Latin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
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Jeff Mills has never allowed his vaunted status of techno legend diminish his hunger for pushing his art forwards. Few creatives...
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Cultural identity and what it means to view oneself as self and the other as other, is so intricately complex...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Known for his genetic research, biochemistry scientist and Stanford University professor Patrick Brown has created a plant-based hamburger that ‘bleeds’ just...
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As the world’s cities grow the role of farmers is increasingly important, but a lack of accessible agricultural machinery can...
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This is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
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In the past, studies into stroke rehabilitation have used restriction of movement in order to encourage recovery. The Rehabilitation Gaming System...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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Although I might struggle to find the long term social good of having shoes that light up and tie themselves,...
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Imagine a virtual world overlaid on top of the real one, with full physical interaction between you and the digital...
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Drones are being used to hunt down poachers in Namibia. Using US homeland security techniques, poachers are being tracked by...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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As man’s best friend can be trained to smell the distinct odour of cancerous cells, an Israeli scientific superstar has...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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Attempts to create the sensation of touch in virtual reality has, to date, used gloves or attachments. With Ultrahaptics there...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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A South Korean robotic team has taken home $2 million prize money in an international competition to design semi-autonomous robots...
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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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BMW and Chinese search engine Baidu have successfully tested driverless car in Beijing. Baidu are China’s answer to Google and, as...
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An online forum with the simple slogan ‘We Exist!’ is providing support for the 2.5 million gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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Many up and coming African developers create innovative software, but they do not know how to commercialise their products. At...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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Africa risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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The bCPAP is literally breathing new life into African children’s life expectancy. In 2010 Malawi’s under-5 child mortality rate was...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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Social media has revolutionised communications, but all the main players demand a payback in data collection and ad exposure. Malmö,...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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If you could see the world through the eyes of the other, would it make it a better place? A...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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For those craving independence and interaction, a team of European academics, designers and organisations has created a consortium to support ageing...
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A Dutch designer has reimagined the roads of tomorrow, designing a ‘Smart Highway’ to make them safer while saving money...
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Sunburn could be a thing of the past thanks to a bracelet that lets you know when it's time to...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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Head to Zooniverse and you’ll find ordinary people helping scientists to identify galaxies, explore historical records, or in the case...
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Today there is more content out there than ever, but digital doesn’t necessarily equal accessible. Millions of people worldwide suffer...
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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Incidence of heart disease is rising in many low and middle-income countries due to wealthier lifestyles and greater longevity. Cameroon...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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What greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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“Five years ago, it was said that one of the main reasons people weren’t buying electric cars was because of...
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Instead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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