Feb 9, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Environment, Featured
For years, major car companies have been working to add autonomous features to vehicles on the path to fully automated driving (think lane departure warnings, exterior cameras, and smart cruise control). Tesla in particular is betting big on the technology;...
Feb 2, 2023 | Energy, Environment
Almost everyone is aware of the many issues facing the planet and its population. There are three key issues that I like to call the 3Ps that stand out among others: pollution (particulate matters, Nox, SO2), planet (greenhouse gases, or GHG) and poverty (inflation...
Jan 26, 2023 | Drones, Environment, Featured
Earth observation, also known as remote sensing, provides highly relevant information about the state and change of our planet every day via satellite data worldwide. The data can be used, for example, to gather information about heat islands in cities, droughts or...
Jan 19, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Environment
A global fleet of about a billion autonomous vehicles, each driving just for one hour per day, may generate about the same amount of carbon emissions as data centres currently do, according to a new study. The research, published recently in IEEE Micro, modelled the...
Oct 27, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Environment, Featured
Zoë Jewell had a problem. She had stumbled upon a better way to track the black rhinos she and her colleague were monitoring in Zimbabwe, but there wasn’t an easy way to scale the solution. Jewell and her partner discovered that the Indigenous guides...
Jul 28, 2022 | Climate, Environment
That Venice is in peril is indisputable. That it is ultimately saveable is up for discussion. Now, one company thinks they can make a difference to the floating, sinking city – with “flying” boats. Swedish company Candela thinks that its electric boats can help fight...
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