According to a new report by ARUP, an engineering consultancy and design company, plant-covered building elements do way more than look good – they ...
Smart City: Between real inventions and high-performance gadgets
The takeoff of the “smart city” concept has introduced a vast amount of innovations and inventions to our cities. L’Atelier outlines the ...
Google acquires location-based analytics startup
With the acquisition of Urban Engine, a provider of location-based analytics for urban planning, Google aims to make Google Maps more sophisticated. The ...
Will solar roadways soon become a reality?
America’s Main Street, the historic Route 66, will become the testing ground for a technology that might change all of our roadways: In December, ...
VW kündigt “revolutionäres” Elektroauto an
Auf dem Pariser Autosalon im Oktober will Volkswagen ein Designkonzept für sein neues Elektroauto vorstellen. Die Pressemitteilung des deutschen ...
Apple pushes its suppliers to use clean energy
Since running almost all of its operations on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, technology giant Apple aims to convince its suppliers to ...
Carbon removal is our best hope to achieve climate targets
Reducing emissions might not be enough to keep global warming within 2 degrees let alone limting it to 1.5 degrees. Instead, we need to remove CO2 that ...
Brauchen wir in zehn Jahren keine Lkw-Fahrer mehr?
Es ist nur noch eine Frage der Zeit, bis selbstfahrende Lastwagen den Gütertransport auf unseren Straßen übernehmen. Gerhard Nowak, Geschäftsführer ...
Could bad buildings damage mental health of city dwellers?
Various research has shown that those living in cities are more likely to suffer from mental health illnesses such as anxiety disorder and depression. But ...
Udacity plans to build open-source self-driving car
Udacity, an online educational organization, intends to build its own autonomous vehicle as part of its recently created self-driving car engineering ...
