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Matternet Partners With UPS As It Launches First Regular Drone Delivery Service In U.S.

A Matternet quadcopter carrying lab specimens will fly a third of a mile Wednesday across the campus of WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., kicking off service on the first regular commercial drone delivery route in the United States

29 марта 2019 3 мин. 6655

Once-Hot Startup At Center Of Fraud Allegations Changes Its Strategy - And Its Name

In December 2018, a company called Fintiv filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming the tech giant had infringed on a patent for a mobile wallet management system

28 марта 2019 4 мин. 9827

Let’s Talk About Geoengineering

CAMBRIDGE – Negotiations on geoengineering technologies ended in deadlock at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, when a Swiss-backed proposal to commission an expert UN panel on the subject was withdrawn amid disagreements over language. This is a shame, because the world needs open debate about novel ways to reduce climate risks

27 марта 2019 5 мин. 8116

Kazakhstan startup-team spoke at the International Global forum in Dubai

Kazakh winners of "Technovation Challenge-2017" spoke at panel session at the Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF)

26 марта 2019 2 мин. 5842

What’s Wrong with Contemporary Capitalism?

PRINCETON – Rather suddenly, capitalism is visibly sick. The virus of socialism has reemerged and is infecting the young once more. Wiser heads, who respect capitalism’s past achievements, want to save it, and have been proposing diagnoses and remedies. But their proposals sometimes overlap with those who would tear the system down, making nonsense of traditional left-right distinctions

26 марта 2019 6 мин. 8530

Think Local, Develop Better

ISLAMABAD – In October 2018, Pakistani television news channels reported on how the local authorities in Pishin, a district in Balochistan province, were building a small dam to cope with frequent droughts in the area. Instead of accepting the government’s proposal to build the dam at a cost of PKR10 million ($71,000), the local community decided to build one itself for just PKR2.1 million under a European Union-funded rural-development program

20 марта 2019 5 мин. 8057

His Bosses Rejected His Idea. Then Hans Langer Became A Billionaire From His Plan For Giant 3D Printers

Tucked away in the forests of Bavaria, in a building that once housed the printing presses for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, is one of the largest 3-D printer factories in the world

19 марта 2019 15 мин. 13496

The Revolt Against Big Food

Confounding the grim prediction made by the British economist Thomas Malthus in 1798, the world currently produces more than enough food for a population that has increased almost tenfold since then