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An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020 and declared that the tech behemoth was entering the "most ambitious decade yet" in its climate action. "Today, I'm proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year," he said, in a video announcement at the time. Pichai added that he knew the "road ahead would not be easy," but Google "aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change." Five years on, just how hard Google's "energy journey" would become is clear. In June, Google's Sustainability website proudly boasted a headline pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030. By July, that had all changed. An investigation by Canada's National Observer has found that Google's net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed, demoted from having its own section on the site to an entry in the appendices of the company's sustainability report.

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Dr Emma Amoafo-Mensah, a dermatologist based in London, has warned that some anti-ageing products are being misused by people under 25.

It will be closed for about ten weeks

Relationship influencer Anastasiia Chikina, 32, took to Instagram with a cryptic post weeks after little Oliver Pugh, three, who is British born with a British father, disappeared on July 4.

John Linden, who held the post of station manager during his 32 years at Norfolk Fire Service, East Anglia, is claiming he was unfairly sacked after an investigation found he had committed misconduct.

Trainee electrician Paul Smith was jailed for life in 2004 for the murder of 10-year-old Rosie May Storrie at a Christmas party.

Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather have announced they'll be fighting next year - and fans are worried about 'Iron Mike's safety if the bout really does go ahead.

Anna Lanuszka, 34, was sacked from MK Accountancy at the end of July 2023, after spyware software installed into her work computer by Agnieszka Krauze found she was browsing sites.

The council leader claims the service had 'not been good enough'

The singer, 38, appeared in good spirits as the actor, 28, loving squeezed her bottom amid their romantic stroll through the city.

Alan was sexually abused by his father between the ages of eight to 13, following the death of his mother from leukaemia when he was six.

She said that hiding it from her daughter was 'draining'

Uber's Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make money by classifying data used by AI systems. From a report: Megha Yethadka, global head of Uber AI Solutions, revealed the new gigs in a Thursday LinkedIn post in which she said drivers sometimes have downtime during the day or might want to make some extra cash after hours. Yethadka said the work can involve reviewing photos, counting objects, classifying text, recording audio, or digitizing receipts. She said the gigs are "Powering our enterprise customers worldwide for their gen AI models or consumer applications." "Until now, these tasks were completed by independent contractors outside the app," Yethadka wrote. "The early results are very promising, and we're eager to scale this further." In an accompanying video, she mentioned "worldwide" expansion for the offering. Prabhjeet Singh, Uber's president for India and South Asia, said the gigs are available in 12 cities and that "tens of thousands of drivers" are already performing what Uber calls "digital tasks."

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In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail ahead of the conference, the former City trader highlighted the rising borrowing costs being forced on Labour by sceptical financial markets.

He's in the throes of a new romance with Zoe. And love was certainly on Harry's mind over the weekend as he attended the wedding of his childhood friend.

British-born Italian teenager Carlos Acutis who died in 2006 will be canonised by Pople Leo on Sunday, making him the Catholic Church's first ever millenial saint. 

A high street beauty chain has said it will shut 32 shops and cut around 450 jobs after falling into administration.

William Barr's dream trip to Thailand turned into a nightmare when his spiteful former partner, Rosie Wood, 31, cancelled his passport because she was 'p***** off' about him going on holiday.

An investigation found staff did all they could to prevent an offender's fatal overdose

The TV personality, 38, started dating beautician Ellis, 31, in 2022, with the couple going from strength to strength after being introduced by mutual friends.