fabulous story of BowieNet. With exclusives from Mark Plati, Emm Gryner, Ron Roy, Charlie Brookes & Steph Lynch. On sale now.... #Bowie

Congratulations to The Restart Project. Fixing Factories are magical places where problems are solved. You can walk in, get something fixed for free & they'll even give you the skills to try the next repair yourself. Also, there is often cake. They do good cake! #RighttoRepair

We’ve been awarded over £1m of National Lottery funding to roll out community Fixing Factories to more London high streets! - The Restart Project

We've been awarded over £1m of National Lottery funding to bring three more community Fixing Factories to London!