Leading tech giants form “partnership on AI”
Five of the world’s leading technology companies – namely Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft – have launched a non-profit ...
The benefits of city trees
Jill Jones describes in her new book the benefits and effects of trees in cities. She outlines aesthetic, health and environmental aspects as well has ...
Smart home to allow access for mailman
Amazon cooperates with two startups to develop a new technology to let the mailman enter your smart home to drop of your post. This would mean that parcels ...
Extending packaging charge from plastic to other materials?
The charge for plastic bags in large stores in England has been introduced nearly a year ago. Research shows that the use of consumers’ own bags has ...
First Open Data Innovation Summit hosted by White House
The Obama administration presented its plans to open US government data at the first Open Data Innovation Summit. The Summit was part of a larger ...
Turbine invented to collect a typhoon’s energy
The Japanese engineer Atsushi Shimizu developed a turbine that can harness the energy of a typhoon or other storms. According to the inventor the energy of ...
New cloud-security services by Cisco
Cisco extended its products with a range of new cloud-security services for digital business. An integrated architecture for digital security is vital for ...
Support for Chinese air traffic from NASA
An agreement has been signed between NASA and the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment (CAE) to work together for a better management of air traffic by ...
ICT opportunities for airfreight
At the two-day conference Frankfurt Air Cargo Innovation Lab experts were dealing with how new technology, especially ICT can make the airfreight system ...
Preserving historic buildings means more than maintainance
Stephanie Meeks collected 50 years of work on preserving historic buildings in her new book “The Past and Future City”. It deals with both ...
