Major companies such as Amazon and Google on Wednesday signed a pledge to support the goal of at least tripling the world's nuclear energy capacity by 2050, on the sidelines of the CERAWeek conference in Houston.

Amazon, Google and Meta have joined a call by big, energy-intensive companies for governments and utilities to build more nuclear power in the latest boost to the industry’s revival. Oil group Occidental and chemical producer Dow are also among the eight large buyers of energy to sign a pledge to support the goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050.

Google says it is working to fix an issue which has left many Chromecast users unable to watch content on their televisions for a second day. The tech giant says it has sold more than 100m of these devices worldwide across various generations,

Google is emailing Chromecast users today to apologize for an issue that’s been causing certain Chromecast models to fail when people try to cast to them. The company says that it’s working on a fix.

Users of select Chromecast models are seeing a consistent error message when they try to cast content using the device. If you’re the owner of a Gen 2 Google Chromecast or Chromecast Audio device, you’re likely not having a great start to your week.