Clik here to view.
The rise of the cashless city: ‘There is this real danger of exclusion’
Cities from Sweden to India are pushing for a totally cash-free society. But as more shops and transport networks insist on electronic payments, where does this leave the smallest traders and poorest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Florida and Colorado are trying to build smart cities from the ground up
Ambitious new cities Songdo and Masdar may not have lived up to their promise, but smaller projects in the US aim to be laboratories for sustainable city planning Masdar, on the edges of Abu Dhabi, was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Smart Cities: The Pothole Problem
VIA: http://www.foxnews.com/ Related Posts:Smart Cities: The Pothole ProblemWe are far, far away from smart cities: Narayana Murthy…India ‘far away’ from having smart cities:…State fails to spend...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where is the world’s most hi-tech city? (And it’s not San Francisco )
Twitter and Uber may be based in San Francisco, but Santiagos Chilecon Valley and the South Korean capital Seoul could both make claims Before long, Santiago could be a city full of electric vehicles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Forget Dystopias, These Sci-Fi Writers Opt For Optimism Instead
Its hot, and youre walking. Shuffling, actually. Youve spanned a seemingly endless chalk-dry plane, and youre thirsty, run-down, exhausted. You think about your flaking, parched lips and aching...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aid agencies in call for North Korea funding after devastating floods
Storm in August left 70,000 homeless and 600,000 in need, with children now at high risk, say Unicef and Save the Children International aid agencies have called for millions of dollars of funding for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ARM founder says Softbank deal is ‘sad day’ for UK tech – BBC News
Media captionARM founder: ‘Sad day for technology in Britain’ The founder of ARM Holdings has told the BBC he believes its imminent sale to Japanese technology giant Softbank is “a sad day for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heres How Self-Driving Cars Will Transform Your City
Elon Musk says every new Tesla comes with all of the hardware needed for fully autonomous driving. Heis hardly alone in trying to spare humans the tedium of caroperation.Audi, GM, Google, and Uber are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Companies are making money from our personal data but at what cost?
Data appropriation is a form of exploitation because companies use data to create value without providing people with comparable compensation It is the strangely conspiratorial truth of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pokmon Go is just the start Silicon Valley is taking over our reality
New technologies from games to the internet of things are integrating every aspect of our lives into a global network that serves monopoly capitalism From minefields in Bosnia to military bases in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Warren Ellis Normal Brings Readers a Serialized Digital Dystopia
The world is going to end. Most people can go about their day to day without thinking about it too much, covering up concerns of an eventual apocalypse with grocery lists, carpools, training your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Stone Age Is Over. Kansas City Definitely Got The Memo.
The arrival of a new streetcar in Kansas City, Missouri, heralds the beginning of a major technological shift for the Midwestern city. Lights along the 2-mile transit line, which opens Friday, sense...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We’ve been mayors of New York, Paris and Rio. We know climate action starts...
If we want to reduce emissions, cities are key. But they need to be empowered if they are to have an impact The Paris climate agreement, already signed by more than 175 countries, was successful in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
White House invites all to artificial intelligence workshops
Machine learning has come a long way in a short amount of time, and the U.S. government is working to stay on top of the subject. The White House announced on its website Tuesday that it will be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Instagram insider’s guide to India
(CNN)India is undergoing a dramatic transformation. With ten million people flocking each year to its colorful, noisy and bustling cities, the country is facing the largest urban migration in history....
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Europe is fighting to change tech companies’‘wrecking ball’ ethics
As Silicon Valley firms look to destroy the existing order, some European leaders are fighting to develop the industrys moral compass. This is a real chance to make better decisions, fight fatalism and...
View ArticleTrumps New Travel Ban Still Sabotages Science and Tech
President Trump’s first executive order banning immigrants, refugees, and travelers from certain Muslim-majority countries didn’t exactly go smoothly. So today he tried again. The “Executive Order...
View Article