Un pêcheur du Tamil Nadu dresse des cartes pour sauver les côtes des appétits des autorités et des multinationales. Ces plans aident aussi à évaluer les effets de la hausse du niveau de la mer.
HuMooV, la start-up qui vous paie pour surfer sur les réseaux sociaux
Depuis son ouverture, le projet attire des centaines de candidats, jeunes ou retraités attirés par les 250 euros nets mensuels et la mutuelle.
Open offices can lead to closed minds
Some workplace designs are more about cost-cutting than collaboration.
HEYTEA wants to make tea-drinking cool again in China
Article tiré du magazine The Economist. Tipped, not stirred, is how hip young things in China now take their tea. To be exact, at a 45-degree tilt. So advise the tea-ristas of HEYTEA, a budding, pricey tea chain, the better to blend the bitter tang of freshly brewed leaves with[…]
For artificial intelligence to thrive, it must explain itself
Artificial intelligence now does real work. That it cannot explain its own actions is a problem.
The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close
The rise of the “internet of things” is one reason why computing is emerging from the centralised cloud and moving to an “edge” of networks and intelligent devices.
Using thought to control machines
Brain-computer interfaces may change what it means to be human.
A new class of startup is upending America’s consumer-goods industry
A “direct-to-consumer” revolution in the bedroom and bathroom.
Dark tourism spooks its way into the mainstream
Visitor numbers for Salem, Chernobyl, celebrity graves and other fright sites are soaring.
A “right to repair” movement tools up
From tractors to smartphones, mending things is getting ever harder.
A surveillance network aims to fight crime by tracking gunshots
A small public company whose proprietary gunshot-detection technology is being used by a growing number of police departments across the nation.
Huge volumes of data make real-time insurance a possibility
Drone insurance is showing the way in terms of on-demand insurance.
The business of sperm banks
Modern families and differing national laws mean opportunities for sperm bank companies.
The facial-industrial complex
Ever better and cheaper, face-recognition technology is spreading.
Pricey housing markets mean co-living buildings are on the rise
Co-living is for hipsters not hippies.