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  • Three promising new technologies could help send stormwater to taps in thirsty cities

    January 04, 2019 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    With water scarcity becoming a reality for many cities, people are looking towards the premise of recycling stormwater into drinkable water collected from urban runoff. One major limitation of this is that the water often is too polluted for consumption, however researchers have piloted several new technologies that may hold the key to being able to scale the stormwater recycling solution.

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  • Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

    January 03, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Bontang, East Kalimantan

    Bioacoustics, a method for studying sound in forests, has some powerful implications for conservation. For example, the U.S.-based non-profit Rainforest Connection used a remote smartphone network to discover logging and poaching in rainforests. The science is ongoing, but some promising applications are clear.

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  • Singapore made innovation go viral in its public service

    January 02, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    Through its Transformation Office and Innovation Lab, Singapore encourages a culture of innovation and smart design when it comes to making policy among its 145,000 strong civil service. Borrowing aspects of its framework from diverse fields like design thinking and psychology, as well as the tech industry, Singapore's government holds training sessions and policy-focused hackathons. The result is innovative pilot programs like facial recognition ID and free skills training for public servants.

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  • Finland's grand AI experiment

    January 02, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helinski

    The government of Finland is positioning its country as the leader in practical applications of Artificial Intelligence technology by providing its citizens with a free course. Recognizing the potential in AI technology, and the coming shifts in the global economy that will favor countries well versed in these technologies, the government has partnered with the University of Helsinki and a consulting agency named Reaktor to develop the free course. “We’ll never have so much money that we will be the leader of artificial intelligence. But how we use it — that’s something different," says one minister.

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  • How a Louisville company aims to make electric cars cost less and drive farther using technology from CU

    January 02, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Colorado

    Solid state battery technology is gaining momentum towards positively impacting electric cars in both cost and distance efficiency. In Louisville, Colorado, one company is looking at expanding this momentum by raising funds to build the largest solid state battery factory that is focusing on making "light, fast-charging and, hopefully, cheaper batteries for electric transportation, from next-generation electric vehicles to drones or even electric airplanes."

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  • Chicago murder rate drops for second year in a row

    January 01, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Data-driven policing, higher rates of gun seizures, increased hiring and a focus on improving community trust have positively impacted Chicago police. For second year in a row, the city saw a drop in murder rates, shootings, robberies, burglaries and carjackings.

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  • Newcastle's 'digital twin' to help city plan for disasters

    December 30, 2018 |

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    Response Location: England, Newcastle

    Thanks to technology used in "Formula One teams and engine manufacturers like Rolls Royce," Newcastle is digitally replicating the entire city in order to project potential natural disaster occurrence and population increases. In doing so, the city is able to prepare for ways to act should a disaster occur.

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  • How a Tech Geek Is Using Machine Learning to Hold Human Rights Abusers Accountable

    December 28, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Patrick Ball, cofounder of the nonprofit Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), has helped use quantitative data to put numbers behind things that were before unprovable — i.e. the difference between genocide and random violence. Ball and HRDAG have analyzed existing data to come up with the "invisible" data, overlaying several sets of statistics with machine learning to come up with stats like the fact that you were eight times more likely to be killed by the army in the Ixil region in the early 1980s if you were indigenous. Ball also advises nine truth commissions, four UN commissions, and more.

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  • Virtual Reality Helps Hospice Workers See Life And Death Through A Patient's Eyes

    December 27, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Biddeforde, Maine

    The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine is using virtual reality to help medical students empathize with patients who are at the end of their lives. The technology has also been used to create other simulations and help health-care workers in training better understand their patients, but critics say that, without careful supervision, these virtual realities can create and reinforce prejudice.

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  • Business For Good: Giving PTSD the Attention it Deserves

    December 27, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    An Army veteran who served in Iraq saw that post traumatic Stress disorder afflicted too many of his peers. He started a mental health technology company that tracks health data from heart rate to exercise to time spent meditating or journaling. The app can signal to users when they should check in with professionals. The business is attracting funding and partnerships.

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