These are all the best battery discoveries that could be with us soon, from over the air charging to super-fast 30-second re-charging Monash University researchers have developed a lithium-sulphur battery that can power a smartphone […]
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Elon Musk’s ‘UFO on a stick’
SpaceX is racing to launch about 1,400 satellites this year and boot up Starlink, a planet-wide, ultra-high-speed internet service With anticipation building over Starlink’s debut, company founder Elon Musk explained how future subscribers will connect […]
Smart Crop Management Software to Launch in UK
A powerful new software package designed to simplify agronomic decision making from drilling through to harvest will soon launch in the UK Field Manager, by digital farming solutions firm xarvio, applies local weather, satellite and […]
What Replaces Free Trade?
Spotting the failings is easy, but where’s the new paradigm for global commerce? Economists still tend to strongly back trade liberalization. But the cozy consensus in favor of removing trade barriers is eroding. The experience […]
A Better Internet Awaits Us
Annalee Newitz argues that we need to think about what the future will be like after social media so we can prepare for what comes next I don’t mean brainstorming new apps that could replace […]
The Growth of Indoor Vertical Farms
This indoor vertical farm grows produce without soil or natural light Aiming to lower the environmental impact of farming, Aero Farms has created an indoor growing system that uses 95% less water than field farming […]
China Just Opened The Suez Canal Of Our Era
The Belt and Road Initiative comes to Turkey in a big way, but the West is too distracted to notice or care A hundred years from now, Donald Trump’s looming impeachment and Syria’s unending travails […]
Emotion-Sensing Robot to Assist Astronauts
An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors heads to the International Space Station, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion 2, or CIMON 2, is a spherical […]
The Pan-African VC Fund Focused On Women Founders
The number of women founders and co-founders in Africa is on the rise, according to research by Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A), an online community for startups In 2019 that number was still just at […]
Tim Berners-Lee Launches The Contract for the Web
The contract lists nine core principles for governments, companies, and individuals to adhere to, including responsibilities to provide affordable, reliable internet access and to respect civil discourse and human dignity At launch, the initiative has […]
SoftBank’s Startup Bookkeeping Draws Scrutiny
In some cases, SoftBank’s involvement in multiple funding rounds helped drive up startup valuations that resulted in paper profits for Son’s company The WeWork fiasco raises questions about such numbers. The co-working startup’s valuation crested […]
Online Advertising: The New Dot Com Bubble
What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? Are advertising platforms any good at manipulating us? You’d be forgiven for thinking the answer to that last question is: yes, extremely good. After […]
Anger as .org Registry Sold to Private Equity Firm
The sale of one of the internet’s most popular registries to a private equity firm has revived concerns over how the domain name system is governed At the end of last week, the Internet Society […]
The World’s Smallest EEG for IoT
Nūrio is the world’s smallest wearable EEG device that slips over the ear and provides users with command capabilities to control any IoT-enabled device using brain waves rather than voice commands “Our goal was to […]
These Gloves Can Teach You to Play the Piano
Georgia Tech researchers Thad Starner and Caitlyn Seim have developed a pair of gloves for playing piano that can magically get you up to speed in just an hour They’ve also taught blind people to […]
GitHub Preps for the Apocalypse
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is where seeds for a wide range of plants are preserved in case of some pandemic or nuclear apocalypse. It is also home to the Arctic World Archive, the seed […]