Microsoft is offering up its AI technology to humanitarian groups
Microsoft has launched a third humanitarian program under the company’s AI for Good Initiative. Over the next five years, the program will put $40 million towards initiatives focused on four priorities—disaster response, needs of children, refugees, and displaced people and human rights. The Read More...
Science funders are pressuring publishers to make research papers free to read
Universities spend millions every year on academic journal subscriptions for their students and faculty. And while these costs may be manageable for some, they are prohibitive for many less wealth scholars and institutions around the world. That’s why a group of European science funders is going Read More...
These are the three things interviewers are trying to figure out about you
In this day and age, it’s more than likely that you will have to go through the interview process to get a job. Typically you get ready for an interview by preparing answers to questions that you suspect will be related to the job that you applied for. But if you really want to do good on an Read More...
How to design bike lanes fit for the 21st century
City streets and pavements in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted in small pavement pits, where, if constrained and with little water, they live only three to 10 years on Read More...
Inside Oslo’s plan to go carbon neutral by 2030
On bike lanes in downtown Oslo, a logistics company is making deliveries in a vehicle that looks a little like a miniature freight train–an electric cargo bike with two boxes on the back that can carry more than 600 pounds of packages. For the delivery company, DB Schenker, the bikes are a way to Read More...
Norway's newest ships give a glimpse into the future of sustainable seafaring
Western Norway’s rustic port village of Flåm, a remote goat-farming hamlet and summer escape set deep among the region’s icy fjords and towering, snow-capped peaks seems an unlikely launch site for the future of sustainable nautical Read More...
Flying cars may work best when tethered to power lines
Flying cars always work perfectly in the movies. But now that we’re close to actually building some, we’re finding they come with all sorts of Read More...
Why Bill Gates expects a huge wave of poverty reduction in Africa
While the pictures we see of Africa in the media or in donation campaigns show stark poverty and despair, these images don’t show the whole picture. In fact, when it comes to many important indicators such as literacy rates and childhood deaths, life in Africa has improved dramatically over the Read More...
A UK supermarket chain is giving black plastic packaging the boot
Black plastic packaging is not recyclable in the UK, as it cannot be detected by the sorting systems used for plastic recycling. That’s why Lidl, a supermarket chain in the UK, has announced it will remove black plastic from its entire fruit and vegetable range by the end of the month. The move Read More...
The view from an asteroid 280 million kilometers from Earth is incredible
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but the space agency of Japan successfully landed two small rovers on an asteroid some 280 million kilometers away from earth. If you’re curious to see what the view is like from an asteroid, you have to check out these Read More...