Teenager who lost his legs in crash will'never forgive' driver 38 minutes agoShareSaveKen Banks and Louise HosieBBC Scotland NewsShareSaveBBC Adam Golebiewski had a double amputation after the crash last year A teenager who lost his lower legs in a crash says he "will never forgive" the drink-driver at the wheel. Young footballer Adam Golebiewski, 18, had been a passenger in Arran Paterson's car in Macduff, Aberdeenshire, in September last year. Paterson, 19, admitted dangerous driving, being over the drink-drive limit and driving without insurance at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Adam walked into court unaided on prosthetic legs following intensive rehabilitation. He said: "I want to try to enjoy life again and stay positive."

The vast majority of climate policies fail to significantly reduce emissions and so make little difference to stopping climate change, suggesting that governments must work much harder to identify ways to actually shift the needle. Nicolas Koch at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin and his colleagues discovered this by assessing the impact of 1500 climate policies put into force between 1998 and 2022, covering 41 countries across six continents. They began by using machine learning to identify moments in which a country's emissions dropped significantly, relative to a control group of other nations not included in the analysis. The researchers found 69 of these emissions "breaks" and compared them with a database compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that tracks what types of climate policies were enacted when. While matching policy shifts to emission changes isn't an exact science, the team was able to attribute 63 of these breaks to one or more policy interventions within a two-year interval around the break, in order to allow for lagged or anticipated effects.

South Africa's Aerobotics is utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in helping fruit and nut farmers in over 18 countries. JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Aerobotics is utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in helping fruit and nut farmers improve crop yields. Although the Cape Town-based company only started nine years ago, it is already operating in 18 countries, with the U.S. being their largest market, followed by South Africa, Australia, Spain and Portugal. Its customers produce tens of millions of tons of fresh produce every year. California is now ground zero for Aerobotics – where the company has the biggest concentration of customers.

Australia's privacy watchdog has launched an inquiry into how TikTok harvests personal data and whether it is being done with consent. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) will examine whether the social media platform has breached the online privacy of Australians through the use of marketing pixels, which track people's online habits. This can include where they shop, how long they stay on websites and personal information, such as email addresses and mobile phone numbers. Liberal senator James Paterson, who has been campaigning against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, has alleged the social media platform is using pixels to collect information of non-TikTok users. "This conduct would be unacceptable from any company but is particularly alarming given TikTok is beholden to the Chinese Communist party and is required under China's intelligence laws to share information with Chinese government intelligence agencies," Paterson said.

HR organizations are faced with a widening skills gap, economic headwinds and changing expectations around work. It's no surprise, then, that burnout and exhaustion are widespread in HR, with one survey finding that 42% of teams are struggling under the weight of too many projects and responsibilities. Change starts with personnel and management, some might argue. While there's a fair amount of dissatisfaction with HR tech vendors (at least according to some data), to be fair to the tech-positive crowd, many companies see real value in HR tech. According to a recent Sapient report, over half of businesses with more than 500 employees plan to increase HR tech spending by an average of 21% into the coming year.

In the space of a single year, South African agritech enterprise Aerobotics has won numerous awards and made strategic inroads into the massively competitive US agriculture industry. Propelled by world-leading technology, the South African success story is poised to mushroom into a truly global data and analytics software company serving the entire agriculture value chain. Aerobotics, which as little as a year ago was nominated as one of South Africa's most exciting startups, turns imagery into actionable data so that any issues on the farm, or elsewhere in the value chain, can be identified and resolved before they become problems. In essence, Aerobotics exposes what the naked eye cannot see in order to solve problems and make accurate projections, translating into improved yields and profitability. The company's CEO, James Paterson, says the business is ready to build on its highly successful launch in the US and strategically drop further roots and extend services in numerous regions around the world.

The arrival of the iPhone X also brings a new form of authentication that Apple is hyping as its most secure yet. Those who make the leap to the iPhone X will be able to unlock their device using the facial recognition feature Face ID. Apple has positioned the new biometric check as a vast improvement over previous forms of authentication. On its website the company claims "Your face is your secure password," and during the September event unveiling the iPhone X, Apple said Face ID was a huge step up from the company's prior biometric feature, the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. If Face ID is everything Apple says it is, should users ditch passwords and passcodes in favor of just their face?

Arrival Amy Adams stars in this elegant, involving science-fiction drama that is simultaneously old and new, revisiting many alien-invasion conventions but with unexpected intelligence, visual style and heart. The Eagle Huntress A portrait of a 13-year-old Kazakh girl from Mongolia who defies eons of tradition by learning to hunt with fierce golden eagles is a documentary so satisfying it makes you feel good about feeling good. The Edge of Seventeen Hailee Steinfeld gives a superb performance as a high-school misfit in Kelly Fremon Craig's disarmingly smart teen dramedy, the rare coming-of-age picture that feels less like a retread than a renewal. Elle Paul Verhoeven's brilliantly booby-trapped thriller starring Isabelle Huppert is a gripping whodunit, a tour de force of psychological suspense and a wickedly droll comedy of manners. The Handmaiden The most absorbing feature in years from South Korean director Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy") is a teasingly witty and elegant puzzle-box of a thriller about two women (played by Kim Tae-ri and Kim Min-hee) pursuing their destinies in 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea.