Drones of all sizes are being used by environmental advocates to monitor deforestation, by conservationists to track poachers, and by…
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It’s broadly accepted that there’s a close relationship between development and access to information. One of the first economists to…
We have developed four-winged bird-like robots, called ornithopters, that can take off and fly with the agility of swifts, hummingbirds and…
In countries like South Africa that face severe resource shortages, the burden of fighting COVID-19 falls heavily on citizens to…
Massive open online classes, or MOOCs, have seen a surge in enrollments since March. Enrollment at Coursera – an online…
Do-it-yourself (DIY) and at-home labs gained popularity through movies and TV shows like Breaking Bad. DIY labs are increasingly influential and…
TikTok, the made-in-China, video-sharing platform beloved by youth and influencers alike, is suddenly everywhere in our new world of COVID-19 lockdowns and…
Red Dead Redemption 2, released in October 2018, spent more than seven years in development (sometimes in controversial working conditions). The sheer scale of the thing is overawing. Depending how you play there’s 80 plus hours of game-play, held together by a 2,000 page script for the main story alone.
Gravity can be a real downer when you are trying to grow organs. That’s why experiments in space are so…
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe…