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How one woman harnessed people power to save old New York
New film tells story of Jane Jacobss battle’s against the wealthiest developers in the city. She was a beaky, bespectacled architecture writer, hardly a figure likely to ignite protests that changed the shape of one of the worlds great cities. Yet such is the legend of Jane Jacobs and her bitter struggles to preserve the […]
Sci-fi forest tracks carbon impact – BBC News
An industrial-scale experiment in a Staffordshire forest will help fill gaps in knowledge about climate change. The project has created an outdoor laboratory by encircling trees with 25m masts gushing high levels of carbon dioxide. The site is surrounded by a 3m anti-climb fence, and silvery tubes snake along the forest floor in what looks […]
How to make Twitter profitable
Bruce JudsonContributor Bruce Judson is a bestselling author of books on business and public policy strategy in the evolving digital era. He is a senior IoT adviser at Tern PLC. For better and sometimes worse, Twitter is one of the most powerful forces onthe planet. Twitter has arguably played a critical role in at least […]
Rockstar is not happy about driverless cars learning from ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ without permission
Driverless cars that work are cool, but using another company’s work without their permission maybe isn’t. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that manufacturers of driverless cars were using video game environments as a testing ground to help teach their cars how to drive themselves. One video game in particular became the go-to for the impressive […]
The robot debate is over: the jobs are gone and they aren’t coming back
New report shows automation is already causing losses, depressing wages and likely to have lasting, devastating effect. In 2013, the Oxford Martin School released a report that looked at the automation of work, assessing the likelihood that robots and other technologies would replace humans. It concluded that of the 702 job categories examined, 47% were […]