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Syrian women share stories of resilience
The UN talks on Syria are due to begin in Geneva on Friday, and an often overlooked aspect of the conflict has been its disproportionate effect on women, who have been caught in a cycle of violence and displacement.More than 50 percent of the registered Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries Read More...
London's first driverless cars revealed
The design for the first driverless cars to be tested on the streets of London has been revealed. The consortium behind the trial has decided to adapt electric passenger shuttles that are currently in service at Heathrow Airport for use in Greenwich. Unlike the Heathrow pods, they will not need Read More...
New balloon device is a promising 'last chance treatment' for heart failure
Treating heart failure is tricky business, especially when the patient is deemed too unwell to have open heart surgery. This was the case for a patient in London, who became the first patient ever to have a balloon device implanted into his heart to close off a leaky heart valve. The balloon Read More...
When employees have unlimited vacation days, the business can thrive even more
Today, we’re in a participation economy, where people are measured and paid for what they produce. Yet, when it comes to time off, we’re still clinging to the vestiges of the industrial economy, where people were paid for the time they spent on the job. So why not allow employees to take time Read More...
Russia goes organic, as Putin takes firm stand against GMO agriculture
If you think of Russia, you may not think of organic agriculture right away. That is about to change. Russia could become the world’s largest supplier of organic foods, after taking a firm stand against genetically-engineered seeds. President Vladimir Putin has told the Parliament that the Read More...
Peer-to-peer power: Finance tech comes to solar energy
Peer-to-peer lending is changing the finance world. No longer do borrowers have to go through a bank to get a loan. Instead, they can be matched directly with investors and bypass the role that traditional banks have played as intermediaries. This makes financing projects much simpler, and solar Read More...
The 'world's happiest man' says the secret to being happy takes just 15 minutes per day
If you Google “Who is the happiest man in the world?”, Matthieu Ricard pops up. Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk originally from France who participated in a 12-year brain study on meditation and compassion which showed that when Ricard was meditating on compassion, his mind was unusually Read More...
Bank of America is going big on blockchain
Bank of America is trying to steal a march on the latest developments in the technology behind digital currency bitcoin by loading up on blockchain-related patents. Blockchain works like a huge, decentralized ledger for the digital currency bitcoin which records every transaction and stores this Read More...
This new set of towers in Dubai will have its own indoor rainforest
The Rosemont Hotel & Residences is a massive, double-tower complex that's currently being constructed under the direction of ZAS Architects Dubai.Part of a the new Rosemont global hotel brand, the $550 million project will consist of two towers rising over 50 stories each, adding up to over 2 Read More...
Not recycling is more immoral than watching porn, say teens in study
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. One person's morality is the next person's source of humor. We all try to make sense of the world, and as we're growing up, we realize that the way our elders made sense of the world was often quite Read More...