Uber has taken over the two year old artificial intelligence start-up “Geometric Intelligence”. The company already runs a self-driving car lab ...
Apple aims at creating its own self-driving car
Apple has announced its ambitions to be involved in the market of self-driving vehicles. The company wrote a policy recommendation letter to the National ...
New approaches show higher resource use than assumed
The Habitat III summit included a number of sessions on resource efficiency and associated tools and initiatives. The city is considered as an open system ...
Recycling the nonrecyclable
The US-based company TerraCycle started in 2002 with the goal to make the idea of waste go extinct. Up to date it has recycled 3.7 billion pieces of waste ...
Donald Trump met Al Gore for climate change discussion
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump arranged a meeting of Donald Trump and the former Vice-President and climate change activist Al Gore. Ivanka ...
Rio de Janeiro to create an Office of Sustainability and Resilience
Rio de Janeiro announced it is going to create a permanent Office of Sustainability and Resilience within Rio’s government. It is an important step ...
The costs of sprawl of Indian cities
A new working paper of the New Climate Economy estimates that the uncontrolled urban sprawl in India will cost its governments $330 billion to $1.8 ...
Submarine cable system connects Pacific islands
A new high speed telecommunication cable laid across the Pacific Ocean is supposed to increase the digital communication capacities for several Pacific ...
A car-free Christmas shopping in Madrid
For a period of nine days, the centre of the Spanish capital will be almost car-free. Buses, taxis and residents’ cars are still allowed to drive in the ...
5G wireless technology tests in Austin, USA
AT&T, Ericsson and Intel are together running tests with 5G wireless technology in Austin, USA. The technology is tested for different applications but ...
